"A little harder."
Li Shimin was lying on the edge of the pool, enjoying Li Chao rubbing his back for him, and at the same time kept asking for more strength.
Li Chao's hands worked hard, rubbed hard, wrapped a towel around his hand, and rubbed hard.
Under his vigorous rubbing, Li Shimin rubbed small strips of mud on his back.
Those scars also began to show some special dark reds, which were different from the color of the surrounding flesh.
Li Chao's grandfather used to be a head shaver.
At that time, the shaver was not a barber in later generations, his grandfather learned the art from a young apprentice, worked as an apprentice in the master's house, ate and lived in the master's house, and did the same thing as the master's long-term worker, from the age of six to the age of almost twenty before leaving the school.
I have learned a lot of skills, not only to learn haircuts, haircuts, face and pedicures, but also to orthopedic massage, and even some snake medicine and wound medicine.
This wound medicine is not an ordinary external injury, but a dark injury.
For example, there is a serious bruise on the body, and many of these injuries are not really good even if they heal quickly at the time.
Once the sky changes, this dark wound will attack.
My grandfather had a recipe that had been handed down, a kind of final medicine, simmered slowly with rice wine, half of which was used for external rubbing and massage, and half for internal use.
He has seen his grandfather treat his dark wounds a few times, rub some medicinal wine, let the patient drink a little, and then help him massage the wound, take a sip of medicinal wine, press a few times and take a sip of wine, the wound can gradually appear, and even the shape of the original injury will be revealed.
For example, if someone is hit with a stone, it will show its shape after massage.
With that recipe and his massage method, many old injuries will be eliminated.
Although the fried hair of later barbers became more and more fashionable, the traditional skills of those shavers were slowly lost.
Not to mention massage and bone correction, even a stiff neck will not be cured.
"Your Majesty, in fact, your wound is better with a salt bath, if you add medicine and wine massage and internal conditioning, many old internal injuries have been removed."
Li Shimin turned his head and asked in surprise, "Salt bath with salt" "Stir-fry the salt, pour it into a dry pool, strip naked, lie there, bury the man with hot salt, leaving only one head."
This is actually a salt compress, which is generally just a bag of salt and then fried, and then compressed on the feet or waist, etc., which can cure many diseases.
If there is a condition, directly fry more salt and bury the body, and the effect will naturally be stronger.
Later, many hot springs had this item.
The warm salt buries the person, lies down to sleep, and then takes a bath, which can immediately make the person feel comfortable.
"I'll let people try it when I get back."
Li Shimin said, "But your way of scrubbing the bath is good, and the press is very comfortable, but the strength is a little less." ” Li Chao rolled his eyes, this is not an ordinary bath, he used the massage method he learned from his grandfather, it is a healing method, originally it was still passed on to men and women, but not to women, but not to the outside, but later when the atmosphere opened up, his grandfather taught him a little.
"Your Majesty, swimming often and taking more bubbles is good for your body."
"Well, I still think this bath is the most comfortable."
The bath is also a kind of massage, which has the effect of activating the meridian blood, which is of course very good for the body.
"Wenyuan, now that the first year of Zhenguan is almost over, I am tired of coping all day long, busy and exhausted, but it is still a mess.
That day, I saw the Emperor, who mentioned the 30 million yuan deficit of the imperial court, and his tone was full of sarcasm.
Emperor Taishang was in power for five years, and he created the Tang Dynasty, which was even more difficult at that time, but the court did not owe so many debts.
I have only been in power for two years, but I owe 30 million yuan, hey, I am not at peace. ” "The imperial court does have a deficit, but the imperial court has done more in the past two years.
There was a catastrophe in the north once in 30 years, but less than 10,000 people died of starvation.
Your Majesty has only been in power for two years, but the registered population of the imperial court has increased by more than 10 million, especially the number of scholars, which has increased by more than 2 million. ” When Li Shimin heard this, his face looked a little better.
Yes, it turned out that the imperial court had a population of more than 10 million, but it turned out to be only about 2 million students.
And now the imperial court has a population of more than 30 million, and the number of teachers has reached more than 6 million, which is already a huge increase.
Whether the national strength is strong or not is extremely related to the registered population, especially the number of classes in the imperial court, which is more important.
"With a population of more than 30 million, 6 million students, five to one, it's still a little low."
Li Shimin said.
The population on the Datang household registration is not all teachers.
Only middle-aged men and Ding men will serve to pay taxes, and those below the middle age and the elderly over 60 will not serve for military service.
At the same time, women are not allowed to serve in the military.
Again, the government soldiers do not pay classes, slaves do not pay classes, those lowly craftsmen and musicians do not pay classes, and there are also bureaucrats and relatives who do not pay classes.
And then there is the one who does the service, and he does not take the lessons.
Colored service, that is, all kinds of nominal duty and conscription, those who serve in a certain kind of sexual service can be exempted from class, or exempted from regular service, military service, and miscellaneous service, so that the use of color service has become a means for those bureaucrats and powerful families to evade regular service and miscellaneous duties.
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Before the Tang Dynasty, there were more than 15 million people and more than 3 million households, but the result was only about 2 million, and one household was less than one class.
The large number of losses of the class has seriously damaged the national strength of Datang.
Nowadays, there are three types of color servants in the imperial court, one is the color service filled by the nobles and the children of the bureaucrats, such as the three guards, the prince's dearest, the deacon, the family affairs, and the tent.
The defense cabinet of the first-to-fifth-grade ministry officials served by Bai Ding, the servants of the sixth-grade and ninth-grade ministers, the white straights and deacons of the state and county officials, the battle bodies of the town officials, the Shili of the prince's mansion, the princess, the county lord, the county lord's yishi, and so on.
There are also craftsmen and musicians who are not registered in the ordinary household, and they undertake color services such as musicians, veterinarians, geldings, horses, head-cutting, planting, etc.
Because you can be exempted from regular service by serving as a color service, and color service can actually be paid as a substitute teacher, so a large number of people are voting for color service and asking for exemption from regular service.
"Your Majesty, Datang has now lost 100,000 Ding men just for the local Bai Zhi."
There is a color service, and it is the same as the government soldiers, and it is also in turn, and it can also be substituted for class.
"But all kinds of servitude can't be missing."
Li Shimin said, for example, the princes are still in the account, the prime minister and the ministers above the third grade, there are also family affairs in the account, the officials above the fifth rank also have the cabinet, the sixth to the ninth rank officials also have servants, etc., in fact, whether it is in the account or the family affairs, the cabinet is still the servant, or the white straight, the clothes and so on, are all bureaucrats and relatives according to the grade to enjoy a kind of treatment, there is the court to serve these people.
It's like the high-level officials in the later world, there will be guards, drivers, secretaries, nannies, etc.
The officials of the Tang Dynasty also enjoy a certain number of guards and miscellaneous servants according to their ranks.
These guards do not need to be paid by them, and the court does not have to pay, they are all directly used as a kind of color service, and the conscripts serve in it, and the advantage of serving these color services is that they can be exempted from regular service.
And Datang's tax system is based on Ding, so it is exempt from regular service, in fact, that family does not need to be in regular service.
Li Chao has always felt that the uniform land system and the regulation of rents are only suitable for the situation during the period of division between the north and the south, and once the world is unified, this system is no longer suitable.
"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the color service should be abolished."
"Cancel the color service" Li Shimin was shocked, this color service was not the first of the Tang Dynasty, it began in the late period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties.
It has been passed down for nearly 100 years, and it has been so.
"Many wealthy and powerful families have escaped the regular service by using color service, and the number of teachers lost by the imperial court every year is quite huge.
The minister thought that it was better to change the color service to a household tax, divide the households of the people in the world into nine classes, and pay a household tax according to the household level.
After this money was collected, it was used to distribute official materials and public money for the yamen.
In addition, the miscellaneous servants of the original officials were no longer rationed, but a sum of money was directly distributed in the materials, and the officials could choose to hire the miscellaneous servants themselves. ” "The household is divided into nine classes, which has been done before, and it was originally a righteous warehouse to collect grain.
Now it is extremely convenient to directly use this ninth-class household system for the collection of household tax.
Li Chao said.
The household tax was also levied only after the middle of the Tang Dynasty, which was one of the remedies for the collapse of the rent-yong system.
Li Chao is now preparing to levy it in advance to solve the loophole that many powerful people use color service to evade regular service.
"How to levy household tax" "For example, the upper class will levy 5,000 per household, and the lower class will levy 500 per household."
A wealthy family like Li Chao only collects five yuan a year, which is really a drop in the bucket for the Li family.
And the homes of ordinary people, with a tax of 500 yuan a year, are not small.
The imperial court does not divide the households into households and households exempt from classes, regardless of officials and merchants, all people are divided into households according to the ninth grade, and the households are divided according to the family's land and acres of housing property.
All the people have to pay the household tax, and the household tax will be paid later, and the color service will be abolished.
The miscellaneous servants, etc., which the officials should have enjoyed, were directly converted into money by the imperial court according to the original number of servants, and counted into the Yulu.
In addition, the lending of public money by the former yamen was also abolished, and the office expenses were allocated from the household tax to each yamen.
"Your Majesty, in this way, the imperial court can increase the tax by one million, and it can also increase a large amount of household tax revenue."
Li Shimin was moved when he heard this, and the increase of one million taels would be equivalent to opening up a new source of taxes, increasing the number of millions of men to pay taxes to the imperial court, and increasing the income of millions of stones of imperial grain and a large amount of silk and linen a year.
What's more, the number of classes has increased, and the source of soldiers in the imperial court has also become wider.
"The imperial court now has a population of more than 5 million households, and the average household tax is more than 1,000 yuan, so it can add more than 5 million yuan of household tax revenue a year, not to mention, the imperial court will also increase millions of teachers, which is millions of yuan a year, only these two can increase more than 10 million yuan of fiscal revenue a year."
Li Chao calculated the account with Li Shimin, and Li Shimin's eyes were glaring at the boss. t1706231537: