Recruit troops and borrow food from the warehouse at low interest rates!
Two notices and two incidents caused another sensation in Guangchang County, which had just been flattened.
Anping Army Volunteer Warehouse provides low-interest grain loans. Each person can borrow five liters, and the annual interest rate is 12%!
Five liters of grain per person plus some wild vegetables can last until the summer harvest. This is the minimum standard calculated by Shitou and others. It is also the lending standard. Each household is based on head count, and the amount of grain borrowed must not exceed the number. For example, a family of five , the most you can borrow is two stones and five liters.
The purpose of borrowing food is to keep you alive, not to let you squander it wantonly.
Seeing the two notices, the people looked excited. Millet is the basic food, and one more mouthful of food can save one more life.
"Uncle, be a guarantee..."
"Uncle, I am one less policy holder..."
"Feng Wa, it's just right. I'm missing a family here. Let's protect each other."
The annual interest rate for borrowing grain was finally settled at 12% after discussion among all living beings. Compared with the donkey rolling and the beheaded loan, the interest rate of 12% is really nothing.
When the poor people got the news, they were instantly excited. With the trust foundation established by receiving food and children going to school, the people were now convinced of the contents of the two notices. At the same time, they were worried about the future. The days were suddenly full of hope, and I went from house to house one after another, contacting the guarantor, and even contacted smart people to directly contact the guarantor for mutual insurance.
To borrow food, you must borrow food. With grain, you can survive. As long as you can survive, there is hope in life.
Recruit troops!
This is the result of Zhang Sheng's consideration based on the experience of later generations. He will not recruit troops for the time being, but will recruit them after the summer harvest. This is a decision made after everyone discussed it, so as not to cause instability in people's hearts.
Recruit troops, recruit combat troops and auxiliary troops. These people will be the main force in future battles. They do not engage in production and serve full-time.
Males, aged twenty to thirty-five, who voluntarily enlisted and were selected as soldiers received a regular soldier's salary of twelve dan, and those over forty could apply for discharge. During the period of death, if you are promoted to captain, you will receive five liters. If you are promoted to captain, you will receive 1 stone. If you are promoted to captain, you will receive 2 stones. If you are promoted to commander, you will receive 5 liters.
Auxiliary soldiers are paid eight dan per year and can apply for retirement when they are over 40 years old. During the period of death, if you are promoted to captain, you will receive five liters. If you are promoted to captain, you will receive 1 stone. If you are promoted to captain, you will receive 2 stones. If you are promoted to commander, you will receive 5 liters.
Although this military salary is much different from the imperial court's annual salary of sixty to eighty shi, the following conditions are incomparable to the imperial court.
If a soldier is recruited and dies in battle during his service, his children will be raised by the Anping Army until he is eighteen years old, and his parents will be taken care of by the Anping Army. If he becomes disabled during his service, his military salary will be extended until the end of his life. If he applies for retirement when he reaches the age of forty, he will be treated as The salary ranges from 20% to the full amount for the length of service.
Improve the treatment of soldiers and solve their worries. Only in this way can soldiers work hard.
Compared to the notices for borrowing food, the recruitment notices received much less attention, but there were still quite a few.
"Auntie, I want to apply for the army."
"Erlang, now that the Anping Army is borrowing food, it won't be difficult for us to get through the day." Children are always the thorns in my heart, and no mother would be willing to let her child go to the battlefield.
"Mom, although it's good to borrow food, you have to pay it back. Besides, this little ration is just enough to save our lives. If our children become soldiers, we don't have to worry about our food rations..."
"..."
"My dear, I will leave this home to you from now on."
"Dalang, can you not go?"
"My dear, let me fight for a few more years. I believe our lives will get better..."
In thatched huts and adobe houses, scenes of conversations, discussions, or instructions were going on.
The high platform outside Guangchang City came into use again. It was crowded and the people were smiling. Everyone held sacks or earthen jars in their hands, handed over the guarantee letter, signed and stamped it, and then began to receive grain.
There was also a long queue at the gate of the barracks in Guangchang City, with young and old people all lined up.
Jushou stood on the city wall, looking at the situation in the city with a sad expression. At this time, he suddenly realized that he was not as good as a bandit in governing a county.
Looking at the smiling people below the city and the people queuing up to apply in the city, Jushou felt mixed emotions in his heart.
How can the people trust a bandit more than a court?
Once upon a time, I read the books of saints and wanted to express my ambition, but I had no choice but to be coerced by the family, and I was always powerless. Unexpectedly, a thief raised his sword and fell, and the restraints were removed.
Zhang Sheng is a big thief!
What would happen if this person were allowed to grow up? Jushu really wants to see...
"Brother, Thief Zhang is trying to buy people's hearts." Zhao Yun muttered angrily as he looked at the cheerful people outside the city.
Inviting to buy people's hearts?
"Ayun, as the saying goes, food is the most important thing for the people! If the court can make the people full, how can Zhang Sheng win the hearts of the people? People from aristocratic families only know how to get but don't know how to give up. This person was born as a bandit. But he is able to provide grain and set up charity warehouses, this person is not simple."
"Brother, Zhang Thief is so unscrupulous in Guangchang, how can the court just sit back and ignore it?" Zhao Yun asked again the doubt in his heart.
"Ayun, people have been devastated since the imperial court started to buy officials and titles in an upright manner. Now, they have added more corvees and more taxes, which has completely lost the support of the people. Nowadays, there are wars everywhere in the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty. The imperial court wants to control it, but how can it? Come here? Besides, after Zhang Sheng captured Guangchang, he used thunderbolt tactics to wipe out all the big families in the city. After that, he ceased his activities and seemed to be dormant. Now that the local government has not taken action, the imperial court happened to be quiet. This is What’s so clever about Zhang Sheng.”
Zhao Feng looked at the bustling people and was filled with emotion.
Zhang Sheng paid more attention to recruiting soldiers than borrowing food at low interest rates. He took Zhou Chuang to the temporary military camp early in the morning.
The small training ground in the temporary barracks has several testing points for weightlifting, horse riding, and archery.
The purpose of setting up these test points is not to recruit the best, but to simply classify the recruited soldiers according to their abilities to avoid being assigned again in the future.
After every young and strong commoner has submitted his previous talisman biography and registered, he becomes a member of the Anping Army. At this time, the recruiter will ask about his general skills. For example, do you know how to ride? Don't know how to use a bow and arrow? As for lifting the stone lock, it was Yu Zhong's idea.
As an elite member of the Anping Army, Yu Zhong knew that after the new soldiers were recruited, and after Uncle Fu's one-month training, he would be the first to select soldiers. An idea flashed in this boy's mind. Instead of waiting a month later, Instead of selecting soldiers, it is better to screen them out at once and form these people into separate villages. When the time comes, you only need to recruit people according to the army.
It is a good thing to be willing to use your brain. Zhang Sheng naturally agreed to such an inconsequential request...
