Zhang Yue turned the wooden board to the sides and stayed for a while to facilitate the emperor, prince, eldest grandson and courtiers to see clearly the numbers he listed on the wooden board paper.

As a civil servant, doing similar forms is Zhang Yue’s job.

But now there is no computer and it needs to be drawn by hand, which is a bit troublesome.

After everyone saw it clearly, Zhang Yue continued to speak and said, "The number of land reported by the counties and states is as follows..."

A series of numbers were spit out clearly from his mouth again.

The voices in the hall gradually became louder.

Most of the courtiers were northerners.

Even if there are occasional ministers born in the south, their careers are basically in the north.

Therefore, poverty limits their imagination.

I thought that in many places in Guanzhong, one man narrows his mouth and has five entries to treat hundreds of fields, but it has become a sensationalist who has narrows his mouth and has five entries to treat thirty fields.

However, the situation of the Southeast County and State really surprised everyone!

Some people with better mathematics even listen to the number of land reported by Zhang Yue and divide the number of households by their households.

I was all Smithy.

There are 220,000 households in Qi County, but the total land is only 300,000 hectares!

It seems to be good.

but……

This is the total cultivated land area!

It is the total cultivated land area including mountainous land and mulberry fields.

And it also contains a large amount of land for other purposes!

You should know that there are three types of land in the Han Dynasty: three types: reclaimable, unreclaimable, and unreclaimable.

The land that can be reclaimed is arable land, it cannot be reclaimed is reserved, and the group cannot be reclaimed is public land.

This is a tradition passed down from the Shang and Zhou dynasties, or even longer periods.

It is based on ancient and simple lessons that must leave room for disasters and other possible uncontrollable accidents.

As pointed out in "Shangjun Book. Laimin": If there are hundreds of miles of places, there are timbers in the mountain tombs, timbers in the shui, timbers in the shui, timbers in the shui, timbers in the capital, timbers in the shui, timbers in the shui, timbers in the shui, timbers in the shui, timbers in the shui, timbers in the shui, timbers in the shui, timbers in the shui, timbers in the shui, timbers in the shui, timbers in the shui, timbers in the shui, timbers in the shui, timbers in the shui, timbers in the shui, timbers in the shui, timbers in the shui, timbers in the shui,

In other words, in fact, the 300,000 hectares of land in Qi County are imaginary and just sounds nice.

In fact, at least 30% of the reserved land, at least 50,000 hectares of public land and more than 100,000 acres of public land must be deducted.

In other words, the 220,000 households in Qi County will only obtain 100,000 hectares of cultivated land.

The 220,000 households on paper are divided into this million acres of land.

Only one acre per capita!

What’s even more terrifying is that if you travel to Qijun, you can only take one hundred and twenty steps per acre!

It means that the millions of people in Qi County own half acre of land per capita!

For the conservatives in Chang'an and the doctoral officers of the Gongyang School who claim to be "righteous for the people" and even determined to "make peace", this is simply unimaginable and unreasonable!

Everyone has rapid breathing and blue veins are exposed.

I wish I could grab the necks of those stakeholders and ask them: What did you eat to grow up?

The scheming officials were trembling, and the two thousand stones entered the court were trembling in fear.

Everyone could only crawl and bow again, and they didn't dare to show off their anger!

But Zhang Yue had no intention of stopping.

He continued: "The situation of corvee labor reported by each county and state are as follows..."

Numbers are like death talismans.

The courtiers were furious, especially the radicals and idealists of the Gongyang School, and their eyes widened.

Because the burden of corvee labor in various counties and countries has simply blinded everyone's 24k krypton gold dog eyes!

Taking Qi County as an example, a total of about 50,000 laborers were recruited to serve in a fiscal statistics year from last autumn to August this autumn.

But at the same time, its income reached 60 million...

In other words, almost every household registration has paid an additional tax.

What's even more terrifying is that there are two types of corvee labor in the Qin and Han dynasties.

One type is called national labor force, also known as internal labor force.

It is a corvee service that is collected by the local government and is levied for the repair of public facilities and government offices in its jurisdiction and urban construction.

Another type is called external labor, which is a corvee levied by the state and for the sake of certain large-scale national defense and public facilities.

The difference between the two is that internal labor is free of charge, while external labor is paid in some cases.

In addition, according to national regulations, the free period of service for each official is one month per year.

More than the part "has been tried by a common business."

It means that if you serve over the time limit, whether it is internal and external labor, you must give a wage that meets the price and social reality from the location.

Decades ago, when Zhang Cang, a famous minister of the generation of famous officials, was the prime minister, in order to improve the professional level of grassroots officials in the Han Empire and to improve the mathematical ability of the national ruling class, he spent more than ten years of hard work. Based on the old "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", he compiled the first comprehensive mathematical theory book and the training guide for self-skill cultivation of officials in Zhuxia based on actual conditions.

This version of Nine Chapters of Arithmetic was eventually passed down to later generations.

Many of these topics involve the situation of corvee service compensation.

Later researchers, after calculating many of the questions about corvee, came up with an amazing discovery. Almost all the answers to the questions ultimately pointed out that an adult man’s service compensation was about 7.5 cents a day.

The various Han bamboo slips unearthed, Han books and some sporadic records in the Records of the Grand Historian all show that this situation was quite common in the Han Dynasty.

This situation is particularly prominent when the project pointed to is a river channel and water conservancy construction project.

There are two edicts on river construction in "Han Shu. Gouqian Zhi", which was personally approved by the emperor at that time: to write a foreign labor force for six months.

What is external labor force in June?

Zhu means registration, which means that the emperor at that time felt that the work of these civil servants was very meaningful, and he gave special grace and ordered officials to register these civil servants, and all of them were labeled as "June External Vessel".

This is really a great emperor’s grace!

Because, this means that they received the kindness of the emperor's personal gift of serving six months of extra labor.

According to the Han law, the annual service period of subjects is one month, and the excess part is considered paid.

In other words, these civilians can convert the "June Month External Vessel" into cash and go to local governments to collect it.

You can also use these six months to offset the corvee service or military service that you may have to serve in the future.

Therefore, the corvee system of the Qin and Han dynasties was complex and systematic.

There are different standards for different situations and classes.

Qi County made a fatal mistake on this issue: it still levied 50,000 people to engage in various corvee labor while it had already collected more money from the people.

But he did not give these people half a five-zhu coin compensation!

Considering the reason for the Chen Sheng and Wu Guang uprising was due to the loss of time, the civilians who were afraid of being punished rose up in Daze Township.

Eight hundred bamboo poles pierced the rule of the Qin Dynasty.

All the court officials looked at the clerks and two thousand stones in Qingxuyang area, and their eyes were emitting green light.

You must be dying, don’t pull us!

Of course, officials like Zong Zheng Liu Qumao who rose from the local area all bowed their heads.

They knew that similar situations not only appeared in Qing Xu Yang, but also in various parts of the north.

But the eating behavior is not that ugly.

Almost all the people who were all registered as households were charged with cheap money, and then they were entrusted to serve the farmers.

This is clearly going to force them to go bankrupt!

The officials in the north even raised their heads and were quite proud.

There is no sense of superiority without comparison.

Compared with colleagues in Southeast, many people are deeply proud of their integrity and conscience!

I am really a gentleman!

At least they use money to do business. Once the people pay the money, they will not easily collect them!

At this time, everyone was trembling, and the two thousand stones of the capital were even more anxious all day long, wishing to find a rope to hang it.

Especially those officials who usually think they are honest and dedicated to the public and love the people.

It's really shameless.

I felt guilty inside.
To be continued...