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Seeing Xiao Yi nodding, Shi Lu thought about it carefully, and then asked, "What about the baggage team, what kind of frame should I use?" ”

Qi Haoguang muttered: "I think that when I go out to fight, there are more than ten wheelbarrows for a total of officers and soldiers, three to five carriages are enough, each wheelbarrow needs one person, and the carriage needs two people to drive, so calculated, even if some drummers, flag bearers, and doctors are added, the actual number of baggage battalions is only about 300 people." ”

If the five total soldiers of the Yong'an Army are 1,200 people, each sergeant needs to consume about one kilogram of rice grain per day, and Xiao Yi will consume about ten stone of rice grain in just one day.

In addition, the three battalions of Zhenwei Battalion have 4,800 people, and the rice and grain consumed in a day are also more than 30 stones.

There are also a lot of cattle, sheep, pigs and horses, and there are more than 20 stones of various wheat feed consumed in a day.

In the past few months, Xiao Yi has already had a feeling of powerlessness, and he needs to dismantle a large number of baggage soldiers in the Zhenwei battalion as soon as possible, which can greatly alleviate the consumption rate of rice and grain recently.

The reason for choosing a wheelbarrow and a horse-drawn carriage is that these two tools are the most common means of transportation in the late Ming Dynasty, and in the late Ming Dynasty, except in the big city, there are mostly dirt roads and uneven roads.

The wheelbarrow only needs a young man to use, it can be very convenient to move forward in various terrains, the carriage is more convenient, the carriage can be loaded at the end of the Ming Dynasty is also quite good, a cart can be loaded with about five or six stones, the two tools are matched with each other, and the transportation effect is naturally better.

Huang Yang nodded and said: "In this way, for the formation of baggage sergeants, there is still a lot less troops, and it can be more effectively entered into the register for observation." ”

Xiao Yi nodded again and said: "In this way, in addition to the cavalry battalion that is still recruiting, the Yong'an Army has a combat battalion, a night non-closing team, a bird gun battalion, and a car artillery battalion and a baggage battalion. ”

Xiao Yi took the document handed over by Li Erniu, groaned slightly, and continued: "In this way, there are 1,653 people in the combat battalion, including 366 people in the baggage battalion and 87 people in the car and artillery battalion. ”

Huang Yang calculated, and said happily: "After the removal of the baggage troops in the Zhenwei battalion, the actual amount of each battalion in the Zhenwei battalion is 1,002 people, and the total number of the three battalions is only 3,006 people, and the total number of officers and soldiers in the end is 4,659 people, which is really a lot of less. ”

Shi Gangqi said: "In this way, the number of people is still small? Didn't there be 6,000 before? ”

Wang Dayong said with a smile: "Lao Shi doesn't understand, I'll tell you, the adults feel that there are too many people, and they don't want to cut off the soldiers, so they select and dismiss the baggage soldiers of each armor and divide them into a battalion, which is not only convenient for management, but also reduces the number of people to consume military rations." ”

Seeing Xiao Yi nodded, Shi Gang and the others suddenly realized: "I see!" ”

……

After the discussion that day, everyone was promoted, and Shi Gang continued to look for the missing Lifang in addition to his daily training, but Lifang was like a stone sinking into the sea, and he couldn't find any news.

Time slowly came to the first day of December in the third year of Chongzhen, the Forbidden City, the Imperial Palace, the court meeting was held normally, and the ministers were discussing something in the palace.

The household department is still full of 12 things, and it is said that the salt is increased, the drum is cast, the miscellaneous taxes are included, the nuclear hidden field, the tax temple property, the nuclear tooth line, the cang, the office of the stopper, the South Ma Xieji, the Chongwen shop tax, the Beijing transportation exchange, and the discount of the wood.

Already, the 12 things have been relisted, said to increase tariffs, donate public funds, the temple of the people, the city tax, eliminate redundant labor, nuclear falsehood, plus redemption, the squad army is converted into silver, the officials are in the class, the riverside beach, the Jingdong paddy field, and the palace work crown belt.

Emperor Chongzhen readily agreed.

On the 10th day of the first month of December, Liang Tingdong, the secretary of the Ministry of War, was sparse in the name of insufficient food for the soldiers, and asked for an increase in the world's endowment.

Liang Tingdong said: "Although Lu Zuo is poor today, he is not poor in Liao. In the middle of a year, Yin is the one who adds to the faction, and I don't know how many of them. For example, the Hajj, the examination is completed, the line is taken, and the promotion is promoted, and the less one costs five or six thousand gold, and the sea calculates it, and the country chooses to obey the order, and the world sends millions more. ”

He continued: "Patrol according to the investigation, visit, gift, thank you, more than 20,000 or 30,000 gold, the whole world, the country sent a patrol, the world sent more than 1 million, and the people are poor in salary, why not?" ”

Speaking of this, the court was silent.

Liang Tingdong continued: "The salary of the soldiers in the nine-sided examination is not more than 500,000, and the salary is not more than 15.3 million, so why worry about the insufficiency. Therefore, the reason why the people are poor today is only because of official corruption. so that if the corrupt wind is not removed, that is, it will not be increased, and the people will be free from sorrow; Let the greedy wind breathe, that is, increase the distribution, and the people will be happy. ”

This time, he was full of heroic righteousness, and his words were orderly and sonorous, and he was supported by cabinet officials, and most of the ministers of the six ministries also supported what he said.

Chongzhen thought about it again and again, frowned, and said, "Bi Aiqing, how is the side case?" ”

The head of the household is still strictly listed, and he respectfully bows and says.

"The year of the Zhubians, from the outside of Liao, is three million two hundred and seventy-eight thousand silver."

"Today, the towns of Ji and Mizhu have saved 330,000, and it should be 2,948,000. According to the statistics of the annual income of the capital of the capital of the capital, there are 1,692,000 in the field endowment, 1,1003,000 in the salt department, 161,000 in customs duties, 103,000 in miscellaneous taxes, about 200,000 cases, and 3,265,000 in all cases. ”

Seeing that Chongzhen and the ministers were all nodding, Bi Ziyan continued: "And the negative side is along, and the income is less than two million, that is, the side salary is exhausted, and there is no surplus. It is 840,000 miscellaneous items in Beijing, more than 300,000 in Titang in Liaodong, 140,000 in Jiji and Liaofu, and 200,000 in Liaodong from old to new, and 136,000 in and out. ”

As soon as the words fell, Liang Tingdong, the secretary of the Ministry of War, shouted: "Minister, please increase the endowment of the world and save the people from fire and water." ”

The first assistant of the cabinet, the scholar of Jianji Hall Cheng Jiming represents the meaning of the ministers, and he slowly came out of the ranks: "If you can't make ends meet, please increase the world's endowment!" ”

"Ministers, please increase the world's endowment!"

Chongzhen saw that the ministers actually knelt down, in fact, he had the intention of not raising taxes, but since the ministers were already like this, what could he do, he got up and said: "Your Aiqing's opinion is the same as mine, let's get even." ”

So, in the third year of Chongzhen, the emperor's will spread all over the country, and in addition to the original nine cents per mu of land, another three cents were added, so the increase was 1.65 million.

……

On December 15, the news of the imperial court's increase in land and acres spread to Ulzhou City, and it immediately spread among the people that Xiao Yi's policy was tax-free in the first year.

This makes most of the people's families have a stock of grain this year, for these stocks, they look at it more than anything else, just thinking that they can have a good New Year, but the court actually came to this news.

Many of them were afraid that Xiao Ye would not be able to afford the requirements of the imperial court, so they were exempted from the first annual tax, and whether it was levied according to the standards of the imperial court was also very concerned by the people.

The military and civilians in the city were talking about it, and this matter naturally reached Xiao Yi's ears.

At this time, in the study of the garrison mansion, Xiao Yi had just received an official letter from the above, and Xiao Yi was naturally the way to increase the world in December of the third year of Chongzhen.

He knew who brought this matter up.

Speaking of Liang Tingdong, it is actually a bit interesting, in the ninth year of Chongzhen in history, the Qing soldiers once again detoured the Great Wall, invaded the pass from Xifengkou, and approached the Beijing Division.

The Qing soldiers happened to pass through Liang Tingdong's jurisdiction, and he was directly responsible for this, Chongzhen was furious and ordered him to come to the aid of the guilt, but Liang Tingdong and Luo Weining, the governors of the three sides, were depressed and did not dare to fight.

The three of them fought each other, and they all retreated and did not dare to fight. As a result, Baodi, Shunyi, Wen'an, Yongqing, Xiong, Ansu, Dingxing counties and Anzhou and Dingzhou were lost one after another. ”

Liang Tingdong knew that the crime of dereliction of duty was big, and he was afraid of being punished by Chongzhen, so he simply took a small amount of rhubarb every day, and finally fell ill and died.

Thinking of this, Xiao Yi couldn't help but sneer, such a person actually achieved the position of the secretary of the military department, which has to be said to be a sadness.

"What a piece of rubbish."

Just thinking about it, the girl outside said softly: "Lord Guard, Lord Li has arrived, and he is waiting in the main hall at the moment." ”

Xiao Yi sighed and chuckled, "Let him go into the study." ”

The girl whispered yes, and went out to summon Li Erniu.