In the afternoon, it was snowing heavily, and Li Li read the official documents in the official office and carefully pondered the "spirit of the Secretariat Conference" in order to keep up with the current situation.

With the strong promotion of Xiao Yi, the regent vassal king, the court was about to implement a territorial severance and the specific implementation was of course the Shangshu Province was responsible for it.

This is after the land cut off in the first year of Tianjian, after nearly sixty years, the Liang State organized and adjusted its domestic household registration and administrative divisions.

Land-breaking is a policy of the imperial court to sort out household registration and adjust local administrative divisions. The purpose is to define prefectures, counties, and counties. Residents have household registrations based on their actual residence, so it is called "land-breaking".

Since the southward transit of the Hangun, the Jiankang court has implemented nine land cuts. The first year of the establishment of the Liang Kingdom, that is, the first year of Tianjian, was actually not large in scope.

Nearly a hundred years have passed, and the country should have implemented a land cut-off under its rule.

Take good stocks of household registration and land, check out hidden households, and search out fugitive farmers and private relatives occupied by powerful people, and serve as government taxes and service targets.

But it is not simply to clean up household registration. The prerequisite for the imperial courts to implement land severance in the past dynasties was to organize the administrative regions of overseas Chinese prefectures and counties.

Zhang Ying assumed the responsibility of explaining at this time and analyzed for Li Li what is "district".

In the Central Jin Dynasty (as later generations called the Eastern Jin Dynasty), a large number of gentry and expatriates from the south entered the south of the Yangtze River, squeezing the land of the "old people" (locals) in the south. Soon the contradiction between the two gradually arose and becomes more and more serious.

At that time, household registrations were divided into yellow, white, and yellow household registrations, and households registered with them had to bear taxes and labor.

White household registration is the exclusive household registration for the expatriates. Those registered with White household registration do not need to pay taxes and serve.

In order to resettle these expatriates who went south, the Zhongjin court set up many overseas prefectures and counties in the Jiangbei and Jiangnan Sanwu areas, and placed expatriates from different regions in these prefectures and counties named after their hometowns.

A typical example is the Xiao family of Lanling that crossed the south, and settled in the "Lanling County" in Qu'a area. This Lanling County is a county established by overseas Chinese and later renamed "Nanlanling County".

Because the expatriates (white households) enjoy tax exemption privileges, the heavy burden is on the yellow households, that is, the locals in Jiangnan bear the tax and labor.

Locals whose living space and resources are occupied by outsiders have to bear a lot of taxes and labor, so they are of course very resentful.

Some people also bribed officials and changed their household registration to white, so that they were exempt from taxes and labor.

On the other hand, the expatriates who traveled south basically only obeyed the command of the leaders of the expatriates group and were armed. It was difficult for the local officials appointed by the imperial court in the prefectures and counties to manage these extremely grouped expatriates.

In order to ease the conflict, increase fiscal revenue, and better manage yellow and white households, the Zhongjin court implemented a land cessation, and the central content was - sorting out household registration.

Regardless of whether the overseas Chinese is divided into old ones, all residents will be assigned to formal household registration (yellow household registration) in their counties and counties, and preferential treatment for overseas Chinese will be cancelled.

This move will help the government formulate a unified policy on the people, ease the conflicts between the indigenous people and the expatriates, crack down on powerful forces, and maintain ruling order.

The main methods of implementing soil cessation are to eliminate the combination, cut the real, change the ownership, and establish new names by pretending to be overseas Chinese.

The province is to streamline and merge many prefectures, counties and counties.

To cut off the solid means to draw up a new prefecture and county in the original area where overseas Chinese gather.

To change the territorial means to re-change the local zoning into another place, and the local expatriates and residents' homeland will be changed, such as changing from this state to another state, and this county to another county.

The new name of overseas Chinese means that the government allocates overseas Chinese population and uses the name of overseas Chinese to deal with overseas Chinese population and avoids separate establishment.

This move is to keep the expatriates under the control of the government and to prevent the large clans from taking the opportunity to merge the expatriates' population.

The first earth break in the Zhongjin period was during the Xianhe period of Emperor Cheng. After the most famous earth break was the "Gengxu earth break" in the second year of Emperor Ai Xingning and the powerful minister Huan Wen.

And the "Yixi Tuduo" chaired by the powerful minister Liu Yu in the eighth to ninth year of Yixi of Emperor An.

Zhang Ying introduced that these two ground breaks are known for their strict implementation.

When Gengxu Earth was cut off, Sima Xuan, the king of Pengcheng, a royal family of Jin, was imprisoned and punished for hiding five households.

When the Yixi land was cut off, Yu Liang, a large Kuaiji clan, was executed for hiding more than a thousand people.

When Li Li heard this, he felt that the example given by Zhang Ying had a profound meaning: "Is it possible that the two territorial severances that were so strictly implemented were all means for powerful officials to establish their authority?"

Zhang Ying nodded: "That's right, it's just a means of establishing authority by powerful officials. Of course, the territorial destruction does bring many benefits, which has indeed enriched the national treasury and rectified the powerful people."

"So, the King of Xiangdong promoted the implementation of a territorial punishment, which is an open plot." Li Li put down the official documents in his hand and chuckled softly.

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"Since you are establishing your authority, you have to kill chickens and scare monkeys. Whoever doesn't have eyes will be used by the King of Xiangdong to establish his authority."

Li Li opened his mind and said while thinking: "The core of the land cutoff lies in the establishment of prefectures and counties in the overseas Chinese. So the scope of the land cutoff is actually easy to judge, which is the three Wus and north of the Yangtze River."

"After the past land cuts in the Sanwu area, the 'tax growth space' is small, and the court may focus on the land cuts in the north of the Yangtze River."

"Including Jiangmian, Mian and northern regions in the north of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and Lianghuai regions in the north of the lower reaches."

"However, Mianbei and Huaibei, including Huaixi, are newly affiliated places. The imperial court previously allowed these places to be exempted from tax for several years, in order to win people's hearts and land cut off. At most, it was to change household registration and adjust prefectures and counties, and there was no tax on them."

"So, the purpose of the King of Xiangdong is probably to target people, not taxes."

"Or, the King of Xiangdong can take the opportunity to hit some people or groups. Then, even if these unlucky people are low-key and cooperate with the terror, they may not be able to escape the end of being found and being questioned."

Zhang Ying looked at Li Li and asked, "Junhou, if someone from Lianghuai in Xuzhou is beaten, will Junhou Gang help?"

"I'm not that stupid. Helping others is to harm others. And I have to help you secretly and directly plead for him, that's because I'm afraid that he won't die fast enough."

After Li Li finished speaking, drinking tea to moisten his throat: "I use one word to describe it. This is a 'obedience test'. The King of Xiangdong will slowly put pressure on him. If anyone is found for trouble, if he can surrender immediately and admit defeat, he will be in danger."

Seeing that Li Li had a clear idea, Zhang Ying asked, "June, what is the girl's marriage?"

Zhang Ying already knew that Wang Lin’s wife Cai indirectly mentioned the marriage between the two families, and Li Li shrugged:

"I'm not old enough, why are you anxious? Besides, the Queen Mother may not have such intentions, so why should I be self-indulgent?"

"That's fine." Zhang Ying quickly turned the topic back, "Is it because of the fact that the Lord is so concerned about the divination?"

"I think the effect is just like that, and I can't do anything." After Li Li said that, he reached over his head, took off his official hat, and then pulled his hair bun.

"No matter how strong a person is, he cannot pull his hair and lift himself up."

He put on his official hat, picked up the official document as a drumstick, and beat the book: "Zhongjin is a country rebuilt based on the overseas Chinese gentry. It is impossible for the court to offend its own ruling foundation."

"Also, the most capable soldiers in the imperial army came from the expatriates or refugee groups who went south, such as the Northern Palace soldiers of the Central Jin Dynasty."

"In Song, Qi and this dynasty, the gentry of overseas Chinese surnames and overseas Chinese (vasts) were deeply rooted in the settlements, because these groups have actually become rich families in the north and south border areas, with big tails and rats at both ends."

"If the Jiankang court dares to touch their fundamental interests, they dare to support the north. Can the court bear such a price?"

"No, but the center controlled by the gentry firmly clamped on the way to enter the officialdom and promotion with the Nine-rank Zhongzheng system, blocking these cold races from the flow and cutting off the road to rapid promotion with military merits."

"A court has neither absolute force to impose mandatory taxes on the powerful people, nor is it willing to use official positions to redeem the powerful people in various places. It is not soft or hard. Then the land is just bullying honest people."

"The so-called honest people are all the small landlords, namely the cold tribe, and the court can collect more taxes on them."

"If the court wants to truly increase its income and acquire a large amount of labor, it must attack the landlords. However, the landlords cannot take the initiative, so the effect of landbreaking will definitely be, but that's it."

After some discussion, his view on earth-breaking was decided. Li Li felt that if he had been replaced, he would not have any earth-breaking.

Taking advantage of the frequent changes of emperors between Zhou and Qi, he had no intention of externalizing the country. He checked the land in China, determined the number of land acres, and then levyed taxes with armed forces.

At worst, there will be a civil war. In the Liang Kingdom, there are not many troops qualified to fight against the Xuzhou army.

The situation will be different after the imperial court cleaned up the big landlords who did not pay taxes.

But it’s just thinking about it. If you don’t have the position or do your own affairs, Li Li thinks that it’s better to watch yourself now.

Once the King of Xiangdong wants to use the help of the earth to hit the emperor, it will be wonderful.

Because the manors of princes, nobles and a large number of officials are mostly concentrated around Jiankang and the land of the Three Wus. If you really want to catch the handle, don’t be too simple.
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