Recruiting five or six thousand people is not just as simple as paying five or six thousand taels of wages, recruiting people to work, you always have to manage people's food, drink and Lazar, and the money spent on these is basically the same as wages.

That is to say, if you recruit five or six thousand people to work, you will have to spend at least more than 10,000 taels a month, and these are not enough, you have to spend a lot of silver to build weapons and equipment, such as the mining and purchase of materials, the consumption of horse-drawn carriages and back transportation, the manufacture of tools and equipment, etc., if you add all the expenses, it will cost almost 20,000 taels of silver in a month.

At this time, Yang Cong finally understood why the Ming army was getting weaker and weaker, and there was no money, which can be said to be the main reason, just a Xuanfu town, it would take so much silver to improve the level of weapons and equipment, and the weapons and equipment of the border army in the nine border towns of the Ming Dynasty were all upgraded, and they didn't even think about it if they didn't think about it.

However, this lack of money does not mean that the Ming court can't cut out so much silver, if Jiajing really understands everything, it is not a problem to be able to cut out hundreds of thousands of taels or even millions of taels of military spending a year, and after a few years, the weapons and equipment of the Ming border army can be upgraded to a higher level.

The problem is that Jiajing doesn't know everything, he himself may think that he is very capable, but in fact, his ability is quite average, especially in terms of making money, he is not even as good as an ordinary lifter.

He has to be powerful, and he can manage the eunuchs in the palace casually, and he can earn an extra three or four million taels a year.

If he really has the ability to do anything, he can copy the homes of corrupt officials and corrupt officials at will, and he can copy a few years' military spending.

It's a pity that he doesn't make money at all, and he doesn't even know if others make his money.

For example, the eunuchs in the palace can take at least three or four million taels from the Huangzhuang a year, if he is really powerful, he will hold down those eunuchs and copy them, not to mention anything else, each of the big eunuchs in the palace can basically copy out millions of taels, with this silver, it is enough to refresh all the equipment of the border army, and it is not a problem to defeat the Tartars.

Another example is the corrupt officials in the court, there must be three or four million taels of corruption a year, if he is really powerful, arresting those corrupt officials and corrupt officials and copying them can also make the combat effectiveness of the Ming army soar.

It's a pity that he doesn't know these at all, he thinks that he is clever and plays with courtiers, but he doesn't know that many times he is played by others.

In some dramas in later generations, he still acted as if he was very powerful, and he also said what kind of water is clear, what kind of water is turbid, which means that he has to use it regardless of whether he is a corrupt official or a clean official, and he even has to rely on Yan Song, a big corrupt official, to make money for him, it is simply inexplicable and insanity, does he need to rely on corrupt officials if he is really powerful?

The reason why the Ming army had no money to equip new weapons, and they couldn't even eat enough to eat, was because of the incompetence of Jiajing and other emperors!

Of course, the lack of money alone will not lead to a plummeting combat effectiveness of the Ming army, and there was no money at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, but the Ming army was quite strong.

There was a strange phenomenon in the Jiajing Dynasty in history, the governor or the governor will lead the troops to fight again, it is useless, if you stand on the wrong team or there is no backstage, no matter how great the meritorious service is, you have to die!

For example, the governor of Zhejiang, Zhu Kun, once defeated the Japanese and killed the pirate leader who colluded with the Japanese pirates, and as a result, angered the four major maritime giants, and the maritime giants united with Yan Song to make false accusations, Jiajing actually ordered Zhu Kun to be dismissed from his post and investigated, so angry that Zhu Kun committed suicide in anger.

For example, Zhang Jing, the governor of the five southeastern provinces of the Ministry of War, and Li Tianzhong, the governor of Zhejiang, won the victory of Wang Jiangjing and beat the Japanese to the point of urine, and as a result, their credit was all robbed by Yan Song's godson Zhao Wenhua, and they were also framed by Yan Song and Zhao Wenhua, and finally beheaded by Jiajing in Xishi.

Another example is the trilateral governor Zeng Milling once defeated me and put forward a plan to recover the Hetao and drive the remnants of the Northern Yuan out of the Saiwai, but unfortunately, he was involved in the vicious fight between Xia Yan and Yan Song for no reason, was framed by Yan Song, and was finally beheaded by Jiajing at the noon gate, and his family was exiled for 3,000 miles to fill the army!

In history, the only hero of the Jiajing Dynasty who was not convicted of being convicted of being convicted of defending against the Japanese and the Tartars seems to be only Hu Zongxian, because Hu Zongxian endured humiliation at that time, defected to Yan Song's disciples, and won Yan Song's appreciation, but unfortunately, in the end, Yan Song fell, and he was also implicated and committed suicide unjustly.

Of course, these things have not happened at this time, Zhu Kun, Li Tianjing, Zeng Miao, Hu Zongxian and others have not yet fought against the Japanese and the Tartars, Yang Cong may become the first to defeat the Tartars and obtain immortal merits.

Of course, he knew the ending of Zhu Kun, Zeng Mo and others in history, so he was extremely careful in his actions and tried to avoid being grabbed by his pigtails.

He also knew that neither Xia Yan nor Yan Song were selfless good people, these two guys, once they grabbed his pigtails, they would definitely not hesitate to clean him up, no matter how great his feats were, it was useless.

At this time, the struggle in the court is so cruel, these days, if you want to do something, you will offend the relevant interest groups.

Fortunately, there is still a Yangming lineage behind him, as well as the princes and nobles such as Dingguo Gong, as well as Lu Bing and Zhang Yue, but he is not afraid that Xia Yan and Yan Song will slander him out of nothing, as long as there is no real evidence, he is not afraid

At this time, he just wanted to quickly build weapons and equipment such as thunder, fire dragon chariots, hand crossbows, trebuchets, etc., and win the battle first.

After the successful test of the trebuchet and the giant thunderbolt, he began to personally sit in the Xuanhua Factory, urging Wang Xuan and others to quickly recruit people, hurry up to prepare production equipment, and realize the mass production of weapons and equipment such as thunderbolts, fire dragon chariots, crossbows, and trebuchets as soon as possible.

Good guy, this person is a good trick, this silver is also like flowing water, at the beginning he stuffed Li Fang and Meng Chong with 50,000 taels of silver each, followed by recruitment, and the purchase of materials, and the purchase of equipment, in less than a month, he spent almost 200,000 taels.

Fortunately, he didn't have much else, but he had a lot of money, and with the full support of the Yang family, weapons and equipment such as thunder, fire dragon chariots, hand crossbows, and trebuchets were quickly mass-produced.

Immediately after that, he began to practice again, you must know that in addition to the 1,000 Shenji Battalion soldiers brought by Zhu Xizhong, the other elite of the border army and the guards of the Beijing camp are not very familiar with gunpowder weapons, if they don't practice well, they may not use the thunder to bomb themselves.

At this time, Tang Shunzhi's role was reflected, he was even more proficient in the application of gunpowder weapons than Yang Cong, he was simply at his fingertips on various strategies and tactics, and he also arranged various training plans in an orderly manner, the elite of the border army, the guards of the Beijing camp and the soldiers of the Shenji battalion were quickly glued together by him, and various tactics slowly began to show their power, I believe that in less than two months, more than 10,000 soldiers will be able to compete with 40,000 or 50,000 Tatar cavalry.

The weapons and equipment and drills were on the right track, and Yang Cong suddenly found another problem, he didn't seem to have been to the battlefield yet.

It is unlikely that this Tartar will attack Xuanhua Mansion City, basically, every time Tartar rushes in from the gap in the Great Wall northwest of Xuanfu Town, and then loots outside the city and runs away, and at this time he has not seen the Great Wall in the northwest of Xuanfu Town.

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