In the mist of water, Shao Xun listened quietly to the report.
"The Prime Minister thinks that taxes can be collected together after the autumn harvest." Wang Huifeng sat on the Hu bed and reported seriously like a dutiful secretary: "Based on 700,000 households, excluding 30,000 government soldiers, there are 580,000 households based on five
If ten acres are levied, and 90,000 households are levied thirty acres, they can get more than 3.8 million dendrobium, 1.92 million bolts of silk, and 1.92 million catties of cotton. If all the hard work (mediocre) is offset, another million can be collected
Silk."
After saying that, there was no movement for a long time.
Just when Wang Huifeng wondered if Shao Xun was asleep, a voice came from the misty water vapor: "Xinxing, Ruyin Second County will be exempted from money and grain for one year, and there will be no taxes."
Wang Huifeng wrote down this note.
Shao Xun sighed with emotion: "If you can tax properly, you can know the wealth of the world, and you can also know how much grain has been hidden by the rich families. Guo Mo, a Wubao commander, accumulated for several years, and there were 800,000 grains and beans in the warehouse.
.”
"The eight hundred thousand dendrobium is for the people of Wubao to eat." Wang Huifeng said.
Shao Xun chuckled.
In times of trouble, I don’t know how many warlords would not leave these 800,000 grains for the people to eat and drink. They would only pay attention to the shortage of military grains and try every means to supplement it.
"Let's see how much we can collect next year." Shao Xun waved his hand and made a splash of water.
Bathing in hot springs in winter is so refreshing, it feels so refreshing to the bones, so refreshing that I don’t even want to get up to work.
In addition, there is such a thing as taxation efficiency in taxation. It is not how much you should be able to collect on paper, but how much it can really collect. If you don’t send people to the countryside to collect taxes in a predatory way, generally speaking, the actual tax collection will be
There will be a discount on the numbers that come up. The specific discount depends on your administrative efficiency.
The twenty counties of Liang State completed the field transfer before the year.
The figures may not be that precise, but they are generally correct. The tax revenue of more than three million tons of grain a year is actually not much.
Of course, this is normal tax.
During war years, the court often had the urge to increase taxes.
Isn’t it enough to add the tax? I’ll add more!
How much to increase depends mainly on how much money the people can squeeze out, and secondarily on the conscience of the rulers.
The twenty counties of Liang State have experienced reorganization after the disaster, and there are not many complicated relationships. They have also experienced excessive farming. The tax collection requirements in the first year are not high. It is enough to get three million grains.
If nothing goes wrong, there will be two million silkworms, because the recovery of sericulture in some places is not ideal, especially in the areas north of the river. We will make a new round of adjustments next year based on the actual situation.
"How much does it cost to recruit soldiers and support Liang Guo in a year?" Shao Xun asked.
"In the twelfth lunar month, we recruited more than 3,000 people. So far, we have five camps with 30,000 soldiers. Each soldier is given three husks of food per month and three bolts of silk per year. There is no training in the camp——"
"Leave some margin and make all decisions." Shao Xun said.
"That's three meals a day." Wang Huifeng said: "The annual supply of grain is 2 and 50,000 dendrobiums, and the annual supply of silk is 90,000 pieces."
"Starting from next year, a piece of silk will be given to everyone on Zhengdan, Spring Society, Autumn Society, Double Ninth Festival, and Winter Solstice. Military uniforms will be distributed every year in spring and autumn. Ready-made clothes will not be distributed, only cloth and cotton will be distributed. Quilts will be distributed every three years." Shao Xun ordered.
Said: "This order is issued to the five soldiers to save the two Cao Cao."
The silk has become more silky, and Shao Xun no longer fastens the strings.
The recruitment of troops for the fifth battalion only cost more than 200,000 pieces of silk a year.
In fact, food is relatively in short supply. This blame lies with Shao Xun, because he is temporarily unwilling to raise taxes within the Liang State. To be honest, each household in the Liang State has dozens of grains and beans left over every year - if not
If a disaster occurs.
And if a war is launched, he will send a few more tokens, but the wealthy families outside the Liang Kingdom will not be able to escape, and they will be the main ones.
Of course, the cost of raising soldiers is more than that.
Not to mention anything else, he has to give out more than one million grains of food a year just for pensions.
There is also the consumption of other materials, such as arrows, wound medicine, etc. required for training.
Generally speaking, the cost of recruiting soldiers at this time was much lower than that of the Tang Xuanzong period when large-scale military recruitment was implemented for the first time in history. The main reason for the decrease was that fewer rewards could be given out in this era, because the soldiers were low-spirited and easy to talk to.
Otherwise, who can bear the fixed reward of five cents a year and ten bolts of silk?
In addition to the fixed rewards, there are also additional rewards, and various other expenses——
For example, every two or three months during military competitions, various silks, silks and even gold and silverware must be prepared as prizes - Shuofang's army often used brocade quilts and silver bottles to reward brave warriors, and also gave two quilts or two pieces of gold at a time.
A silver vase cannot be sent out alone, nor can it be sent out with ordinary miscellaneous silk. It must be made of fine silk.
As far as rations are concerned, when I am not training or going on an expedition, I eat two meals a day, a total of four biscuits, which is equivalent to two kilograms.
When going on an expedition or training, eat three meals a day for a total of six biscuits, which is three kilograms.
Before setting off for the expedition, you have to cook a delicious meal and prepare some meat and wine.
Otherwise, people will really shoot you with arrows because you give them meager food. This has happened before.
For things like "improper food supply", the soldiers will beat them, not just the petty officials, but the coach's close aides.
The daily rations of Shao Xun's troops did not meet the standards for recruiting soldiers in the Tang Dynasty, because what he gave was "grain", not "rice and noodles" - but he supplemented it with some cheese and dried meat.
Eating three kilograms of noodles a day may seem unbelievable to people born in the 21st century, but if we go back thirty years, it would not be surprising. There are countless people who eat a basin of noodles in one meal.
If there is less meat and oil, don’t we need more staple food?
Rewards were greatly reduced compared to those in the Tang Dynasty.
The equipment and equipment has also been slightly reduced. However, it is already quite good in this era. It has not been this high since the Qin and Han Dynasties.
The treatment of soldiers in the Tang Dynasty was unusually high. After the Tang Dynasty, soldiers' rations were not so high in any dynasty.
From a pragmatic point of view, it would be good for the country established by Shao Xun to evolve into the late Northern Wei Dynasty and even the Eastern and Western Wei Dynasties, but he planned it with the Sui and Tang Dynasties as the goal.
The more a warrior's consciousness awakens, the greater the cost of raising soldiers. He knows this truth very well.
Therefore, he is awakening the consciousness of warriors and trying to find ways to make them a force, but he will not elevate their status without limit.
The most important thing in the world is the golden mean - it is simple to say, but it is not simple at all to operate.
"Liang Guo can only raise five battalions of recruited soldiers and pro-army troops." Shao Xun stood up from the pool and said as he walked: "The Yi Cong Army still has to graze its own animals in Liyang, and the Luoyan Army and Zhuosheng Army cannot all be converted into recruited soldiers.
.The difficulty of raising troops can be seen clearly. But fortunately, after spending such a large amount of money, it is still worth it in the end."
"It's just maintenance." Wang Huifeng said with his eyes.
Xuan and Fan immediately stood up from the water and scrubbed Shao Xun.
Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Liu came over with their robes in hand and waited quietly.
"Yes, it's just maintenance." Shao Xun sighed: "There are so many officials in Liang State, and they all rely on official slaves to farm land and plant mulberry trees, but it's just a drop in the bucket. Maybe we can give them more silk, or give them more silk.
It is used as office expenses for the local government office, so as to save them from having to recruit people to serve in the county."
The idea of ​​getting paid to work will definitely continue to exist for quite some time.
Do you think this finance can be done without transferring farmland?
"In fact, there is no need to cultivate farmland in Xiangcheng and other places. They can collect taxes together." Wang Huifeng suggested.
"Which counties do you think are good?"
"Six counties including Xiangcheng, Henan, Hongnong, Jibei, Jinan, Yanmen, Changshan and Zhongshan." Wang Huifeng counted them one by one: "Xinye, Yiyang, Suiguo, Xiapi and other counties that have fought repeatedly can also be used
.”
"Wait a moment." Shao Xun opened his hand and allowed Liu Cong's queens to dress him, and said: "First stabilize the twenty counties of Liang Kingdom for two or three years. After everything is stable, change it first and then
It’s difficult, take it step by step.”
"As long as you know it." Wang Huifeng put down the official letter in his hand, came to Shao Xun naturally, arranged his robes for him, and said: "Did you not get any information about the rebellion in Wei County this time?"
"Who says it's not the case!" Shao Xun always got angry when he mentioned this matter. He said with an unhappy expression: "A hundred and ten people arrived from Guangping, carrying swords and bows. Is it true that no one suspected it along the way? In the end, we still relied on Shen
It will be hard for me to let Wei Jun investigate on his own."
"It's not appropriate to move lightly at this time." Wang Huifeng skillfully put on Shao Xun's belt and said, "Keep it quiet and check slowly."
"You said-" Shao Xun hesitated for a moment, then sighed and did not continue.
Wang Huifeng stopped and looked at him.
Shao Xun hesitated for a moment and said, "What do you think if you send a clan member out of town?"
"Imitating Sima Yuanchao's story?" Wang Huifeng asked in surprise.
"Everyone knows that this matter has great hidden dangers, but it is also very tempting and really difficult to solve." Shao Xun sighed.
During the three hundred years of the Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, there were obviously so many clans fighting against each other and usurping the throne. Why did the superiors still turn a blind eye and still use the clans to go out and control vassals?
There are profound reasons for this.
No one is a fool, everyone has seen the disadvantages and even experienced them, but they still have to take this road.
"That's all." Shao Xun said helplessly: "I don't know how many years I can live. If I were here, none of my clan members would be able to make a big splash. If I wasn't here, the Sima family would learn from their mistakes."
Sima Yan, Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty, divided the kings into feudal kings. At the beginning, the kingdom's internal historians, great farmers, and lieutenants were all appointed by the imperial court, and they even had the responsibility of supervising the princes. At that time, the princes were unwilling to take up their posts and tried their best to stay in Luoyang.
, because I knew that the vassal had no real power, and could not control any of the money, soldiers, or people, so it was really boring.
But before Sima Yan died, he relaxed the policy, which suddenly caused the vassal state to lose control.
Yin Jian is not far away.
But the temptation is real.
The whole world is maintained by him alone, walking on thin ice, trembling with fear, it's so tiring.
Cao Cao also had Cao Ren and other clan members to help him. He was just an eldest nephew and an uncle who could go out to the outside of the town.
As my uncle gets older, he gradually loses his ability and can no longer work for a few years.
The great nephew reminded him of Shi Hu and Fu Jian again.
Damn, it’s all a trap.
Father's kindness, son's filial piety, brother, friend and brother respectful, have existed since ancient times, but in this era, it has been infinitely magnified.
But no one else could help him with these matters, and he didn't dare to say much, so he had to make his own decision.
While he was still alive, it would be helpful to stabilize the situation in the world if he sent several of his adult sons to take charge of one side.
But having experienced a major epidemic, he dare not say that he will definitely die.
Everything has pros and cons, it all depends on the choice.
Chapter completed!