"Ji Ran, what is the number of households in my Wu country now?"

Keiji set his eyes on Dazai Jiran.

Before, when Ba, Chong, Xiyu, and Ping were destroyed, Qingji specially instructed Ji Ran, Wen Chong and others to conduct a national census.

More than half a year has passed, and there should be results.

Ji Ran immediately said: "Back to the king, after overall planning, the twenty-one counties of my Wu country now have 2.14 million households and 10.73 million people!" ”

More than 10 million people!

This does not include the total population of the Western Regions Protectorate and the Kunlun Nu (various slaves), otherwise the population of Wu would only be even more.

Hearing this, the ministers and doctors in the court couldn't help but look at each other, and their emotions stirred.

With Wu's current population, military strength, territory, and wealth, its comprehensive national strength can be said to be beating any country in the world.

Even if it is the former overlord Jin Kingdom, it is far from the current Wu Kingdom!

The only drawback is that the population conversion rate of Wu is not as good as that of the northern countries.

If not, Qingji wants to be like King Yingzheng of Qin at the end of the Warring States Period, and launch a war to unify the world, and he will definitely be able to do it!

"What is the strength of the army?"

"Standing army of 250,000 people! The king, in Jinling alone, there are 100,000 guards, forbidden troops, etc.! ”

Hearing this, Qingji was quite satisfied.

How much is it for a country with a population of more than 10 million and a vast territory with a standing army of 250,000?

Not much!

Even Ji Ran, Wen Chong, Kong Qiu, and others, who have always advocated the streamlining of the army, will not advise Qing to avoid disarmament.

Because no one can guarantee when the war will break out.

The territory of Wu is too large, and there are many places that need to be garrisoned, such as the area of the nine southern counties, and there are often small-scale Baiyue rebellions, or there are bandits and water bandits raging, which need to be suppressed and exterminated.

To the west of the state of Wu, as well as to the north, there were more garrisons.

In fact, the standing army is different from the ordinary county soldiers and county soldiers.

The county soldiers and county soldiers belong to the local county, and the soldiers are generally recruited from the local area, and the required weapons, armor, food and baggage will be prepared by themselves and distributed by the local government.

Standing armies are different.

The items needed for the standing army were uniformly allocated by the imperial court.

The task of the county soldiers and the county soldiers is to protect the territory and the people, and when necessary, they will be called up and go to the front line to fight.

The standing army is equivalent to a "field army", which can be mobilized at any time and has standard weapons and armor.

The army of Wu can be roughly divided into three types.

One is the forbidden army, the other is the border army, and the other is the local army.

The fighting power of the forbidden army was the strongest, followed by the border army, and the weaker was the local army.

Rao is like this, as a country where all the people are soldiers and has a martial style, as long as Qingji is willing, he can raise an army of one million people at any time.

However, no one dares to guarantee that there will be infighting and even defection in an army of this size......

"What is the income of the treasury of my Wu State last year?"

Hearing this, Ji Ran hurriedly presented a book of musicals and asked the CRRC Mansion to hand it over to Qingji to read.

"Returning to the king, after overall planning, my Wu country has cultivated 3,320,170 acres of land and 80 acres and 140 steps so far."

Ji Ran, who answered like a stream, told Qingji all the data he knew, and said: "According to Wu Law, the land rent tax is fifteen and one tax. ”

"The wind and rain are smooth in the last year, and the folk grains are abundant, which is the best year, so the mu produces about three millet and rice."

"Therefore, the land rent tax alone has collected more than 66,735,433 hundred!"

"Shhh

Hearing this, the ministers and doctors present couldn't help but gasp and feel shocked.

How can you collect so much land rent tax?

That's a great thing!

Qingji estimated it himself.

How many catties is this?

Hu is the name of the measuring instrument and the unit of capacity.

In this era, the commonly used capacity units from small to large have liters, buckets, stones, kettles, bells, and the same as the stone.

Ten buckets for one stone, ten buckets for one husk.

The concept of ten buckets of rice is that each liter of rice weighs about three catties, one bucket of rice is equivalent to the current thirty catties of grain, and ten buckets are equivalent to three hundred catties.

According to the calculation of two meals a day for each person and a family of three, one bucket can be eaten for at least three months!

The current state of Wu is extraordinarily rich, it can be said that "Li Shu is rich, Su Hu is thirty, cattle and sheep are wild", and the value of a Hu rice (millet) is about thirty yuan......

It's inevitable.

After all, in a good harvest year, food prices are bound to fall.

The price of grain in Wu has always been maintained between 30 and 50 yuan, and there has been no major fluctuation.

Because the price of grain in Wu is generally set by the government.

Based on such data, the total yield per mu of cultivated land in Wu last year reached 996,051,240 hu, and according to the land rent tax rate of "15 taxes and 1 hundred", the revenue of the state treasury was 66,735,433.08 hu......

If you convert it, one Hu millet (rice) is 30 yuan, which is equivalent to 2,002,062,992.4!

A whole two billion dollars!

Is it much?

Many!

However, it doesn't stop there.

Because in addition to the land rent tax, Wu Guo also has income such as oral endowment, calculation endowment, and additional endowment.

"Oral endowment, arithmetic endowment, and more endowment geometry?"

"About 73,890,000 yuan, about 443,380,000 yuan, and about 554,220,000 yuan. Throughout the year, the treasury received more than 1.70 billion dollars! ”

Ji Ran couldn't remember such data, so he took out his notebook and read it.

When the ministers learned that the treasury had so much revenue, they couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

It is true that every year there is a recital about financial revenues for Qingji to read, but the subjects of Wu do not know about it......

The three items of oral endowment, calculation endowment, and additional endowment add up to 107,149.6 million yuan, which can be said to be far more than the field rent tax!

What is Oral Gift?

The oral endowment, like the arithmetic endowment, both belong to the "poll tax", but the target group is different.

As we all know, Wu has a perfect system to encourage childbirth, so there is a certain preferential treatment for newborns.

At the beginning, Wu Guo did not charge "oral gifts" for children under the age of 14.

However, after several reforms, children between the ages of three and fourteen in Wu Guo were charged a salary of 20 yuan.

Not much, but the number of newborns is large enough!

This "reckoning" is a poll tax between the ages of 15 and 56, which is generally 120 yuan.

More endowment, that is, such as the money for servitude, charge three hundred yuan, because it is too cheap, most of them are willing to give money to let the government invite people to go, and Qingji likes to make prisoners and Kunlun slaves do it......

Like Li Shu of Wu State, he generally pays money and will not go to labor.

At present, the total revenue of the state treasury has exceeded 3.37 billion!

Wu did not have much excesses and miscellaneous taxes, but only increased taxes for the treasury, and taxes of various names still existed.

Quite reasonable!