"Zijing, how about we raise taxes?"

After Yuan Yao collected the written information about the money and grain, he began to ask his subordinates for advice on solving the problem.

Recently, everyone has been busy, and Lu Su is in charge of the military operation to subdue the entire Danyang County; Liu Ye prepared to build a military water village by the river to prevent the enemy on the water, mainly aimed at the Jingzhou water army, after all, the ferry is civilian and cannot be occupied for a long time.

Buqi has been out for nearly a month, and there is no news so far, he is very cautious about his responsibilities as a recruiting order, and he is a bit of a person who will bow to Zhuge Liang later.

The rest are all military generals, and they all have something to do, only Chen Wu is more idle, but Yuan Yao has little interest in discussing money and food with him.

After holding a large pile of bamboo slips behind closed doors, Yuan Yao didn't get anything but confusion, and in desperation, he had to come to harass Lu Su.

Yuan Yao's arrow wound recovered quickly with the help of the system, so fast that the medical officer didn't know what to do, but Yuan Yao couldn't explain it......

Yuan Yao is very disgusted with raising taxes, but it is undeniable that this is the easiest way.

Lu Su frowned when he heard this: "It is not recommended for subordinates to raise taxes, at least not before the situation is stable." ”

Yuan Yao said helplessly: "But our army of 50,000 needs 137,800 yuan of food and salary every month, and according to our existing money and food, we can only last for two months if we don't do anything." ”

Lu Su explained: "Now Jiangdong is in a fallow period, and the next grain harvest needs to be five months later, even if there is a three-month gap between tax increases, there is still a shortage of nearly 400,000 grains. ”

Yuan Yao was stunned when he heard this, but he didn't expect to say this, so he cried and said with a sad face: "Why has even the tax increase become far away, what can Zijing do to teach me?" ”

Lu Suli said: "There are still tens of thousands of grains in the subordinate families, which can support the lord to raise soldiers. ”

Yuan Yao rolled his eyes and said, "I can't count on my subordinates to support me, I need a solution to the fundamental problem." ”

Lu Su said: "The solution to money and food is nothing more than opening up sources and reducing expenditure.

Open source can expand the territory and go south to Wu County; Westward to Yuzhang. However, none of these military forces can be reached in a month or two. By the same token, expanding arable land is not a quick fix; All that was left was to ask General Zuo for help and ask for food. ”

Yuan Yao said: "It's best if we want to solve the law ourselves, my father has no preparation for me to take Jiangdong, and I have just experienced a war to unify Huainan, it is really difficult to say if there is so much food." I'll escalate, but don't expect too much. ”

Lu Su nodded and said, "In this way, you can still choose to throttle." The more than 20,000 Jingzhou soldiers subdued by the lord are always a trouble, so it is better to cut them off and use them to increase grain production. ”

Yuan Yao's eyes lit up when he heard this, but he immediately frowned and said: "Jingzhou's surrender of troops is indeed not suitable for being a source of soldiers, especially when facing Liu Biaojun, it is more likely that a mutiny will occur."

But I'm afraid we can't disarm for the time being, because Sun Ce's exploits are going to be worshipped, and I can't suppress it unreasonably, so I want to give him military power, plus the military power of Zhang Ying and Zhang Xun's second generals, I'm afraid that disarmament can only be removed from my direct army at this time, and if I take out 20,000 people, I will have no soldiers! ”

Hearing this, Lu Su lowered his head and thought about it again: "There is another way for subordinates, this time our army will inevitably vacate some county-level officials in Danyang, and you can use this as a guide to borrow grain from the Danyang family." ”

Yuan Yao knew the general meaning as soon as he heard Lu Su's idea, which was tantamount to buying and selling officials in disguise, but there was no clear price marking, and it was just blatant......

"You mean, the Danyang family has food?"

Yuan Yao was emotionally reluctant to buy and sell official positions, but he got another useful message from Lu Su's words.

"Of course. In previous years, at this time, his subordinates were running to collect grain in Jiangdong. Lu Su said with some embarrassment.

Yuan Yaoming said that the Lusu family industry is a grain merchant, and the so-called grain collection may not have to be carried out in person, it should be that he collects grain in the open and secretly runs for Sun Ce's entry into Jiangdong, so he will have an embarrassed look on his face when he says this.

But Yuan Yao doesn't care about these anymore, the only thing he cares about now is food.

"When a family receives a season of grain, how much grain can they store in their hands?" Yuan Yao asked eagerly.

Lu Su calculated and said: "At this time, the grain harvest has just passed the end of the month, it is the off-season for selling grain, if the Danyang family is all added together, there will be about two or three million Hu, and in previous years, the subordinates could receive one or two hundred thousand Hu of grain here, and then sell it outside Jiangdong......"

"Wait a minute!" Yuan Yao interrupted Lu Su with a little puzzlement, "According to my verification, Danyang County has 3 million mu of cultivated land, and the average yield per mu is 3 hundred, right?" ”

Lu Su nodded, did not speak, but waited curiously for Yuan Yao's words.

Yuan Yao continued: "That means that Danyang produces only nine million hus of grain per quarter, and if the Danyang family alone has three million hu, then the common people will have six million?"

There are about 630,000 people in Danyang, and the nine floors and nine are all civilians, and the average person is less than ten hundredths of grain?

An adult needs five buckets of food per month, and the harvest of that season can only be eaten for half a year, plus taxes and daily needs have to be sold in exchange for grain, so ...... How do the people live? ”

Lu Su said helplessly: "The lord thinks about it, and his subordinates say that the family has about three million grains in stock, but they don't say that they only share three million hundreds." ”

Yuan Yao was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then said in surprise: "What do you mean......"

Lu Su replied: "Not only Danyang County, but nearly half of the grain produced in Jiangdong has gone into the hands of the family, and the commoners can only get half. ”

"......" Yuan Yao was a little dumbfounded, these data could not be found on the bamboo slips.

"How many yeoman farmers are there in Koto?" Yuan Yao asked with a gloomy face.

Lu Su replied: "Less than one percent." ”

Yuan Yao was surprised: "The rest of the farmers are all tenants of the family? ”

"Nine times out of ten." Lu Su nodded.

"The nine layers of cultivated land in Jiangdong are all in the hands of the family?"

"Exactly."

“……”

Yuan Yao knew that the family was very good in this era, but he didn't expect it to be so good. He, the son-in-law of the world's first family, has never paid attention to this matter, and he doesn't know how his own family is developed.

A word suddenly popped up in Yuan Yao's mind - the economy of the family manor.

He didn't remember where he had seen it in later generations, and it seemed that experts commented on the economic model of Wei Shu and Wu, and talked about the economy of Wu's family manor.

It seems that he also listed all kinds of advantages and disadvantages compared with the "small peasant economy", but Yuan Yao can't remember it clearly, but now he sees that an obvious problem with this kind of economy is that the tenants do not have enough to eat.

Yuan Yao knew very well that the landlord's collection of tenants' rent was much more ruthless than that of the government's collection of land, and the least was five layers of rent, that is, as soon as the grain was harvested, the landlord would take half of the harvest, and this was still conscientious, the ruthless ones collected six layers, and the black-hearted ones collected seven layers.

The Han Dynasty was founded against the tyranny of the Qin Dynasty, but in fact the family of the Han Dynasty was much more ruthless than Qin Shi Huang.

"It's still that question, how do ordinary people live?" Yuan Yao frowned and asked again.

Lu Su replied: "In addition to men and women weaving, they can cut firewood, hunt, gather, and do odd jobs in their spare time to subsidize their families; or to live in debt to the Lord's house, and to pay the debt by selling his sons and daughters; Young and strong worked as private soldiers for the master's family to pay off debts, etc., and most tenants could barely survive. ”

"I see!" Yuan Yao seemed to know how the family controlled and exploited the tenants, similar to the starvation marketing model of later generations.

It's a social problem......

Yuan Yao shook his head to sober himself up, he wanted to improve this problem, because the quality of the people's lives is directly related to his lifespan, and the population will increase when the people live well, and he can set up a few more states to increase his life expectancy when the population increases.

But he knows that this problem cannot be solved with a hot head, and he can't even support himself now, so he can only keep this matter in his heart, and try to solve the law little by little in the future, even if he can't rely on the system to improve, but with the help of the system science and technology tree, he can at least rely on science and technology to increase productivity, so as to liberate the labor force and improve the quality of life of the people.

As for now, Yuan Yao has gotten a useful information, that is, the landlord's family has grain...... It should be said that the family has food, and there is a lot of it, at least enough for him to raise soldiers, so how to get this food?

Rob - definitely not work.

Lu Su mentioned that the black-box operation is similar to the method of donating officials, and Yuan Yao doesn't like it very much, although the officialdom in these years was originally owned by the family.

In Yuan Yao's memory, the most powerful way for the government to obtain private assets in later generations was to open a bank......