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Yuan Household Registration Census

Type Event Region China Time 1270–1279

In the 1270s Kublai carried out large-scale household registration and tax-labor surveys as a foundational administrative project for ruling the Cent…

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  1. 1270–1271Dadu · ChinaKublai ordered the Central Secretariat and the circuit pacification commissions to verify households nationwide, checking unregistered, absconded, and attached military and civilian households, restoring the household registers damaged by war and laying the foundation for a unified tax system.
  2. 1272–1279Circuits of the Central Plains · ChinaLocal officials registered households by category—civilian, military, artisan, monk and Daoist—fixing burdens of grain rations, silk and hemp, corvée, and land tax; the census results were compiled by the Central Secretariat and became core data for Yuan finance and military conscription.

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