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"County Lieutenant Du, in fact, it is not. If ordinary people are asked to come up with more than 300 yuan at once, it is indeed not a small amount. However, this duty is a round of four years, and on average, it is only about 80 wen a year, and if it is paid twice a year in summer and autumn, then the people only need to pay 40 or 50 wen at a time after selling grain, which is nothing. ”

Luo Cheng calculated another account.

There is indeed a huge difference between paying more than 300 yuan at one time and paying 40 or 50 yuan in half a year, but the overall result is actually the same.

"Even, we can pay quarterly or monthly, if it is quarterly, it is only twenty dollars at a time, and if it is monthly, it is only six or seven dollars a month."

Du Ruhui thought about it, it is indeed such a truth.

"It is more reasonable to pay in summer and autumn, just after the harvest, and the people will have a little surplus money in their hands. The people should also be allowed to pay in grain or silk, and should not be forced to pay for it. ”

The Great Sui Empire was always short of money, and what was lacking was copper money.

The silk produced in the world of the Great Sui is quite a huge quantity, up to tens of millions of silk silk annual output, it can be said that the Great Sui from south to north, all over the mulberry trees, every family grows mulberry and silkworms, because the silk has a huge output, so in addition to making clothes, it is also used as currency, and it has become the most important currency of the Great Sui.

But the copper production of the Sui Dynasty is extremely low, even if there are hundreds of coin-casting furnaces in the world, but the money is only a few hundred thousand a year, the issuance of copper coins is too low, far from enough to meet the economic needs of the court and the people, especially many unscrupulous businessmen always like to melt the copper coins to cast copper and sell, and they can earn seven or eight times the usury, so the imperial court has repeatedly banned it, making copper coins extremely scarce.

If the people are asked to pay for the service, it will increase the burden on the people. There is a shortage of money everywhere, and in order to pay money, the people have to sell the self-produced things such as grain and silk for money, and they may be cheated by unscrupulous merchants, so Du Ruhui thinks that the people can directly use grain or silk cloth to convert.

The imperial court levied taxes like this, the field rent was to pay grain, and the household survey was to pay silk and cloth, and what was planted was paid.

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

"If you use seniority as a substitute for service, the people may agree, but two feet of silk a day can hire people, and can it still provide for daily expenses?"

A foot of silk is less than four cents, and a two-foot silk is only a little more than seven cents.

Is this more than seven dollars enough to hire a county soldier for a day's expenses? After all, if you want to hire a county soldier, you must first provide food and wages.

The standard of the Weifu Army is that soldiers are trained to make two liters of rice a day during war, and there are also a specified amount of salt and vegetables.

And since it is a recruitment, there must be a salary.

There are soldiers at the border passes, and the annual military expenditure standard is 12 horses of silk cloth and 12 stones of millet. A month is a horse of silk and a stone of rice, this standard cannot be said to be high, but this is only a monthly food and clothing, and there are also miscellaneous rewards. In addition, these three items were obtained by the soldiers, and their usual food and drink expenses were not counted.

"If you want to recruit Ding to serve on behalf of the soldiers, then the monthly food and money and monthly clothes must not be less, a horse of silk in a month, a stone of rice in a month, and you have to add the monthly money to work hard, this cost is a lot, if you add the soldiers in the battalion to raise two liters of food every day, and get six buckets of rice in January, and there must be salt, vegetables and other expenses, plus the cost of raising horses, ordnance and equipment, etc., have you calculated?"

Again, this is a difficult question.

Recruitment is not compulsory but voluntary. It is not like the previous rotation of the people to conscript, it is a compulsory service of the state, and it must be served. And recruitment, naturally, people with good treatment will come.

"A soldier has twelve stone monthly rations and twelve monthly clothes a year, and if he adds another three hundred yuan a month, he will get three thousand six hundred yuan a year. In addition, the soldiers eat seven stones and two buckets of food a year, and one horse eats eighteen stones a year. ”

"A year's food costs twenty stones, twelve horses of clothing per month, and three and six dollars per month. Five hundred soldiers need 10,000 stone of grain a year, 6,000 horses of silk, and 1,800 yuan of money. ”

"If you raise 100 horses, you will need 1,800 stone of food for the horses alone."

The more Zhang Yichen calculated, the more he shook his head.

"I can't afford to raise it."

Simply calculated, at least 11,800 stone of grain a year, plus 1,800 yuan of money, and 6,000 horses of silk.

There are more than 20,000 dings in Zhangqiu County, and each person has to spread five buckets of grain a year, 75 yuan, and ten feet of silk, which is only an approximate number, and the specific cost will definitely increase a lot.

And if it is calculated before, it is originally every four years, then after four years, one ding will have to be divided into two stone grain, three hundred yuan, and a horse of silk.

This figure has far exceeded Du Ru's calculation just now, and the total amount of money in the four years of paying for the service is more than 330 yuan.

At least three times the number just calculated, and if you do the whole thing, it is estimated to be four or five times.

"Let the people pay so much for silk grain, they would rather serve themselves."

Luo Cheng also nodded, it was himself, he would rather come by himself to be the errand of this month, even if he had to bring his own food, he would rather come by himself, after all, in a month's time, even if they were asked to rob it, they might not be able to grab so much money and grain.

It is too unrealistic to want to recruit soldiers and raise a county barracks according to the same treatment as the border army.

"Why don't we imitate the government soldiers, take out those fields in the mountains, and give them to those who are willing to enter the county barracks for free, as long as they enter the county barracks, they can get the land for free, these lands do not have to pay field rent, and the income belongs to them, as long as they train in their spare time, how about being ordered to suppress bandits when they encounter bandits?" Luo Cheng put forward another plan.

"There's no precedent for that." Du Ruhui mentioned this issue again.

Even if it's wasteland, the county government doesn't dare to give it casually. Granting it out, that is, granting land to the land, and after the people get the land, they have to pay rent and adjust to the mediocre.

"Or else." Du Ruhui thought for a while, and said to Luo Cheng and Zhang Yichen, "The county barracks use recruitment, and the villagers still pay for the service, but no matter how much the county barracks costs, we only need the county county Ding Nan to pay 100 yuan a year, 50 in the summer, and 50 in the autumn." All this money will be handed over to the county soldiers and nutrition soldiers, and if it is insufficient, we will find a way. ”

Du Ruhui's method was to grant fields to the recruited county soldiers, and then grant them to the mountains and grant enough numbers. These lands are still registered in the official account books, and they also have to pay rent and pay to serve mediocrity.

However, in many places nowadays, the land is narrow and the people are too large to get the land, so it is becoming more and more difficult for the people to reach the fields, and even if they are successful, they often have no land to divide, or they can only get a small amount of land.

If it is on the condition of allocating enough land, attract people to join the county barracks, then add the money of the people to pay for the service, and the county barracks can be raised.

"The money for the constituent service is used as the daily expenses of the county barracks, and the county soldiers do not give them monthly food and clothing, but only care about their meals during training, do you think it is feasible?"

This is equivalent to a government military system in disguise.

However, it is still some distance from the professional professional soldier that Luo Cheng wants, but there is really no better way to think about it.

According to this method, at least his county barracks does not need to change a group of people every month.

It's just that these county soldiers have to farm if they have land, so they have to rotate on duty, 500 county soldiers, and it is estimated that there will only be a maximum of 100 on duty in normal times.

But there's no way around it.

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

"Then try." Du Ruhui also said. The unique geography of Zhangqiu County, coupled with the treacherous law and order environment, made it necessary for him to maintain this powerful county barracks.