Chapter 233: Compiling households Qimin (End)
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In the bedroom of the head of the Cui family, two middle-aged people snorted at each other and walked into the head of the house together. On the bed of the bedroom, there was an old man who looked very poor and his breathing was not smooth. If nothing unexpected happened, he wouldn't live long.
"Father, the emperor Li Er has ordered someone to investigate the affairs of our Cui family. Investigate whether we have a hidden population, and then we will re-enter all these populations. What's wrong with this? Our Cui family has tens of thousands of people. If Li Er is stolen like this, we may suffer heavy losses!" said the eldest son.
And the second young master also said: "Father, if we continue like this, the losses will be very heavy. We will never recognize it just like this."
The eldest son and the second son of the Cui family are responsible for managing the land in the family, which is also their biggest source of income. The land needs to be cultivated by someone. Once no one cultivates it, the land will be wasteland in the city. These people can bring great benefits to the Cui family, because as long as they pay a small amount of grain, they can use these people to work for themselves for free, and of course they feel that they have made a profit. If they re-register and become ordinary people, the Cui family will have to pay a greater price to hire people, which is something they cannot accept.
And the old man who was so angry that he suddenly became much more energetic after hearing this, and then asked, "What do you want to do?"
"Father, all this was taken by Chen Fei, the head of the Bozhou Records Officer, and we might as well give Chen Fei..."
Mr. Cui made a gesture of wiping his neck, obviously trying to kill Chen Fei.
"Damn it!" said the head of the Cui family.
The head of the Cui family continued: "Even if you kill this Chen Fei, there will be Zhang Fei, Li Fei and Wang Fei coming out soon. What's the use of this?"
"Father, then we might as well mobilize the forces in the officialdom. Let Li Shimin be nice and prevent them from attacking these people?" Grand Master Cui also said.
"Stupid!" The head of the Cui family immediately said angrily.
At this moment, the head of the Cui family was obviously a leader of the Cui family, not the twilight old man. The two young masters of Cui could only bow their heads. They knew that their rights and status could not be their father's opponent. After all, his father had been in power for many years, and as long as his father did not die for a day, the father would be the head of the Cui family. Therefore, now that his father scolded them, they dared not talk back at all. After all, in ancient China, they ruled the country with filial piety, and anyone who dared not be filial would be a huge crime.
"Do you think this was decided by the emperor? This was decided by the hearts of the people of the world. Li Er also conformed to the hearts of the people who were temporarily detained by our Cui family and all the aristocratic families. They begged to become people with household registration and land again, instead of staying here to be a slave to an uneasy family who cannot eat enough to starve. This is what they thought in their hearts, and Chen Fei and Li Er just followed their ideas. The people of the black households in the manors of the major villas were becoming increasingly dissatisfied, because they all heard that some people were re-entered as households and Qimin became people. Of course, they hoped to have their own land and live their own lives. This is the general trend of the world, and our Cui family cannot disobey it."
The head of the Cui family certainly understood what these black households wanted, because these people only wanted to join the Cui family in troubled times. Now that the world is peaceful, they naturally want to live their own lives. However, the Cui family refused to let them go, so this is the current situation. In order to safeguard their vested interests, the Cui family naturally refused to give up these people, but on the other hand, Li Shimin naturally wanted to take these people under national household registration in order to increase his population and reduce the power of the aristocratic families.
And this also fits the ideas of ordinary people. Those who are regarded as slaves of black households think so, and they all want to return to their past lives. And the Cui family's days when they are not full and hungry, they don't want to live. They all want to own their own land, so they will naturally be filled with people's hearts, especially after Chen Fei liberated some people. This is even more so. The people have already become filled with people and want to leave. If it weren't for the Cui family's strict restrictions, they might have all run away.
"Father, who did these troublemakers protect them from being killed by military disasters in the chaotic times? Who provided them with food to let them survive? It would be fine if they didn't want to repay their kindness, but they were about to pat their butts and leave. This is really outrageous." Mr. Cui said.
But the head of the Cui family said: "Hmph, why are we kind to them? We didn't take on the troubled times back then. If we hadn't supported the rebellion of the princes, how could the troubled times happen? And even though we took in Tianma, they had also made them slaves for many years. Isn't it considered repaying kindness? If the world is peaceful now and they are trapped in our Cui family, they will definitely hate us."
"Instead of staying and letting them hate us, it's better to let them go directly! If we don't let them go for these benefits, then Li Shimin will be qualified to attack us. Our Cui family has accumulated countless good reputations among the people for hundreds of years, which makes our people's expectations sufficient to compete with the royal family. If we damage our family's reputation for these small profits this time, we will suffer heavy losses. So, let's let these people go! Then, Cheng Yi, who gave him ten-point money, is the repayment of our Cui family for many years of hard work." said the head of the Cui family.
"Not only do they have to be released, but they also give each person ten cents of money?"
Of course, these two young men of the Cui family could not accept it, because if each person had tens of thousands of people, then tens of thousands of people would only have hundreds of thousands of people. This was almost equivalent to the fiscal revenue of a large county town in a year. Even if the Cui family took it out, it would be very painful. And the hundreds of thousands of people could win over the family members of the eldest son of the Cui family and the second son to support them, which made them feel like they were wasted.
"Hear? This is my order, you must do it." said the head of the Cui family.
"Yes, father!" the two of them answered quickly.
The head of the Cui family sighed and said, "Why did I give birth to two short-sighted sons? Unfortunately, I can't live for a few years, and maybe I won't live for the second half of next year. Unfortunately, if the position of the head of the family falls into the hands of these two short-sighted guys, the foundation of the Cui family..." (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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Chapter completed!