It is a good thing to allocate "wages" to three classes and six houses and rural offices. At least, it can reduce the miscellaneous taxes and various donations on the farmers, and use the new Huai Army official group to weaken the influence of the gentry on the farmers, so that they can directly obey the grassroots regime of the Huai Army without having to exercise the power of the government by those gentry equivalent to "trading the village".

After the official "salary" of three shifts and six-bedroom staff and rural office staff become grassroots personnel of the Huai Army, loyalty will inevitably be cultivated and stabilized, but where does the money to raise them come from?

The Ming Dynasty did not support them and did not pay a penny of salary, which led to more miscellaneous taxes than regular taxes. Because if these miscellaneous taxes were not collected, the county master would not be able to pay the third-class and six-room staff and his own mentors, and would not be able to maintain the operation of the county government.

In itself, the salary given to officials in the Ming Dynasty was also surprisingly low, which led to the normalization of corruption in the middle and late periods. A large number of farmers who evaded taxes gave their land to famous gentry in the form of "dedication". As a result, those farmers who refused to contribute were borne more and more taxes. Later generations had another statement about this, called serious land annexation.

The fundamental reason for land annexation is tax issues and preferential treatment for gentry tax exemptions.

Lu Si remembered that there were not many officials in the Ming Dynasty who dared to do this. Most of them were forced to pay too much miscellaneous taxes and could not bear it, so he had no choice but to make the land that originally belonged to the state's land tax the private property of officials and gentry.

For example, the Xu Jie family, the chief minister who has thousands of hectares of land, wouldn’t have bought so much land if they sold Xu Jie.

The peasants were able to pay less taxes because of their contributions, and the gentry was happy because of their contributions that did not belong to him.

The unhappy one is about to die.

Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, may have known the evil of minor officials, so he did not give them imperial grain. However, the operation of the country cannot be separated from minor officials, so the local government can only find ways to collect miscellaneous taxes other than regular taxes. Over time, it will be what it is today.

Lu Si paid the "small officials" to actually manage the chaos of taxes at the source. According to his plan, there will be about 80 staff members in a county with three shifts and six rooms, and an armed brigade of 300 people in a county. There are 380 people who eat "Lu salary" in the county town alone. The size of the county is now much larger than that of later generations, and some counties are even several times that of later generations, so in order to calculate that at least one county and ten townships are required.

A township office has a township chief with three to five deputy officers, and at least 20 semi-commissioned staff members of the same service, so there must be more than 200 people who are entrusted with land wages.

There is no need to set up too many personnel at the village level. Just choose an older farmer to be the village chief. Anyway, they don’t need to write official documents or other documents. But the village chief also has to give him some subsidies every year to make him mobilize the villagers, so that he can be mobilized.

There is no such thing in the world that you just tell the horse to run and don’t give it to the horse to eat grass.

In this way, there must be six or seven hundred people in a county who eat "Lushi salary". Just calculated by Yancheng County, Lusi's hometown, there are more than 300,000 registered Dingkou in the county, and the number of hidden households is roughly the same as that in the registered households. The so-called hidden households are those farmers who do not contribute land in the national tax account.

The bloody attack on landlords and gentry in Yancheng County was definitely not as cruel as that in Xinghua, so even if the tenant farmers under the name of the attacked landlords and gentry were "liberated" and they became the gulf that could pay grain to the Huai Army, the income would be only 10,000 or 20,000 people.

From the books, it seems that it is about five or six hundred farmers to raise one person, which seems to be quite relaxed. In fact, in addition to county and township personnel, there are also the Huai Army Armed Group with a larger number of people and "civil" personnel from county and above institutions, so this pressure is very great.

Lu Si ordered a salary of 30 taels of silver for the Huai Army to be the annual salary of 40 taels, and the lowest level is the annual salary of 40 taels.

Based on the main soldiers alone, the total strength of the Huai Army is as high as 40,000. In addition to the surrendered soldiers, nearly 30,000 can be counted as the main soldiers. Then, the salary for the regular soldiers alone will cost 900,000 taels a year. This is not counting the soldiers' daily food, drink, defecation, etc., such as daily rations, meat, vegetables, clothes, quilts, shoes, even paper, towels, etc. There are also weapons and equipment.

Generally speaking, a soldier, including the money, needs as much as 40 taels a year.

The salary was not high. At that time, the soldiers of the Qi family's army had about three cents of food every day, and one cents of food were one cents of food. The military salary consumed in a year was about eighteen taels of silver.

During the Wanli period, the recruitment standards were raised, and each recruiting army was given three taels of Anjia silver and two taels of grain. After joining the army, one tael of to five cents of monthly grain would be withdrawn. This would not count the Anjia silver and bank grain, but a soldier would have to have about eighteen taels of grain per month.

According to Cao Yuan, when they were the Liao army, the monthly salary was about 2 taels, and the monthly salary was about 24 taels a year. The monthly salary of the Sichuan troops aiding Liao from Guizhou and Sichuan from southwest was nearly 3 taels, reaching about 36 taels.

Of course, this is a claim reported to the court on the surface. Perhaps the rest of the soldiers except the Qi family army would probably be able to pay one-third of the salary for the soldiers.

But that's all in name.

In a year, the surrendered soldiers were given silver according to the number of battles, one-third, one-quarter, and half. Anyway, the mess was added up. Lu Si wanted to raise the Huai Army, and he would earn at least 2 million taels a year.

The nearly 40,000 Huai Army was actually a considerable army in terms of the number of orders, and the Guanning Army guarding Shanhaiguan was only more than 40,000.

Of course, combat effectiveness cannot be compared.

Two million taels a year are enough for Lu Si to blame. Now he has robbed the canal silver and the money he has to raid his family may be more than this, but it is definitely not much more, so he wants to clear his hometown.

If he doesn’t understand the countryside, where does he get the money?

Xia Dajun killed people randomly in Xinghua and expanded the attack surface. Why did he not harshly scold him? The reason is that there are many rich people in Xinghua.

The Li family's cellar, where more than 180 people in the city were killed by the Huai Army, had more than 200,000 taels of silver hidden in the cellar, which was not counted as other wealth and dozens of hectares of land.

In the late Ming Dynasty, the country was so poor that it was so poor that the gentry was so rich that it was so rich.

A small Xinghua can solve the military pay expenses for the Huai Army for more than half a year, not to mention other places, such as Yangzhou.

Lu Si wanted to start robbing many times and killed all the rich people in Yangzhou, but he held back again and again. He did that like Li Zicheng.

At least, the gentry and wealthy businessmen in Yangzhou City did not oppose the Yangzhou flag change at least on the surface, nor did they gathered to attack the Huai Army. Lu Si really wanted to kill people for the sake of others' money. How could he fight Lu Wenzong's reputation in the future?

Now the results of clarifying the countryside in various places can allow the Huai Army to last for two years, but it is obviously a one-time cleanup of the countryside. It is impossible to clear the countryside again after the cleaning. That will really force all the landlords and gentry to the opposite side of the Huai Army.

Therefore, Lu Si must open source.

It is impossible for him to focus on the farmers as before. The Huaiyang area has developed business since ancient times. However, the Huaiyang Army has only occupied a small part of Huai'an and most of Yangzhou. It is obviously impossible to restore business and withdraw a large amount of commercial tax from this territory, because in the past, most of the distribution areas of Huaiyang merchants were "enemy-occupied areas."

Then, Lu Si now has only one way to open source.

Yancheng is under your feet, and Yangzhou is another place where salt merchants gather. Where can I do it if I don’t make a fuss on salt?
Chapter completed!