In the afternoon, in the palace, Yuwen Wen talked with Yang Ji who had entered the palace to meet. Yang Ji had been training the army in the Hetao area before and was very busy. He just returned to Chang'an the day before yesterday and was summoned by Yuwen Wen to the palace for questioning today.

"When will you modify this story of the West?"

Yang Ji looked embarrassed when he heard this: "Your Majesty, I am busy with military affairs, it's really..."

Before he finished speaking, Yuwen Wen blocked him back: "Then just work overtime."

He was completely stingy with the boss asking the shopkeeper to work overtime for free. Yang Ji could only express his opinion on this: "I understand that I will definitely modify the first draft before the deadline."

"You have to hurry up. This book must be published in the spring of next year. As for the copyright...it is 40% of you."

"Your Majesty, how dare I share copyright with Your Majesty..."

"It's okay, I didn't write Journey to the West anyway. Now I'll learn from it a few things, and if you make efforts, you should have it."

Li Shangyin, a poet of the late Tang Dynasty, once wrote a poem about Jia Sheng, talking about the incident when Emperor Wen of Han summoned the famous scholar Jia Yi:

The Xuan Office sought talents and visited the officials, and Jia Sheng's talent was even more incompetent.

It’s a pity that the seat is empty in the middle of the night, and I don’t ask the people about ghosts and gods.

Now, the Emperor of Zhou summoned "Yang Sheng" and did not ask the people about "Journey to the West", which made "Yang Sheng" feel a little ridiculous.

Yuwen Wen could probably guess what Yang Ji was thinking, and specifically emphasized:

"This matter is very important. Don't take it seriously. Public opinion is subtle. Otherwise, relying solely on the government's list of propaganda and the wording is fake. How much do you think the people can listen to it?"

"The people basically don't know a single word, can't understand words, and can only listen to stories or watch performances. Therefore, the propaganda of the court must make a fuss in these two aspects."

"The performance of the opera troupe and storytellers tell stories is the best way to promote it. The story of Journey to the West was not that complicated at the beginning. It was completely improved by countless storytellers and gradually took shape."

"From the biography of Master Sanzang in the early Tang Dynasty, to the preface of Journey to the West in the early Ming Dynasty, and then to Wu Chengen's Journey to the West in the later period, it has been accumulated and refined for hundreds of years. It is obvious that such a famous book is popular among the people. How can we not learn from it?"

"Let the people know that there were so many countries in the Western Regions and so many customs and customs. These countries are also very rich, with vast areas and mountains and rivers. They are not a place where death is inevitable if they go."

"In the future, the imperial court will manage the Western Regions, and the soldiers and the people will not be afraid of them like tigers, and sing the song of death in the river without direction..."

Hearing this, Yang Ji was stunned: "Your Majesty, do you want to use troops to Hezhong?"

The Hezhong area is far away. Even if the Turks were not able to handle it, a major event would happen. Yang Ji was afraid that this person would be full of complacent and gloomy, and would do whatever he wanted to do.

"You think too much, you can't chew too much." Yuwen Wen drank a cup of tea calmly, "Nanzhong, Lingnan, and Liaodong have not been digested yet, and Huguang has not been cooked. Hezhong? Let's talk about it when your son serves my son."

After hearing this, Yang Ji quickly admitted his mistake: "It was the empress who said something wrong..."

"But there is always nothing wrong with doing publicity in advance, and you should not always look at the land."

As Yuwen Wen said, he began to promote the invincible Haiquan again: "If you go to Persia, you don't have to go by land, and it's the same with sea routes. It's more convenient if you do business."

"How much cargo can a Sanbao eunuch travel to the West? If such a large fleet of ships can carry? If these goods are transported by horse and camel teams, can they be transported?"

"The goods are like this, and the army is like this. Ten thousand soldiers go to Persia and take the sea route. You only need to arrange the ports along the route in advance and prepare the supplies. Then you can travel when you get hyacinth. It will be within half a year. If you take the land route, do you think these ten thousand soldiers can go to Persia?"

Seeing that Yuwen Wen was getting more and more deviant as he spoke, Yang Ji quickly nodded and said, "Your Majesty is saying, then, I wonder what your Majesty has to give?"

"Now the court uses cotton as part of the salary. What is the quality of the cotton you receive? Should you keep it for your own home use, or sell it for money?"

"When I go back to your Majesty, the cotton cloth I earn is of good quality, and I don't need to sell it."

"That's it...you've heard of it. Who has any explanation for this cotton cloth?"

"Your Majesty, for the sake of mere me, I have not heard any complaints."

"You are busy with military affairs, that's fine..." Yuwen Wen pondered and glanced at Yang Ji: "I'm here to send you a call."

"I received the order."

"You don't know what mission I gave me, why did you accept the order?" Yuwen Wen suddenly laughed, "Since I ascended the throne, I have never strictly checked my household registration and land. It's not that I am weak and incompetent, but that I am not to make trouble."

"Now, the time is ripe, and the officials of the Political Affairs Hall have reached a consensus that the court should take care of household registration and check the land, which is a big search and the loss of the property will be determined!"

A big search and a certain sample for the loss of a household registration, in general, it is to count the household registration, verify the health and status of each household, and then set taxes based on the verification results, with the purpose of counting out hidden households and hidden fields and increasing national tax revenue.

When Yang Ji heard this, he looked solemn: "Your Majesty, is it just Hebei, or?"

"The whole world is full of household registration, how many dying gulf, land mu are there, and how much rent and mediocre should be paid every year. It must be clear."

Yuwen Wen took out a stack of information and explained to Yang Ji: "If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools. I have spent more than ten years sending people to survey and map the land, conduct open and secretly visits to collect household registration information of prefectures and counties. Now that you have a more detailed data summary, you can take the information and sort it out carefully."

Yang Ji took the information and seemed to have Yuwen Wen continued to talk and carefully checked the household registration. Tianmu was a big deal. He had been preparing for it for so many years and finally started.

Since the second year of the Elephant, the Zhou Kingdom was in turmoil and uneasy, and it has been turbulent until Yuwen Wen succeeded to the throne. It was only after the government and the country were truly stable. However, a series of legacy problems have forced the inevitable measures of checking household registration and land mu to slow down.

After years of civil war, people need to cultivate and maintain their livelihood, and various tax-free policies have made the nationwide inspection of household registration and land mu operations a little embarrassed. Therefore, since the first year of Mingde, the imperial court has also inspected household registration and land mu, but it has not been carried out very thoroughly.

Now, as the time comes, it is time to sort it out carefully. For this reason, Yuwen Wen has been preparing since the beginning of his succession, and even the publicity has been carried out in advance.

All kinds of ghost stories are compiled, and then adapted into dramas, and they are performed in various places by troupes to promote the people.

We will check the benefits of household registration and the land acres, and cleverly promote it to the audience through drama and storytelling, attracting the audience with ghost stories, so that everyone can accept this publicity unknowingly while watching the play and listening to the stories.

Yuwen Wen has always believed that public opinion propaganda must be subtle to influence it. He compiled the story of the headless general to let the audience understand Liaodong while watching the play, while the journey to the West is to let the people know the Western Regions.

As for Nanyang, there are spike horses, and Nanzhong also needs a supporting story.

This story belongs to the series of Watson's Detective Secrets. The protagonist is the protagonist of the headless general, Watson, an agent of "Shitaxi".

Of course, he still had to write the story himself.

Yang Ji didn't know whether to persuade the emperor or not to do his job, because the other party had a lot of fallacies and could not say that.

Seeing that the story of this person who is now mysterious and said that the Southern Central is already in existence and is adapted into a shadow puppet, Yang Ji was a little curious: "Your Majesty, I wonder what this story is about?"

"Keep confidential, keep it confidential." Yuwen Wen said with a smile, "But the name can be revealed..."

"Please let your Majesty reveal one or two?"
Chapter completed!