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Chapter 169

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"The Du County Magistrate, it is not. If ordinary people take out more than 300 cents at once, it is indeed not a decimal. However, this is on duty every four years, and on average, it only costs about 80 cents a year. If it is paid twice a year in summer and autumn, then after selling grain, the people only need to pay for forty or fifty cents at a time, it is nothing."

Luo Cheng calculated another account.

It is indeed a huge difference between paying more than 300 cents at one time and paying for 40 to 50 cents in half a year, but the overall result is actually the same.

"We can even pay according to the quarter or monthly payment. If it is quarterly, it will only cost twenty cents at a time, and if it is monthly, it will only cost six or seven cents per month."

Du Ruhui thought about it, this is indeed the case.

"It is more reasonable to pay in summer and autumn. Just after the harvest, the people will have some extra money. They should also allow the people to pay with grain or silk, and they should not force them to pay."

The Sui Empire was always short of money, but what was lacking was copper coins.

The silk produced in the Sui Dynasty was quite large in the year, with an annual output of tens of millions of pieces of silk. It can be said that the Sui Dynasty was full of mulberry trees from south to north. Every family planted mulberry trees and raised silkworms. Because silk had a huge output, it not only made clothes, but also used it as currency, and became the main currency of the Sui Dynasty.

However, the copper output of the Sui Dynasty was extremely low. Even if there were hundreds of mint furnaces in the world, they only earn hundreds of thousands of coins a year. The issuance of copper coins was too low, which was far from meeting the economic needs of the court and the people. In particular, many illegal merchants always liked to melt copper coins and sell them, and they could make seven or eight times the profits by turning over. Therefore, the court has been repeatedly banned, making copper coins extremely scarce.

If the people are asked to pay money for service, it will add burden to the people. There are shortages of money everywhere. In order to collect money, the people have to sell their own products such as grain and silk for money, which may be cheated by illegal merchants. Therefore, Du Ruhui thought that the people could directly use grain or silk to convert.

The taxes were collected by the court. The land rent was paid for food, and the households transferred it to silk and cloth, and they paid whatever they planted.

Zhang Yichen listened to the two of them calculating there and reminded him.

"If the people use capital instead of service, the people may agree, but can they hire two feet of silk a day and still provide daily expenses?"

It takes less than four cents to make money for one foot of silk, and more than seven cents to make money for two foot of silk.

Is this seven cents enough to hire a county soldier for a day? After all, if you hire a county soldier, you must first serve food and have wages.

The soldiers ate a lot, so they couldn't starve them. The standard of the Guardian Army was that soldiers were trained to do two liters of rice a day during wartime, and there were also a specified amount of salt and vegetables.

Since it is recruiting soldiers, you still have to pay.

There are garrison soldiers at the border. The annual military expenditure standard is twelve pieces of silk and twelve stones of millet. One piece of silk and one stone of rice per month. This standard cannot be said to be high, but this is only monthly food and clothing gifts, and there are also miscellaneous rewards. In addition, these three items were obtained by soldiers, and their daily consumption of food and drink has not been included.

"If you want to recruit a resident to serve, you must not lose monthly grain, monthly money, monthly clothes, one piece of silk per month, and one stone of rice per month, and you have to work hard on the monthly money. This cost is quite large. If the soldiers raise two liters of grain per day in the camp, they will get six dou of rice per month, and they will also have to pay for salt, vegetables, etc., plus the expenses for horse raising, military equipment, etc., can you calculate it?"

This is another difficult problem.

As for recruiting soldiers, it is not compulsory but voluntary. It is no longer the previous turn to recruit people, which is a mandatory service by the state and must be subdued. And recruiting soldiers will naturally only come if the people are treated well.

"A soldier has twelve stones of monthly food and twelve pieces of monthly clothes. If he adds 300 coins per month, he will still have 3,600 coins a year. In addition, soldiers have 7 stones and 2 dou of food per year, and horses have 18 stones of food per year."

"A soldier needs twenty stones of food per month, twelve pieces of clothing per month, three silos of 6 silos per month, and five hundred soldiers need 10,000 stones of grain per year, six thousand pieces of silk per year, and the minimum of 1,800 pieces of money is."

"If you raise a hundred horses, you will have to eat 1,800 stones of food a year alone."

Zhang Yichen shook his head more and more as he calculated.

"I can't afford to raise it."

Just a simple calculation, you need at least 11,800 stones of grain a year, plus 1,800 stagnant of coins and 6,000 pieces of silk.

There are more than 20,000 people in Zhangqiu County. After the stall, each person has to spread five dou of grain, seventy-five cents, and ten feet of silk every year. This is just a rough figure, and the specific expenses will definitely increase a lot.

If calculated before, it was a four-year period, then in four years, one cuo would have to be distributed to two stones of grain, three hundred cents, and a piece of silk.

This number is far beyond Du Ruhui's calculation just now. He only paid more than 330 cents in total for four years of employment.

At least three times the number calculated just now, but if you calculate it all, it will probably be four or five times.

"If the people pay so much silk and grain, they would rather serve on their own."

Luo Cheng nodded, and if it were him, he would rather be the one who was the one who was the month he would rather be the one who had to bring his own food. After all, even if they were asked to grab it in a month, they might not be able to grab so much money, grain and silk.

It is too unrealistic to recruit troops to raise a county barracks as the border troops are treated the same as the border troops.

"Or we imitate the government soldiers and take out the fields in the mountains and give them free of charge to those who are willing to enter the county barracks. As long as we enter the county barracks, we can get land for free. These lands do not have to pay the land rent, and the income earned belongs to them. They only need to train in their spare time. What if they are ordered to suppress bandits when they encounter bandits?" Luo Cheng proposed another plan.

"There is no such precedent." Du Ruhui mentioned this issue again.

Even if it is wasteland, the county government does not dare to teach it randomly. If it is given out, it means that the land will be granted equal land. After the people get the land, they will have to rent and transfer it to the mediocre people.

"Why don't that be like this." Du Ruhui thought for a while and said to Luo Cheng and Zhang Yichen, "The county barracks use recruitment, and the villagers are still recruiting funds for service. However, no matter how much the county barracks cost, we only need the county's Dings to pay 100 yuan a year, pay 50 yuan in summer and 50 yuan in autumn. All of this money will be handed over to the county barracks' nutrition soldiers. As for the shortage, we will find a way."

Du Ruhui's method was to give land to the recruited county soldiers, and then give them enough numbers to the mountains. These lands are still registered in the official account books, and they also have to pay rent and transfer to the mediocre, and they must not be missed.

However, many places are now narrow and crowded, so it is becoming increasingly difficult for the people to get evenly land. Even if they become resident, they often have no land to divide, or they can only get a very small land.

If people are attracted to join the county barracks by the condition of dividing up the land, then the people can raise the county barracks.

"The money for the commission to be paid for the county barracks is used as the daily expenses of the county barracks, but the county soldiers do not give monthly food, monthly money, monthly clothes, just care about the food they were trained. Do you think it is feasible?"

This is equivalent to a disguised military system.

However, it is still a bit far from the professional soldier Luo Cheng wants, but after thinking about it, there is really no better way.

According to this method, at least his county barracks don’t need to change a group of people every month.

But if these county soldiers have land, they have to farm, so they have to rotate on duty. It is estimated that at most 100 county soldiers can only be on duty at 500 county soldiers.

But there is no way.

"Why don't you try it first?" Luo Chengdao.
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