Chapter 279: Upset

Compared to Linbian County, Linshui County is much larger and more prosperous.
The wall of Linshui County is more than six meters high, and there is a moat of nearly ten meters wide under the wall, and there are high mountains behind and to the left and right. If you want to break through this city, you can only storm from the front. Therefore, it is a good development base.
After a high-level meeting, Song Kun dispatched soldiers and horses to each of the three county towns, leaving only eight thousand troops.
But soon, after looking at Linshui County's finances, Song Min was upset.
Today, His Majesty Qi Guo has a total of more than 26,000 soldiers, about 10,000 auxiliary soldiers, plus thousands of civilians, and the total number of soldiers and horses has exceeded 40,000.
These soldiers and horses all had to open their mouths to eat, and they had to send troops.
However, the taxation of this era is very single. In addition to the agricultural taxation, there are only a few miscellaneous small taxation. It can be said that the county's financial revenue is very weak, and it can't afford to support 40,000 troops and horses. The days are very bitter, and even the agricultural tax cannot be collected, let alone those miscellaneous taxes.
If the 30,000 horses brought by Gu Min are to be conquered, it is necessary to feed nearly 100,000 people by relying on a Linshui County, even if the tax is doubled.
Therefore, we must find a way to generate income as soon as possible, otherwise, the soldiers will be hungry, and before the soldiers and horses of other countries come to attack, the soldiers under their control will rebel themselves.
With a little thought, Song Yong thought of two ways to increase income.
First, develop business.
Second, war.
The development of business is not something that can be done in a short while. Moreover, in this era, it is difficult for civilians to fill their stomachs. Wherever the free money comes from to buy so-called goods, it is necessary for civilians to eat enough to develop business Can make money.
As for the second road, a lot of materials can be plundered through war. However, this is also a cure for the symptoms and not the root cause. As the site expands, the consumption will be greater.
Thinking of this, Song Yi moved in his heart, so why not do this, this siege to grab supplies and not occupy the site.
With a plan in mind, Song Yan recruited Song Xiu.
"How are papermaking and movable type printing going?" Song Yan asked.
"Back to General, according to the papermaking process you provided, it should be three or five days away, but the movable type printing has been done." Song Xiu answered truthfully.
"Very good, report it to me as soon as the paper is made." Song Zheng nodded. He wrote papermaking and movable type printing in great detail, and gave it to anyone to make it step by step.
The raw materials for papermaking are very simple. Since it takes only a few days to make paper, it is better to prepare the raw materials as soon as possible.
After Song Xiu stepped down, Song Yan called for Shendu again.
"Census, how well is the cultivated land survey carried out?" Song Kun asked directly.
Shen Du said: "At present, there is a total of 100,000 households in Linshui County, with more than 325,600 people."
"So few?" Song Kun frowned, a county town with only more than 300,000 people. It looks like the real world, and an ordinary county town has more people than this.
However, thinking of the backward technology and hygienic conditions in this era, and the continuous war, more than 300,000 people in a county are already good.
"How many acres of arable land? How about the output?" Song Kun continued to ask.
"Master, General, Linshui County has a total of 100,000 acres of arable land. The crops planted by civilians are mainly corn, wheat and soybeans. The output of corn per mu is about 200 liters, and the output of wheat is about 220 liters. Eighty liters of soybeans each year. "
One liter is equal to 1.25 kilograms. When converted, the yield per mu of these three crops is very low. Compared with the output of thousands of kilograms per acre in the real world, it is almost weak.
The income from agricultural taxes is 50%.
Moreover, these 50% still need to be collected under favorable conditions, and once natural disasters occur, they cannot be collected at all.
Calculate the consumption of soldiers.
A soldier eats a pound of corn every day, 30 pounds in January, 360 pounds in a year, 36 thousand pounds in a hundred soldiers, and 3.6 million pounds of corn in a million soldiers.
The production of 100,000 acres of arable land in Linshui County is only 2.5 million kilograms of corn, which is half of the official harvest, which is 1.25 million kilograms, plus 1.385 million kilograms of wheat and 500,000 kilograms of soybean. .
In other words, Linshui County can't even afford 10,000 soldiers for a year of food taxes.
But now there are 40,000 mouths, and he has to eat with Song Yan. After such a careful calculation, he realized the seriousness of the problem. It seems that after the conquest of Gu Min's 30,000 army this time, he must start the predatory war. Or the soldiers would be hungry.
"By the way, how much grain is left in the county?" Song Yan asked again.
"The total amount is less than one million liters." Shen Duan looked solemnly.
"So little?" Song Kun frowned even tighter. One million liters of grain can last up to one month for 40,000 soldiers and horses.
After allowing Shen Du to go on to work, Song Yan called Zhao Yan and asked how much food was left in his army.
The answer obtained made Song Zheng more and more urgent, and the surplus grain in the army was only enough to support seven days.
In other words, he has only thirty-seven days. After this time, the army has no food to eat.
Mindful of his thoughts, Song Yong took out a map of the mainland of China with his own hand.
Linshui County is also a frontier city. It faces the desert to the north, Heiyan County to the south, Heyan County to the territory of Chu Kingdom, Yi'an County to the west, and Zhao County to the east. The county town of Zhao Guo.
"Do you know the deployment of soldiers and horses in Yi'an County and Fan County?"
After hearing Song Yong's inquiry, Zhao Yan thought about it: "There are about 6,000 people in Yi'an County and about 8,000 people in Fan County."
"If I give you 10,000 horses, how often can you attack Yi'an County or Fan County?" Song Yan looked at Zhao Yandao.
Zhao Yan groaned and said, "Yi'an County is three feet high, and the moat is five feet deep. If it is to be attacked, it will be difficult to break without one month. Fan County is built in a valley basin. Break it! "
"In this way, you first sneak into Yi'an and Fanjun to find out how much grain is in their house! Let's take the next step!"
"Yes!"
When Zhao Yan retired, Song Ye went to the courtyard where he lived, and rubbed his head. There is so much annoyance in managing a county. If you want to manage a country, you do n’t know how tired you are. Those so-called Mingjuns didn't live long, and they were really worried about too much.
Immediately after entering the yard, Song Ye discovered that Prince Jiang Dan was squatting on the horse under the supervision of Chunhe Qiuxiang's two girls, and they both held a whip. Once his movements were not standard, they would be beaten.
At first, Chun He Qiu Xiang didn't dare to start because Jiang Dan was a prince, but after being repeatedly scolded by Song Ye for a few times, he could only stab hardly.
And after pumping Jiang Dan, they found that they had an inexplicable thrill in their hearts, and asked how many people in the world dared to use a whip to draw a prince.
As for the pumped Jiang Dan, he didn't hate Chun He Qiuxiang, but he hated Song Yan for a while.
"Have met the general!"
When he saw Song Yan, Chun He Qiu Xiang abandoned Jiang Dan and greeted him.
Compared to a few days ago, Chunhe Qiuxiang's complexion is much better, mainly because they have meat to eat at each meal, and Song Yan also washed their hair and taught them a set of exercises.
In the next few days, both women had developed their inner strength. Relatively speaking, Qiuxiang's qualifications were higher.
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