The aroma of meat and the mellow taste of wine are overflowing in Xiliu Camp.
The soldiers who had returned from victory returned to their camps, and Xiliu Camp was the largest military camp near Chang'an City.
Many troops are stationed here, including the Yulin Army.
Most of these Yulin soldiers were elders in the family who died in the war or were disabled and retired from the army. They were also nephews of the Wuxun family who were not qualified to inherit the family business, or they were the sons of good families carefully selected by the counties.
They enjoy the best treatment in the army, and their salaries are several buckets of rice and several kilograms of salt more than those of other armies.
Naturally, during battles, those who are on the front line suffer the greatest losses.
As the Han army popularized the three-piece cavalry suit on a large scale, the Huns had never heard of the patent, so they naturally used it in the fierce war with the Han army.
The consequence was that the combat effectiveness of the Huns' cavalry also increased significantly.
When they conquered Hexi and defeated the right side of the Xiongnu, the Han army actually suffered heavy losses.
After all, no matter how well-equipped he was, if he was knocked off his horse, his bones would be broken and his tendons would be broken.
Especially the Habayashi Army, which charged forward in every battle, when it finally returned, its battle loss rate was almost half.
This kind of battle loss rate was unimaginable in the cold weapon era.
Fortunately, they paid so much for Dahan, and Dahan did not let them down.
When we returned to the camp, we saw rows of large iron pots. The coal fire was blazing in the stove below. The meat in the iron pot was fragrant, and large pieces of beef and mutton were tumbling in the rich soup.
In the past, this was definitely the favorite thing of the sergeants.
But this time when troops were sent to the right side of the Xiongnu, the other spoils may not be much, but the number of cattle, sheep and horses was captured to the point of being innumerable.
There were too many animals to bring back, so they were slaughtered along the way. Naturally, they were killed and eaten all the way, until they had really eaten enough.
In this era, the only people who could eat enough beef and mutton, apart from the royal relatives, nobles and nobles, were the soldiers who went out to fight outside the Great Wall.
It didn't matter if they had enough meat, Li Yunze also prepared military supplies that were most popular among the sergeants.
An altar was built up, like a mountain of fine wine.
There is nothing that sergeants like more than having a hearty training session or drinking heavily and falling asleep drunkenly after a fierce battle.
The Army Sima shouted to the soldiers in the camp, "The Emperor has an order. Drink as much as you want today. If you don't get drunk, you won't return!"
Before the Han Dynasty, alcohol was prohibited.
There is no reason, the only reason is that wine requires grain, and the Han people do not have enough grain to eat, so they have to abstain from alcohol to save grain.
The drinks of this era are undoubtedly grain wines, unlike those of later generations, which are all about technology and ruthless work.
There are really countless people who have been arrested for drinking secretly.
Things are different now. As the national power of the Han Dynasty has greatly increased, grain output and surplus have also increased rapidly.
With enough food, Prohibition naturally disappeared and no one mentioned it again.
But even so, drinks are still in short supply.
Because brewing one pound of wine requires at least three to five pounds of grain.
This does not include raw materials, labor and other costs.
Add in taxes and merchant profits, and the price is really mind-numbing.
There is no tax on pure grain. If the grain is processed into wine and sold, then tax will be levied.
Dahan's current fiscal expenditures are almost entirely supported by state-owned enterprises and commercial taxes.
Even if Yu Linjun, who has a good income, wants to have a drink while taking a rest, he still needs to weigh his wallet.
Now that you can drink freely, you are still in the military camp where alcohol was strictly prohibited in the past, so what are you waiting for?
Groups of sergeants lined up according to their respective tunshiwu, and stepped forward to take a jar of wine from the hands of the army commander.
When you open the mud seal, the rich aroma of grain immediately overflows.
There was nothing much to say, so they just drank from the wine jar. The fire-headed soldiers placed the rice bowls filled with large pieces of beef, mutton and broth on the ground and ate them as they pleased.
It's just that the Yulin soldiers don't eat much meat, but those pickles whet their appetite.
Not only the Yulin Army, but also not only the Xiliu Camp, but also all the military camps inside and outside Chang'an City, almost all have such a scene.
After having had enough wine and food, the sergeants who finally relaxed completely basically fell asleep.
Even though they had entered the territory of the Han Dynasty before, and even came outside Chang'an City, the psychological oppression caused by fighting outside for a long time still existed.
To describe it simply, it is what later generations would call battlefield stress disorder.
It has nothing to do with the body, it's purely a mental thing.
The intense fighting and the psychological tension left on the battlefield between life and death cannot be effectively eliminated.
Now, there has indeed been a significant improvement.
A few sergeants who were not yet drunk returned to their respective barracks burping from wine. When they were about to lie down on the couches to rest, they were shocked to see wooden boxes placed on their respective beds.
They stepped forward in surprise, opened the wooden box and saw that it was filled with copper coins.
The Army Sima, who had not been drinking, said with a smile, "This is a reward from the emperor. Each person starts with ten thousand yuan. In addition, there are wartime subsidies calculated based on the number of days, and military rewards based on military merit. At least one of you can do it."
You can get tens of thousands of dollars."
Tens of thousands of dollars is really not a small amount of money.
According to the prices for big men at this time, a pound of the most expensive beef cost only forty or fifty yuan, and a dou of wine was about the same price.
It only costs a few dozen dollars to go to a wine shop for a good meal and eat and drink.
This was not over yet, the army commander called to everyone who was smiling, "Put the copper coins aside and look below."
In the Han Dynasty, copper coins were not just one piece or a penny, but were used as money.
In other words, a copper coin represents different values depending on its weight and shape. Some are worth five coins, some are worth ten coins, and some are even worth a hundred coins.
For example, the famous God of War Sun Shiwan once made as much as 5,000 yuan!
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! An intuitive description is to think of these copper coins as currencies of different denominations in the modern world.
Sun Shiwan, the god of war in Xiaoyaojin, just didn't want to be harvested by a green lotus, so he directly used five thousand copper coins to harvest people's wealth and anointing.
No matter how much you get a copper coin, it is just a copper coin and cannot be a gold coin.
One copper coin can be worth five thousand yuan, and people are forced to exchange it for use. Isn't this a direct robbery?
When Li Yunze was doing currency innovation, he used gold coins worth tens of thousands of dollars as the anchor.
There is no silver below, just like one, five, or thirteen copper coins of different sizes and different copper contents.
Not using money does not mean that you don’t want to use it, but that you have no need to use it.
The silver reserves of the Han Dynasty were not even as good as gold. The real large-scale use of silver was only after the large-scale inflow of silver mined from silver mines in Fuso Mexico and other places during the Ming Dynasty.
From that time on, silver from all over the world was flowing crazily to Middle-earth, in exchange for tea, porcelain, silk, rhubarb and other commodities.
This trade surplus lasted for hundreds of years, until the bad guys shipped something vicious...
Amidst the clattering sound, the people who struggled to peel away the copper coins saw the silk under the copper coins.
There are ten pieces of silk under the box, and this number is in each box.
Although it is only the cheapest kind, not as expensive as plain silk or silk, a piece of silk is worth at least seven or eight hundred yuan, and better quality ones can cost one thousand yuan.
I have to say that Li Yunze's reward this time is definitely very generous.
A property worth tens of thousands of dollars is really not a small sum.
You must know that there are at least 30,000 Han soldiers who returned with the wounded and sick, and their rewards alone are worth more than one billion yuan.
The Han Dynasty's annual fiscal revenue at this time was only a few billions of dollars.
This does not include pensions for those killed and disabled in battle.
In the past, there was no such thing as pension in the army. After dying in battle, it would be considered a favor to have your nephews and nephews join the army instead and continue to eat.
This pension thing was created by Li Yunze alone.
As long as they were killed or disabled while fighting for the Han Dynasty, the beneficiaries would be able to receive pensions from the imperial court for decades.
Unlike those companies that 'will not pay for this, nor will they pay for that', this is guaranteed by the emperor's credibility.
For the soldiers of the Han army, this was undoubtedly a huge motivation and assurance, and naturally they were willing to die on the battlefield for the emperor.
From the soldiers jumping happily on the silk and copper coins, this feeling is really better than... Ahem, it feels so good.
But this is not over yet.
Army Sima spoke again and said, "The emperor has given us a holiday of thirty days. Those who have families can go home now. There are cattle and sheep prepared for you outside the camp to take home. Those who have no families should also get married.
The emperor has prepared houses for you and others in the third phase of the new city. It can be said that Xijun..."
Having said this, Army Sima said with a smile but not a smile, "The emperor said that all the women you brought back from the Huns will be handed over to you. When you leave the camp, you can choose them yourself."
"I'll tell you the ugly things in front of you, I can't be a real wife."
The soldiers, who were not yet drunk, happily dragged the boxes out of the barracks, led their horses to carry the boxes, and then smiled happily at their comrades who were still sleeping soundly on the ground, and then walked out happily.
Go to camp.
Li Yunze gave away goods worth more than one billion, especially feeling that he was not worthy of the sacrifices of the soldiers.
Just add some additional physical rewards.
As for grain and other things, as the big man used three kinds of fertilizers, used curved shaft plows, used columbians, used waterwheels, etc., the output increased so much that it was no longer worthy of reward.
So what was given was cattle and sheep, cattle and sheep that the Shaofu herded and supervised.
Those captured by Huo Qubing and others were directly kept in the four counties of Hexi and distributed to the Han people who migrated there for half-farming and half-grazing. After all, if they were transported thousands of miles to Chang'an City, it would cost too much and cause too much loss, so it was not worth it.
In addition to raising horses, the herdsman also raises cattle and sheep.
Cattle are mainly used as an important labor force in plowing the land. After all, compared to plowing horses, the roughage that cattle eat is difficult for horses to eat.
Oxen are easy to feed and have great strength, so it is natural for ox farming to replace horse farming.
As for sheep, they are purely raised for food.
In this era, pork... well, it's called pig meat and it's very unpalatable, especially since people like to eat in dry toilets all day long. Everyone thinks they're dirty, so sheep is the most popular delicacy.
Li Yunze prepared a cow and ten sheep for each sergeant who returned from the expedition.
The cattle are brought home for plowing the land, and the sheep can be eaten or sold at will.
Besides the cattle and sheep, there were also the Huns women who were brought back.
The soldiers leaving the camp held their horses with one hand and carried boxes full of copper coins and silk on their backs.
Holding the cow in one hand, the cow carried on its back the trophies collected during the expedition, wrapped in large and small packages.
Behind him were the Hun women, driving their flocks of sheep.
The slightly drunk soldiers looked at the red clouds on the horizon in the distance and breathed a sigh of relief.