One thing that Pingzhang Jia seems to be happy about now is that the amount of refined salt has increased. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The thing that can be done from this is to officially start the royal monopoly.

In fact, the enrichment of the funds in the inner treasury is the enrichment of the funds of his Pingzhang Jia Nidao, which is equivalent to a model of two sides of the same coin.

He must hold high the banner of the bureaucracy, must safeguard the interests of the officials, and must closely cling to the officials, so that he can confront the entire bureaucracy.

Now, he still has a dozen people from the audit department in his backyard.

He asked them to make a more detailed financial budget report to maintain the operation of the Great Song Dynasty economy, which was a very complicated process and took a long time, so he asked the people of the audit department to come to his backyard to work, so that they could inquire at any time.

And he himself began to think about the problem of refined salt.

He found a more important place, it seems that the side of the big island not only produces hundreds of stone refined salt, but also seems to be able to solve the problem of redundant soldiers!

Hundreds of stones and thousands of stones of refined salt are not important, and the Great Song Dynasty is not short of food, but the Great Song Dynasty is somewhat unable to maintain the funds to feed those soldiers.

Before the Great Song Dynasty, China's military system was a combination of soldiers and peasants, and the state distributed land to the peasants, and the peasants worked for the country, which was reasonable.

When war, peasants become warriors; In peacetime, peasants cultivate land without delaying agricultural production, and war has an imbalance in time and space, and the greatest advantage of the system of integrating soldiers and peasants is that the cost is very low. So whether it is the Han Dynasty or the Tang Dynasty, it is very capable of fighting.

In the Great Song Dynasty, it became a mercenary system for life.

As mentioned earlier, the people of the Great Song Dynasty were far more stable than other dynasties, mainly due to the mercenary system of the Great Song Dynasty.

When there is a famine, go as a soldier; If you have sinned, become a soldier!

This can be seen as an effective means of maintaining stability. However, the burden on the state is very heavy, not only to spend money on weapons and equipment, but also to pay soldiers salaries.

And alas, many times the soldiers do not fight. But the salary is still paid.

Moreover, once a soldier is hired, it will be borne for a lifetime, and arbitrary layoffs are easy to cause mutiny, generals can exploit soldiers, withhold salaries and make a fortune, and if they cut soldiers, generals will take the lead in rebellion, or even. If you want to check the accounts of the army, you can force the general to rebel.

The aforementioned Liu Cheng is one such example.

The fatal thing is that this kind of mercenary system for life is actually very weak in combat.

Why?

For those who have been in the military, this is better understood.

The soldiers who have just been trained have the strongest combat effectiveness.

After a few years, the sharpness will be lost.

So, in the end, the Song Dynasty spent a lot of money. raised a bunch of soldiers who ate idle meals.

Although they can be allowed to cultivate fields and build roads. Repair bridges and stuff like that, but the output is very low, and whether they work or not is all those salaries.

In comparison, the output of those soldiers sent to Liuqiu Island is much higher.

He thought of this. I called the two personnel of the audit department and asked them to go to the city department to ask for the goods documents sent to Lin'an City from the big island, and then calculate the military expenses for them to support those soldiers.

The personnel of the Audit Division made calculations and came to a conclusion in a moment, and said. If there were five more such deals, the military expenses of those vanguards would have come out completely.

Pingzhang Jia's eyes are about to pop up, raising soldiers can actually make money?!

Five more times, what does that mean? That Zhang Dashang earned back the expenses of the whole year in half a year, and the remaining half a year was earned in vain......

He began to face it officially, and instead of just thinking about exploiting it, he asked the captain who had come back from the doorman to find out what was going on there.

This is also easy, the doorman found a captain, and 1510 understood the basic situation.

I'll report it when I get back.

Pingzhang Jia Rudao thought about Zhang Dashang's approach in the following days, and found that he couldn't learn from it.

Ten times a month? If the Great Song Dynasty really implements it in practice, instead of converting it into things, it will immediately go bankrupt, and it will not be able to learn if it is killed.

As for opening those workshops, he thought about his previous experience in managing the local area, and I am afraid that the initial investment was too large, and the government-run workshops also had many problems in operation, so he couldn't learn this.

The most important thing is that Zhang Dashang will do scientific formations, this is really unpredictable, where to learn?

Pingzhang Jia suddenly smiled, why did the old man learn from them, if they knew how to scientific formations, it would be better to hand over some redundant soldiers to them to solve it, not to mention the truth, even if it was invested in the output of refined salt, a few hundred stones, it would not be sold in two days.

Refined salt is very good to sell in Lin'an City, this is also the truth, many big businessmen have heard that the officials eat better salt than themselves, it belongs to the special salt, very unhappy, money can't buy it, the most hurtful rich heart.

So as soon as the royal monopoly salt shop appeared, it was immediately snatched up!

Pingzhang Jia seemed to be forced to start this idea.

The problems of redundant officials, redundant soldiers, and redundant expenses in the Great Song Dynasty have always put the finances of the Great Song Dynasty government in a state of struggling.

The issue of redundant soldiers, I just said, let's talk about redundant officials.

During the reign of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, the number of central government officials was reduced from more than 2,000 to 634, and by the time of Song Renzong, the number of internal and external officials of the central government had exceeded 17,000, while the territory under the jurisdiction of the Northern Song Dynasty was only half of that of the Tang Dynasty.

The main reason here is that in the bureaucratic system of the Great Song Dynasty, officials and positions are two different things, the official is a false name, called Jilu official, which is used to indicate a certain level and salary, and the position is to manage specific affairs.

Only the officials who are specially assigned to take charge of something have something to do and have a real job.

For example, the official title of "Officials Langzhong, Longtuge Bachelor, Zhikaifeng Mansion", the official department Langzhong is the official, the Longtu Pavilion Bachelor is the position, and the Zhikaifeng Mansion is the actual position, the first two are empty titles, and such high-ranking officials are full of central and local political power institutions.

Even if you quit your job and go home, you can get a monthly salary.

There are also advantages, the burden of literati life is lighter, so they can concentrate on studying something, and the emergence of Song Ci and Lixue did not fall from the sky, but has a certain material basis.

If history does not change, there is a reason why the so-called 100,000 scholars followed the Great Song Dynasty officials to jump into the sea.

Needless to say, the shortcomings are obvious at a glance.

Not only is it a financial problem, in the bureaucracy of the Great Song Dynasty, the officials often do not care about their own affairs, the Zhongshu Order, the Shizhong, and the Shangshu Order are not related to the government, the Shilang and the Shishu do not receive their duties, and the left and right advice is not responsible, and the living lang and the living house do not keep a pen, and the officials do not know their duties.

The reason for this is that the feudal government is the actual position, and the first two are empty titles, and such high-ranking officials are full of central and local power institutions.

Pingzhang Jia Rudao decided to try again to ask for Oshima's ability to accept and digest, and he immediately asked the doorman to write a letter, to the effect that refined salt is a good commodity, but the output is too small, so send another 3,000 soldiers to help you fry salt, and produce more refined salt for the official family, and keep in mind the kindness of the official family of the Great Song Dynasty.

That's probably what it means. (To be continued.) )