"Now the state and county grant the law of land is not consistent, I roughly estimate, now the total number of households in each state is only three million, according to three people and one ding, then the male is only one million, because the lord issued the "land granting order" and "eldest son inheritance order", most of the men in the households are self-reliant, if you do not consider the future, an average of 74 acres of land can be granted to a household, and at the same time grant 1,000 acres of pasture. Yu thought that when the land for rewarding generals and soldiers in the future should be left, and the land that was constantly recruited to the west by the Central Plains households, a male household should only be granted 50 acres of land, or 1,000 acres of grassland, and between the grassland and the cultivated land, it can be converted according to 1 mu of cultivated land for 20 acres of grassland. ”

"Now the sergeant collects 30% of the output from the households, 30% is handed over to the battalion, and 30% of the battalion is handed over to the army, and the amount of grain handed over by the army in the future is about 162 million catties a year, equivalent to 800,000 stones. According to the annual diet of 4 stone of rice for sergeants, this grain is enough for 200,000 sergeants to eat for a year. If you have more, you have to buy it from the grain merchants. ”

Hearing this, Xiao Jiu interjected: "All armies and battalions have military rations collected from Yinhu, and there is no need to transfer grain to the baggage division when stationed in Tuntun, even the grain that Cai Changshi said should be handed over is also stored in the granaries of the state capitals, and has not been transferred to the left of Shazhou." The armies took the rations, that is, they were transferred back and forth on the books. Moreover, there are now a large number of arable fields everywhere that are still barren, and the newly cultivated land is not so high-yielding, so the total grain is not as much as Cai Changshi calculated. Chase defended: "Because the tax collector's office is understaffed, and the statistics of the actual acres and production of the various states and counties are not complete, so I am only here according to His Majesty's requirements, and I hope that General Xiao will forgive me." ”

Wu Yingying nodded, and said with a smile to Xiao Jiu: "The transfer comes and goes, but it will cost the people and money, and when the world is peaceful in the future, it is necessary to build dozens of large warehouses for storing grain in case of emergency." Later, you will also introduce some of the things about the Reserve of various materials and the issuance of Jiaozi bills to Chase and Zhong Yao, and listen to Chase first. ”

Chase continued: "The price of grain in Longyou, Hexi is more expensive than that of the Central Plains, if calculated according to the consistent money of one stone of grain, the value of grain collected by the state treasury is 1.75 million guan, the land tax collected according to the 20 tax system will reach 3 million guan, and the income left by the military government and the battalion head is about 19 million guan. He paused and looked at Wu Yingying, as if he wanted Wu Yingying to increase the proportion of land revenue extracted from the military government by the treasury and from the battalions.

Wu Yingying said with a smile: "All military governments, battalion heads and sergeants have undertaken a lot of military and political affairs, if there are no these benefits, wouldn't they be forced to compete with the people for profit." Seeing that Wu Yingying continued to affirm the original distribution plan, Chase no longer insisted on it, and continued: "Now the annual income from bidding for various minerals such as salt, iron, copper and jade is about 4 million guan, the city tax collected from the chambers of commerce of various cities is about 5 million guan, the tariff collected according to the eleventh tax system is about 3 million guan, and now the income from Fuhaixing is about 2 million guan, but this room for growth should be very large." ”

After Chase finished speaking, Xiao Jiu, the director of the baggage department, continued: "At present, the total annual income is about 15 million to 16 million guan, and the total expenditure is mainly about 5 million guan for the salaries of sergeants, and the total number of soldiers under the lord's command is about 60,000 sergeants, half of which are infantry and half of them, 5,000 horses per army of cavalry, 10,000 pack horses, 500 horses per army of infantry army, and 2,000 pack horses, and now the number of war horses in the whole army is about 35,000, and there are nearly 80,000 pack horses. The horses continued to wear and tear, and about 7,000 new warlike horses were added each year, in addition to more than 10,000 pack horses. ”

"The cost of purchasing military rations, buying war horses, armor and blades, and purchasing materials from the people during the march is about 5 million yuan, and the salaries of scribes, tax collectors, and teachers, as well as the salaries of Xu officials retained by the original state and county, are about 1 million yuan, which is used for the research and development projects promoted by the Ordnance Division, the Baggage Division, and the Fuhaixing, as well as the expenses of the Chengying Battalion of the Military Intelligence Division, and about 5 million yuan for other expenses such as the Bachelor's Mansion and Shazhou Academy. ”

The setting up of the tax collector's mansion is indeed like a thorn in the back for the baggage division that originally monopolized the power of financial revenue and expenditure, even if it is as indifferent as Xiao Jiu, in front of Chase, he can't help but repeat the financial situation of the statistics of the baggage division, and then said: "According to His Majesty's entrustment, the baggage division has set up a treasury in Lingzhou, Xiazhou, Shazhou, Yizhou, and Liangzhou, and the treasury and the fortress of the military government are built together.4 Accumulate gold, silver, copper, iron, silk and cloth, grain, dried meat, salt and other materials, and issue Jiaozi bills with the preparation of these materials as reserves. ”

After speaking, Xiao Jiu took out several Jiaozi from his sleeve and handed them to Wu Yingying and others to watch, with the words "Ten Jiaozi of Great Xia" written on the front The words, there are extremely dense patterns that are not easy to imitate, and the warning of forgers of Jiaozi is marked in red letters, and the back is to allow the treasury to exchange ten taels of silver, and indicate the conditions for redemption, such as advance notice, can only be redeemed in the designated treasury, etc., the other several Jiaozi are the same in front of the same just money, and the back indicates that the materials to be redeemed are different, there are ten horses of linen, and ten stones of grain. There are also places where the amount of money in front of Jiaozi and the redemption materials in the back are blank, leaving the person to fill in, and there is also a place where the name of the merchant who holds the hand in the hand of the Jiaozi is handed over in the treasury and the name is signed by the merchant who holds the Jiaozi for easy checking.

Chase immediately praised: "From Xiazhou to the Western Regions, the road is long, if the merchant uses this Jiaozi that requires signature verification, he will not be afraid of horse thieves to rob." After thinking for a while, he immediately said: "If you can use Jiaozi to deduct taxes, you can save the cost of storing and transporting materials, and there must be merchants who traffic goods who are not willing to bring more things that are ten percent tax, as long as you buy Jiaozi equivalent to one-tenth of the value of the goods in advance." Wu Yingying smiled: "That's right. ”

"The contingent of the mission to the city of Dashi Baghdad will leave tomorrow, with five hundred sergeants and Cai Lang, the lieutenant of the Jiaorong Military Academy, as the deputy envoy," Zhang Zhongyao glanced at Wu Yingying, and seeing that he did not say anything, he continued: "Among the remaining fifty members of the mission are interpreters who know Sogdian, Turkic, Persian, and Dashi, there are craftsmen who are skilled in drawing maps, and porters who drive pack horses, and they carry gifts from twenty camels to the caliph, twenty camels to give gifts to officials along the way, and some caravans that intend to follow the mission to the west for trade. ”

Wu Yingying nodded and said: "At present, the power of the Great Food King is declining, the princes are divided, and the government decree in the former Tang Dynasty of our country is similar to Chang'an, and even the caliph himself seems to be held hostage by the Turkic Janissaries. Now it is impossible for the Baghdad Caliph to restrain the Black Khan and the Qocho Uighurs from provoking us, and it is good for Zhong Yao to ask the Caliph to issue a fatwa that will make him recognize me as the protector of the *** religion, and the war between the Black Khanate and the Qocho Uighurs and our country is not for religious disputes but for wealth. It is not worth shedding the blood of pure believers for the sake of these robbers who kill and set fire in the name of religion. Zhang Zhongyao said in a deep voice: "Weichen has written it down, and he will not be dishonored." ”