In terms of fishery, fishing boats are provided by the government, and the tax is 60%~80%, and the degree of taxation is definitely a heavy tax, but the profits of marine fisheries are immeasurable, and this is not farming in the ground. In addition, the fishing boats are provided by the shipyard, and it is reasonable to charge such a high tax.

At the same time as the high taxes, Zhao Yan is also responsible for improving the fishing efficiency of fishermen, and most of the fishing boats to be built next year will be open-sea fishing boats.

At the same time, a fishery research group, a fishery breeding group, and a fishery processing research group were set up in the Academy of Science and Technology, and 200,000 taels of research funds were allocated.

After deducting the budget for education and fishery, there are still 6.3 million taels of remaining budget funds, and the navy has allocated another 1 million taels of military expenses for the renovation of warships, the casting of heavy artillery, and the salaries of sailors.

There are still 5.3 million taels left, which is definitely extremely rich. Therefore, the budget for raising horses and cattle has been raised to 2 million taels, 500,000 taels for buying and raising cattle, and 1.5 million taels for buying and raising horses, and the budget for raising horses is 500,000 taels more than before, while ploughing cattle is relatively tight, and 400,000 households were resettled in Dengzhou last year, and the number of ploughing cattle has been slightly tight, and it is urgent to buy ploughing cattle in other places.

Another 1.5 million taels will be allocated to pay for the wages of craftsmen, and at present, the craftsmen of the Ordnance Bureau do not spend 80,000 taels per month, and Handan also needs to spend 30,000 taels per month.

Handan is mainly blacksmiths, miners, and the production of steel, is transported back to Denglai to produce weapons, although it is a little harder, but the victory is in insurance, the Ordnance Bureau can be said to be a very important department, but also one of the core combat forces, in the outside to open a sub-bureau, in case there is something demonic, such as the general out of control, it will be more than worth the loss.

As long as the Ordnance Bureau is in his hands, Zhao Yan believes that the generals below will generally not rebel, Zhao Yong, Lin Yi, and Wang Wenyue are the first to follow him, and they are also from the Zhao family, and Zhao Yan is not thin on them, and the possibility of rebellion is very small, and then they want to rebel, and the soldiers below do not agree.

There will be rebellion only those generals who are released, such as the generals of the Yingzhou regiment and the Handan regiment, but there are also political commissars to supervise, and the possible surname of the rebellion is not high, and then the weapons bureau is in the hands, even if it is a rebellion, it is not a big deal, and at the same time, if they cannot produce their own weapons, those generals who are released cannot be idiotic to the point of rebellion, after all, once there is a rebellion, the army will be without supplies from Denglai, and Denglai can pull up hundreds of thousands of militia at any time.

In terms of army rebellion, it is nothing more than the imperial court, but the imperial court cannot afford to support Zhao Yan's army, and then from the top down, from the bottom up, there is a restraining force between the generals and the political commissar.

The remaining 2,800,000 taels will be used to open the Denlai Bank, which is currently engaged in commodity trafficking, but the turnover rate is relatively slow, such as the goods shipped back from the capital, there are several million taels that have not been cashed.

Therefore, it is already very necessary to raise funds from the private sector, and without a large amount of funds, it will seriously slow down the development speed. From the management to the exchange of bills, the bank has to wait for the year to carry out precise planning, and it will not be in a hurry for a while, take the bills as an example, and have to make some efforts to prevent forgery, otherwise they will not know where to cry if they lose money.

This year's budget has allocated all of last year's revenues, leaving no surplus or deficit, and the fiscal situation is very stable.

After the budget is prepared, it will be Chinese New Year's Eve, and every family will go home for the New Year on vacation, except for those soldiers in charge of defense and some posts who cannot leave their posts.

The way the people celebrate the New Year is roughly the same, but the habits are different, after all, there are displaced people in all provinces. The 100,000 households in the plains around Huang County, the fragrance of stewed chicken wafting out of every household, coupled with the New Year's goods purchased by each of them, festively passed a fat year.

The 400,000 households in Dengzhou also received a chicken and half a catty of pork before the Chinese New Year, and each person was also given a cotton jacket.

These 400,000 households just passed the year casually, and they had to continue to work on the second day of the new year, and although winter wheat was sown in the autumn, they had to continue to build roads and forts.

When Zhao Yan was a freshman, he began to visit the families of those fallen soldiers, as well as the lonely and widowed elderly, etc., and now he is also a leader, and it is inevitable that he will be contaminated with the show habits of those leaders in later generations, who let TV news play such content all day long, but Zhao Yan is not a show, and those difficult households are given subsidies during the New Year.

The temperature this winter was unusually very warm, and the winter wheat in the field was jumping up day by day, so Tang Zhengze was very worried and said to Zhao Yan: "Speaking of Miao Erzhuang, next year's wheat harvest may not be very good." ”

"Bear with me!" Zhao Yan can't help it, the abnormality of this climate is too weird, but fortunately, with the strong crop of sweet potatoes, there will be no famine next year.

…… When Zhao Yan and Tang Zhengze were worried about the abnormal temperature this year, Hong Chengchou also encountered big trouble because of the abnormal temperature, a big trouble that burned his butt.

It is said that Li Zicheng and Guo Tianxing, Mantianxing, Chaotianxing, the Sixth Team, and the King of Meritorious Service are stationed in Hancheng, and plan to transfer to Shanxi after the Yellow River freezes. However, due to the high temperature in winter this year, the Yellow River did not freeze.

Wu Fu, the governor of the western Ming Dynasty, strengthened the army to defend the river, and the plan to enter the Jin Dynasty failed to materialize. Li Zicheng and other troops were stationed in Hancheng County for more than 40 days, and on the twelfth day of the first lunar month, they suddenly set up camp and went to Haoyang and Chengcheng.

Originally, Hong Chengchou wanted to bring trouble to the east and give Shanxi a headache, but he didn't expect the thieves to suddenly change the direction of the flow, and now he can only swallow the bitter fruit by himself.

At the end of the June deadline for cracking down on thieves, Hong Chengchou swore to Zhu Youzhen last year that he had made a military order, and it could only be said that the plan could not catch up with the changes.

Hong Chengchou couldn't help but scold Li Zicheng in his heart, he was like a pig's head, the official obviously wanted to let you cross the river, you are so stupid, which ferry to choose is not good, but you want to choose the ferry of Hancheng.

The Yellow River in a section of Hancheng is the widest area of the river, and other sections of the river have long been frozen, but this section of the river has not been sealed for a long time, only a piece of floating ice slag, and the governor of Shanxi, Wu Fu, sent troops and horses to inspect and station on the opposite bank, Li Zicheng and other troops could not cross the river at all, and the plan to flow through Shanxi could only go bankrupt.

Hong Chengchou couldn't live for a year, urgently gathered soldiers and horses from all walks of life, and only gathered 20,000 soldiers and horses in January, desperately pursuing Li Zicheng.

The situation in Huguang and Henan was much better, and since Li Ran's third battalion arrived in Huguang, Lu Xiangsheng's battle with Zhang Xianzhong in Huguang was very smooth.

Zhang Xianzhong was driven back to Shaanxi by the third battalion in the first month.

The elite degree of Denglai soldiers and horses far exceeded Lu Xiangsheng's expectations, originally Lu Xiangsheng thought that fighting in the mountains, Denglai soldiers and horses might appear in the same situation as the Liaodong soldiers.

Fighting in the mountains is very difficult, the thieves are good at guerrilla warfare, it is a combat terrain that tests the speed of marching very much, and the problem of supply is also very arduous.

But in fact, the third battalion led by Li Ran showed a fierce marching ability in the mountainous areas, everyone led horses to carry food, relying on two legs, and was able to march forcibly for 200 miles, Zhang Xianzhong was chased and fled in embarrassment.

The third battalion came to Huguang to suppress the thieves this time, and everyone was already preparing horses, and at the same time, they did not bring heavy equipment, but they were like fish in water in the mountainous area.

With horses to pack grain, it can be used for nearly half a month, and there is no problem in supply.

Forced march is one of the most commonly trained items of the Denglai army, Zhao Yanzhijun has always emphasized the ability to move, how can those thieves compare to the Denglai soldiers who are physically strong and often carry out forced march training.

The marching speed of the third battalion made it difficult for Lu Xiangsheng himself to keep up, but he gritted his teeth and persevered, trekking in the mountains with the third battalion, while the soldiers and horses led by Lu Xiangsheng were left far behind, and Lu Xiangsheng asked them to return to the mountain.

The Denglai army is no stranger to this kind of mountain march, and the battalions are often pulled to the hilly areas of Dengzhou for marching training, and there is also a set of mountain combat methods.

In the mountain combat mode, it is impossible to form a phalanx against the enemy like in the plains, so the tactics of skirmishing are adopted, and a battalion is divided into six combat companies, each combat company has 200 pikemen, 100 musketeers, 50 artillerymen, and 5 rocket soldiers.

As soon as they entered the mountainous area, the third battalion bit Zhang Xianzhong's thieves, and Zhang Xianzhong's 50,000 or 60,000 thieves laid an ambush in late December.

Mountain reconnaissance was inconvenient, especially during such a rapid march, and it was sometimes difficult for the scouts to give timely feedback on the situation ahead, and the third battalion crashed headlong into the ambush circle without being mentally prepared.

The thieves' bows and arrows and fire guns rained down together, like flying locusts. Lu Xiangsheng sighed in his heart at that time, thinking that a big defeat was coming. However, the 3rd Battalion showed stubborn combat strength when it went up and down.

In the ambush circle, the confusion was only quelled for a moment, and then the soldiers of the third battalion, in groups of three or five without any formation, charged the thieves without fear of death.

After a brutal white-knuckle battle, Zhang Xianzhong's troops were defeated.

This ambush also caused more than 300 casualties in the 3rd Battalion and nearly a combat company was disabled, which aroused the anger of all the officers and men of the 3rd Battalion.

On that day, Zhang Xianzhong lost nearly half of his men and horses, and most of them were caught up and captured, and the backbone of the thieves caught this time were all beheaded by the angry soldiers of the third battalion.

Lu Xiangsheng's combat effectiveness of this army can only be described as shock. This unit never robbed the head and seized property, and at the same time had good training and excellent equipment, as well as iron will and discipline, what shocked Lu Xiangsheng the most was that the soldiers of the third battalion were literate.

Lu Xiangsheng often saw some soldiers practicing writing on the ground with branches when they were resting, this phenomenon was very common, and a third-class private proudly told him that he had learned to read a dictionary and would be promoted to a private after he returned. If he succeeds in this battle, he will be promoted to the rank of private of the first class, and he will be promoted to the rank of general officer.

If he is promoted to a first-class soldier, not only will his salary increase, but as long as the unit is expanded, he may be promoted to platoon commander at any time; if he has made dazzling achievements in battle and is short of manpower, he may be directly qualified as a deputy company commander, and when he is turned into a company commander, he will be promoted to the military department and hang the rank of 100 households.

With the increase in the combat exploits of the whole battalion, the rank of the battalion commander will also rise, and the third battalion was established late, and it is usually suppressed in various places, and he has not participated in the war before, so the battalion commander Li Ran is currently only hanging the rank of a thousand households.

At present, the highest rank in the Denglai army is the sky-turning monkey Han Sheng, Zhao Yan asked Qian Zhiyi to declare him a general, but this person is serving as a company commander in the recruit camp at the moment, and he has not even obtained combat qualifications, so he can't count.

Zhao Yong, Wang Wenyue, and Lin Yi, the highest is Lin Yi, the cavalry battalion has participated in the most battles, and the military rank has jumped to guerrilla general, while Zhao Yong and Wang Wenyue are still only garrisons.

Although the three of them have different ranks, their status in the army is comparable, and the whole army does not pay much attention to the gains and losses in this aspect of military rank.

Lu Xiangsheng got the so-called dictionary from Li Ran, and saw that the words in the dictionary were marked with pinyin, and below the pinyin were the explanation of the meaning of the words, as well as a few example sentences in the vernacular.

Under Li Ran's explanation, Lu Xiangsheng also realized the benefits of pinyin, as long as he learned this auxiliary method and learned some commonly used words, he could learn by himself with a dictionary.

As for the changes in the vernacular and classical Chinese, Lu Xiangsheng didn't feel anything wrong, first of all, the written text of the late Ming Dynasty had begun to be mixed with some shadows of the vernacular, but it was not pointed out, and then it was too complicated for these soldiers who didn't know a single big character to learn words, which was really inappropriate.

Not only can these soldiers read and write, but they also know the righteousness. When Lu Xiangsheng asked them why they were fighting, most of them replied: Fight for the nation! Fight for your homeland! Those who offend my Han will be punished even if they are far away.

All those who wear Han clothes in the world are all comrades, brothers and sisters.

Such remarks made Lu Xiangsheng feel surging.

If you know the righteousness, you will not fear death. If you train such 100,000 elite soldiers, why worry about the injustice of Liaodong?

Zhang Xianzhong was chased for five days, and there were only hundreds of men and horses left, and he ran from the Sichuan plank road to Hanzhong in embarrassment, and the third battalion stopped the pursuit due to insufficient military rations, and turned around and returned to Huguang.

Along the way, Lu Xiangsheng seemed to have discovered a huge treasure, and began to explore the training methods of Denglai soldiers and horses, but Li Ran was happy to introduce it to him.

Zhang Xianzhong, the eighth king of the Eight Great Empires, suffered more than 300 casualties, nearly one combat company was disabled, and more than 100 were killed.

Li Ran didn't know how to explain to the adults after he went back, so he had to ask Lu Xiangsheng to write a letter to the adults to explain the reason, hoping not to be punished.

Since the various battalions of Denglai suppressed the thieves, there have never been such serious casualties, and the Denglai army has always taken the route of elite soldiers, and the cost of raising a soldier is seven or eight times that of ordinary officers and soldiers. If you multiply the number of casualties by seven, Li Ran will have a bitter face when he thinks of that terrifying number.

After Lu Xiangsheng listened to Li Ran's detailed rules on the selection, treatment, training, and equipment of soldiers, he could only sigh with admiration, such an army was completely beyond his ability to build.

Just the generous treatment is already a problem that he can't do anything about, of course, this is not the main problem, no matter how good the treatment is, it can be reduced, but the cost of equipment is powerless, and Lu Xiangsheng doesn't have so much silver at all.

Lu Xiangsheng could only write a letter to Zhao Yan cheekily, hoping to borrow some people from Zhao Yan to help him train soldiers and horses, and also hope to transfer some artillery from Denglai to him.

In terms of requirements, Lu Xiangsheng's tone was very tactful, and after coming into contact with the third battalion at these times, he also knew that the Denglai Army was an extremely readable military group.

Even if he is Zhao Yan's top boss, it is impossible to say that if he wants someone, even if these soldiers and horses are transferred to help him suppress thieves, they are still firmly controlled by Zhao Yan. If those soldiers cut off the supply of Denglai, they will have to do the opposite.

(To be continued)