Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 169
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"Lieutenant Du, it's actually not the case. If ordinary people are asked to pay more than 300 Wen at once, it is indeed not a small sum. However, this duty is rounded every four years, and on average, it is only [-] yuan a year. Wen and so on, if it is paid twice a year in summer and autumn, then after the people sell grain, they only need to pay forty or fifty Wen at a time, which is nothing."

Luo Cheng calculated another account.

There is indeed a huge difference between paying more than 300 Wen at one time and paying [-] to [-] Wen in half a year, but the overall result is actually the same.

"Even, we can pay quarterly or monthly. If it is quarterly, it is only [-] yuan at a time, and if it is monthly, it is only [-] yuan a month."

When Du Ruhui thought about it, it was true.

"It is more reasonable to pay in summer and autumn. Just after the harvest, the people will have some money in their hands. The people should also be allowed to pay with grain or silk, and should not be forced to pay."

The Great Sui Empire was always short of money, and what was short was copper coins.

The annual production of silk in the Sui Dynasty was quite huge, up to tens of millions of pieces of silk. It can be said that from south to north in the Sui Dynasty, there were mulberry trees all over the world, and every family planted mulberry and raised silkworms. output, so in addition to making clothes, it was also used as currency, and became the most important currency in the Sui Dynasty.

However, the output of copper in the Sui Dynasty was extremely low. Even if there were hundreds of coin casting furnaces in the world, the annual money would only be hundreds of thousands of guan. The circulation of copper coins was too low to meet the economic needs of the court and the people. In particular, many unscrupulous businessmen always like to melt copper coins to sell copper wares, and they can earn seven or eight times the high profits by flipping hands. Therefore, the imperial court has repeatedly banned copper coins, making copper coins extremely scarce.

If all the people are asked to pay for their services, it will increase the burden on the people.There was a shortage of money everywhere, and in order to pay for the money, the common people had to sell their self-produced things such as grain and silk, which might be scammed by unscrupulous merchants, so Du Ruhui thought that the common people could directly use grain or silk to convert the money.

This is the way the imperial court collects taxes. Land rent is the payment of grain, household adjustment is the payment of silk and cloth, and whatever is planted is paid.

Zhang Yichen listened to the two of them doing the math, and reminded them.

"If money is used as a substitute, the people may agree, but two feet of silk a day can hire people, and can it also cover daily expenses?"

One foot of silk can be converted into money for less than four Wen, and two feet of silk can be converted into money for only seven Wen.

With so much money, is it enough to hire a county soldier for a day?After all, if you want to hire a county soldier, you must first provide food and wages.

The soldiers eat a lot, so we can't starve them. The standard of the guard army is two liters of rice a day when soldiers are training and fighting. In addition, there is a prescribed amount of salt and vegetables.

And since it is recruiting soldiers, there must be payment.

There are garrison soldiers at the border, and the annual military expenditure standard is twelve bolts of silk cloth and twelve stones of millet.A month is one piece of silk and one stone of rice. This standard cannot be said to be high, but this is only a gift of monthly food and clothing, and there are other rewards.In addition, these three items were obtained by the soldiers, and their usual food and drink expenses were not included.

"If you want to recruit servants, you must have monthly food, money, and clothes. One piece of silk per month, one stone of rice per month, plus monthly money for hard work. This cost is quite a lot. If you add soldiers In the camp, there are two liters of food per day, and six buckets of rice in one month, and there are also expenses such as salt and vegetables, plus the cost of raising horses, military equipment, etc., can you calculate it?"

This is another problem.

Recruitment is not mandatory but voluntary.Unlike before, people were recruited in turn. They were compulsory servants of the state and had to be served.As for recruiting soldiers, it is natural that people who treat people well will come.

"A soldier has twelve stones of monthly rations a year, and twelve horses of moonclothes. If an additional [-] qian per month is added, the monthly payment will be [-] qian. In addition, the annual rations of a soldier are seven shi and two dou , Eighteen shi for a horse's annual food."

"A soldier needs twenty shi a year for food, twelve horses for a month's clothing, and three pennies for a month's worth. Five hundred soldiers need [-] shi a year for food, six thousand pieces of silk, and a minimum of [-] pennies. .”

"If you raise [-] horses, you will need to eat [-] shi a year for the horse feed alone."

Zhang Yichen shook his head more and more.

"I can't afford it, I can't afford it."

By simple calculation, at least [-] stones of grain are needed a year, plus [-] guan coins, and [-] bolts of silk.

There are more than 2 dong in Zhangqiu County, and each person needs to share five buckets of grain, 75 Wen, and ten feet of silk a year. This is only an approximate figure, and the specific cost will definitely increase a lot.

And if calculated according to the previous calculations, it was supposed to be every four years, so after four years, one Ding would cost two stones of grain, three hundred Wen coins, and one bolt of silk.

This figure has far exceeded Du Ruhui's calculation just now, and the four years of recruiting as a proxy only paid a total of more than 330 cash.

At least three times the number calculated just now, and if it is all calculated, it is estimated to be four or five times.

"Let the common people pay so much money for silk grain, they would rather serve by themselves."

Luo Cheng also nodded. If it was him himself, he would rather be the messenger for this month. Even if he had to bring his own food, he would rather come by himself. It may not be possible to grab so much money, food and silk.

It is too unrealistic to recruit soldiers and raise a county barracks with the same treatment as the frontier army.

"How about we imitate the government soldiers and take out those fields in the mountains and give them to those who are willing to enter the county barracks for free. As long as they enter the county barracks, they can get the land for free. There is no need to pay land rent for these lands, and all the income will belong to them. They only need to train in their spare time, how about being ordered to suppress bandits when they encounter bandits?" Luo Cheng proposed another plan.

"There is no such precedent." Du Ruhui mentioned this issue again.

Even if it's wasteland, the county government doesn't dare to grant it randomly.If it is granted, it means that the land is equalized and the people have to pay the rent and adjust the land after they get the land.

"How about this." Du Ruhui thought for a while, and said to Luo Cheng and Zhang Yichen, "The county barracks adopt recruiting, and the villagers are still paid for their services, but no matter how much the county barracks spend, we only need the men in the county to pay for it every year. Pay one hundred coins, fifty in summer, and fifty in autumn. All the money will be handed over to the county soldiers and nutrition soldiers, and if there is not enough money, we will find a way."

Du Ruhui's method is to grant land to the recruited county soldiers, and then go to the mountains to grant enough land.These lands are still registered in the government's account books, and they also have to pay rent, pay, transfer, and obedience.

However, nowadays many places have small land and many people, so it is becoming more and more difficult for the common people to share the land. Even if they are small, they often have no land to divide, or they can only get a small amount of land.

If people are attracted to join the county barracks on the condition of dividing the land, then the county barracks can be pulled up with the money paid by the common people.

"The money paid for the service is used for the daily expenses of the county barracks, and the county soldiers don't give them monthly food, monthly money, and monthly clothing, but only their meals during training. Do you think it is feasible?"

This is equivalent to the Fubing system in disguise.

However, it was still far from the professional soldier Luo Cheng wanted, but after much deliberation, there was really no better way.

According to this method, at least his county barracks does not need to change a group of people every month.

It's just that these county soldiers have to farm the land when they have land, so they have to be on duty in rotation. Of the five hundred county soldiers, it is estimated that only a hundred at most can be on duty.

But there is no other way.

"Why don't you try it first?" Luo Cheng said.

"Then try it." Du Ruhui also said.The unique geography of Zhangqiu County, coupled with the dangerous security environment, made it necessary for him to maintain this powerful county barracks.

(End of this chapter)