Chapter 1042: Paying the Price (2)
Even if another 3 million stone of grain is allocated every year to build water conservancy, roads, and bridges, it will be enough to store 10 million stone of grain.
You must know that 3 million stone of grain is already equivalent to 10 percent of the annual grain tax, and it is very rare to use 10 percent of the annual tax for infrastructure construction.
After all, Zhao Feng's side invests so much every year to carry out infrastructure construction.
And other princes, generally when they make a large-scale project, will invest a lot, and other times, they will not invest so much.
Zhao Feng pondered for a moment: "How much do you want?" ”
"You need a reason!"
After all, if you give less, Hu Chuquan may not send troops, and if you give too much, Zhao Feng is reluctant.
Tian Feng thought for a moment: "Hu Chuquan gave us 50,000 war horses. ”
"The value of these war horses is about nine million stone grains."
"Although it was a bargaining chip in exchange for prisoners before, the value of the war horse is real."
"The lord should have lost half of the chips at the beginning, and paid Hu Chuquan four million stone grain, to four and a half million stone grain!"
After Zhao Feng heard this, he groaned.
Four million stone of grain is a very objective amount of grain, accounting for 15 percent of the annual grain tax.
You must know that in order to raise two million stone grain from Zhao Feng, Zhang Yan sent Zhao Feng's army of 100,000!
Although nominally mutual aid, in reality, it is a transaction.
Of course, the main reason why Zhang Yan was able to feed so many troops was that Zhang Yan was calculated according to the form of conscription.
Conscription is the unpaid labor that the ruler forces civilians to perform, including forced labor, miscellaneous labor, military service, etc.
Therefore, Zhang Yan's expenditure of hundreds of thousands of troops is not much, as long as he provides food.
Zhao Feng wanted to indirectly abolish the conscription system because of the change of the law, so whether it was a soldier or a common man, as long as he was recruited to work, he would pay food.
If Qin Shi Huang hadn't used forced conscription to make the people's resentment boil, maybe Qin II would not have died.
Of course, the premise is that Qin Shi Huang can afford to pay that much money.
Zhao Feng is also for the long-term plan, to work with money, at least it will not make the people's resentment boiling!
Moreover, the indirect abolition of the conscription system can also prevent the people from being conscripted into conscription in order to avoid being conscripted, so as to sell themselves to the family and become black households.
Although it seems that Zhao Feng paid a large amount of extra food taxes, in fact, when the people got these grains, they basically exchanged them for daily necessities or ate them directly.
Either way, it will eventually flow back into the market.
You must know that there is no so-called private land or private land in all the counties where the law is changed, and all of them are owned by the government.
The biggest blow to this move is actually the family and Haoqiang, but Zhao Feng's land is only a small number of counties that have changed the law, and these families will either accept it or exchange it to other counties that have not changed the law on the same terms.
Anyway, after the war in the early years, the population died countless times, and it was always able to be settled.
When the people become rich in the future, Zhao Feng can learn from future generations and get real estate out.
Of course, due to various reasons, it is natural that it cannot be completely copied, but it is still feasible to charge a small amount of land transfer fees to plan the people to build houses 'reasonably'.
In addition, the mansions of the Han Dynasty were all permanent use rights, and Zhao Feng could also levy the so-called real estate tax in later generations to control the family and the powerful.
Of course, these also need to set up another place to change the law, and Zhao Feng will not do it indiscriminately.
In addition, this is also a problem that Zhao Feng will only consider after taking the last step, and if he gets it now, Zhao Feng probably won't want to develop steadily.
Zhao Feng pondered for a long time: "In this way, Yuan Hao, you first draft a document and let the people from Huchuquan bring it back." ”
"Give 2 million stone of grain in advance to fund the military dispatch of Chuquan."
"After destroying the Xianbei army led by Yan Rou, give another two million stone grains!"
Zhao Feng actually made a play on words, that is, the word 'elimination'.
If it is destroyed, it will be given, but if it is not eliminated, even if it defeats Yan Rou's Xianbei army, it will still not be given.
Of course, this is not exactly a play on words, after all, there is interest to be motivated.
Tian Feng waved at Zhao Feng: "No! ”
With that, he turned around and exited the chamber.
Time passed slowly, and five days passed in the blink of an eye.
this day.
Tian Feng walked into the conference hall and waved at Zhao Feng: "Enlighten the lord!" ”
"Hu Chuquan sent someone to send a message, saying that he thanked the lord for his generosity!"
"After the food preparation is complete, Hu Chuquan will immediately lead the army and rush to Youzhou!"
Zhao Feng pondered for a moment: "Let the person who spread the news go back and tell Hu Chuquan that it will take a lot of time to transport the grain to Meiji." ”
"When he is sending troops, he will delay the army's journey."
"Let him lead his troops to Youzhou first, and extract two million stone grain directly from Youzhou."
Tian Feng waved at Zhao Feng: "No! ”
With that, he turned around and exited the chamber.
Five days passed in the blink of an eye.
On this day, Tian Feng walked into the conference hall and waved at Zhao Feng: "Enlighten the lord!" ”
"Hu Chuquan sent someone to send a message and agreed to the lord's request."
At the same time, Hu Chuquan also said that if he went to Youzhou, if the lord did not provide food, it would destroy the friendship between the two sides.
After Zhao Feng heard this, he scoffed, what kind of friendship is not all interests.
Of course, this naturally can't be said explicitly, Zhao Feng said with a smile: "Let the messenger go and tell Hu Chuquan, and we will naturally not destroy the friendship between the two sides." ”
"In addition, four million stone grains are nothing to me, and there is no need to ruin my reputation for a little food."
"If it's mutually beneficial this time, there may be such an opportunity next time!"
Spending four million stone of grain to invite the Xiongnu to send troops once is indeed beneficial to both sides.
You must know that even if the Xiongnu went south to plunder, within a month, at most, they would plunder Taiyuan County, Hedong County, Shang County, and the land of the three counties.
And the total grain of these three counties is not three million stones, and this is still when all of them have been robbed.
If the three counties are ready to deal with it, they will rob a million stone of grain at most.
After all, it is just a plunder, which can be regarded as a form of fighting the autumn wind, and it is not to occupy the three counties, so it is impossible to spend too much time.
And once the grain harvest in various places is finished, the Huns will not be able to plunder the grain.
Therefore, under the same situation of sending troops, waiting for four million stone of grain is still relatively attractive to the Huns.
After all, whether it is to plunder in the south or send troops to other places, as long as it is a battle, people will definitely die, and the nature is similar.
Tian Feng waved at Zhao Feng: "No! ”
With that, he turned around and exited the chamber.