"Do you know how much an ugly bull cannon costs? How much does a cannonball cost? You must not know, but this officer told you that the cost of an ugly bull cannon is 5,000 taels, and the cost of a shell is 100 taels! ”

"This also means that the cannonballs you shoot out are not cannonballs, they are silver spent in vain, and you have to blow up 200,000 taels of silver a day, not including the cost of barrel damage and parts damage, this official told you this, just to let you know that the imperial court spared no effort to cultivate you!"

"And you also have to train the court correctly, try to hit every cannonball on the enemy, try to teach your subordinates to master artillery, and don't waste the court's money, do you understand?"

"Understood!!" One thousand and one hundred artillerymen shouted in unison!

Yang Ze took out an official document from his sleeve, unfolded the official document with both hands, and read the content of the official document with a solemn expression: "Where is Zhang Zhen!" ”

"In!" One of the artillerymen in the crowd raised his hand in response!

"Zhang Zhen, who performed well during the training, was specially appointed as the captain of the first artillery battalion of the Tiger Prison Battalion, and after the disbandment, he immediately went to the Beijing Division Battalion to select 1,000 alternative artillerymen, and then went to the military department to declare for 20 ugly cow artillery pieces and 10,000 shells, and then took the artillery, shells, and people to the commander of the Tiger Prison Battalion to report to the general of the town army!"

"Yes!"

"Liu He, ..... during training"

For a long time in the future, Yang Ze told everyone where they went, and among the 1,100 artillerymen, 120 became captains of each artillery battalion, 240 became captains of each artillery battalion, and the rest all served as captains of each artillery battalion!

Since the Qin army of the Yanshui battalion had already gone south to expedition to the Southern Wei Dynasty, the ten artillery battalions belonging to the Yanshui battalion temporarily stayed in Xianyang and were responsible for training a group of artillery for the Beijing battalion!

After distributing everything, all the 1,100 artillerymen returned to the Beijing division camp, began to select their own men and horses, and then according to Yang Ze's instructions, went to the military headquarters to declare and receive the Ugly Bull artillery and shells, and then took the Ugly Bull artillery, shells, and people to the battalions in various places to report.

Yang Ze and Fang Zi went to the palace and prepared to report the matter to Ying Chang.

An hour later!

Noon!

The Imperial Palace, the Imperial Study!

At this time, it was noon, Ying Chang was sitting on the dragon chair eating, and while eating, he asked Pei Ji to open the folds for him to read, which really didn't dare to waste a little time, and even ate to watch the folds.

Trample... Trample...

In vain at this time, there was a sound of footsteps outside the hall, and I saw Xu Shui, the chief of the military guard in the Xianyang Palace, walking into the hall with light steps, and when he walked three steps in front of the imperial platform, he bent down respectfully to make a report: "Your Majesty, Lord Yang of the Soldier and the Ministry of Soldiers asked to see Your Majesty, and he is waiting fifty steps outside the palace!" ”

"Xuan!" Ying Chang replied without raising his head.

"Yes!" Xu Shui replied, slowly turned around and left, about a short time later, the soldier Fang Zi and the military department Shangshu Yang Ze walked into the imperial study, and the two of them bent down to salute in unison with Ying Chang and said: "Minister Yang Ze (Fang Zi) to meet Your Majesty, long live my emperor, long live, long live!" ”

Ying Chang put down the dishes and chopsticks, reached out and picked up the gold wire rag to wipe the corners of his mouth, and then poured a cup of fragrant tea for gargling, the fragrant tea shook in his mouth, and then spit it back into the teacup, let the people in the imperial dining room take it back, after doing this, Ying Chang looked up at the two and asked, "Everything is done?" ”

"One thousand and one hundred artillery men have been appointed and allocated!" Yang Ze replied respectfully.

"Hmm!" Ying Chang nodded with satisfaction, and then said, "Except for the Yanshui battalion, how long will it take for the artillery of the other battalions to arrive?" Especially the artillery in charge of the coastline and port, Yin Hai played to the imperial court several times, saying that Yin Li's four major sailors did not indirectly provoke the coast of Daqin, and because of Yin Li's provocation, Yin Hai could not build warships, and urgently needed to deploy artillery on the coastline and in the port to fight the provocateurs! ”

Yin Li's provocations have been very frequent, almost every moment of every day, Yin Li's sailors can be seen coming forward to provoke, it is precisely because of this that Ying Chang urgently let the artillery return to position, as soon as possible to combat Yin Li's arrogance, so that Yin Hai's warship can go to sea.

"Your Majesty, there are a total of forty-five thousand artillery in charge of the coastline, forty-five artillery battalions, and they have already rushed to the coast of Wuyang and Haozhou with nine million artillery pieces and one hundred thousand shells, and the minister speculates that it will take them half a year to arrive!" Yang Ze replied with a solemn expression.

"Half a year?" Ying Chang was slightly stunned, and said with some astonishment: "Didn't you joke with me?" Half? The daylilies are cold for half a year! ”

"Your Majesty, although 900 artillery pieces are reduced to zero, they are not easy to transport, especially 100,000 shells, the shells are huge, and only one box can be held, and 45,000 people want to transport so many things to the coastline, half a year is the shortest!" Yang Ze hurriedly explained.

Ying Chang raised his eyebrows, and asked with a puzzled expression: "In that case, why don't you recruit people to escort you?" ”

"This..."Yang Ze wanted to speak and stopped, a little difficult to speak!

Fang Zi took a deep breath, bent down and saluted back: "Your Majesty, the budgets of the Ordnance Department and the Ministry of War have been used up, and there is no extra money to recruit people!" ”

"Run out?" Yingchang couldn't help but exclaim!

What did he hear?

The budget of the military department is running out!

How long has this been going on, less than half a year, and you told me that the budget for a year has been used up?

Ying Changke remembers that this year's imperial court's budget for the Ordnance Department has reached 70 million taels of silver!

Yang Ze sneered, "Your Majesty, do you know that the training of 1,100 artillery soldiers alone burned 25 million taels of silver from the Ordnance Department, and the 5,000 Ugly Ox guns produced by the Ordnance Department in six months burned 25 million taels of silver!" ”

"Of the other 20 million taels of silver budget of the Ordnance Department, 5 million were burned in the various divisions of the Ordnance Department, and the remaining 15 million were burned on the production of artillery shells, and the Ministry of War still had 150,000 shells in stock before the artillery was allocated."

"But after the artillery was distributed, the forty-five artillery battalions responsible for the coastline and the port alone took away 100,000 shells, and the remaining 50,000 shells were also rushed by other artillery battalions!"

"There are a total of one hundred and twenty artillery battalions in the country, and only fifty artillery battalions have received shells at present, and now there are still seventy artillery battalions waiting for the Ordnance Department to produce artillery shells, and then receive the artillery shells and rush to their respective camps, but the Ordnance Department has run out of silver and has no ability to continue producing artillery shells.

PS: "If the author has something to do today, he will do the third watch, and tomorrow he will resume the fifth watch depending on the situation!" ”