ALL NOVEL Chapter 20 Martial Arts Secret Food
As the King of Yue, nominally the owner of the Yue Kingdom, Wang Ge has the entire Yue Kingdom as the backing for his practice.
He went to Da Si Nong, one of the Nine Ministers, who is equivalent to the Minister of Finance and is responsible for collecting land taxes, oral taxes, and corvees from the Yue Kingdom.
Through Dasinong, Wang Ge understands that there are 28,000 households in Yue State today, with three million mu of arable land, and the annual grain production per mu is roughly two stones, and the land tax is 15 to 1 tax.
In fact, the specific situation of the land tax collected every year will be more complicated. There are both owner farmers and tenant farmers, private land and public land, as well as local tyrants and gentry, and land for rewarding meritorious officials.
Wang Ge only had a little understanding that these taxes were charged into the national treasury, used to maintain the country's operations, pay officials' salaries, build people's livelihood fortifications, and so on.
In short, Wang Ge does not have much right to use this part of the money, he just wants to know about the income and expenditure of the Yue Kingdom.
What really belonged to King Yue's private small treasury was called "internal money", and this part was the treasury that Wang Ge could control at will.
The source of income is the tax of mountains, seas, ponds, that is, Yantieshan mine, fishing and logging, and some places provide offerings to the palace.
The internal funds are in charge of another "Minister of the Shaofu" of Jiuqing.
Shao Fuqing can be regarded as the life assistant of the King of Yue, responsible for managing all production expenses in the palace, recruiting maids and eunuchs, eating and drinking, and traveling and hosting banquets.
When Wang Ge contacted him, Shao Fuqing asked:
"Your Highness, do you want everything in the palace to maintain the old system? Or do you want to recruit more maids and eunuchs, or other measures?"
Wang Ge replied: "It is not appropriate to be extravagant and extravagant, and everything is as usual."
Before crossing, Wang Ge was also an independent character. He really didn't have the habit of asking others to serve him. Besides, all these enjoyments had to be paid for from internal funds.
Wang Ge learned how much food and silk he had in the small treasury from the young minister.
His cheap father still left him a lot of personal inheritance,
He has 5.4 million yuan in money, and the anchor grain price is about 90 yuan per stone, and he has 40,000 gold and 60,000 silver.
Forty-five bolts of silk, 119 bolts of brocade, 500 bolts of silk, and 1,000 bolts of silk
And some special ores specially made for warriors to make armor weapons are also precious things.
Although the Lao Yue King was a relatively diligent and thrifty prince, he was a prince after all, and he left a huge amount of private inheritance.
Wang Ge found out that he was rich at the first glance, and felt that he should not be short of money in his future life.
But the above private property is nothing more than gold and silver and the cloth to wear on his body. He doesn't want to enjoy it, Wang Ge cares more about the food for martial arts!
Practicing martial arts also requires resources. In addition to the secrets of exercises, the food you eat is also an important resource for practice.
"Whole grains are just for ordinary people to fill their stomachs and maintain their lives. If you want to practice martial arts, you have to eat meat every three days at worst."
Martial arts practice is the process of refining the essence of food to strengthen the body. The more essence contained in the food, the better the effect of martial arts and the faster the upgrade.
Conversely, if you do not get enough energy to replenish during martial arts, you will only lose your vitality and use up your body.
Wang Ge couldn't help recalling the days when he was a proton in Kyoto.
Although he is under house arrest, Wang Ge's identity is there, and he is also thrifty, so he can basically eat meat every day when he practices martial arts.
But that's just ordinary pork raised by farmers,
Under the same weight, the energy provided by meat is several times that of coarse grains such as brown rice, but there are foods that can provide more energy than ordinary meat!
Most of them are some rare polished rice, rare birds and animals, which are collectively called "Secret Food of Martial Arts".
After consuming the secret food, warriors can gain more energy than ordinary meat, and their cultivation speed has been significantly improved.
It is also because the secret food can bring great benefits to martial arts practice, coupled with the high cost of obtaining the secret food, and the consideration of controlling folk warriors.
Therefore, the channels for obtaining secret food are generally controlled by the government and aristocratic families.
At the same time, in order to ensure the deterrence of official force, secret food is given priority to the army in most cases, and it must be a military soldier with meritorious service.
Martial arts secret food is a strategic resource, a military item, and its control is as strict as bows and armor.
For these reasons, even though Wang Ge was not treated badly in those years when he was a proton, he was not exposed to the secret food of martial arts that greatly enhanced martial arts.
But now, Wang Ge is the king of Yue.
What government, what family, what army, in the land of Yue, Wang Ge is the king!
When Wang Ge enthusiastically asked the Secretary of the Shaofu about the reserves of martial arts secret food in the internal funds, the reply he got was this:
"There are three hundred and twenty stones of blood crystal rice, seventy-eight baskets of milk essence thistle, thirteen strains of rare strong blood ginseng, and fifty-two doses of dragon and tiger soup."
Compared with the previous tens of thousands of money, gold and silver, the amount of secret food related to martial arts in the internal funds pales in comparison.
A middle-level farmer works hard all year round, and the ordinary grain harvested from the fields is only about 120 shi, while the martial arts crystal rice stored in the internal funds is actually only a little over 300 shi.
Wang Ge now intuitively understands the preciousness of martial arts secret food.
"Not too much." Wang Ge complained.
The Minister of the Shaofu explained:
"Your Highness does not know that this blood crystal rice and milk thistle are grown from the fields. These two secret foods are both delicate and expensive, and they also eat the fertility of the land, and the yield is low.
Harvesting a stone of blood crystal rice requires four acres of fertile land, and harvesting a basket of milk thistle also requires four acres of fertile land. The harvest takes about one year, and the field needs to be left fallow for two years after the harvest to restore its fertility.”
Wang Ge couldn't help but click his tongue when he heard the words. One mu of good land can produce two stones of rice, and 60 mu of land can allow a family of five to live a stable life.
Simple conversion, and considering the fallow land, the cost of blood crystal rice is at least 24 times that of ordinary rice under the same volume.
As a king, Wang Ge understood the difficulty of obtaining blood crystal rice after a little thought.
"Thinking about it this way, on the basis of ensuring the rations of the people of Yue, there are very few fields that can be used to grow blood crystal rice. The amount of blood crystal rice harvested every year is only so much, and all parties will divide it according to demand."
Wang Ge felt a little helpless. Based on his food intake and martial arts training needs, he needed fifteen stones of blood crystal rice every year, and planted once every three years, which was forty-five stones.
At first glance, the secret food stored in the money is still enough, and there is a lot of surplus.
But Shao Fuqing told Wang Ge that the money in the house would support the entire court.
Wang Ge is not the only one practicing martial arts in the palace!
The warriors recruited, the pawns who protect the palace, he also needs martial arts secret food, or this is one of the important reasons why they are loyal to the King of Yue.
Just like the warriors in the bone training state, Lao Yue Wang paid them a minimum of 3 dou per month in salary, and the minimum of 6 dou per month in the tendon-yielding state.
A certain amount of secret food needs to be distributed every month as part of the monthly salary of these palace guards.
The head of the family knew that firewood, rice, oil and salt were expensive. Considering these kinds of expenses, and Wang Ge's increased food intake after breaking through the realm, he immediately found that the more than 300 stone blood crystal rice stored in his internal funds seemed to be barely enough.
Wang Ge is glad that he currently has secret food for martial arts training, but he can't help worrying about whether the food will increase in the future, whether the stock will be enough.
Martial arts secret food is an important strategic resource of a country. It is an important basis for cultivating warriors and maintaining the army. It is also closely related to Wang Ge's own practice.
Ensuring food production is an important means of stabilizing the country.
"Maybe, do I still have to figure out how to farm?" Wang Ge cursed in his heart.
But when this idea just popped up, a flash of light suddenly appeared in his mind:
"Yes, why can't I start to increase the production of these secret food crops?"