The next morning, Wang Xiaoli went to the official hall and handled daily affairs. After breakfast and washing up, he came to see Wang Ruohai and Lu Jie.

After the ceremony, Wang Xiaolei said, "You two have just come to Xinye, how about I take you around? Although this place is a small place, the scenery is still good. Moreover, the late emperor stationed troops here during the Three Kingdoms period, and there are still many legends."

Wang Ruohai said: "This is the best. If we just stay in the room, why should we come here?"

The three of them left the city gate and Wang Xiao hunted the trail: "In addition to Xinye City, there are four acropolis. To the east is Shao Ling's military camp, and to the west is Niu Gao's military camp. The two of them receive new recruits and train their own training. To the north is the new recruits camp, and to the south is the place where armor and weapons are made."

After hearing this, Wang Ruohai couldn't help but say, "How much does such a big deal cost!"

Wang Xiaoli smiled and said, "To be honest, my army is really short of money. When building these cities, we recruited civil servants from nearby prefectures and counties, and only provided them with food. In a few months, we built these cities. There are still many imperfect places. After the autumn, we recruited civil servants to build them. I have calculated carefully that the food can still be afforded."

Wang Ruohai said: "Where do you have to spare a year when people farm the fields? If you recruit people like this, you will inevitably miss the farming time."

"The Supervisory Court has said it well. Now under my rule, all rural people, except for the land tax of three dou of acre, will work hard for fifty days a year. I have asked carefully that in the past, all kinds of labor and labor hard for ordinary people, more than fifty days a year! For the people, this is what they want now. What people are most worried about now is whether they really only collect three dou of food per acre after collecting food."

Wang Ruohai is a traditional bureaucrat. He can be roughly the burden on local people, but it is hard to explain the specific ones. Liu Yuxi's "Inscription on the Humble Room" says that there is no labor of the case. For many officials, the case work is annoying and should be handed over to officials. The total amount of tax collection in the next year is good, and he is already a good official. Many people can't explain the specific distribution.

After listening to Wang Xiaoli’s analysis of taxes, Wang Ruohai said: “Where can you get the money and food to support the army after reducing so much tax?”

Wang Xiaoliu said: "The supervisory institute collects three dou per mu. If there are 200,000 mu of land in a county, there will be 60,000 stones. After all, how can the army be short of food and grass? If there are fifty strength in a year, how many major things can't be done?"

Wang Ruohai calculated it briefly and nodded. After thinking about it, he felt something was wrong. He said, "If this were the case, there was not much tax collected before. Why did the people live so hard? The most important places in this dynasty, such as Xuanzhou and Shezhou, only one or two dou per acre. There are all top-grade paddy fields, how can it be compared here? If you collect three dou per acre, the people don't think there are too many?"

Wang Xiaoli said: "The reason is very simple. I only collect grain, not money. As the saying goes, low grain, harmful farmers, and expensive grain, harmful farmers. Why? Because for farmers, it is difficult to make a penny. The government collects money, even if it doesn't cost much, and it will spread to farmers, it will be a mountain."

"If you don't charge money, where does the money you have come from? Without money, how can you support soldiers by relying solely on food?"

Wang Xiaoli said: "To make money, of course, it is from the industrial and commercial tax. Moreover, if you run some confident industries, you can make a lot of money every year. If the government does not charge money, farmers will sell grain and cloth for money, and then buy things for spending. The knowledge in this is not something that can be explained clearly in one or two sentences. In short, not collecting money from farmers is of great benefit to the country."

When Wang Ruohai heard this, he looked at Lu Jie beside him and couldn't help but shake his head. What a fallacy this is! The government does not collect money from farmers, but can receive more money, which is not nonsense.

Wang Xiaolie was too lazy to explain to them, so he just smiled.

In the next thousand years of development, economic theory is still useful. The division of primary, secondary and tertiary industries has a great effect on economic planning. Agriculture ensures the smooth operation of society, and government income does not come from here. Not only does it not collect money from agriculture, but many governments in later generations also subsidize agriculture. The government's income comes from industry, commerce and the tertiary industries.

It is not that in an agricultural society, this theory doesn’t make sense, it’s just not as obvious as in an industrial society. If it is properly organized and the government’s monetary income can still not come from agriculture.

The most typical example is that in the late Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty paid too much compensation and mortgaged the tariffs. The British controlled the tariffs and collected more money than the entire fiscal revenue of the Qing Dynasty before.

There are many reasons for this phenomenon. For example, underdeveloped industry and commerce, irregular management, governments do not follow market laws, do not act according to objective laws, fishing out of the waters, etc. For example, when Wang Anshi reformed, he claimed that he had nationalized all profitable businesses. Due to extensive management, it actually caused a lot of damage to the industry. The management method was explored step by step by step by step by future generations.

Everyone arrived in the north city first. They saw a large number of newly recruited soldiers, incomplete uniforms, and they performed uniformly on the field of the university.

Lu Jie said: "The system has not been trained in the army like this. What are these soldiers doing?"

Wang Xiaoliu said: "In the recruit camp, the main purpose is to train the soldiers' bodies, let them abide by discipline, practice military formations, and learn to use weapons such as knives, guns, bows, crossbows. After they are proficient, they will be organized into various armies and trained in the army. These recruits have to run five miles to get up early every day, relax after they come back, and then use breakfast. Now is the time for them to relax, and they will need breakfast soon."

Looking at the sky, Wang Ruohai said: "The sun is rising now, so it's still early to have breakfast."

Wang Xiaolei said: "It's not too early. Unlike ordinary people, there are three meals a day in the military camp, otherwise they won't be full. If there is still training at night, they will have to add a midnight snack. The soldiers work extra hard, and they must first get full."

Wang Ruohai and Lu Jie were shocked when they heard this. Nowadays, it is already good to ensure that the soldiers can eat. It is so careful that Wang Xiaoliu is the first in the army. Moreover, most of the troops are cooked by the soldiers themselves, and only rice is distributed in the army.

Just from the meal, you can know what happened in Wang Xiao’s army. It is simple to say, but not easy to do. Especially since the officers have no other income, they are always greedy for soldiers’ food and wages, and they have to be discounted for food and clothing.

The soldiers there relaxed and lined up to enter the restaurant.

Lu Jie said, "Since we happened to meet, we went in and had a meal too. This morning we got up late."

As he said that, the three of them entered the restaurant.

When we arrived at the place where we made the meal, we saw several large wooden basins containing three kinds of food. Fried noodles, buns and fried buns were discharged neatly. Each soldier brought two large bowls, and when we arrived, we chose the food, and the people who made the meal put them in a large bowl.

When he arrived, Lu Jie asked Wang Xiaoli, "What kind of food is this yellow food? I haven't seen it before."

Wang Xiaolei said: "This is fried dough sticks, made of white flour, fried in oil, it is crispy and delicious. Taiwei can take two sticks to taste."

Lu Jie nodded. The man who was fighting for food took two fried dough sticks, ordered two buns and two fried buns. The amount of rice was larger than that of ordinary soldiers, so Wang Xiaoli looked behind him and said.

After taking the staple food, I went to the back, and there were two large basins. One large basin was white and tender, and the other large basin was millet porridge.

Lu Jie knew these two things and drank tofu brains when he was in Xiangyang. They were very smooth and tender. He made a big bowl of tofu brains, and then there were two large basins behind them. One was cooked eggs and the other was braised eggs.

Each soldier took an egg, put it in his own bowl, and sat down to eat.

Lu Jie took the tea eggs, held two large bowls, and went to the side.

The restaurant was full of long tables and benches. Although they were rough, they were very neat. When Wang Xiaoli and Wang Ruohai also took the food, the three of them went to a corner and sat down together.

Putting the big bowl on the table, Lu Jie couldn't help but sigh: "Standard, I have been in the army for decades. The first time I have seen such a meal! If it were all in the army, who would not die! If it were the case, I would definitely become a great man in the future!"

Wang Ruohai said: "Looking at today's food, you will know why the system is so confident in its own army! But, how much does it cost to eat like this every day? You don't have much income, can you really hold on?"

Wang Xiaolei said: "I hope I can hold on. To be honest, as long as I have a good organization and raise 10,000 or 20,000 people in several states, I can still eat like this. But there is one thing that the officers in the army cannot think of any unexpected money like other troops."

Lu Jie was the one who led the army. He understood as soon as he heard it and nodded.

After picking up the fried dough sticks and taking a bite, Lu Jie felt that the fragrance was extremely beautiful and couldn't help but admire it. Fried dough sticks are rare and delicious for people who rarely eat fried food. However, eating a few meals will easily get fed.

I chewed two fried dough sticks in a row and drank a large sip of tofu brain. Lu Jie was very satisfied.

Wang Ruohai smashed the eggs and slashed them carefully. He told Wang Xiao: "Do you have eggs in the army every day?"

Wang Xiaoli nodded: "Yes, every soldier in the army must ensure that every day has an egg. Now, cooking is in the cafeteria. To be honest, no matter how it is managed, it is actually difficult for everyone to eat it. The army stipulates that every person has an egg with a shell every morning. With a shell, no matter how it is, the egg can still be eaten."

Wang Ruohai and Lu Jie nodded repeatedly, both of them saying that it was a good idea.

In fact, this method was found in Wang Xiaoli's previous life, and many places where he ate together. If he went to the shell and cooked in the cafeteria, he could not tell at all. No matter how detailed the regulations were, there would be a chef who would tamper with it. Not to mention corruption, the soldiers would eat less, and it would be better for the chef to leave the eggs and eat them themselves. If he did not stipulate that the shells would make it difficult for the soldiers to eat them.
Chapter completed!