On the 16th day of the first lunar month of the 16th year of Yongle, the sky had just started to light up. The big roosters raised by the people in Shuntianfu City began to squeeze with their necks, and then the dogs also barked wildly, vowing to suppress the rooster's crowing. The people who were disturbed by Qingmeng each dressed and got up, preparing to start the new year's work.

Chen Wangshi is naturally no exception.

Although Chen Wang's money earns in a day can match Chen Er's wages for several days, Chen Wang still likes to get up early every day to cook for her husband and children. Every day, when she sent her husband to work on the construction site, Chen Wang began to hope that her husband could get back from work early.

When washing rice, adding water, and making fire, streams of smoke from cooking rose from the small stove, making Chen Wang unable to help coughing a few times.

Turning his head and listening to the room, seeing that her husband was not being coughed by him, Chen Wang was relieved and concentrated on serving the firewood in the stove.

However, Chen Wang's idea of ​​caring for her husband was destined to fail. Outside the yard, Zheng shouted loudly about whether Chen Er Ge was at home or not. Chen Er responded in the room, so angry that Chen Wang directly chopped the kitchen knife in his hand on the chopping board, wiped his hands on the clothes, and then cursed the outside of the yard while walking towards the door of the yard.

Chen Xiaoyi, the official, didn't know where he offended Chen Er's family. Seeing that Chen Wang's expression was not kind, he thought that his wife was still working in Chen Wang's kindergarten. He had to smile and say with a wry smile: "Sister-in-law, are you awake? The government is here to check the household registration and want to recreate the yellow book. I thought that my second brother would have to go to work in a while, so I brought the officials from the government here earlier."

After hearing Chen Xiaoyi's explanation, he saw two officials and a scholar following Chen Xiaoyi. Chen Wang's face slowed down. He opened the gate of the hospital and let the others into the room, and was busy preparing tea for a few.

The scholar who followed Chen Xiaoyi had already looked at the courtyard. Seeing that Chen Wang was about to prepare tea, he immediately stood up and bowed to Chen Wangshi, "Sister-in-law will be fine to go to cook. I have drunk enough tea in the morning and can't drink it now."

While he was talking, Chen Er, who was well-dressed, also came out of the house. He first sued several people, then went to the yard to wash his face and brush his teeth, then quickly returned to the house, bowed to Chen Xiaoyi and the scholar, and asked, "I wonder if Brother Xiaoyi and this young husband are here to find Chen Er?"

The scholar smiled and said, "Brother Chen, right? I was ordered to start registering the household registration of Shuntian Prefecture. Brother Xiao Yi said that you are going to work on the construction site today, so I dragged me over early. Now we will start registering, so that you won't waste your time."

After saying that, the scholar spread out the booklet in his hand, took out the pen and ink, and began to record the information of Chen Er's family on the booklet.

Waiting for the information to be recorded, the scholar put away the booklet and pen and ink, and smiled and said to Chen Er: "Did Brother Chen know your Majesty's decree to abolish the people's taxes?"

Chen Er nodded and said, "Brother Xiao Yi has told us, and everyone knows that starting this year, the people's taxes will no longer be collected, and we will have much income to ourselves."

The scholar nodded and said, "Since I already know, I won't repeat it anymore. However, Brother Chen must remember that if you sell chickens and ducks raised at home, you still have to pay commercial taxes. Of course, there are only a few chickens, and no one cares about whether you pay or not."

Chen Er blushed and said, "Who have I become? The emperor is a good emperor. He feels sorry for our suffering. I can't be heartless, right? I'm going to hide my husband. My family also runs a kindergarten, but I pay taxes every month, and I have never had a shortcut."

The scholar smiled and stood up and bowed to Chen Er, saying, "Brother Chen Gaoyi! By the way, your child is already seven years old. According to the new regulations of the Ministry of Rites, he must enter school in September. Brother Chen must not forget it, maybe he will have to be fined."

Chen Er grinned and said, "I dare not forget it. Those who do not have to be fined will never forget it. Children study, but they must not delay the major events of their lives."

The scholar gave Chen Er a thumbs up and praised: "Does Xiao Yi say that Chen Er is a sensible person? It seems that it is indeed extraordinary now.

Okay, your family’s information has been registered, and I have said everything we should say, let’s go to the next house now, and Brother Chen will go to the construction site to work early and say goodbye.”

After Chen Xiaoyi, Xiucai and others left, Chen Wangshi also prepared breakfast. After serving the table, she grabbed her son who was staying in the quilt and didn't want to get up and slapped her ass, so that the awakened child would get up early.

Chen Er was reluctant to eat this pickled duck egg yolk. After carefully sucking a few mouthfuls of oil, Chen Er was still unwilling to stuff the duck egg yolk into his mouth. Instead, he carefully divided it into two halves, giving it to Chen Wangshi, and the other half in his son's bowl.

Chen Wang smiled and put the duck egg yolk back to Chen Er, and said with a smile: "Our family doesn't lack this now. If you like it, eat it. If not, I'll cook two more tomorrow."

Chen Er said stubbornly: "I eat at the construction site at noon, and at night, I will take care of a meal on the construction site. I can eat meat at both meals. Who cares about this?"

Chen Er's son looked at Chen Er, then looked at Chen Wangshi, then put the duck egg yolks in his bowl back into Chen Er's bowl and said, "Dad, let me eat it, let my mother eat it."

Chen Wangshi pursed her lips and smiled, saying, "Everyone eats their own things, don't give it back and forth."

After the child finished his meal and ran out to play, Chen Wangshi said to Chen Er: "The head of the family, our family is getting better and better. If anyone of the fifth uncle and the others come to you to talk about this or that, you are not allowed to do so."

Chen Er laughed silently and said, "You are smart? You can't think I'm stupid? The fifth uncle is so bad that he has pus and sores on his head and sores on his feet. He is not a good thing!

Also, weren’t there two other servants who came with Xiao Yi just now? One of them was a real official, but the other seemed to be from the army. It was probably either the Jinyiwei or the Jinwuwei.

Now these people are coming together to make a big yellow book. I guess the emperor wants to thoroughly investigate the Dingkou in the world. In the future, there will inevitably be something like the fifth uncle who wants to cause trouble. Do you think I am a fool and will you get involved with them?"

...

Since the Yongle 13th Annual Examination and Yang Shaofeng lifted the pot lid, Zhu Laosi no longer believed in the so-called yellow book data, so he simply decided to recreate the yellow book every three years and fish scale book every ten years.

There is no way. In the 26th year of Hongwu, the Ming Dynasty had 65 million, but in the 13th year of Yongle, there were only 52 million left?

This is very abnormal. In this case, there are usually only three possibilities.

First, war leads to a large decrease in the population, and second, plagues or other disasters lead to a large decrease in the population.

The problem is that in the more than ten years since Zhu Laosi ascended the throne, there has been no large-scale disputes, nor any particularly powerful plagues. Why did the population decrease?

Unless it is the third possibility, that is, a large number of Dingkou has been artificially reduced, and the people are still there, but they will not appear in the official statistics, so there is a situation where Dingkou is so much less than in the Hongwu period, and has not increased in the past ten years.

Especially after Yang Shaofeng lifted the lid during the imperial examination, the re-created yellow book organized by the Jinyiwei, Zhu Laosi unexpectedly discovered that the people were probably not more than 50 million, but nearly 60 million.

Where did the taxes for millions of people go? Anyway, Zhu Laosi didn't see the taxes for these people.

Zhu Laosi thought this was wrong.

It is natural for the emperor to collect taxes from the people. Not collecting is the emperor's kindness, and collecting is the emperor's right. Even if the people's taxes are completely abolished in the future, others cannot take advantage of it, and they cannot suffer such a mute loss.

The bastard Yang Dianma was right. When he was unhappy, he was unhappy with others. Only half of his unhappiness would be left, and he would feel much more comfortable.

Therefore, Zhu Laosi sent someone to report to the world that the people's taxes were completely abolished, and then sent out the Jinyiwei, together with the Yangjiazhuangzi Academy and the Imperial College students.

According to Zhu Laosi's idea, each group of three people is in one group, one literati is responsible for recording, one yamen is responsible for leading the way, and one Jinyiwei is responsible for supervising, and the local people are responsible for leading the group to travel around the households. No one should be concealing the household registration anymore, right?

Xia Yuanji expressed support for this, and even felt that he should have done this long ago, and the treasury was so empty that it could run away from mice?

Ignoring the wise and wise words of His Majesty, Zhu Laosi said: "After the matter of Li is settled, the craftsmanship will be incorporated into the civilian status, and the music households, fallen people, companions, households, shantytowns and other low-key households will be abolished.

Anyone who is sent to the Jiaofangsi and the Lehu family will be pardoned as good people and included in the civil public. Those corrupt relatives will not be listed here. I will issue an edict in the future, and the Ministry of Revenue will also be prepared."

Xia Yuanji looked at Zhu Laosi with a confused look on his face and hesitated: "It's okay for the people and the like to live, the people are happy..."

Zhu Laosi said with a gloomy face: "Just do what I said, that little bastard mocked me for this more than once."

Xia Yuanji immediately changed his face and said righteously: "Your Majesty loves the people with a heart of heart. The top scholar had known that Your Majesty was willing to accept advice humbly, so he dared to make a straightforward advice. How could he mock him?"

Zhu Laosi waved his hand and scolded, "You can protect me in every way! Mr. Xia gave you the nickname he gave me! I don't want to see you two now, so you should hurry up and do your business."

After Xia Yuanji left the palace, Zhu Laosi asked Wuxin to send Ji Gang again, threw Ji Gang a secret bag and said with a gloomy face: "Send some reliable people to Quanzhou and act as instructed in the secret bag until the last one is dealt with by me!"
Chapter completed!