"In addition to the grain reserves reserved for purchasing the population, there are about 200,000 dan of grain that can be used.
The first group of civilians who went to transport taxes just received news yesterday that 500,000 shi of grain had been loaded onto the truck and set off, and they would be able to return to Yunzhou County in about seven days.
At the same time, as the population entering our Yunzhou County increased, we organized three teams of civilians to transport food. It will take nearly three months to transport all the food back. "
Li Yi replied respectfully.
Zhao Jun frowned after hearing this number. He still has quite a lot of forces under him, and his daily consumption is about tens of thousands of dan. The first batch of spring taxes will not arrive for another seven days, so the food that can be used is only About 100,000.
But when he heard Li Yi say that it would take almost three months to completely transport the spring tax back, he immediately said in a deep voice:
"too slow!
Nanli County has three crops a year. The spring harvest is followed by the autumn harvest and then the east harvest. The autumn harvest is okay, but if the east harvest continues at this speed, it is impossible to say how many people will freeze to death in Yunling based on the cold wave conditions in the mountains. Among the mountains.
By adding six more people to transport food, the time for this king can be reduced to one month.
In a month at most, we have to bring back all the immediate tax revenue from Nanli County! "
Listening to Zhao Jun's decision, Li Yi felt a little confused: "But this way we will have to pay a lot more food consumption. Each of the nine people's teams requires 5,000 people and hundreds of mules, horses and oxen carts to go back and forth." To transport 500,000 shi of grain back, these civilians alone would have consumed 2,000 shi of grain along the way.
If we raise a team of nine civilians, it means that one round trip requires nearly 50,000 civilians, and one trip of food and grass consumes about 20,000 dan. It takes more than five trips in a month. Plus the wages for those civilians, we just The amount of food spent on transportation is 150,000 shi per quarter!
Your Majesty, King Yun, this consumption is too great! "
hiss!
After listening to Li Yi's analysis, Zhao Jun couldn't help but take a breath even though he was prepared.
It actually costs nearly 50,000 civilians to form a team of nine civilians! Before Yunzhou County accepted people, the population of the Song Dynasty was only 350,000. Wouldn't that be one-seventh of the population? !
The food consumption along the way is even more terrifying. The daily consumption of 50,000 people is two kilograms of food per person. A round trip of more than a month consumes nearly 100,000 dan. In addition, the wages to be paid to the peasants are as high as The consumption of 150,000 shi of food.
This consumption is really a bit scary.
Some people may say, you have harvested more than 20 million shi of grain this season, how can 150,000 shi be too much?
But talking about this, you have to understand how much food 150,000 shi is!
A strong man can eat two kilograms of grain a day. (Referring only to ancient times, there were few other non-staple foods, so we ate more staple foods)
One month is sixty kilograms. According to a family of five, a family is about two hundred and fifty kilograms. One year is two hundred fifty times twelve, which is three thousand kilograms of grain.
How many stones are three thousand kilograms?
The answer is thirty stones!
A family of five consumes only thirty dan per year. This 150,000 dan of food is enough for a family of five to live for five thousand years!
In this way, you should be able to understand the horror of this number, right?
Although this food consumption is terrible, after thinking about the current situation in Yunzhou County, Zhao Jun still said decisively: "There is nothing we can do about the high consumption. What Yunzhou County needs now is time, and we must attack the capital of the King of Poison." When it comes, it will be transformed into its own strength through this spring tax.
No matter how low the body poison's combat effectiveness is, it is a country's military power and cannot be underestimated.
So the consumption is high.
In this way, three transfer stations are established in the Yunling Mountains to stabilize the transportation channels between the two parties, so that materials can be quickly transferred. "
Since Zhao Jun, King Yun, agreed, it was hard for Li Yi to persuade him, so he nodded and agreed.
Then I heard Zhao Jun say: "Also, since we currently still have 100,000 shi of food available (we need to keep 100,000 shi for our own consumption)," then we will send a 1,000-person escort team to escort and transport the 100,000 shi. Go to the pass and provide supplies to the people who are coming to my Yunzhou County. Don't let them waste them needlessly on the road. "
"Yes! I understand!"
Li Yi nodded respectfully. Seeing that the matter was almost discussed, he resigned without even having a meal.
Zhao Jun didn't keep him either. There were too many things going on nowadays, and manpower was needed in all aspects. It was not the same as in the past, but it was more important to do business. As for eating, wait until everything stabilized, and he could come anytime. He Zhao Jun also Not short of their rations.
Soon, Li Yi, who received Zhao Jun's order, issued three notices from the county governor's office.
The first is the civilian husband. This time the Yamen will recruit nearly 40,000 civilian husbands to transport grain to the Yunling Mountains. Each person will be paid ten kilograms of grain per day. As soon as this news came out, the people of Yunzhou County were fine.
The people who had just been taken to Yunzhou from Guan Nei immediately became a sensation.
The crowds who had just recovered some strength after being raised in Yunzhou County for two days immediately swarmed in and almost overwhelmed the collection point. Looking at these refugees who were clamoring for their own, the collection point The sweat on the yamen servant's forehead was pouring down like a spring.
Fortunately, the escort finally arrived and the order on the battlefield was stabilized. The government officials began to recruit qualified civilian husbands as required.
The second decree of the Yamen also summoned civilian husbands, but the physical requirements of the civilian husbands summoned this time were not as high as those who had to cross the Yunling Mountains. The civilian husbands recruited this time were transported from Yunzhou County to the pass. , the purpose is to transport food to the incoming refugees and avoid dying on the road.
When the people learned that this was the intention of King Yun Mian, they all praised King Yun Mian for his benevolence. If it were someone else who had not been handed over to them, they would not care how many people died of starvation. A kind-hearted saint like King Yun would be willing to give free food to people like them.
As for the third point, it is the notice of recruitment of the Guards. This time the Guards will recruit more than 75,000 new soldiers to expand the size of the entire Guards.
Of course, the official plan is to recruit 25,000 regular soldiers, and the remaining 50,000 are auxiliary soldiers who transport food and grass to the escort army, which are also commonly known as civilian men.
After all, the imperial court only gave Yunzhou County the authority to raise an army of 50,000 people, so it still had to get by in terms of face.
It's just that the physical fitness required to recruit the Guards is very high.
The first is "three-layer armor", which means that one can wear a complete set of armor composed of three parts: upper body, thighs, and shins.
Then use the nine-stone crossbow, which means you can use a crossbow arrow with a bow power of more than 270 kilograms.
Finally, he carried three crossbow boxes (Tong Neng, i.e. quiver), a crown shaft (Tong Neng) and a sword, and won (i.e., carried) three days' worth of food, which would reach a hundred miles at noon. "It must be "pilot tested" before it can be "taken"
That is to say, in addition to being able to wear a full set of armor and pull a ten-stone crossbow, you also need to hold a halberd in your hand, an iron sword hanging at your waist, a rhinoceros-faced oar on your back, and three crossbow boxes and a powerful crossbow on your back. Only soldiers who can carry three days of rations and march a hundred miles continuously in one day can be selected.
Such harsh conditions are prohibitive, but the high pay of the Guards has attracted countless warriors who feel they have the ability to step forward.
Finally, from the time Yunzhou County began to purchase refugees from within the pass, there are now about 200,000 people living near Yunzhou City in Yunzhou County.
Among them, less than 10,000 people can be selected!
In other words, only one person can be selected from more than twenty people.
But the Guards are not in a hurry. The people above have said this time, the selection of soldiers should be based on the quality rather than the number. All the new recruits to be recruited this time must be in accordance with high standards. They can no longer be as casual as before. In the past, it was No one, no way.
Now that there are more people coming to Yunzhou County, it is natural to choose those who are in good health.
After all, according to the current trend, the number of Yunzhou County Guards may not be limited to more than 100,000. In the future, these new recruits will definitely be the same officers as they are now. It is not a bad thing to have higher requirements.
In this way, as the refugees continued to arrive every day, the three recruitment points continued to screen out those who agreed with their conditions. Soon after they were out of the recruitment point, the other two places had found enough people, and the recruitment points were cancelled.
Only the recruitment office is left, leaving countless refugees yearning for but helpless. They yearn for the high salary of the Guards, but their own conditions are not enough to be admitted...
After sleeping all day, I just woke up around six o'clock and am updating.
This chapter requires so much data that it took me three hours to write it. I smiled bitterly and made up the remaining chapters as soon as possible.
In addition, the selection criteria for soldiers are based on the selection criteria for Wei soldiers and then reduced. After all, according to my assumption, these 100,000 people will be officers for the expansion of the army in the future, so it is okay to have higher quality requirements.
As for the bow power of crossbows, I checked a lot of information. It is true that the requirements for soldiers of many dynasties in ancient times seemed to be different due to the different measurement methods of each dynasty. However, when converted into today's kilograms, they are almost the same.
Some strong people can still pull a nine-stone crossbow, which is more than 200 kilograms (the weight here does not refer to the weight of the crossbow, but the bow force required to pull the crossbow, which is a unit of measurement of strength). Of course, the waist and horse are combined into one and the legs are used to push it up. If only using hands, there are really not many people who can pull such a heavy crossbow.
(End of chapter)
