The Great Song Dynasty has indeed saved a lot of money over the years, and it is rumored that many of the ropes in the treasury have rotted, and there has been no war with the Jin State for many years, recuperation, and industry and commerce, and the money and grain accumulated are still considerable.

Over the years, there have been more than 7 million yuan of money accumulated, not counting the income brought by Mao Geng's tyrant in the past two years.

Compared with other incomes, the income of Taiwan's gold mines is really nothing, and the combined income of Taiwan Song Haimao and Minmetals Holdings is not less than 1.5 million yuan a year, plus the cement and time tables of the government, this has a income of 2 million yuan.

This is not the most crucial thing, the most crucial thing is that most of the "demobilized" van army, as well as the old, weak, sick and disabled of the forbidden army that have been laid off, have also been successfully "retrained"; these professionals have either gone to Minmetals Holdings for mining, or come to the Special Administrative Region for wealth, or go to Xia Yi Island, and the more than 80,000 soldiers who have eaten idle meals have been digested in this way, and this time 4 million military expenses have been saved. can save four million yuan every year, and Zhao Yan can't help but feel happy every time he thinks of this.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, raising an ordinary soldier of the box army was twenty or thirty times a year, but after the southern crossing, the market rose year by year, and now the number of soldiers in the box army has risen to more than forty times a year, and housing has to be provided, and the cost of raising a soldier will go straight to fifty times.

Regarding the military strength of the Great Song Dynasty at this time, the total number of soldiers was nearly 400,000. Among them, there are 70,000 in the front of the palace, 30,000 in the Ma Army, 20,000 in the Bu Army, 50,000 in the Jiankang Division, 10,000 in Chizhou, 45,000 in Zhenjiang, 10,000 in Jiangzhou, 10,000 in Chuzhou Wufengjun, 45,000 in Ezhou, 10,000 in Xupu Navy, 20,000 in Jingnan, and 80,000 in Sichuan-Shaanxi, Xingzhou, Xingyuan, and Jinzhou. The total is three hundred and ninety-five thousand.

The cost of raising a soldier is at least 120 guan, and the cost of raising a high-level soldier such as the utility of the army is even higher, an effect needs 200 guan a year, and the military expenditure of a soldier is 60 million guan, if it is in the past, plus the military expenditure of nearly 400,000 van troops, the cost of raising troops in a year is 75 million guan.

Now, I can save 4 million yuan a year, and the pressure is suddenly much lighter.

Next, if the Luzon side also concocts the same method as here in Taiwan, and then "transfers" a batch of troops, and 10,000 old and weak soldiers plus 10,000 soldiers and 10,000 troops "change jobs" on the spot on Luzon Island, then of course it is even better, and one million yuan can be saved.

If you can save 5 million guan a year in raising troops, plus the 2 million guan of increased income, plus the annual tax surplus of previous years, it can be counted as 500,000 kan, and the 7.5 million guan added every year can be used to build ironclad chariots! Zhao Yan thinks that the cost quoted by Zhu Xi should have some room for price reduction, the ironclad chariot plus the main gun, 7,500 yuan to build an ironclad chariot, should be enough, 1,000 vehicles, just 7.5 million yuan.

It is not to smash more than 20 million guan at once, but more than 20 million guan in three years, Zhao Yan feels that this is completely within the tolerance of the imperial court.

As for the more than 7 million guan of the state treasury and the 2 million income of the government-run company last year, which is nearly 10 million guan, Zhao Yan plans to leave 7 million guan for the Northern Expedition, and the other more than 2 million guan is planned to be used to make other armaments, such as warships, muskets, and artillery.

The first batch of 100 muskets, Zhao set a price of 250 yuan, now of course it is impossible to maintain such a high price, now the production of the two types of muskets has been handed over to the Ordnance Bureau, and now the cost has also dropped to 50 yuan, 2,100 muskets have been delivered before, and 8,000 muskets will be produced next year, which will cost 400,000 yuan.

What Zhao Yan didn't know was that, in fact, if Mao Geng was willing, it was not a great difficulty to control the cost of the two muskets below ten runs, at present, the steelmaking technology was still controlled in the hands of the Mao Group, and the barrel steel and drilling and boring and even rifling knives, including quenching technology, were not yet within the control of the Ordnance Bureau, so the key barrels, springs and other key components were still produced by the Mao Group, and the Ordnance Bureau only produced some accessories with low requirements. Of course, the Ordnance Bureau was responsible for the assembly of the muskets, and there was nothing wrong with saying that the muskets were produced by the Ordnance Bureau.

As for the artillery, the bronze cannon and cast iron ran were handed over to the Ordnance Bureau, but Mao Geng had already built a steel cannon, the 35 mm, 40 mm, 47 mm, and 60 mm steel barrels had already passed, and the 75 mm steel cannon had entered the test firing stage.

Zhao Yan was ready to smash down a million pieces and build 800 artillery pieces of various types to equip the army.

As a result, the money left for the sailors to build warships was only 600,000 yuan.

At this time, everyone present listened to the cost reported by Zhu Xi, and their reactions were different.

After hearing this, Han Yanxuan was a little unhappy.

Han Yanxuan has been in the Special Economic Zone for a long time, and he usually communicates a lot with Mao Geng, so the various market conditions are naturally much clearer. In Han Yanxuan's eyes, Zhu Xi's ironclad chariot, that iron shell is not worth much at all, Han Yanxuan is advancing the plan to build an ironclad ship, how can this iron turtle be compared to the ironclad warship that is about to come out! It wasn't the previous iron warship, the new armored warship was at least 1o mm thick steel plates. Therefore, Han Yanxuan didn't think that the ironclad chariot was anything remarkable at all. Ironclad chariots really have no technical content except for the only tracks worth boasting about.

Han Yanxuan estimated that the most to build an iron shell was seven or eight hundred guan, and Han Yanxuan had estimated the construction cost of the ironclad warship with Mao Geng, and the price of the steel produced by the Mao group was still very spectrum, and Han Yanxuan even felt that if Mao Geng supplied steel plates at cost price, the iron shell of the ironclad chariot might be the cost of five hundred guan.

The set of things on the track, Han Yanxuan admitted, is indeed magical, and he doesn't understand that thing, so it's a thousand times.

In addition, it is the steam engine and the reduction of the machine, now Mao Geng also sells steam engines, 60 horsepower steam engines, the price of 500 is already very slaughtering, plus the reduction of the machine, count 200 yuan, the powertrain will never be more than 800 yuan.

Plus the main gun, if it is a small cannon, a small cannon of 4o mm and 47 mm, it will kill five hundred pieces.

The cost of such an ironclad chariot will not exceed two thousand eight hundred, well, even three thousand.

The cost of 3,000 guan was quoted as 8,000 guan, and it was said that at least 7,000 guan would be required after the first batch, I didn't expect that a guy like Zhu Xi, who is known as "Confucian conscience", would actually become a black-hearted businessman, and he would ask for a sky-high price, and it is incredible that it did not cause a single doubt, is there any reason for this!

From this moment on, Han Yanxuan had a little grudge against Zhu Xi.

It seems that the official family has no consciousness of being slaughtered at all, looking at the bright face of the official family, it is likely that this black-hearted offer will really pass guò. That's seven million dollars a year!

Seven million yuan, of course, with this money, it must be arranged scientifically. According to the cost of conscience price of 3,000 guan, I will allocate 3 million guan to you Zhu Xi and I Han have no opinion, I also think that it is necessary to build this chariot to crush the Jin soldiers, we also hate Jin imperialism, Jin imperialism should have been swept away a long time ago, but it can't be wasted! The construction of ironclad warships cannot be delayed, that is the reliance of my Great Song Dynasty to run rampant on the sea, so the other four million should obviously be used to build ships.

Zhao Yuchun watched the excitement on the sidelines, and the future generations were all asking for the price to pay back on the spot, at this time, of course Zhao Yuchun would not be stupid to take the initiative to bargain, and Zhao Yuchun has always believed that as long as a lot of money is smashed, what kind of ox chariot can be built, with money, adding a rotating turret, it is not a matter of technology, the cost is three or five hundred, and the high price of seven thousand is there, it is not a matter at all.

Mao Geng looked at the exhibition of the state of affairs, and also opened it in his heart, Zhu Xi's ironclad chariot, isn't it just a tracked armored car, even if it is not the tank in his mind, the armored car of later generations, it seems that one or two million can be bought, and the money of the Great Song Dynasty has always been calculated according to the purchasing power, about 6oo-3ooo yuan, depending on how it is calculated, 7,000 guan is about 42o to 210,000 yuan, Zhu Xi's offer is really a sky-high price in this time and space.

But Zhao Ruyu doesn't see it that way. In the past, Su Song built a water transport instrument elephant platform, which took several years and cost tens of thousands of yuan. In comparison, this ironclad chariot is like walking on the ground in the uneven field, all kinds of invulnerability, rampage and rolling, and there are more meteor cannons spraying wildly, there is no doubt that sweeping the golden imperialism is a cool, such a heavenly artifact, the cost of seven thousand is really worth the money.

Zhao Ruyu observed his words and looks, and saw Zhao Yan's eagerness, so he immediately said strategically:

"It takes 7 million to build a thousand chariots, and the cost is huge. Minister's will, if you build 800 cars first, what do the officials think? ”

When Zhao Yan heard this, he felt that Zhao Ruyu was a little conservative, but Zhao Ruyu was also an old man, and Zhao Yan wanted to listen to other people's opinions more, so he glanced around, which meant that we should listen to it this time.

Han Yanxuan then said:

"Qi Qi official, in the opinion of Wei Chen, it is extremely difficult to build an ironclad chariot, and the current sample car is not equipped with a main gun, as far as Wei Chen knows, the main cannon of the ironclad chariot is not an ordinary artillery, I am afraid it can be completed in ten days. On that day, the musket went through more than half a year of trial before it was finalized, and the minister thought that this ironclad chariot would have to be tested for more than half a year before it could be officially finalized. ”

Of course, Han Yanxuan's words are not over:

"In the opinion of Wei Chen, the ironclad chariot should be built, and the ironclad warship should also be built, if it is not at the same time, two or three million will be used to build the ironclad warship, so that my Great Song Dynasty can run rampant all over the world from now on. In the Northern Expedition on another day, you can use the strategy of Xin Qiji, with ironclad warships as the main force, and board 6 Shandong from the sea, and the Central Plains can be restored. ”

Mao Geng was a little stunned,! What's going on! Unexpectedly, it would cause a dispute between the 6 seas, and the dispute between the 6th Army and the Great Navy began from this moment. And Zhu Xi and Han Yanxuan also began not to buy each other because of their different positions.

Historically, because of the struggle for power, Han Yan made a "Qingyuan Party Ban" in order to crack down on political enemies, and Zhu Xi's Taoism was criticized as "pseudo-science", and Zhu Xi couldn't turn over for a while.

Mao Geng smiled bitterly, maybe it was the inertia of history, these two people actually had a dislike today because of the chariot.

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