After Li Yongzhen and Tu Wenfu said goodbye, Zhang Yan reminded: "The emperor recruits a new army, I don't know where the military salary comes from? Zhang Yan has a "bad problem", that is, she unconsciously likes to do politics, and she always likes to bring up things she is not used to in front of the emperor.

"The salary of the army will naturally come from me, and this army must be completely controlled by me." Zhu Youxiao replied.

Zhu Youxiao very much agrees with the phrase "political power comes out of the barrel of a gun"; if he wants to reform, it will certainly touch the interests of the people who have benefited from it, and with the deepening of reform, it will certainly cause a strong backlash from them. Zhu Youxiao understood that he must form an army that was completely loyal to himself and did not have any of the original conservative forces.

Organizing and training the new army became one of his first tasks, and only when the army was in his hands could he have the confidence to carry out a more thorough reform.

"Your Majesty, but the palace is not abundant, and the emperor now needs to train an army of 25,000 people." Zhang Yan said frankly.

"Yes, the minimum monthly salary is 37,500 taels, and this is only calculated according to the salary of ordinary soldiers. In addition, there is also food, each person needs about two catties of grain per day, about four to five dollars of silver per person per month, of course, if there is meat, the food needed will be greatly reduced, but the money required will not be reduced. This means that about 11,000 taels of military rations are needed every month, and these two expenses per month alone reach more than 50,000 taels, and this does not include other items, including military uniforms and weapons. Zhu Youxiao carefully analyzed.

"Yes, the emperor is a very large expense, and I am afraid that the internal funds will not be able to support it." Zhang Yan replied.

"Yes, money, I need to prepare at least 10 million taels." Zhu Youxiao said softly.

Zhu Youxiao doesn't know how to get money at all of a sudden, he has thousands of plans, but he doesn't know how to start. The issuance of bonds, this thing needs national credit support, and it is too advanced, at least at present, there is no way to execute. Now even the banknotes issued by the Ming Dynasty have no credit at all, they have been depreciating, and they have even become waste paper.

Running an industry, he can't get so much money for a while, not to mention that Zhu Youxiao doesn't know what kind of industry to do at all, the only thing he understands is winemaking, but in the Ming Dynasty, there were already distilled spirits, and then there was making cement, he was not very familiar with this thing, but one of his cousins was doing this business, he knew a little bit about it, and when the real thing came out, the daylily was cold.

To open a supermarket, this first requires funds, and in this era, opening a supermarket, one word, is death, it will not work at all.

Zhu Youxiao has been a business representative in a supermarket for several months in his previous life, and he knows a little about the operation of the supermarket, not to mention anything else, just talk about the checkout, a comprehensive supermarket has thousands of SKUs even in ancient times, and a person has to remember the price of thousands of SKUs, which is definitely a very test of memory. Even if the price of the product is marked, but in this period, not all products have outer packaging, and it is impossible to fully realize the price of all goods.

And in this era when checking out there is no calculator, at most is to use an abacus, if the supermarket business is very good, a cashier can imagine how much calculation a day can be imagined, it is inevitable that there will be mistakes, if there is a mistake, who will pay for it? And how fast can such a checkout be made? If a person needs to queue up all morning to buy half a catty of rice, Zhu Youxiao also believes that few people are willing to queue up!

Of course, the supermarket also has a monthly inventory, in this era of "heating basically depends on shaking, communication basically relies on roaring, and traffic basically depends on walking", an inventory, the supermarket has to be closed for several days. If you have a bigger heart and make a fresh food, Ijiri, your supermarket basically can't even get in, and the green-headed flies are definitely flying in piles. Even in later generations, the preservation of fresh food is a huge and complex project. In modern supermarkets, the fresh food class is also a relatively large loss.

In a word, in ancient times, when you opened a supermarket, you could lose as much money as you wanted.

The only feasible thing is that Zhu Youxiao remembered the opening of the exchange mentioned in "Hui Ming", but now the time is urgent, and it is impossible to implement it now.

Zhu Youxiao wants to make money, his hair is going to be gray, he also knows that he has no money, but the people have money, he needs to get a large amount of money as quickly as possible, and the fastest way to get money is to rob and cheat. But how to rob and cheat also requires a detailed and careful plan.

"Your Majesty, it's not early, let's rest early." Fan said softly.

"Well, I don't want to, rest early. More on that tomorrow. For the first time, Zhu Youxiao felt that it was not easy to make money in ancient times, even if his status was so high.

It's really "if you don't study hard, you will be sad in vain"!

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"Ijiri!" Zhu Youxiao was taken aback by Fan's dress, he didn't expect that the ancient boudoir would be so unrestrained. Fan Shi was wearing a light veil, and the close-fitting red obscene clothes were looming, which matched her snow-like skin, adding a bit of temptation.

It is no wonder that although the Fan family does not have many records in the history books, even the birth date and origin are not recorded, but they have been sitting in the position of the imperial concubine, and they were once very favored by Zhu Youxiao, and they had a boy and a girl with Zhu Youxiao, but they died early. It can be seen that Fan is very good at dealing with men, and through the game that day, it also proved that Fan is a scheming person.

"Doesn't the emperor like the concubine's dress?" Fan said coquettishly.

"Of course I do." Zhu Youxiao said with a smile.

"Then let the concubines serve the emperor." Fan said with a coquettish smile.

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One night of spring supper, once again proved Zhu Youxiao's guess, Fan is indeed very good at dealing with men, proficient in "blowing, playing and singing", and it is obvious that he has had very professional training. In order to satisfy Zhu Youxiao's interest, Fan will even arrange for the palace maids around him to help the fun. For any of Zhu Youxiao's requirements, what posture is fully unlocked, with the cooperation of the palace maid, everything is not a matter.

Fan really wanted to conceive a dragon fetus again, and she knew that there was not always such an opportunity, so she could be said to have done her best that night.

After staying in Yikun Palace for a night, Zhu Youxiao really felt that his body was "hollowed out". Zhu Youxiao slept until three o'clock in the morning and didn't get up, and Zhang Yan got up early in the morning, Zhang Yan is now in charge of Zhu Youxiao's exercise plan, she waited in the Qianqing Palace for half an hour Zhu Youxiao didn't show up, she realized that Zhu Youxiao must have been "overworked" last night.

"Drive the Yikun Palace." Zhang Yan said with a cold face.

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