The officials of the Qi State soon discovered that it was too cumbersome to calculate such a huge number in the unit of catties.

So Xu Shiyang took the opportunity to propose deepening the new reform of weights and measures.

The focus of this reform was on the uniform calculation of units of weight according to the decimal system.

In the past, the stone in the weights and measures of the Great Zhou was actually a unit of volume, and after the rise of the Xu family, Xu Shiyang forcibly turned the stone into a weight unit, stipulating that one stone was equal to 150 catties.

The new weights and measures change the equation again, and the actual scale is:

One stone is equal to ten buckets, equal to one hundred, and one liter is equal to one hundred catties.

In order to cooperate with the implementation of this weights and measures, the National Bank of Qi will issue large-amount grain stamps in Longdao starting in the fifth year of Longdao, and issue grain stamps in denominations of 50 catties and 1 stone on the basis of the original one, two, five, and 10 catties.

In this way, using the new weights and measures, the financial revenue of the Qi State in Longdao for four years was 47 million new stones.

The fiscal expenditure was 35 million new stones, although it also exceeded the plan at the beginning of the year, but it did not affect the health of Qi's finances.

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Five years before Longdao, the state of Qi actually had two sets of currencies.

One is the food stamps that were passed within the Qi Kingdom (also circulated in Goryeo).

The second is gold, silver, copper, and iron coins, which are mainly used for foreign trade.

The exchange of the two sets of currencies was calculated in real time at the price of grain at that time, and although it was possible to avoid the defect of insufficient hard currency in Qi State, it was very inconvenient to implement, and it would increase the workload of the financial personnel of the household department every year, and it was also prone to calculation errors and large errors.

Therefore, Xu Shiyang suggested that starting from the fifth year of Longdao, the two sets of currencies should start merging as much as possible.

In view of the fact that food-based currency is still the unshakable mainstream at this stage, then the metal coin currency should be actively integrated into the food stamp currency.

In this regard, Xu Shiyang's suggestion was that the copper and iron currency should be abolished from circulation within the Qi state, and the small auxiliary currency within the Qi country would be completely dependent on grain stamps.

The gold and silver coins are then directly pegged to the food stamps and decoupled from the material value of the coin itself.

For example, one gold coin is equal to ten silver coins, and ten stone stamps are equal to silver coins.

To show the difference, silver coins are measured in taels (in fact, silver coins do not weigh one tael, nor are they pure silver, nor are gold coins), and gold coins are referred to by the new monetary unit, the yuan.

That is, one yuan is equal to ten taels and is equal to ten stones.

In this way, although Qi still uses gold and silver currency externally and paper grain stamps internally, the two currencies already have a fixed internal connection, and when the conditions are ripe in the future, the two currencies can be formally merged into one.

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It is still a time of war, and the army is still the focus of the most concern of the whole Qi country, because everyone has come from the suffering, and they all know very well that the powerful Qi army is the capital to survive.

Naturally, Longdao's four-year military expansion plan has already been completed without discount, but in the five years of Longdao, the military has no demand for continuing large-scale military expansion.

The new annual work plan of the Ministry of War led by Xu Shiyang only proposes to strengthen the cavalry, engineer, artillery, navy, and other technical arms to a limited extent, so as to consolidate the total strength of the army at about 100,000.

The total number of field troops may not be increased, but the military service system must be improved.

The new plan of the Ministry of War is:

A compulsory military service system is implemented, and every healthy male and female civilian over the age of 18 in Qi must participate in the military service selection, from which new recruits for the field army are selected.

If they do not become a non-commissioned officer, each field army private shall serve in the unit for three years (five years for the technical branches) and shall be discharged immediately upon expiration, but shall be registered as a reserve in the reserve force.

Reservists serve until the age of forty and then continue as a militia until the age of sixty.

Young men and women who are not selected to join the field army at the age of 40 are transferred directly to the reserves, and they also remain in the reserve until they are 40 years old and become militiamen.

In this way, although the service period of Qi soldiers was short, the total number of citizens with military experience increased greatly (every adult had at least experience serving in the reserves), and when more troops were needed, Qi was able to quickly expand the front-line force to a jaw-dropping size.

This military service system is actually a variant of the three-level military service system, which is relatively close to the second dezi of another plane.

Xu Shiyang dared to do this, mainly because he felt that the current 100,000 field army was enough to deal with all the enemies in terms of numbers, but he still needed to make some preparations for future big expansion.

In addition, Xu Shiyang also needed a large number of talents who had undergone military discipline and cultural baptism to give back to the society and help the Qi regime strengthen its control over the grassroots of society.

If the number of front-line field troops does not increase, a large amount of funds will naturally have to be spent on improving the treatment of officers and men and on updating weapons and equipment.

Especially weapons and equipment.

The Ministry of War planned to completely abolish the establishment of sharp-soldier spearmen and supernatural soldiers arquebusiers in the field army in the fifth year of Longdao, and upgrade all of them to flintlock muskeers.

The main reason why this can be done now is that the Qi State Arsenal has been able to complete the large-scale production of gunpowder granules, and the flintlock musketeers no longer need to store the primer and propellant separately, and now they can use the same gunpowder to complete both tasks.

As a result, the Fusiliers were able to reserve up to the standard 60 rounds per battle, so there was no longer any bottleneck in upgrading all light infantry to flintlock musketeers.

In order to cooperate with this equipment upgrade plan, all state-owned arsenals in Qi began to completely stop the production of standard standard arquebuses, and from today, only two types of firearms will be produced: standard flintlock pistols and simple arquebuses (bird guns) for export.

The existing standard arquebus, in addition to a part of the civilian export, the rest will be recycled, all transformed into flintlock pistols - standard arquebuses and flintlock pistols except for the bolt mechanism is different, other specifications are exactly the same, replaced with a flintlock pistol is just a flintlock pistol, at this time Qi country enjoys the benefits of this standardization.

The program for upgrading the equipment of the artillery is a little more complicated.

First of all, the god cannon equipped with flying artillery will be completely eliminated and replaced with a new type of long-barreled artillery that fires 3-kilogram shells.

Then, the artillery assigned to the field corps was limited to the following:

The battalion level is a new 3-pound field gun (4 pounds);

Brigade level is 6 kg field guns (9 pounds);

The army rank is a 10-pound field gun (13 pounds).

In addition, the army's independent heavy artillery is still equipped with 20 kg siege guns and 30 kg mortars.

All of the new guns are made of iron core coated with copper (the inner chamber is cast in iron and wrapped in a thick layer of copper), which is heavier than the pure segment iron cannon, but the walls can be made thicker, so that they can withstand more chamber pressure.

Compared with copper cannons, this kind of artillery has a longer firing life (iron is more resistant to wear than copper), and it can be said that it is the most moderate artillery weapon under current technical conditions.

Most of the obsolete artillery will be melted down into copper and iron parts for other purposes, and a small number can be specially exported to friendly regimes to strengthen the armament of allies.