"Put harder."

Li Shimin lay on the edge of the pool, enjoying Li Chao rubbing his back, while constantly asking for some strength. Li Chao increased his strength, rubbed his hands hard, wrapped his towel around his hands, and rubbed hard. Under his hard rubbing, Li Shimin rubbed small strips of mud on his back.

Some particularly dark red color began to appear in the scars, which was different from the surrounding flesh.

Li Chao's grandfather used to be a barber.

The barber at that time was not a barber in later generations. His grandfather learned from a young age, and he worked as an apprentice at his master's house. He also worked like a long-time craftsman in his master's house. He worked from six to almost twenty years old to become a master. He learned a lot of skills and did a lot of knowledge. Not only did he learn haircuts, but he could also learn haircuts, facials and pedicures, but he could also do bone massage, and even some snake medicine and injury medicine.

This injury medicine is not an ordinary external injury, but refers to a secret injury. For example, there is a serious bruise on the body. Many of these injuries healed quickly at that time, but in fact it was not really good. Once the weather changes, the secret injury will occur. My grandfather has a prescription passed down, a powdered medicine, which is accompanied by rice wine and simmered slowly. Half is used for external massage and half is taken internally.

He had seen his grandfather treat people with secret injuries several times, apply some medicinal wine to let the patient drink a little, and then massage the wounded area, hold the medicinal wine, and spray a few times to make the wounded area appear gradually, and even the shape of the wounded area will appear. For example, some people are hit by stones, and then they will appear after massage.

If you use that prescription and massage method, many old injuries will be eliminated.

Although the hair of the barbers later became more and more fashionable, the traditional craftsmanship of the barbers was gradually lost. Not to mention massage and bone correction, even a stiff pillow could not be cured.

"Your Majesty, in fact, your injury is better with salt bath. If you add medicinal wine massage and internal treatment, many aged injuries will be removed."

Li Shimin turned his head and asked in surprise, "Salt bath? Bath with salt?"

"Fry the salt and pour it into a dry pond, strip off all your clothes and lie there, bury people with hot salt, leaving only one head."

This is actually salt application. Generally, it is just a bag of salt and heat it up, apply it to your feet or waist, etc., which can cure many diseases. If possible, stir-fry more salt directly and bury your body, and the effect will naturally be stronger.

Later, many hot springs had this project.

Warm salt burys people, lie down and sleep, and take a bath, and you will feel comfortable all over the body.

"Let me ask someone to try it back," said Li Shimin. "But your bathing technique is good, and it feels very comfortable to press, but the strength is a little less."

Li Chao rolled his eyes. This was not an ordinary bathing scrubbing. He used the massage method learned from his grandfather. It was a healing method. It was originally passed down by men but not women but not women but not outside. Later, the atmosphere became open and my grandfather taught him a little.

"Your Majesty, swimming regularly and bathing more is of great benefit to the body."

"Well, I still feel that this bath is the most comfortable."

The bathing book is also a massage massage. It has the effect of revitalizing menstrual blood, and is of course very beneficial to the body.

"Wenyuan, the first year of Zhenguan is almost over, but I am exhausted all day long, busy, but I still have a mess. That day, I met the Supreme Emperor. The Supreme Emperor mentioned the court's deficit of 30 million yuan, and his tone was full of irony. The Supreme Emperor was the fifth year of the country and founded the Tang Dynasty. It was even more difficult at that time, but the imperial court did not owe so much debt. I have only been in the country for two years, but I owe 30 million yuan. Oh, I feel uneasy."

"The court does have a deficit, but the court has done more things in the past two years. There is a major disaster in the north in thirty years, but the people starved to death by less than 10,000. Your Majesty has only been in the country for two years, but the registered population of the court has increased by more than 10,000, especially the number of students, which has increased by more than 2 million. Your Majesty, this is equivalent to double the number of students in the court."

After hearing this, Li Shimin's face looked a little better.

Yes, the imperial court originally had a population of more than 10 million, but it turned out to be only about 2 million. But now the imperial court has a population of more than 30 million, and the number of students has reached more than 6 million, which is a huge increase.

Whether the national strength is strong or not is extremely related to the registered population, especially the number of lectures in the court, which is more important.

"The population of more than 30 million is more than 6 million, and the class is 5 to 1, and it is still a bit low." Li Shimin said.

The population with the Tang Dynasty household registration is not all the students. Only middle-aged men will serve and pay taxes. People under middle-aged men and older people above sixty will not serve as a student. At the same time, women will not serve as a student.

Another thing is that the soldiers in the government do not accept classes, slaves do not accept classes, those craftsmen and musicians with low profile do not accept classes, and even bureaucratic and commissars do not accept classes.

Another one is that those who serve sexually, don’t accept classes.

Sexual service is a means for all kinds of famous vocational service and corvee service. Those who serve as a certain kind of sexual service can be exempted from classes, or exempt from regular service, military service, and miscellaneous labor service. Therefore, it has become a means for bureaucrats and powerful families to escape regular service and miscellaneous labor service.

Before the Tang Dynasty, there were more than 15 million people and more than 3 million households, but the number of students was only 2 million, and each household had less than one class.

The huge losses of the rank of the Tang Dynasty seriously damaged the national strength of the Tang Dynasty.

There are three types of sexual servants in the court today. One is sexual servants that are served by nobles and nobles and bureaucrats, such as the Three Guards, Princes, Carriages, Marriages, and Inside the Account.

The guards of the first to fifth rank officials appointed by Bai Ding, the silence servants of the sixth to ninth rank officials, Bai Zhi, the silence of the prefecture and county officials, the garrison officials, the straitors of the prince's mansion, the princess, the county officials, etc.

There are also craftsmen and musicians who do not have ordinary household registration. They undertake sexual intercourse such as musicians, veterinarians, horse squeezing, horse squeezing, head squeezing, etc.

Because if you are a sexual servant, you can be exempted from the official service, and if you are a sexual servant, you can actually receive substitute classes. Therefore, a large number of people are seeking to avoid the official service. Anyway, if you are a sexual servant, you can just pay some money every year to replace the class.

"Your Majesty, the Tang Dynasty has lost 100,000 men just by the local Baizhi."

There are many soldiers who are sexually scattered, just like the soldiers who are in charge of the family, they also take turns to participate in the class, and they can also replace the class with funds.

"But all kinds of soldiers cannot be missed."

Li Shimin said that for example, the princes still have marriages in the account, the prime ministers and ministers above the third rank, and there are marriages in the account, officials above the fifth rank, officials above the sixth to ninth rank, officials of the sixth to ninth rank, and officials of the common people. In fact, whether it is in the account, marriage, guard or civil servants, or Bai Zhi, or robbers, etc., they are all treatments enjoyed by bureaucratic and communicators according to their rank, and the court gives them to serve them.

This is like the officials of later generations who had level ranks, including guards, drivers, secretarys, and nannies. Officials of the Tang Dynasty also enjoyed a certain number of guards according to their ranks. These guards do not have to pay for them, nor do the courts have to pay for them. They are directly used as sexual servants. The recruited people to serve. One advantage is that they can be exempted from official servants.

The tax system of the Tang Dynasty was based on the ranks, so it was exempted from official labor. In fact, the family no longer needed official labor.

Li Chao always felt that the equal-field system and the rent-in-one system were just suitable for the situation during the division between the north and the south. Once the world was unified, this system would be no longer suitable.

"Your Majesty, I think the sexual service should be abolished."

"Cancel the sexual service?" Li Shimin was shocked. This sexual service was not the first to be founded in the Tang Dynasty. It began in the late Southern and Northern Dynasties. It has been passed down for nearly a hundred years, and it has always been like this.

"Many powerful households are evading official labor and miscellaneous labor. The number of labor lost by the court every year is quite huge. I think it is better to change sexual labor into household taxes, divide the households of the world into nine levels, and collect a household tax according to household tax. After this money is collected, it is used to distribute the salaries of officials and public money in the yamen. The original public party money is lent to the loan, and then it is abolished. In addition, the serious servants of each official are no longer equipped, but are directly paid in the salary, and officials can choose to hire serious servants themselves."

"The households are divided into nine grades, which has been found before. It was originally a charity warehouse to collect grain. Now it is very convenient to directly use this nine-grade household system to collect household tax standards." Li Chao said.

Household tax was also levied after the middle of the Tang Dynasty, and it is one of the remedies for the collapse of the rent system.

Li Chao is now preparing to collect in advance to solve the loopholes in which many powerful people use sexual servants to escape the official servants.

“How to collect household tax?”

"For example, each household is charged five thousand, and each household is charged five hundred."

A wealthy family like Li Chao only collects five jin of money a year, which is really a drop in the bucket for the Li family. However, ordinary people's families have a tax of 500 jin a year, but it is not small. The court does not divide the households and the households without the class, regardless of officials and merchants, and everyone divides the households according to the nine-level households, based on the family's land, acres, houses, property, etc.

Everyone who has household tax has to pay, and then pay household tax, and sexual service will be cancelled.

The officials should have enjoyed the errands, etc., were directly calculated by the court based on the original number of entrusted servants and paid into their salary. In addition, the government money from the former yamen was also banned and dismissed, and the office funds were transferred from household taxes to each yamen.

"Your Majesty, in this way, the court can increase the number of household taxes and increase the income from a large amount of household taxes."

Li Shimin was moved when he heard this and increased the number of students by one million, which was equivalent to opening up a new tax source, increasing the number of people paying taxes to the court, increasing millions of stones of imperial grain and a large amount of silk and hemp income a year.

What's more, the number of teachers has increased, and the imperial court's military resources have become wider.
Chapter completed!