At this point we have to talk about the area of the entire Nanli County.
Judging from the documentary data obtained by the expeditionary force from the Governor's Mansion, the entire Nanli Province has an area of approximately 300,000 hectares, which is an area of 200,000 square kilometers in modern times.
(The calculation method used here is to convert one hundred acres of land into one hectare.)
Nanli County itself is one of the few provinces in the Shendu territory where 90% of the land is arable. That is to say, during the spring harvest, Nanli County has a total of 270,000 hectares of land, which means that 27 million acres of land can be taxed. .
After excluding that only half of the arable area has been developed and nearly half of the remaining area is uncultivated, the taxable land in Nanli County is approximately 13.5 million.
What is this concept?
Today, one acre of land in Nanli County produces about 200 kilograms of grain. The government's tax limit is nine levels. The tax for recruiting soldiers is reduced to 85% for their families.
Hundreds of thousands of soldiers were recruited this time, which means that most people in the county have family members who have joined the servant army.
In other words, except for a few families who received 90% of the tax revenue, on average, the military was able to collect about 85% of the tax revenue during this Spring Harvest Expedition.
In other words, this tax is expected to collect 229,500,000 kilograms of grain. If it is more streamlined, it will be about 2,295 million kilograms.
Converted in terms of stones, that’s 22.95 million stones of grain!
This grain income is quite a lot. Yunzhou County now has a total population of 600,000. The daily grain consumption is calculated based on one kilogram of grain per capita. The daily consumption is 6.6 million kilograms. One month is 1.8 million kilograms, and one year is two. Nineteen million catties.
This is equivalent to 2.19 million shi of grain.
The 22.95 million shi of grain harvested this spring is enough to feed ten times the number of people in Yunzhou County!
This can be described as a windfall!
And this windfall is not just a one-time thing. Nanli County has three crops a year. It is May now. There will be an autumn harvest in September, and in four months there will be a winter wheat harvest in the first month.
That means that in one year, Yunzhou County can harvest 68.85 million shi of grain with Nanli County!
We can afford to increase the population of the entire Yunzhou County tenfold or threefold!
Yunzhou County really made a huge fortune this time!
After the specific pre-receipt data was sent back to Yunzhou County, Yunzhou County officials and even the upper and lower officials were shocked and speechless. Zhao Jun himself expected to get a wave of fertilizer after knowing the local time and cultivated land area. , but there is far less shock than when the specific data came out.
Facing this terrifying data at this moment, everyone was shocked.
Not only him, but everyone who knew the news was shocked, but as the shock subsided, ecstasy followed!
This is good, and the food problem that has plagued the development of Yunzhou County has been solved at once.
If I had known, after these years of development, the prosperity of Yunzhou County would be far from what it is now.
But because of food restrictions, if iron items are not enough, production can be expanded by improving technology, and other things are also possible, but only food needs land to grow. However, Yunzhou County does not have land that can grow food, so Yunzhou County has no land to grow food. The population of prefectures and counties has been unable to increase, and prosperity and development have been restricted.
Now that food is available, as long as the population is increased, the development of Yunzhou County will no longer be restricted.
In order to keep this batch of food, Yunzhou County unanimously decided to recruit soldiers for training.
Because they got the news that while they had a bumper harvest, the food problem that had been plaguing the capital of Shendu King was also solved with the spring harvest.
Next, Nanli County will inevitably face the pressure of the coming army of Shendu King Capital, and Yunzhou County, who have seen the benefits brought by Nanli County, will certainly not allow anyone to infringe on their rule over Nanli County!
Those who dare! There will be no rest until death!
Yunzhou County, conference hall.
The original conference room has been renamed the conference hall in this period, and all matters that need to be discussed by all parties in the county will be moved here for discussion.
The conference hall in Prince Yun's Mansion was obviously the prototype of a small court, and everyone in Yunzhou County also had a sense of familiarity with a small court.
It's this place again, it's the same group of people as last time. The sleepy Zhao Jun was called to a meeting early in the morning. Although he was very annoyed, the issues involved this time were very important to Yunzhou County. , so even if I was annoyed, I had to suppress my temper and come to the meeting.
After all, if Yunzhou County is better, then he, the vassal king, can live a better life, right?
As soon as they sat down, Jun Cheng Jiang He announced the official start of today's meeting as the host.
There are four topics today.
First, in order to cope with the counterattack from Shendu Capital, how many soldiers should Yunzhou County recruit to be able to secure the existing territory and preserve the vested interests of Nanli County.
Second, now that Nanli County has begun spring tax collection, will the original Nanli County officials be responsible for tax collection, or will Yunzhou County send people to collect taxes?
If it is the original officials, how can they ensure that they will not interfere with it? If the officials are dispatched, how can they successfully complete the tax collection work if they do not understand the language? In addition, where can they find enough officials to carry out the tax collection work?
The third is the transportation problem. Whether it is the large amount of tax after the spring tax or the large amount of loot obtained from attacking Nanli County, a huge transportation force is needed to transport it back.
Now, the 200,000 refugees who were originally used as transportation are fully supplying the logistics of the expeditionary force. The expeditionary force is laboring on the expedition, and all material losses, except food surplus, need to be supplemented by Yunzhou County.
A huge logistical force is needed to ensure the combat effectiveness of the expeditionary force.
Therefore, these 200,000 people cannot be transferred and cannot be used for tax transportation and loot transportation.
Where should Yunzhou County make up for this transportation gap?
In addition, newly recruited soldiers also need to be young and strong, and Yunzhou County currently lacks young people.
As for the fourth issue, it is the issue of rewards for the soldiers of the expeditionary force.
This is much simpler, just reward according to military regulations.
But there is a problem. For those soldiers who have accumulated enough military exploits, the rewards they receive will not only be limited to gold and silver, but also include promotions in their positions.
Gold and silver are easy to say, and with the current financial resources of Yunzhou County, they can still afford it, but the position guard army is somewhat beyond their capabilities.
To put it bluntly, today's escort army only consists of one Xiang Army commander, and the highest military position is the Xiang Army Commander, and the army is a carrot and a pit. In this battle, many soldiers have accumulated a lot of military merit and can be promoted. But there is a lack of promotion positions in the military. After all, we can't all become officers, right?
Then there will be polished commanders.
Therefore, this is also an urgent problem that must be solved before the expeditionary force's first rotation of defensive officers comes back.
Otherwise, it will be extremely easy to shake the morale of the military.
The above four points are the main purposes of convening the parliament today. They all need to be discussed, and Zhao Jun, King Yun, will make the final decision.
As soon as Jiang He announced today's topic, someone immediately stood up.
"Your Majesty, King Yun, I believe that based on the intelligence we have received so far about body poisoning, the number of guards in Yunzhou County must be kept at least around 100,000, and we will cooperate with the coercion of troops and local recruitment. This servant army can ensure that Yunzhou County's vested interests in Shendu are not lost!
Please ask King Yun to order the recruitment of soldiers to supplement the lack of military strength in our Yunzhou County! "
At the beginning, someone immediately started speaking on the first topic.
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(End of chapter)
