big song poppi

Chapter 39 0037【Conscription】

"good."

Han Zhen praised, and then changed his voice: "However, some improvements are needed. For example, the upper feeding port can be made into a funnel shape with wooden boards, so that the falling speed of the wheat will be more uniform. In addition, the lower part needs to be equipped with a feeding port to facilitate bagging."

"Yeah, why didn't I think of that."

Carpenter Chen slapped his forehead, his expression suddenly changed.

Patting him on the shoulder, under the envious eyes of the other two carpenters, Han Zhen smiled and said, "Let's go, follow me to get the reward."

"Thank you village chief!"

Carpenter Chen beamed with joy, and at the same time he did not forget to cast a sideways glance at the other two.

Seeing his proud appearance, the two carpenters spat one after another.

Seeing this, Han Zhen comforted: "Don't be discouraged. You can think about it more on weekdays. If you can make useful farm tools, you can also ask me to receive the reward. In addition, one thresher and blower are not enough, and three are needed. I will buy them at the usual price of one."

Hearing this, the other two smiled.

According to this calculation, each of them can get two pieces of money.

……

The sunset is westward.

The golden afterglow sprinkled down, coating the three mountains with a golden coat.

The villagers who were tired all day walked on the ridges of the fields with hoes on their shoulders.

Standing under a big locust tree, the head of the village shouted loudly: "Don't go home, everyone, go to the valley to gather, the village head has something to say."

Hearing this, the villagers all showed curiosity and walked towards the valley field in twos and threes.

Today, Han Zhen's prestige in Xiaowang Village has surpassed that of the village head.

In addition to being unparalleled in bravery, it is also rumored in private that he has an immortal method of turning stones into gold.

In just one day of hard work, he earned thousands of guan.

Soon, more than 600 people from the whole village gathered in the valley field.

"Be quiet, let me say a few things."

As soon as Han Zhen spoke, the noise disappeared immediately, and the crowd fell silent.

He didn't write anything, and said straight to the point: "The first thing is, I bought five cattle and twenty donkeys. These livestock can be leased to you for use. The cost is two buckets of green feed. You will also be responsible for the rations of the livestock during the lease. If you want to lease at that time, you can find Zhu Zheng to register."

The reason for buying these livestock is to benefit the people and liberate the labor force.

The rent is almost nothing, which is equivalent to letting these villagers solve the rations of their livestock.

As soon as the words fell, the villagers immediately showed joy, and talked excitedly.

Han Zhen stood there quietly, giving them time to digest.

After a while, the crowd quieted down again, and the villagers stared expectantly at Han Zhen, waiting for him to announce the next thing.

"Second thing, this thresher and blower."

Han Zhen pointed to the two machines beside him, and then ordered: "Carpenter Chen, the three of you come up and demonstrate to everyone."

The next moment, the three of Carpenter Chen walked out of the crowd.

"This is a good thing, just look at it."

After deliberately showing off, Carpenter Chen held the crank and began to turn it.

Another carpenter picked up a pile of straw and leaned on it.

There was only a crackling sound, and the ears of wheat on the straw were knocked off by the bamboo strips on the roller in the blink of an eye.

Whoa!
There was an uproar among the crowd.

In the past, if you wanted to get the ears of wheat off the stalks, you had to lay out the stalks, beat them with flails, or slowly grind them with a stone roller.

Not only is it time-consuming and laborious, but it is also unclean.

The wheat remaining on the stalks needs to be tapped hard to fall off.

It often takes several days to complete the threshing of wheat in a three-acre field.

If it is unlucky to encounter rainy days, it will be even more troublesome.

Now that I have this thing, I am afraid that it will take less than an hour to thresh all the wheat in the three mu of land.

How could this not surprise them?
However, Carpenter Chen's performance is not over yet.

I saw him sweep all the threshed wheat on the ground into the dustpan, and then slowly pour it into the blower.

And the third person has already started to shake the wind wheel.

As the wheat is poured into the feeding port, the straw crumbs and broken leaves mixed in the wheat are all blown away, and the clean wheat grains flow out continuously from the feeding port.

There was another exclamation from the crowd.

After the demonstration by the three of Carpenter Chen, Han Zhen pressed his hands. After the crowd became quiet again, he said in a loud voice, "Threshing machines and other agricultural tools are also rented out, and the rent is one catty of bran."

After a slight pause, Han Zhen continued: "The third thing is that the lime kiln and the salt factory are currently recruiting 30 workers, with a monthly salary of [-] renminbi, and two meals in the morning and evening. Secondly, I plan to build a cottage on the hill in front of the village to keep out the officers, soldiers and bandits. The construction of the shanzhai also provides food and wages, [-] renminbi a day for men, and [-] renminbi for women."

Without waiting for the villagers to respond, he raised his fourth finger: "The fourth thing is to start conscription from now on!"

conscription?

Hearing these two words, the expressions of the originally elated villagers changed, and they looked at him in surprise.

Han Zhen was not surprised by their reaction, and took the time to say: "All men over the age of 16 and under the age of 40 can join the army. After joining the army, they will be provided with three meals a day of dry rice, one meal of meat every three days, a monthly salary of [-] Wen, and some other benefits."

Three meals a day, or dry rice?

A meat meal every three days?
There are five hundred Wen salary?
For a while, the crowd was in a commotion.

Without him, the treatment is really good.

Many people thought about it in their hearts and found that joining the army was actually more cost-effective than farming.

In fact, Han Zhen opened all the basic conditions, because if he wants to train an army capable of fighting, three meals of dry rice and meat a day are necessary, otherwise it is impossible to maintain high-intensity training.

It can only be said that it all depends on the peers.

The treatment of soldiers in the early Northern Song Dynasty was not bad. Taking the Forbidden Army as an example, the monthly salary of the upper-ranking Forbidden Army was [-] cash, that of the middle-ranking Guard was [-] Wen, and that of the lower-ranking Army was [-] Wen.

In addition to the monthly salary, there are many other benefits, such as monthly food, spring and winter clothes, special cash, snow and cold money, charcoal money, silver shoe money and so on.

Moreover, the Northern Song Dynasty adopted a military recruitment system, and the whole family would be transferred to the military if one person enlisted in the army. At this time, an additional sum of money would be issued, which is the so-called resettlement fee, which was between 5-10 guan.

In the period of Renzong and Yingzong, it will not work.

Due to financial shortages, military benefits have been reduced again and again.

Now that Huizong is in power, he has completely fallen to the bottom, not to mention the rotten Xiang Army, even the Western Army on Qinfeng Road, the soldiers can only eat seventy percent of their fill every day.

As for the military pay...

Only when a war is about to start, will a symbolic one-month payment be made to boost morale.

Doesn't the imperial court know that low salaries for soldiers will affect combat effectiveness?

Of course the court officials knew.

But the problem is, no money!
The prosperity of Tokyo City gave many people an illusion of the prosperity of the Song Dynasty.

But in fact this is not the case. The yearly coins paid to Xixia and Liao in the Northern Song Dynasty accounted for almost 20% of the annual tax revenue.

The reason why the Northern Song Dynasty could not popularize silver as a transaction currency was that most of the domestic silver had to be paid as tribute to Xixia and Liao, and the rest of the silver was also kept at home by officials and wealthy businessmen.

At the time of Jingkang's shame, the golden lion opened his mouth and asked for 2000 million taels of silver.

As a result, Song Huizong searched the entire Tokyo city, not even letting the beggars go, and only collected 180 million taels of silver.

Just in May of this year, Song and Jin jointly attacked Liao.

Song Huizong ordered Tong Guan to be the envoy of Xuanfu, and the way of cultivating teachers to control the capital, and led 15 western troops in the Northern Expedition.

As a result, the Liao army, which was killed by the Jin people and retreated steadily, beat the most powerful Western army in the Northern Song Dynasty to crying father and mother, throwing away their helmets and armor.

In desperation, Song Huizong had no choice but to send someone to negotiate with the Jin people, and wanted to spend money to buy back Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures.

Fortunately, Wanyan Aguda was still trustworthy, and agreed to sell the land of Yanyun Six States, but the price was a rental fee of 100 million yuan a year.

For the 100 million guan, the entire imperial court couldn't afford it, and it had to rely on the temporary collection of exorbitant taxes to make up enough.

With this virtue, where can I get the money to improve the treatment of soldiers?

(End of this chapter)