Zhao Chong did not speculate too much on this question.

Since I am here to teach the Son of Heaven, whatever the Son of Heaven asks, I just have to answer by myself.

The old general thought about it in his heart for a while, and then talked about the source of the soldiers of the Han Empire.

……

There were two sources for ordinary soldiers and junior officers in the Han Empire.

The first is the regular pawn who is drawn from the people of the county every year. All adults in the Han Empire, if they did not have a knighthood, were required to serve in the military for two years between the ages of fifteen and fifty-six. During the reigns of different emperors, the age range varied slightly, but it wasn't too different.

The second is fixed recruitment, because the Han Empire used a lot of soldiers and needed to have a fixed standing army, so gradually there was a group of recruits in the army who made a living from fighting.

Generally speaking, recruits are the backbone of the army, while pawns are the flesh and blood of the army - among the low-ranking officers from the captain to the captain, the higher the rank, the higher the proportion of recruits.

Pawns and recruits are interdependent and indispensable.

……

"Then how many soldiers are there in my Han Empire?" Liu He asked.

"Well, the main soldiers are constantly rotating all the time, and the recruitment has also changed, and the specific number is probably not clear, according to the figures reported by the counties, there are only seven or eight hundred thousand people on the left, but those who can go into battle immediately are about thirty percent."

An army of seven or eight hundred thousand, if placed in the Western Great Qin, can almost unify the entire Europa.

But the Han is too big, and it is not particularly surprising to disperse to various counties.

What's more, more than seventy percent of the soldiers in these nearly one million troops are soldiers such as menstang guards.

They maintain local law and order, and it is okay to arrest robbers and kill bandits, but if they have to fight against strong enemies such as the Huns, I am afraid that they will not be able to catch them.

"Then at the beginning of next year, if you send troops to rescue Wusun Kingdom, you will need to use 150,000 soldiers, won't you use up more than half of the army of the Han Dynasty?"

"Your Majesty is right, it is far from enough to rely on the forbidden army of Sanfu and the soldiers of the county state, so the general has ordered that the officers and knights from the counties and countries will be transferred, and it must be that by the beginning of the spring of the next year, there will be enough 150,000 people."

Fighting a war requires not only men, but also horses, armor, weapons, and food.

In the era of the Han Dynasty, there was no convenient road transportation, and it must have cost a lot to mobilize such an army.

However, this war is destined to be in vain, Liu He wants to remind him, but he also knows that this is not the time.

So, he brought the topic to the aspect he was most concerned about: "Then how much food can these most ordinary officials get?" ”

"The county soldiers, the northern and southern armies and the border county soldiers, because of the different locations, the money and food they get are also different, and Your Majesty wants to know which soldiers' money and food the most."

The border soldiers are a kind of county soldiers, but they are mainly stationed in the border counties, and the living conditions are the worst, and they have to directly face the invading Huns.

Their combat effectiveness may not be as strong as that of the northern and southern armies, but they must be the toughest and most tenacious barrier of the Han Dynasty.

Scouts in and out of Saibei, tunnel guards guarding the Great Wall, and border soldiers stationed in strongholds in the Western Regions......

They are probably the loveliest people in the Han Empire.

"Then the old general will tell me about the amount of money and food that the county soldiers here can get every month."

The Son of Heaven was able to ask them, and Zhao Chongguo felt a little more relieved - he looked into the distance, instead of indulging in the intrigues and tricks of the court, and the Son of Heaven seemed to have done a good job.

"That old man is brave, so he will take the tunnel guards stationed on the Great Wall as an example to tell His Majesty."

"Wait a minute, old general, I'll get ready first."

Liu He hurriedly took a few clean wooden pieces from under the case, carefully ground the ink, and finally dipped the brush with ink......

After doing everything well, Liu Hecai really said to Zhao Chongguo respectfully like a Confucian student: "The old general can speak now." ”

Zhao Chongguo nodded, he originally thought that the Son of Heaven was just curious about the march and battle, but he didn't expect the Son of Heaven to be so serious, it seems that he has to take it seriously.

"The soldiers stationed on the beacon of the Great Wall are called tunnel soldiers, and the number of people in a tunnel is as little as three or five people, and as many as twenty or thirty people, and each tunnel will have a tunnel chief, according to the number of people under its jurisdiction, and the commander or even the chief is the same."

……

Zhao Chongguo said slowly, whenever Liu He heard something useful, he would carefully record it on the wooden slip.

"The tunnel pawn can receive three liters of millet three buckets and three liters a month, and six hundred yuan in vegetable gold; Suichang can receive three liters of millet three buckets and three liters a month, and the vegetable gold is 900 yuan. ”

[One millet is equivalent to 14 kilograms of millet]

"Sometimes, the vegetable money is not necessarily paid, but salt is used instead."

"These millets sent down are raw grain?" Liu He asked.

Zhao Chongguo was a little surprised, this son of heaven even knew the raw grain?

Zhao Chongguo dared to assert that in the huge city of Chang'an, no one knew what raw grain was among the sons and nephews of officials than Qianshi.

Raw grain is grain that has not been shelled.

After the raw grain is scooped, it can be directly applied to the "rice".

Generally speaking, the raw grain of ten Hu can only scoop out six Hu of rice.

"It's raw grain."

Liu He quickly calculated on the wooden scumbag, and Zhao Chongguo was a little curious.

He glanced slightly, and saw that the Son of Heaven was writing and drawing, as if he was counting something with a symbol he did not recognize.

Zhao Chongguo didn't dare to disturb, so he could only wait quietly.

After some calculations, Liu He finally raised his head and said: "I have calculated, a soldier's monthly ration is about one hundred and thirteen catties, I have never been to the border county, can the tunnel soldiers eat enough of these grains." ”

[One Han Jin is equivalent to 248 grams]

"A tunnel pawn only needs three catties of millet a day to wrap his belly, so at the end of the month, there is still a slight surplus, which can be taken out to exchange for some salt."

"How much is a pound of meat in the county over there?"

"Mutton and dog meat are about seven dollars a pound."

Roughly converted, a flint can eat three catties of staple food and two catties of meat a day, which seems to be not bad.

However, Liu He knew that the people of the Han Dynasty were thrifty, and in order to let their families eat more, these soldiers would probably treat themselves very harshly.

"Old General Zhao, if my guess is correct, I'm afraid these soldiers will find a way to save some food, exchange it for money or salt, and bring it back to their families when they return home, right?"

"Your Majesty, how come you even know about this matter...... Zhao Chongguo didn't hold back, blurted out, realizing that he was a little arrogant, so he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty atoned for your sins, it was the old man who lost his honor." ”

Don't they all say that the Son of Heaven has nothing to say and do?

It seems that here, why is he so virtuous and sensitive?

"It's okay, when I was in Changyi Kingdom, I liked to go to the market to hang out, and I knew all this money, grain, oil and rice very well." Liu He said with a smile, "However, many people in the country still say that I am crazy and do not do my job. ”

Observing the people's feelings, how can it become a bad business, Zhao Chongguo is indignant for the Son of Heaven.

In the future, whoever dares to say that His Majesty is disobedient will have to ask if the sword in his hand agrees.

"Your Majesty Shengming, very incomparable." Zhao Chongguo said sincerely.

Liu He didn't hear Zhao Chongguo's heartfelt praise, his heart was as cold as those ice cubes in the corner.

These lovely soldiers got too few things, pitifully few.

Braving the arrows of the Huns, enduring the wind and sun on the Great Wall, but starving in order to bring back some food for his family.

If you can't eat enough, it will chill the hearts of the soldiers.

And the officials and ministers in various official offices have taken too much.

is only a 600 stone Lang official, and a month's salary is 70 Hu, which is enough to support 20 tunnel guards.

Lang officials like Yu Wuwu are indeed very important to Liu He, but aren't those tunnel guards important to Liu He?

In order to secure the throne, Liu He was not able to carry out drastic reforms to the court.

But he could have tried to feed the ordinary soldiers a little more first.

Thinking of this, Liu He tried to say to Zhao Chongguo: "Old general, I have something I want to talk to you about, do you think it is feasible?" ”

Today's four more than 10,000 words, this is the first update, two minutes later the second update!!

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