Chapter 41: Negotiating the formation of the Guards (Part 1)
It seems that there must be a hidden secret, but there is not much point in guessing now. After all, Cao Gan has been captured, and Liu Xian now has something to ask of himself. Instead of guessing here, it is better to go to Liu Xian's place later.
Take a look and even interrogate Cao Gan directly.
Thinking of this, he nodded and said: "I understand your concerns. I will learn more about this matter through other channels. Now let's talk about other things first."
Gao Xiaozhuang and Gao Mo both subconsciously stood up straighter. Gao Pragmatic waved his hand: "Don't be so nervous."
Then he paused and said: "I have renamed this place Sanshenyuan. The three floors from top to bottom are Shensiyuan, Shenyanyuan and Shenxingyuan. Shensiyuan is where I live every day. Shensiyuan is where I live every day.
The existing guard rooms in Yanyuan are not small, but as far as I know, there are basically no guards stationed in the entire garden. Usually, only when my uncle comes, there will be accompanying guards. The same is true for the guest rooms.
It's even emptier than the guard wing... I plan to make use of both places."
Gao Xiaozhuang and Gao Mo didn't know yet how Gao Pragmatic would use it, so they just listened attentively and didn't interrupt.
Gao pragmatic continued: "What I mean is that the guard rooms are all used as soap production factories. The original warehouse on this side is still used as a warehouse to store mid-range soaps; except for the original VIP rooms, all the other original guest rooms are retained.
It was changed to a guard wing and we set up our own servant guard. The original warehouse on this side is still retained and is used to store high-end soaps."
Gao Mo was a little surprised: "The eldest young master plans to form his own servant guard?"
"Is there anything wrong?" Gao Pragmatic smiled slightly and said: "Since this Sanshen Garden is already my property, I will definitely come here often in the future. What if something like yesterday happens again? I can't go every time.
Can you ask your uncle to borrow someone?"
Gao Mo hesitated and said: "The concerns of the eldest young master are certainly reasonable, but the guards are not as good as others. Generally speaking, they are not very good at running other errands. In this case... the number of people is small, and they cannot protect the safety of the eldest young master.
The more people there are, the more expensive it will be."
Gao pragmatic leaned back in his chair and said: "I am somewhat mentally prepared for this, but after all, I don't know as much about these things as you do. How about this, you can introduce to me the cost of maintaining a guard. In this way, you
Let me tell you first, how much does it cost to provide a guard of fifty or one hundred people? It can be calculated on a monthly or annual basis."
Gao Mo said without hesitation: "Near the capital, the monthly salary of each family's guard servants is different. The price paid by the servants of the noble warrior family is very different from that of servants of other aristocratic families. Generally, the guard servants of the noble family usually come from
Those selected from their own military families are given one tael per month, and two taels is considered good; but other families, no matter how powerful they are, the monthly salary for guarding their servants is not low, the lowest is about four taels, and the average
It’s about five taels, and those who pay more can get up to six taels.”
Gao Pinggong said sincerely: This is really not low. These days, a long-term worker in the capital gets up early every day and works all the time. His salary is only three taels of silver per hundred days, which is less than one tael of silver per month.
In addition to wages, the host family is only responsible for one lunch. At this time, one tael of silver can buy 120 kilograms of flour (this is based on the modern market price).
If you look at it this way, those guard servants who earn six taels a month are completely high-paid, and their work is several times higher than that of ordinary men in the capital. No wonder that when the guards of the Zhang family faced the superior number of thieves, not a single one escaped. Comparable
The regular army of the Ming Dynasty was much stronger. However, this can also explain why in the later period, the main combat forces of the Ming Dynasty army almost all became the servants of each general. It is unreasonable to refuse to work hard despite being fed so much money.
But although it is indeed expensive, Gao Pragmatic still nodded and said: "Let me calculate it at 60 taels."
Gao Mo's eyelids twitched, but he continued: "Young master, these six taels are just a monthly gift. The food of the guard servants must be eaten with the master's family all day long, and all the food expenses must be included in the master's account."
At home. In addition, since the task of these servants is to protect the master's house, daily training is indispensable, and this will cause them to eat more than the average person, so if calculated on average, each person will consume about one yuan per month.
Two or five denarii."
Well, this is also very delicious.
Gao Pragmatic nodded: "The higher point is calculated as two taels of silver per person per month."
Gao Mo felt his heart tremble a little when he heard that, he took a deep breath and said: "In addition, there are weapons and equipment. Some families' guards have their own weapons, but some have uniform equipment, such as the Zhang family guards, because Zhang
The family is rich, so the weapons are uniformly equipped with wild goose feather knives and mulberry bows. Arrows and other things are actually not expensive, and they can be used multiple times. The cost is not particularly outrageous, so don’t worry about it too much for the time being... If it is
The average cost of maintaining long-term guard servants on weapons and equipment is about one tael of silver per person per month, which is about the same."
Fortunately, Gao Pragmatic did not take the initiative to increase the amount this time. He nodded and said, "That's nine taels of silver per person per month. If it is a team of fifty guards, it will cost four hundred and fifty taels of silver per month. One
If there are one hundred people, it will cost nine hundred taels of silver..."
Gao Jingshi was shocked when he calculated this. He thought that young master Gao had started school so early, and Zhang, one of the richest men in the Ming Dynasty, had given him a high amount of money to encourage him to study, but so far he had only saved more than 900 taels.
, and if he wanted to maintain a team of one hundred bodyguards, the money would be gone in a month.
Although this time his uncle Zhang Siwei directly gave him a Sanshen Garden and a huge sum of five thousand taels of silver, but if he wanted to build a personal guard of 100 people, he would have to be a loser in half a year.
It seems that the guard team of a hundred people is useless, but it is too small and it is really useless. Otherwise... it is better to bite the bullet and get a team of fifty people first. After all, this thing is a matter of life and death. What if something happens in the future?
No matter what happens, you can't always count on monsters like Liu Wei and his son to help you. You still have to rely on yourself for this kind of thing.
Gao Jingshi coughed dryly, pretended to be calm, and said in a calm voice: "Okay, then let's form a guard team of fifty people first. Gao Mo, your job as the groom will be offloaded now.
Changed to captain of the guard team."
Gao Mo was stunned for a moment: "Captain?" He seemed unfamiliar with this term.
"Fifty people, it's equivalent to when you joined the army, the army had a general banner of fifty people." Gao pragmatic explained: "I can't call your establishment the same as the army. I have a few flags.
