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After some changes, the Beijing camp was soon divided into two formations: the 'heavy infantry division' and the 'light infantry division', with the establishment of the heavy infantry division being more than 13,000 and the light infantry division being more than 11,000.

The hoplite division had an additional 2,000 archers, and the musketeers were all armed with iron armor. In contrast, the musketeers of light infantry divisions were armed with leather armor and had no archers.

The common change was that the depth of the pikemen's formation became four platoons, and at the same time, each division was equipped with artillery, equipped with three-pound guns and one-pound guns that had begun to enter service, and each division was equipped with 100 three-pound guns and 200 one-pound guns. Because these three-pound guns and one-pound guns are relatively light and have a relatively short range, they are specially used to fire shotguns, and they require not many gunners, and each gun can be operated by two soldiers. Therefore, these artillery pieces have not been changed, but are used as infantry guns.

As for the artillery establishment, it will not be equipped with infantry divisions until more powerful and long-range artillery is developed. Although the current three-pound guns and one-pound guns have good performance, they can really only be regarded as infantry guns.

The reorganization began to kick off, and the officers at all levels seemed to have to scrape together the toothpaste after some squeezing, and they were able to gather the number of people and send them to the lecture hall for further study.

At this time, those border soldiers were first pulled to train as recruits.

Recruits are trained for a month, after which infantry division they belong to and what branch they belong to. During the training period of recruits, the main purpose is to train the queue, teach military law, and let them adapt to the life of the barracks and know how to obey military orders.

If there are enough experienced grass-roots officers, and if these border troops themselves have a certain military quality, after the one-month recruitment period, the combat formation of the unit for another two months of training and personal martial arts can be determined and they can be directly put into the battlefield. If the situation is urgent, the three-month training period can also be compressed into two months. Muskets and pikes. It is not very difficult to master the equipment, and if there are enough grassroots officers, there is really no problem for two months. It's just that on the battlefield, such troops are more likely to collapse.

And those who train the army for a year or two. The soldiers are relatively well trained, the musketeers are more accurate in firing their guns, and the pikemen are more professional in assassination, so their combat effectiveness on the battlefield is naturally stronger and they are not easy to collapse.

What muskets hit too low. That's the number of Western armies. Westerners fight for money, and many of the soldiers are improvised ruffians and hooligans, who are brought to the battlefield by a group of officers after a casual training, and guns are naturally not allowed. There is also the question of what will be the rout of more than a tenth of the casualties, and that is also a question of the lack of faith in the army. Since ancient times, China's mode of warfare has been completely different from that of Westerners. Most of China's wars take place during the change of dynasty, unlike Westerners, who fight back and forth in peacetime.

Therefore, in the war in China, either you die or I die on both sides of the camp. The army is also more extreme, that is, there is an army that flees when it goes to the battlefield. There are also armies that don't want to die.

This is the problem of governing the army.

The professional ethics of Western soldiers are also based on the premise that war can obtain dividends, and those soldiers are originally ruffians and hooligans who go to the battlefield to make money, so in an unfavorable war situation, Western soldiers will not fight for their lives for the victory of any country, but will choose to surrender after trying their best.

In China, however, many ordinary soldiers are forced to go to the battlefield, and they are more attached to their families, most of whom are ordinary people who want to live in peace. It's not like the ruffians in the West who see being a soldier as a profession to earn a living. So a group of soldiers who do not want to participate in the war go to the battlefield, and two extreme phenomena will appear. Under the leadership of generals who do not know how to govern the army. The army basically fled in despair. And generals who know how to govern the army can solve the problem of the army fleeing in despair through the technique of guò carrots and sticks.

If it is a foreign invasion, these generals can mobilize the will of the soldiers to resist. can pull out an army that does not want to die, such as Yue Fei, he did this, when Yue Fei was not yet a general, he led the Song army of more than 300 people under his command, and killed a few in and out of thousands of enemy troops. It's not that the Song army is much stronger in combat. It's completely lifeless, so the enemy is afraid of them.

Westerners often do not need to talk about the issue of governing the army, because their wars have formed a consistent pattern of interests, and in addition, the culture of Westerners is relatively shallow. Many Westerners can even break off their relatives and friends and immigrate to the Americas. Unlike Chinese overseas immigrants, when they go out, they still want to go back to their roots.

At the same time, Westerners are also more belligerent, to put it bluntly, a group of bandit states. The action of the whole society will eventually be converted into banditry. Even some scientists in the West, in the end, the productive forces that are converted are not all used to invade the outside world.

From top to bottom, it's this bandit culture. When soldiers go to the battlefield, they are professional robbers, so naturally they don't have to worry about the wind and fall when they go to the battlefield. But if they find that they can't beat it, these Western soldiers will definitely surrender decisively, even the German soldiers in World War II.

This military model of Westerners can bully China during the Manchu Dynasty. However, once there is an army in China that will not fight to the death, the Westerners will have no choice. Just like in the Korean War, the Americans were so advanced in equipment, but they were still thwarted by China with backward equipment.

Therefore, only an army with faith is the most terrifying in combat effectiveness. When it comes to military beliefs, only China has the most say in ancient times.

The 100,000 border troops trained by Zhu Youxiao this time only need to be trained for a period of time, do a good job of ideological indoctrination, and be strictly constrained by military law. Once on the battlefield, it is basically impossible to rout. In terms of the hit rate of the flintlock pistol, as long as you practice shooting, it is impossible to shoot lead bullets into the sky, and the hit rate within 50 meters is still very high.

If these 100,000 Beijing battalions are to be put into the Liaodong battlefield, they will need to train for at least half a year.

The longer the training time, the higher the cost.

At present, Zhu Youxiao is concerned, at least more than 100,000 'Central Army' is wanted! Otherwise, how to calm the situation. It's okay to train for a longer time.

However, the financial situation was a little tight, and the settling-in allowance was 2 million silver dollars, the equipment cost reached 1.5 million silver dollars, the daily military salary was about 3.5 million silver dollars for the whole year, and the food, equipment maintenance, and equipment consumption of 100,000 officers and soldiers were at least about 1.5 million yuan a year.

So much so that in this calculation, the cost of this 100,000 army in the second year of the Apocalypse was as high as 8.5 million silver dollars. Fortunately, the money doesn't need to be spent in one go, otherwise Zhu Youxiao really won't be able to come up with any money now.

At this time, there were still 4.6 million silver dollars left in the internal treasury, and the military salaries of the Jiubian Army had to be paid, the military salaries of the Dongjiang Army and the Jinzhou Army had to be paid, and there was also an administrative pension.

It can really be said that spending money is like flowing water, and after the first quarter of the second year of the Apocalypse, the internal funds are already empty.

"Your Majesty, this is the tax statement of the first quarter of the Taxation Bureau, and a total of 3.2 million silver dollars of various commercial taxes have been collected in Beizhili." Wei Zhongxian reported, "These taxes have been handed over to the Tai Warehouse. ”

"There's already so much tax?" Zhu Youxiao asked in surprise, and Wei Zhongxian replied with a smile: "Beizhili's business has prospered a lot this year, and maybe there will be more taxes in the next few months." ”

"That's a good job." Zhu Youxiao nodded approvingly.

"It's all the emperor's good governance." Wei Zhongxian replied happily in his heart, but the large increase in commercial taxes is mainly due to a large amount of official infrastructure, coupled with the result of a large amount of investment by royal capital.

In addition to the income of the tax bureau is very beautiful, the Royal Bank is also not bad, and soon Yang Guorui also attacked the audience and submitted the profit statement of the first quarter of the Daming Royal Bank to Zhu Youxiao.

"In the first quarter of this year, the Royal Bank and Shanxi Ticket Number strengthened their cooperation, and in just one quarter, the silver arrived through various channels reached 60 million taels, and the silver dollar minting made a total profit of 6 million silver dollars, and the copper coin minting made a profit of 1.6 million silver dollars." Yang Guorui reported.

"Okay, okay." Zhu Youxiao suddenly danced with joy, the profit of this coinage is too objective. In one quarter, it made a profit of 7.6 million silver dollars, which is definitely good business.

"But the profit of this silver dollar, I'm afraid it will be two or three years, and then there will be no silver to mint silver dollars." Yang Guorui hurriedly reminded.

Zhu Youxiao said with a smile: "If this profit point can last for two years, it will be enough to get through this difficult period, and even if we are still short of money, we can still print banknotes." ”

Two years is indeed enough time for Zhu Youxiao to free up his hands to rectify a lot of things, such as salt administration. But the most profitable thing is finance! Paper money is definitely more profitable.

If this is not satisfied, it is a big deal to print more tickets, once the inflation thing is too big, although some drinks quench thirst, but it can also last for a few more years.

At that time, as long as you have enough troops in your hands, you don't have to be afraid of those merchants to join forces, and you can wipe out all the Jin merchants who have bought the enemy.

Anyway, according to the current situation, the road is getting wider and wider, so there is no need to worry.

"The emperor is wise." Yang Guorui had to admire the emperor's financial acumen, and it was obviously unlikely that the emperor would have so many tricks to accumulate wealth financially.

"How's the salt administration?" Zhu Youxiao then asked.

"The salt company made a total profit of 2.3 million silver dollars in the first quarter, and the official salt of Beizhili has already occupied the absolute upper hand, but the market outside the town is still full of a large amount of private salt." Yang Guorui replied, "In addition, privately boiled sea salt has been openly swaggered in Tianjin and other places, not only those powerful people have participated, but even many ordinary people have joined in." As soon as their private salt was cooked, it was shipped to the south for distribution. ”

"I know this, I'll clean them up after a while." Zhu Youxiao didn't do anything with those private salts at this time, mainly because he didn't have many troops on hand. (To be continued.) )