In less than a week, Zhang Qiang sat firmly in the Red Embedded City, and made a lot of money by letting the militia and captive troops clean up the ruins of the Red Embedded City and repair the walls and defense system of the fortress of the Red Embedded City. [Full text reading. 】

How much did you earn?

Our big housekeeper Zhu Da has his own account book.

"This battle with the Dutch, Portuguese, and Ming coastal pirates, as well as the battle to reinforce Zheng Chenggong to obtain the treasure island, a total of 53,000 prisoners were captured, including the later cleanup of the coastal islands, the clearing of the territory, the seizure of illicit pirates, the Ming people captured or arrested in the skirmish of the Taixi people, the Manchus of the Qing Dynasty, and even some Japanese ronin who infiltrated it."

Since Zhang Qiang's expansion of the army released some prisoners, the prisoners in the territory of the Jinhua Righteous Army were only 3,000 prisoners in the camp, except for the 10,000 Manchurians in the forced labor camp, the Mongols, and the captured Dutch, Portuguese, and stubborn soldiers and officers of the Qing and Han banners, and later in the first counterattack pirate attack on the territory of the Jinhua Righteous Army, 38,000 prisoners were captured in the battle with Zheng Cai, and some hidden J Xi, Qing Dynasty sympathizers, and some old scholars, a total of 41,000 prisoners, and the hard labor camp was increased by 1,000 people.

In fact, by the second counterattack that attacked the territory of the Jinhua Righteous Army along the coast of the Ming Dynasty, the Dutch, the Portuguese, and the Daming Pirate Group, the Jinhua Righteous Army had a total of about 90,000 prisoners, because many of the captives were actually selected soon to be innocent, coerced, or willing to surrender and join the Daming pirates of the Jinhua Righteous Army, many of them were fishermen who had just joined the pirates, and the number of captives had been fluctuating.

The naval division of the Jinhua Righteous Army has been expanding, from the original one naval division, one fleet, one naval division, two fleets, and one fleet sent a small fleet, which was stationed in Wenzhou, and then after the end of the second counterattack, it rose to three fleets, and each fleet was expanded due to the capture of the Dutch and Portuguese, and even the large ships of the Ming pirates.

Now, except for the Second Fleet, which has 400 warships of more than 300 tons, the other two fleets are maintained at 200 warships of more than 300 tons, and the strength of sailors has increased exponentially, and 6,000 prisoners have become sailors.

Now Zhang Qiang wants to build a fourth fleet, a fifth fleet, the fourth fleet to defend Chichicheng, and the fifth fleet to defend the coastal islands of Xiamen that Zheng Chenggong promised to hand over to Zhang Qiang.

Now another 6,000 pirates, sailors, and fishermen were recruited, and the prisoners were 6,000 less, of course, it could not be all of them, and the fishermen and sailors among the people in the territory of the Jinhua Righteous Army who had been trained to recruit were used as the main force, and the experienced backbone personnel in the original Zhang Ying fleet were used as the backbone of the fleet, and Zhang Qiang sent generals as leading generals to build three, four, five, and three new fleets.

The new fleet needs to be equipped with a naval team that fights in a jumping gang, these are mainly cold weapons, archers and crossbowmen are the main backbone, infantry sword and shield soldiers are the main force, and the original fierce experienced sailors are the officers, equipped with one-fifth arquebusiers, and the naval team members on the ship are formed, so that the sailors have the ones who have jumped the gang to fight, and the fleet is formed.

Compared with the pirates of the Zheng family's army, compared with the naval division of the Qing army, and compared with the original erosion of the Ming naval division, the combat effectiveness has not only improved a lot, but has been raised to a higher level, Zhang Qiang believes that in frontal naval combat, there is basically no certain superior force, and his naval fleet along the coast of the Ming Dynasty has no opponents.

Turning over the strength of the naval division, Zhang Qiang suddenly found that the entire naval division had actually become a behemoth, from the first fleet to the fifth fleet, and the second fleet was removed, each fleet had 3,000 sailors, 2,000 naval teams, one fleet had 5,000 people, and four fleets had 20,000 people.

The Second Fleet was even larger, with 6,700 sailors and 5,000 marines, and a strength of about 32,000 men.

Almost catching up with his regular army, half of the land strength of the Jinhua Righteous Army.

His regular army, with its garrison, amounted to no more than 82,000 men.

Military spending became the bulk of the entire Jinhua Righteous Army.

At present, he wants to develop Chichicheng City as a bridgehead for the comprehensive strategic treasure island in the future.

The money you need is not a small amount.

However, Zhang Qiang was quickly relieved, because he seized Zheng Cai's family property, did business with Zheng Chenggong and the Longwu court, and made enough money to support this family business in the early stage of business with the Dutch and Portuguese.

Nowadays, the entire Jinhua Volunteer Army's territory is only 1.5 million taels of taxes, many places are tax-free, and the people do not need to serve in the service, although the Jinhua Volunteer Military Office stipulates that the people have the obligation to serve in the army, but now there are not many people in use, most of them are some craftsmen, and they lead the captives to work, and the people basically do not have to contribute.

The important thing is the commercial tax, because Zhang Qiang developed industry, the development of commerce, industry because it has just started, many are subsidies, so there is almost none, only one or two thousand taxes per month, and business can be different, Zhejiang people are born to do business, because they do not have many resources, food production is not enough for them to eat, so many people are small handicraftsmen, and there are many big businessmen.

Although the current territorial policy of the Jinhua Righteous Army is not to allow the emergence of big businessmen to exploit the small people, speculative people appear, but some formal business practices are still encouraged, therefore, the commercial tax is not a lot at all, basically reaching three million taels, this is still increasing, because the territory of the Jinhua Righteous Army has been stable for more than a year, and in the past two years, in the troubled times, many people are yearning for such a place.

The strictness of the people and businessmen who were naturalized by the Jinhua Rebels was not compromised compared to the United States in later generations, but there were still many people who dragged their families and rushed to the territory of the Jinhua Rebels, and the territory of the Jinhua Rebels accepted these people at an extremely slow but safe speed.

From 3 million people a few months ago, to the Jinhua Righteous Army's clean-up of J fine, raiding unscrupulous businessmen, and arresting the troublemakers of the emperor and old Confucianism, the number of diehards has been reduced to less than 2 million, but this still cannot prevent the arrival of peace-loving people, according to Zhou Congee's statistics, the Jinhua Righteous Army's territory has now reached 3.5 million people.

Therefore, this month's business tax has reached six million.

The foreign trade of a government nature, which was presided over by the various provinces, obtained about 8 million funds, and together with the seizure of the property of merchants and diehards by Zheng Cai, the Jinhua rebels now had an income of 23 million.

Now, Zhang Qiang and the Zheng family are doing business again, in addition to paying Zheng Chenggong for the boats and artillery and guns that bought land, and those old captured guns and artillery, and boats, Zhang Qiang scavenged eight million taels of silver from Zheng Chenggong and his generals.

The income is quite a lot.

(End of chapter)