Chapter 736: Amazing Monthly Salary
"My eldest father said that the Meng family's army can fight to the death for the imperial court until the last man falls, but everything they do is for Da Qin and His Majesty, not for the Meng family.
Therefore, the Meng family can only help the generals here to make money, but they will not give them money.
Because that is His Majesty's business, and the Meng family will not do it, nor dare to do it.
Please forgive me, generals. "
After saying that, Meng Yi bowed and saluted everyone, and Meng Tian also stood up, saluted and apologized to everyone.
Now Meng Tian does not represent the Meng family army but represents the Meng family and salutes everyone on behalf of Meng Ao.
Everyone also returned the gift solemnly.
Everyone knows that the Meng family army is just a large army led by the Meng family, just like Wang Jian commanded the Wang family army and Bai Qi commanded the Bai family army. As long as the leader is killed, the army will disperse.
The Meng family army led by Meng Ao was formerly the Bai family army led by Bai Qi.
But after Meng Ao took over, he helped Da Qin conquer cities and territories, and asked them to record countless achievements. These generals climbed up from the pile of dead people.
Except Wang Li and Han Xin.
Therefore, everyone has a clearer understanding of Meng Ao's feelings for Dajun, and a clearer understanding of what can and cannot be done.
Now Meng Yi arranged for them to raise cattle, sheep and horses on the grassland, which was a great gift to them.
First, they are already on the grassland and can always know about the cattle, sheep and horses they raise.
Secondly, they really need money. In fact, their status is very embarrassing. You may say they have money, but they don’t have much money.
You say he has status. His status is not the highest, but it is not low either. He is considered the number one person in Xianyang City.
Because of this status, their children need to go to school, eat well, and use good clothes. All these require money. In addition, the family needs servants, which are also money.
In the past, servants were sold to their families in the form of a deed of sale, and they only had to take care of one meal and a small amount of wages.
However, contracts of sale are not allowed now, and all servants work on contracts.
This means that not only do they need to provide the servant with three meals a day, but they also need to pay the servant several times the amount.
This is also a huge change in Xianyang City, and this change has doubled the tax revenue collected by the state treasury, and at the same time, smiles have appeared on the faces of the people.
Therefore, the First Emperor was determined to promote this matter throughout the Qin Dynasty. This resulted in many slaves and prostitutes being freed, and more money would have to be spent to rehire them.
Although the nobles had opinions on this, the profits of business made these opinions disappear.
The only regret now is that these generals have no way to catch up with the business wave.
Meng Ao saw it, or to be precise, Ying Zheng saw it, so he sent Meng Yi here. The purpose was to let Meng Yi find a way to benefit the entire army.
The first thing Meng Yi thought about was what the grassland could produce, which was nothing more than cattle, sheep and horses, and then he thought about what happened just now.
As for the entire army, Meng Yi currently has no good solution. If he has to say that he has, then he can only use military pay and use military pay to do business.
But this requires the consent of half a million soldiers.
Even if you agree, it will be very difficult to distribute the money in the future. Five hundred thousand people is too many.
So, in the end, Meng Yi planned to leave this matter to Qin An to handle it, since Qin An was about to leave the mountain anyway.
In the end, Meng Yi asked the generals to leave with their masters and shopkeepers, and let them get familiar with each other. Only when they are familiar can they cooperate better.
Han Xin also took two people away. On the way, Han Xin had already asked their names. One was Zhang Yi, a shopkeeper, and the other was Wu Fan, a Confucian master.
It's just that both of them are not very old, only in their mid-twenties.
After Han Xin and others arrived at their tent, Fan Kuai and others surrounded them.
"Han Xin, what's wrong?" Fan Kuai asked
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Han Xin said: "We have an area where we can raise cattle, sheep and horses, and we have also given us some technologies, especially the most profitable wool, milk powder and dried meat."
"We know about wool and dried meat, but what is this milk powder?" Fan Kuai asked.
"Let the villain introduce this." Zhang Yi replied.
Only then did everyone notice Zhang Yi and Wu Fan.
Cao Shen said, "Who are you?"
Han Xin explained: "Master Meng Yi was worried that we didn't have time to manage the cattle, sheep and horses, so he specially equipped a shopkeeper and a master.
The shopkeeper manages our business, while the master teaches the Xiongnu people in our area to learn Qin characters, Qin language and Qin festivals. "
"That's it." Cao Shen said, "In this way, within a few years, the Xiongnu prairie will completely belong to the Qin Dynasty."
Han Xin nodded and said: "Yes, but they are not free. It should be said that it is free in the first year, because Lord Meng Yi has already paid for us, but starting from the second year, we need to pay them ourselves."
Fan Kuai asked: "How much wages do you need?"
"Twelve taels per month." Zhang Yi said.
"What? Twelve taels?" Fan Kuai opened his eyes wide, "It's higher than our salary."
Zhang Yi smiled and said: "General, what I just talked about is our basic salary and our dividends. If the farm business is good, we still need to extract one thousandth of the profit. For example, I will If the breeding farm earns 100,000 taels, then it will give us 100 taels."
"So much, you can do business better than me." Fan Kuai said, "Back then, when I sold dog meat, I might not be able to earn ten taels of silver a year, but you actually have ten taels of silver a month. Why don't you grab it."
"This general only saw my ten taels of wages. Why didn't he see that we were about to create at least one hundred thousand taels of income for the breeding farm, at least one hundred thousand taels per year." Zhang Yi said with a smile.
"Hiss~~" Everyone couldn't help but take a breath.
I really didn't notice it just now, I was only attracted by the ten taels of silver a month.
Not only them, but all the generals were shocked by the monthly salary of ten taels of silver.
Ten taels of silver, converted into grain, can buy two hundred stones. Their annual salary is only 1,200 dan, and half a year's salary is equivalent to the salary of a general.
What makes those generals most angry is that the other party can still get dividends, which is simply unacceptable.
But when they finally heard about one hundred thousand taels of silver, everyone was stunned again.
"Can you really earn 100,000 taels of silver for the breeding farm?" Han Xin looked at Zhang Yi and asked.
Zhang Yi smiled and said, "If the general trusts me and is willing to leave all the farm matters to me, I can help the general earn at least one hundred thousand taels of silver every year."
"That's such a big statement. That's one hundred thousand taels of silver, not ten taels of silver. You earn one hundred thousand taels of silver a year. Do you know how much money you need to earn every month?" Fan Kuai interjected.
