The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 359

Having been with Ding Yi for a long time, the generals of Dongjiang can now understand a truth. If you want to live well in this world, you can't do without soldiers, horses and cannons.

Ruan Wenlong then talked about the expenditure of the Dongjiang soldiers.

At present, the expenditure has been saved a lot, because the iron ore, copper ore, saltpeter, etc. used to be bought from outside, which is a big deal. You must know that the iron and copper ore used by Dongjiang now does not know how many tens of thousands of catties.

Now that Ishijian Yinshan is occupied, the money is completely saved, as long as the navy will drag it.

The bulk is military spending.

Now Dongjiang has 6 soldiers and horses (Wang Weizhong's [-] troops from Dengzhou and Shi Jianyinshan's [-] soldiers are included. One thousand soldiers were lost in the conquest day, but [-] soldiers were made up. The total number of soldiers and horses has not changed.) There are [-] guards, for a total of [-].

The monthly salary plus the civil servants of the military officers present will be close to [-].

All craftsmen and workers have reached 2, and the monthly salary is more than [-].

The grain and rice are not counted, and the rations for 30 people are not counted.

In terms of rations, one is that the imperial court has some support, the other is that North Korea can still support some, and the third is that Ding Yi has hoarded 10,000+ acres of land by himself, so only on this, he saved 10,000+ taels of silver a year, otherwise, it would have been a long time ago Just go bankrupt.

In addition, Ding Yi's Lushun and Pidao are both under construction, and Liao people are often recruited to work. If the soldiers' families are recruited, they have to pay. This direction will cost about [-] yuan a year.

As for the items bought when hoarding the fields, such as cattle, seeds, and other expenses, they basically remained at more than [-] a year.

So right now the entire Dongjiang spends more than 100 million taels a year.

This has not included the expenditure of other military supplies, including cotton cloth and silk made by Bingjia. (Metal mines now have the money of Japan, which means that they don’t need money, and there is a lot less, otherwise the expenses will be even greater.)
So Ruan Wenlong said, adding up all the miscellaneous things, now there are more than 30 soldiers and civilians to support, and the annual expenditure should be about 110 million.

When the generals heard that the annual expenditure was 110 million, they immediately felt that it was not easy for Mr. Ding.

Considering that grain, rice and metal minerals are no longer costly, it costs 110 million.

It was really not easy for Ding Yi to lead everyone to the present.

Zhao Dashan, Zhang Jing and others were even more stunned. How did we survive before?

Master Ding spends 100 million a year?How did we survive before?

Ruan Wenlong said with a smile, the main reason is that the military expenditure is a big one, but fortunately the expansion of troops and horses is a recent thing.

What's worse, Mr. Ding's recovery of the military salary will allow Mr. Ding to have money to support him.

At present, they have nearly 5 soldiers and horses, and each of them can recycle [-] taels as long as they spend one dollar a month, and [-] taels a year.

Ding Yi increased his troops several times, all because he made a lot of money overseas, including finally robbing a fortune after the Dengzhou Rebellion, so that he could increase his troops with money.

Now everyone understands that Mr. Ding's increase of troops is not based on how many people he has, but how much money he has.

Ding Yi said again at this time: "If we don't go to Japan to fight this battle this time, we will have more than 4 soldiers and horses. After one year, I will pay the military salary and go bankrupt."

"Now you understand why I must go to Japan."

The generals suddenly realized.

Ding Yi had no choice but to fight against the Japanese because there were too many violent soldiers. If he won this battle, he would go bankrupt because he could not afford to support so many people without Hou Jin attacking him.

As soon as the Japanese trade route was opened up, he was fully alive, and he also saved the expenses of iron ore and saltpeter.

Ruan Wenlong finally said, everyone should take the lead in spending, encourage the subordinates to spend more, and take back some of the salary.

The Dongjiang army now includes the Pidao soldiers and horses, and they have to pay 60 yuan a year, and there will definitely be more in the future.

There are many ways to recover salaries in Lushun. Phi Island has not been built for a long time, if it can reach the scale of Lushun.

About [-] can be recovered every year.

In the future, the two places will add up and strive to recover one-fifth of the military salary a year. Even if it succeeds, if half of the military salary can be recovered, Ding Yi's pressure on wages will be greatly reduced.

In fact, Ding Yi's request is not difficult. The lowest recruits in Dongjiang Town can get 12 taels of silver a year, and they have nowhere to go in Dongjiang, so they must only spend it. It is absolutely not difficult to spend three taels of silver a year.

When Ding Yi first built service centers, bathhouses, theaters and other buildings, everyone felt strange and did not understand.

In the past two years now, everyone has cast their eyes on each other.

The sergeants and their family members have no place to spend when they get their salaries. They can only go to service centers, bathhouses, theaters, hotels, etc. for consumption. This has recovered nearly [-]% of Ding Yi’s wages a year, and it is also an early relief of Ding Yi’s money. The key to stress.

In the current service center, there are more and more good things. Things imported from Japan and other places, local high-end silk fabrics, and high-end products for health care are also on sale, and Ding Yi keeps recycling the inexhaustible silver taels of the officers.

Finally, Ding Yi began to speak, the first is to make money, the second is to increase the population, the third is to increase troops, and the fourth is to increase the hoarding of land.

The strength of Dongjiang can only be enhanced if the four items are advanced in parallel.

But the most important thing is always to make money, because without money, you cannot increase your troops.

Everyone agreed and nodded.

In view of the fact that in the original history, from 1633 to the beginning of 1634, there was no war between the Later Jin Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, and Ding Yi still has about half a year to develop stably.

He was not afraid that Houjin would attack him, but he was afraid that Houjin would attack Daming. Once he attacked Daming, the imperial court would probably recruit him now.

Therefore, Ding Yi first expanded and reorganized the army.

Because he had too many ships and lost the navy troops in the battle against Japan, he asked the navy to expand to 5000 people.

The whole town of Dongjiang now has 3000 strong men, and there are still soldiers who have surrendered. More than [-] were selected from them to supplement the navy, which was divided into three battalions.

Ruan Siqing is the chief officer of the First Battalion of the Navy, known as Chief Qian of the Navy to the outside world.

He brought fifteen ships and 1000 people (including naval artillery and sailors), mainly merchant ships and supplemented by warships. He mainly traveled from Pidao to Fuguang in the south of the Yangtze River to Japan and then to Phi Island. You can probably run two or three times, mainly to make money, and pick up artisans and scholars from various places along the way. (There are now [-] craftsmen and workers in Lushun, basically relying on this little bit to bring them back.)
Song Fei is the chief officer of the second battalion of the navy, known as the naval garrison to the outside world. The Portuguese Francois is the deputy. He leads 1000 ships, mainly merchant ships and [-] warships. , responsible for selling guns and guns to Japan and bringing back various ores from Yinshan.

Xilaojing is the chief officer of the third battalion of the navy, known as the navy garrison to the outside world. Xu Erxian is the deputy (previously Shang Kexi's deputy.) Leads more than 50 ships and 3000 people. He is mainly responsible for training the Dongjiang navy. This part is basically a warship. Mainly, a small number of warships converted from merchant ships are used for naval warfare.

A new artillery battalion was formed.

The Portuguese, Fang Sigu, was appointed as the chief officer of the artillery battalion, and a hundred old artillerymen who had undergone two years of training were transferred to lead a thousand new recruits.

The artillery battalion is to train artillery. After training [-] recruits, they will be replenished to newly formed troops in the future, or to replenish battlefield losses.Then go on to train the recruits.

Now Ding Yi has more and more guns, and the artillery is not enough, especially the ship also needs a lot of gunners.

(End of this chapter)