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Chapter 105 Restructuring of Nanli County, Grain Harvest Tax Matters
After completely defeating Nanli Province, oh no, now Nanli County, the expeditionary army turned to defense and stationed at the border of Nanli County.

Of course, it is impossible for the entire expeditionary force to be stationed here.

After realizing the rule of Nanli County, the expeditionary army began to recruit servants there.

That is to say, an army composed entirely of local people.

As the saying goes, using barbarians to control barbarians, as long as you pick out these servants and give them conditions that are much better than ordinary natives, then they will maintain the rule of the expeditionary army for their own benefit.

In this way, it took almost three months, and the expeditionary army recruited 10 servants locally to guard the border or assist in the basic security issues of various cities.

The expeditionary force was fixed in Nanli County, leaving about [-] troops, [-] guards, and [-] subordinates to stabilize the rule of Nanli County.

The rest began to return to Yunzhou County one after another.

Of course, this is only temporary, and there will be a change of defense in three months. The group of soldiers from Yunzhong County who are going back now will replace the soldiers of Yunzhou County stationed now, and it is the turn of the group of soldiers stationed now to go back and change defense .

When everything stabilized, the first batch of returning soldiers from Yunzhou County arrived in early June when they returned to Yunzhou County.

During this period, Shendu Wangdu finally learned the news that Nanli Province had completely fallen.

After being furious and dealing with a group of government officials who had delayed the emergency military report for several months, King Shen Poison immediately summoned his officials to discuss countermeasures.

In view of the combat power of these barbarians, all the ministers agreed that if the number of troops sent was small, they should not be the opponents of these barbarians.

Therefore, in order to ensure victory, Shendu must gather at least twice the opponent's strength to attack the barbarians occupying Nanli Province.

Such remarks have been affirmed by the poisonous king. He is naturally not a fool who can ascend to the king's position. Those barbarians can take down the entire Nanli province so quickly. Their own combat power must not be underestimated, and it is no longer possible to imagine The fighting power of the ordinary robbers in the army must have far surpassed the fighting power of the regular troops.

According to the current intelligence, these barbarians have about 10 people in the entire Nanli Province, so if the king wants to attack them, he needs to prepare at least 20 people.

For Shendu Wangdu, which controls the territory of ten provinces, 20 people are not too many, and it can be formed by gathering just a few.

But the problem is that once the number of people exceeds [-], there are many problems involved. The first and most important point is the problem of food and grass.

It is not a small amount to supply the food and luggage consumed by 20 combat troops. This cannot be prepared in a short while, but it will take a certain amount of time to prepare.

As the saying goes, before the soldiers and horses move, the food and grass go first.

After forming a crusade army of 30, the entire capital of Shendu King began to quickly prepare food and grass.

That's right, the 30 crusade army. In order to win steadily, Shendu Wangdu directly formed a 30 crusade army, of which 2 were directly led by the two princes of Shendu.

Each of the princes also brought five thousand of the most powerful guards of the poisonous royal family - elephant soldiers, ready to set foot on the battlefield together.

According to estimates, in order to prepare the food needed by the 30 army, it will take at least four months of preparations in terms of body poisoning before it can be properly prepared.

This is not to say that it takes four months to prepare food, but that the local area is definitely unwilling to raise food and grass from various places without endangering the safety of the various places. Although it will definitely be given in the end, it will definitely consume a lot of time during this period.

That's why the time for raising food and grass has been set to four months, and most of the time will be spent in prevarication and arguing.

The Poison King here is preparing a large army of food and grass for a counterattack, while Yunzhou County over there is beginning to digest the acquired territory of Nanli County.

Since they came at the right time, and there was no winter in Shendu, after the expeditionary army took down the entire Nanli County, it happened to be in time for the grain harvest in Nanli County.

In the past, the grain tax in Nanli County was about [-]%, that is, the farmers kept [-]% for themselves, and the remaining [-]% had to be handed over to the poisonous government as grain tax.

Some people may say, how can people who are poisoned eat such a high food tax?

And this has to talk about the uniqueness of the land of Shendu.

In Shendu, arable land is everywhere. Except for a few special areas, among the eleven provinces of Shendu, three of them have arable land that accounts for [-]% of the total area of ​​the province, six of [-]%, and [-]% of the land. There are two.

And Nanli County happens to be one of the three provinces where [-]% of the land in the province is arable land.

For the people of the Song Dynasty, an ordinary family of seven needs to own about 35 acres of land to ensure that the whole family can have enough food after paying various normal taxes.

However, the actual situation is that normal taxation is completely impossible. Nowadays, the imperial court or officials from various places will always use various exorbitant taxes to squeeze more from the people.

In addition, usually a family can't own 35 mu of land, but most of them are about [-] mu.

Therefore, on average, the average land owned by the people of Song Dynasty is about three acres per capita.

This number of fields is based on the current two-year and three-crop yield per mu in the north of the Great Song Dynasty.A person can harvest about 370 five catties per mu a year, and a three-mu field is 120 five catties.

Normally, according to the tax rate of the Song Dynasty, one acre of land only needs to pay one bucket of grain tax, but in actual operation, this ideal state is often not achieved. In about 120, people with three acres of land can harvest 500 five catties of grain for a whole year. After paying all kinds of taxes, there are only more than [-] catties of grain left.

And these more than 500 catties of grain must guarantee all the daily necessities of a person for a year. It is conceivable how difficult the life of the people is, and this is only the case of land. Most people cannot own three mu of land at all. Two acres is the norm.

The food harvested in a year is nothing but enough to keep people from starving to death.

But for the common people, they own a large piece of land. Although the population is large, each of them can get ten mu of land on average. In the worst places, three crops a year can be achieved.

Shendu's farming technology is relatively backward, and the grain yield of one mu of land is only about [-] catties. Normally, more than [-] catties of grain can be harvested a year.

After paying 600% of the tax, there is still more than [-] catties of grain left for each person, which is much more comfortable than the people of the Song Dynasty.

After Zhao Jun learned about this situation, he immediately swiped his pen. This year, the tax for poisoning will still be the same as in previous years, and it will be reduced by half next year.

After the news came out.The expeditionary army immediately received strong support from the natives, which is why the expeditionary army was able to recruit [-] servants so easily, because after becoming a servant, your family will only need to pay [-]% of the tax this year.

And this small move instantly stabilized Nanli County, which was still a little unstable.

This is really thanks to the original poisonous government for setting such a high tax!
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