It will take a year to turn the Dragon Lancers into a Dragon Lancers, which is already running at full speed. If you add training damaged firearms and ammunition. Only the exquisite spears that have been supplied to the Dragon Lance Army for two years are barely enough. In this case, won't the two border armies, as well as the other armies, quarrel to death?

Of course, this is only based on productivity in the current situation. The Department of Agencies and the Ministry of Industry are already recruiting a large number of skilled blacksmiths and ingenious apprentices. It is believed that in the coming period, the production volume should rise steadily. But it is impossible for the output to fly to the sky, after all, it is impossible for Zhao Zhe to use all his national strength to produce exquisite guns. In this era when there is no modern process machining, many things can only be made by hand. There are two major disadvantages of handmade, one is the slow speed, and the quality is unstable.

If it can be mechanized for processing, it is naturally excellent. But even if Zhao Zhe thinks about it himself, he knows that there is absolutely no great possibility of a surname in a short period of time. Mechanized processing, that's something that people only got out of an industrial revolution. And now Da Zhao's scientific and technological strength is still very weak, and there is no such possibility. Nowadays, only vigorously developing handmade is king. As for the development of machining, the department itself will consider it, and they have established a simple manual assembly line production.

Therefore, the two border armies, no matter how it is said, must also give each one percent of the output, at least it is also to win them over. As for the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, that is the foundation of the Great Zhao Army, and it is impossible to lose too much. If the future dragon spear army takes 50% alone, it will take two years to take shape according to the current output. However, according to the calculation of the production volume that can be gradually increased, it may not take a year and a half to take shape.

However, it's just a forming. If you need the dragon lancers to become the king of muskets, they will reach the level of elite musketeers. It's hard to do without a lot of guns and ammunition for them to squander. But Rao is like this, although the other armies also took some exquisite guns, but even if the same number of musketeers competed, it was far from being comparable to Zhao Zhe's dragon spear guards. After all, the number of Linglong guns is so scarce, where can it be used for training squandering? Of course, the whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister. The rest of the army must also be loyal to the emperor. But their own children have to be separated from each other. The same is naturally true of the military, and the descendants and non-descendants must not be the same thing.

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It's winter, and it's snowing heavily in the capital. It has been more than a year since Zhao Zhe crossed into this world. The Chengbei Organ Division is desperately expanding, leaving aside the dragon lancers stationed there. There are as many as 30,000 people of all kinds. Of course, among the mature blacksmiths, there are only more than 3,000 people, and the rest are 2,000 carpenters and stonemasons. The remaining 25,000 were young male and female apprentices. These male and female apprentices were recruited from all over the country by the Department of Agencies. Not to mention the big families, the landlord class, and the merchant class are desperately trying to send their children here. Even countless farmers hope that their children can get ahead in the government department.

Well-informed families and landlords, etc., of course know that the organs are now nominally subordinate to the Ministry of Industry, but they are important military aircraft areas personally prepared by the emperor, and are almost vertically supervised by the emperor himself. It is a fragrant and sweet place, if you can get ahead there and make some achievements, you will definitely attract the attention of the emperor.

As for the low-level people such as farmers and hunters, they are interested in the propaganda, even if they are apprentices, they have a subsidy of two taels of silver a year. If you have the opportunity to become an excellent apprentice and participate in production, the annual subsidy will reach six taels. Further, he became a craftsman, and he could get twenty-four taels of silver a year. Not to mention the intermediate craftsmen, senior craftsmen, and master craftsmen in the future. A master craftsman is said to be able to earn more than 1,200 taels a year. It is said that if you become a master craftsman, you can be personally summoned by the emperor to commend you. And according to the standards of master craftsmen, there are no more than five in the entire department of organs today.

Under the joint propaganda of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Rites, the farmers only feel that this is a road to prosperity. However, they are more real than the people of the big family, and they just hope that their children can reach the level of craftsmen and get twenty-four taels of silver a year. If there is such a child in the family, the life of the whole family will be greatly improved. After all, how much does a farming family earn in a year? Twenty-four taels, that's several times the annual income of his family. What's more, even if you are an apprentice, you will have two taels of silver. Although there is not much money, it is better than farming at home. They are quite realistic, and they don't think about whether their children can be personally rewarded and promoted by the emperor, after all, it is too far away from them.

There are also some young scholars, not every scholar can be admitted to Xiucai, let alone every Xiucai, can be admitted to the examination. In fact, under the feet of every lifter, there are countless talents. And under the feet of each Xiucai, there are countless readers. Some people who consciously fail to take the exam, or who are scholars, also want to join the department. After all, it was learned in the propaganda that if it is literate and knows a little arithmetic, it can be given priority. No, it's also a path to promotion. After all, the department that can get the personal attention of the Son of Heaven will not be very bad.

As a result, young people from all walks of life have been subjected to assessments and screenings set in accordance with the standards of the organs and departments in various places, and finally gathered in the Beijing organs and departments for the final round of examinations. Those who pass will be retained, and those who fail will be repatriated. Even so, in just over half a year, 25,000 apprentices have been retained in the department, and some of them, perhaps with foundation, or training willing to endure hardships, can already start to participate in the building, and it will take six or two years.

The cost of the entire department is extremely huge. The biggest expense is not in the apprentices. Hundreds of thousands of people were mobilized to build all kinds of buildings, facilities, city walls, squares, living facilities, etc. In the words of Shen Yijun of the user department, they are simply building a city, no, in fact, it costs more money than a city. Because they have more bizarre buildings and facilities.

In addition to this, a large amount of food is consumed every day, coal, iron ore, copper ore, tin ingots, sulfur, wood. This money made the household in charge of the money jump to his feet. Although the whole world is not the king's land, any copper ore and iron ore belong to the emperor. But those things need a lot of manual labor to dig up, right? Smelting into iron and copper ingots and transporting them to the department requires a lot of labor, right? It's just on, not just a manual issue. In the past, some metals, such as those of the imperial court, would be sold to merchants after they were enough to increase the revenue of the national treasury. But looking at this posture now, how much does it cost to make a delicate cannon? If you don't have enough at home, how can you sell it to merchants? The more they don't sell, the more the price of these materials increases. Looking at the rising prices, it is no wonder that Shen Yijun and a group of guys from the household department are jumping in front of the emperor, these are all money, and they are all treasury income.

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The wind is beautiful, a rare refreshing sunny day. Zhao Zhe lazily lay in the sun in the imperial garden. Shen Jiabao and a few imperial guards stood not far away, and the goods looked at their uncle, kneeling in front of the emperor and crying that this court housekeeper was no longer able to be. Finally, the treasury got some peace money from those black-hearted families, and now that the battle has been won, the peace money will naturally be withheld. But it is these peace sums that are being spent slowly, and today the department said that it is going to import 2,000 tons of iron ore. Tomorrow, the governors of all armies will come to the palace again to ask for silver, saying that they are on the orders of the emperor to reorganize the armament and improve the quality of the soldiers' armor and weapons, not to mention that the soldiers should eat better during training, and it will be one or two million taels at every turn, not including the various resources that will be directly needed. Seeing that he finally had some spare money, it flowed out like flowing water.

Zhao Zhe looked at him kneeling and crying with a smile, jumping up and down, living like a miser, and he didn't feel funny in his heart. But his face was kind: "Come on, come on, I'll talk to you." You are the head of the household, the humerus minister of the imperial court, don't be such a shameless and shameless fool to provoke the juniors to see jokes. ”

"Your Majesty, I can't go on this day, and I'm afraid of showing jokes to juniors?" Shen Yijun glared fiercely at his nephew, who had no conscience and was still laughing happily. turned to a bitter gourd on his face.

"Okay, okay, I can help you think of a way, but I have to ask a few questions first......" Zhao Zhe smiled and said, "Let's take iron ore as an example, you said, although this iron ore is natural, it grows in the pit." But to dig it out, but to dig it out, not only to pay the miners, but also to feed a part of the money of the mine managers. Where does this money come from? ”

"Transferred by the Ministry of Households." Shen Yijun was slightly stunned and said: "This is all the mine applying for a budget from the local government, and the local government axe is applying to the governor's office, and then to the household department. Of course, in reality it won't be that complicated, and the local government will ask the provincial governor for all the expenses of the year. The Admiral's Palace, on the other hand, will go to the cabinet to report all the expenses of the year, and will come to the household department with the approval to get money. As for the armies in various places, it is a different system, which is finally reported to the military governors' offices, and then the military governors go to the cabinet for approval, and then come back to get the money. ”

So that's the case? Zhao Zhe smiled awkwardly, in fact, he himself didn't know too much about Da Zhao's economic system. However, these words, I always hear Shen Yijun crying and complaining, so I also want to solve the problems here. He also asked: "So, who owns the iron ore dug up in the mine?" ”

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(To be continued)