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The city wall of Linshui County is more than six meters high, there is a moat nearly ten meters wide under the city wall, and there are high mountains behind and on the left and right, so if you want to break through this city, you can only attack it from the front, so it is a good development base.

After a high-level meeting, Song Yan sent his soldiers and horses to garrison the three county seats, leaving only 8,000 men and horses in the county seats.

But soon, after checking the finances of Linshui County, Song Yan became annoyed.

Now there are more than 26,000 soldiers under the command of Qi State, about 10,000 auxiliary soldiers, plus thousands of people, the total number of soldiers and horses has exceeded 40,000.

These soldiers and horses all have to open their mouths to eat, and they also have to pay military salaries.

However, the taxation of this era is very simple, in addition to the agricultural tax, there are only some miscellaneous small taxes, it can be said that the financial revenue of the county is very weak, and it cannot afford to raise 40,000 military horses at all.

If the 30,000 horses brought by Gu Min are subdued, it will depend on a mere Linshui County to feed nearly 100,000 people, and even if the tax revenue is doubled, it will not be possible.

Therefore, we must find a way to generate income as soon as possible, otherwise, let the soldiers go hungry, and before waiting for the soldiers and horses of other countries to attack, the soldiers themselves will rebel.

After thinking about it for a while, Song Yan thought of two ways to increase income generation.

First, develop business.

Second, war.

The development of commerce is not something that can be done in a while, and in this era, it is difficult for the common people to fill their stomachs, where do they get the spare money to buy the so-called goods, so to develop business, it is necessary for the commoners to have enough food and earn money.

As for the second way, a lot of materials can be plundered through war, but this is also a palliative rather than a cure, and as the territory expands, the consumption will be greater.

Thinking of this, Song Yan's heart moved, it was better to do this, this siege to grab supplies, and not occupy the territory.

With a plan in mind, Song Yan recruited Song Xiu.

"How is papermaking and movable type printing going?" asked Song Yan.

"General Hui, according to the papermaking process you provided, there should be three or five days left, but the movable type printing has already been done. Song Xiu replied truthfully.

"Very well, report back to me as soon as the paper is made. Song Yan nodded, he wrote the papermaking and movable type printing in great detail, and handed it to anyone to make it step by step.

The raw materials used in papermaking are very simple, and since it only takes a few days to make paper, it is better to prepare the raw materials as soon as possible.

After Song Xiu retreated, Song Yan summoned Shen Poison again.

"Census, how is the survey of cultivated land?" Song Yan asked directly.

Shen Poison said: "General Huida, at present, there are 100,000 households in Linshui County, with more than 325,600 people. ”

"So little?" Song Yan frowned, there are only more than 300,000 people in a county town, it seems that in the real world, the population of an ordinary county town is more than this.

However, considering that in this era, science and technology are backward, health conditions are backward, and there are many wars, it is not bad to have more than 300,000 people in a county.

"How many acres of cultivated land are there, and what is the yield?" Song Yan continued.

"General Hui, Linshui County has a total of 100,000 acres of cultivated land, and the crops grown by civilians are mainly corn, wheat and soybeans, with the yield per mu of corn being about 200 liters, wheat yielding about 220 liters, and soybeans producing 80 liters per year. ”

One liter is equal to 1.25 catties, which is converted to a very low yield per mu of these three crops, which is simply weak compared with the yield of thousands of catties per mu in the real world.

The agricultural tax revenue is 50%.

And this fifty percent still needs to be levied under the condition of good wind and rain, and once there is a natural disaster, it will not be collected at all.

Let's calculate the consumption of soldiers.

A soldier eats one pound of corn a day, it is 30 pounds in a month, 360 pounds in a year, 36,000 pounds for 100 soldiers, and 3.6 million pounds of corn for 10,000 soldiers.

The 100,000 mu of cultivated land in Linshui County produces only 2.5 million catties of corn, and the official harvest is half, that is, 1.25 million catties, plus 1.385 million catties of wheat and 500,000 catties of soybeans, a total of less than 3 million catties.

In other words, Linshui County's annual grain tax cannot even support 10,000 soldiers.

And now there are 40,000 mouths, and he wants to eat with Song Yan, so after careful calculation, he realized the seriousness of the problem, it seems that after Gu Min's 30,000 troops are subdued this time, they will have to start plundering wars, otherwise the soldiers will be hungry.

"By the way, how much grain is still in stock in the county town?" Song Yan asked again.

"The total amount is less than a million liters. Shen Poison said with a solemn expression.

"So little?" Song Yan's brows furrowed even tighter, one million liters of grain could last for forty thousand soldiers and horses for a month at most.

After letting Shen Poison go down to do things, Song Yan called Zhao Yan and asked him how much food he still had in the army.

The answer he got made Song Yan more and more urgent, and the surplus food in the army was only enough to last for seven days.

That is, he had only thirty-seven days, beyond which the army had no food to eat.

With a thought, Song Yan took out the map of the Shenzhou Continent that he had drawn with his own hands.

Linshui County is also a border city, bordering the desert in the north, Heiyan County in the south, Heiyan County is the territory of Chu State, Yi'an County in the west, which is the territory of Zhao State, and Fan County in the east, which is also the county seat of Zhao State.

"Do you know the deployment of soldiers and horses in Yi'an County and Fan County?"

Hearing Song Yan's inquiry, Zhao Yan thought for a while: "There are about 6,000 people in Yi'an County, and there are about 8,000 people in Fan County. ”

"If I give you 10,000 horses, how long will it take for you to attack Yi'an County or Fan County?" Song Yan looked at Zhao Yan and said.

Zhao Yan groaned and said: "Yi'an County is three zhang high, the moat is five zhang deep, if you want to attack, it will be difficult to break through in a month, Fan County is established in the valley basin, only a thousand men and horses need to guard the passage, and 10,000 horses cannot break through!"

"In this way, you can sneak into Yi'an and Fan County to find out how much grain is in their treasury!

"Yes!"

When Zhao Yan retreated, Song Yan went to the courtyard where he lived, and at the same time rubbed his head, there are so many worries about just managing a county town, if you want to manage a country, you don't know what it will be like to be tired, no wonder those so-called Ming Jun don't live long, they really have too many things to worry about.

As soon as he entered the courtyard, Song Yan found that the crown prince Jiang Dan was squatting under the supervision of the two girls of Chunhe and Qiuxiang, and both of them were holding a whip in their hands, and once his movements were not standard, he would be whipped.

At first, Chunhe Qiuxiang didn't dare to start because Jiang Dan was the prince, but after being scolded by Song Yan several times in a row, he could only smoke hard.

And after smoking Jiang Dan, they found that they all had an inexplicable pleasure in their hearts, just ask, how many people in the world dare to whip the prince.

As for Jiang Dan, who was smoked, he didn't hate Chunhe Qiuxiang, but he hated Song Yan half to death.

"I've seen the General!"

As soon as he saw Song Yan, Chunhe Qiuxiang abandoned Jiang Dan and greeted him.

Compared with a few days ago, Chunhe Qiuxiang's complexion is much better, mainly because they have meat to eat at every meal, and Song Yan also washed their hair and taught them a set of exercises.

After a few days, the two girls have cultivated their internal strength, and relatively speaking, Qiu Xiang's qualifications are higher.

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