A soldier of the New Army was equipped with ten taels of silver per soldier, of which half was a Minnie rifle and thirty rounds of ammunition, followed by a tactical vest with bulletproof effect required one tael of silver.

Then there are steel helmets, grenades, steel daggers, and small compasses with glass covers, which are not cheap, and add up to four or five taels of silver.

Then there are military uniforms, combat boots, backpacks, and so on.

These are all produced by various factories in Xishan, which are basically purchased at cost price, and of course you can't buy them if you want to buy them outside.

Sun Chuanting once told Zhu Youzhen that if the soldiers of the Ming army in his hometown could have equipment of ten taels of silver, they would definitely be able to run away with the Mongols all over the land.

And ordinary soldiers of the Ming army, in addition to military uniforms, are basically a waist knife or a spear, which basically does not cost one or two silver, that is, more than the amount of silver needed, but generally only one or two silver a month.

The equipment of the Xishan New Army alone is ten taels of silver, not counting the ammunition cost for training.

The lead bullet of the Mini rifle is simple to make, and the cost is low, but the propellant is not cheap, and the saltpeter mines at this time are not in the capital, and they need to be transported from Shanxi and Shaanxi.

Sun Chuanting calculated that every lead bullet fired by the new army basically cost two cents of silver.

Zhu Youzhen also emphasized that sharpshooters are fed with bullets, so the soldiers of the new army have live ammunition to shoot at the target once every five days, and each time they hit the target, they consume 10 rounds of ammunition, which is about half a tael of silver, or one tael of silver a month.

The ordinary Ming army is different, basically issuing a knife and gun and other weapons, properly maintained, can be used for a year or two.

In addition, each soldier of the new army also has a tael of silver, as well as military uniforms for the four seasons, as well as food expenses, and so on.

Sun Chuanting carefully calculated that it would cost about 35 taels a year to train a qualified soldier of the New Army, which was still amortizing equipment and other items over three to five years.

This cost is basically twice that of ordinary Ming soldiers, and this is under the premise that ordinary Ming soldiers are not deducted from their salaries, and in fact, most of the Ming soldiers rarely get one or two silver a month.

Under normal circumstances, when there is no fighting, most of the Ming army can get five coins of silver.

Zhu Youzhen knew this result, and he just laughed it off.

The cost per soldier of this army is not worth mentioning at all compared to artillery and the navy under construction.

A three-pounder cannon costs 500 taels of silver, and firing a shell is basically a tael of silver.

And a small sail battleship, the basic cost has to start at 3,000 taels of silver, not counting the guns to be installed on the ship.

And to bring the artillery and navy to a well-trained level, it is not necessary to slowly pile up silver.

Therefore, the infantry musketeer is the most cost-effective branch of the modern army.

And Sun Chuanting, a native of Shanxi, made him feel distressed when he mentioned artillery training, and every shell was money.

Compared with the traditional Ming army, the training of the new army is actually much easier, so it is completely possible to do one exercise a day.

Coupled with good logistics support, the soldiers can eat well at every meal, so the soldiers have no complaints about the daily training.

But the traditional Ming army is not good, first, the traditional Ming army has a large amount of training, and the new army musketeers walk in the queue, raise the gun to aim at the training action is different, the traditional Ming army dance knives and guns are all manual work.

It's not good to add food, if it's really a day of exercise, then it will definitely mutiny, so the general elite of the Ming army is a drill every three days.

In addition to conducting queue training at the Xishan Martial Arts Arena, Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting often carried out field training in Gyeonggi and sometimes held drills in accordance with Zhu Youzhen's instructions.

Lu Xiangsheng did not know the benefits of field training and exercises at first, but Zhu Youzhen said that training that is as close as possible to actual combat is the best training, and this sentence is extremely agreeable.

After several field exercises and exercises, Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting gradually understood the benefits of doing so.

Obviously, the extremely good strategies and tactics deduced in the barracks and in the staff room will definitely arise in one way or another when they go to the field.

On paper, I finally felt shallow, and I had to know that this poem was engraved by Lu Xiangsheng in the staff room and training ground of the barracks.

On the one hand, he grasped the training of the new army, and on the other battlefield, Daming was not idle, and after more than two years of preparation, the Jinyiwei Foreign Intelligence Department continued to develop and grow.

Because Jin Guo lost Li Maofang, the head of the big secret service, the work of the intelligence department became more and more prominent, and under the guidance of Zhu Youzhen, some intelligence work was carried out more and more hidden.

In the war room, staff room, and officer backpacks of regiments, battalions, companies, and platoons in Xishan, maps of Liaodong made by new cartographic methods have become popular.

The spies sent out by Jinyiwei who were professionally trained in cartographing did not spend much effort to obtain the map and landforms of Mongolia and Liaodong.

Because in this era, there was no concept of military maps, and naturally there would be no awareness of keeping geographical terrain secret.

Therefore, as long as the secret agents of Jinyiwei do not inquire about the garrison of the army, the information on the terrain and landforms can be easily obtained, especially when the Jin country is short of materials and smuggling is becoming more and more difficult.

Some business travel teams pretending to be Jinyi Wei have gained more and more convenience in Jinguo.

According to Luo Sigong's report, in addition to the major cities of the Jin Kingdom, Jinyiwei's spies have infiltrated the vicinity of the source of the Liao River and the Hunhe River.

In addition to surveying and mapping the topography of the Jin Kingdom in Liaodong, Jin Yiwei also cooperated with Dongjiang Town to plan many guerrilla operations in the Jin Kingdom, of course, the assassination and wet work were also done several times, but because of the heavy casualties, Zhu Youzhen stopped it.

Zhu Youzhen knew that it was not easy for the soldiers of Jinyiwei to lurk in the Jin Kingdom, and compared with the dignitaries who assassinated one or two dignitaries, the effect of doing some work to spy on the military situation was greater.

In order to avoid unnecessary losses, Zhu Youzhen did not advocate assassination and other activities, unless he could assassinate Huang Taiji, but that was basically impossible.

Of course, Zhu Youzhen resolutely put a stop to activities such as blasting and poisoning, and this kind of action that cannot be put on the table is easy to arouse the common hatred of the enemy army and people, and second, he is afraid that he will be learned by those Tartars, and when the time comes, it will be a big loss to use it on the Ming Dynasty.

At present, the main action of the Jinyiwei Foreign Intelligence Department is to spy on the military situation and assist the Ming army in carrying out large-scale military operations.

Of course, during this period, Jinyiwei also did an extremely important job, that is, to support the Korean people's restoration movement.