Since Wei Wuji proposed to increase military salaries, although the military salaries of 80,000 soldiers of the Jinhua Righteous Army have not increased much, after two salary increases, a soldier can get a minimum income of 800 Wen per month, which is a militia, paid by the local county, 650 Wen per month for recruits, 1000 Wen per month for garrison soldiers, and 1400 Wen for regular army soldiers, one tael of silver, a total of one yuan of Jinhua coins. [Full text reading. 】

Roughly 80,000 soldiers, the military salary reached 200,000 taels of silver per month.

It seems that there is a huge difference between the income of 32 million, and a large part of it is the expenses of the local county seat and the government of the prefecture, which is paid by the governor's mansion, the central government of the Jinhua Righteous Army, is only a little more than half, about 150,000 taels.

But not counting the expenses of those officers and officers' guards, special arms, and artillery, those who need to pay a total of 150,000 taels of silver, plus each unit has its own additional expenditure funds, not much, a total of less than 50,000 taels of silver, so calculated, the Jinhua Righteous Army needs to spend 350,000 taels of silver in a month.

This does not take into account the expenses of the sailors.

The expenses of the sailors, many ships are captured, and there is no need to pay for them, but the cost of repair, refurbishment, maintenance, and military salaries is more, about a million taels of silver, there are too many ships, hundreds of ships at every turn, and any ship needs more than a dozen taels of silver per day.

Shipyards need to be built, a shipyard of less than 300 tons needs 200,000 taels of silver, and wharves need to be built, and a wharf varies from 30,000 taels of silver to more than 1,000,000 taels of silver.

The roads need to be maintained, although they are all captive soldiers, but those captives also need to eat, need to pay the commanding people and craftsmen, need to dredge the river, each dredging requires a lot of manpower, a large number of boats to cooperate, in short, these months, an average of 500,000 to 800,000 taels of silver per month.

The city walls need to be repaired, the increasing population needs houses and wasteland to be resettled, new officials need to be appointed, officials need to be trained, and they need to be resettled, which is again an expenditure of a million taels of silver.

In this way, the average monthly expenditure of silver is 8 million taels.

It is impossible to rely on the taxes and output of the Jinhua Righteous Army's territory to sustain it, in fact, it is trade that maintains such a huge expenditure, and if it were not for the fact that the trade is larger, and the power of the government to do it, it is impossible to reach the income of 32 million taels this month.

In the past, it was just right, with little income and not much spending, but now it is an increase in income and more expenses.

The largest expenditure was still shipyards and shipbuilding, and the Jinhua Righteous Army had now built three 500-ton shipyards along the coast, one of which required 800,000 taels of silver, and three of which amounted to 2,400,000 taels of silver.

Five shipyards of four hundred tons, each with 600,000 taels of silver, for a total of 3,000,000 taels of silver.

Ten shipyards of three hundred tons, each with 400,000 taels of silver, for a total of four million taels of silver.

At present, the shipyards of 600 tons, 700 tons, 800 tons, and 1,000 tons are being prepared, which will require about 10 million taels of silver.

At this moment, the Red Embedded City was taken down, Zhang Qiang estimated to invest three million taels of silver to repair the Red Embedded City, transform the Red Embedded City, and at the same time build a new set of defense and trade, attack the bridgehead of the Red Embedded City New City, and then invest seven million taels of silver to build a 300-ton shipyard, a 600-ton shipyard, a 1,000-ton shipyard, and a large wharf, so that 32 million taels of silver a month is not enough for the Red Embedded City.

Moreover, if Ningbo and Shaoxing are taken, Hangzhou will be taken in the future, and those places will also need to invest in construction, maintenance, and development, and the money required will be astronomical.

Therefore, it is necessary to open up new profit growth points.

Zhu Dayou reported some situations one after another, and Zhang Qiang was also thinking about how to find so much money, although a lot of money could be diluted every month in the future, but this speed was still too slow.

Is there any way to get a lot of money right away?

"Report," just as Zhang Qiang was pondering, his captain of the guard came in.

The honest captain of the guard who was newly promoted after he was assassinated, a big man with Tengger looks.

There is no problem with the armed forces, and he is good at equestrianism, and when he trained him, he also had the skills of infantry combat and the ability to command the musket team, so it can be said that he is a very good commander of a hundred households, a steady, capable grassroots commander, with a Mongol name of the same, Baghyalu.

"Come in," Zhang Qiang whispered as he watched the door open.

"Your Excellency the Governor, Liu Guoxuan's Pioneer Town Envoy asks to see you." Bagyalu said loudly.

"Let him in." The relationship between Liu Guoxuan and Zhang Qiang is also very unusual, although this is some superficial relationship, he can't really take refuge in himself, otherwise he will lose Zheng Chenggong's trust in him, but he took Zheng Chenggong to contact himself with this talisman gold medal, in the name of doing things for Zheng Chenggong, approaching himself and seeking benefits for himself, which will not arouse Zheng Chenggong's suspicion.

Zhang Qiang didn't get up to greet him, anyway, the two of them were familiar, but Liu Guoxuan couldn't help Zhang Qiang's luggage, although Zhang Qiang did not have a title, but Zhang Qiang was the governor of real power, and the territory was tighter than Zheng Chenggong, prominent, although Zheng Chenggong occupied the treasure island, but in the official system of the Ming Dynasty and even the Qing Dynasty, the treasure island was just a reckless land, a place for exiles, even if you were a prince in such a place, you would be despised by the officials on the mainland, and it was not as noble as Zhang Qiang, a feudal official who now controls a province.

Therefore, Liu Guoxuan still honestly took the procedures that should be taken aside, and he made a fuss, knelt on one knee, and called himself the Governor, and after all this was done, his true nature was revealed.

"Lord Governor, I'm here to disturb you again."

Liu Guoxuan said with a smile.

"Oh, what's the matter, now that you're here as the host, I need your support for a lot of things, why do you still need my help?" Zhang Qiang asked.

"That's right, my lord, some Spaniards have come to us to trade with us, and they have taken a fancy to your arquebus and want to buy it." Liu Guoxuan looked at Zhang Qiang expectantly.

"Spaniards?" Zhang Qiang touched his chin and squinted at him?

He had a premonition of the arrival of the Spaniards, the Dutch were beaten away, the grape people were dormant, and now the grape people and Zheng Hongkui are attacking each other, tearing *, Zheng Hongkui did not completely annihilate the Dutch and the Portuguese that night, it was very unwilling, the Dutch fled, Batavia was too far away, but the trench mirror was around, so he attacked the territory of the Portuguese, but to Xiangshan and the trench gate, the Portuguese who had been operating these two places for hundreds of years were not without the power to fight back.

The rest of them occupy the county seat of the Ming Dynasty, and if they lose it, they will lose it, but as their old nest and Xiangshan, which is ready to be operated with their hearts, they are strictly guarded, and even Zhang Qiang has to use so many super cannons to level the fortress, Zheng Hongkui, then don't think about it, he has many ships and many people, but there are no good weapons, no good soldiers, and it is also versatile.

Therefore, he had no choice but to rush into the harbor against these two enemies.

In short, the Spaniards came to fill the lost trade share of the Dutch and Portugal, they did not have the strength to take back the treasure island, but they wanted trade, not territory, so they found Zheng Chenggong, hoping to trade on the treasure island and establish a trading station, and Zheng Chenggong's only trade object now is Japan and the Spaniards, don't think about Southeast Asia, the Dutch and the French sphere of influence, just beat the people, there must be no way to trade.

(End of chapter)