Up the Chunfeng Tower, Yang Shen stood in front of the window and looked at the crowd on the street outside, with a gloomy face. Last year, Wang Ru gathered troops to serve the king, and he always admired Wang Ru and was loyal to the country, so he went there. Unexpectedly, when he came back, the little sergeant wanted to sell this restaurant by himself, and the feeling was really unspeakable.

In the Song Dynasty, it was difficult to make a living by running restaurants for generations. This is a profitable industry. According to the custom of the Song Dynasty, as long as you make money, there is no government that doesn’t help you. The same is true for Chunfeng Building. Although it was built by Yang Shen’s ancestors, it was still taken away by the government twice. However, after the government took it away, Yang Shen’s family still rented it and his own business was not interrupted.

Now that he has joined the army, Wang Xiaoli returned to Ruzhou, thinking that the industry will belong to his own family from now on. However, he would have thought that Wang Xiaoliu would actually sell it himself. Thinking of this, Yang Shen sighed heavily. This restaurant has been in his own generation for decades, and finally no longer belongs to his own family.

We will find a buyer tomorrow. Today, Yang Shen invited several generals from the army to drink, which is a souvenir.

At this moment, a soldier came in and said, "Tijie, the governor asked you to discuss matters."

Yang Shen agreed and sent the soldiers back. He went back to change his public uniforms, sorted them out, and went to the state yamen.

If it were another dynasty, Wang Xiaoli asked his subordinates to sell all the business land, which would inevitably arouse opposition. The Song Dynasty was different, and this has been common for the past two hundred years. However, in the chaotic times, it is difficult to make long-term plans, and the subordinates are unwilling to do so.

After entering the prefecture yamen, he arrived at the conference hall and saluted Wang Xiaohu.

Wang Xiaoli stood at the table and waved to Yang Shen: "Come and have a look. How do we live in the future? Many things need to be done."

Yang Shen stepped forward and saw a piece of paper on the table, with a number of names listed on it.

Seeing Yang Shen's confused eyes, Wang Xiaolei said: "If we just collect taxes, how much money can we have in a year? If we don't have money, how can we pay the official generals? If you have military accounts, you must use money to make money so that life can continue."

Yang Shen smiled bitterly: "Xiaosheren, Ruzhou was originally a small province, and it is now a time of chaos. What business is there to do?"

Wang Xiaoliu said: "As long as we have the heart, there are more businesses in the world. Even if we are not a big province, it is not difficult to raise thousands of soldiers. As long as we work hard, we can always make money."

Yang Shen said: "Xiaosheren, with 30,000 households in Ruzhou, 3,000 soldiers and horses, ten households must raise one soldier! If you can make money, you will be poor after all, and it will be difficult to support it. With the current households, we have so many soldiers, it will be difficult."

Wang Xiaoli nodded and remained silent for a moment. Yang Shen said it was right. There were too few households in Ruzhou now, and it was difficult to raise soldiers. You could find a way to make money. But without food and grass, what's the use of having money? By then, it's just that prices are rising and the number is beautiful.

After a long time, Wang Xiaoli said: "What you said really makes sense. So in addition to doing these, we also need to recruit households and increase the population. Ruzhou has many free land, and as long as we have manpower, we can grow food and grass."

Yang Shen said: "But where are you going to recruit people now? Jin soldiers will come south at any time, and the people are afraid of being uneasy."

Wang Xiaoliu said: "So the same thing is that only when we can keep the local security can someone come to us. To protect the local area, we must have strong military strength. Without the people, where can we get strong military strength? It is a deadlock."

After thinking for a while, Wang Xiaolei said, "Now the people in the north are all thinking about fleeing south. If we are peaceful here, there will naturally be people."

Yang Shen smiled and said nothing.

When talking about money, Yang Shen thought of his own burden. Making money is not the most important thing now, but the military’s money and food are the most important. Is there a lot of 3,000 soldiers in a state? It’s hard to say. It depends on how many households there are in this state.

When there are many people, it is better to have land. When there are many land, it is better to have people. Nowadays, Ruzhou has a lot of land and fewer people. It is difficult to support the army by relying on its current population.

Standing there and thinking for a while, Wang Xiaolei said, "I won't discuss this in advance, and I'll find a way out in the future. The army is also a human being. When necessary, it can support growing grain. If they work with the top leader, they can have a lot of land."

If you have a military and land, you are not afraid of losing food. The easiest way is that the army can farm farms. However, Wang Xiaoli doesn’t want to do that. The army is fighting and letting them farm farms and produce, which can easily affect their combat effectiveness. How difficult is to cultivate combat effectiveness?

After adjusting his emotions, Wang Xiaoli pointed to the picture on the table and said, "As you want, you are not allowed to do business. How much is the right amount to pay every month?"

Yang Shen said: "The court has its own salary, so why bother to think too much?"

Wang Xiaolei said: "If it depends on the salary of the court, then what official do you think are?"

Yang Shen was stunned. Yes, now the only one who has the imperial court officials is Wang Xiaoli. He does not have official official reports from the imperial court, and he does not know what rank he is. Besides, although the salary of the imperial court is fixed, the price is high now, so it is not easy to support his wife and young people.

Wang Xiaolei said: "I think there is no need to follow the salary of the court. We pay money every month to make everyone have enough food and clothing. The middle and senior officials have the minimum decent value. Money is indispensable. Just like you, the number I prepared is a monthly salary of 40 guan and 5 shi of rice."

After hearing this, Yang Shen was startled. He stood there for a while before he carefully said: "Xiaosheren, this number is too high--"

Wang Xiaoli shook his head: "It's not high. Now everything is getting more expensive and there is not enough money. How can we live a good life?"

Yang Shen nodded, shook his head again, not knowing what to say.

It's fifty cents a month, but more than six hundred cents a year, which is not a small amount of money. I only earn 200 cents a year, so I feel it's amazing. Compared with the salary given by Wang Xiaoli, it's nothing at all.

Compared with officials, a monthly salary of 50 jin and a monthly salary of 5 jin, a medium-level official is definitely an intermediate official. You should know that in this era, there were only hundreds of middle- and senior officials in the country. According to later generations, these are all the treatment of high-ranking officials.

Seeing Yang Shen there so much that he couldn't speak. Wang Xiaolei said: "Of course, if you want to send you so much money, the first thing in the army is to have money first. How can you have money? You have to make money based on the current money."

Yang Shen shook his head and hurriedly said, "Little Sergeant, how can you make such a large number? Not only the officers, but we also have three thousand soldiers! These people also have to pay money every month. One person has two or three stakes, which is nearly ten thousand stakes!"

Wang Xiaoli shook his head: "Of course, the officers have to pay money, just according to the rules of the officials. The soldiers are different. Now the soldiers in the army are different from before, not what we hired. The families of these people are all placed in newly built villages. Because they are military families, they do not need to perform labor service. In other words, soldiers do not have to support their families. The food, clothing, and use are all distributed in the army, and they do not have to spend money. They pay hundreds of people a month, so they can just use pocket money."

Yang Shen hurriedly said: "Xiaosheren, there is no such army in the world!"

Wang Xiaoli smiled and said, "Why aren't there? Just like the Han and Tang Dynasties, they were conquered into the army and had to bring their own weapons and armor! But after entering the Song Dynasty, all the troops were hired, forming new rules. Now that the enemy is in front of them, all the troops rely on hiring, so where can they spend so much money!"

The army of the Song Dynasty was employed, and the number was not large. When there was no war, such as after Emperor Renzong of Zhenzong, there were nearly one million. When the war really started, I found that there were actually very few troops able to fight.

A million troops, even if a person has thirty stagnant per year, the cost of the cap is thirty million. The Northern Song Dynasty said that the fiscal revenue was nearly 100 million yuan, but in fact, how much is the real cash? And thirty stagnant per year, the soldiers still have no food and clothing. No matter how many such troops are, their combat effectiveness is unreliable.

By the Southern Song Dynasty, the regular army of the real country had only more than 200,000 in Shaoxing, which had formed a balance of power with the Jin Dynasty. These more than 200,000 troops were enough to prevent the Jin army from going south, and Yue Fei still had the rest of his strength to fight the north.

When the Northern Song Dynasty was founded, the imperial guards were only 100,000 or 200,000, and they could sweep the world. In this era, there were not many troops with real combat effectiveness. With 300,000 people, it was enough to conquer the world and make the world peaceful. More numbers were actually not very useful.

However, it is not easy to support 300,000 people in the current situation in the Song Dynasty. The 200,000 troops actually made the Southern Song Dynasty use all its strength to slaughter the world. More troops are really unaffordable.

Wang Xiaolie wanted to compete with the Jin army, so he must find a way. If he hired people to join the army like before, no matter how much money he had, there would not be enough amount. He could only find another way, and mixed it with the conscription system.

Soldiers join the army and let their families have land to build new villages, giving them preferential treatment for corvee. At this time, it is still attractive.

After listening to Wang Xiaoli's explanation, Yang Shen felt that it made sense. It was different from now, and he felt that it was inappropriate.

Wang Xiaoliu said: "It is unprecedented for the Jin army to come to the south and the two emperors to hunt north. Many rules need to be changed. Starting from our changes, what is wrong with it! As long as the soldiers and their families are well fed and well-dressed and live a peaceful life, why not be afraid of not being able to recruit people!"
Chapter completed!