Rebirth of Wu Ba Spring and Autumn

Chapter 792
"Ji Ran, how many households are there in our country of Wu?"

Qingji set his sights on Dazai Jiran.

Before, when Ba, Chong, Xiyan, and Pingzhou were destroyed, Qingji had specially ordered Ji Ran, Wen Zhong and others to conduct a national census.

More than half a year has passed, and there should be results.

Ji Ran immediately said: "Reporting to Your Majesty, after overall planning, the 21 counties of my country of Wu now have 210 million households and 73 million people!"

A population of over 1000 million!
This does not include the total population of the Protectorate of the Western Regions and the Kunlun slaves (all kinds of slaves), otherwise the population of Wu will only be larger.

Hearing this, the officials in the courtroom couldn't help but look at each other, feeling agitated.

With Wu's current population, military power, territory, and wealth, its comprehensive national strength can be said to beat any country in the world.

Even the former overlord Jin State is far from the present Wu State!

The only shortcoming is that Wu's population conversion rate is lower than that of the northern countries.

If not, Qingji will be like Qin Wang Yingzheng at the end of the Warring States period, launching a war to unify the world, and he will definitely be able to do it!

"Military strength?"

"The standing army is 25 people! Your Majesty, there are [-] people in Jinling alone, including the guards and the imperial army!"

Hearing that, Qingji was quite satisfied.

A country with a population of more than 25 million and a vast territory has a standing army of [-], how much?

not much!

Even Ji Ran, Wen Zhong, Kong Qiu and others who have always advocated streamlining the army and streamlining administration would not advise Qingji to disarm.

Because no one can guarantee when the war will break out.

The territory of Wu State is too large, and there are many places where troops need to be stationed. For example, in the nine counties in the south, small-scale Baiyue rebellions often break out, or bandits and water bandits are raging, and they need to be suppressed and exterminated.

There are more troops stationed in the west and north of Wu.

In fact, the standing army is different from ordinary county soldiers and county soldiers.

County soldiers and county soldiers belong to local counties. Generally, soldiers are recruited from the local area. The required weapons, armor, food and supplies will be prepared by themselves and distributed by the local government.

Standing armies are different.

The items required by the standing army are uniformly allocated by the imperial court.

The task of county soldiers and county soldiers is to protect the environment and the people. When necessary, they will be conscripted and go to the front to fight.

The standing army is equivalent to the "field army", which can be mobilized at any time and has standard weapons and armor.

Wu's army can be roughly divided into three types.

One is the forbidden army, the other is the frontier army, and the other is the local army.

The imperial army has the strongest combat effectiveness, followed by the frontier army, and the weaker one is the local army.

Even so, as a country where all the people are soldiers and has a martial arts style, as long as Qingji is willing, he can pull up an army of millions of people at any time.

However, no one can guarantee that such a large army will have internal strife, or even defection...

"How much was the treasury revenue of my country Wu last year?"

Hearing this, Ji Ran hurriedly presented a memorial and asked CRRC Mansion Ling Jiao to hand it over for Qingji to read.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, after overall planning, my country of Wu has cultivated 330 hectares of land, 170 mu and [-] steps so far."

With a fluent answer, Ji Ran told Qingji all the data he knew, and said, "According to Wu's law, land rent is taxed at fifteen to one."

"Last year, the weather was good and the folks had a good harvest. It was a good year, so the yield of millet and rice was about three dendrobium per mu."

"That's right, the state treasury has received more than six thousand, six thousand and seventy thousand thirty-five thousand four hundred and thirty thousand dendrobium from the land rent tax alone!"

"hiss!"

Hearing this, all the officials present couldn't help but gasped, feeling extremely shocked.

How could they collect so much land tax?
This is really a big deal!

Qingji made some calculations by himself.

How much is this dendrobium?
Dendrobium is the name of a measuring device and a unit of capacity.

The commonly used capacity units in this era range from small to large, including liters, buckets, stones, cauldrons, and bells. Dendrobium and stones are the same.

Ten buckets are one stone, and ten buckets are one dendrobium.

The concept of ten buckets of rice is that each liter of rice weighs about three catties, one bucket of rice is equivalent to [-] catties of current grain, and ten buckets is equivalent to three hundred catties.

Based on two meals a day for each person and a family of three, one dendrobium and ten buckets can last for at least three months!

The current state of Wu is exceptionally rich. It can be said that "Li Shu is rich and rich, millet and dendrobium are thirty, cattle and sheep are wild", and the value of a dendrobium rice (millet) is about thirty yuan...

This is inevitable.

After all, in a good harvest year, food prices will definitely fall.

The price of food in Wu State has always been maintained between [-] and [-] renminbi, without major fluctuations.

Because the price of grain in Wu State is generally set by the government.

Based on such data, the total yield per mu of cultivated land in Wu State last year reached 996 hu. According to the land rent tax rate of "051 taxes and 240", the treasury's income was 66 hu...

If you convert it, a dendrobium millet (rice) is 2 yuan, which is equivalent to 002!

A full 20 ​​billion dollars!

Is it too much?

many!
But, it doesn't stop there.

Because in addition to land rent and tax, the state of Wu also has income such as oral tax, calculation tax, and replacement tax.

"Oral Fu, Calculation Fu, Chang Fu geometry?"

"The oral endowment is about 380 million yuan, the calculated endowment is about 330 million yuan, and the endowment is about 420 million yuan. Throughout the year, the treasury received more than one billion and 7000 million yuan. !"

Ji Ran couldn't remember such data, so he took out the playbook and read the Tao.

When the ministers learned that the treasury had so much fiscal revenue, they couldn't help being dumbfounded.

It is true that every year there will be a memorial about financial revenue, which is sent to Qingji for reading, but the subjects of Wu State do not know about it...

The three items of oral Fu, calculation Fu, and Geng Fu add up to 107 billion yuan, which is far more than the land tax!

What is oral Fu?

Oral tax is the same as calculated tax, both belong to "poll tax", but they target different groups of people.

As we all know, the country of Wu has a complete birth-encouraging system, so there are certain preferential treatment for newborns.

At the beginning, Wu Guo did not collect "oral taxation" for children under the age of 14.

However, after several reforms, children from the age of three to 14 in Wu State will be charged an oral tax of [-] yuan.

Not many, but the win is that the number of newborns is large enough!

This "calculated tax" is the head tax for 15 to 56 years old, usually 120 yuan.

More money, that is to say, money for service, three hundred yuan, because it is too cheap, most of them are willing to give money to the government to invite people to go, and Qingji likes to make prisoners and Kunlun slaves to do it...

Like Li Shu in Wu State, they usually pay money and don't do hard labor.

Now, the four items of land rent tax, oral tax, calculated tax, and more tax, as the total revenue of the national treasury, have exceeded 30 billion 7000 million!
There are not many exorbitant and miscellaneous taxes in the state of Wu, they only increase taxes for the treasury, and taxes of various names still exist.

It's still reasonable!
(End of this chapter)