Why are Zhao Yuanyan and others so shocked? Well, the reason is very simple. There are too many people. At its peak in the Western Han Dynasty, the population was only more than 50 million. In the Sui Dynasty, the population was more than 40 million, and in the Tang Dynasty, the population was more than 50 million.
And Song Dynasty now only has about 30 million at most. The population of 1.2 billion was too terrifying for the Song Dynasty, dozens of times that of the Song Dynasty.
As for the millions of soldiers, not to mention anything else, the Northern Song Dynasty could not afford military pay alone.
The Song Dynasty was in the first year of Huangyou. Huangyou was the reign name of Song Renzong Zhao Zhen, which was 1049 AD. The total number of the army composed of imperial troops, Xiang soldiers, rural soldiers and Fan soldiers reached 1.4 million, which was the highest number in the Song Dynasty. The cost of raising troops in the Song Dynasty amounted to seven to eight tenths of the country's total fiscal revenue.
In fact, it is good to have 300,000 to 400,000 troops in the Northern Song Dynasty. The rest were all on empty pay. Among the 300,000 to 400,000 troops, many were craftsmen who were tax evaders. There were only two elite Imperial Guards who could fight. About 100,000 people.
"Those millions are all forbidden troops capable of fighting." Huyan Bixing asked.
"There are several million now. If there is a war, we can organize tens of millions more." Xiaozhuang answered all questions, "Anyway, we have the equipment."
From an angle that Zhao Yuanyan and the others couldn't see, Gao Dazhuang typed a complete set of sign language to Xiaozhuang, telling him that all the questions could be answered. So Xiaozhuang answered all questions.
"Then how much do you earn per year?" Zhao Yuanyan asked with red eyes, "How much grain can you harvest in a year?"
"Last year's national fiscal revenue was in the trillions. I didn't look carefully. It was probably more than six trillion." Xiaozhuang looked at the tall and strong gesture and said, "Grain, what kind of grain are you harvesting? Oh, you are It’s said that the state buys grain from farmers, right?”
"No, it's about how much imperial grain can be collected and stored in the warehouse." Zhao Yuanyan said in a daze.
"Is that the imperial grain that comes from the imperial grain and national tax, right?" Zheng Sanpao asked.
"Yes, this is the imperial grain." Zhao Yuanyan nodded and affirmed, "As much as you can harvest."
"We don't collect royal grain. The agricultural tax was canceled a few years ago." Zheng Sanpao said, "My family is a farmer. Now when the country needs grain, it buys it from farmers."
Gao Dazhuang gestured to Zheng Sanpao to scare them. Zheng Sanpao understood and said, "The country's grain reserves are enough to feed the entire population for three years."
This sentence scared Zhao Yuanyan like a toad opening his mouth.
After everyone took a shower, they put on new clothes.
As for Zhao Yuanyan and the others, everything they looked at was strange and they had to ask before wearing it. It took half an hour to wear just a few clothes.
"Xiao Zhuang, you take Mr. Zhao to dinner first. I have something else to do, so I'll excuse you." Gao Da Zhuang said to Zhao Yuanyan and the others with a smile.
"Come on, Mr. Zhao, let's go eat first." Xiaozhuang extended his hand to Zhao Yuanyan.
Zhao Yuanyan went to the cafeteria behind Xiaozhuang and the others.
"Come on, come on, you're welcome. Today's food is good. There's fish and braised pork. It's not bad." Deng Zhenhua came to the table with the fish and braised pork and happily said to Zhao Yuanyan.
"There's also meatball soup." Shi Dafan held the soup with a smile.
Zheng Sanpao came over with a bowl of steamed buns and said, "Eat, if it's not enough, you still have enough."
"This is military food. It may not taste as good as the food in a big hotel, but it's okay. As long as you can eat, you can go wherever you want."
Zhao Yuanyan and his group were divided into two tables. Zhao Yuanyan sat with the special forces team, and Huyan Bixing sat at a table with several others. Looking at the food on this table, Zhao Yuanyan asked, "Is this the food you give to the army? Is that so? Meaty, what kind of meat is it?”
"The fish and pork ones, and the halal ones there are all beef and mutton." Xiaozhuang introduced.
"You eat these every day." Zhao Yuanyan asked with a green face.
"How can I eat it every day?"
Zhao Yuanyan's face looked a little better after hearing what Xiaozhuang said.
"You should change it every day, otherwise you'll get tired of just these few dishes every day, no matter how delicious they are."
After Xiaozhuang finished speaking, Huyan Bixing asked, "Your army can eat these."
"Yes, the army can eat these, and ordinary people can also eat meat every day."
Every time Xiaozhuang said something, Zhao Yuanyan's face turned pale, and by the time he finished speaking, his face was already pale.
"Eat, eat." Zhao Yuanyan ordered in a daze. He also started to eat.
"The heaven is really scary. We have never seen hundreds of millions of people, and we have never seen millions of troops. But just eating, if it is really what he said, how rich it is." Zhao Yuanyan thought while eating.
"Hey, let's watch TV." Deng Zhenhua turned on the TV and said.
In the monitoring room, Li Chang and Maduan were both smoking cigarettes and looking at the tall and strong man in front of them.
"Confirmed." Li Chang asked.
"Yes, Chief, it has been confirmed that it is indeed an ancient world, and the era is during the Zhenzong period of the Song Dynasty." Gao Dazhuang replied, "There is a problem with the time. According to Zhuo Qun, when he traveled through time, it was the Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty who granted Zen to Mount Tai. The time should be 1008, but when we went this time, it was 1009, and Song Renzong Zhao Zhen was born one year earlier."
"The time is wrong. You have been preparing for twelve days, right?" Maduan asked, "It's been a year over there? Is that right?"
"Reporting to the chief, yes."
Maduan put out the cigarette and asked, "Have you found any other problems?"
"Yes, first of all, it's a language issue. The other party didn't speak Song Dynasty Mandarin, but Mandarin."
"Second, there is the issue of appearance. Song Zhenzong Zhao Heng has the face of a swallow and a double eagle." Gao Dazhuang said with a twitching corner of his mouth.
"Poof" X2. Li Chang and Maduan just took a sip of tea and spurted it out.
"Ahem, cough, cough, cough. What did you just say?" Li Chang and Maduan asked while coughing, "Who has the face of a Yan Shuang eagle."
"The report is that Song Zhenzong Zhao Heng has the face of Yan Shuangying, Chu King Zhao Yuanzuo has the face of Bai Jingqi, and the King of Zhou, also known as the Eight Sages, has the face of Teacher Daoming."
"Poof" X2. Li Chang and Maduan squirted out all the tea they had just drank.
"Bang, cough, cough, cough, cough, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang," the two coughed and slapped their chests.
"Are you telling the truth?" Li Chang asked breathlessly.
"It's true, chief, we videotaped it."
"There's the video."
"Here is the chief."
The two of them were in the monitoring room. After watching the video, they looked at each other and twitched the corners of their mouths.
"Where are the people you brought back?" Maduan asked, tapping the table.
"Report to the chief, eat in the cafeteria."
"You have to entertain them well. Don't neglect us. We will return to the capital with the video." Li Chang thought for a moment. "Three days is all. We will be back in three days. Within these three days, you must stabilize them." , remember, this is an order!!!"
"Yes, chief, I promise to complete the task." Gao Dazhuang stood at attention and saluted.
"Okay, let's go."
"Yes." After Gao Dazhuang saluted the two of them, he turned and left the monitoring room.
"Let's go back to Beijing." Li Chang smoothed his clothes and said.
"Okay." Maduan stood up and checked the pistol he carried.
