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Chapter 260 Meeting - The War Horse Gap

Yunzhou County still has no shortage of money. Although it will cost a lot to form an army of 10 people, it is not difficult for Yunzhou County, which has been in a wartime system since its development.

Compared with the imperial court, the land tax in the territory under Yunzhou County was as high as [-]%, while it was less than [-]% in the Song Dynasty.

In other words, with 180 catties per mu of land, Yunzhou County can receive [-] catties of grain, while the imperial court can only receive less than [-] catties.

This is the difference between the wartime system and the normal system.

Under the wartime system, everything must be prioritized to meet the government's spending policy.

Individuals can only guarantee a minimum food supply, so there will be such high taxes.

And Yunzhou County will collect more taxes in terms of grain reserves and silver money reserves than the same land in the Song Dynasty, and the reserves will be more sufficient.

But... due to the particularity of Yunzhou County, both Nanli County and Woye County Yore County are newly acquired land, and there is still a large area of ​​unclaimed land in the land, so even with [-]% taxation However, the lives of the people under Zhao Jun's rule are still better than those in the pass.

The main reason is the difference in land per capita. In Yunzhou County, as long as you immigrate to three new lands, you will have ten mu of land per person.

Although it is a bit tiring and the tax is high, the accumulation of less makes more. One mu of land leaves 20 catties of grain, and ten mu of land also has 200 catties of grain.

But for Guannei, many people may have less than ten acres of land with five members of their own family.

For the output of 200 catties, the Song court received [-]%, the local government received [-]% under clever schemes, and the Xiongnu added a border tax when they entered the country, which was an additional [-]%.

Coupled with all kinds of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, the output of one mu of land is calculated at 200 catties, and the people may not even have 50 catties left in the end!

Ten acres of 500 catties seems like a lot, but it takes a family of five to support. It's okay in the south, and the food is cooked twice a year.

But for the people in the north of the Song Dynasty, they can only grow food for one season a year.

500 catties is only [-] catties for each of five people, plus the daily consumption of vegetables, salt, oil, cloth, etc., it is not enough for the common people to eat.

In order to survive, during the slack season, most people have to get up early and work late to find other jobs, so that they can live on.

But there are unpredictable things in the sky, such a day is extremely risky, and if there is any disturbance, these people who have been hovering on the line of food and clothing will be in trouble.

Maybe it was an illness, maybe it was a heavy rain, or maybe some other job was lost.

Then the people without the slightest anti-risk ability can only rely on selling land to survive, and finally become refugees in a vicious circle, or become tenants of other landlords.

Then you owe the landlord money every year to live on, and in the end you are still free even though it is obvious.

But in fact, people who owe so much money will eventually become contract slaves for generations. One generation, two generations, or even three generations cannot pay off their debts, and can only be driven by others.

On Zhao Jun's side, although the grain tax is high, there are no other exorbitant taxes!
And because they were exempted from tax for a year before, everyone has a reserve of grain in their hands. One person can't finish 600 catties of grain a year, and they can sell some for money.

Just by farming, the basic life can be guaranteed.

If you have another skill, you can also go to the city to do work to subsidize the family during the slack.

The Poisonous Three Counties under Zhao Jun's command are basically still in the period of land reclamation, and there are more jobs that can be done. As long as those workshop owners can't find people, there is no reason why no one can't find jobs.

As long as you work hard, you can live a better life.

So relatively speaking, Yunzhou County not only has money and food in the yamen, but also the lives of the people are much better than those in the pass.

After getting Zhao Jun's reply, Li Shaoshi, the director of the Armament and Logistics Department, thought for a while, then frowned and said: "My lord, one hundred thousand sets of infantry equipment and fifty thousand sets of cavalry equipment are under the prefect's mansion." After allocating enough funds, our Armaments and Logistics Department can guarantee that it will be completed within four months, and will be delivered to the army in mid-September.

But there is one thing, if the [-] cavalry equipment is prepared according to the instructions you set at the beginning of this year to ensure that the army will achieve one man and two horses this year to improve the mobility and long-term combat capabilities of the cavalry in the army.

That means within the next four months.

Our Armaments and Logistics Division not only needs to repurchase [-] horses for the original [-] light cavalry cavalry and [-] heavy cavalry in the army, to match the configuration of one man and two horses.

It is necessary to prepare an additional [-] war horses for the new army so that the horse configuration of the entire army can be completed.

This means that our Armaments and Logistics Department needs to prepare another 16 war horses!

This amount is too huge, and the current reserves of our Armaments and Logistics Department cannot be fully equipped before mid-September. "

After talking about his difficulties, Li Shaoshi couldn't help sighing, with a look of sadness on his face.

Originally, the one-man-two-horse system proposed by the prince at the beginning of the year had already made him worry about finding war horses.

Now that I add another hundred thousand, how can I get it out? Isn't this embarrassing me?

Zhao Jun also frowned after hearing this, he is not one of those dandies who don't want to eat minced meat.

He knows that the problem of war horses is far more difficult than equipment. As long as you have enough wages and iron for equipment, then equipment is not a problem, and you can get it out no matter what.

But war horses are different. A qualified war horse is one in a hundred, but not just any horse can be a war horse.

Among the horses, the number of horses that agree with the conditions is often in a ratio of ten to one.

In addition, the war horse is a living thing, it is not something that can be made, and it takes time to grow.

If you really don't have war horses, you can't buy them even with money!

Quantity restrictions, conditional restrictions, and all kinds of things have caused the shortage of qualified war horses.

War horses are indeed an important factor limiting the number of cavalry in Yunzhou County.

After a moment of contemplation, Zhao Jun raised his head and asked, "How many war horses does the Armament and Logistics Department have today?"

Li Shaoshi thought for a while and immediately answered.

"Since the beginning of the year, my lord, you gave the order of one man and two horses, and our company has started to reserve war horses.

Now our Armament and Logistics Department has about [-] suitable horses.

We are already in the process of understanding with the military step by step.

The other [-] war horses could not be found by our company, so we had to buy them from various naturalized Tatar infantry in the territory, and finally managed to get [-] horses together.

If the prince really wants to expand the army, then the shortfall in our equipment department is [-] horses! "

"One hundred thousand!"

Zhao Jun frowned even more solemnly, this is not a small sum, where would he go to get these one hundred thousand war horses back?

Zhao Jun asked Li Shaoshi unwillingly:

"Do those naturalized tribes in Yunzhou County really have no horses in their hands?"

Li Shaoshi nodded affirmatively and replied: "Except for their own war horses, all the other adult horses that could become war horses were bought back to the Armament and Logistics Department by the subordinate officials.

Now the remaining war horses in the hands of the various tribes in Yunzhou County can only be used as rough horses and cannot become war horses, or they are only half-grown ponies.

Adult and suitable war horses are really really gone.

Ugh……"

After finishing speaking, Li Shaoshi couldn't help sighing.

Everyone in the hall fell silent.

At this moment, an official from the grain storage department suddenly raised his hand weakly.

Jiang He, who presided over the meeting, saw it, and Dang even nodded, indicating that he could speak directly.

Which official said weakly:

"Since there are no war horses in Yunzhou County, why don't we buy them from outside Yunzhou County?"

"Outside Yunzhou County?!"

Zhao Jun's eyes brightened, but then he wrinkled deeply again.

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　Many people have a lot of complaints about taxation, so in this chapter I specifically explain it and hope everyone can understand it, thank you.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)