Can't Afford Gluttonous Food, Hand It Over To The Country At The Start

There is no doubt that Guan Yu immediately noticed the unusualness of the Changshan Rebels. They were definitely not ordinary uprising troops, but great talents with ideals, culture and organization.

Perhaps the leader of the Changshan Rebel Army must be a wise monarch, otherwise, he will definitely not be able to do this.

Before he knew it, he had a certain degree of affection for the leader of the Changshan Rebel Army.

"However, what makes us most happy is that the Changshan Rebel Army will not levy a cent of our farmland tax, which means that the food we grow does not need to pay a cent of tax.

The old man continued to release a heavy news.

"how is this possible?"

As soon as these words came out, Guan Yu instinctively did not believe this kind of thing: "If the agricultural tax is not levied, how can there be so many soldiers in the Changshan Rebel Army, where will they be able to support so many people."

After all, in feudal dynasties, agricultural tax was one of the main sources of income for the country. Every time the country lacked tax revenue, the burden of agricultural tax would increase.

Sometimes more than 70% of the tax is collected, and only 50% of the tax is collected.

But he had never heard of any government that did not plan to levy agricultural taxes. This was the first time in three thousand years.

"I don't know, in short, the Changshan Rebels are not short of food, and they even carry food out continuously, and they are not coarse grains, but that kind of refined grains. 35

The old man stroked his gray beard: "As long as those who join the Changshan Rebel Army can eat three meals a day, they have meat every day, and they are full. It is because of this that a large number of people have eaten their fill. Join the Changshan Rebels.

"No shortage of food?!

Guan Yu couldn't believe it, and it was really incredible to not know how the Changshan Rebel Army did such a thing.

Of course it's normal for him not to understand.

After all, there is a country behind Zhou Sui. Because the Dragon Kingdom received the assistance of Shenshu Jianmu, the grain has achieved a bumper harvest, and a large amount of grain can be produced every month, which is already the kind of food surplus. The extent to which cheap grain hurts farmers.

Basically, it can produce food for more than one billion people every month.

It is precisely because of this that in order to stabilize domestic grain prices, a large amount of grain is delivered to the Han Dynasty every day.

So Zhou Sui naturally does not need such petty profits as agricultural taxes.

To a certain extent, the Han Dynasty was the agricultural dumping ground of the Dragon Kingdom.

"But with so many refugees, it is impossible for everyone to join the army.""5

Guan Yu couldn't help but ask, because the old man's words just now still didn't explain it, where so many refugees went, it was impossible for them all to join the army.

After all, there are so many people, and not everyone is suitable to be a soldier.

"Of course not, they all went to build houses, build roads and railways."

The old man explained.

"What? Did you go to corvée?

Guan Yu was taken aback.

"No, no, of course it's not corvée service. Before the government served corvage labor, they were all forced to recruit us. They didn't give us money, didn't tell us, or even gave us food. They were just white laborers, and those overseers were whipped at every turn. us."

The old man gritted his teeth: "But the Changshan Rebels are different, although they also asked us to build houses and roads, but they paid wages and included three meals a day.

It is said that they call this behavior food-for-work. If they just give money to the refugees, it doesn't make any sense. At most, if they eat for a few days, the food will be completely gone.

But if you give those refugees a job, then they can get a salary every month, and they can eat and drink enough every day, so all the refugees are expropriated and used to work. 35

"Relief for work?!"

As soon as these words came out, Guan Yu was instantly in awe, what a subtle policy this is, and there is no doubt that the person who came up with this policy is definitely an unworldly genius.

Such a policy not only perfectly saves the refugees where they go, but also gives them a place to live. It also allows these refugees to contribute to Jizhou, which is a perfect solution to the refugee problem.

He had never imagined that saving refugees could actually do so.

"And to repair bridges and make up roads, it's not to do coolies. It's not as hard as imagined. Seeing that there are no mechanical beasts outside, in fact, we all operate these mechanical beasts to build roads and build houses.""

The old man pointed to the various trucks, cars, and tanks that were running wildly on the road. The residents of this world did not know what machinery was, so they chose to call these machinery beasts.

"Organic beast? I have indeed heard a lot of news about the Changshan Rebel Army. It is said that the leader of the Changshan Rebel Army is a descendant of the Mo family. He has mastered the powerful Mojia organ technology and created the organ beast that can move quickly, so they can use the power of the organ beast. , in one day, it can run thousands of kilometers.35

Guan Yu was very emotional.

When he heard the news, he was extremely shocked. He didn't expect that the Mo family's mechanical beast technology has evolved to such a level that with the power of the mechanical beast, it can run for thousands of kilometers.

You must know that they could only ride horses before, but even on horseback, they couldn't run such a long distance in one day.

The most important thing is that riding so far on horseback will definitely be exhausting.

And not everyone rides a horse.

However, the Changshan Rebel Army has mastered a mechanical beast that can travel thousands of miles a day, and can transport hundreds of thousands of troops to places thousands of miles away in one day.

The ability to run such a long-distance attack is really terrifying.

It is because of this that the Changshan Rebel Army was able to occupy the entire Jizhou within three months, and the entire Jizhou army was caught off guard, and they did not know what happened.

"Yes, this mechanical beast is called a truck. It can travel thousands of miles a day, and can transport a large amount of food and various materials every day. It can also transport soil. Tons of materials, if it were before, it would not work without a handling team of thousands of people, and the efficiency has been greatly improved.

"There is also this mechanical beast called an excavator. They can excavate a thousand square meters of soil in one day, which is equivalent to 1,500 to 2,000 tons of soil. If we excavate the soil manually, it will take about three months to compare the soil. With the amount of engineering in one day, with this excavator mechanism beast, we no longer need to dig hard, and in just a few days, we can excavate huge potholes, which is convenient for us to build roads. "

"This organ beast is called a bus. It can travel thousands of miles a day, and it can seat twenty or thirty people on it. Taking this kind of bus, we can travel to and from major cities in one day, and we will never need it again. It took more than ten days to take the carriage, and it was exhausting."

The old man pointed at those organ beasts and kept introducing the purpose of these organ beasts.