When Xu Le proposed to see Guanwen Hall before, Wang Shichong's attitude was a little hesitant. Although he finally agreed to this request, Xu Le could see the kind of barrenness and embarrassment very clearly.

At that time, he had some doubts and felt that the things in Guanwen Hall were unusual. After he saw them with his own eyes, he realized why Wang Shichong was so entangled.

The volumes displayed in Guanwen Hall are neither classical books nor rare ancient books, but account books.

The words are full of boring numbers and the names are then the names.

The content is boring and the text is very common. Although the handwriting is clear, most of it is ugly. You can tell at a glance that the writers are just good at writing and can write. There is no talk about the calligraphy structure at all, and the characters are not beautiful at all.

These boring and ordinary books are the cornerstones of the world.

No matter who it is, if you want to stay firm, you cannot do without these boring things.

They are the household registration, land, and rent counties of 190 counties and 1,255 counties in the Sui Dynasty.

The world can be taken immediately, but cannot be guarded by bows and swords.

If you want to stay firm, you cannot do without civil servant governance.

And this governance is not as simple as simple article education.

Those who think that they can control the place by just reading and recognizing words are too easy to think about the Mu Shuo place.

The two treasures of the emperor are the people of the land.

The basis for supporting the existence of the empire was the rent and mediocre service provided by thousands of people in the territory of the Great Sui Dynasty.

But no matter the number of renting, number of mediocre people and ability, they do not appear out of thin air. What they rely on is a complete set of household registration records and land numbers.

All the chaos in the world has brought similar records, which is that the turbulent household registration in the world has been reduced by half, or there are no one left.

This is certainly due to war, famines, floods, etc. caused by war, the number of deaths in a large number of people has decreased.

But one more important reason is that the order collapsed due to the war, which made the household registration system useless.

The government's household registration information was destroyed by war or large-scale escape, causing household registration files to become useless, which would lead to a large number of people disappearing.

These disappeared people may not be really dead. A large part of them were taken by the powerful local tyrants of the Gaomen family and turned them from free people to their own slaves.

You should know that the so-called household registration is not equivalent to the list of people in the world. Even the count tax is not really counted by people’s heads.

All household registration statistics in this era were based on the distribution of land, rent collection, tax adjustment and labor levy, including the poll tax.

In other words, the statistic of the court’s household registration is its own tax base, and those who do not pay rent will not be counted.

The noble family and nobles of the noble family own a large number of fields, mountains and forests. These lands or forests themselves do not produce wealth. If they want to bring benefits, someone must work.

It is impossible for aristocratic families to cultivate and harvest on their own, so for them, people themselves are extremely important wealth and need to be seized through every means.

Those who become slaves from aristocratic families are like cattle, horses and livestock owned by aristocratic families. They no longer bear taxes, so they will naturally not appear in the resident statistics of the court.

In daily life, they always have to be cautious in doing these things. Once the world is in chaos, these high sects can use their own power or force to plunder openly.

Therefore, a large part of the population that disappeared during the turmoil was absorbed by the noble families, which further strengthened their power.

This behavior is equivalent to robbing money from the emperor, and naturally it cannot be accepted by the court. Therefore, once the world is peaceful and orderly, it will compete around the issue of household registration and land numbers.

Determine the result based on the strength of both sides and finally get an answer that is acceptable to each other.

This is just the most ideal form. Many times things will not be resolved so smoothly. You often have to kill individuals to achieve your goal in the end. In this process, it may be the decline or even disappearance of several famous families, or the death of local officials, in short, it is inseparable from fighting and death.

The Northern and Southern Dynasties were constantly killing and fighting, which led to the fact that people who came out of this era often had an iron-blooded aura on their bodies.

The father and son of the Yang family are both fierce and harsh, and bloodshed and killing is inevitable.

The danger of reshaping China with the unification of the north and the south, even those noble families that have been passed down for hundreds of years dare not resist the majesty of the emperor.

Therefore, after Yang Jian ascended the throne, he implemented the "big search and view" in the world in the fifth year of Kaihuang, that is, checking the household registration.

In just one year, more than 1.6 million yuan of household registration was added.

You should know that these are households, not people.

Because of the calculation of five dynasties in a household, this is more than eight million people! Of course, it is impossible for so many people to be born. Besides, most of them are adults and strong rather than children.

These people are the so-called "floating households" and "hidden households", and in the final analysis, they are the population controlled by the aristocratic families.

In the fifth year of Daye, Yang Guang once again made a big search, stipulating that if a person in a certain place had a false household registration, the local chief would be demoted; if someone reported that a certain family had hidden a man, he could be punished instead of paying taxes and service.

This time, the effectiveness of Dasuo Mausoleumyue is far less than that of Yang Jian, with a total increase of Ding Man and a total increase of 641,500 people.

These two major searches made the Gao family realize the threats of the Yang family’s father and son to them. If this continues, sooner or later, they will dig out the foundation for their existence.

The Sui Dynasty then turbulent and collapsed, which eventually led to the demise of the country. The reason for this is complicated. The Yang family's behavior of stealing people from the aristocratic families is also one of the important reasons.

In other words, the household registration files collected in Guanwen Hall can be regarded as being exchanged for the Sui Dynasty.

According to the theory, the distribution of these household registration materials should be stored in the special warehouse where the capital is located carefully managed.

Even if there is a backup in the eastern capital Luoyang, only the corresponding officials can control it and store it in a special place, so it should not be placed in the Guanwen Hall.

Let’s talk about the situation I just read, the compilation of these volumes occurred after Yang Guang’s failure to conquer Goryeo.

In other words, the result of the second Dasuanxiu was not satisfied with Yang Guang. The failure of the first Liaodong attack also put the Sui Dynasty under double pressure from manpower and financial resources.

In order to solve all this, Yang Guang once again inspected the local prosecutor, hoping to seize some resources from the aristocratic family to make up for the deficit, which resulted in the final tragedy.

The Yang Xuangan Rebellion is likely to break out as a result.

I was still under the support of my grandfather at that time, and I didn’t know much about this.

As the world was in chaos later, people did not record much of this inspection.

As the order deteriorates, it has become a terrible thing for Yang Guang to try to build such a big rope again. The result of this big rope can be regarded as the last population and land data of the Sui Dynasty.

Although the subsequent wars lead to the collapse of order and the increase in refugees will lead to many household registration data being no longer accurate.

But this does not mean that these household registration information is meaningless.

After all, with the advancement of Dasuo Mausoleumyue, the Great Sui Dynasty's method of losing the household registration.

That is, to put 300 to 500 people into a group, and re-define the taxable amount according to the standard household registration level.

If you have household registration and household registration information, you can estimate how many people there are originally in the local area after the world is stable in the future.

If the gap between the front and back is too big, then you might as well take the big rope again or several times until the number reaches normal.

Besides, no matter how chaotic it is, the total number of fields will not change. With this basis, it will be difficult for anyone to invade the fields.

Whoever owns this will master the foundation of the empire, at least it is an important basis.

When the dynasty changes and re-counting and land is granted, this will speed up the time and reduce unnecessary repetitive work to avoid loss.

With Yang Guang's suspicion, he would definitely not be assured to put such important information out of his sight.

Besides, when my army entered Chang'an, I didn't find the latest information on this from Daxing Palace.

Many household registration files are old files from the previous two searches, and their effectiveness is definitely not as good as the ones in Wang Shichong's hands.

If you guessed correctly, these household registration files should have been detained by Wang Shichong.

Yang Guang intended to move the capital to Jiangdu, so of course he had the opportunity to move all the most useful materials to the country. Luoyang is an important node for water transportation, so everything is easy to explain.

These household registrations are transported from Chang'an to Luoyang, and should be shipped on board and then transported to the southeast from here.

But Wang Shichong took these things down as one of his own foundations for seeking hegemony.

Considering that Wang Shichong took charge of Luoyang and the time when these household registration books were transferred, it is estimated that Li Yuan had not yet rebelled when he detained these things privately.

At that time, Wang Shichong must have been cautious. He would not take out these things openly and did not know where they were hidden.

Until now, he had completely grasped the situation in Luoyang and was threatened by the Wagang Army, worried that someone would destroy these books or hand them over, so he moved these books to the Guanwen Hall, and in order to properly store these books, he moved all the books to the warehouse.

Regardless of his character and loyalty, just by making such arrangements, we can see that this person not only has great plans, but also a sinister and cunning hero who can do everything he wants to achieve his goals.

Such people are capricious. No matter how obedient they are to themselves now, if they really want to make up their minds and turn against each other, they will immediately act without hesitation.

Under normal circumstances, Wang Shichong certainly would not be unfavorable to him, at least now is not the time.

But since ancient times, you have no big mistakes. No matter how careful you deal with such people, you never feel that you are redundant.

The Wagang Army in front of him was not Yi and others. Li Jiancheng was staring behind him and would take action at some point. Wang Shichong beside him was such a person. The Xuanjia Cavalry seemed to be backed by a strong support, but in fact he was attacked by the enemy from all sides and fought alone.

Think about it, since I came out of the mountain, I have always been like this and I have been getting used to it for a long time.

It is just that the generals under his command have a lot of attention. Don’t really think that they are invincible in the world and underestimate the generals and soldiers of Wang Shichong and his subordinates.

Furthermore, since you have seen those volumes, you should really think of a way to protect them so that Erlang can use them in the future.

In other words, when I saw those volumes, I and Wang Shichong were destined to have a contest to determine the ownership of these precious base files.

With Wang Shichong's cunning, he could definitely guess this.

Even if the Wagang army does not come, Xuanjia cavalry will probably have a few days to have a safe birthday in Luoyang, so they have to prepare for the next battle.

And the difficulties facing you are far more than this.

Even the book that Wang Shichong asked for was also a hot steamed bun and was not so easy to send out.
Chapter completed!