Chapter 191: Military Spending

General Xu's debriefing was divided into two parts, one was the very main theme of the debriefing in front of all the ministers in the council hall, and the other part was in the imperial study, where Tan Xiaopei summoned him to think that it was related to Yunzhou.

No one is perfect, and the ruling party will inevitably run into all sorts of troubles. The governors, who had done a good job in the local area, were disgusted by the procedure of debriefing in the council. There are always inexplicable people who come out to accuse this of being bad and that wrong, and those people may just express their opinions through some hearsay, without knowing the situation at all. When General Xu was middle-aged, he was impeached for executing a low-level officer who had surrender speech in a battle, and after the battle, he executed more than 300 people in the city he guarded, spreading rumors or even more with the intention of seizing the gate and offering the city. And on the second and third days, he had to go through similar torture...... Now, instead of asking questions in person, people at the Cabinet Hall write down the points they think are problematic and hand them over to the Goshidai. After compiling and summarizing, the Imperial Historical Observatory decides whether to request a "hearing" to hear explanations or complaints. After all, many highly specialized issues, such as military, economic, and technical matters, may be problematic to the layman. The old general has been cut in half, and if he wants to explain why in the current court, I am afraid that the sky will not know how many times it will be dark.

And the atmosphere of the talks in the imperial study is getting better and better. Tan Xiaopei has rarely used the high desk, condescending to listen to his subordinates' opinions, preferring to sit in those soft chairs, spread all kinds of papers on the coffee table and read them, and discuss those crucial issues in close proximity. The Imperial Study Room of the Dongping Palace is not only the highest level possible in this time and space, but also a professional conference room that maintains formal equality. It may also be the first conference room on this plane to serve unlimited coffee to everyone when discussing problems.

In the beginning, it was not because I liked the taste, but because I needed to replenish my energy and needed something strong to refresh my spirits. And as I drank it, I got used to it and liked it. Compared with Ye Tao and Tan Weixin, who are more inclined to find interest in coffee, the high-level groups in Dongping, led by Tan Xiaopei, who began to have a demand for coffee, are all rich and beautiful. In particular, Taiwei Chi Xianping has been picky to the point where different batches of coffee beans and different batches of roasting can be tasted. In addition to various flavors of coffee, the Imperial Study even has a special person to prepare a variety of other types of drinks and snacks for everyone, according to the incomplete statistics of Huang Xupingdi, who can show the leisure of the scribes even in the most arduous work, there have been no less than 60 kinds of drinks and nearly 200 kinds of snacks in the Imperial Study.

Good communication atmosphere plus delicious drinks and snacks...... Naturally, there are more and more complicated and arduous affairs of the kingdom, so that the ministers are constantly refreshing their continuous working hours. For Chi Xianping, Huang Xuping, Gao Zhen, Pang Rong, and Qu Yan, who are often summoned. As well as Liubu Shangshu and others, it is not uncommon to have all-night meetings. And because of the frequent meetings held late at night and all night, the routine court meetings that were originally held in strict accordance with the so-called earth etiquette system at dawn have made these ministers more and more bitter, and they are even ready to play together. Ask that the Hajj be moved back by at least one hour......

It was the first time for General Xu to experience this kind of atmosphere of discussing the government and politics in a relatively relaxed environment, and after eating a piece of osmanthus cake, General Xu continued to talk about the problems he encountered when he reorganized the military strength of Yunzhou: "...... There is another unit to be formed, and that is a special baggage unit. The main consumption of the troops scattered all over Yunzhou now is food. It can be used locally, and now the granary reserves in all parts of Yunzhou are still relatively sufficient. I would have liked to start the transportation of materials that needed to be replaced and used to rebuild the barracks, but there also had to be something for me to deliver. Those ordnance workshops in Yunzhou are still learning, and it is estimated that they will not want to resume production in a few months. I'm afraid that the first person to be able to start producing qualified ordnance was Ye Tao's workshop. And with the start of the reloading site, it is imperative to transport a large number of materials. Yunzhou is a vast area, and it is not possible to designate one army to supply another army as in other places. The time to come and go is too long, and the gains outweigh the losses. In the short term, the special baggage troops are conducive to the rearmament of Yunzhou after the rearmament, and in the long run, His Majesty wants to let Yunzhou build a strong army for Dongping that can perform in the war for the world, and the strong army can not be short of food, arrows, can not be short of the consumption of various equipment, fire oil bombs and Mars bombs, at that time the blood Qi army can be used really happy. But the effect is also really good. And once the army of Yunzhou went out of Yunzhou to fight. In fact, from the place of centralized production and storage of ordnance to the front line, that is a supply line of a thousand miles or more. Such a long distance. Ordinary people can't do anything. Not to mention that Yunzhou has this kind of need to fight a big war, the Blood Qi Army has so many people, didn't it also form a baggage army? He also said that he should be able to deliver arrows and letters to every soldier at any time...... That's. ”

When the old general said this, he glanced at Zou Shuangwen, who was sitting on the side and respectfully listening to everyone's various opinions. He was the lowest-ranking official present, and his current position was the Overseer of the Blood Qi Army. After Dai Yun resigned, Qiu Haohui was the first to succeed the overseer, and then Qiu Haohui was transferred to the northeast of Dongping to form one of Tan Xiaopei's ideal main combat troops that could fight and dare to sacrifice in the Binghuo Valley in the southwest of Beining Pass. And Zou Shuangwen began to serve as the overseer of the Blood Qi Army from this time. Although Zou Shuangwen's grade is not high, the Blood Qi Army Overseer is too special. The various rules and regulations that the Blood Qi Army has continuously explored will now be studied and studied by the forbidden army and the military department, and the appropriate ones will be selected and popularized throughout the army, and the experience and lessons of the Blood Qi Army will be even richer in terms of army formation, organization, and equipment. Because of this, Zou Shuangwen has become a person who can drink tea with the highest level of Dongping in the imperial study, and even his Lao Tzu, Zou Ying, who is a young Danyang city guard who doesn't know how much he knows, does not have this qualification.

Zou Shuangwen smiled embarrassedly and didn't say anything. The funds of the Blood Qi Army are too sufficient, so sufficient that he sometimes feels a little wronged. The motion to reequip the longbowmen with carry-on short blades was finally rejected, and the discussion that Ye's workshop had finally preliminarily determined whether the designed combat infantry armor was good-looking arose. No one disliked the armor's ability to protect. After all, after considering the weight, sweat management, comprehensive protection, protective sharp and blunt weapons, and other different situations, the comprehensive performance of that set of armor is quite satisfactory. The son of the criminal department Shangshu persuaded his father to hand over several death row prisoners to them for "execution", and as a result, after a large group of them hollowed out their minds and did a series of tests, those people were sent back to the prison "alive", which is a good proof. However, the commander of the combat infantry battalion, who had been training for more than two months, still insisted that the design of the armor be revised. The main target is the shape that is not flashy at all...... Compared to these, the Blood Qi Army's baggage battalion is only a very small problem. In order to allow the letters and various things sent from home to reach each soldier as soon as possible, the baggage battalion of the Blood Qi Army has put many ideas into practice, such as the soldiers in the Blood Qi Army, no matter where they are from, their families only need to send things to the nearest FedEx branch, and the remote logistics are completely outsourced to FedEx, and the Blood Qi Army will carry out a general settlement every three months. When sending letters and parcels to soldiers in the middle of the Blood Qi Army, it is required that the battalion number and sentry number of the sergeant belong be indicated on the letter package. As well as the soldier's personal number. When things arrived at the Blood Qi Army camp, the baggage camp had a special sorting place to deal with these things, and the original concept of postal code was born. And the Ministry of War is really considering extending this method to the whole army, although it can't be as wealthy as the Blood Qi Army, which has to contract almost all the logistics costs. However, it is a good idea to greatly improve the efficiency of letter delivery through encoding. Not only in the military, but even the Tobu Post Bureau is considering whether this set of things is useful......

Of course, the old general didn't really look at Zou Shuangwen unpleasantly. Xu Jingtian attached great importance to all the officers who came out of the Blood Qi Army, if it weren't for the large number of officers and non-commissioned officers left in Yunzhou by the Blood Qi Army. His plan to reorganize the army may not be completed so quickly. The habits of the officers of the Blood Qi Army are too good, not only are they always very efficient to do their work, but they also always submit regular and detailed written reports, with different levels of focus, writing down the difficulties encountered and the ways to solve them, one or two people may not have much effect, but when the whole group thinks together, the effect is very huge. And that's not all. Just because the officers and non-commissioned officers at all levels of the Blood Qi Army led by example in training, performance, and discipline to suppress many other armies, the old general took a lot of effort.

"The situation in Yunzhou is better than expected. But at the end of the day, it comes down to one issue: money. The old general looked at Zou Shuangwen again, indeed, this is the reason why the old general always can't help but attack this poor person in charge of the Blood Qi Army. The more they wanted to build Yunzhou's military strength stronger within their capabilities, the more they were constrained by Yunzhou's relatively weak financial and technological resources. "Now, several units have been set up and the training is much stricter than before. But the change of clothes is a big problem. How to say it. Now the money in the government treasury of Yunzhou is mainly spent on the placement of those veteran soldiers. There is a lot of pressure everywhere. If it weren't for the support of the Dai family, the construction of the branch of the Ye Workshop would be completed. You can start working, or wait for the craftsmen's ...... Belch...... After the training, weapons and armor do not have to be transported from other places, and Yunzhou's iron ore resources can be fully utilized, and the price should be able to drop a lot, but frankly speaking, in terms of Yunzhou's current financial revenue, if there is no relatively big change, it is almost impossible for the Yunzhou armies to quickly form combat effectiveness. The Dai family has already proposed a considerable amount of silver taels from their own treasury to support the restructuring of Tie Yunqi. In order to avoid trouble, I asked the Dai family to borrow these money, and I also withdrew a considerable amount of money from the road tax part of the Road and Bridge Division. I never thought that the road tax could be collected so much. But even so, Yunzhou's financial resources can only guarantee that the redress of the Tieyun Cavalry will be completed within two years, and the entire training of the Tieyun Cavalry will be completed within three years, so that the combat effectiveness will be raised to a higher level. As for the other armies, I'm also poor in donkey skills. After all, silver can't be changed, and it can only be said that an army can only be guaranteed to form combat effectiveness first. ”

The old general sighed: "I can't do it, these messes will have to be cleaned up by the next Yunzhou Economic Envoy." By the way, I haven't heard His Majesty talk about the candidate for the next envoy, does the imperial court have any regulations? ”

Tan Xiaopei smiled slightly and said, "Lao Xu, don't worry, you must be someone you can rest assured." In these days, it is time for a resolution. ”