After calculating, plus other income, the Jinhua Righteous Army has achieved a monthly income of 32 million.

This is compared with the treasury income that is not as good as a year during the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, which is simply against the sky.

Zhu Yujian, the Longwu Emperor who is still living with his belt in his belt, working day and night, and worrying about the country, is even more incomparable.

There is definitely no shortage of places where Zhu Yujian lives now, in order for him to keep this banner down, the officials of Nanming are doing their best, there is the best house there, there is the best food there, one should be given to him, given for nothing, the emperor, has this privilege, but to say that Zhu Yujian's waist bag and the treasury, the waist bag has silver in it, but it is not sufficient, it is all given by the ministers, the treasury, not to run mice, but to be able to run horses in it, play a polo game, empty and even unwilling to go in.

Is it true that Zhu Yujian, who is so shrewd, has governed such a brilliant Fujian, and there is no tax revenue at all?

Yes, there really is, but they have all entered the pockets of those Ming gentry and officials at the bottom, and the remaining little bit of a drop in the bucket does not need to be put into the warehouse at all, and it is divided up by officials in various departments, and only a little bit is done to do the affairs of the imperial court, most of which are in the pockets of officials with welfare, officials, and expenses of various names.

As the governor of the Longwu Imperial Court, as the Jinhua Righteous Army who wanted to carry the banner of Longwu and hide below the development, it was necessary to pay taxes, and the taxes from the local government to the central government, Zhang Qiang paid them on time every month, and from the beginning of Longwu Qian subsidized Zhang Qiang with one million taels of silver, a number of materials, in order to repay him for saving his life, Zhang Qiang paid 100,000 silver to Longwu every month, as the price of his non-interference with each other, and then with the expansion of the territory, the income gradually rose, and now every month, the tax of the central government is handed over to Zhu Yujian, Zhang Qiang is going to pay 1.5 million.

And most of this will be handed over to Zhu Yujian himself to enrich his purse, and the remaining 500,000 yuan will be given to the imperial treasury as the cost of the operation of the Longwu Imperial Court.

And Zhu Yujian's own purse, in addition to rewarding subordinates, officials, and spending it himself, also opened the door to do business, and in the end it didn't fall much, but this is not Zhang Qiang's business, how to spend people's money is not under Zhang Qiang's jurisdiction.

In short, the Jinhua Righteous Army spent 1.5 million yuan in the Longwu Imperial Court, plus in order to obtain information, support some officials, and let them speak for themselves in the court, and spent 200,000 taels of silver every month as special funds, as well as in order to maintain the garrison in Fujian and Guangzhou, protect the Longwu Imperial Court from being attacked by the Qing army, and let Zhang Qiang have no banner of righteousness, the Jinhua Righteous Army spent 300,000 taels of military expenses.

In this way, the money spent on the Longwu Imperial Court is two million taels of silver a month, which is almost catching up with the current commercial tax of the Jinhua Righteous Army.

In the territory of the Jinhua Righteous Army, with the change of equipment of the troops, the arquebuses of the troops are not immutable, always holding an arquebus there and not practicing, as many as 80,000 troops are destroyed every month of light training, and the worn arquebuses have to be maintained by a month's output of an arquebus factory.

And the arquebus is also constantly improving every day, today to replace a fire rope that is not easy to extinguish, once the technology is mature, immediately to the army to replace all the arquebus arquebus, the old arquebus recycling, or when the goods are handed over to the Munitions Department to sell.

This change of clothing requires a lot of money to support, so although the army does not have to change clothes every month, spending this money, but there is a two or three months to come, it is also a large expense, a small change, but 200,000 silver taels, just like the arquebus, which costs 250,000 taels of silver.

When the arquebus technology is improved to 80% of the parts have been improved, a collective reload is carried out, which is a gun change, which used to be arquebus 0. Version 1, after the improvement, it is version 0.2, version 0.3, and the major reload is version 1.0.

The first arquebus was improved by a pound in weight, because a better wood was found to make the butt, the wood was light and not easy to be damaged in battle, the power of the trigger became lighter, easier to fire, a new gauge was added to aim at the crosshair, so that the shooting rate was more accurate, because of the progress of steelmaking technology, the original thick barrel became thinner, but more pressure-resistant, more pressure-resistant than the cast barrel, the whole gun became 30 percent lighter, the tripod carriage was removed, and the gun became much lighter.

Based on these changes, the arquebus unit carried out a major redress, the old arquebus was sold one after another, this time with Zheng Chenggong's subordinates, Huang Yan and Liu Guoxuan, Yu Xing's troops followed Zhang Qiang and they fought the red embedded city, for the Jinhua Yi Army arquebus unit fierce firepower, especially the gorgeous lineup of platoon gun salvos, the money to ask Zhang Qiang to sell them arquebuses, and help them train the troops.

So Zhang Qiang took advantage of the situation to sell the arquebuses manufactured by the Jinhua Righteous Army equipment from the Jinhua Volunteer Army Arsenal in the previous version 1.0 to Zheng Chenggong, a few generals who were close to him, but after all, Zhang Qiang's Jinhua Righteous Army Army had a large number of troops, and there were many arquebuses equipped, excluding those cold weapon troops, and there were 30,000 troops equipped with arquebuses.

30,000 arquebuses, plus replacement arquebuses, as well as arquebus parts, gunpowder, arquebuses and other things, Zhang Qiang needed to sell 38,000 arquebuses.

Zheng Chenggong has a lot of troops, but they are still mainly cold weapon combat, and they don't have many arquebusiers, even if Zhang Qiang's reason, three or four of his subordinates want to train a group of arquebus troops, and a few people add up, it is only 6,000 arquebus troops, but they bought 8,000 pieces, which is a big gap with Zhang Qiang's huge inventory.

For that change, Zhang Qiang used 3 million taels of silver to produce, 200,000 taels of silver to transport, and spent half a month in the early stage to conduct intensive training for some outstanding soldiers, and then let them teach the soldiers to be familiar with the new firearms after the change, and the training cost another 10,000 taels of silver, and it took a month to change clothes, and more than 300 officials were directly used to change clothes, and they formed a weapon change evaluation team, after they completed the task, Zhang Qiang gave each of them a bonus of 100 taels of silver, Of course, it can't be silver, because the territory of the Jinhua Righteous Army has its own currency, yuan, which can be converted into silver, which is equivalent to one hundred taels of silver.

After a change of clothes like this, Zhang Qiang spent 3.25 million taels of silver.

So far, this cost has not been recovered.

In the accounts of the Jinhua Righteous Army, this change of clothes is still a loss.

Even if 8,000 old arquebuses were sold, the price of each pair ranged from 8 taels of silver to 15 taels of silver, and it was only about 80,000 taels of silver, and even less if it was a profit, but only 50,000 or 60,000 taels.

Even if all the more than 30,000 guns were sold, it would still be a loss.

But it is good to die, the Jinhua rebels' improvement of the arquebus will never stop, and when François has an accident, the Jinhua rebels are ready to carry out a second redress, this time it is the 2.0 version.

The arquebus improved the dragon head of the fire rope, added the fireproof cover of the powder magazine, and the gun body became gorgeous and artistic for the first time, with many carved patterns, making people feel that the arquebus of the Jinhua Righteous Army was a work of art.

The bayonet has been improved, the connection between the bayonet and the arquebus has been improved, it is more like the modern rifle and bayonet method, the combat is more convenient, and the arquebus can be used directly as a pikeman.

As a direct result, the Jinhua Rebels reduced the two-meter pikemen among the pikemen covering the arquebus, and eliminated the spearmen.

The bullet is loaded with a fixed load, and the shape of the bullet is changed to the shape of a mini bullet, and a cork is added to the bottom, which can deform the rear of the cork and lead bullet with the expanded gas after the gunpowder is exploded, sealing the chamber, making the pressure of the chamber increase and the range is longer.

Gunpowder has also been improved to granular gunpowder, which reduces smoke and increases the power of gunpowder, making gunpowder more convenient to carry and not suitable for moisture.

The barrel has also become a gradually tightening barrel, the barrel is no longer blindly the same size from front to back, increasing the area of the rear barrel, so that the gunpowder explodes in the chamber, which can produce greater chamber pressure, and in the process of pushing the bullet to the muzzle, the bullet is contracted, then tightened, and then pushed farther away by the gas.

Nowadays, the 2.0 version of the arquebus has reached a distance of 100 meters, and the accuracy of the bullet is still very high after flying 50 to 70 meters, because the speed is too fast, and the bullet reaches the enemy before it has time to change its trajectory.

Nowadays, even the Dutch's rifled guns can only be loaded at a very slow speed, and then kill and injure the enemy at a distance of 80 meters to 100 meters, it sounds like the Dutch's rifled guns are more powerful, but they do not have a large area of equipment, and they still use the arquebus equivalent to the 0.6,7 version of the Jinhua Righteous Army, so in a long stage, they can not beat the Jinhua Righteous Army in a large area, large force, and lined up to shoot and kill the battle.

For these reasons, if Zhang Qiang changes to version 2.0, it will be another expenditure of more than 3 million, and more than that, because the arquebus unit of the Jinhua Righteous Army is expanding, and there will be 40,000 troops, according to the past, 40,000 troops, at least 48,000 guns are needed for equipment and replacement, training and maintenance.

The cost of each new arquebus will reach 120 taels of silver, maybe the cost will be reduced after experience, but not too much, according to Zhou Congee and Zhu Dayou's accounting, at least 115 taels of silver are needed to replace a new arquebus.

The cost of two outfits will reach 6.7 million taels of silver, but the cost recovered is less than 1 million taels of silver.

Therefore, changing clothes is a big financial expenditure, no wonder the military industry of many countries in later generations is very underdeveloped, because it is better to buy it.

Two costume changes and a loss of about five million taels of silver.

This shrank Zhang Qiang's financial income of 32 million taels of silver.

Although the income of the arsenal has increased, the income of the enterprises affiliated with the arsenal has increased, and the lives of the common people and craftsmen who serve the arsenal have a better life, but the arsenal does not need to pay taxes, it is the official enterprise of the Jinhua Righteous Army.

Because the subsidiary enterprise is a small workshop and a small factory, the tax that can be received is also very meager, mainly because Zhang Qiang wants to let the people recuperate and does not increase taxes.

The taxes paid to the emperor, as well as the expenses of the garrison in Fujian, the expenses of special funds, and the expenses to be paid for the two expenditures, then calculated that the expenses of each month alone required an average of five million taels of silver.

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