It seems that there must be a hidden secret, but there is not much point in guessing now. After all, Cao Gan has been captured, and Liu Xian now has something to ask of himself. Instead of guessing here, it is better to go to Liu Xian's place later. Take a look, and even interrogate Cao Gan directly.
Thinking of this, he nodded and said: "I understand your concerns. I will learn more about this matter through other channels. Now let's talk about other things first."
Gao Xiaozhuang and Gao Mo both stood up straighter subconsciously. Gao Pragmatic waved his hand: "Don't be so nervous."
Then he paused and said, "I have renamed this place Sanshenyuan. The three floors from top to bottom are Shensiyuan, Shenyanyuan, and Shenxingyuan. Shensiyuan is where I live every day. Shensiyuan is where I live every day. The existing guard rooms in Yanyuan are not small, but as far as I know, there are basically no guards stationed in the entire garden. Usually, only when my uncle comes, there will be accompanying guards. The same is true for the guest rooms. It's even emptier than the guard wing... I plan to make use of both places."
Gao Xiaozhuang and Gao Mo didn't know yet how Gao Pragmatic would use it, so they just listened attentively and didn't interrupt.
Gao pragmatic continued: "What I mean is that the guard rooms are all used as soap production factories. The original warehouse on this side is still used as a warehouse to store mid-range soaps; except for the original VIP rooms, all the other original guest rooms are retained. It was changed to a guard wing and we set up our own servant guard. The original warehouse on this side is still retained to store high-end soaps."
Gao Mo was a little surprised: "The eldest young master plans to form his own servant guard?"
"Is there anything wrong?" Gao Pragmatic smiled slightly and said: "Since this Sanshen Garden is already my property, I will definitely come here often in the future. What if something like yesterday happens again? I can't go every time. Can you ask your uncle to borrow someone?"
Gao Mo hesitated and said: "The eldest young master's concerns are certainly reasonable, but the guards are not as good as others. Generally speaking, they are not very good at doing other errands. In this case... the number of people is small, and they cannot protect the eldest young master's safety. Function; if there are too many people, the cost will be huge."
Gao pragmatic leaned back in his chair and said: "I am somewhat mentally prepared for this, but after all, I don't know as much about these things as you do. So, you can introduce to me the cost of maintaining a guard. In this way, you Let me tell you first, how much does it cost to have a guard of fifty or a hundred people? It can be calculated by month or year."
Gao Mo said without hesitation: "Near the capital, the monthly salary of each family's guard servants is different. The price paid by the servants of the noble warrior family is very different from that of servants of other aristocratic families. Generally, the guard servants of the noble family usually come from For those selected from their own military families, one or two taels per month is considered good; but for other aristocratic and powerful families, the monthly salary for guarding servants is not low, the lowest is about four taels, and the average It’s about five taels, and those who pay more can get six taels.”
Gao Pinggong said sincerely: This is really not low. These days, a long-term worker in the capital gets up early every day and works all the time. His salary is only three taels of silver per hundred days, which is less than one tael of silver per month. In addition to wages, the owner is only responsible for one lunch. At this time, one tael of silver could buy 120 kilograms of flour (this is based on the modern market kilogram).
If you look at it this way, those guard servants who earn six taels a month are completely high-paid, and their work is several times higher than that of ordinary men in the capital. No wonder that when the guards of the Zhang family faced the superior number of thieves, not one of them escaped. Comparable Ming's regular army was much stronger. However, this can also explain why in the later period, the main combat forces of the Ming Dynasty army became almost all the generals' own servants - it is unreasonable to refuse to work hard despite being fed such a large amount of money.
But although it is indeed expensive, Gao Pragmatic still nodded and said: "Just give me six taels."
Gao Mo's eyelids twitched, but he continued speaking bravely: "Young master, these six taels are just a monthly gift. The food of the guard servants must be eaten with the master's family all day long, and all the food expenses must be included in the master's account. At home. In addition, since these servants are tasked with guarding the main house, daily training is indispensable, and this will cause them to eat more than the average person, so if calculated on average, each person will consume about one yuan per month. Two and a half denarii."
Well, this is also very delicious.
Gao pragmatically nodded: "The high point is calculated as two taels of silver per person per month."
Gao Mo felt his heart tremble a little when he heard that, he took a deep breath and said: "In addition, there are weapons and equipment. Some families' guards have their own weapons, but some have uniform equipment, such as the Zhang family guards. Because Zhang The family is rich, so the weapons are uniformly equipped with Yanling knives and mulberry bows. Arrows are actually not expensive and can be used multiple times. The cost is not particularly outrageous. Don’t worry about it too much for the time being... If it is The average cost of maintaining a long-term guard servant on weapons and equipment is about one tael of silver per person per month, which is about the same."
Fortunately, Gao Pragmatic didn't take the initiative to increase the amount this time. He nodded and said, "That's nine taels of silver per person per month. If it is a team of fifty guard servants, it will cost four hundred and fifty taels of silver per month. If there are one hundred people, it will cost nine hundred taels of silver..."
When Gao Pragmatic made this calculation, he was shocked. He was a tall young man who started school so early, and Zhang, one of the richest men in the Ming Dynasty, gave him a lot of money to encourage him to study, but so far he had only saved more than 900 taels, and if he wanted to maintain a team of 100 bodyguards, , this little money was gone in a month.
Although this time his uncle Zhang Siwei directly gave him a Sanshenyuan and a huge sum of five thousand taels of silver, but if he wanted to build a personal guard of 100 people, he would have to be a loser in half a year.
It seems that the guard team of a hundred people is useless, but it is too small and it is really useless. Otherwise... it is better to bite the bullet and get a team of fifty people first. After all, this thing is a matter of life and death. If something happens in the future No matter what happens, you can't always count on monsters like Liu Wei and his son to help you. You still have to rely on yourself for this kind of thing.
Gao Jingshi coughed dryly, pretended to be calm, and said in a calm voice: "Okay, then let's form a guard team of fifty people first. Gao Mo, your job as the groom will be offloaded now. Changed to captain of the guard team."
Gao Mo was stunned for a moment: "Captain?" He seemed unfamiliar with this term.
"Fifty people is equivalent to the general banner of fifty people in the army when you joined the army." Gao pragmatically explained: "I can't call your establishment the same as the army. I have a few flags." Brain?"
