Chapter 419: The Great War is Coming, Military Rations First
"The war in Datong is not a big problem, but if it drags on like this, there are too many soldiers and horses mobilized, and the transportation of grain and grass is a big problem, the original transportation capacity of this generation should be expanded, and the local short-term civilian workers should be mobilized, Li Denggao, you must quickly arrange silver and grain, recruit people to fight, build granaries on the front line and in the hinterland of Datong, and transport grain, at least 400,000 stones," arranged the places where the surrendered generals and civil servants wenchen, Li Jing began to deal with the threat from the north, after all, this is the final decisive battle, In the future, it is estimated that unless the Tartars outside the gate and Kong Youde in the east, no one will beat their own family. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"King Qin, 400,000 grain and grass is not a problem, the original 7 100,000 stone granaries on the side of the Yellow River were successfully transported into Shanxi, plus the original grain and grass, millions of stones can be transferred out, just go to Taiyuan Mansion to Datong Town, the transportation time is long, and the bitter cold and desert outside the plug, although it is only the end of July now, but the daytime transportation, still have to go along the river, otherwise water replenishment is a big problem, but in this way, there are fewer alternative roads, and the number of people levied and issued?"
Li Denggao is not shirking, but the transportation volume involving 400,000 stones of grain and grass is a big project, and the distance from Yanmen Pass to Datong Mansion by one person will take a full 10 days to go back and forth, and the grain consumed in 10 days will be 20 catties. Two people pull a wheelbarrow, no more than eight bags and four stones at a time, and there are donkeys and mules and horses are additional expenses.
For example, transporting 400,000 stone of grain at a time requires more than 100,000 people (only one person with livestock. Ten days, of course, this is just a number of words on paper, after all, it is impossible for Taiyuan Prefecture and Datong Town to levy so many people to transport grain at the same time, according to the school-age men registered in the yamen of Taiyuan Prefecture, and Datong Prefecture, Yingzhou Prefecture, the three prefectures together within the limit of the number of people will not exceed 300,000.
If there are more, there will be chaos in the place, because if all the men aged 16-40 go into battle, there will be no one to do the farm work, because now it is different from the past, after the summer harvest in the past, the year's land work will be almost done, at most it is to plant some other subsidies, but now the sweet potatoes and wheat (that is, corn) found from southern Fujian began to be planted at the end of May and early June.
Datong Mansion was not promoted on a large scale because it was on the front line, but Yingzhou Prefecture began to plant sweet potatoes and corn, and now Datong Mansion can only replant sweet potatoes because it missed the planting time of corn.
According to the statistics reported by the three prefectures, at most 50,000 people can go into battle, and according to the division of various localities, Taiyuan Prefecture can dispatch 25,000 people, Yingzhou Prefecture 15,000 people, and Datong Prefecture 10,000 people.
"The people don't have to be men, you have to figure out this problem, due to the long-term local war, many states and counties have appeared in the family old and weak, but there is no adult man's evil consequences, these pillars have become women and children in the family, although they have less strength, but after all, they need a way to live, you can't forget these people, if there are still people in the family to take care of, there is hope for next year, then requisition these people to come up together, as long as the local organization is good, there is no fear of chaos."
Li Jing thought about it for a while, although these people's husbands, women and children, although they were temporarily requisitioned, but the Qin army solved their food these days, saved a lot of winter food for their families, and also issued a sum of silver money afterwards, so that they could quickly revitalize the local economy, the more money they had in their hands, the greater their ability to buy goods, and some products related to people's livelihood in their hands were also sold.
"Then even if this number is counted, the three places are transported alternately at the same time, and the transportation time from the granary to Yanmen in various places varies from one or two days, we can make reasonable use of it, 25,000 people plus livestock can transport 80,000 stone military food at a time, so it can be transported in half a month at most in the interior of Taiyuan Prefecture, and then it will be arranged for the people of Daizhou to be transported directly to Datong in the north, and the pressure of the people of Yingzhou and Datong will be saved, I estimate that it will be completed in about a month to levy 60,000 young women and children."
Li Denggao quickly calculated with a few documents from the logistics department, and because of the popularization of the new bookkeeping method and the simplified numerical letters, the digital time for entering and exiting grain and grass in the past in the past has been greatly saved, and it is also very easy to manage, which is simply clear at a glance, and of course he has quickly come to a conclusion.
"Very good, in a month's time, the consumption of military food is only 40,000 or 50,000 stone to send 400,000 stone of grain to the front line, thanks to our official road, otherwise, this time will be at least one month longer, and it can feed so many people who lack food, solve the hidden dangers of the place, come and go, and in the winter their own food will be harvested again, it is worth it!" Li Jing silently calculated an account, it is absolutely worth doing this!
This is equivalent to the Qin Wangfu taking the taxes paid from other places, feeding the lives of all the people in the jurisdiction, and revitalizing the local economy, of course, this is also temporary, if it has been like this, the Qin Wangfu will not have to do anything else, just to relieve the place, there is no food left, then what army will be supported to fight, to put it bluntly, Li Jing used to deal with the landlords and Ming court bureaucrats, the palace, confiscated their family property, seized grain, and used the price of offending the court to support it.
As long as this winter's winter passes, in the coming year, the entire Shanxi region will provide a large amount of military rations, with two seasons of wheat a year or one season of sweet potatoes and corn planting, then the big problem of grain will be completely solved, and the freed Qin army can conquer the world at any time, and there is no need to worry about other problems.
"According to our calculations, within ten days from Hequ, Qilan and other places to requisition the people can go back, we work two catties of grain and grass a day, on the way home one pound of grain and grass a day, it takes as much as 13 days, these people are then 50 copper coins a day, each person needs money and food, but it can be improvised." Li Denggao immediately made another calculation, and this is the disadvantage of the so-called system of employing people with money and grain.
The money and food available on the country's books were consumed all of a sudden, but these people forgot that once the local stability and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, more taxes and national population would be created, and with the replenishment of this part, the country's strength would also rise rapidly, but this kind of thing, the Ming court could not do it, because the local strength rose, not only did they not get the benefit of a penny of silver, but they also had to be vigilant against the local strong and strong.
Because of the bumper harvest of those Li people, the landlords and local officials are going to exploit them frantically, so the Ming court will not be stupid enough to give money to the people, they can't wait for all the people to be bitter, they can't die of hunger but they must not be full, otherwise life may be even more bitter.
But it's different here in Li Jing, the landlords of the whole place have all been wiped out, and without the squire to profit from it, what Li Min got in his hands is real, and the rights of the local magistrate have also been greatly apportioned, they have always needed to do it themselves to supervise the implementation and control the general direction, as long as the magistrate and the six houses are not in the same stream, then there will be no oppression of the people.
What's more, in the stable rising period of Li Jing's aim to unify the world, there were still newly established Tuntian troops and garrisons stationed in the locality, these people were locals, coupled with long-term unremitting propaganda, these people all understood that the local officials wanted to make trouble, and asked them for silver, that was their enemy, so if they found that the local government forcibly collected taxes that did not belong to the Qin king, then they would quickly play and stop it.
Yes, stop, this is the greatest duty that Li Jing gave to the Tuntian army and the garrison army, if the local government did not get the order of the Qin Wangfu to collect taxes privately, and had a showdown with the Li people and could not produce official documents, then what was waiting for them was the collective resistance of the Tuntian army, but if the civilian officials and the military generals group handed over, would the civilian officials still be opponents? Impossible!
"Okay, these things, you take a final conclusion, report it and put it into the account, but Tiancewei and the local Tuntian troops will keep an eye on it, and the Supervision Department will also send people to keep an eye on it, whoever dares to stretch out his hand and ask the people for this part of the money and food, or even deduct it, will be dealt with according to military law, and whoever stretches out his hand will cut off whoever he wants."
This is the benefit of today's military management, although it is simple and crude, but it is very effective, Li Jing can only temporarily rely on this method to manage the place, otherwise, the civil officials who make a fuss are corroded very quickly, and they may not even wait for themselves to unify the world, they began to plan internally how to benefit themselves, this is not blowing, but something that continues to happen in history, no one can avoid it, because this is the rule of man, not the cold-blooded machine in governance.
Even after unifying the world and formulating civilian administration of the country, he must continue to expand to the periphery to seek benefits, so as to avoid the rapid sinking of the whole country, and become another feudal dynasty over and over again, at least in his lifetime, the country must continue to build a large navy, and an aggressive army, and establish a relatively perfect system to pass on.
Maybe it will fail one day and the dynasty will be overthrown, but Li Jing wants this world, and the worst thing is that the entire east is occupied by the Han Chinese, and it is better to fight a civil war than to suffer humiliation from a foreign invasion! (To be continued.) )