Prime Minister Bizen

The Xiu family was naturally very happy to hear that their family could make so much money a year, but the Xiu family also raised their own doubts: "Hey! With 111 million yuan, the family can make so much money a year, and the family is actually good at finances." Embarrassed?"

"The income is indeed very high, but the expenditure is also expensive." Hisakuna Tachihara took the initiative to take the topic and replied, "Our family implements the system of concentric execution, and the county officials and national highways all over the country are assigned warriors to manage it. Compared with other families, it has a larger official system, and it needs to spend about 12 guanwen per year.

The samurai working in the family spend about 15 kanbu each year on Lumi, supporting rice, and entitlement, and the annual salary paid after the territory is returned is about 6 kanbu.The annual salary expenditure of the standing staff in service is 16 Guanwen.

In recent years, the Korean War has continued, and the family needs to maintain a military force of more than 1 people. The expenditure on defense and preparation for the imperial conscript is about 6 guanwen per year.

In the past two years, the annual labor expenditure of the family alone accounted for 61 kanbu. In these years, the construction work of Fengchun City, the renovation of the river, and the repair of the Kanto road required an annual expenditure of about 30 kanbu.

Others include the construction of sea ships, the forging of armaments and iron cannons, and the purchase of military rations requires 10 Guanwen per year.Since the 20th year of Tianzheng, the family has transferred the population from North Korea and Jurchen, and the annual cost is about 15 Guanwen. "

Xiujia pursed his lips in embarrassment when he heard the data that Tachihara Hisakuna reported to him.No wonder people say that thanks to the house of goods supported by Toyotomi Hidecho, my family is really a typical example of making ends meet.

The Xiu family only did a rough calculation, and the annual overspending reached a full 5 guanwen.

As for how to make up for this part of the deficit, Hideka actually has some answers in his mind. Tachihara Hisakuna just reported the income and expenditure of his family, but about the Ryukyu trade, Ezo trade, and the local Konomai Gold Mine and Chinai Jinshan in Ezo. And Qingbu Jinshan (both in Matsumae), and Qiantose Jinshan (by the lake of Zhifu) have been mined successively, which can bring a large amount of gold to the capital every year in exchange for the living materials needed by Ezo.

It's just that Xiujia doesn't know how much the latest output is in this regard. He won't know until after the big report is over, when Tachihara Hisakuna and Fujido Takatora report to him in private.

But at least from now on, this part of the income should make up for the deficit of 5 yuan.

Doi Kiyoshi was in charge of trade and taxation. He didn't know the real income and expenditure of the family, who was in charge of money and food, Tachihara Hisakuna, but he was dealing with accounting, and after a little calculation, he found that there were discrepancies in the figures.

But he took a look at Hideka and Fujido Takatora who did not express any objection to Rihara Hisakuna's answer, and he realized that the big bosses probably knew about it, but it was just tacit understanding.

Since people have a special source of money and are unwilling to tell them about it, Doi Qingliang will naturally not take the initiative to ask questions stupidly.

At this time, Xiujia on the stage also signaled Tachihara Hisakuna to continue his answer.

“本家母亲库存金银铜钱折贯为13万6725贯346文4厘，有库粮为116万9752石7斗。都是借着秋收粮价低的时候收购的储备粮食。”

After Tachihara Hisakuna finished his report, he signaled to Xiujia, and Xiujia looked at Todo Takatora and asked him to prepare the next candidate for the report.

Qiu Shangjiu's family received the signal, and took the initiative to report the topic to Xiujiahui, "Reporting to Your Highness, our family has completed the construction of the third-level army. At present, there are 1.56 registered permanent troops, 4.32 registered guards, and 13.76 reserve troops. There are [-] registered personnel.

除了江户、厩桥与丰春三城常驻大量常备外，各城的守备工作由常备守备、预备以2:4:4的比例进行征召，目前关东及伊予常规在编的军役人数为2.92万人。再加上身处朝鲜再役人数1万人，本家目前动员的兵力为3.92万人。

目前守备的人均一年服役期为3个月，分别是训练2个月即驻防1个月。预备人均服役期为2个月，为训练1个月和服役1个月。目前并没有兵员紧张的问题。

In addition to the daily soldiers, the roads, prefectures, county divisions, and castle towns of each country have their own police arrest numbers. Currently, the number of combatants is 1230, and the number of police officers is 5180.

Most of these people are garrison and reserve personnel in the military service account, and they can be supplemented at any time during wartime. "

[Police arrest] is a policy implemented by Hideka when he was in Okayama.In ancient times, it was very common for the government to separate the military from the police. Even the Xiu family was not exempt from the custom. A large number of guards and reserve personnel on the military service account were appointed as regular workers [打扎] and auxiliary workers [冈引].

If there is the biggest difference between the two, it is that most of the fighting is done by samurai, who have the right to hold swords and bows.

As an auxiliary worker, Okabiki was an ashigaru even in wartime. When he was undertaking police arrest work, he could only hold a wooden stick with a height of one and a half people as a limited lethal weapon.

Even for the work of police arrest, in terms of staffing, it is still the rank and file system of the Xiujia military system. With 5 people as a unit, 1 fighter and 4 Okaki are responsible for arresting and patrolling.

On top of fighting is the status of [Police Detective], which is held by a slightly higher level of samurai Tongxinzhong, which is equivalent to the position of a squad leader. Generally, a police arrest will manage 2 to 3 fighting teams.

Just because of the special status of Tongxin, they belonged to the officials under the Fengchun small court, and were governed and appointed by the elders of the Toyodo Takatora, Tachihara Hisakuna, etc., and were not directly managed and appointed by the Akikami Jiu family, the military elder or the Privy Council.

This is also an invisible arrangement for the division of power among the elders who are in charge of military equipment.

Counting the refugees, the Fengchun family has a population of 150 million, but the number of people working as police arresters is only more than 6800 even if you count the congregation. Basically, one police officer manages 1 people. This kind of security management ratio can only be said It's good enough.

Education is always the premise of civilization. You should never expect the uneducated people in ancient times to know any morals and rules. Being able to survive is the most important rule they know about the world.

Therefore, during the years when the Xiu family ruled the Fengchun family, they have been trying to increase the proportion of police arrests to the population, but they have been limited by the problem of funds and have been slowing down.

Sure enough, after Qiu Shangjiu introduced the number of people in service, he once again proposed to Xiujia that he wanted to increase the number of police arrests.

Since the world is at peace, the biggest target of warriors, wars, has been reduced a lot, and the pressure on warriors to survive is great.

The Xiu family took back all Xiaoling's land and managed it directly, and distributed Lumi to them every year, but these incomes were not enough for them to live on during the past wars, and certainly not enough now that there is peace.

In the past wars, they could still obtain spoils from the battlefield, but with the end of the war, the source of life for the samurai, apart from the fixed Lumi every year, was to be able to find a job in the Fengchun family.

Obedience, and power are all controlled by the leader and the big family. Even a concentric group is not something that ordinary little warriors can have. The status of fighting is not very noble, and the moon silver is only 1 guanwen, which is not too much, but It is already a good source of subsidized income.

If it weren't for Okabiki's inability to wear a sword, it would be a humiliation to the samurai, and just Okabiki's monthly allowance of 500 cash would definitely make the samurai gentlemen flock to it.

In fact, it was precisely because the life of the lower-level samurai was really not good that the Akigami Hisa family repeatedly proposed to the Hide family the idea of ​​expanding the number of fights.

But once the number of fights is expanded, the corresponding number of gang citations should also be expanded.Don't look at the fact that the addition of a fighter for a year is just an extra 12 guanwen. You must know that there are 4 Gang Yin behind him with an annual salary of 6 guan.

When the number is increased to a certain amount, the number of concentric police arrests above them will also increase, and the monthly salary of each concentric is 1.2 to 1.5 guanwen.

That is to say, there is an increase in the establishment of fighting. In fact, the expenditure of the annual salary is an increase of 36 Guanwen, and the number of fighters has increased by 100. Including the addition of Tongxin Police, the actual expenditure of the annual salary exceeds 4000 Guanwen.

Is an allowance of only 500 liters a month considered too much?Is it too much for a man who only has 1 penmanship for a month of fighting?

The answer is that Okabiki’s allowance income must be insufficient, because even if you go to Fengchun City to build a city and work, and live to build a dam on the Tone River, each citizen needs to serve 2 months of hard labor every year. After the service is completed, you can get 1 Guanwen The subsidy corresponds to 500 Wen per month.

But if you choose to serve during the dynasty, for example, some stonemasons and carpenters have always served beyond the period of time because of their own skills. That is, you can get 50~100 Guanwen every month.

But all these labors require physical effort, and besides training, the main job of Oka Yin is to patrol, catch bandits and do daily fire prevention work, which is relatively easy.

Key projects don’t happen every year, and it doesn’t always get your turn, but being a job guide means you have a solid job, as long as you don’t make mistakes, the government won’t fire you.

Therefore, since the implementation of the police arrest system, Gangyin has always been a place where low-level people enthusiastically sign up.

Of course, the Xiu family knew very well that 500 Wen a month was not enough for them to do anything.

Fighting is at least the status of a samurai. There is a high-level field in all likelihood, and one can receive a corresponding salary for a year. The income from fighting is just an additional subsidy.

But many Gangyin need to support a large family, and most of them have been out of production and have no land.

If it is in the countryside, 5 kanbums a year are roughly equivalent to the comprehensive income of an Arita household for a year, which is indeed very objective.

But if they live in the castle towns, national highways, and Okabiki in the prefecture, their living costs are much higher than those in the countryside. What can they do with 6 kanwen a year?

The Xiu family had already heard the people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs report to him that Arioka had collected bribes from vendors, among which the Xiu family had explicitly prohibited the existence of private spinach restaurants in the territory of the Fengchun family.

Students who have studied economics must know a term called "surplus labor value". Simply put, you produce 10 shi of grain a year, eat 3 shi by yourself, pay taxes 5 shi, and leave 2 shi empty. These 2 stones are the surplus labor value.

How to rationally use the value of surplus labor is an important means to stabilize the social environment and promote economic development in any society at any time.

But if you directly ask the people to hand over the 2 stones of grain in their hands, he will definitely not be willing.If you force them, they will even rebel against you and shake your rule.

In ancient China, even the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which was known as the light corvee and thin Fu, always had a 37 law.

That is to say, 7% of the output of the people will be harvested, so as long as 3% of the output in his hands can only be used for next year, then the people will have no extra money to distract their minds, and society will stabilize.

The idea, though venomous, is indeed the oldest theory of charging the value of surplus labor.In ancient times, the biggest way to collect the value of this part of labor was miscellaneous taxes.

Therefore, regardless of the low proportion of land tax in the Ming and Qing dynasties, miscellaneous taxes of various names can still collect 7% for you.

At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, Qianlong’s first reaction when he saw the steam engine was not that this thing could save people’s power and increase productivity, but that the people would slack off after having this thing, and when people slack off, they would come up with different ideas.

It is very simple and rude to collect 7% directly by miscellaneous taxes. The people just succumb to your coercion. At this time, don’t talk about patriotism and loyalty with the people, they are not even worthy of mentioning it.

Therefore, after the establishment of the new flower planters, the era of planned economy was implemented for a period of time, and the people were willing to hand over the value of surplus labor by means of propaganda.

But later, after the reform and opening, the people began to bloom, and doing so would be counterproductive.

So at this time another great man came up with another way: use the way of housing loans to collect the remaining 5% of the labor value in the hands of the people (at this time the ratio should be self-use: taxation: remaining 3:2:5).

Just imagine, if a person opens his eyes every day to pay off the remaining 30 years of mortgage, what power does he have to think about it?

But in the era that Xiujia lived in, the development of real estate was extremely unrealistic.

Aside from the wooden buildings at this time, even if the planning and construction of the castle towns are pushed forward, ordinary people have no idea of ​​concentrating on the castle towns to live and buy houses. No debt on a home that could burn down at any moment and lose everything.

So how to collect the surplus value of the people is an important part of Xiujia's investment in seizing profits from the people, maintaining social stability, and carrying out economic development at the same time.

And the Xiu family thought of three ways, namely, the salt and iron franchise that people can't do without for a lifetime; Spinach House.

Although the first one has a wide audience, the corresponding profit is not very high. After all, these are the necessary materials for people's daily life, and they must have a price red line.

And the second corresponding traders who walk in the collar to harvest may not necessarily be able to harvest the surplus value from the hands of ordinary people.

At this time, the red restaurant specially opened for men and the spinach restaurant for both men and women are the main harvesting methods of Xiujia.

In fact, these two businesses have always been operated by people in the past, but with the prosperity of Kanto and Iyo in the past two years, the people have more and more spare money, so the Xiu family has clearly accepted these two businesses as official operations.

The biggest purpose is to drive all the wandering girls on the side of the road into the official red hall, to check their bodies regularly, and to cut off the transmission of diseases in time for those with physical problems.

The second is to take back the street spinach business that was originally in charge of the gangsters, and at the same time to improve the security situation in the territory.

Only one year after it was recovered, these two businesses provided the Xiu family with an additional income of 10 guan.

However, judging from the intelligence of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the private red halls and spinach halls in the territory have been banned repeatedly, and some of the police members were sheltered.

Xiujia understands that these people are indeed relatively hard to live in the city, so he changed his previous attitude of directly refusing to expand the number of quotas, and said to him, "It is allowed to expand the number of people by 150, and 50 of them will become a special arrest department. , led by 1 Tongxin to form a team of 5 fighters to directly handle the case.

They are mainly responsible for the arrest of important cases. When they handle the case, other fighters, Tongxin, and Gang Yin must unconditionally assist them.At the same time, it is responsible for the review and arrest of criminals within the police.

For national highways, prefectures, and castle towns, special allowances are added, and town police arresters receive 30% of their monthly salary, national highway police arresters receive 40% of their monthly salary, and prefectural police arresters receive 50% of their monthly salary.

But correspondingly, they should be re-educated for the purpose of the Fengchun family's laws. If they are found to have violated the purpose of the law, they will be punished according to the crime plus one. "

In the end, the Xiu family still didn't tell Qiu Shangjiu's family that he made such an arrangement because he had received information from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but the attitude he wanted to express was already very clear.

Xiujia wants to prevent them from accepting bribes and committing illegal and criminal acts by increasing subsidies for robbers on national highways, prefectures, and towns.

After all, their words and deeds actually represent the image of the Fengchun family, and the Xiu family does not want to see the money empire in Hong Kong in history.

Here I want to explain that the administrative divisions, national highways, and neighboring countries in Fengchun's family are synonymous, and the county secretary refers to a county. The police in these two places are generally in charge of rural affairs.

The difference is that the police arresters of the county division are in the county division, and the police arresters of the national highway are usually stationed in the mansion.

Fu is the national capital of each territory, that is, the provincial capital of a province. Among them, Fengchun and Edo are relatively special existences. They are not only the national capitals of Saitama and Musashi, but also special cities established by Hideka, which are directly managed by the administrative office.

Town is the common name for the castle towns of 40 cities after the 32 cities that still exist after Hideya’s ruined castle, and the two special port towns of Yokohama and Chiba.

The standard of living in these areas is higher than that of the county chiefs. This is an objective fact. Xiujia has to increase salaries or allowances for the policemen who live and work in these places. This is also a manifestation of Xiujia's benevolent government.

As mentioned above, the concentric and fighting in the police arrest are performed by samurai. They have a salary themselves, and the income of the police arrest is just extra income from part-time jobs.

The main people living in distress are Gang Yin, who has no land and salary, and relies on official salary to support a large family. They are the reason for the breeding of crime at the bottom.

Therefore, the main purpose of Xiujia's increase in allowances is to subsidize their lives, but after thinking about it, it is not very good to just increase them without raising the rank of warriors, which is why the latter half of the sentence "fighting, one heart and one heart."

What Xiujia did was not a pure conscience discovery, he wanted to change the status quo, reduce crimes and at the same time completely crack down on privately run red restaurants and spinach restaurants, and pocket all the value of the surplus labor of the people! !