Chapter 63: Raiding the House and Reaping the Harvest!
"What King Wu said is reasonable, it is not impossible to kill Liwei, but there is no need to kill Liwei at present, if you can control it, you can control it, and if you can't control it, you can pick a few thorns to kill, so it won't have any impact if you kill it!" Ying Chang said expressionlessly.
Du Changjing showed a look of approval, while Bai Qi continued to be silent.
"Although the military discipline of the Beijing division is chaotic, but the 50,000 soldiers of the whole army, there will always be some good ones, so let's select people from the Beijing division and re-form a new army, the number is not limited, if there is less, it doesn't matter, the soldiers are not more but fine!" Ying Chang looked around at everyone with a solemn expression and said.
According to what Du Changjing said, the military discipline of the Beijing division is seriously corrupt, if it is a purge, it will take time very much, and even if the purge is completed, there is no guarantee that the officers and soldiers in this army have two hearts, after all, Wei Huai treated them as private troops before, and the most important thing is that the formation of a new army is planned by Ying Chang a long time ago, because only the army that really belongs to itself can be used comfortably, and it can be used at ease!
"Really?" Du Changjing couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard this.
Ying Chang's words can be said to Du Changjing's heart, in fact, his idea is to re-form a new army, and then build them into an elite army, and Jingshi is not very relieved.
Seeing the excitement on Du Changjing's face, Ying Chang knew that Du Changjing's thoughts coincided with his own, and then affirmed: "My words are naturally true, and I can see that General Du and I have the same thoughts!" ”
"Hey, that's nature!" Du Changjing smiled stupidly, and then said: "Your Majesty, you have also decided to train the new army, so which branch of the army is mainly trained?" ”
The army is divided into arms, and each army has its own main army, such as the Winning Army, which is an elite army dominated by sword and shield soldiers.
And there are many kinds of troops, there are four series of infantry alone, the first series, sword and shield soldiers, soldiers with a broadsword and a shield in hand, suitable for frontal assault, siege, meritorious and defensive, the second series, archers, the third series, crossbowmen, the fourth series, pikemen!
This is not even a small series of troops, such as rooks, crossbowmen, and so on.
"How's the heavy riding?" Ying Chang said indifferently.
"Heavy riding?" Du Changjing was slightly stunned, Chang Zifei and the others also frowned, as we all know, heavy cavalry is the most difficult to train in several arms, it requires cavalry to be able to carry weight, at least more than thirty catties, and war horses also need the best, and at the same time, they also need to spend a lot of money to build heavy armor, not only the heavy armor worn by people, but also the heavy armor worn by war horses.
Training one heavy cavalry, compared to training ten ordinary cavalry, the loss is not ordinary, and the average empire would rather train 10,000 cavalry than train 1,000 heavy cavalry.
"Your Majesty, the heavy cavalry is indeed the strongest of all arms, almost invincible, but the loss is very large, with the current national strength of the Great Qin Empire, it can't be trained at all, please think twice, it's better to train the light cavalry?" Du Changjing said.
"It is precisely because I can't afford to train that I have to train, if the Great Qin Empire wants to be strong, it must establish a heavy cavalry that is invincible in the world. As for the money, I guess there should be..."Ying Chang looked at Chang Zifei with a faint smile on his face.
Chang Zifei looked at Ying Chang and looked at himself, and knew what Ying Chang meant, and immediately bent down to make a salute report: "Your Majesty, the minister has something to do!" ”
"Quasi-play!" Win often snorted.
"Your Majesty, yesterday raided the Prime Minister's Mansion, a total of 180,000 taels of silver, 30,000 taels of gold, 38 strings of pearls, 12 agatees, 381 pieces of silverware, 234 pieces of gold, and 91 pieces of jade, the ministers asked someone to calculate, the total value of these ornaments is 1.5 million taels, if you add the gold pearls that Wei Huai gave to the demon queen last night, a total of 2.5 million taels, a total of 2.68 million taels of silver, 30,000 taels of gold!"
"In addition to the Prime Minister's Mansion, the minister raided the mansion of Fangyou, the former head of the household, and found a total of 810,000 taels of silver, 100,000 taels of gold, about 800,000 taels of gold, silver and jade, and other treasures, totaling 1,610,000 taels of silver and 100,000 taels of gold!"
"Confiscated the former military department Shangshu Jiang claimed to be a total of ............."
Chang Zifei reported last night's harvest one by one, all adding up, totaling 14 million taels of silver, 800,000 taels of gold, and even the 1 million and 300,000 taels he was greedy for, these are not counting the fields of those corrupt officials, if you count the fields and yards, it is estimated that the total amount can be increased by 50%!
"Did you hear it all? No money? What is a lot of money is, hum, they have been greedy for this and that all these years, and now they can even spit out the money and stomach in one breath! "Ying Chang couldn't help but sneer, no matter how greedy you are, I will raid the house, and you will have nothing.
"Jarrow!" Win Chang immediately called out!
"The minister is here!" Jarrow hurriedly stood up and responded.
"How much grain is left in the treasury today? If I'm not mistaken, in a few days, the counties will send people to Xianyang to deliver this year's taxes, right? Tell me how much tax revenue is this year! Ying Chang asked expressionlessly.
"Your Majesty, there are only 100,000 taels of silver, 3,000 taels of gold, and 200,000 stones of grain left in the treasury....... As for the tax, His Majesty guessed correctly, in a few days there will be people sent by the counties to send this year's taxes, the minister checked Nanfeng County, Hexi County, Shangyang County last night The three counties passed on the twists and turns, this year, the three counties paid a total of 10,000 taels of silver for commercial taxes, 10,000 taels of silver for salt taxes, and 100,000 stones for grain taxes. Jarrow said with a sad look on his face.
As the head of the household, he has a headache when he sees that there is only such a little tax this year, and this little thing is enough.
"Changxiang, do you have anything to say about this year's taxes?" Ying Chang looked at Chang Zifei and asked.
"Your Majesty, the minister believes that although Daqin cut four counties, but the three counties still have millions of acres of fertile land, there have been no natural disasters in recent years, according to normal speaking, millions of acres of fertile land, the imperial court can collect at least 600,000 stone grain taxes every year, as well as salt taxes, salt is indispensable for the people, every year supply is not sought, how can it be possible to only charge 10,000 taels of silver salt tax, as for the commercial tax, it is even more impossible, although there are not many Qin merchants, but there are also a lot, on average, every time Qin merchants go abroad to sell, at least one can earn at least 1,000 taels of silver, ten Qin merchants are 10,000 taels, 100 taels are 100,000 taels, The imperial court collects 30% of the profits, that is, 30,000 taels, which is not counting the customs duties and material taxes paid by merchants from other countries entering Qin. Chang Zifei finished his words in one breath.