Ying Zheng spent a lot of martial arts points and recruited 870 first-level Iron Eagle Rui for Bai Qi.

Together with the 130 recruited in the previous round, the total number of recruits is 1,000.

Ying Zheng has seen Bai Qi's detailed report, and the role of the Iron Eagle Ruishi has been most clearly reflected in the battles of Hexi and Yucheng.

The king of Qin also issued an order to Bai Qi to select elites from the army and expand the number of Iron Eagle elites again.

and set aside hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

"No, Your Majesty!"

Bai Qi said: "Your Majesty, now that the territory of my Qin State has increased greatly, do you want to expand the army and increase the military strength?"

When Ying Zheng heard this, his face showed bitterness.

Qin had 100,000 elite hoplites, 100,000 light infantry, almost no cavalry, and a total of about 200,000 regular troops.

Except for 20,000 heavy infantry to defend Xianyang, all the others were sent out, and they would all rush to the battlefield in the event of a war.

The light infantry was all sent into battle.

The defenders of the major counties and counties are all second-line soldiers recruited from the local area, and they are half cultivated and half army, with about 50,000 people.

What is a half-ploughing and half-army?

It is to both farm and be a soldier.

Unless there are special circumstances, these people will go home to work when they are busy farming, and they will continue to serve as soldiers to defend the city after they are busy farming.

This amount of troops is too small for Yingzheng who wants to unify the eastern countries and establish the Great Qin Empire.

He also always wanted to expand his army and form a powerful army of heavy cavalry.

But the treasury is empty, and the pocket is shy!

Raising a regular professional army is a very money-burning thing, and heavy cavalry is even more money-burning.

To raise a heavy cavalry of 10,000 people, according to the minimum standard, it also requires 3.5 million taels of silver per year.

The main costs are as follows.

1. Personnel ordnance, harness, horses, clothing;

2. Craftsmen such as blacksmiths in the army;

3. Cavalry and horse rations;

4. Cavalry salaries;

5. Miscellaneous wages.

In this way, a team of 10,000 heavy cavalry will spend at least 3.5 million taels of silver per year.

The hoplites spent about one-fifth of what the hoplites did.

Light infantry spends less than half as much as hoplites.

Where the army is half cultivated and half armed, the cost is less.

The annual tax revenue of the Qin State converts corn and silk cloth into silver, but it is only about 15 million taels.

its 100,000 hoplites spent 7 million taels of silver;

100,000 light infantry, 3 million taels of silver;

50,000 local recruits are about 750,000 taels of silver.

In this way, military spending accounts for more than two-thirds of the tax revenue.

The remaining 4,250,000 taels of silver are used for:

Paying officials and royal expenses (various ceremonies, repairing palaces, etc.), 1.5 million taels per year;

Expenditure on people's livelihood such as repairing official roads to facilitate transportation, repairing ditches and irrigating farmland, etc., is 2 million taels per year.

In this way, the annual surplus of the Qin treasury is about 750,000 taels of silver.

If there is a bad year of famine, the national treasury will be in deficit to provide relief to the victims.

How does this make Yingzheng expand his army and enhance his strength? !

What's more, during the hegemony of Minister Lü Buwei, he was greedy for a large amount of money in the treasury, resulting in a large deficit in the treasury.

When Yingzheng took over the pro-government, he still owed a lot of silver taels to the major commercial banks, and the salaries of the soldiers were also owed a lot, and the official roads and ditches lacked repair and excavation.

However, fortunately, Yingzheng killed Lü Buwei, Chang Yu, Zhao Shigao officials, and confiscated their family property, adding more than 15 million taels of silver to the national treasury.

Only then will the hole left by Lü Buwei be filled.

Even so, the balance of the treasury is just over 1 million taels.

As for the military rations, weapons and other materials collected in the battles of Hexi and Yucheng are equivalent to silver taels, except for the rewards to the generals and soldiers, there is not much left.

The rebellion in Bashu was quelled, and the rebel materials collected were also distributed in this way.

Ying Zheng said helplessly: "General, the current treasury is empty, and we will discuss the expansion of the army later." ”

"No, Your Majesty!"

Bai Qi left Zhangtai Palace with the Iron Eagle Ruishi and went to the camp stationed dozens of miles away from Xianyang.

......

Ying Zheng said: "Let the Jinyi Guard command the envoy in!"

Ji Gang, who had been waiting outside, walked into the hall and knelt on the ground: "Minister, see Your Majesty, long live long live!"

"Get up!"

Ying Zheng looked at the commander with a flattering and flattering face, and said indifferently:

"Ji Gang, now do you think that you are a celebrity in front of the widow, with power leaning towards the government and the opposition, and you can do whatever you want?"

Poof!

Ji Gang, who had just stood up straight, his knees were weak, and he was so frightened that he knelt on the ground again, and he was sincerely afraid: "Your ...... Don't dare!"

"Remember, the widow can lift you up to heaven, and he can also send you to the eighteen layers of hell!"

"Do you know what your role is?"

King Qin said.

Even if Ji Gang has been systematically transformed, he is 100% loyal to Yingzheng.

But he still has to beat Ji Gang well.

Let the other party understand what to do, what not to do, and what is the duty of a courtier.

Ying Zheng wants to give Ji Gang, the head of the eagle dog, a chain.

"Your Majesty, the minister is your eagle dog, help you monitor the world, you let the minister bite whoever you want, the minister will bite whom!"

Ji Gang's head was close to the ground, and he was extremely humble.

He knows that everything he does comes from Yingzheng, and he must be loyal to Yingzheng and use it well.

Ying Zheng's head:

"It's good to know, you go to the treasury to get 200,000 taels of silver, and start to form a brocade guard.

Within half a month, it must be formed. ”

"Your Majesty, the minister will not fail in his mission!"

Ji Gang said a word and withdrew from the main hall.

When he came to the outside of the hall, he felt that his heart was cold, and he was soaked with sweat.

For King Qin's warnings and orders, Ji Gang firmly remembered them, and took them as the criterion, always warning himself.

As His Majesty's Eagle Dog, he is His Majesty's eyes and ears.

If His Majesty can't see far and hear clearly, His Majesty will definitely cut his power and replace him with someone else as the commander of the Jinyi Guard.

If this is the case, it will be even more uncomfortable than killing Ji Gang, who is greedy for power.

After Ying Zheng finished talking with Bai Qi and Ji Gang, he prepared to leave the main hall.

"Your Majesty, Mrs. Zhao invites you to Ganquan Palace. At this time, a eunuch of Ganquan Palace came to pray.

King Qin nodded: "Okay, you go back and tell Mrs. Tai, and the widow will come!"

Now, he had no other urgent matters to deal with, so he decided to go and meet Mrs. Zhao.

Ying Zheng may not have listened to Shi Yin play the piano for a long time.

Listening to the teacher's voice and playing the guqin is a pleasure.

......

Xianyang, Ganquan Palace, the main hall.

During this time, the counties and counties of the Qin State sent a total of thousands of show girls.

After many selections, twelve show girls finally stood out and stayed in Ganquan Palace.

Regardless of their appearance, figure, or temperament, they are all the best choices, and they are all beautiful women in a thousand.

All of them are beautiful and fragrant, and they are fat and thin, each with its own characteristics.

It can be seen that the chief officials of various counties and counties have done their best to select the king of Qin.

They all hope that the future mother of the nation can come from their own county, so that they will not only be honored, but also a great achievement.

Those who can be sent to the palace are all local high-quality girls with virtuous conduct.

Thousands of show girls entered the palace, and in the end only twelve people remained, thinking about the process of this draft, it is really thrilling and cruel.

The girls who were not selected were sent back to their hometowns in disgrace.

Mrs. Zhao and the beauties looked at the twelve slim girls in front of them, and they were very satisfied.

"These girls are really good, all of them are very smart. ”

"I don't know, will Zheng'er take a fancy to them?"

"Your Majesty must have a please. ”

"If Zheng'er likes it, it's best to send them all to serve Zheng'er. ”

"In this way, it is also possible for Mrs. Ben to hug the dragon girl and dragon grandson as soon as possible. ”

"Mrs., also for the sake of His Majesty's dragon body......"

Then, Mrs. Zhao looked at the twelve show girls and said:

"You listen to Mrs. Ben: Your Majesty will come in a while, you must behave well, if your Majesty takes a fancy to you and conceives a dragon seed, Mrs. Ben will be rewarded!"

"Yes, Mrs. Tai!" the twelve pretty girls blushed slightly.

During the selection process, they were strictly taught by the female officials how to serve His Majesty and so on.

"Your Majesty has arrived!"

At this time, from outside the hall came the eunuchs singing harmony.