I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 386, all parties ask for money

Wang Ge said: "Even so, the current situation is different from that of Dong Zhuo's time. Back then, Dong Zhuo tried his best, even if he added soldiers to the field, he could barely manage to raise an army of 50."

"Now the strength of the princes of the Han Dynasty has doubled, which is far from comparable to that of Dong Zhuo. For example, Liu Bei can recruit nearly 15 troops if he adds soldiers to the field. Now he occupies Yangze and is about to conquer Yizhou. In Liu Bei's current territory, it is easy to raise an army of 30. Yuan Shao occupies the land of the three states and is the richest land in the Central Plains. Not only did he recruit 20 troops, but he also plans to recruit another 30 troops. Cao Cao also has an army of [-], and it is said that Cao Cao also wants to play with soldiers in the field, using the fields to raise soldiers, and plans to have an army of [-]!"

Xu Wei was surprised and said: "Cao Cao can support 30 troops? I'm afraid Qingzhou doesn't even have 30 young and strong!"

Qingzhou originally had four million people, and of course there may be five or six million people including hidden households. However, these years of military disasters and natural disasters have continued. Xu Wei estimates that the current population of Qingzhou may only be around two million. With this population, 30 people will be recruited. Wan Dajun, Cao Cao wants to incorporate all the young and strong in Qingzhou into the army!
Do you want to recruit civilian husbands when the war starts? It is impossible for Cao Cao to recruit women and children to be civilian husbands!
And how will he support the 30 army?Should the monthly salary be given to others?

it is good!Even if it is not given, where will Cao Cao get food and grass to feed these [-] people?

It's impossible not to even eat food!
30 people consume 60 shi of grain a month, and about 720 million shi of grain in a year. With the current grain price of 500 yuan a shi in the Central Plains, it will cost 36 billion yuan to raise these soldiers, which is already comparable to the national tax of the Han Dynasty. , plus the consumption of weapons and armor, there is no way to fight without 50 billion yuan. Back then, Emperor Ling didn't have such money. Where did Cao Cao get so much money?

Even Dagan can't afford to support 30 professional soldiers. Now that 20 professional soldiers have already accounted for one-third of Dagan's finances, Xu Wei wants to downsize some!Cao Cao actually wanted to make an army of 30, and he couldn't even scrape three feet high this day. Could it be that Cao Cao made some kind of Qiufa Zhonglang now?But Qingzhou didn't have any princely cemeteries for him to dig.

Wang Ge said with a wry smile: "What kind of military household system did Cao Cao use? First, he obtained 3000 million mu of land from the elite families in Qingzhou, and then distributed these lands to the people in 100-mu shares, and did not collect taxes from these people. But for those who get the land, each household has to send out a soldier with dry food and weapons. 3000 million mu is 30 soldiers. Go to Qingzhou to seek refuge with Cao Cao! Judging from the current situation, Cao Cao will really be able to create an army of [-] in a short time!"

As soon as Xu Wei heard it, he knew that this was a variant of the Fubing system. If this policy was implemented, it would really help Cao Cao raise an army of 30 at no cost. Zhu Yuanzhang also used this method to create an army of one million. The biggest difficulty of this system is not money, but land, but Cao Cao really dug out [-] million mu of land from the hands of the powerful and nobles, and it was still high-quality land!
Wang Ge said helplessly: "Government, the next time we attack the Central Plains, we may have to face a coalition of millions of princes from the Central Plains! So I plan to expand another 10 standing troops and place them in Jizhou and Bingzhou respectively to guard against the princes of the Central Plains!"

Xu Wei firmly vetoed it: "I can't do it, I can't afford it!"

The salaries of large-scale soldiers are considered to be the highest in the world. The monthly salary of ordinary soldiers is [-] yuan, and the [-] standing army will spend [-] million yuan a month, which is [-] billion yuan a year. The standard for small landlords is five or six hundred yuan a month, which is several hundred million, and the investment in weapons and equipment is even larger. The equipment for each soldier is several times higher than the monthly salary and food expenses, and there is no four billion yuan. It can't be fought at all, and if we add another [-] standing troops, the military expenditure will reach half of the fiscal revenue.With such a high military expenditure, do we need to engage in economic construction?Do you still want to carry out circulation development!So Xu Wei refused very firmly.

Xu Weidao: "In the past two years, we have mainly collected food and grass. If you are really worried about the combat effectiveness of the army, you should find a way to train the soldiers, so that each soldier has the command ability of the leader and team leader. When expanding, the army of [-] can be expanded into an army of [-] immediately, and the combat effectiveness of the army will not drop much.

We can't compare with the princes of the Han Dynasty. They have a vast land and few people, so they can raise soldiers with fields. What we can really talk about is the land of the three states, and only Jizhou and the land are considered fertile. If it weren't for the guano stones in Hebei The land has already starved to death, and our Hebei is far richer than the Central Plains, and the output of the fields is not as good as the work.This determines that we cannot take the road of raising soldiers with fields, and the strategy of elite soldiers is the road we walk. "

Wang Ge could only return disappointed!
Not long after, Old Man Niu and Old Man Wang also found Xu Wei!
"Right now, there are more than [-] shi of goods that need to be transshipped through Tianjin County every day, but Tianjin County's transportation capacity is insufficient. Now a large amount of goods are piled up in Tianjin Port. We need to expand the Sanggan River and strengthen the track of Tianjin County!"

Then Old Man Wang began to introduce the situation of Tianjin County to Xu Wei in detail. Because Tianjin County has the Sanggan River connecting the entire Bingzhou and Youzhou, the cargo throughput is particularly high. Now Tianjin has to transport 600 million stones of dried salted fish and 100 million stones of dried fish every year. Salt, 2000 million stones of struvite, 1000 million raw logs, and other miscellaneous goods, Tianjin Port handles more than 4000 million stones a year. It can be said that the combined cargo throughput of other ports in the world is not There are many ports in Tianjin.

Such a large volume of cargo transportation has made Tianjin Port extremely congested, and the rail carriages are like a long dragon, connecting and continuously transporting goods to the Daqian Quartet.The wooden rails in other places are replaced once a year, but the distance between Tianjin and Jixian is basically replaced every month, and every time the rails are replaced, a lot of time will be wasted, so the old man Niu strengthens this section of rails. s plan!

Xu Wei smiled wryly, he came to ask for money again!
Xu Wei asked, "What is your plan and how much will it cost?"

The old man Niu pointed at the map, "From Tianjin to Jixian, I plan to wrap the track here with iron sheets, which will not only double the capacity of the wooden track, but also extend the maintenance time of the wooden track by more than three times. The distance is about 15 miles, all of which are covered with iron sheets, and the cost is about 10 million yuan. If the effect is good, the old man plans to replace all the wooden tracks in the front of the Daqian with such iron-clad wooden tracks! About [-] million, the entire wooden rails can be changed into iron-clad wooden rails after continuous replacement for [-] years! And it can reduce more than half of our maintenance personnel and increase the transportation capacity by more than two times! In the long run, using The iron-clad wood track is of great benefit to our Daqian track network, and the longer the time, the more cost-saving it will be!"

Xu Wei said unhappily: "Why don't you just use the rails? It is impossible for a carriage to break the rails, so I don't even need to replace the rails!"

The old man Niu really thought about it: "If the railway track is changed, the price of the distance from Tianjin to Jixian alone will increase more than ten times, and it can't be completed without three billion yuan!

But the cost is high but the benefits are many.As soon as you come here, you don’t need to cut down trees everywhere. After all, the price of wood has more than doubled due to the development of the shipbuilding industry. Secondly, you can greatly reduce the number of maintenance personnel. After all, iron is much stronger than wood. Rust, such a track can last for decades without maintenance. If the ruling party really has such an idea, we can test a section of the track and see the effect! "

Xu Wei was frightened when he saw the thinking old man Niu, he didn't see who he was!I also want to lay railway tracks on the road. Do you know that the price of a catty of iron is ten yuan now, and the track from Jixian to Tianjin is worth three billion yuan.

This is no longer repairing the track, but building a spectacle. If Xu Wei still had the idea of ​​experimenting in peacetime, it is now a time of war. How can so many resources be invested in the construction of such a spectacle.

(End of this chapter)