Qi County, Zhangqiu.

As the New Year approaches, the county magistrate Du Ruhui convened a meeting of clerks in the county and asked the clerks to be an example, take the lead in paying off the rent owed in the past, and also paying the grain in the charity warehouse.

Du Ruhui said that if even officials and clerks do not pay their debts, how can local wealthy households be willing to pay off their debts?

As a ninth rank official in the county, Luo Cheng naturally had to take the lead. The Luo family is all in the county and everyone is concerned about it.

In order to make Luo Cheng set a good example, before the Chinese New Year, Du Ruhui specially approved the official Luo Cheng's official land for 200 mu of permanent land and 200 mu of official land.

The three service personnel who should have been pulled out to him, three white and four body-protective service personnel who had been to be pulled out were also assigned to him.

"Shicheng, you are an official now, and your status is different, so you should pay more attention to the influence. In the past, your family also had arrears, but this time you have to take the lead in paying them off. Anyway, for you now, that little arrears are nothing." Du Ruhui said, "There is another thing. You are an official now. You three brothers also have an official position, and two brothers are also officials in the county, so it is best to distinguish the household registration."

According to general rural customs, in general families, the father died or grandsons became adults, and only the families of father and son would not be separated. However, after the founding of the Sui Dynasty, the hidden households were investigated, and the family members were fled, and the family members were found to be considered. It was stipulated that the following great achievements, the family members must be divided and the family members must be divided and the account was established.

Great merit is a mourning system, referring to relatives of the same grandfather.

Therefore, at the beginning of the founding of the Sui Dynasty, it made official legislation on the division of families, requiring families over three generations to be divided.

This is completely opposite to the later Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty has enacted legislation, which stipulates that parents do not separate their families and strictly prohibits their sons from splitting their families when their parents are alive. Otherwise, they will be unfilial and include such behaviors among the ten evil sins and must be severely punished.

This may be the reason why the Tang Dynasty emphasized the establishment of the country with filial piety. Although Emperor Taizong of Tang killed his brother and slaughtered his brother, forced his father to abdicate, and placed him under house arrest in the deep palace, he had to talk about establishing the country with filial piety.

The Sui Dynasty was different. When the Sui Dynasty was founded, especially in the Guandong region, it was the former Northern Qi region. The people were very uncooperative and often concealed their household registration, or pretended to be old and young. What does it mean? They just didn’t register their household registration and became black households. Or they registered, but they were obviously a thirty-year-old young man, but they were only seven or eight years old, or they simply registered their seventies and eighties.

Why do we need this? Of course, it is to evade taxes in vocational taxes.

Because the tax system of the Great Sui Dynasty was based on Ding, the country equalized the land to the people, and then taxed and assigned service to Ding. Only after the land was divided, Ding needed to pay rent and transfer. Lao and Xiao did not have to pay rent and transfer, nor did they have to serve.

If you are an illegal householder, you will naturally not have to pay rent and transfer to service.

Therefore, the court was very dissatisfied with this, and then sent local governments to strictly check their household registration. They also specifically required local officials to check whether they were lying about their age and cheating on their elderly and young people. If there is any falsehood, the security chief and others will be punished. This is a big picture reading.

Through this method, hundreds of thousands of new households and more than one million people were added that year.

Later, he also asked to analyze the household registration and divide the household registration because although the collection of rents and dispatches for service in the Sui Dynasty was based on Ding, some of the scattered Yao were entrusted, but they were also entrusted with household registration.

For example, charity grain. charity grain is a kind of reserve granary established by the imperial court, allowing local people to pay certain grain every year and then prepare for wasteland.

Originally, the amount of money was voluntarily paid, but later the court stipulated the standards for raising grain, which must be paid, and everyone had to pay. At the beginning, it was paid according to the land, and two liters of grain per mu of land were paid. Later, it was stipulated that merchants without land also had to pay, so how to pay? Determine households, etc., and determine the level according to the amount of your family’s property, and then pay the corresponding amount of grain according to the corresponding level every year.

Now, it has become a must-pay grain by mu and a household.

In this way, if you have four or five generations of family members and register one household, the government will charge a lot of money. Even many miscellaneous sects in the local area are collected according to households, and the number of households will affect the amount of collection.

Therefore, the court specifically stipulated that the number of households must be divided into the following major achievements.

However, due to folk customs, the court has enforced the law to divide households with great merits and encouraged everyone to live together and share wealth.

You have to go to the government to divide the households and set up one account each. However, the government encourages your family to live happily and harmoniously together, and have a shared property.

In short, this not only meets the needs of taxation and service in the court, but also takes care of everyone's traditional living habits.

The Luo Cheng family has only two generations now.

"Didn't you accept your adopted son and daughter?" Du Ruhui said.

Before, Luo Cheng collected Kan Ling and the other four and registered them, but he expected that this would become a reason to separate the family.

"In fact, it doesn't affect you. Just set up a few accounts here, and then you will live as much as you want, and you will not be affected."

"If you want to talk about the impact, at most it is just to pay some money for charity in more than a year."

Officials do not have to pay rent and transfer to service, but the grain in the charity warehouse is paid by the princes and below. Even those who are disabled must pay.

This kind of charity grain is actually the prototype of modern land tax.

As an official, Luo Cheng certainly could not refuse Du Ruhui's request. To be honest, it was indeed not much money. After all, he is now a large bureaucrat with thousands of hectares of fertile land.

So the next day.

Luo Cheng and his family went to the household registration department to handle the separation of household registration.

Originally, Luo Cheng could just take his four adopted children to separate them, but later thinking about it, let’s just divide the households.

According to the Sui Dynasty's family division method, there are three ways to divide the family division. The first is to divide the family. That is, the parents are still there and the youngest son is left to live with the parents, and the other sons are divided into separate accounts. In the future, the property left by the parents will be inherited by the old and the youngest son, and the youngest son will be responsible for supporting the parents when they are still there.

There is also a family division method called "living separation". When the parents are still there, all children will be separated. The parents will be supported by their sons in turn. In the future, the parents will die and the property will be divided equally by brothers.

The last method of division is that when parents are alive, they do not divide their families. When their parents are old or before they die, they will explain their affairs in advance, divide their family property, etc., and divide them accordingly after they die. This is called pre-division.

No matter which way of division, the division must have a host, witness, guarantor, etc., and the father and son who separate the division must sign and put their handprints, and even ask the government to send officials to justice.

The division documents issued are legally effective. Anyone who dares not admit it afterwards will be punished if they have to make more money, and the yamen can arrest and punish people.
Chapter completed!