Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 80 The Guards (Part [-])
It seems that there must be a hidden situation, but there is not much point in guessing right now. After all, Cao Gan has already been captured, and Liu Xian is now asking for himself. Instead of guessing here, it is better to go to Liu Xian's side later. Take a look, and even interrogate Cao Gan directly.

Thinking of this, he nodded and said, "I understand your worries. I will try to understand this matter through other channels. Now let's talk about other things."

Both Gao Xiaozhuang and Gao Mo stood up straight subconsciously, and Gao Wushi waved his hands: "Don't be so nervous."

Then he paused and said: "This place has been renamed Sanshen Garden by me. The three floors from top to bottom are Shensiyuan, Shenyanyuan, and Shenxingyuan. Shensiyuan is where I live every day. Shensiyuan The existing guard rooms in Yanyuan are not small, but as far as I know, there are basically no guards stationed in the whole garden. Usually, only when my uncle comes, there will be accompanying guards. The same is true for the guest room. It's even more empty than the guard's room... I plan to use both of these places."

Gao Xiaozhuang and Gao Mo didn't know how to use Gao Yushi yet, so they just listened attentively and didn't interrupt.

Gao Wushi continued: "What I mean is that all the guard rooms are used as factory buildings for soap production, and the original warehouse on this side is still used as a warehouse for storing mid-range soaps; the original guest rooms are all reserved except for the original VIP rooms. It was changed to a guard room, and our own guards were set up, and the original warehouse on this side is still preserved, which is used to store high-end soap.”

Gao Mo was a little surprised: "Young Master, you plan to form a family guard?"

"Is there anything wrong?" Gao Wushi smiled slightly: "Since this Sanshen Garden is already my property, I will definitely come here often in the future. What if what happens yesterday happens again? I can't go every time Ask uncle to borrow someone?"

Gao Mo hesitated and said: "The young master's concerns are naturally reasonable, but the guards are no better than others. Generally speaking, they are not very good at handling other errands. If this is the case... the number of people is small, and it is impossible to protect the young master. effect; the more people there are, the more expensive it will be.”

Gao Wushi leaned back in his chair and said, "I'm mentally prepared for this, but after all, I don't know as much as you do about these things. How about this, tell me about the cost of maintaining a guard. In this way, you Let me tell you first, how much does it cost for 50 or 100 guards? It can be calculated on a monthly or annual basis."

Gao Mo said without hesitation: "Near the capital, the monthly tributes of guards from different families are different. The prices given by the servants of the honorable military official family are quite different from those of other noble families. Generally, the guards of noble families usually come from They are selected from their own military households, and it is not bad to pay one or two taels a month; but for other aristocratic families, whether they are powerful or powerful, the monthly salary of the guards is not low, the lowest is about four taels, and the average About five taels, and the higher ones can go up to six taels."

Gao Wu said sincerely: This is really not low. These days, a long-term worker in the capital gets up early every day and works late every day. He has to work all the time if he has work. His salary is only three taels of silver a hundred days, which is less than one tael a month. In addition to wages, the host family is only responsible for one lunch.At this time, one tael of silver can buy 120 catties of flour (this is based on the modern market catty).

If you look at it this way, those guards who take sixty-two months are completely high-paying class, and their workmanship is several times higher than that of ordinary strong men in the capital. Ming's regular army is much stronger.But this can also explain why the main combat force of the Ming army in the later period almost all became the servants of the generals of each family - it is too unreasonable to feed such a large amount of money without working hard.

But although expensive is indeed expensive, Gao Wushi still nodded and said: "Give me six taels of calculation."

Gao Mo's eyelids twitched, but he still insisted on continuing: "Young master, the six taels is only a monthly payment, and the food for the guards has to be eaten with the master's house all day, and all the food expenses have to be counted in the master's house. In addition, because the task of these servants is to protect the master’s house, daily practice is indispensable, and this will cause them to eat more than ordinary people, so if calculated on average, each person will consume about one yuan per month. Two or five denarii."

Well, this is also very edible.

Gao Wushi nodded: "To calculate the high point, it is calculated on the basis of two taels of silver per person per month."

Gao Mo's heart trembled when he heard this, and he took a deep breath and said, "In addition, there are weapons and equipment. Some family guards have their own weapons, but there are also some uniform equipment, such as the guards of the Zhang family. The family is wealthy, so the weapons are uniformly equipped with the Yanling knife and Zhemu bow. The arrows are actually not expensive, and they can be used many times. The cost is not too outrageous. For long-term guards, the expenditure on weapons and equipment is about one or two taels of silver per person per month on average."

Fortunately, Gao Wushi did not take the initiative to increase the price this time, nodded, and said: "That is nine taels of silver per person per month. If it is a team of 50 guards, it will cost 450 taels of silver per month. If there are 100 people, it will cost 900 taels of silver per month. [-] taels of silver..."

Gao Wushi made such a calculation, which shocked himself a lot.Considering how early his tall young master was enlightened, Zhang, one of the richest men in the Ming Dynasty, gave him a lot of persuasion money, but so far he has only saved more than 900 taels, and if he wants to maintain a team of 100 guards, it is very difficult The money was gone in a month.

Although this time uncle Zhang Siwei directly gave him a Sanshen Garden plus a huge sum of 5000 taels of silver, but if he wanted to build a 100-person guard team, he would have to play as a loser in half a year.

It seems that a 100-person guard team is useless, but it is too small and it is really useless, or... just bite the bullet and go to 50 people first. After all, this thing is a matter of life and death. If we meet again in the future No matter what happens, you can't always expect to meet monsters like Liu Ting and his son to help you every time. You still have to rely on yourself for this kind of thing.

Gao Wushi coughed dryly, pretended to be calm, and said in a calm tone: "Okay, then let's form a guard team of 50 people first, and Gao Mo, your groom's job will be relieved now. Serve as the captain of the guardian team."

Gao Mo was stunned: "Captain?" It seemed that he was relatively unfamiliar with this term.

"50 people, it is equivalent to when you joined the army, the army was in charge of the general flag of 50 people." Gao Wushi explained: "I can't call your organization the same as the army, how many heads do I have? "

(End of this chapter)