Take the mall to Datang

As soon as the people around heard it, most of them dispersed quickly.

I thought there would be a conflict for a long time. These people came to watch the fun.

"This old man seems to be a little bit indifferent to the businessmen who came here after hearing your tone." Yuan Shan asked.

"My lord, although our place is a market, we only do some grain transactions. It's a joke for business groups to come to us to do business." The old man said.

Yuan Shan was not bored by the old man's words, but continued to ask: "We are new here, so why don't we ask the old man to talk about it?"

"Then let me tell you, Fengzhou was not rich in the first place, and a large number of refugees have integrated into it in the past few years, and now it has become what it is today. The land itself is not enough and the population is large. When people go to Chang'an, they don't know whether they are dead or alive now. If there are more people, the food pressure will be greater. Unlike Fengzhou, there are more hunters and woodcutters, and the merchants are all running shops in the city, and the business is not very good at ordinary times." The old man said.

"Old man, didn't the imperial court let the state capitals plant corn? Why isn't there enough food?" Yuan Shan asked.

"The corn planting was contracted by the big gentry in Fengzhou City. We don't have corn seeds here," said the old man.

Hearing what the old man said, Yuan Shan knew that someone must have tampered with it, so he continued to ask: "Isn't the corn seed from the imperial court already distributed to the state capital? They are all distributed for free. Why don't you wait? Could it be that the governor of Fengzhou dared to disobey the order of the imperial court?"

When Yuanshan asked this question, he was in a state of mind-blowing, but then the old man could only smile wryly: "This has nothing to do with the governor of Fengzhou, it's because we are not registered in Fengzhou household registration, so we don't have corn seeds , Our arable land is all reclaimed, and corn seeds are allotted to each state capital according to household registration, even if we buy them, we can't buy them."

"It turned out to be such a short period of time." Yuan Shan said in his heart, and he figured it out. It means that a very common phenomenon in the population problem of the Tang Dynasty is that those who have been registered and those who have not. Refugees who escaped, so these people's household registration is not in the local area, and they may have no household registration at all for at least one generation.

The governor of Fengzhou is not easy to manage these "outsiders", maybe this place is the way to settle this gratifying person.

But the reason why Fengzhou did this at this time is worth thinking about. Maybe it was because of fear of affecting his political performance, or dereliction of duty, or because he had no choice.

Theoretically speaking, he should pay attention to these things. Although he is in charge of the Ministry of Economics and Development, his right hand shot covers these areas of authority. Think about it, let someone record the things they inquired, and call them when they go back. Let Dai Zhou handle it, this is exactly what he is doing for this inspection.

Not bothering the two masters with one thing, he thinks it's better to manage his own economy well. Now, after walking around this market, he realizes that the products here and sold in the market are all daily necessities, such as what Yuan Shan brought No one is willing to consume all the commodities.

Tea, glass, nougat, and seasonings are not cheap.

Maybe only the plasters and other medicines from the Lantian Medical Center might be of interest to some, but they also don't seem to be able to buy them with their current spending power.

Chapter 568 Yuan Shan's Suspicion

Although there is no commercial transaction here, the people from the Ministry of Economic Development still have a look at the gratifying situation. There are more than 5000 people in this resettlement site. It was dug out, but the problem is that the tax borne by these land reclamation is [-]% more than that of the people from Fengzhou. This means that they don't have much spare money in their hands except for food to survive.

What's more important is the number of resettled people like this. There are several places in Fengzhou, and each place has hundreds of households. They are considered to be the resettlement sites with the largest number of people in Fengzhou.

Liang Ming and Qin Yu learned about the situation and said to Yuan Shan on the way back: "This Fengzhou is really too poor."

Yuan Shan also said with some concern: "It seems that the information we have learned is still not enough."

"It's the subordinate's dereliction of duty." The two said at the same time.

"Regardless of your matters, what I'm saying is that I don't know much about the situation in each state. This is directly related to the fact that the Ministry of Economic Development has not been established for a short time." Not every practice is as prosperous as Chang'an and Luoyang. If the local situation is like this, Datang will only appear to be prosperous on the surface.

If it is not prosperous, it has to be collected according to a fixed tax. The number of registrations on the household registration is limited, so where will the taxes handed over by those "black households" go?

Yuan Shan is sure that this is definitely a phenomenon-level situation. It seems that the actual population of Datang is really hard to say this time, and if there is no gray income, how can some wealthy businessmen be created.

He hoped that this time he wouldn't fall into the water and get thundered. If it exploded, would it shake the whole Tang Dynasty?

Back in the guest room of the inn, Dai Zhou came over with a frown and black lines all over his face.

"What's wrong with Mr. Dai? Did something happen?" Yuan Shan said, he changed his address when he was away from home, and Dai Zhou didn't care at this time.

Dai Zhou shook his head and said, "This Fengzhou is really a poor state."

"How do you know that?" Yuan Shan asked.

"Today, I waited around the city and asked around. Fengzhou's annual tax revenue is [-]% higher than that of the common people, so how can Tian Bowen, the governor of Fengzhou, be said to be a capable person, do such a thing? What?" Dai Zhou was secretly angry while talking.

"Is there any hidden secret in this?" Yuan Shan said.

Then Yuanshan told about the people with foreign household registration that he met today, and Dai Zhou immediately thought of the problem.

"This information is very important. I won't know until the old man goes over and inquires in person tomorrow." Dai Zhou said solemnly.

"Mr. Dai has an idea. It seems that he will know the answer tomorrow." Yuan Shan said, but he didn't continue to ask. Even if he asked Dai Zhou, he would definitely be fooling around first. He didn't have time to talk to this old man. greasy.

After Dai Zhou left, Yuan Shan came to Du Qianyu's room. As soon as he arrived at the door, he heard sobbing in the room. Yuan Shan immediately became anxious, thinking that something happened in the room, and immediately opened the door and entered.

I saw Du Qianyu crying while reading this book.

"Qianyu, you..."

Yuan Shan immediately understood when he saw the book, he was definitely moved.

Imagine that a young, beautiful and resolute woman actually shed tears, and she was still crying. He thought he would show her some emotional books. If he showed her a Korean drama or something, it would not be so cruel. like.

He thought in his heart that this would not work, if he abused his heart so much that he had no love, then how could he pick up a girl, suddenly he approached Du Qianyu, at this time what the girl needed most was comfort.

He stayed awake most of the night and lit a kerosene lamp to read emotional stories to Du Qianyu. Although he was sleepy, he knew that the distance between the two was getting closer.

Yuan Shan stared at a pair of panda eyes early in the morning. Fortunately, he was wearing glasses. Liang Ming said during breakfast and dinner, "Mr. Dai took people out early in the morning."

Yuan Shan knew about this, and Qin Yu asked beside him, "Master Yuan, where are we going today?"

"Go and find out more about the situation today, and we'll talk about the specifics later." Yuan Shan said, and went back to the guest room to rest after having breakfast.

Zhou Yuanshan, who is so poor, has nothing to do. He still doesn't know the population of Fengzhou. He first counted the unemployed population, which is the most important thing. In fact, what Dai Zhou said to him yesterday, he vaguely guessed There are some clues.

The reclaimed land is nothing, but the reclaimed wasteland is limited. How big Fengzhou is in Da Neng, and how much reclaimed wasteland can be shared on average.

If Yuan Shan had guessed correctly, Dai Zhou had gone out early to verify the number of reclaimed land and the number of non-registered residents.

He doesn't comment on Tian Bowen, the governor of Fengzhou. After all, the current affairs are suspected of being hidden and not reported, so even if Tian Bowen has talents, it is not useless.

In the afternoon, the people led by Dai Zhou came back. They couldn't verify so many people at all, so they could only make a rough estimate.

Yuan Shan was drinking tea in the inn room at this time, looking at the information collected by Liang Ming and Qin Yu, there are not many rich households in Fengzhou city, but there are as many as thirty households living in the Sanjin mansion, You can know the situation of these wealthy households with a little inquiry.

These [-] households are all big households, and their own property is enough for them to be self-sufficient. The main industry is land. The price of grain in Fengzhou is more expensive than that of other prefectures, so these big households are very rich.

The types of shops in Fengzhou are complete but the number is very small, and these shops are enough to meet the needs of Fengzhou now. There is a lack of jobs, not enough land for cultivation, and a large population. The combination of many problems makes Yuanshan head as big as a bucket. How this develops is exactly the same as the village.

"The issue of Yuan Pu's shooting has been investigated clearly." Dai Zhou came in and knew the name of the official, which meant that it was a matter of business.

"How's the situation?" Yuan Shan asked.

"It was all caused by the famine in Hanzhong. A large number of hungry people fled to Fengzhou. At that time, Tian Bowen, the governor of Fengzhao, resettled these people in the wasteland area of ​​Fengzhou. There were so many people and the land for reclamation was limited, but the purpose of resettling these people was unexpectedly It is for the political achievements of Fengzhou, according to the investigation, the tax amount reported by Fengzhou to the imperial court every year is more than the actual tax revenue." Dai Zhou said.

"It's no wonder that Tian Bowen resettled these refugees. It turned out that these people's reclamation would increase tax revenue. Dai inspected what happened to the [-]% extra tax collected by the registered people." Yuan Shan had already thought of the key point, but the limelight He couldn't let him occupy it by himself and asked cooperatively.

"The [-]% of the overcharge is not a reason for the refugees to let the people of Fengzhou pay more to help these people. Under Tian Bowen's planning, it has become what it is now." Dai Zhou said.

"Maybe there are still things that have not been discovered. It seems that we still have to stay in Fengzhou for an extra day." Yuan Shan said.