After staying in the mountains for more than ten days, seeing that the six teams of county soldiers had settled down, Luo Chengcai rode back to the county seat. Originally, the Chinese New Year was approaching, and the county soldiers should also go home on vacation.

But Luo Cheng discussed with the team leaders for a long time, and felt that he had just moved over, and then disbanded and went home in a blink of an eye, and the six stations in the mountain might be abolished.

As the Chinese New Year approaches, it is even more unrealistic to temporarily recruit a group of county soldiers for rotation.

On the way back to the city on horseback, Luo Cheng has been thinking about a question.

That is, although he is now in command of 500 county soldiers and 1,000 township soldiers, there is always a problem that is stuck with him, that is, the system of alternate recruitment of county soldiers and township soldiers.

The county soldiers and township soldiers are not as brave as the government soldiers.

As long as you are selected as a government soldier, you will be a government soldier for life, and you will not quit the government soldier until you are sixty years old. Become a government soldier, the government grants the field, the government soldiers usually farm, train in their spare time, and go to Beijing to guard every year, and in case of war, they will point troops to fight.

Although the government soldiers are also subordinate to the civilian population, they live near the military government and are called local regiments.

Whether it is to go to the military for training, or to go to Beijing to stay in the guard, it is all in turn, divided into several times according to the distance from Beijing, and it is one or two months a year.

In normal times, they do not have to pay rent and pay taxes when they harvest grain from their fields, and their income is relatively stable and the conditions are better.

But the county soldiers and township warriors are different, and the county soldiers and township warriors are not regular troops at all, but can only be regarded as a kind of militia.

The militia is to serve in turns, and to be a townsman is a kind of errand service. According to the scale of the county soldiers and towns, and then according to the number of Ding men in the county, it may be a round every few years, or once a year, if there are many Ding, then once in a few years, and once a month.

This kind of rotational errand is of course a good thing for the people, and it will not have much impact if you go to work as a monthly errand for a few years or a year. But for Luo Cheng, if the team is rotated every other month, then what kind of combat effectiveness does his county barracks have?

When he arrived at the county seat, Luo Cheng went directly to Zhang Yichen and Du Ruhui to discuss the matter.

Along the way, you can already feel a little bit of the atmosphere at the end of the year, and many people are preparing for the New Year.

A hard year, good or bad, this year will always pass.

"Do you want to extend the duty time of the county soldiers and townsmen?"

After listening to Luo Cheng's thoughts, Du Ruhui frowned.

"But how could the people be willing?" Du Ruhui asked rhetorically.

Originally, the rounds were poor for a few years, and when it took a few months, it had already affected some lives, after all, the county soldiers and townsmen had no money and food to take, and if they encountered bandits, they could get some rewards if they won the victory and meritorious service, and if it was usual, it would be purely a delay of one or two months.

"I think we can change the rules of rotation, if we say that we Zhangqiu six times a year, that is to say, if it is the turn of the strong man in the county to serve, he will have to be two months a year. We can change it to every six years. Originally, it was a round once a year, two months at a time, but now we have changed it to a six-year round, one year at a time. ”

Once a year, two months at a time, and once in six years, once a year, it sounds about the same, in general, in six years, there is a difference of twelve months, but the former is divided into six years, and only two months at a time, and the latter is that all the errands in the six years are put together to serve, and they serve for one year at a time.

"There's no precedent for that."

Du Ruhui said.

He immediately heard the meaning of Luo Cheng's words, once for two months and once for a year, it was very important for Luo Cheng's county barracks.

"I think it's just a workaround."

Du Ruhui also calculated the account with Luo Cheng, "According to the household registration register of our county, count the number of all Ding men." For example, there are about 11,000 households in Zhangqiu County, and there are more than 24,000 men. Then there are 500 people in the county barracks in our county, and if it takes a turn in January, it will take 6,000 people to complete it in a year, and it will take four years for the men in the county to complete it. ”

The 24,000 men in the county come to the county barracks for errand service, once a month, that is, once every four years. For four years, it only takes one month.

And if according to what Luo Cheng said, once for a year, then it will take forty-eight years for the men in the county to complete the round.

This is obviously unrealistic, forty-eight years, too long.

Luo Cheng really didn't count it like this.

"So can this be the case, the county barracks hire people to serve, and then it is the turn of the people on errands to pay for the service, do you think it's okay?"

Luo Cheng quickly thought of a solution, even if the people take turns once every four years and only serve for a month at a time, but the errand will still affect their lives.

If the people are allowed to pay for the service, then for example, when you are not on duty, you will naturally not be allowed to pay, and when it is your turn to be this month, you will pay the money for this month, and then the county will use the money handed over to serve as a substitute and hire a group of people to work for a long time, wouldn't it kill two birds with one stone.

The imperial court did not have a precedent for this kind of conscription, but there was a provision for the payment of silk on behalf of Yong. The Great Sui Dynasty implemented the equalization of land system and implemented the tax law of rent and mediocrity, so that if there is land, there will be rent, if there is a family, there will be a tune, and if there is a body, there will be mediocrity.

Yong is a kind of regular service, and Ding Nan needs to serve 20 days of free labor for the imperial court every year, which is regular service. However, if the imperial court does not need the people to serve, and does not serve 20 days of regular service this year, then it is necessary to pay the silk Daiyong, and the stipulation is that each ding shall pay according to the standard of three feet of silk and three feet seven inches and five cents of cloth per day.

Anyway, you don't want to take advantage of the court.

However, only Yong can accept silk cloth to replace it, and other miscellaneous servants and the like have no such precedent.

"How do you pay for it?"

"Do you come in a mediocre way?" Du Ruhui asked, Zheyong is to pay three feet of silk a day, so that a month's errand will pay 90 feet of silk, and a horse of silk is forty feet, which is equivalent to more than two horses.

Paying money once and not having to take turns on errands for four years sounds pretty good, but in the final analysis, you have to see how much money you have.

How much are two silk horses worth?

Silk belonged to the first currency in the Sui Dynasty, but silk was generally not directly linked to money, but to grain. There are good years and bad years for grain, so the price of grain fluctuates, and so does the price of silk.

In a good year when the price of silk is good, it can be exchanged for about ten stone of corn, and if it is a year of famine, a horse of silk can be exchanged for a bucket of rice.

When the price of rice is cheap, a bucket is only a few cents, and when it is expensive, a bucket is worth dozens of cents.

Therefore, it can be said that when the price of silk is good, it is about three or four hundred wen per horse, and when the price is low, it is worth one hundred wen.

Now is the end of the year, the autumn harvest is not long, it has not yet reached the time of green and yellow, Zhangqiu's grain this year is still a bumper harvest, so the price of grain is not high, which leads to the price of silk is not high, before it was about 100 pieces of silk, and now it is the end of the year, almost to about 150 years.

One foot of silk is about three wen or less than four wen, and ninety feet of silk is three hundred and thirty-eight wen at the current price.

Paying 338 Wen to ensure that you don't have to be on duty in the county barracks for four years, it sounds good.

"More than 300 yuan, I'm afraid that most of the people would rather serve than pay this money." Du Ruhui said, more than 300 yuan, for many ordinary people, this is a lot of money.

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