Seeing his father step forward to receive the reward, Zhang Chao grinned.

My father gave a lot of rewards. He just received 500 new copper coins from Kaiyuan Tongbao, two stones of corn, and two pieces of silk. Now he has been awarded a merit and promoted. He is considered a first-rank official from the seventh-rank official Wu Qiwei, and has just been promoted to the deputy position of the ninth-rank Bicycle and Cavalry Mansion Team.

Because my father performed well in the battle to fight against the Central Plains, he also obtained a vanguard. The vanguard is second only to the vanguard in the Tang army's personal military achievements, which is very rare. Although it is not as rare as the number of only ten vanguards in one battle, it is also extremely rare.

It is said that during the battle at Hulao Pass, my father followed behind the Xuan Armored Cavalry of King Li Shimin of Qin. He had an iron spear like a dragon, and took the lead in rushing into Dou Jiande's Xia army formation and killed several enemies in the formation.

If my father wasn't just an ordinary mansion soldier, if he was a Xuan armored cavalry, he would definitely be able to evaluate his jumping skills.

However, the rewards of pioneer skills were also very rich. My father and I were promoted to the deputy of the ninth-grade team, and I was also awarded the title of the seventh-grade Wuqiwei. The rewards were also quite a lot of money and grain, five taels of silver, ten thousand taels of Kaiyuan Tongbao, two pieces of silk cloth, and ten stones of corn.

"Uncle Ke Wu, how much are these rewards worth?" Zhang Chao looked at the general of the chariot and cavalry and smiled and took a pallet from the military officers' army, and solemnly handed it to his father.

There were silver and copper in the tray, and silk cloth and corn on one side of the ground.

"It's very valuable." Ke Wuyi, a black-faced man, looked at the tray with envy. Seeing Zhang Chao ask, he carefully introduced the value of these rewards.

The currency of the Tang Dynasty was both money and silk, while gold and silver were not circulating currency.

In the fourth year of Wude, the court cast and issued copper coins from the Tang Dynasty, Kaiyuan Tongbao, each weighing one qian, ten qian and one liang, and one qian and a thousand qian and four liang. At the same time, the Wuzhu coins of the Sui Dynasty were abolished and the Wuzhu coins of the people were replaced.

Kaiyuan Tongbao is of great quality and is good money. However, there is no way to buy much of copper coins now. Because the world is in chaos, the Tang Dynasty has not yet pacified the world. Years of war have led to a reduction in agricultural harvests and insufficient goods, resulting in extremely high prices.

This year, the Tang army besieged Luoyang. At first, the rice price in Luoyang reached 3,000 yuan, and later, it reached a sky-high price of 9,000 yuan. Of course, that can only be considered an extraordinary situation, but the grain price in Guanzhong is also very high. Originally, the Guanzhong area had a small land and a large population, so it was not enough to be self-sufficient in normal times. The grain had to be imported and supplemented by the Guandong area.

In today's wartime, a large number of young and strong people in Guanzhong went to war, with less grain output and naturally high grain prices.

A piece of silk worth a dou of rice.

Silk is a silk product, but silk is not as good as high-end silk fabrics such as silk. Because silk is relatively plain and has no pattern, it is relatively common and cheaper among silk fabrics, and is easier to calculate value. Because of the large output of silk and high demand, it began to be used as currency since the Southern and Northern Dynasties to make up for the insufficient amount of copper coins.

Today, silk has actually become the most widely used currency in private transactions, and the quantity is even greater than that of copper coins.

Nowadays, a piece of silk is folded into a Kaiyuan Tongbao, which looks like a piece of silk is worth about 500 yuan.

Five hundred cigarettes of piece of silk, which also means that the current price of rice in Guanzhong is 500 cigarettes of rice, and one stone of rice is five silos of copper coins. Ten liters of rice in the Tang Dynasty, a bucket of rice in the later years is about less than ten kilograms. This is equivalent to fifty cents of a pound, and this price is definitely not cheap.

How big is a piece of silk?

A piece of silk is four feet long, one foot or eight inches wide, and twelve taels.

Can cut a few clothes.

"Two stones of millet can be worth one stone and two dou of rice." Ke Wu said another conversion relationship.

The military is the one who is rewarded with corn. The millet is millet, which is one of the main crops in Guanzhong, also called millet. There are also common grains in Guanzhong, including yellow rice, wheat and sorghum rice.

Yellow rice is also called millet, and it has soft and hardness. Hard ones are suitable for making cakes, soft ones are suitable for making cakes, wheat flour is ground into noodles, and sorghum is suitable for making wine.

Yellow corn is suitable for cooking porridge, and millet that is similar to corn but larger millet is suitable for making cakes. millet, like corn, is much cheaper than rice and wheat, and is also the main food for the people of Guanzhong.

By doing this, a bucket of rice is worth 500 ci, while a bucket of corn is worth 300 ci, which is much cheaper.

My father got twelve stones of corn in front and behind. It can be worth 36 jin of coins if it is exchanged for copper coins, a total of 36,000 copper coins, and weighing more than 200 kilograms.

There is also a reward of 15,000 copper coins and a silver bar of five liang.

"One tael of silver is worth one thousand six." Ke Wu told Zhang Chao about silver-copper price comparison, not one tael of silver is worth one thousand cents, but worth one thousand six hundred cents. Gold and silver are not currency, but the court will use it to reward officials and soldiers, and can be exchanged for it. The gold and silver are rare and the value is high.

Five taels of silver are worth eight thousand copper coins, so the reward of money is equivalent to twenty-three thousand coins.

Two pieces of silk were rewarded each, one piece of silk was worth five hundred, and two pieces were worth one thousand coins.

The price of cloth and silk is not much different. A piece of cloth is five feet long and one foot wide. The price comparison between silk is five to four, and one piece of cloth is equivalent to 80% of a piece of silk. Two pieces of cloth are equivalent to eight hundred yuan.

Zhang Chao is still used to using money to do unit statistics. After knowing the various exchange ratios, he quickly calculated the results in his mind.

The reward of corn was 36,000 yuan, the reward of silver and copper was 23,000 yuan, and the reward of silk was 1,08 yuan.

After doing this, my father had made a very impressive vanguard in his nearly one year of his war. The rewards of money, grain, silk, cloth, and corn were sold in total, and the total amount of 60,800 yuan of Tongbao.

If you have more than 60 jin of copper coins, if you have all replaced them with corn, you can exchange them for two thousand jin.

In this era, millet is cheaper than rice, but in later generations, millet is more expensive than rice, at least five yuan per pound. Two thousand pounds of millet is ten thousand soft sister coins.

After doing this, Zhang Chao suddenly felt that the reward was so small.

After so long, I made such a great contribution, I only received a reward of 10,000 yuan?

"These rewards can save a total of 60,800 yuan, and 20 stones of corn? Really?" Ke Wuda was shocked.

"That's right, it's easy to calculate." Zhang Chao said naturally. This is just a simple calculation.

But Ke Wu was obviously shocked and didn't see Zhang Chao take the calculation plan. He just made up his mind and calculated the calculations in a moment. It was so amazing.

"I didn't expect that you can settle accounts. I think it's even better than the accounting offices of ordinary governments and wealthy families."

Several soldiers from Zhangjiagou next to him were amazed at Zhang Chao's calculation ability and sighed at his father's reward.

Two thousand kilograms of corn are really worth nothing in Zhang Chao's eyes, but in the eyes of those Guanzhong men, it is a huge fortune. Especially in this era of war and famine, twenty stones of grain have been enough for three years.

According to the regulations of the Tang army, a guard of the imperial guards had twelve stones of millet a year, and a war horse was thirty-six stones of millet. This standard was for the Yuan Dynasty's imperial guards, and it was a bit surplus. However, it was impossible for ordinary Guanzhong people to eat dry meals every meal, nor could they eat three meals a day.

Therefore, if you save a little, twenty stones of grain will definitely be eaten for three years. If you save a little more, you may be able to eat it for two years for the whole family.

These days, the most valuable things are not gold and silver, nor copper coins and silk, but food.

"The old iron spear still needs more than 100 acres of land."

"Yes, my old brother is really lucky when he is old. He just picked up a son and was promoted and made a fortune. Sanlang, you are such a lucky star."

When Mr. Zhang was awarded the title of Wuqiwei, he also received 60 acres of land. Now that his father has been promoted to the deputy of the Cheqi Mansion to become the ninth-rank team, he can obtain 80 acres of land.

These 80 acres of vocational land were his salary. The Tang Dynasty did not give salaries to officials other than Beijing officials, but directly pulled the fields. Officials at all levels had vocational land according to their rank, and the income from the land rent was their salary. From the ninth rank and the ninth rank team chiefs and deputy teams, both 80 acres of vocational land.

Even yamen at all levels have their own public fields, and the income from the fields is used as office expenses.

Although the vocational land is not Yongye land, once the vocational land is reclaimed and cannot be resold, at least the income from the 80 acres of land when working is in the workplace is available.

My father originally had 30 acres of land in Zhangjiagou, but now he has an additional 140 acres, which is 170 acres of land. Not to mention these 80 acres of vocational land, the Xuntian and Yongye fields are nearly 100 acres. Mr. Zhang has become a landlord all at once.

Then wouldn’t I immediately become a landlord and a second-generation official?
Chapter completed!