It is a troublesome matter to calculate the military expenses, but it is also an indispensable and big matter. Xu Shu, the earliest Chengnan horse team, was called Xu Zhixuan, who followed Guan Zhuofan all the way from the capital to Rehe, and then to Shanghai, and had been promoted to the rank of Liupin, and became the general case of the Xuan Army. He brought a clerk, a secretary, and sat on the side, crackling the abacus. Guan Zhuofan and several officers totaled one by one.

The current battalion system has four layers: battalion officers, sentry officers, chiefs, and soldiers, and the battalion officers lead more than 500 people in the battalion, each battalion has four sentry posts, each sentry officer leads 130 people, each sentry officer has four sentry officers, and each sentry commander leads 30 people.

The battalion officer's salary was sixty taels per month, and an additional one hundred and fifty taels were paid as public expenses.

The salary of the sentry officer was eighteen taels per month.

Twelve taels per month.

Eight taels per month for pro-soldiers.

Ma Yong is six taels a month

Bu Yong is five taels a month.

Gang Yong is three or five dollars a month.

The eldest husband gets half a salary, two taels and five dollars a month.

In this way, plus 500 long-term husbands who served as "reserve soldiers", the Xuan army had nearly 2,200 soldiers, and the monthly salary was about 12,000 taels. Because there was going to be a war, Guan Zhuofan planned to pay four months' salary to prepare for it, so this money was counted as 48,000 taels.

"Boss, that's a lot." Ding Shijie was a little worried. At present, the most adequately supplied army is the Hunan army, which is the main force and the most capable of fighting. And the salary of the Xuan army is slightly higher than that of the Hunan army, which has always been known as rich.

"It's not over yet, there's still something down there." Guan Zhuofan said calmly, "But as long as you can win this battle, everything is easy to say." ”

In addition to wages, there is also food. Although the grain was supplied by Songjiang Prefecture, the army also had to convert it into money to settle the accounts, and this money, called "small ration money", was counted only according to the head of the army, regardless of officers and soldiers, and was about 23 million yuan a day, which was about 23 million yuan after four months. According to the price of one tael of silver for one thousand eight hundred yuan, it was converted into silver, which was thirteen thousand taels.

As for tents, uniforms, waist knives, etc., they can be obtained directly from the arsenal of the prefecture and county, without spending any additional money. The more than 500 military horses bought by Liu Wenshen, the prefect of Songjiang, can also be counted together after the number is raised.

But the money for foreign guns and cannons is a large amount. The 1,000 carbs that Libin bought for the horse team were 16 taels of silver, and each of them gave 100 rounds of ammunition, and the additional large number of bullets had to be paid 6,000 taels more, so that the total was 22,000 taels.

Twelve foreign guns, all eight-pounder French field guns, with gun carriages. Each cannon is 750 taels of silver, but it is better to say, but the key is that the shells are expensive - each flowering shell costs six taels! The cannon plus the cannonballs amounted to nineteen thousand taels of silver. Libin had already paid a deposit, and as long as the money was raised, he could carry the gun.

As for the foreign guns used by the two battalions of Xinyong, in terms of foreign companies, Guan Zhuofan plans to hand them over to Jin Nengheng to do, which can be regarded as a reward for his work. On his side, he was ready to sell his face to Wu Xu - a gun was about eighteen taels, and it didn't matter how many hats he wore, he didn't pay for it himself anyway.

In this way, it will take 130,000 silver to pass the test, and the military expenses of the foreign spear team are raised by the local gentry, and they have not been included. Guan Zhuofan himself muttered a little, I don't know if what he asked for was too luxurious.

When he returned to the city and told Libin about his worries, Libin laughed.

"Yixuan, you know, Wu Xu's Shanghai Dao, the full name is 'Sub-patrol Su Song Taichang and other places to prepare for the road'. What kind of place is Susonta? It's a place where you're one of the richest in the world! Now add another Shanghai, do you say there is money or not? Libin meant to laugh at him for being worried. It's nothing, and—

"There is soil and wealth. Wu Xu is a magistrate, and there is a place to be an official, if the place is occupied by long hair, where will he be an official? You help him guard Shanghai, he can't ask for it, how can he be difficult for you in money? Not to mention the favor of those 1,200 foreign guns. Go as much as you want. ”

"That's good." Guan Zhuofan smiled, "I was afraid that his flesh would hurt." ”

"Flesh pain is flesh pain, the lesser of two evils!" Libin laughed, "If you can smash Long Hair to death with silver alone, he Wu Xu will definitely be the first to throw it down from the city." ”

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Sure enough, as Libin expected, Wu Xu heard about the grand occasion of the people's enthusiastic participation in the army, and heard Guan Zhuofan say that he would recruit 1,000 more people, and he was really happy in his heart, and he agreed to the military expenditure of 130,000 yuan.

"Yixuan, if it's not enough, just ask." Wu Xu advised, "And as long as you keep Shanghai, the local fathers and elders must have other expressions." ”

Since he was so happy, Guan Zhuofan reciprocated the favor and brought up the matter of buying foreign guns.

"Lord Wu, the newly recruited soldiers of the Xuan Army want 1,200 guns, and they plan to buy them from the inventory in the concession. On the side of the foreign bank, I appointed Jin Nengheng to find the goods for me, but on our side, I am not familiar with foreign affairs, and I don't know the price or anything, so I want to ask Lord Wu to send someone to handle the contract on my behalf. ”

Wu Xu thought to himself, the thousand good guns of your horse team were made for you by Libin, and you have no reason to ignore the price. He understood that Guan Zhuofan deliberately sent a business to himself to do, and it was another thing to have more money and less money, at least he was very beautiful in person, neither empty-eyed, nor eating alone. Thinking about it this way, I feel that this Guan Zhuofan has the need to settle well.

"Yixuan, thank you." Wu Xu lowered his voice and said, "This list, I asked Master Zhang to contact, how to determine Zuihou's contract, I asked him to ask for your instructions." ”

"Yes. What Master Zhang talked about must be haode. ”

"By the way, you and that Kim Nenghyung are friends?" Wu Xu looked at Guan Zhuofan very attentively.

"I can't talk about it yet, I asked him to bring a message to Wall."

"Oh-" Wu Xu understood, thought for a while, and said, "It's good to have him talk about Xiang." I heard that the gentry in the city have already started to raise funds, and they are very enthusiastic in donating, and they can raise all of them in the middle of the month. ”

"Yes, with the prestige of Lord Wu as a call, everything will be smooth." Guan Zhuofan praised Wu Xu and asked another thing: "I don't know if General Li has any of the matters he said last time about the repayment of arrears?" ”

"Well, he's there," Wu Xu said slowly, "I've already sent a message to Jia Yiqian, and asked Songjiang Mansion to send 20,000 pieces of silver." ”

Guan Zhuofan knew that Li Hengsong's green battalion soldiers had more than 3,000 people, and 20,000 pieces of silver, even if they were deducted and distributed to the soldiers, each person would always have three or four taels, which would help morale somewhat. However, looking at Wu Xu's expression, although the money was given, it was not happy, and it was very different from his attitude towards Xuan Jun.

Wu Xu really thinks the same way. Although he is only a four-rank civil official, as a sub-patrol road and a military preparation road, he has the right to control the military position of the local green battalion, and when the local peace is threatened, he can move the battalion where he is located and order him to send troops. It's just that in last year's battle, Li Hengsong's soldiers collapsed at the touch of a button, and they lost their armor and removed their armor, which left a bad impression in Wu Xu's heart. This army is the right battalion of the governor of Jiangnan, and it is not paid by him, and the 20,000 silver he gave was because he sold Guan Zhuofan's face, so he had to do so, so of course he was not very happy.

Of course, Guan Zhuofan heard what Wu Xu meant, and said with a smile: "The black clouds are pressing the city, so I have to work together in the same boat." I think General Li can still fight, but 'the emperor is not a hungry soldier', the situation in the green camp has been around for a long time, and if he has no money in his hand, he has no choice. ”

The imperial court's contribution to the green camp has always adhered to the principle of "giving less for nothing, and giving more for something". Therefore, when there was no war, the salaries of the soldiers of the Green Battalion were extremely low, even so low that they could not support themselves, and even such salaries were still in arrears, and the soldiers had to rely on the subsidies of trafficking, business, and selling crafts to be able to live, and they were no longer a soldier.

When the war is urgent, the imperial court is willing to give money, but military discipline has been lax for a long time, and training is absurd, how can you say that you will fight? Therefore, often the money is also given, and the battle is lost, and it becomes "tired of raising soldiers for a hundred years, and there is no effect of breaking the enemy in the face of the enemy", and the silver spent in vain is equivalent to throwing it into the water. But thinking about it from the side of the imperial court, it is also helpless, half of the world is in war, the land of wealth is cut off, and the country's income is only so little.

"Yixuan, Li Hengsong's soldiers are very weak, and the military discipline is not very good, you have to be cautious about it, otherwise it will be a bad thing." Wu Xu specially advised. He really has no confidence in the green camp.

"Zhuo Fan will never dare to be rash, please rest assured, Lord Wu." Guan Zhuofan replied vaguely.

Li Hengsong's soldiers must be used, but how to use them, in Guan Zhuofan's heart, there are other plans.

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(Xiexie's two tips in the walking era, I actually missed it at noon~)