But when they saw the army behind him, the people began to believe it. Those soldiers, especially the two or three thousand sergeants in the front, had been motionless and silent since they first stood. Each of them had a solemn expression, like a statue.
statue.
It doesn't matter if there are only a few dozens of people, but if two or three thousand people stand still for a long time, their momentum is calm, the scene is enough to shock people!
What's even more surprising is that there are more than two thousand people in a row of six. Looking up, they look like six straight lines reaching into the distance. It seems that not only are the front, rear, left, and right intervals equal, but the movements of more than two thousand people are the same! They are like a whole, and they must not
Don't let people lament the strict discipline of this army!
Thinking that such powerful soldiers would come to guard Julu in the future, the Yingtao people's worries about the Black Mountain bandit army approaching the territory suddenly eased.
Guo Dian is also a man who knows soldiers. He was immediately shocked when he looked at it for a moment!
After a while, Guo Dian came to his senses and said with emotion: "What a master of tigers and wolves! No wonder the general was able to defeat the Dong thieves outside Hulao Pass. Because I have a powerful neighbor from Montenegro, I can't sleep well every day and am always worried.
Now that the general is stationed here, the people of Julu will have no worries from now on." Then he took Wen Yuan's hand sincerely and walked to the suspension bridge outside the city.
Guo Dian personally presented the household registration account book to Wenyuan with the seal and ribbon. This was considered the handover. Wenyuan took over the official seal wrapped in silk. Although his face was calm, his heart was like a roaring mountain and a tsunami. This was the first piece of paper he owned independently.
The place of foundation!
Wen Yuan helped the former prefect Guo Dian mount his horse. The people of Yingtao had already admired Wen Yuan and his troops, and they entered the city together with the cheers of the people.
After handing over the seals and ribbons, Guo Dian went to Julu Mansion to check the materials and supplies.
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the rent and tax system was implemented, with sub-lease and tax, and land rent was taxed at thirty to one. It was not until Emperor Wu of the Wei Dynasty that it was changed to rent modulation.
Fu is calculated in Ding, including counting Fu, oral Fu, and updating Fu.
Suanfu is a head tax levied on people aged 15 to 56, with a tax rate of 120 yuan per person per year; oral tax is levied on children aged 7 to 14, with a tax rate of 23 yuan per person per year; Gengfu is a kind of
According to the Han system, all adult men were required to serve for the government. Those who were unwilling or unable to serve in person could pay the government to hire someone to take their place.
In addition, the Han Dynasty implemented a three-level leadership system of prefectures, counties and counties. After the autumn harvest in July every year, the people had to hand over their fields and grain to the county government at the end of the year. They also had to pay various taxes before the end of the year. When the county office collected money and grain, it left behind official salaries and other necessities.
In addition to preparing for the grain grab, all must be turned over to the county government, and the rest is divided in half by the prefectures and counties. When Wen Yuan was the magistrate of Quyang County, money and food had to be provided by the prefectures and counties, but after he became the prefect of a county, he took control of his own affairs.
In terms of finance, Wen Yuan was able to raise his own troops.
And in fact, by the end of the Han Dynasty, there was a conflict between some county and city prefects and the state capital. They did not pay the money and grain taxes that were due, and financed themselves, just like a small independent court.
While listening to Guo Dian's introduction, Wen Yuan carefully looked at the household registration book.
Julu County has fifteen counties and cities under its jurisdiction, namely Junzhi Yingtao, Yangshi, Yun (remove Yuan and add Xiao) County, Xiaquyang, Nanli (Qukou Quche + Yan), Ren County, Pingxiang, and Nanhe
The household registration shows that Julu has 2,768,482 acres of land, 75,893 households, 357,526 people, and a small adult population.
There are about 70,000 people. The rest are old, weak, women and children.
But this is just a record in the account book. Although there has been no major war in the past few years, the Montenegrin army plunders every year and the Julu population flees every year. I believe there must not be this number.
Wen Yuan guessed that at this time, there should be between 50,000 and 60,000 households in Julu, with more than 2 million acres of farmland. According to calculations, the normal tax revenue of Julu every year would be 200,000 to 300,000 dendrobium, which would be about 30 million yuan, which would be paid to the state.
Half of the government is left with more than 100,000 grains and more than 10 million yuan of money.
Such a small amount of money and food was only enough to support six to seven thousand soldiers. No wonder Wen Yuan saw that there were only four thousand garrison troops in the county.
And now Guang Wenyuan himself has brought 3,000 soldiers from Xiaquyang and 5,000 soldiers from the state, a total of 8,000 troops and horses. In addition to the soldiers left behind in Xiaquyang, the total is just over 10,000. Including the garrison troops from the county and counties,
Julu City now has about 20,000 soldiers!
You can imagine how heavy the burden will be to support an army of 20,000 people with more than 300,000 exhausted people. Of course, if Wen Yuan increased taxes, the army of 20,000 people could also cope with it, but Wen Yuan was not willing to go through such hardships when he went to Quyang.
He exploited the people, and now he has become the governor of a county and refuses to change his original intention!
Fortunately, before coming here, Han Fu had allocated 100,000 bushels of grain and grass from the prefecture city, which was enough to feed five thousand soldiers for a year, and the county treasury still had 210,000 bushels of grain and more than 8 million yuan in money.
More than 4,000 bolts of silk can be provided for the time being. There is no need to make a decision on money and food for the time being.
After leaving the treasury, Guo Dian went to Wenyuan's arsenal. There were more than 200 pieces of iron armor, more than 2,000 sets of leather armor, more than 3,000 guns, more than 1,000 halberds, more than 4,000 knives, and strong bows.
There are seven hundred pieces, five hundred arches, more than one hundred crossbows, and more than twenty thousand arrows. There are sixteen ten-stone crossbows at the top of the city, and more than thirty thousand kilograms of pig iron.
Such a large storehouse was enough for Wenyuan to arm thousands of new soldiers. However, Wenyuan was worried about the damaged combat equipment and the army was already bloated, so he did not plan to move it for a while.
However, Wenyuan would not let go of those two hundred pieces of armor no matter what. He called Jiao Chu to whisper a few words. Jiao Chu was overjoyed. He turned around and called over two hundred infantrymen without armor. With a wave of his hand,
He happily moved these two hundred sets of armor out of the treasury.
In addition to the armor, Wen Yuan also showed a strong interest in the crossbow in the library. After all, this kind of thing was a big killer at the time! The imperial court explicitly prohibited the use of any group or individual other than the army. Even the army was not a ragtag army.
Yes, just like Wenyuan, he only has thousands of strong bows or horn bows in his hands.
The main types of crossbows in the Han Dynasty include: Rhubarb crossbow, Rhubarb tool crossbow, Rhubarb power ten-stone crossbow, and Rhubarb ginseng continuous crossbow. Among them, the Rhubarb ginseng continuous crossbow is said to be the most famous powerful crossbow in the Western Han Dynasty. It may be made on the basis of the Qin Dynasty continuous crossbow.
, and only generals like Li Guang in the army are qualified to use it. Back then, Li Guang used this crossbow to shoot Zuo Xianwang and several others. However, Wen Yuan's big yellow ginseng crossbow required a lot of strength to pull. At that time,
How does Li Guang use it?
According to the classification of stones, there are "crossbows with two stones", "crossbows with three stones", "crossbows with five stones", "crossbows with six stones", "crossbows with eight stones" and "crossbows with ten stones".
"There are more than ten kinds of them.
The more than 100 crossbows in Julu's arsenal are two-stone crossbows with a range of about 120 meters, while the stronger three-stone crossbows have a range of up to 189 meters!