It seems that there must be a hidden situation, but there is not much point in guessing at the moment, after all, Cao Gan has been captured, and Liu Xian is asking for himself, instead of guessing here, it is better to go to Liu Xian's side later, and even interrogate Cao Gan directly.

Thinking of this, he nodded and said, "I understand your worries, I will do more to understand this matter from other channels, now let's talk about other things first." ”

Gao Xiaozhuang and Gao Mo both subconsciously stood up straighter, and Gao pragmatically waved his hand: "Don't be so nervous." ”

Then he paused and said, "This place has been renamed Sanshen Garden by me, and the three floors from top to bottom are Shensi Temple, Shenyan Temple, and Shenxing Temple. Shensi Courtyard is where I live every day, and the existing guard wing of Shenyan Courtyard is not small, but as far as I know, the entire garden is basically not guarded by guards, and usually only when my uncle comes will there be accompanying guards to move in. The same is true of the guest rooms, which are even more empty than the guard rooms...... I'm going to make use of both of these places. ”

Gao Xiaozhuang and Gao Mo didn't know how to use Gao Shiji, so they just listened intently and didn't interject.

Gao pragmatic continued: "I mean, the guard wing is all used as a factory for soap production, and the original warehouse on this side is still used as a warehouse, which is used to place mid-range soap; In addition to the original VIP room, the rest of the rooms were converted into guard rooms, and our own family guards were formed, and the original warehouse on this side was still retained for high-end soaps. ”

Gao Mo was slightly surprised: "The eldest young master plans to form a family guard by himself?" ”

"Is there anything wrong?" Gao Pragmatic smiled slightly: "Since this Sanshen Garden is already my property, I will definitely come here often in the future, what if it happens to yesterday?" You can't go to your uncle to borrow someone every time, right? ”

Gao Mo hesitated and said: "The eldest young master's concerns are naturally reasonable, but the guards are not as good as others, and generally speaking, they are not very good at taking care of other errands on weekdays, so this is the case...... The number of people is small, and it can't play the role of guarding the safety of the eldest young master; If there are more people, the cost will be great. ”

Gao pragmatic leaned back in the chair and said, "I'm a little mentally prepared for this, but after all, I don't know as much about these things as you do, so let's introduce me to the cost of maintenance and guarding." So, first of all, how much does it cost to escort 50 or 100 people? It can be calculated on a monthly or annual basis. ”

Gao Mo said without hesitation: "The Jingshi is close to the left, the monthly service of each family's guard family is different, the price given by the family of the Xungui Wuchen family is very different from that of the rest of the family, and the general guard family of the Xungui family is usually selected from their own military households, and it is good to give one tael or two taels every month; But whether it is the rest of the families or the strong, the monthly service of the guards is not low, the lowest is about four taels, the average is about five taels, and the high ones can be six taels. ”

Gao pragmatic said: This is really not low, this year, a long-term worker in Beijing gets up early every day, and has to do it all the time, and his salary is only three taels of silver for one hundred days, which is less than one tael of silver per month, and the main family is only responsible for one lunch in addition to wages. At this time, one tael of silver can buy 120 catties of flour (this is according to the modern market catties).

If you look at it this way, those guards who take six taels a month are completely high-paid people, and they are several times higher than the ordinary strong men of the Beijing Division, no wonder when the Zhang family guards faced the advantage of the horse thieves, none of them escaped, but they were much stronger than the regular army of the Ming Dynasty. However, this can also explain why almost all the main forces of the Ming army in the later period have become the generals themselves-it is too much to say that such a large amount of silver is not fed.

But although it is indeed expensive, Gao Pragmatic still nodded and said: "Give me six taels." ”

Gao Mo's eyelids jumped, but he still stubbornly continued: "Young Master, these six taels are only moon frays, and the food of the guards is to follow the main family all day long, and the cost of this food must be counted on the main family." In addition, since the task of these family members is to protect the main house, they are indispensable to practice on weekdays, and this will cause them to eat more than ordinary people, so if you calculate it on average, each person will consume about one or five taels of silver per month. ”

Well, it's also very tasty.

Gao pragmatic nodded: "Calculate the high point, calculated according to two taels of silver per person per month." ”

Gao Mo's heart trembled a little when he heard this, and he took a deep breath and said: "In addition, there are weapons and equipment, some of the family's guards are equipped with their own weapons, but there are also some unified equipment, such as the Zhang family's guards, because the Zhang family is rich, so the weapons are all uniformly equipped Yanling knives with Zhemu bows, arrows or something are actually not expensive, and they can be used many times, and the cost is not particularly outrageous, so you don't have to worry too much about it for the time being...... If it is a long-term maintenance of the guard, the cost of weapons and equipment is about the same as one tael of silver a month per person. ”

Fortunately, Gao Pragmatic did not take the initiative to increase the weight this time, nodded, and said: "That is nine taels of silver per person per month, if it is a team of fifty guards, it will cost four hundred and fifty taels of silver per month, and if there are one hundred people, it will cost nine hundred taels of silver......

Gao pragmatic calculated this, but he also scared himself. Thinking that his tall young master was enlightened so early, the money given by the Zhang family, one of the wealthy people of the Ming Dynasty, was very high, but so far he had saved more than 900 taels, and if he wanted to maintain a team of 100 guards, this money would be gone in a month.

Although this time his uncle Zhang Siwei directly gave him a Sanshen Garden plus a huge sum of five thousand taels of silver, if he wanted to build a personal guard of 100 people, he would have to play a loser for half a year.

It seems that the team of 100 guards is out of play, but it is too small and indeed useless, or ...... It's better to grit your teeth, let's go to fifty people first, after all, this thing is a matter of life and death, if something happens again in the future, you can't always expect to run into monsters like Liu Wei and his son to help every time, this kind of thing still has to rely on yourself.

Gao Shishi coughed dryly, pretended to be calm, and said in a light tone: "Okay, then let's first form a fifty-person family guard team, Gao Mo, your groom errand will be relieved now, and he will be reappointed as the captain of the family guard team." ”

Gao Mo was stunned for a moment: "Captain? "It seems strange to the term.

"Fifty people, it's equivalent to when you joined the army, the army was in charge of the general flag of fifty people." Gao pragmatic explained: "I can't call your establishment the same as the army, how many heads do I have?" ”