With the establishment of the navy, Zhao Yan's personnel also carried out a large-scale transfer. First of all, he is a sky-turning monkey, and the imperial court has officially granted him the status of a general in Denglai, which is higher than Zhao Yan's original guerrilla.

However, Zhao Yan only gave him a company commander, and the positions of general, guerrilla, and general soldier in the imperial court were similar to military ranks in Zhao Yan's army, but they were different from the actual positions he held. The soldiers in his hands were all selected, and if Han Sheng had any objections, his soldiers would be the first to cut him down.

And the backbone of the thieves who surrendered with Han Sheng were assigned to the new barracks.

The new battalion has just been established, and Song Shijin, deputy commander of the first battalion, is the battalion commander. The task of the boot battalion is to train new recruits, and they do not need to participate in combat.

All recruited recruits are trained in advanced recruit battalions and then added to combat battalions. After this division of labor, it is much more convenient.

Also transferred to the recruit battalion were some experienced veterans of the infantry battalion, cavalry battalion, and artillery battalion.

The artillery battalion was almost dismantled in this transfer, 400 artillery officers were transferred to the navy, and even the battalion commander Su Buheng was also transferred to the navy and assumed the post of commander of the First Fleet.

Zhao Yan had almost no one on his hands, so he transferred Su Buheng to the 'First Fleet', which only had four Fu ships, and the task of the fleet was very simple, that is, escort.

Also transferred to the First Fleet were 400 musketeers and part-time rocketeers. At the same time, the First Fleet had to recruit another 400 gunners and 800 combatants.

After the completion of the training, the First Fleet had four ships, each of which consisted of 200 artillerymen, 300 combatants (melee, muskets, rockets), and 250 pilots and handymen.

The training items are long-range artillery bombardment, close-range artillery battles, training in jumping gangs to seize ships, and anti-jumping training......

Long-distance artillery bombardment is mainly to hit the enemy's sails, and close-range artillery is mainly to sink, the average firing speed of artillery in these years is one round every two minutes, and Zhao Yan's artillery is one minute burst, plus the application of grenades, there is absolute confidence in artillery battles, and the most important thing is the problem of accuracy.

What you need to prevent is that the enemy burns ships and jumps into gangs. At the same time, if you want to capture the enemy's ship, you must carry out gang jumping operations, so it is also the main item of training.

Others, such as navigation and epidemic prevention, are actually not too complicated issues, and they are not as difficult to deal with as the navy of later generations.

After Su Buheng became the commander of the First Fleet, the artillery battalion was led by deputy battalion commander Huang Yao, who was not inferior to Su Buheng in ballistics.

At the same time, the 1st Battalion was transferred to Handan to replace the 2nd Battalion's guarding of Handan. Next year, there will inevitably be a large-scale rogue coming east, and the first battalion will go to Handan, and at the same time, it will also be for pre-war preparations.

In addition, Wang Zheng, the commander of the second battalion, was transferred to serve as the commander of the Yingzhou Regiment, and You Xuefeng, the commander of the first battalion, served as the commander of the Handan Regiment. The second-line troops are 50,000 men per regiment.

Each regiment of the second-line troops is divided into five battalions, each battalion has more than 6,000 people, 3,000 pikemen (100 people in a team, 10 columns, 3 horizontal teams), 1,800 musketeers (300 per team, divided into 6 columns), 600 artillery (200 guns), 100 rocket soldiers, and 500 baggage soldiers.

There are no longbowmen in the second-line troops, and after several actual combat tests, the combat effect of the longbowmen is still good, but because of the long-range support capabilities of artillery and rockets, the longbowmen are not so necessary, and the training is too difficult after all, so they are eliminated.

There were also two cavalry battalions, each with 5,000 men. The two artillery battalions each had 1,500 men, and the remaining 7,000 men were set up as baggage battalions.

After a period of calculation, the General Staff came up with the idea that the money and food required to train the 100,000 troops amounted to 2.9 million taels of silver.

Plate armor is naturally the most expensive place, 30,000 pikemen need plate armor, 20,000 cavalry need plate armor, according to the calculation of 15 taels of silver per plate armor, it will take 750,000 taels.

Horses need 20,000 horses (inferior war horses), 100,000 taels according to 5 taels each, and nearly 30,000 horses and mules are needed to pull supplies and cannons, and nearly 100,000 taels of silver.

In addition, the military salary is 1 tael per month, which requires 1.2 million taels per year, and 300,000 taels of other weapons and armor such as spears, artillery, muskets, and leather armor.

As well as equipment maintenance, eating and drinking of people and horses, each soldier will share 1 tael of silver per month, and 1.2 million taels per year.

After the establishment, the cost will be reduced somewhat, but more than two million will not be able to run.

"Judging from our current financial revenue, although we can afford money and food, because we don't have much money on hand, it is very easy to cause a breakdown of funds." Liu Heng concluded: "Therefore, the formation of the second-line troops must be completed in stages. ”

The financial issue is still the main factor that checks and balances military strength.

Zhao Yan felt that it was necessary to make a financial budget, so he convened the senior personnel of the commercial bank and the senior executives of the administrative side to hold a meeting on the financial aspects.

Naturally, the five main directions to be developed this year are the salt industry, textiles, cantonment reclamation, second-line troops, and maritime trade.

"The tidal flats around Laizhou Bay have been transformed out of 400,000 mu, and all the tidal flats should be transformed within this year, according to the annual output of 50 quintals per mu, and then it will be able to produce 30 million quintals of sea salt (I miscalculated before, the side dishes were less than a 0, and the yield of 100 quintals per mu seems to be too high, and the output is reduced by half), this year's output is estimated to be 18 million quintals, and the price of salt will inevitably fall, and it may fall by one or two." Zhao Quan predicted, "However, if it can be sold, it is estimated that there will be tens of millions of taels, but conservative estimates that the income may only be between 4 million and 5 million." ”

30 million quintals, 50 catties per quintal of cotton, 100 catties per quintal of salt, that is, 3 billion catties of salt, 1.5 million tons, 3 times higher than the output of salt in Lianghuai.

Later, Shandong's salt production soared to more than 8 million tons due to the development of well salt in the Laizhou Bay area, not counting the production of other large salt places such as Changlu Salt Farm, 1.3 billion Chinese simply could not eat so much salt, and the main consumer was industrial salt.

The output of 3 billion catties is too much for the population of the whole Ming Dynasty to eat, and it is impossible for one person to consume 30 catties of salt in a year.

"In the textile industry, we spent 2.8 million taels last year to purchase 800,000 quintals of cotton, and the average profit per quintal of cotton was about 3 taels, and the profit was about 2.4 million taels." Zhao Quan frowned and said: "Childe, although you have built a water-powered textile machine and a loom, we currently only have 500,000 spindles, at this rate, when the cotton is Changshu this year, we still have nearly thirty percent of the cotton backlog, and we can only collect 3.6 million taels of funds, and these funds will be invested in this year's cotton procurement, so there will be no funds to provide." ”

"Hmmm! In a few days, I'll find some more people to study textile machinery. Zhao Yan nodded, it seems that the machinery is to be further transformed, the current textile machinery, the textile machine is only more than 100 times more efficient, and the loom is only 4 times more efficient, which is still too low.

The normal efficiency of the mule machine should be able to drive more than 400 spindles, which is equivalent to 400 women. The loom has been modified and should be able to rise to 20 times the speed.

"In terms of tuntian, the grain we produce will be supplied to the army and the displaced people, and there will be no profit, and the sea trade has not yet been determined." Zhao Quan said and concluded: "So if you want to pull out 100,000 second-line troops this year, you must count on the income from private salt and glass mirrors." ”

"The income of glass mirrors is currently stable at 700,000 taels per month, and the income from glassware has risen to 100,000 taels per month. Due to the high price of glass mirrors, although the income does not look good, the sales volume is not too much. ”

"Reduce prices and expand sales." Zhao Yan clapped the board and said that at present, the cheapest glass mirror is also a few hundred taels, which does limit the number of sales.

"To what extent?" Zhao Quan asked.

"Reduced to an annual profit of 5 million taels." Zhao Yan said that Daming has a population of nearly 100 million, both poor and rich, it is completely possible to do the poor people's glass mirror business, you can also do the rich people's glass mirror business, the poor people's price is low, the glass mirror specifications are small, the frame is rough, the rich people's specifications are large, the frame is fine, and the price can be very different. Each person spends 1 tael of silver, and there is also an income of 100 million taels, of course, this is pure yy, even if the price is low, as long as it is still monopolized, most poor people still cannot afford it.

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