"Abide by the order"

The eunuch who was close to him retired.

soon.

The Minister of Revenue walked into the Hall of Eternal Life.

After the Minister of Revenue came in, he knelt down and kowtowed to Li Si and said, "I have seen Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty."

The Minister of Revenue knelt on the ground, not daring to look directly at the emperor, and felt mixed emotions.

During the period when he left Chang'an, the Minister of Revenue had been reflecting.

His Minister of Revenue was loyal to the Tang Dynasty and was once one of the six ministers of the ministers. However, he was eventually demoted by the emperor and sent to the border to investigate the land.

why is that?

At first, the Minister of Revenue thought that His Majesty felt that he was not loyal enough.

But in the end, the Minister of Revenue found out that he was wrong.

It is not that he is not loyal enough, but that he does not understand the holy will.

In the court, the emperor had made up his mind to attack the local governor, but he stood up at this time to stop the emperor.

The Minister of Revenue realized this and suddenly felt cold sweat.

For the emperor, it not only requires the loyalty of his subjects, but also requires the ministers to understand the emperor's meaning.

Otherwise, if a minister cannot even understand the emperor's words, how can he execute the emperor's orders?

What's the use of the emperor asking for such a subject?

However, when the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue realized these things, he was no longer in Chang'an.

Li Si sat upright on the dragon throne and said, "Thank you for your hard work. Do you have any resentment during this period?"

As soon as Li Si finished speaking, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue was full of panic: "Report to Your Majesty, everything I have been given by the Tang Dynasty. Your Majesty's orders, even if I have to fight my life, I will complete it. How can I get resentment?"

In the heart of the Minister of Revenue, no matter whether he is a first-rank official or a ninth-rank official, as long as he can serve the Tang Dynasty, he doesn't care about his official position at all.

The only thing the Minister of Revenue is that the emperor was completely disappointed with him and sent him back to his hometown.

Li Si looked at the Minister of Revenue and nodded slightly.

"What's wrong with me when I come to see me?"

Li Si leaned slightly on the dragon throne and asked casually.

The Minister of Revenue immediately said: "Your Majesty, I am going to the palace to ask for a visit this time to report to Your Majesty about the investigation of the land in the world."

"Tell me."

"Report to Your Majesty, I went to the territory of the Jiedushi in various places, but these Jiedushi either turned a blind eye to the Weidushi, or made a false promise, delayed and obstructed, and even reported a number to the Weidushi at will."

Li Si had no expression on his face when he heard this.

If these governors took the initiative to cooperate, Li Si would find it strange.

"But, for these, I had expected that this time, I went to the territory of Jiedushi in various places, and I was divided into two parts."

"On the surface, it is an official from the Ministry of Revenue led by the Wei ministers."

"In the dark side, there is another group of people."

"The person in the dark has extremely secret identity. He secretly checked the amount of land while the minister was entangled with the other party."

Li Si heard these words from the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue and felt a little amused in his heart.

This Minister of Revenue, I didn’t expect that he would save the country in a straight line?

The image of the Minister of Revenue has always been straightforward and unrealistic.

The governors also knew this very well.

I'm afraid they didn't expect that the Minister of Revenue would actually become cunning.

Li Si asked, "What is the result of the investigation?"

The Minister of Revenue bowed and said, "Report to Your Majesty, compared with all the land, I have only found a small part of it."

"Just this small part, it's simply shocking."

The Minister of Revenue took out a memorial from his cuff and held it on his hands.

The eunuch, a close servant, submitted the memorial to the dragon's case.

Li Si opened the memorial and frowned.

The memorial states some land ownership.

When the Tang Dynasty was founded, 60% of the land in the world was in the hands of the people and 40% were in the hands of the aristocratic families.

Aristocratic families are exempt from taxes.

However, even so, with 60% of the land taxes, the Tang Dynasty was prosperous and prosperous.

However, at this time, the part that had been investigated in the memorial submitted by the Minister of Revenue said that today, less than 20% of the land belonging to the people is now.

The remaining 80% of the land fell into the hands of those aristocratic families.

Nowadays, it is precisely because of these 20% of the land tax that all the consumption of the Tang Dynasty is maintained.

Li Si's face was extremely gloomy.

He had thought about serious land annexation.

Otherwise, the tax revenue of the Tang Dynasty would not have dropped so much.

But Li Si never expected that the land annexation situation was so serious?!

"Your Majesty, during the process of investigating the land, the area in Longyou is very well distributed."

The Minister of Revenue hesitated for a while and said truthfully.

"I understand."

The Minister of Revenue carefully glanced at the emperor and said tentatively: "Your Majesty, why not arrest a group of aristocratic families and the land will be vacant."

"inappropriate."

Li Si shook his head slightly.

The issue of land annexation does not depend on the aristocratic families.

Even if a group of aristocratic families are really captured and the vacant land is distributed to the people, a new aristocratic families may be born again after a while.

The problem of land annexation cannot be solved by a certain family or aristocratic family.

In fact, Li Si knew in his heart that this was a difficulty that every feudal dynasty had to face. No ruler did not want to solve it in all dynasties, but there was no effective method.

Because, the level of this problem is too high.

Even if Li Si had three gods and demons under his command, he would not dare to move around.

Otherwise, if Li Si insisted on his own, the entire Tang Empire would collapse and be in front of him.

The reason is very simple. In the Tang Empire, the Li royal family was the largest aristocratic family.

All the aristocratic families in this world are equivalent to the emperor's subordinates.

The emperor gave them land wealth, and these aristocratic families surrendered to the emperor.

The Li family royal family and these aristocratic families together formed the current Tang Empire.

The two have a common destiny and are closely related.

This is also the fundamental reason why the emperor was helpless in the face of land annexation.

Because if the emperor really wants to solve the land annexation, the first thing he needs to solve is himself

Therefore, there have been land annexation in all dynasties, and the more the end of the dynasty, the more serious the land annexation is, but no emperor wants to completely solve it.

People are selfish.

This is even more true for the emperor.

Who would be willing to sacrifice himself?

Li Si sat upright on the dragon throne, his mind changing rapidly.

The most direct way to completely solve the problem of land annexation is to take back the land in the world and make it state-owned.

It's just that, it takes time to do this.

Before this, Li Si needed to reform the current land system.

The aristocratic families were born with tax exemption power. They had no need to pay extra taxes. As a result, the Tang Dynasty tax system collapsed.

However, if Li Si abolished the tax exemption privileges of aristocratic families and collected taxes on a mu, how much land there is, how much tax it pays

In this way, even if aristocratic families and families annexed a lot of land, they cannot evade taxes, so they can only pay taxes honestly according to regulations.

In this way, the Tang Dynasty's tax system was maintained.

Thinking of this, Li Si suddenly stood up!

Li Si is imperative for land reform!
Chapter completed!