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His immediate need was to raise a tax, but the compilation of the Domesday Book was more than just a glorified audit. It was a complete inventory of everything in the kingdom, shire by shire, pig by pig, who had owned what before the coming of the Normans and who owned what now, how much it had been worth then and how much now. The King sent his men all over England into every shire, and had them find out how many hundred hides there were in each shire, what land and cattle the King himself had in the county. So very narrowly did he have it investigated, there was no single hide nor shame to relate it, but it seemed no shame to him, was there one ox or one cow left out and not put down in record. While some of the information was taken verbally by William' s scribes, some must have owed its existence to Saxon records. In fact, the most extraordinary paradox about the Domesday Book is that what we think of as a monument to the power and strength of the Normans owed itself to the advanced machinery of government left in place by the old AngloSaxon monarchy. And it was thanks to this that the data was collected at such lightning speed, less than six months. |
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tā de zhí jiē mù dì shì tí gāo fù shuì, dàn shì mò rì shěn pàn shū de biān zhuàn. mò rì shěn pàn shū wèi jiā qiáng guǎn lǐ shōu qǔ dì zū ér jìn xíng de quán guó tǔ dì diào chá qíng kuàng de huì biān, bìng fēi měi huà le de tǒng jì bào gào nà me jiǎn dān. tā wán zhěng jì lù le guó jiā de měi yí yàng dōng xī, zhú jùn shěn zhā, lián yī tóu zhū dōu bù fàng guò, měi jiā měi hù zài nuò màn zhēng fú qián, cái chǎn duō shǎo, xiàn zài yòu yōng yǒu duō shǎo. nà shí jià zhí jǐ hé, xiàn zài yòu jǐ hé, guó wáng pài rén zhì yīng gé lán quán jìng, shēn rù dào měi yí gè jùn. ràng tā men tǒng jì chū, měi jùn miàn jī jǐ hé, guó wáng zài měi gè jùn yōng yǒu duō shǎo wáng tián hé jiā chù. tā de diào chá jí wéi yán gé xì zhì, jì bù gǎn cáng nì yě bú huì yīn diū liǎn ér chǐ yú jì lù, huò shuō duì tā lái jiǎng bú huì chǐ yú jì lù, shì bú shì yǒu yī tóu niú, méi yǒu bèi jì lù xià lái. qí zhōng yī xiē xìn xī yóu wēi lián de shū jì yuán jì lù xià lái, ér lìng yī xiē dìng shì chū zì sā kè xùn rén zhī shǒu. guān yú mò rì shěn pàn shū zuì zhù míng de bèi lùn jiù shì, tā suī bèi shì wéi nuò màn quán lì yǔ lì liàng de xiàng zhēng, què shì kào zhe àng gé lǔ sā kè xùn rén de jūn zhǔ zhì, suǒ liú xià de xiān jìn de zhèng fǔ yùn zuò xì tǒng, cái dé yǐ wán chéng. yě shì kào zhe tā, suǒ yǒu xìn xī jī hū zài bú dào liù ge yuè de jí duǎn shí jiān nèi tǒng jì wán bì. |