Datang: I am the prince of salted fish, I impeach Li Er at the beginning

Chapter 53 The investigation has no clue, and there is another meeting in the palace
"It should not be sent by the prince, and the suspicion of King Wei can also be ruled out."

"If you want me to say something, you first get rid of Hou Junji's suspicion."

"If it wasn't sent by Hou Junji, then I have a rough guess."

Li Zhi touched his chin and thought for a long time before giving a vague answer.

But Cui Zhiwen didn't seem to be able to accept it. He said: "You must not have the heart of harming others, and you must have the heart of guarding against others. I know that King Jin and you are brothers, but this is after all a battle for succession."

Li Zhi reached out his hand to stop Cui Zhiwen from continuing.

"This is not just because of trust in family ties. We will talk about the reasons later. In short, just go and investigate the possibility that Hou Junji committed the crime. You can leave the rest to me."

Li Zhi said so, and Cui Zhiwen couldn't continue to object.

Now is the best time to handle the case, he didn't dare to waste any more time, so he had to obey orders.

"In that case, then I will follow His Highness's instructions to investigate Duke Chen's Marquis Junji. If there is still room left, I will then investigate the situation of my family."

"also."

Li Zhi agreed with his statement, and waved his hand at him: "Go ahead, investigate as much information as possible, dare to assassinate the king in the street, this matter must be investigated."

"it is good."

Cui Zhiwen didn't talk nonsense, and took the order to leave.

Now, apart from the cavalry patrolling around, Li Zhi was the only one left on the street.

He looked at the scene and thought about it for a while. When he couldn't see any more clues, he turned around and left.

Within 2 minutes of walking, he came to the west of Yongxingfang.

Entered the workshop and returned to his own house.

"Who would have done it?"

Li Zhi sat on the seat in the study, biting his lip and thinking.

Everyone is dead, and no clues are given.

With such a clean assassination method, even if you want to find a clue, it has become very difficult.

Because of the lack of intelligence, he can only find the direction of the investigation based on interest disputes.

Thinking in this way, as Cui Zhiwen said, there are only a few people who have conflicts of interest with him.

However, no matter what Li Zhi thought, he didn't think those people would do such stupid things as assassinate in the street.

Thinking about the night all the time, Li Zhi didn't think of a specific clue.

In the end, he gave up thinking about this issue and planned to wait for the results of Cui Zhiwen's investigation before looking for a direction.

After sleeping through the night, it was time for the next day.

Li Zhi got up early in the morning and prepared to go to the East Palace to test the situation.

But before he left the palace, a eunuch came over to deliver the palace's decree.

"The Holy One has decreed that the King of Jin, Li Zhi, will go to the Imperial Study Room to discuss political affairs. We also ask the King of Jin to set off immediately."

Seeing that the eunuch was in a hurry, Li Zhi couldn't ask carefully, so he immediately followed the eunuch to Miyagi.

Along the way, Li Zhi thought a lot about Li Shimin's purpose of passing him on.

But when he came to the imperial study room, saw the officials gathered, and after listening to what they were discussing, Li Zhi couldn't help laughing.

"I thought about it for a long time, but the topics discussed had nothing to do with what I was thinking. I was really convinced."

At this moment, I heard Chu Suiliang speak loudly.

"Yongzhou has a lot of people and little land, and the existing land equalization system can no longer be implemented. The difficulty facing us now is how to reform the system..."

When Chu Suiliang was speaking, Li Shimin who was sitting on the innermost side saw Li Zhi coming in and waved to him.

Li Zhi walked over, and listened to Li Shimin's order: "The disadvantages of population explosion have been exposed, Xiao Jiu, you have unique views on these, and I want to hear your opinions."

Originally, Chu Suiliang was still eloquently talking, but now he was interrupted by Li Shimin, and when he heard that Li Zhi was going to express his opinion, the expression on his face suddenly became a little ugly.

"Your Majesty! No matter how talented and intelligent King Jin is, he is only 17 years old. You don't listen to our advice, but go to consult a child. Are you..."

Anyone who is interrupted to speak is not very happy.

There was nothing wrong with Chu Suiliang's words, but his tone sounded a little weird, which made people uncomfortable.

Li Zhi glanced at him, and said: "I haven't understood the specific question yet, please advise the doctor to continue. After I finish listening, I will say a few more words."

Say a word?
The corners of Chu Suiliang's mouth twitched. You, a big kid, can understand this.

It is ridiculous enough for His Majesty to ask you to speak, but you don't even have a word of modesty, you are really shameless!

Chu Suiliang didn't dare to say some things clearly, so he had to continue explaining according to the previous thinking.

"It is very difficult to completely reform the system. After all, it is a system that has been implemented for so many years. The cost of reform is unbearable for Datang."

"In this case, we can only find another way to see if we can make a fuss about the number of fields."

"For example, the land equalization system implemented in Yongzhou at this time distributes [-] mu of sub-fields and [-] mu of permanent land to the young and strong."

"If this amount can be changed to [-] mu of sub-fields and [-] mu of permanent land."

"The pressure on land allocation can be greatly reduced, and this system can be maintained for at least 50 years!"

……

The land policy of the early Tang Dynasty was mainly composed of two parts.

The first part is "Equal Land System", that is, as Chu Suiliang said, the government will distribute [-] mu of land and [-] mu of permanent land to every young man.

Let farmers take this as the foundation of their lives, and give them the land they need to survive.

Among them, [-] mu of land is official land.

When a person grows into a youth, he will be bestowed by the government.

And when he died, the government would take back this part of the land.

It was borrowed, and sooner or later it would have to be returned.

The Yongye field, on the other hand, becomes a private field after certain conditions are met.

It can be inherited or traded with others.

Normally, as long as the population does not experience large-scale expansion, this system can always be maintained.

But the problem is that the world has been at peace for too long.

For example, the Yongzhou area directly under the capital city is already overcrowded.

Due to the large population, the land equalization system cannot be implemented in the Yongzhou area.

What Chu Suiliang meant was that the proportion of official land that was lent out could be reduced, so as to alleviate the pressure of land shortage.

His calculations were good.

The [-] mu of land that should have been allocated became [-] mu.

As a result, the average land obtained by each person was reduced by [-]%.

In other words, after the implementation of the new distribution ratio, the Yongzhou area can accommodate another [-]% of the current population.

Assuming that one generation can raise and raise three children, it will take another 50 years to face the problem that the land equalization system cannot be implemented again.

Chu Suiliang planned to delay this issue by sacrificing the interests of farmers.

Get ready for the next generation of leadership to tackle this conundrum.

(End of this chapter)