Before, Wang Junlin felt that he had nowhere to spend his money, except for the money of the intelligence organization led by Shen Guoer, there were no major expenses, and every day he had perfume, backer wine, Xiaoyu Theater, Lihua fragrant tea, weapons town in the northwest, etc., were all ways to make thousands of dollars every day, and now the money is just used to raise soldiers.

In order to maintain a force of 15,000 people, the money and salaries, armor, and even the garrison are almost completely self-raised, the requirements for logistics and supply are extremely demanding, not to mention that the county soldiers are organized into cavalry battalions, infantry battalions, and water battalions, and the complexity is even more exponential.

According to Wang Junlin asked Nie Xiaoyu to calculate an account a few years ago, the industry under his name can raise an army of up to 30,000, which is naturally enough money for now, but Wang Junlin knows very well that with the situation of the chaotic times of the Great Sui in the future, 30,000 troops are far from enough.

Of course, when the world falls apart, Fanyang County's salt tax, commercial tax, and grain tax can naturally be at its disposal, and there is no problem in raising another forty or fifty thousand people with the power of one county. What's more, there is also the Lu family's vault, which can be slaughtered at any time.

Wang Junlin asked Du Ruhui to be in charge of the civil affairs of Fanyang County, while Liu Ziming oversaw the logistics and supply of all the troops.

shared most of the affairs for Wang Junlin, otherwise these things would be piled up on Wang Junlin's desk, and his head would be stretched.

Relatively speaking, although governing the army is the top priority, it is an easy thing to do, with the help of Nie Xiaoyu and Shan Xiongxin, in the past few months, Lu Han, Guan Xiaotong, Wei Chi Jingde, and Lu Shijun have been brought under their command, these people are all generals or talents who can be created, and with him on it, he can completely stand alone, of course, the premise is that he can always have enough silver.

At present, Wang Junlin has another very important matter, he wants to form a formal merchant fleet, open up the sea trade route to the Wa Kingdom, Goguryeo, and Silla Kingdom in the north, and directly reach the Great Sui Jiangnan, Guangnan, and even the Ryukyus, as well as the Toe and other Nanyang countries in the south.

Wang Junlin knew better than anyone that after the formation of a safe shipping route by the sea, the profits brought by the sea were more than a hundred times, and the business at sea was done, and he would not worry about the silver for a long time.

And this is needed

He needs a large number of sea ships, and such a long route, ordinary civilian ships are not enough, he needs shipyards to build large merchant ships of more than 3,000 stones.

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Before leaving the salt farm, Wang Junlin called Xu Xiaohu, Qian Zhengkuo and Lian Zhongtao over, discussed for a while, and finally concluded: "The salt farm does not require long-term continuous investment in building farms, accumulating fertile fields, purchasing animal power, building water conservancy facilities, and building roads. In the following period, in addition to increasing investment in these things, the formation of collective farms to reclaim wasteland for farming, the most important thing was the construction of various workshops. ”

"Xiaoyu has trained those craftsmen have learned the method of taking soil and burning bricks, you should hurry up and vigorously promote it, I hope it will become quite large-scale within three months, this is not only the next step of the salt field to build a city and military village, as well as to build houses, the most important thing is to sell it to all the people in the eight counties of the county, and even the entire Great Sui."

"This will be a big source of money in the plan, at least to support the army, logistics and people's livelihood in the salt factory, in addition to taking soil and burning bricks, iron smelting and iron work, ordnance manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, large-scale pig breeding, shipbuilding, etc. are all basic factory operations that need urgent large-scale investment. Some of these have already begun, some have not yet started, the plans and methods have been given to you, and the necessary personnel Xiaoyu has also specially trained for you, the next thing to do is to implement and expand the scale, how much silver is needed, you report to Liu Ziming, I will approve it to you. ”

"Especially for shipbuilding, the next step is that the sailors under my command must ensure strong surface combat capabilities, and the scale of the shipyard must be expanded."

After Wang Junlin finished speaking in one breath, the three of them each took a small notebook and wrote it down carefully, and then said yes again and again.

At this time, Lian Zhongtao thought for a moment and said: "My lord, what I just said, many aspects require iron tools, armor, arrows, war equipment, warships and tun seeds, and the consumption of iron products is a lot. According to the plan of the adults, we need millions of catties to smelt raw wrought iron and fill steel every year. ”

Wang Junlin nodded, and he asked Liu Ziming

It has also been roughly estimated that in order to maintain the level of armament of several troops and horses under his personal command, 500,000 catties of raw and wrought iron and steel are needed every year, and the level of equipment is almost proportional to the amount of iron used by the army.

The armaments required by several of the king's troops had to be raised by themselves, and the workshops for iron smelting, iron work, and various ordnance repairs had to be built with a large sum of silver; Even from now on, it is necessary to establish a storage of iron sand, charcoal and other materials, so as not to cut off the supply of materials when troubled times come.

Wang Junlin knows better than anyone else that in many cases, war is fought for grain and grass, and silver is for fighting, and a strong army needs excellent generals and generals to have a martial spirit, but it must also be seen that almost any strong army is piled up with silver.

The ancients often said that "soldiers are not expensive, but they are more expensive", not because they do not want to have as many elite soldiers as possible, but because the regime with agricultural civilization as the main body simply cannot support a large contingent of elite soldiers. In history, there are often classic examples of winning more with less, and tactics and strategy are on the one hand, but in fact, there is a deep-seated reason for this, and when there are many troops, it is difficult to ensure that there are no problems in the logistics supply of the troops, and this can easily lead to a decline in the morale of the army and shake the morale of the army, but morale and morale will be contagious.

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Nie Xiaoyu has solved the problem of technology and craftsmen, Qian Zhengkuo, Lian Zhongtao, Xu Xiaohu and others are planning these things these days, and the manpower of the salt factory is enough for the time being, but to prepare for the construction of these factories on a large scale, it is necessary to take 400,000 taels of silver to prepare for it at the beginning. To be honest, with so much silver, Yang Guang couldn't help frowning at this time, and the household department that implemented it would be very difficult to make up enough, but Wang Junlin had this confidence.

Of course, if the 400,000 taels of silver are taken out at once, even Wang Junlin will have to break his muscles and bones, and this kind of confidence will be hollowed out if it can't be replenished a few times.

In addition, there are many places that need to spend money, such as according to the plan, within three years, Wang Junlin will also build a coastal city in the salt field, but the scale is smaller, but the construction cost is naturally amazingly high.

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