"Okay, that's it, let's do it according to your current arrangement, don't retreat the old corps soldiers and horses first, and transfer some garrison brigades to Shaanxi-Gansu Prefecture to try to stabilize the situation there, and where is the second guard division doing? Sishan Prefecture has stabilized, and when it is stabilized, they will be withdrawn, and a brigade will be withdrawn first.

Well, the Guards Division has not been reorganized now, their establishment is still too large, it is equivalent to the establishment of two Guards Divisions, the original Third Guards Brigade and the Fourth Guards Brigade, after the expansion, their strength has now reached more than 20,000 people, but it has not yet been accurately established, so let's transfer the previous Fourth Guards Brigade back.

Transfer a guard battalion from the recruit training camp and the guard regiment here, and transfer a 3,000-strong student soldier from the military academy to the militia units, garrison troops, militia elite brigades, cavalry brigades, and the three guards brigades left behind.

Let them stay at each post for three months, stay for two years, and then the outstanding ones will stay in the Guards Brigade, and some will stay in some local units, and generally they will be assigned to various garrison brigades, and even the militia units on the front line, especially the newly formed garrison units in Shaanxi, Gansu Prefecture, so as to enrich our officer class. ”

Xiao Fei nodded when he heard this, and responded, "Okay, Your Majesty, Okay Your Majesty." ”

After finishing speaking, he said to Zhang Qiang again: "Your Majesty, Feng Wuyu feels very boring, he doesn't want to guard the southwest anymore, he wants to go to the front line, I think he should be transferred back, let him come to the staff to study, the corps is disbanded, taking advantage of the current emptiness of the domestic garrison, there is basically no field army unit guard, so I think that his corps should be disbanded and placed in important areas for guarding, otherwise if the enemy suddenly breaks through from one direction, our core area can be left without a formed guard force to defend the Beijing Division." ”

"That's fine, there is Wei Wuji watching in Southeast Asia, Liu Liangzuo guarding Yunnan Prefecture, and the Mahan Corps guarding the states in Southeast Asia, even if Du Ge wants to make trouble, they won't be able to break through Mahan's defense for a while, just let Feng Wuyu come back, and let the corps departments transfer important locations in the core area, and they can be scattered in the central node where they can reinforce other garrison brigades in other places as quickly as possible."

Li Dingguo silently calculated, "Your Majesty, it will take nearly half a year to adjust in place, and in such a situation, we can only fight the enemy with the existing conditions." ”

Zhang Qiang waved his hand, "Don't worry, take your time, the Qing army now only controls a Shanxi Prefecture and Yanjing, and the Hu Kui Corps in Hebei Prefecture has also advanced a lot, and now it has taken less than half of the territory, I think in half a year, I'm afraid the Hu Kui Corps should encircle Yanjing." ”

Li Dingguo smiled: "That relationship is good, very good." ”

Xiao Fei raised his head and sighed, "We have been waiting for this day for a long time, and we can finally recover Yanjing." ”

Zhang Qiang patted his thigh, "It's still early, Yanjing has been at least half a year." Daqing still has half a year to live. ”

After a few people finished speaking, Li Dingguo and Xiao Fei went to deploy troops and arrange for the personal guard battalion of the pro-guard regiment to attack.

Zhang Qiang then looked at the construction of the naval division, and Ruan Jin reported that he planned to install another 48 new warships, and strive to have 36 Huaxia-class new-style warships, 12 clipper-class frigates, and 48 new-type warships in one fleet, and 48 new-type warships and 24 new-type frigates for the Jinling Prefecture Royal Fleet in the second half of the year.

Zhang Qiang calculated that in this way, by the first half of next year, the Huaxia Navy Division would have five fleets, with a total of 264 warships.

It's not that he doesn't want to install more warships, but the cost of these warships is obviously much more expensive than the old warships, the original old warships were only 300,000 Huaxia yuan, and it took 11 years to install nearly 2,000 warships, and the warships of 600 tons and below 600 tons, one can only be installed with 100,000 Huaxia yuan, the smaller the tonnage, the cheaper the price, the easier it is to build.

Even the more they build, the more mature the technology is, the cheaper the price of these ships, because they can have multiple shipyards, supporting shipyards at all levels, as long as they are assembled in a general shipyard, they can be used, the technology is not high, and the cost is getting lower and lower, and a new 1,300-ton warship is only 280,000 Chinese yuan now.

But these old ships are now sold to a few buyers, to obtain land income, military income, and hire them to fight Japan, Baodao Prefecture, Lu State, Qing Army, Zheng Jia, Du Ge rebels, it can be said that these ships are not in vain, made in vain, but the new warship is a 780 tons, using a lot of refined new steel as a skeleton, the manufacturing difficulty is not small, and the time is long, can not be popularized in large quantities, just a few large shipyards to manufacture supporting parts for each other, plus steelmaking mills ironmaking, steelmaking, The cost of manufacturing a monolith is expensive, and a small frigate of 180 tons costs 1.2 million Huaxia yuan, and a small frigate of 180 tons costs 600,000 Huaxia yuan, which is very powerful.

Now Zhang Qiang is in order to plug the leakage, and the combat effectiveness of the division has declined greatly, and he is unable to inspect the entire sea surface, so he desperately deploys manpower and financial resources to build warships, and now he has equipped 84 ships.

Among them, there were 60 warships and 24 frigates.

The total expenditure of Huaxia Yuan reached 86.4 million, which is almost equivalent to the total income of the Huaxia Army in the past two to three years seven or eight years ago.

If it is converted into silver, then the current silver in the Qing Dynasty is still exchanged for one tael for 1,300 copper coins, and the Huaxia Army compulsorily stipulates that one Huaxia Yuan of the Huaxia Army is 1,000 Wen copper coins, which is easy to calculate.

But in actual use, because the Chinese people still have fear and distrust of paper money, so in fact, Huaxia Yuan is only equivalent to 800 copper coins in China, only 960 copper coins in the Ryukyu Kingdom outside, where is the Zheng family, it is only equivalent to 600 copper coins, and where is it only equivalent to 560 copper coins in Southeast Asia, the depreciation is quite powerful, only in the southern Jinhua area people have confidence in the Huaxia Army, so Huaxia Yuan is still valuable, equivalent to 1,100 copper coins.

In the Qing Dynasty, although influenced by the Huaxia Army, there were also some people who used Huaxia Yuan, but it was only equivalent to 800 or 700 copper coins, which was far from being comparable to silver.

Although it seems that silver is depreciated, as a measure, silver is worth more than Huaxia yuan in the Qing Dynasty, and can be exchanged for more than 1,300 copper coins.

Don't look at the later generations of Chinese Qing court dramas in which the characters spend money in silver, but in fact, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, many people spend money with copper coins, people can only use copper coins, the standard of living is not high, but the purchasing power is considerable, the more copper coins, the more things that can be bought, the less copper coins, the fewer things that can be bought, although copper coins are inconvenient to use and carry, but people are still used to using copper coins.

The Huaxia Kingdom had not been able to change it until it was implemented for a few years, and people were forced to accept the Huaxia Yuan banknotes of the Huaxia Kingdom.

Nowadays, the core areas are basically circulating Huaxia Yuan banknotes, and no one uses silver and copper coins, but silver and copper coins are still inevitably used in the border areas.

That is to say, the Huaxia Yuan depreciated by almost half in the Qing Dynasty, and it can be counted as silver, which is also considerable, about 60 million taels of silver.

The number of ships equipped with the budget is more than one-third, and it took 60 million taels of silver, so what about all the equipment?

got more than 200 million taels, which is almost equivalent to more than the current annual income, Zhang Qiang had to immediately cross out the royal fleet, reduced sixty ships, and only approved two hundred and four ships, which is also 100 million nearly 200 million silver, Huaxia Yuan will get 200 million more.

Zhang Qiang then wrote to Ruan Jin, asking him not to rush to build more new warships, and to use the current eighty-four first, but the seventy-two ships built before were still allowed to be completed, so that each fleet would have twenty-seven warships and twelve frigates, which would be good, and when the finances were abundant in the coming year, new ships would be built.

This year, we still have to fight a war to stabilize and restore Shaanxi and Gansu Prefectures, Sishan Prefecture still needs subsidies, and Southeast Asian states need subsidies, Yunnan and Guizhou because of the mountainous and unfavorable terrain, the development is not fast, and subsidies are also needed, so many places need money, and we can't waste money anymore.

If it weren't for the fact that they made 48 million Chinese dollars by selling old warships this year, and at the same time the Sixth Fleet was dismantled and transferred, the Fifth Fleet was destroyed, and the Fourth and Third Fleets suffered certain losses, perhaps they would not have approved the construction of these 72 ships.

If it weren't for the fact that Zheng Keshuang brought a lot of guano to the Huaxia Army in the past two years, coupled with the use of farmhouse fertilizer, the agricultural output in the core area increased by more than half, and the output increased by two times in a few years, which solved the problem of grain for the Huaxia Kingdom, solved the food problem for the surplus population, and also used grain to support the Ryukyu Kingdom's military support for the attack on Japan, the cabinet would definitely not agree to start the construction of the second batch of 48 warships and the third batch of 72 warships.

Zhang Qiang was speechless about Ruan Jin's need to build new warships, so that there were as many as 264 new warships, and Zhang Qiang was also asked to build a royal fleet, Zhang Qiang was very speechless, it seems that the naval talent of the Chinese people is not as stubborn and fierce as the Japanese navy of later generations, desperately snatching the resources and military expenses of the army.

I am afraid that their strength will become weak, I am afraid that their merits are not as good as the army, and even Ruan Jin launched a campaign to Zhang Qiang to seize Luzon, but Zhang Qiang can only hehe for him.

Six corps, the current Ma Sanli Corps is equivalent to the garrison army, in name only, Feng Wuyu Corps is now Xiao Fei to split into the three combat corps on the front line, the Mahan Corps is now the strongest, but the enemy that needs to be defended is cunning, the territory is large, and the core area is empty, Zhang Qiang still wants to replenish the army, how can the navy build new ships.

And then to seize Luzon, what will he take to seize Luzon?

There are no soldiers, his guards are split and sent to the battlefield, the guard regiment is also split into a guard battalion and sent to the battlefield for exercise, the original unemployed marine division and naval corps are also used and sent to the battlefield, to ensure that the soldiers and horses to attack the Qing Dynasty are enough, and now he is in addition to some punishment battalion troops in the Jinhua center, the troops of the recruit training camp, and the garrison brigade guarding various places, the garrison troops of the Beijing Division, and the garrison headquarters of these troops that cannot be moved, there is only one battalion of the personal guard battalion left around him, What did he send to Luzon to attack the Spaniards' Manila?

(End of chapter)