Seeing that his father stepped forward to receive the reward, Zhang Chao grinned.
Dad's reward is a lot, just now he took 500 Kaiyuan Tongbao new copper coins, two stones of corn, and two silk subsidies.
Now he has been awarded a medal and promoted, depending on the first rank of the seventh rank to the rank of the commander and the captain of the military cavalry, and has just been promoted to the deputy substantive position of the chariot cavalry team from the ninth grade.
Because my father performed well in the battle of the Central Plains, he also won a pioneer merit.
The vanguard merit is second only to the jumping merit in the Tang Army's personal combat merits, which is very rare.
Although it is not as rare as the first war that only set a maximum of ten jumping skills, the vanguard skills are also extremely rare.
It is said that during the first battle of Tiger Prison Pass, Dad followed behind the Xuanjia cavalry of Li Shimin, the king of Qin, and led an iron spear like a dragon, leading to rush into Dou Jiande's Xia army formation, and slashed several enemies.
If it weren't for the fact that Dad was just an ordinary government soldier, if he was a Xuanjia cavalryman, he would definitely be able to evaluate his jumping skills.
However, the reward for pioneer merit is also very rich, and my father was promoted to the deputy of the Jiupin team, and he was also awarded the martial arts lieutenant who was subordinate to the seventh rank.
There are also a lot of money and grain rewards, five taels of silver, ten thousand Kaiyuan Tongbao, two horses of silk cloth, and ten stones of corn.
"Fifth Uncle Ke, how much are these rewards worth" Zhang Chao looked at the general and took a tray from the soldier Cao Senjun with a smile, and solemnly handed it to his father.
There was silver and brass in the tray, and silk cloth and corn on the ground on one side.
"It's worth a lot of money."
The black-faced big Han Ke Wu looked at the tray with envy.
Seeing Zhang Chao's question, he carefully introduced the value of these rewards.
The currency of the Tang Dynasty is both money and silk, while gold and silver are not the currency in circulation.
In the fourth year of Wude, the imperial court minted and issued the copper coins of the Tang Dynasty, Kaiyuan Tongbao, each weighing one coin, ten Wen weighing one tael, and always Qianwen weighed exactly six catties and four taels.
At the same time as the issuance of new money, the Sui Dynasty's five-baht money was abolished and the old five-baht money of the people was replaced.
Kaiyuan Tongbao is very good and is good money.
However, the copper money has always been unable to buy much now, because the world is in turmoil, and the Tang Dynasty has not yet pacified the world, and has been fighting for many years, which has reduced the agricultural harvest and the shortage of goods, resulting in extremely high prices.
This year, the Tang army besieged Luoyang, and at the beginning, the price of rice in Luoyang reached 3,000 rice, and later, it reached the sky-high price of 9,000 rice.
Of course, that can only be regarded as an extraordinary situation, but the price of food in Guanzhong is also very high.
Originally, the Guanzhong area was too small to be self-sufficient in normal years, and the grain had to be imported from the Kanto region to replenish it.
In today's wartime, a large number of young and strong people in Guanzhong went out to fight, and the grain output was less, and the price of grain naturally remained high.
Bucket rice is worth a horse of silk.
Silk is a silk product, but silk is not as good as silk and silk these high-grade silk fabrics, because silk is relatively plain and has no patterns, so it is more common and cheap in silk fabrics, and it is easier to calculate the value.
Because of the large output of silk and the high demand, it began to be used as currency in the northern and southern dynasties to make up for the shortage of copper coins.
Nowadays, even silk has actually become the most widely traded currency among the people, and the number exceeds that of copper coins.
Nowadays, a piece of silk, folded into Kaiyuan Tongbao, is roughly worth about 500 yuan.
The price of rice in Guanzhong is 500 Wen, which also means that the price of rice in Guanzhong is 500 Wen for bucket rice, and one stone of rice is five copper coins.
One bucket of rice is ten liters, and one bucket of rice in the Tang Dynasty is about equal to less than ten catties in later generations.
This is equivalent to fifty yuan per catty, and this price is definitely not cheap.
How big a silk is A silk horse is four zhang long, one foot eight inches wide, and twelve taels.
Able to cut several pieces of clothing.
"Two stone millet is worth one stone and two buckets of rice."
Ke Wu said another conversion relationship.
The reward in the army is corn, which is millet, which is one of the main crops in the Guanzhong area, also called millet.
The more common grains in Guanzhong are yellow rice, wheat and sorghum rice.
Yellow rice is also called millet seeds, which are soft and hard, the hard ones are suitable for making cakes, the soft ones are suitable for making cakes, the wheat is ground to make noodles, and the sorghum is suitable for making wine.
Yellow corn is suitable for cooking porridge, and millet that is similar to corn but larger is suitable for making cakes, and millet is much cheaper than rice and wheat like corn, and it is also the main food of the people in Guanzhong.
In this way, a bucket of rice is now worth 500 wen, and a bucket of corn is only worth 300 wen, which is much cheaper.
Dad got 12 stone corn before and after, which can be worth 36 yuan in exchange for copper coins, which is 36,000 copper coins, weighing more than 200 catties. and a reward of fifteen thousand copper coins, and five taels of silver.
"One tael of silver and one thousand and six."
Ke Wu told Zhang Chao about the price comparison of silver and copper, and it was not that one tael of silver was worth 1,000 yuan, but 1,600 yuan.
Gold and silver are not currency, but they are used by the imperial court to reward officials and soldiers, and can be exchanged.
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Five taels of silver are worth eight thousand copper coins, so that the reward is equal to twenty-three thousand coins.
The silk cloth also rewarded two horses each, one silk horse was worth five hundred, and two horses were one thousand dollars.
The price of cloth and silk is not much different, a piece of cloth is five zhang long and one foot eight wide, the price between the silk cloth is five to four, and a piece of cloth is equivalent to eighty percent of the price of a silk.
Two pieces of cloth are worth eight hundred dollars.
Zhang Chao is still more accustomed to using money to do unit statistics, and after knowing the various exchange ratios, he quickly calculated the results in his heart.
The corn was given 36,000, the silver and bronze 23,000, and the silk cloth 1,800.
In this way, my father went out on the expedition for nearly a year, and he also made a very good pioneer feat, and the money, grain, silk, cloth, corn, and rewards he got totaled 60,000 yuan and 800 yuan.
Sixty copper coins, if all are exchanged for corn, they can be exchanged for two thousand catties.
In this era, millet was cheaper than rice, but in later generations, millet was more expensive than rice, at least five yuan a catty.
Two thousand catties of millet, that's 10,000 soft sister coins.
After calculating it like this, Zhang Chao suddenly felt that this reward was so small.
After going on the expedition for so long and making such great achievements, he was rewarded with 10,000 yuan "These rewards can be converted into a total of 60,000 and 800 wen, and 20 stones of corn," Ke Da 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 he didn't see Zhang Chao take the calculations, so he did the mental calculations, and he actually calculated them in a moment, which was too powerful.
"I didn't expect you to settle accounts, I think it's better than the accounts in ordinary government and big families."
A few Zhangjiagou soldiers on the side were amazed by Zhang Chao's calculation ability and sighed at his father's reward.
Two thousand catties of corn is really worthless in Zhang Chao's eyes, but in the eyes of those Guanzhong men, it is a huge wealth.
Especially in this era of war and famine, twenty stone of grain is enough to eat for three years.
According to the regulations of the Tang Army, a guard of the forbidden army has a military ration of 12 stone millet for a year, and a war horse is 36 stone millet.
This standard is for the Yuan Cong Forbidden Army, and it is somewhat redundant.
And ordinary people in Guanzhong can't eat dry rice at once, and they won't eat three meals a day.
Therefore, if you save a little, twenty stones of grain will definitely be able to eat it for three years, and if you save a little, you may be able to eat it for two years for a family.
In those days, the most valuable things were not gold and silver, nor copper coins and silk, but grain.
"The old iron gun still got more than 100 acres of land."
"Yes, my brother is really blessed to be old, he just picked up a son, and he was promoted to become rich here, San Lang, you are really a lucky star."
Father Zhang was awarded the rank of Captain of the Martial Cavalry, and he also got sixty acres of land.
And now that my father has been promoted to the deputy of the team of the Che Riding Mansion from Jiupin, he will be able to get 80 acres of vocational land.
These 80 acres of vocational land are his Lu fields.
For officials other than Beijing officials, Datang does not give Yulu, but directly pulls out the fields.
Officials at all levels have jobs and fields according to their grades, and then the income from land rent is their income.
From the nine products and the nine products of the team is the deputy team, all of them are 80 acres of vocational land.
Even the yamen at all levels have their own public fields, and the income from the fields is used for office expenses.
Although the job field is not a permanent field, and once you leave the job, you must take it back and you must not resell it, but at least the income from the 80 acres of land when you are on the job.
Dad originally had 30 acres of land in Zhangjiagou, but now he has 140 acres of land all of a sudden, that is, 170 acres of land.
Not counting these 80 acres of vocational land, Xuntian and Yongye fields add up to nearly 100 acres, and Daddy Zhang has become a landlord all of a sudden.
Didn't he immediately become a landlord's cub and the second generation of officials In the morning, Zhang Chao was still worried about the broken cellar hole and empty grain bag, but he didn't expect that by noon, he would already be a member of the exploiting class. t1706231537: