"Never increase the tax, that is, it is limited to the current registered population. Each household only needs to pay the calculated tax of the corresponding population at most, and the excess population in the future does not need to pay anymore. Of course, it must be the farmers who have donated land to me.

You have this qualification."

At this time, the registered population of Han Dynasty was more than 30 million and close to 40 million.

But the actual population size is far more than this.

Part of this extra population is hidden in mountains, forests, lakes and islands. They live in isolation from the world. Many of them are even descendants of people who fled into the mountains and old forests during the chaos of the late Qin Dynasty.

Of course, among these people hiding there are also mountain bandits and water bandits. Naturally, these people do not have household registration.

Also, the servants of a wealthy family are the sons of the family.

Because every child born in a family has to pay a tax of up to 240 yuan every year, which is too much money, so even a wealthy family tries its best to hide its population from the government.

Just like Wei Qing, he also worked as a gangster when he was young.

The real bulk of the hidden population is the children of ordinary people everywhere.

Just like the joke goes, when a clerk comes to visit, the infant child is called Xiaowu, and the bearded man is also called Xiaowu.

One hundred and twenty yuan a year for a person is a big burden for a farmer's family, so it is considered good to have two or three, three or four children admitted to the household registration. Almost all the children who are born later will be

Hidden and not registered, becoming a non-payer of taxes

Black households.

Li Yunze's policy of never giving more money is actually aimed at these gangsters.

Directly exempt these gangsters from their calculations and allow them to live openly and openly in the sun, instead of being gangsters who hide and dodge all day long without even having a formal name.

If all illegal households are included, the actual population of Han Dynasty may exceed 50 million!

After all, after Liu Bang, from the period of Empress Lu to the period of Emperors Wen and Jing, the Han Dynasty was recuperating and recuperating.

Except for conflicts with the Huns on the border, there were almost no major wars or epidemics internally.

After decades of recuperation, the population naturally multiplied and the number increased dramatically.

In this regard, you can understand this if you think about the population of China when the People's Republic of China was founded and the population a few decades later.
Chapter completed!