A smoothbore gun is not more particular about marksmanship than a rifled gun, and firing at the target is the marksmanship of a smoothbore gun. The accuracy of this thing is very touching, and it is better to dream about it than to expect it to be able to hit the enemy at an accurate distance of 100 meters!

In 1814, Colonel Hanger of the British Army wrote: "If you want to shoot a man 200 yards away with an ordinary gun, you might as well shoot the moon instead, and the chances of hitting are the same." ”

Therefore, for musketeers, it is very important to experience the tempering of the battlefield, but for them, daily hard training is the foundation of consolidating the lower limit of musketeers' combat power.

Because in the Qi army, it is only said that in the current era, there is no need for musketeers to hold bayonets to fight hard.

If so, only half a month later, this freshly baked First Musket Battalion of the Imperial Front Division was sent to Jinzhou. They did a really good job in their daily training. It can be fired ten times in one word, that is, in five minutes. What else can Emperor Lu say? Is this already a quick and easy operation? All the musket battalion needs to do now is to be on the battlefield and still be able to maintain such speed.

Emperor Lu naturally threw them into battle.

At this time, the financial report for the first half of the year was also submitted to Lu Qian by the cabinet. Not surprisingly, the first half of the year was overspent.

The expenses in the first half of the year, just the military expenditure exceeded 20 million yuan, plus millions of stone of grain and millions of cotton cloths - the military salary in the Liangshan Army era was all silver, but when Lu Qian's stall was spread, when the annual grain collected was far more than the expenditure, Lu Qian naturally changed the salary of the officials and soldiers to cash + grain + cloth.

Because it's more economical. The cost price of grain and cloth on the national tax is bound to be lower than the market price, and using grain and cloth to offset the cash silver, Lu Qian has saved money.

What's more, don't you spend as much grain and cloth as you can when you get a lot of money, and put them in the treasury to give birth?

Therefore, the current cost of raising troops in the Qi army is only higher than the cost of raising troops in the Northern Song Dynasty.

However, the number of Qi troops was far less than that of the Song army, at least not as many as the Song army on paper. In the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, the former Military Governor's Mansion was dominated by cavalry, which was naturally less than 50,000; The Governor's Mansion of the Later Army was dominated by naval divisions, and the total strength was far less than 50,000.

The remaining three armies belong to the governor's office of 150,000 people, plus the imperial army, and the garrisons of the provinces, the total strength is less than 600,000. And the forbidden army of the Great Instigation Dynasty has more than one million troops on paper.

There are 300,000 in Hebei, at least 300,000 in Northwest, and 300,000 in Gyeonggi, and there are more than 100,000 people in the Sanyaban Brigade in front of the Tokyo City Palace. Counting the garrisons in Huainan, southeast and southwest, the troops in these places are small, but there are more than 100,000 people, right?

It is almost the treatment of two Song soldiers to raise a Qi soldier, and the money, grain, and cloth obtained by the latter are still not discounted, and no one dares to be greedy for ink. In this way, counting the preferential treatment of Emperor Lu for military dependents in terms of acres of land and grain taxes, if the army raised so thickly cannot fight, there will be ghosts.

Of course, the financial expenditure of a dynasty, in addition to military spending, has many other expenses. For example, administrative expenses, officials also have to eat, right?

The treatment of Lu Qi officials is not as good as that of Zhao Song, and the old Zhao family is "a person who is caught by hundreds of officials, but I am afraid that it will be insufficient; Whoever takes wealth from all the peoples, he does not leave anything surplus. "But the quality is not enough to make up the quantity, and there are many officials in the Lu Qi Dynasty. Compared with Zhao Song's redundant officials, Lu Qi was really a lot of officials.

In a county, in addition to the main hall official and his deputy, there are also police, taxation and judicial systems, and even in the county office, the six rooms have been upgraded to separate government agencies, and the head of each room is a serious official.

This Lu Qi seems to be more redundant than Zhao Song, but the officials of the old Zhao family only take money and do not work, and the bureaucratic group is malignantly expanded, and the personnel far exceed the needs of normal work. But Lu Qi had so many official positions in the first dynasty.

Moreover, the salaries of officials are linked to local taxes, and Emperor Lu did not divide the county and the county in his official position, but he did divide the salary. Between the highest and the lowest, there is always a difference of two or three percent. This is also a kind of spur.

But Emperor Lu is not Zhu Yuanzhang, he only gives officials a few dozen taels of silver a year to make ends meet, which is to force officials to be greedy for money. Lu Qi's treatment of officials cannot be compared to Zhao Song, but it is enough for officials to live a decent life.

In addition, for the construction of water conservancy and transportation, as well as education and health care, Emperor Lu has opened several medical schools and set up public hospitals in some large cities, all of which require money.

After all, the current Emperor Lu is not the king of Lu in Shuibo, he already sits on the world, only Sichuan Shu and Guixi have not been recovered, and for the regular Great Qi court, it is inevitable to maintain the rule.

Many items have also exceeded expectations, as well as military spending.

If you only compare the financial income in the first half of the year, Emperor Lu can be sad to death. But now he can ignore that number.

Not to mention the gold and silver mining on Sado Island, or how high the profits of the human trading houses are, but only the banking system, which is a gold-absorbing beast with a national signboard. Not to mention the deposit and loan matters, it is a gold, silver and money, and the high income is a number called Lu Qianneng to the sky.

It is specifically stated that when the bank exchanges one tael of silver banknotes, it is not just one tael of silver that it earns.

With these two taels of silver as a reserve, the bank can print three taels of silver notes.

In the past, it was not that no one took paper money to the bank to exchange gold and silver, as long as the handling fee was paid, it was as much as there was.

Those individual businessmen are now trusting paper money more and more. After all, if they want to make a large amount of transactions, compared to pulling copper, gold and silver to carefully calculate with others, it is far less convenient and fast than directly counting money, and it is safe, isn't it?

Therefore, after consulting the cabinet about the money and grain in the treasury, the wealthy Emperor Lu made a decision called a great artist, and even made Emperor Tianzuo and Ah Guda shudder after hearing about it.

Expand the army, he wants to expand the army again!

The army of the Imperial Front Division was to be expanded from 30,000 infantry to 50,000 troops, and 20,000 troops were added, and ten battalions of musketeers were set inside.

At the same time, in addition to the selection of the front army and the Jianrui army, the former military governor's office set up the white army, and the former military governor's right deputy governor Hua Rong was the general.

Hua Rong was transferred back from the Yanjing front line to make meritorious contributions to the invasion of Jinzhou and correct the position of the governor. Shi Wengong changed from right to left, and his vacated position was filled by Yelu Ma Wu. And the position vacated by Yelu Ma Wu was taken over by Yue Fei. Just like Emperor Lu sent Luan Junshi and Wang Gui to Yang Zhi, he also sent Yue Fei, Xu Qing, and Yao Zheng to Yanjing.

After Yang Zhi sent troops to seize the area south of Yanshan, he asked Xuanzan to lead the cavalry and continue to concentrate on concentrating on the remnants of the party in the area of the Fuwei Military Division of the former Western Xia Black Mountain in the north of Hetao. That is, the northern escape party led by Richard Ge. The progress was also smooth.

Especially after Yan Yun surrendered, although most of the Khitan remnants chose to be obedient to the people, there were always some people who were willing to rely on knives to eat. These people don't look down on Emperor Tianzuo, and the latter's reputation is like a great artist, which has long been ruined.

If it is said that the guy fled from Shangjing and Zhongjing to Nanjing, this is understandable. But as soon as the Battle of Nanjing began, he fled to Datong Mansion in Xijing non-stop, and then fled west into Jiashan. A timid hat was firmly put on the head of Emperor Tianzuo, so how could he still get the support of the Khitan civilians?

Commoners are not aristocrats, and there are still a number of Khitan nobles who are deeply sinicized. But civilians forget it. These Khitans are the pure steppe nomadic mentality, abandoning a timid leader, and they do it with ease, without the slightest fireworks.

Those Khitan people who have to rely on knives this time, the first choice is naturally not Zhenghuangqi, the treatment of Zhenghuangqi is very good, but there is no human rights, there are really no human rights. It's the same with a knife this time, no matter how you look at it, the Qi army is stronger than the Zhenghuang Banner! But it is impossible for the Qi army to include all the Khitans who are willing to eat their lives, and the Khitans in desperation can only go to the Yellow Flag. Let Xuanzan be strong for a while! is also even more beaten, Brother Richard is anxious, and his forehead is stumbling.

Lu Qi's large-scale expansion of the army, and the news that it had already spread made the athletes in the north and south of the river shout long live.

Lu Qi's army was well paid, and the status of the soldiers was high, especially the military merit medal system was implemented. Those veterans who have retired from the army with first-class and second-class military merit medals are really not timid to face the officials.

Along with the massive recruitment, there was also a program for the popularization of artillery. He planned to establish an elite garrison in each province as a direct force of the provincial garrison department. As for how to calculate the elite force in the garrison, it depends on the artillery.

Now in the provinces under Lu Qi's rule, the strength of the garrison army has generally been fixed. The largest garrison armies such as Guanzhong and northern Hebei can have as many as 40,000 or 50,000 troops. And the least provinces, such as the Central Plains, Huainan, Jiangnan and other provinces, the number of troops is only 10,000 or 20,000.

In the early days, it seemed that a state garrison could be as high as ten battalions, and even more, would never be repeated. For example, in the early Qilu period, the garrison of a province exceeded 70,000. But now it is the province with the most soldiers and horses, and it is impossible to have more than 50,000 troops.

Moreover, the large number of garrisons in Guanzhong and northern Hebei will also be greatly reduced after the border troubles are completely resolved.

This is not purely a financial point of view, but a political necessity.

In this case, the elite military strength directly under the garrison departments of various provinces cannot be too much. 5,000 is a limit, as little as 3,000 is sufficient.

As for the artillery battalions, it was stipulated that the number of artillery pieces in each battalion should not be less than twenty. And it is mainly a five-pound cannon, supplemented by a small number of eight-catty cannons.

The latter has already been stereotyped. 14.5 times the diameter, because Lu Qi's current eight catties are smaller than the twelve pounds in the west, but it is already the closest to twelve pounds of artillery in the Qi army. If you make another nine-pound cannon, it is indeed twelve pounds, but is it still necessary to make a ten-pound cannon? You can only jump to the twelve-pound cannon in one step, but the overall weight of the latter is too heavy. Considering the ease of transportation in China at this moment, the twelve-pound cannon is destined to be only a ship-based gun.

Therefore, the double diameter of the eight-catty cannon must be infinitely close to 14.3 in the eyes of Emperor Lu, and the fine iron cannon body plus the gun carriage, that is, the gun body, the gun carriage plus the wheels and trailer, and the attached ammunition box, a total of 3,900 catties.

The total weight of the ten-pound cannon is naturally larger, which is infinitely close to 5,000 catties, and it is conceivable how big the volume of the twelve-pound cannon is.

In his plan, the number of artillery battalions held by the garrison divisions of each province should be no less than twenty. It is mainly a five-pound cannon, supplemented by a small number of eight-catty cannons. Such a force, even in the Ming and Qing dynasties, cannot be underestimated, right?

Therefore, although Emperor Lu's family background is not thin, he will spend money.