In today's turmoil, it is normal for prices to be high.

On the one hand, many people are living in a precarious situation, leaving their hometowns and unable to even put food on the table. Therefore, if they can have a place to stay and a job to eat, they are willing to work for even the cheapest wages, let alone three or three taels of long-term labor a year.

The refugees were willing to pay only food and accommodation and a couple of taels.

But on the other hand, due to turmoil caused by wars, some craftsmen are scarce. For example, many craftsmen such as blacksmiths and carpenters who know their crafts now have higher salaries.

For example, Zhoushan's shipyards, musket factories, etc. have many orders and tight construction schedules. They recruit skilled craftsmen everywhere, and their salaries have increased. Even some veteran farmers recruited from the Royal Grange can now get 90 yuan a year in salary.

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Therefore, the overall supply of goods and materials is currently insufficient, which has led to a general increase in prices and wages. However, on the other hand, due to war disasters, some refugees are the cheapest labor force in order to survive.

Some odd jobs range from just food, to ten to twenty cash a day, to fifty to seventy cash. For those with skills, one or two hundred cash a day is also common.

Therefore, those who work part-time can earn at least 200 to 300 yuan a month, and the most can earn more than one or two.

Those who work as long-term workers have at least three taels of silver including food and accommodation, but those with higher wages already have ten taels.

Liu Zongzhou said that a long-term worker earned three taels of silver a year, which was even the previous level after food and accommodation were included. Those who still get three taels of silver now are usually refugees from the north.

Soldiers were paid four to five taels a month, which was indeed high in the past.

But now prices are at least two or three times what they were during the Wanli period. In the past, five taels of silver could buy ten shi of rice, but now ten taels of silver can only buy a little more than three shi of rice in the south.

So in fact, the purchasing power of wages now is almost the same as before.

Although the soldiers were provided with food and shelter in the army, they still had to support their families in Hukou. With just a few stones of rice, they could barely feed a few people, and they still had to fight for their lives.

“Mr. Liu!

"Soldiers fought for the country, shed their blood and sacrificed their lives, and earned the money by wearing their heads in their belts."

“Those who hold wages for others should not be allowed to freeze to death in the wind and snow; those who open the way for others should not be trapped in thorns!

The soldiers are the guardians of the country, not simply hired laborers, not simply making a living, but warriors who sacrifice themselves and fight for the country. We must treat them with the highest courtesy we can!"

"Isn't it normal that a soldier's salary is higher than that of a long-term laborer?"

"The income of a soldier is about the same as that of a craftsman, isn't it higher?"

"I don't think it's much at all. If it weren't for the lack of finances of the imperial court, their salaries would have to be increased. We must always have high respect for them, and the imperial court must always give priority to protecting them!"

“Have you forgotten the miserable state of the guardsmen in the early Ming Dynasty?

They are the Great Wall of the country. When they fall down due to hunger and hunger, the Great Wall will also collapse, and the ferocious alien enemies will come in!"

"If we can't even provide basic protection, if we can't let them have no worries, how can we let them make sacrifices for the court?"

"I have cut off the clan's salary.

I have reduced the expenses of the palace,

But the salaries of the soldiers,

There is no way I can cut it by even half a point!”

"The auxiliary battalions will not be abolished. These are not civilians, but auxiliary soldiers. They are still soldiers, and they ensure that the soldiers can fight with peace of mind. The treatment of the auxiliary soldiers will not be reduced, because they are still fighting for their lives!"
Chapter completed!