Correct a thinking, that is, the grain and grass of the 300,000 army are not very valuable.

It's worth so much that you all feel sorry for Wu Laojiu, and you all think that Chide Zuzan should run away with grain and grass.

Let's settle the score

Tang Dadou 6.75 kg.

According to the records of Zizhi Tongjian, the price of grain during the period of Zhongzong Li Xian was a bucket of 100 yuan, that is, 100 yuan and 6.75 kilograms. But this is because of the initial peace of the famine in Guanzhong.

When he arrived in Xuanzong, the rice was 15 yuan, which was much lower than that of Zhongzong.

Wu Zetian, there is no clear record, but it is definitely better than the social environment of Zhongzong, so let's give a 50% discount and count 50 yuan.

The Tang Dynasty implemented the government military system, that is, bringing its own food and salary. The grain and grass of the 300,000-strong army is enough only for grain consumption and horse feed.

And the normal food consumption of a soldier for a day is about one and a half catties, that is, 0.75 kilograms.

Some people say that the ancients were very edible with less oil and water. That's why I have to eat so much food a day.

Not really

It's just that the ancients used grain as a unit of measurement. In other words, the total price of a day's grain, rice, vegetables, salt, sauce, etc. is almost 0.75 kilograms.

Well, 300,000 people are 0.75 kilograms per person per day, which is 225,000 kilograms, multiplied by 30 days.

That's 6.75 million kilograms.

That's a lot, right?

As mentioned earlier, one bucket is equal to 6.75 kilograms.

6.75 million kilograms of grain, 1 million buckets.

How much does it cost? Multiply by 50 dollars per bucket.

That's 50 million dollars, converted

50,000 times.

Of course, that's not all.

And the money for horse feed!

The cost of raising a war horse is almost the same as raising a soldier in peacetime, and the cost is even greater in wartime, almost doubled.

Expedition to the west, 90,000 cavalry. That is, 90,000 war horses, which is equivalent to the food consumption of 180,000 soldiers.

Full of horses, a month's horse feed, no more than 30,000.

In other words, the grain and grass that Wu Laoning threw to the Tubo people were worth 80,000 at most.

Got it now?

Why didn't you run away with a month's worth of grain and grass from an army of 300,000 people, such a "big" sum of money?

Even if you convert it with the cattle and horses of the Wu Zetian period, these 80,000 guan is the value of 5,000 cattle, or 3 to 4,000 war horses.

Converted into Tibetan slaves, there are about 1,000 people.

It is not worth all the property of a small and medium-sized aristocrat in Tibet.

And what about Tibet?

Nor did he lack money or food.

What he lacks is the population! Hundreds of thousands of people were taken away by the Great Zhou at once, and the population is the biggest rigid need of Tibet.

Therefore, it must fight the river states and plunder.

Even if you grab a small town, it is worth much more than this bit of grain and grass.

Another point is that many people will use the idea of equivalent conversion to measure the exchange relationship between the surrounding ethnic minorities and the Central Plains Dynasty.

Actually, this is wrong.

Take food, for example. Because of the huge population base of the Central Plains, grain is a rigid need for the Central Plains, and the Han and Tang Dynasties expanded their territory to increase more arable land.

However, there is not much food problem for the surrounding ethnic minorities.

On the contrary, due to the problem of low industrial and technological level, what they need is the industrial products and labor of the Central Plains.

In other words, they plundered the Central Plains, looking at the industrial materials and manpower in the Central Plains, rather than food or money.

Maybe you put a ton of grain and an iron pot there, and they will not hesitate to choose the iron pot.

Of course, this is just an analogy, the iron pot in the Tang Dynasty was not popular.

Well, that's all there is to it.

Originally, this paragraph checked the information for a long time, and it can be written in the text.

For example, Li Qian asked Wu Ning, the Tubo people must take grain and grass to fight Hezhou? Wu Ning could pretend to be forced to tell Li Qian the above account.

But

It's so special that I can't even get my hands on it.

Open a private room and explain it.

If you want to see it, you can watch it, and if you don't want to see it, skip it.

Finally, you are welcome to ask questions.

I know that I will try to answer everyone, it can be a single chapter, or a chapter can be said and answered.

Of course, if I don't know

Hey?

There is a quail named Cangshan Yue.

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