Lin Wancheng's words to Lin Chong were heard by Wu Haogu outside the door.

In this regard, he only sighed.

Because he now knows that the military crisis of the Great Song Dynasty is far more serious than he imagined, and even more serious than those keyboard warriors on the Internet in later generations know.

Because of the military weakness of the Song Dynasty, in addition to the lack of enough horse breeding grounds and the emphasis on literature and military suppression, there is also the prosperity and development of commerce!

That's right, the prosperous commerce of the Song Dynasty was an important reason for corroding the combat effectiveness of the Song army.

At least, the combat effectiveness of the forbidden army stationed in Kaifeng Mansion was corroded by this world of flowers.

In all fairness, the military salary offered by the official family of the Great Song Dynasty to the children of the forbidden army was not low. For the basic military salary, the upper forbidden soldiers can get one wen per month, the middle forbidden soldiers get 500 to 700 wen per month, and the lower forbidden soldiers also have 3 or 400 wen.

In addition to the military salaries, there are also military rations to receive, and the upper and middle forbidden soldiers get two stones and five buckets per month, and the lower forbidden soldiers are two stones.

In addition, the soldiers of the Song Dynasty also issued clothing subsidies, for example, the standard of the forbidden soldiers was "six horses of spring and winter clothes and silk, one or twelve taels of cotton, and three thousand with clothes".

In addition to these fixed military salaries, military rations, and clothing, the Song Dynasty forbidden army also had various subsidies to get. For example, stabbing loot, suburban rewards, special money, snow cold money, silver shoe money, salary money, transfer money to the army, military rewards, oral rolls, and so on.

All kinds of miscellaneous incomes are added together, and a forbidden soldier always has fifty or sixty taels a year, and there are also five taels per month.

If calculated according to the exchange price of silver coins, it is much more than the Eight Banners soldiers of later generations!

And the Manchu Eight Banners are the noble soldiers known as the Eight Banners!

They are far inferior to the ordinary soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty Forbidden Army, which shows that the military salary of the Great Song Dynasty is unprecedented, which is about unprecedented in ancient China.

However, in Kaifeng Prefecture and other Northern Song Dynasty metropolises, which were extremely prosperous in commerce, it was difficult to get even a middle-class man with a generous military salary of dozens of dollars a year - the middle class must at least have a house and a car (horse), right?

Moreover, with the continuous economic prosperity, the economic status of the professional soldiers in the Northern Song Dynasty is still declining.

In the early and middle years of the founding of the country, they were still wealthy and unqualified military ministers, but now, in places like Kaifeng Mansion, they can't afford to buy a house, and it is difficult for a lady to marry, let alone a soldier with a lower status.

Coupled with the fact that the peace has been maintained for a long time, the discipline of the army is lax, and there are the drawbacks of the soldiers who do not know the generals and the generals.

Where do those grassroots officers and soldiers of the forbidden army who occupy the establishment and hang their names have the heart to train and prepare for war? They are all busy with the house, the lady and their own little day!

Whoever wants to concentrate on practicing martial arts and preparing for war will definitely not be able to afford a house and marry a lady, and he will definitely have to cut off his children and grandchildren in the future.

Therefore, the wealth and prosperity of Kaifeng Province are weeding out and disintegrating the professional soldiers who defend it!

And the collapse of the professional mercenary brought about by this kind of commercial development is that Wu Haogu has a vision of the future for nearly a thousand years, and he can't think of any tricks for a while.

Because in Wu Haogu's view, in the era of the Great Song Dynasty, wealth and strength were not equal. Before the rise of Aguta and Genghis Khan, there was certainly no money as the Great Song Dynasty and the Arabs.

Therefore, there is no such thing as a change of law to seek prosperity and strength - wealth and strength are fundamentally two different directions.

You can't fight a soldier of the forbidden army who gets fifty or sixty taels a year, but you can fight one hundred and twenty taels a year?

This is simply wishful thinking!

Moreover, if the salary of the forbidden army is doubled, the housing prices in Kaifeng Mansion will most likely increase several times......

"Uncle Lin, Guo Jing has a greeting for you...... Is Mrs. Gao also there? Is it for Lin Dalang to be a matchmaker?

When can I drink Lin Dalang's wedding wine? ”

When Wu Haogu was worried about the future of the Great Song Dynasty, Guo Jing was already triumphantly starting a family with Lin Wancheng and Gao Niangzi.

He, who is not good at practicing martial arts when he is young, knows all day long that he is a guy who cheats and plays tricks and braggarts, and now he is a family with a successful career!

And Lin Chong and Lu Qian, who have practiced martial arts for twenty or thirty years and have worked hard to achieve good kung fu, are now not bitter houseless households, living in a dilapidated military camp.

Lin Chong, who is known as the head of the leopard, doesn't even have a lady, he is in his thirties, and he still asks the matchmaker to help him all day long, which is really not ashamed.

"San Lang, Fang Cai and Gao Niangzi are still talking about you," Lin Wancheng also looked down on Guo Sanlang who was messing around on Panlou Street all day long in the past, but today his face was full of respect, "I said that you are going to buy a house, but is it true?" ”

"Yes," Guo Jing said proudly, "next to the north of the state, on the Laoying Street in the left wing, what Yan Po'er of the Yangyi Red Pavilion found is still a house with a pavement, as long as it costs 18,000 yuan, it's still cheap, right?" ”

Is eighteen thousand taels cheap?

Hearing this question, Wu Haogu's mood sank again.

18,000 is really cheap for Wu Haogu, Chen Youwen, Liu Youfang, Su Dalang, Pan Xiao'an, Pan Qiaolian and others!

Who of them doesn't have more than 18,000 yuan a year? It's a house of 180,000 yuan, and it's not too expensive for them.

The problem of high housing prices in Kaifeng Mansion does not exist at all!

The house in Kaifeng is not expensive at all, and it can go up for another twenty-eight years!

But for Lin Wancheng and Lin Chong, who defended Kaifeng Mansion, they only earned more than 100 yuan a year, and 18,000 yuan did not eat or drink for 100 years.

Moreover, with the doubling of the increase in the rooms of Kaifeng Mansion in 20 years (compared with a certain dynasty in later generations, the increase in housing prices is really not very low), a hundred years later, the houses in Kaifeng Mansion have already risen to the sky......

Oh, no, a hundred years later, if history is not changed, Genghis Khan, who could not afford to buy a house and could only live in tents, would almost have risen above the steppe!

……

Wu Haogu, Guo Jing and Liu Wuji have been invited into the tattered house by Lin Wancheng as the God of Wealth. Mrs. Gao didn't leave, she followed with a smile, and said vigorously that she wanted to keep a big medium for Guo Jing and Guo Sanlang, who bought a house......

"Mrs. Gao, are your officials at home?"

Guo Jing is now a big husband who has a house and no wife, so he is not in a hurry to ask Gao Niang to be a matchmaker, but asked about Lu Qian.

"No," Gao Niangzi's face sank, "that dead ghost went to the school field to practice...... Holding up the Japanese army's many leaders is his hardest work, but what is the use? ”

Guo Jing said to Wu Haogu: "Lu Xiaoyi is very good at kung fu, he can open a three-stone hard bow, and he can also shoot a handful of arrows, and he can shoot twenty-five arrows in one breath." This is real kung fu, if it was at the time of the founding of the country, how could it be a general. ”

Wu Haogu didn't know what was real kung fu, and he looked ignorant.

Gao Niangzi is an expert, she explained: "Martial arts officials, the so-called real kung fu is the ability to kill in battle formations, equestrianism, archery, spearmanship, horse lance and so on.

It's all stupid kung fu that you have to start working hard and ruining your whole life when you get started, and no one even looks at it. ”

Lin Chong was not happy to hear this, and said in a buzzing voice: "If in troubled times, there are a thousand heroes like Brother Xiaoyi, and they can run rampant in the world!"

Thinking back then, didn't Taizong of the Tang Dynasty rely on a thousand Xuanjia elite horses to ride in all directions and create a splendid country in the Tang Dynasty? ”

Wu Haogu found that when Lin Chong talked about "Tang Taizong" and "Xuanjia Iron Cavalry", he and Lin Wancheng had a vague edge in their eyes, but they soon dimmed again.

Now it is a peaceful and prosperous era, and the official family of the Great Song Dynasty does not value martial artists, the Lin family's father and son and Lu Qian are useless and useless heroes!

"This kind of kung fu is just right to be a bodyguard." Guo Jing smiled and groaned, "With Lu Xiaoyi's continuous arrows, plus Lin Shibo and Lin Dalang's gun and stick kung fu, ordinary grass cowards are not afraid of hundreds." ”

Wu Haogu looked at Lin Wancheng, who was full of white hair, and always felt unreliable. But looking at the tall and mighty Lin Chong, I feel a lot more relieved - just because he is called Lin Chong, it is very reassuring, and there is also a Lu Qian.

Wu Haogu said, "Okay."

Guo Jingdao: "A person will be given 100 yuan a month, and the damage will be counted separately, and the money will be given according to the rules and regulations, and the cap will be 1,000, is it feasible?" ”

"A hundred is less," what kind of experience does Lin Wancheng have? As soon as he saw Wu Haogu, he knew that he was a "good thing", so he sat on the ground and raised the price. "And this trip has to lend armor, equipment, and horses from the army, and it always costs ......."

Wu Haogu was a little puzzled when he heard this, "Can the armor and war horses in the army still be lent?" ”

Lin Wancheng replied with a smile: "The big officials don't know, and the war horses in the army can't be borrowed, but the horses and pack horses only need to be dotted.

As for the armor, it's not very good armor, borrowing a few pairs of paper armor to prevent a stray arrow, as long as it doesn't exceed four collars, it doesn't matter. ”

Wu Haogu nodded, and said to Guo Jing: "Let's add some more to Lin Daguan, one person can give one hundred and twenty yuan a month." ”