The imperial guards were dispatched for a long time. Before that, the court also issued several rewards, but each soldier was still less than five cents of money.

This Northern Expedition was a major expedition that had not been seen in a century. The prime ministers of the two prefectures were in overall situation, and the three departments coordinated the financial resources and money. At the beginning of the operation, the three departments were already complaining.

Money was spent like flowing water and soon it was impossible to support it.

Then use the emperor's inner warehouse and then get down and you have to pay money and grain.

Although there are more than 300,000 imperial guards, there are nearly 500,000 soldiers in the wing army, and the number of stakes per month is millions of stakes per month. How dare you reward too much when the money and food are so tight? If it weren't for the tradition of rewarding soldiers before using troops, the soldiers would have hoped and had to reward them, I am afraid that the previous rewards would have been saved.

Even so, they can only reward more imperial guards, fewer xiang troops. Of course, the Xiang army has complaints, but the court does not care. Those xiang troops can only guard the military fortress, pretend to be on the arrow tower, transporting food and grass, repairing camps and roads like civilians. In fact, they are much better than civilians. They are much better than civilians. They are all recruiting corvee for free to serve, and food can only be guaranteed not to starve to death. At least the Xiang army has the money and food provided by the state, but they are much stronger than civilians. They cannot fight and want to reward, and they are really fascinated by lard.

"This time it was considered a money that was taken out from the gaps of teeth..." Everyone present was the top civil officials and military generals, so Zhang Bangwen did not hide it. He also received a secret letter, saying that he wanted to cooperate with Chen Changde well, and it was necessary to persuade Li Guorui, Yue Zhi and others.

As for Liu Guoding, Mai Jidao, Li Youde and others, there is no need to think too much about it. These people are pure military generals. Although they are in the position of Guanjun, they are actually mostly based on the positions of Li Guorui and Yue Zhi, so it is not difficult to change them.

"I want to tell the truth," Zhang Bangwen said in a deep voice: "The court really can't hold on anymore. Now the summer tax has not been collected, and the distribution of money and grain has been used for 70%. If it is delayed, it will be difficult for the Donghu people to survive this summer. But we may have to fall down before them. With the situation of large troops gathering, food and grass are in place, and sufficient weapons, we will not fight with the enemy, and will be defeated without fighting after exhausting all the money and grain. Lord Li, Grand Marshal Yue, are you too unwilling to accept it?"

Yue Zhi was a little unbelievable and said, "The country earns hundreds of millions of dollars a year, why does this mean?"

"It is true that the annual income of 100 million yuan is earned, but the north is entering the country every few years to resettle the refugees, repair the destroyed cities, re-establish the defeated imperial guards, and build armored weapons. No matter what time it is, dozens of prefectures and counties were destroyed, millions of people were displaced, and when did not spend tens of millions of yuan?" Zhang Bangwen smiled bitterly: "We have tried our best to be frugal. To be honest, many refugees are roughly resettled. To be honest, there are still more refugees in the capital, all of whom are from various military prefectures on Hebei Road. We have no money and food to resettle them. The north is ruined, and the military disasters and droughts have caused more trouble in the past few years. In the south, there are bandits and pirates in the south, and industry and trade have been reduced a lot. To be honest, maintaining the current taxes is considered to be a disabled person, but there is no way. Every time the imperial guards lose, people

The taxes of this dynasty, which would be filled with the army and the city would be repaired. It would be very distressing to spend the money. The taxes of this dynasty, which would support 600,000 imperial guards and a million soldiers, accounted for 70% of the taxes in the year, and had to support more than 100,000 officials and generals, as well as thousands of eunuchs and emperors in the inner court. Fortunately, the salaries of the royal family members of this dynasty were limited, and they would be taken from the official village. Unless they passed the Jinshi exam, they could receive the salary of the official family members. The expenses of the royal family members were extremely frugal, and it was also good for Taizu to establish the system. If not, we would have been able to hold on. Let me tell the truth here. Over the years, if there were no Hu cavalry invasion, we could still pay off the money and have no deficit. Every time Hu cavalry entered the country, we would have to be more or less deficits, and we would have to add some miscellaneous taxes in the second year to make up for the deficit. Now all the people are called

Everyone gritted their teeth to support it because they had to wait for the Northern Expedition to successfully build a city, and the north was not invaded by Hu cavalry, and the court had no deficits. They could gradually reduce taxes and maintain the current situation. This dynasty did not use the equal-field system, and there were no government soldiers. In fact, in the early Tang Dynasty, the government military system was indeed good, but before the middle Tang Dynasty, the government military also collapsed. In recent years, the financial tuition could not be supported. Some people suggested that they wanted to use the government military system to fight the enemy, but it was actually impossible to do. They had to calculate the fields first, calculate the tax, and equalize the fields, and then set up the government to challenge the troops from the people. However, the government military in the early Tang Dynasty originated from the Northern Wei Dynasty and the people

The military spirit was strong. The gentry, that is, the noble families in Guanlong, were all from martial arts. The Guanlong family led the Han government army that had been fighting for a hundred years, and had martial arts at the beginning of the Sui and Tang dynasties. We do not have so many martial arts families, nor do we have the trend of martial arts. What kind of government army do we talk about when the people who fought with the Hu people for a hundred years? Without the military spirit, we can only recruit soldiers or establish vassal states. Now the court can only use taxes to support the current situation. The only way to break the situation is the battle in front of us... In fact, as the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, Lord Li should be able to see these things clearly than the lower officials..."

"No, I don't know much about taxes." Li Guorui's face was as deep as water. He always knew that the court's financial resources were tight, but after Zhang Bangwen explained this in front of him, he realized that even if he competed for national strength, the Great Wei might not win safely.

Such a huge country is now full of holes.

The main reason is that the cost of raising troops is too much, so Zhang Bangwen mentioned the system of the government army during the Wei, Jin, Sui and Tang dynasties.

Before the military system of the government, Qin State used military merits to raise soldiers, which saved daily military pay and expenses. The Qin army conscripted troops from peasants, and the Han army was also the Han army. The Han army had only tens of thousands of permanent troops. During the large-scale conquest, the soldiers of various counties and states were recruited, and then the Northern Army was dispatched from Chang'an to fight. If a large-scale cavalry was dispatched, the mobilization efforts would be increased from the border counties. At the same time, the court was responsible for the expenses of weapons and war horses. Because the war against the Huns was huge and protracted, the accumulation of rest with the people of Wen and Jing generations was consumed by Han Wu in the Northern Expedition. From this, it can be seen that the war between the farming people against the nomadic people was really a natural asymmetry.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, soldiers were hidden in various counties and countries. In fact, they were already in a state of military military power. Within a thousand miles of miles, the entire people were in a war that was even more fierce than in the Warring States Period. Of course, there was no reasonable taxation and military raising system. All people would pay taxes and no farmers would do soldiers.

When Jin ruled the Three Kingdoms, there was not long before civil strife, and then the Hu people went south and entered the early stages of the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

Then there was the Northern Wei Dynasty's rent and mediocre system and the military system. This tax system and military system have influenced China for hundreds of years, or even thousands of years. The tax system and military system of Taizu of the Ming Dynasty and the military system are also in line with the Northern Wei Dynasty.

The recruitment system of the Great Wei Dynasty was actually stronger than the Han army and the Tang vassal states, and it was even less powerful than the chaotic military system of the Ming Dynasty.

Unfortunately, the Wei Dynasty can no longer afford the heavy military expenditure.

Now is a vicious cycle. Because the Donghu Iron Cavalry continues to attack, the northern part of the country has been defeated, and the aftermath will require a lot of money and food to be consumed. The northern natural disasters are constantly connected with wars, which cost money to defend and repair, as well as military dispatch. Each battle costs millions of yuan, or even tens of million yuan. It is really a burden that the Great Wei government cannot afford, and the king and ministers of the Great Wei are really unable to take on.

Industry and commerce in the south shrink, pirates and bandits rage, but the court can only take care of the north. After all, in comparison, the south is a chronic disease and fatal, but it is not an emergency. The north is an emergency, severe, and dangerous disease. If you are not careful, it will be a situation where the country is overthrown. You cannot be careless at all.

So anyone who understands

Everyone knows that the imperial court had to tilt its power to the north, and it was necessary. For thousands of ordinary people in the south, what they saw was that they were burdened with heavy taxes and resisted pirates and bandits. The imperial court collected a large amount of taxes, but it was ignored by the south. It was inevitable that the resentment would increase day by day. There were so many thieves, which had to be said to be inseparable from the heavy burden.

Li Guorui was also one of the prime ministers and was from the highest perspective on the affairs of the world. However, he was not good at managing financial affairs. Originally, when he was in charge of the Hebei Road Pacifier, he also tried his best to hand over financial affairs to the transshipment commander. The court set up various transshipment commanders directly under the jurisdiction of the three departments, which was to unify the financial quotas of various routes, prefectures, prefectures, military and counties, and all the financial powers of the governors of the late Tang Dynasty were all in the center. If the pacifier was strong, the transshipment commander would inevitably obey the dispatch of financial affairs, but he would pay the tax quota to the court. The rest of the local financial affairs could be decided by the pacifier.

Li Guorui was not very concerned about financial affairs. When he was in office, he made the most important matter of selecting generals, training troops, preparing for war horses, and serving as arsenal. It was under his guidance that the court had a great victory against Donghu in the past two years.

"It's not just the lack of copper coins." Zhang Bangwen sighed and continued: "The food stored is less than seven million stones, and now he can only wait for the New Year's grain."

In Jingbei and Jingnan, Jiangxi, Fujian, including Liangzhe and Jiangnan East, these major southern grain-producing areas, Dawei also retained the taxation law of renting and mediocre adjustment in addition to the two tax laws. It was twice in summer and autumn. While levying the two taxes, it also collected physical grains.

Of course, these places also need to collect grain, but the amount is far from comparable to the south.

The grain collected every year, including a large amount of grass bundles, is an additional income other than cash. The total amount of grain is between 1,100 and 2 million stones. The income of these grains is similar to that of renters before the end of the Tang Dynasty. Later, the Tang Dynasty abolished renters and changed to two taxes to collect money. However, soon the war and peasant uprising destroyed a large area of ​​tax collection areas. Moreover, the laws in the end of the Tang Dynasty were corrupt, and two taxes were collected and physically collected, including various miscellaneous taxes, which is the tax collection method of the current Wei Dynasty.

More than 10 million stones of grain seemed to be a lot, but the imperial guards in the north consumed more than 10 million stones a year. Part of the military grain was purchased at the station and part of it was allocated by the three imperial court officials.

In fact, the amount of grain storage in the Great Wei Dynasty was announced to be abandoned because of the rent and mediocre remediation. The two tax laws were changed to collect physical grain, including cotton, hemp, silk, and silk, which was actually far less than that in the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

The difference between the two grain collection and grain warehouses, as well as the grain storage gap, is quite obvious.

During the reign of Emperor Wen of Sui, the emperor was known as wise and kind. In fact, Emperor Wen's aggregation skills were quite clever. At that time, the Sui Dynasty built large granaries everywhere. The granaries established by the Sui Dynasty had amazing storage. From Emperor Wen of Sui to Emperor Yang of Sui, six large granaries were built, and the reserves of any of them exceeded those of the current Tongzhou warehouse.

Li Guorui looked solemn, Zhang Bangwen breathed a sigh of relief, retreated to his seat and sat upright with a stern face. At this point, there was really no need to continue talking.

Whether it is Chen Changde's threat, the responsibility to bear after giving up the army, the consequences of his own possible beheading, the fear of his family, and the delay in the war will give the northern bandits a chance, and the responsibility of the Great Wei Dingge... These things are pressing on Li Guorui like a mountain.

After a while, Li Guorui said to Chen Changde: "Chen Qimen is not an observer and has no military supervisor's duties, but I want to ask you for something. If you agree, I will mobilize the main force of the army to move forward. If I cannot, I will write a rhetoric now, waiting for He Yan to come and take over, but it depends on whether the court thinks that it is my responsibility to be Yishuai in front of the formation, or is the imperial court taking it too for granted?"
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