After receiving the holy decree, Yao Jie was not in a hurry to take office, the situation in Beiping County was unknown, and the cavalry under Yao Jie was only more than 300 people after the battle, so Yao Jie was ready to take in some rebel prisoners, these people had seen blood, much stronger than the recruits, but they lacked training.

"Passing on the general's order, order all officers above the commander level to assemble." Yao Jie said to his subordinates in the handsome tent.

"No." The herald went down to give the order.

In just a moment, all the tun chiefs came to Yao Jie's handsome tent.

"This general has just been promoted to the rank of general of Pingyu Zhonglang, according to the military system, this general can command tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, but now this general is only a few hundred people, the situation in Beiping County is unknown, and the population is sparse, so this will be ready to recruit new soldiers in Jixian County, and at the same time select a part of the captives to supplement our department, from now on all officers and officers will be promoted to two levels, and the vacant selection of outstanding soldiers who have made military merits will serve, from now on you will go down first to prepare for recruitment, and this will go back to Liu Youzhou to discuss this matter, as long as the state pastor agrees, immediately start expanding the army." Yao Jie said to all the tun chiefs under him.

"No." Who doesn't like promotions, this time the direct promotion is mainly due to the large-scale expansion of the army, and there will be no such good thing in the future.

The military system of the Han Dynasty is calculated by multiples of two and five, and the most basic unit is the army, that is, every five people have a captain, two soldiers are what, every ten people have a captain, five teams are a team, every fifty people have a team rate, two teams are a tun, every hundred people are a tun chief, every two hundred people are a song, every two hundred people have a military marquis, two songs are one, every four hundred people have a military horse, usually five departments are a battalion, That is, it is an independent combat unit, and the leader is usually a general or captain, but there is no permanent system for how many troops the captain commands, and Yao Jie decided how many troops and horses Guan Yu and Zhang Fei commanded after the expansion of the army was completed.

After getting the officers under his command ready, Yao Jie went into the city to see Liu Yu.

After learning of Yao Jie's intention, Liu Yu thought for a while and said: "Beiping is sparsely populated and not suitable for recruiting soldiers. ”

"No, Master Xie Zhou." Yao Jie thanked him.

As soon as Yao Jie returned, he immediately ordered to go to Jicheng to post recruitment notices, and at the same time let literate people in the army continue to read the contents of the notices nearby, after all, most people were illiterate at this time.

The matter of recruiting recruits was handed over by Yao Jie to several military horses, but it was not without requirements, first of all, he must be able to lift a fifty-pound stone lock, and secondly, he had to run three kilometers, Yao Jie has always believed that there are not many soldiers, but in fine, if you can't even do this requirement, it means that physical fitness is really not good.

The prisoner camp, which was guarded by the Youzhou army, had Liu Yu's order, Yao Jie naturally entered unimpeded, and this time he only brought twenty soldiers to Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.

Looking at the rebels gathered in the open space, Yao Jie said: "You and others followed Zhang Ju to rebel, and according to the law, the nine clans should be punished, but Liu Youzhou is merciful and does not want to kill more, so give you a way to live, this general is the general who killed the Wuhuan cavalry before, and the one who killed the Wuhuan cavalry before is also the general, and the one who captured Zhang Ju alive with Gongsun Taishou is also the general, and now the general is ready to recruit soldiers from you, as long as you meet the standards of the general, you can enlist in the army, and you will be the Han army in the future, and you are the general's soldiers." ”

Yao Jie's words caused a commotion among the prisoners, although Han Feng was demoted by Liu Hong because of his mistake, he also captured nearly 50,000 rebels before, although most of them were old and weak and homeless, but they were also taken to the prisoner camp and imprisoned together, plus the 10,000 people who were captured in the battle of Jicheng, so now there are nearly 60,000 people in the camp, and about half of them are young and strong, that is, nearly 30,000 people.

The captives who came in the back may not know Yao Jie, but the captives who participated in the Battle of Jicheng were shocked after listening to Yao Jie's words, after all, it was the one in front of him who single-handedly smashed Zhang Chun's plan. They also admired the general, even though he looked young.

"There is a fifty-pound stone lock here, as long as you lift it, you can pass the first standard. After lifting the stone lock, as long as you run five miles in half an hour, you can join the general's command, and there is a military salary of 20 baht per month.

Now everyone is in an uproar, the earliest Tang Dynasty before other dynasties basically implemented the military system, wartime conscription, soldiers have no salary, or only a small salary, usually farming, chopping firewood, some expenses have to pay for themselves.

The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty also had to bring their own horses and weapons, but the capture of the battlefield could be owned by the soldiers, which could be regarded as additional income. It was not until the Tang Xuanzong period that the conscription system appeared, and the soldiers became professional soldiers, and they were paid in peacetime.

Therefore, as soon as Yao Jie announced that he had a military salary, everyone was incredulous, and even the Youzhou soldiers guarding nearby were a little moved.

As for why the military salary is five baht instead of silver, China itself is a country lacking gold and silver, and the total output of silver from ancient China to the end of the Ming Dynasty was about 300 million taels. However, from the 16th to the 18th centuries, due to the prosperity of overseas trade, the inflow of silver into China in more than 200 years reached 300 million taels, equivalent to 12,000 tons of metric system.

Ancient silver mining reached its peak in the Song Dynasty, with an average annual amount of silver of about 200,000 taels in its heyday, while the average amount of silver in the Tang Xuanzong period was about 20,000 taels, an increase of 10 times. 20% of the silver smelted from private silver mines is handed over to the government, and the rest is used to cover costs, expand reproduction or retain profits, while most of the state-run silver mines are handed over to the government.

Natural silver is basically non-existent in nature, so silver mining is mainly subject to technical constraints, and the further time passes, the less silver production must be; Unlike gold, which can occur naturally, it is possible that natural gold was mined in ancient times. Therefore, before the Han Dynasty, gold was more common than silver, because natural gold, which was easy to mine, was easy to obtain.

From the Han Dynasty to the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there were very few silver mines, and after the Tang Dynasty developed the south, the silver output was increased, but the smelting technology was not developed, and the silver production in the early Tang Dynasty was very small. If the silver output is extrapolated from the amount of silver collected in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, it is about 7 to 80,000 taels, and the average annual output is 50,000 taels during the three hundred years of rule due to the decrease in the early and late periods due to wars, then the total silver output of the Tang Dynasty is 15 million taels, plus the silver production of more than 2,000 years before the Tang Dynasty is about 20 million taels. Therefore, the total amount of silver before the Song Dynasty was about 35 million taels, equivalent to 1,400 tons of metric.

The Two Song Dynasty was the peak of silver mining in China, and in order to pay tribute to the "Liao, Jin, Yuan, and Western Xia" fathers every year, silver mines were mined everywhere. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, silver ore resources were exhausted, and silver production dropped to about 300,000 taels.

Silver production was also low at the beginning of the Song Dynasty, peaking in the middle period and declining at the end due to resource depletion. Due to the existence of government-run silver mines, coupled with the large quantity, it is not possible to simply use the "amount of silver" to extrapolate the output, it can be estimated that the output of the Song Dynasty in its heyday was 800,000 taels, the beginning of the Song Dynasty was only 780,000 taels, and the end of the Song Dynasty was close to 300,000 taels of the Ming Dynasty. Assuming that the average silver production in the three hundred years of the Two Song Dynasty is 500,000 taels, the total amount of silver in the Two Song Dynasty is 150 million taels, equivalent to 6,000 tons of metric system.

In the 400 years from the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty to the end of the Ming Dynasty, the total output was about 120 million taels based on an annual output of 300,000 taels of silver, equivalent to 4,800 tons of metric system. Therefore, the total output of silver from ancient times to the end of the Ming Dynasty was almost 300 million taels.

In addition, the Han Dynasty emperor recorded in the history books rewarded his courtiers with tens of thousands of catties of gold at every turn, just listen to it, can not be taken seriously, although the Han Dynasty inherited the wealth of the pre-Qin, but it did not reach the point of that kind of wealth, at that time, the "bounty ten thousand taels" was generally given copper coins, not real gold.

Otherwise, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty rewarded 800,000 catties of gold alone, and the "catties" of the Han Dynasty were equivalent to 250 grams in later generations, equivalent to about 200 tons. In the early years of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the price of grain and prices were very cheap, and with so much money, did he still need to loot rich merchants, make people angry, and issue "Guilty Edict"? It's not reliable to think about.

In fact, it can be seen from the "Book of Han" that the emperor generally gives bounties to his subordinates, and rarely rewards silver, why? Because silver is silver, it can't be faked, and "gold" is often "copper", Qin Shi Huang received the world's bronze weapons to Xianyang, and the twelve people who cast gold didn't say that copper was gold?

Although most of the so-called gold rewarded by the emperor of the Han Dynasty was pure copper, it is undeniable that the gold of the Han Dynasty was very abundant, mainly due to the fact that the first emperor concentrated all the wealth of the world in Chang'an, which cheapened the Han Dynasty.

Therefore, there was no silver in the currency of the Han Dynasty, mainly five baht coins, twenty taels in the Han Dynasty were one gold, and twenty-four of one tael was one baht, so one gold was equal to 24 baht× 20 taels, which is 480 baht, and a copper coin was five baht, that is, one coin should be 96 five-baht coins. One gold ten thousand coins, not one gold ten thousand baht, one gold ten thousand coins is to indicate the same weight of gold ingots equal to the same ten thousand copper coins, which was used later, one thousand copper coins are equal to one tael of silver, ten taels of silver are equal to one tael of gold, this is the Qing Dynasty algorithm. So one gold and ten thousand dollars is obviously wrong, gold and baht are both units of weight here, gold does not mean gold. The so-called one gold in the Han Dynasty means that one gold weighs money, and if you put aside the question of whether the weight of the copper coin is up to standard, theoretically 96 five-baht coins are one coin. Otherwise, if you want to eat a meal with a piece of gold, it would have been a string of copper coins, and you have to take a sack of 10,000 copper coins to pay the bill?

So if you want to calculate it, the military salary given by Yao Jie is not low, not to mention that there was no military salary at all before, and now at least some of it is better than nothing.