The world described in this article is similar to China's territory and topography, but because I have no time to study history, what I write is mostly fabricated and suspected of being empty.

But in order not to exaggerate to a certain extent, I will first write some relevant content to constrain the future of the text, and also let the readers have a general understanding of the world described in this article.

The fifteen counties in the world are: Suchuan: three million ding, 1,000 and 4 li, 800 li, three prefectures, ten yi, and two military towns; It is quite a region in the eastern part of Gansu and Ningxia.

Qinzhou: 10 million ding, 1,000 li, 900 li, four prefectures (one capital and three auxiliaries) 18 yi and six military towns; Quite a region of Shaanxi and western Shanxi.

Fen County: 5 million ding, 1,002 miles long, 700 miles horizontally, 4 prefectures, 20 yi, and 2 military towns; Quite the southwestern part of Shanxi and the Henan region.

Youji: 5 million ding, 1,000 miles long, 800 miles horizontally, four prefectures, sixteen towns and three military towns; Quite the southern part of Hebei and the eastern part of Shanxi.

Chengdu-Chongqing: 6 million ding, 1,0004 li, 1,006 li, 4 prefectures, 14 yi, 2 military towns; Of course, it refers to the area around Chengdu and Chongqing.

Jinyang: 7 million ding, 800 li longitudinally, 800 li horizontally, 4 prefectures, 17 yi, 2 military towns; It is quite an area in Hubei north of the Yangtze River.

Yongning: 10 million ding, 1,000 li, 700 li, 5 prefectures, 23 yi, 1 military town; It is quite an area of Anhui plus a corner of Henan and Hubei.

Qingzhou: 8 million ding, 800 li longitudinally, 700 li horizontally, 5 prefectures, 20 yi, and one military town; Quite Shandong region.

East China Sea: 5 million ding, 900 li longitudinally, 800 li horizontally, 4 prefectures, 17 yi, 2 military towns; Quite the Yangtze River north of the Jiangsu region.

Yue County: 8 million ding, 800 li longitudinally, 1,000 4 li across the country, 5 prefectures, 23 yi, and one military town; Quite south of the Yangtze River, Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions.

Jing County: 8 million ding, 800 li longitudinally, 1,002 li across the country, 5 prefectures, 24 yi, and 2 military towns; Quite Jiangxi and eastern Hunan regions.

Nanping: 12 million ding, 800 li longitudinally, 1,002 li horizontally, five prefectures, 24 yi, and four military towns; It is equivalent to the northeast of Guizhou, the west of Hunan, and the south of the Yangtze River in Hubei.

Nanzhao: 3 million ding, 1,004 li, 1,000 8 li, six prefectures and eighteen military towns; Quite a large part of Yunnan and Guizhou.

Nanning: 6 million ding, 800 miles longitudinally, 1,000 miles across 1,000 miles, four prefectures, 14 towns and two military towns; Quite two Guangzhou, Hainan region.

Southern Fujian: 5 million ding, 800 li longitudinally, 800 li horizontally, 4 prefectures, 18 yi, and 2 military towns. Quite Fujian, Taiwan region.

The fifteen counties have a population of about 100 million, with a total of 66 prefectures, 276 eups, and 32 military towns. In the middle of the old dynasty, it was surveyed that the 15 counties had a total of about 1.5 billion mu of arable land. The conquest between the counties and states of the new dynasty, most of the fertile land between different forces was abandoned and uncultivated (for example, a family and the surrounding families were at odds, and its power was within one government and four yi, and the three yi were Gongwei Fuyi, and the city of Yi and many dock forts and villages constituted a complete sanitation system, and the fertile land between the sanitation system was cultivated. ), the amount of arable land has decreased dramatically. In addition, the large areas south of Huaishui in the south and north of Nanning have more fertile fields, while other places have few fields and are barren.

Calculated by 400,000 Ding in a Zhongyi in Yue County; Young and strong laborers eat three catties of grain, and they need to eat ten quintals of grain every year. Women and children are halved. The yield per mu of fertile soil is three quintals, and the yield per mu of barren soil is two quintals, and it is ripe every year (Jia Yi once said that the data of 100 mu and 100 stones, I think the yield per mu is 300 catties is also high). A household of 10 people plus one head of livestock needs about 70 quintals of millet a year to eat. If calculated according to five acres of land per capita (half of fertile and barren), in the harvest years, a family can have 125 quintals of millet. The disaster year was halved to about 60 quintals.

In the harvest years, the officials collected the field tax according to the tithe tax system, and the tax was halved or exempted in the year of disaster.

Harvest year: A household collects 125 quintals of millet, levies 25 quintals, eats 70 quintals, and retains 30 quintals. Quanyi collects about 100,000 gold in land tax. There is a surplus of about 1.2 million quintals of grain in the whole town.

Disaster year: Households with 60 quintals of millet are exempt from field tax, and they still need to buy 10 quintals of millet for food and clothing. Quanyi needs to use grain stocks or buy 400,000 quintals of grain from other places.

According to the above calculation results, it is set in this book that one quintal of millet is worth 100 yuan in a good harvest year, and one quintal of millet is worth 300 yuan or more in a disaster year, and in areas with few fields and many people (such as Qinzhou, where the capital of the New Dynasty is located), a quintal of millet is also worth 300 yuan. Thousands of dollars in one gold. This is the basic premise of the economy in this book.

Suppose that the years of calamity and abundance come intermittently. In the two years of the disaster, the grain merchants can make a profit of 240,000 gold. Forty-eight thousand gold was levied. With the addition of other commercial taxes, about 100,000 gold can be collected in two years. Therefore, Zhongyi can get taxes (field tax, Ding Rui + commercial tax) a year is about 100,000 gold (according to the local central government, a complete and powerful central power, it is normal to have an annual treasury of 10 million taels of gold, so don't be too little).

Suppose that seven or eight out of ten of the taxes collected go to civilian affairs, and two-three out of ten to armaments. A medium-sized city can be used for 20,000 taels of gold. Among them, weapons and military funds account for half each. can only use 10,000 gold to support soldiers. It is assumed that the city has a conscription system. Foot pawns (including archers, water camps) three gold in the year, silver and hardware in the year of the cavalry, one or two gold in the per capita annual grain, and three gold and silver in the war horse (Han Yu said, a meal of a thousand miles of horses or a stone of corn is about 120 catties, which is scary). Therefore, with the financial resources of Zhongyi, it can probably have 1,500 foot soldiers and 500 horsemen. The tithe system of the harvest year, the tithe system of the disaster year (calculated in the good year), and the commercial tax tithe system. The tax was about 180,000 gold, of which 40,000 gold was used to raise soldiers. The year of the foot soldier is silver and two gold, and he can prepare 13,000 soldiers.

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