The ancient cypress and old acacia and strange flowers and plants in the palace back garden, as well as the pavilions and palaces dotted with pavilions and criss-crossing flower and stone roads, make the whole garden both ancient and quiet, and do not lose the palace atmosphere. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Today, Emperor Chongzhen is here with Sun Chengzong, Sun Chuanting, and Lu Xiangsheng discussing the formation of a new army.

"Aiqing, I don't know how much it will cost me to form an army?" Chongzhen asked Sun Chengzong, who had just been summoned today.

"I don't know what kind of army you want to build, how many infantry and how many cavalry, if you want to fight with the elite of the Mongolian Jurchens, the emperor must form his own cavalry, and if the elite cavalry, horses, armor, weapons, and military salaries cannot be bad, and the large-scale cavalry of the Guanwai ethnic groups is frontal, at least 50,000 cavalry are needed." Sun Chengzong stepped forward and said.

"You can tell me about the establishment of cavalry and infantry." After hearing this, Chongzhen suddenly felt a special pain in his head, the money he collected after copying Wei Zhongxian's house was about to fly away, for the sake of his own life, the money is gone, as long as he keeps his Daming, the money is not all his own. If you can't keep it, it's useless to ask for money.

Elite Cavalry Build:

One man, one war horse, one pack horse, two people, one spare war horse, pack horse.

Horse price: war horse price 30 taels pack horse price 20 taels spare horse 25 taels

Armor: 8 taels of armor for people, 8 taels of armor for war horses, and 8 taels for a pair of armor according to two people

Four sets of military uniforms are 2.8 taels, and 1 tael is spare.

Weapons: 80% of the cavalry is equipped with bows and knives, and the rest are long-armed cavalry.

A bow is 0.8 taels, an arrow is 30 wen, one person is 10 (standard with carrying), 300 wen = 0.3 taels, a total of 1.1 taels

Reserve 0.6 taels

A knife is 0.9 taels and 0.5 taels are spared

To sum up, it costs 106 taels to form a cavalry unit.

Infantry:

Armor: 8 taels, plus spare for a total of 12 taels

Four sets of military uniforms are 2.8 taels, and 1 tael is spare.

Weapons: In order to defend against cavalry, more than 60% of the infantry must be equipped with swords and crossbows. Not counting large weapons such as shields and spears for the time being.

A crossbow is 1.5 taels, 15 arrows, 1 tray

Spare 1.5 taels

A knife is 0.9 taels and 0.5 taels are spared

To sum up, it costs 21 taels for a soldier to form an infantry. “

After Sun Chengzong finished speaking, he looked at Chongzhen like this, and as soon as Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting heard that the soldiers in such a configuration also stared at Chongzhen with bright eyes.

"An infantry costs 21 taels, and a cavalry costs 106 taels, why is it so expensive, doesn't it mean that you can draw tens of thousands of taels of silver to pull up tens of thousands of troops?" Chongzhen was a little scared by these people, this is a loser. Ask for so much money.

"Your Majesty, what you said is the Nong Ming Army, a miscellaneous army. The army I am talking about is the elite of the elite, training for 2 years, during the training period, pull out to fight a few small-scale battles, see blood, it is definitely an elite army, such an army is pulled out, whether it is infantry cavalry, and the cavalry of the nomads outside the Guanwai will not have the upper hand in a head-on confrontation. Sun Chengzong said eloquently.

"What will be the annual cost of military pay from now on?" Chongzhen looked at the few people in front of him expressionlessly, and he didn't know what to say when he saw their excitement.

Cavalry: 55 taels of military salaries, 50 taels of horse raising

Except for people 20 years a renewal, 6 taels

Total: 111 taels.

Infantry: 55 taels.

Except for people 20 years one update, 1 tael.

Total: 56 taels. “

It's all money, and when he heard these numbers, Chongzhen felt that his whole person was not good.

"Passing the decree, I ordered Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng to form a new army, with 50,000 cavalry and 20W infantry. After the completion of the new army, Sun Chuanting added 40,000 cavalry and 100,000 infantry to the left squire of the military department, and Lu Xiangsheng added the right squire of the military department to command 10,000 cavalry and 100,000 infantry. Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng knelt down to receive the order

"Sun Aiqing, you are too old to go out to lead the troops to fight, I have other important matters to hand over to you, and you still need you to assist me in handling the military affairs of the military department, as for what kind of people the current military officials are, you know better than me." Chongzhen said to Sun Chengzong with a serious voice.

"Come here, my companion, how much silver do I have in my panties now." Wang Chengen, who was beside Chongzhen, immediately approached.

"Back to the emperor, it turned out that there were more than 3 million taels of silver in the inner treasury, and Wei Zhongxian's case confiscated 27 million taels of silver, and 9 million taels of silver were obtained after the jewelry title deed was processed. and thirty-nine million taels of silver. Recently, the emperor has vigorously developed Jinyiwei, the East Factory, and the West Factory. These cost four million taels of silver. Now there are thirty-five million taels of silver in the inner treasury. After Wang Chengen finished speaking, he stood aside and waited.

"Thirty-five million, 50,000 cavalry will cost 5,300,000 taels, and 200,000 infantry will cost 11,200,000, so 17,000,000 taels will be removed."

"The annual salary of the cavalry is 5.5 million taels, and the infantry is 11.2 million. another 16,750,000. There are only a million taels left in my inner library. After finishing the calculation, Chongzhen found that he had become poor again.

In the Shang study, Chongzhen sat on the dragon chair and lowered his head to think.

His current army is all cold weapons, and he must be equipped with muskets and artillery, and he knows very well in later generations that the combat effectiveness of the army's firearms is not comparable to that of cold weapons.

"Otomo, where is the place responsible for making firearms? Today I want to see firearms. Chongzhen was very happy, as the saying goes, it is better to act than to move, and when he thought of the musket, he was ready to go to the place where the musket was made.

"Back to the emperor, there are two places for the manufacture of firearms: the Ordnance Bureau and the War Bureau." Wang Chengen has been a eunuch for many years, so he is naturally familiar with this aspect.

"Two places? Is there any difference? ”

"Back to the emperor, the Ordnance Bureau is under the management of the Ministry of Industry, and the War Bureau is one of the eight internal bureaus, which is under the control of the Inner Court, both of which can make firearms, but if you want to say the difference, the War Bureau is stronger."

"Let's go to the War Bureau and take a look," Actually, this War Bureau is not far from the Forbidden City, only two or three kilometers away. Turning around, it was soon time to reach the war bureau. The War Bureau is one of the 12 supervisors, the 4th Division, and the 8th Bureau of the Inner Court. There is a eunuch with the palm seal of the War Bureau and a eunuch from the Admiral's Armory. They are the eunuchs who are serious.

"Slave Cheng Xiaosan knocks to see my emperor, long live, long live, long live." Cheng Xiaosan was followed by a large group of people, who seemed to be the leaders of the war bureau. (Don't mind if I make up the name)

"Let's get up, Cheng Xiaosan looked at Chongzhen and didn't understand a little, how did the emperor remember to come to the War Bureau, didn't the emperor need anything before, and directly sent someone to pass on a message, what's wrong today.

"Go find someone and get 10 muskets. Let's test shoot and let me see," Chongzhen ordered to go down and someone will do it immediately.

A group of men first brought a batch of muskets, then set up a target in the distance, and a pair of guards stepped forward, each aiming a musket at a distance, and began to shoot piecemeal.

Chongzhen watched from behind a group of guards and listened to the sound of this group of people using muskets, but the hit rate was miserable, only ten to two or three. Anyway, it's a gun, that man doesn't love guns, gun management was strict in his previous life, Chongzhen has seen it on the TV network, and he hasn't touched it in college military training, just when Chongzhen wanted to go up and play with it, someone suddenly screamed,

"Ah.........." startled Chongzhen, and the surrounding guards immediately surrounded Chongzhen to protect him, and in a blink of an eye, a pitiful musket in the hands of the guards blew up the hall.

"Cheng Xiaosan, what's going on?"

"Your Majesty, a minion..... Minion......... This bombing is a common problem with muskets, and we can't help it, the manufacture of muskets takes a month, and the finished product is only seventy percent, so it is easy to blow up. The emperor's servants don't dare to deceive the emperor. Looking at the eunuch who was kneeling on the ground and sweating profusely. Chongzhen was also a little speechless. It seems that the dream of large-scale musket equipping their army with muskets can not be realized, the range and shooting power of muskets in this period is not as powerful as the bow and crossbow, or after the musket casting technology is improved, the power and range are better than the bow and crossbow in considering the scale of equipment is more reliable, as for the musket is still too cost-effective now, the cost of equipping 10,000 muskets can train tens of thousands of crossbowmen, and the 10,000 musketeers in this period really can't win tens of thousands of crossbowmen.

"Since the musket is not good, then look at the artillery, if the artillery is in trouble, I will rarely punish you, and you will test the artillery later."

After a while, the red-coated cannon was pushed up, and it looked good, its barrel was long, the pipe wall was very thick, and it gradually thickened from the muzzle to the tail of the gun, which conformed to the principle of high to low chamber pressure when gunpowder burned; There are cylindrical lugs on both sides of the center of gravity of the gun body, and the gun can adjust the firing angle with this axis and change the firing range according to the amount of gunpowder; It is equipped with a crosshair and a light gate, and the trajectory is calculated according to the parabola, which is very accurate. Most of the Hongyi cannons are about 3 meters long, with a caliber of 110-130 mm, a weight of more than 2 tons, an effective firing range of 1,500 meters, and a maximum firing range of 2.5 kilometers

"After a few cannon shots, a puff of green smoke drifted through, and this time the target not far away hit." Chongzhen looked at this red-clothed cannon, its power and range were okay, and its shortcomings were obvious. Good at siege, clumsy in field battles. The rate of reload firing is not high. And the gun body is bulky, so it is impossible to quickly transfer positions. After firing once, it must be poured into the barrel of the gun, extinguished the fire star, tied to a stick with a dry cloth and stretched into the barrel to dry, then filled with gunpowder and combustibles, stuffed in the shell, and then lit again, these actions are quite slow and cumbersome, not including the correction of the gun position. This is a common problem with front-loading artillery, and it is good to be able to fire once every two minutes, but the Ming Dynasty of this period can also do this.

"In the future, the war will still depend on cold weapons, and my new army will still be mainly infantry equipped with swords, bows and crossbows, with cavalry, supplemented by artillery. As for the musket, let's put it back. "The musket will definitely continue to be developed, but in the period when the technology is not mature, Chongzhen does not plan to equip it on a large scale.

"The power of the cannon is not bad, Cheng Xiaosan, your War Bureau has prepared fifty red-coated cannons, handed them over to the new army, and after the cannons are built, they will be tested by the various chief officers of the War Bureau. After Chongzhen finished speaking, the craftsmen knelt on the ground and thanked him.

Master Zhang of Yan'an Mansion, riding a little donkey, walked leisurely on the official road, looking at the more and more dark clouds overhead, he couldn't help frowning, it seemed that he was going to find a tea house to hide from the rain. So Master Zhang slapped the small stove and rushed forward quickly.

After tethering the little donkey, Master Zhang looked at the wet clothes and looked at the small wool stove on the side, "It's still good to have you, otherwise my clothes will be wet." ”

After letting the guy settle the little donkey, Master Zhang pushed the door and entered the inn. On rainy days, there are still a lot of merchants and people in the inn. , Master Zhang found a vacant seat to sit down, let Xiao Er serve a pot of tea, and sat down to listen to those people in the rivers and lakes drinking and boasting. At this time, there are no entertainment activities, and Mr. Zhang likes to listen to stories in the teahouse, or sit on the side and listen to some interesting stories about the rivers and lakes.

"I heard that recently, an army from the imperial court came to our Yan'an Mansion, and some time ago we wiped out the Flying Tiger Village, which blocked the road and robbed it. The army, with its bright armor, strong crossbows, and red-coated cannons, I heard a cannon in the distance, and saw that the gate of the cottage collapsed with a bang, and crushed many people, and then a pair of crossbowmen stepped forward and fired, and after the shooting, a group of soldiers rushed in. I couldn't see clearly in the distance, but after I heard a shout of killing, a group of soldiers lined up, and when the officers and soldiers left, I went up to take a look, do you know what I saw? After the man with the knife finished speaking, he looked at the people around him proudly, as if the cottage was destroyed by him alone.

"Come on, don't lose everyone's appetite, come to Xiao Er to serve this young man a pot of wine, and settle my account." One of the other heroes called. 、

"Don't worry, let me drink a sip of wine to suppress the shock, it's a little scary, after I went in, I saw that the heads were piled up in front of the cottage, and the other corpses were piled up in the village, and they were burned by a fire, and I didn't finish burning it when I went in, and some of the headless corpses would suddenly stretch out their hands and squat in the fire or something, it was too scary." After speaking, the big man took a sip of wine, and he looked scared.

"What kind of army do you think this is?" Said a do-gooder.

"I see, it's definitely not our army in Yan'an," a drunkard said with certainty.

"Nonsense, just the group of crooked melons and cracked dates in Yan'an Mansion, the army whose clothes and armor are not neatly worn, and the army that exchanges weapons for wine, you let them bully the people, it's okay to suppress the bandits? As far as they are concerned, they definitely can't, it's not that they haven't been killed before, and it's not that they haven't been shot by a round of bows and arrows in the cottage and the crying father and mother ran back. "A person in the rivers and lakes didn't think about it.

"I heard that the emperor formed a new army,"

"It's true or not, why haven't I heard of it?"

"That's your loneliness..........

Seeing that these people in the rivers and lakes slowly drank too much and spoke in a daze, Master Zhang stopped paying attention. Just when the rain stopped, I paid for the tea, took back my small stove and went home leisurely。。。。。。。。。。。。