Time travel rebellion, I'm serious

Chapter 942 The Han Army’s Test of the Mercenary Group

"Are you surprising that?"

Seeing Mike jumping up with surprise on his face, Jackal was a little confused.

Surprisingly, our army is ready to explore more cooperation possibilities with the mercenary group? Or stay in our military territory after the war?

"I mean can we stay in your country and get land?"

Mike also listened to Jackal's preaching a lot during this period, and he understood to some extent how big the territory of the Han army was.

The so-called semi-states in northern Xinjiang have a small population of about 4 million people, but the Han army has other places. According to Jackal, there are two more states with about 20 million people.

This is an extremely terrifying number. Although he does not know the map of the Han Army, he can know that the Han Army is a big country by being able to support such a large population.

Although this country is not as vast as the Great American Powerful Empire, nor is it as populous as the Great American Powerful Empire, its population of more than 20 million is larger than the people of many of their countries.

You must know that in their country, a country with 100,000 people can be considered a small country. A country with hundreds of thousands or millions of people is not considered a small country.

As for the Great American Empire, they are just a freak. They are so eager for land that when they cannot expand in their own country, they can only expand to the east.

As for people like Mike, many of them are actually victims of the expansion of the country. The place where they live is very barren and their life is very bad. Otherwise, they would not be mercenaries.

What's more, because of the cultural differences between the two sides, those who can own land are either free people or noble nobles.

Apart from anything else, even if you get a free citizen and have a piece of land to cultivate, it is better than being a mercenary! !

Although Master Jackal was talking about what he heard, it also shows that the Han army must have considered such a thing.

Therefore, he has to strive for more achievements, and it would be great if he succeeds.

As for Jackal, looking at the delighted Mike, he also smiled and said to him.

"I just heard this statement. When I came to the border a few days ago, the squadron leader said it casually."

At this point, the Jackal paused, organized his words and then said:

"Well, I haven't actually talked to you much about our land policy, military treatment, and military merit treatment. I'll tell you about it this time, so that you can understand our Han army more intuitively and clearly."

"The most important thing among our Han army is that the land belongs to the state, not to individuals. Individuals only have the right to use it but not to sell it. In other words, you can plant anything you want on this land, even raise animals, but absolutely Can’t sell to others.”

"Similarly, the country will not take back fields at will. If it is taken back, compensation must be paid, whether in money, materials, or other things, but the value must be equal."

Mike thought for a while, this is a good policy. Although the land is said to belong to the country, doesn't it actually belong to him?

Moreover, the land cannot be sold. If the state wants to leave, it will compensate the land, but this compensation will be marked down.

"In our Han army, the fields owned by the people in each place are different. Just like here in our northern Xinjiang, the land is vast and sparsely populated. There is a lot of land that needs to be cultivated but there are no people, so it is different from the central area. It is not a practice to practice how much land an individual occupies, but to cultivate more land as a family.”

"Just like my family, with nine people, in a central place with many people and little land, we can only have about 18 acres of farmland, or at most 36 acres of farmland."

"But if this is in northern Xinjiang, our family's farmland cannot be less than fifty acres. So our family has had fields for many years, and it is only now that we have cultivated sixty acres of fields."

At this point, Jackal smiled bitterly and said, "There are too many fields now and we can't even plant them. I'm worried!"

Jackal was stunned, how much land was fifty acres, but he couldn't plant it?

In response to this question, he asked about it, and then according to Jackal's explanation, he roughly understood that these sixty acres of land were equivalent to ten acres of land in the American Empire. Isn't it a lot?

Moreover, according to the calculation of the output of the fields in the American Empire, one acre of land can only produce about 600 kilograms of grain, and ten acres of land can only produce 6,000 kilograms. Planting twice a year can only produce more than 10,000 kilograms, which is really very little. .

In addition, the empire needs to pay 50% of the food tax and the church must pay 10% of the food tax. The remaining food will starve people to death. Coupled with other messy taxes, the output of this field is worse than being a slave?

So, why can’t this be grown?

Not only can it be planted, but the land is not enough?

But then Jackal's introduction made his jaw drop.

Nothing else. The Han army's grain output from one acre of land can now easily reach three hundred kilograms. This grain is mainly wheat. Then I will plant beans again, with a yield of about 100 kilograms.

And the weight of this kilogram is almost the same as the weight of the Great American Electric Power Empire.

Calculating this way, we can get at least 18,000 jins of wheat and 6,000 jins of beans a year, and the cumulative grain output is 24,000 jins.

This is much higher than the food output of the Great American Empire.

Then I asked about taxes. There were no other taxes, just a food tax.

Most importantly, the tax on food is still low?

According to Jackal, his family's grain tax is only levied from 6,480 kilograms. According to the ladder system, his family needs to pay 4,380 kilograms of grain tax.

In other words, after paying the taxes for one year of farming, his family has about 20,000 kilograms of grain to feed a family of nine.

This...this...what kind of heaven is this?

You must know that the smallest knighthood in the Great American Empire only has 90 acres of land, but these are lands, not fields. Only wealthy knights may be able to make it all fields.

But even so, the maximum amount of food grown twice a year is 100,000 kilograms, which requires paying 20% ​​tax to the empire, 10% tax to the church, and buying war horses, armor, weapons, and even buying and feeding slaves.

Therefore, this day is better than a free citizen in the territory of the Han army.

So after Jackal's introduction, Mike's breathing became more and more rapid.

Apart from anything else, how great would it be if we could live under the rule of the Han army?

I just don’t know if this news will become the real policy of the Han army? ?

But what Mike didn't know was that this was actually a test by the Han army, and the Han army would also adjust its strategy based on the reactions of these mercenaries.