"It's hard to raise soldiers!"

In the era of cold weapons, it is difficult to recuperate, and it is even more difficult to recuperate elites.

Ordinary soldiers, one year old costs about 8,000 yuan, according to the floating conversion of silver eight taels of military salary.

In fact, the conversion rate varies from year to year, plus the lack of silver in Dachu, most of them are 1,100 to 1,200 yuan converted into one silver.

Of course, this is only the basic salary.

In addition, there are ordnance, uniforms, cavalry horses, food, and welfare benefits after discharge, the wounded, sick and disabled must have a bereavement pension, these bits and pieces add up, ten years, to raise a soldier, according to the ordinary standard of Dachu, about three hundred silver, including welfare allowances and so on.

In the case of cavalry, the salary is doubled or even tripled.

Of course, the treatment of the military in various regions of Dachu is different, and the soldiers and auxiliaries are naturally different...... It can't simply be waited.

Only by being willing to spend money can the combat effectiveness of the army be guaranteed.

The private soldiers of the Hou Mansion, the main force is naturally the heavy armored cavalry, the whole body is armored, the war horses are excellent, and each such cavalry costs at least 1,500 taels, which feeds an elite.

Excluding auxiliaries and other arms, the absolute main force could not actually exceed five thousand.

smashed at least 9 million taels back and forth, gave millions of acres of military merit land, and created such an elite.

Including auxiliaries, crossbowmen, etc., the number of this legion is around 20,000 men.

It can engulf nearly a million military spending...... It's a bottomless pit.

In order to ensure combat effectiveness, the military horses and non-commissioned soldiers are fed as nutritious as possible, and the ordnance is replaced once every three years.

While most of the soldiers and county soldiers of Dachu County maintained the frequency of training every five days, this elite army maintained three drills a day, which was extremely stressful, and every year there were those who could not persist and were eliminated into the auxiliary army......

High benefits, high stress, high payouts.

In this era, it is impossible to save money to maintain the combat effectiveness of an elite army.

With the same military spending, it is possible to recruit those county soldiers by five or six times.

Nearly one million taels of silver, which is almost one-tenth of the annual tax of Dachu today.

Even in its heyday, the annual military expenditure of Great Chu only reached 5.6 million taels, but this was the entire expenditure of all the registered troops of Great Chu......

The army is not much more expensive, and the Marquis of Bohai has built such a cavalry with heavy money, and naturally he has already recovered the cost, and the territory of Dachu is faintly the strongest.

In addition to cavalry, successive Bohai marquis also privately raised army, crossbowmen, musketeers, sword and shield men, and trebuchets...... A wide range of variety.

Lin Zhengyang even turned up the records of a battalion of artillery troops.

Although the sparrow is small, it has all kinds of organs.

Don't look at the small number, once the war starts, the recruitment can be expanded in a short time, and the veterans will bring new recruits to quickly form a scale.

In addition, the largest is the water army, which is quite a few in number, close to 20,000 people.

Of course, this part cannot be within the Great Chu military system.

Great Chu Taizu once had a strict order that a piece of sail was not allowed to go to sea, but smuggling became a common practice among the people.

There are many overseas islands, and there are also small island countries, and the 20,000 sailors of the Hou Mansion are actually half-military and half-businessmen, and they can become pirates at any time when necessary.

Every quarter, the sailor can bring huge profits, with an average of three or four million taels per year, which can account for almost fifty percent of the Hou Mansion's income.

The Bohai Chen clan started by relying on the sea to eat the sea, and the true monarch has the authority of the sea area, and can fully protect the people who go to sea in the coastal sea, so it is because this sailor is invincible and disadvantaged.

Before going to sea, the maritime merchants must worship the true monarch of the Bohai Sea, and the folk incense is extremely prosperous and very effective.

Even when entering the deep sea, the True Monarch's divine power can still predict the weather at sea, find water and land, and provide protection, but it is not as strong as when it is offshore.

In this case, when the family fleet was lucky enough to avoid a storm, they discovered a new channel and set foot on the land of the New World.

In other words, the news is still blocked.

The first generation of Bohai Marquis made a plan, relocated the displaced people, sent the children of the clan to open up overseas territories, built a temple for the true monarch, attracted the divine power of the true monarch, repelled the natives many times, and successfully gained a foothold.

This is the approximate family background of the Bohai Chen family.

"What a big game of chess!"

Generations of business have almost shifted Chen's focus to overseas.

The aborigines of the New World were in a period of recklessness and ignorance, which was much easier than the complicated situation of the Great Chu Dogtooth and Tooth Mutual Situation.

It's just that it's not an overnight effort, and it often takes a hundred years to calculate.

To assimilate the indigenous culture of the Great Chu culture and establish a new country led by the Chen family, it will take about another three or four hundred years of planning.

"It's too slow, although the idea is good, but destiny waits for no one!"

Lin Zhengyang already felt a sense of urgency, and there was a qi machine on the New World that was about to move, which seemed to have hooked an obscure qi machine in his body.

Specifically, it is a sharp evil qi condensing, which is faintly murderous.

Faintly thought, Lin Zhengyang sensed that if he didn't go within half a year, the remnants of the destiny inherited from Chen Hong would probably expire and be completely abandoned.

After thinking about it, Lin Zhengyang stared for a moment, his divine power converged to his fingertips, and white mist emerged for no reason, and then a figure with his head hanging Ruyi and holding a pocket palace in his hand came out proudly.

"I need to go to the New World, and the affairs here will be handed over to the deity first!"

"Chen Hong" said to the figure in front of him.

The body and the avatar look at each other for a moment, and they instantly achieve synchronization.

"Finally, it's time to use this main shrine......"

"Chen Hong" sighed.

The main temple is a Dao treasure that crosses the void, and has gone through many masters, and the previous generation of masters used this to cross the void to the main plane, and then a series of complicated and unspeakable things happened.

In short, Lin Zhengyang was an excellent scattered cultivator at that time, but he got the artifact and had blue eyes, and the artifact took the initiative to recognize the owner, and even took his previous master and the previous master to the street, and all the conspiracies and tricks and sky-swallowing ambitions were put into practice.

"When you reach the sixth order, you will meet the requirements for the preliminary cultivation of this artifact."

"Its main functions are actually only two, one is to protect, and the other is to break through the void, relying on this, the establishment of a permanent gate of time and space, and the foundation for dimensional colonization is available."

Lin Zhengyang himself smiled, this small palace the size of a fist, gray and gray, lying in the palm of his hand, is not brilliant at all, it is a divine object that is obscure.

"Chen Hong" nodded, stretched out his hand and probed directly into his chest, his arm went straight in, and a pillar of pale golden light leaked out from the gap, and then, he grabbed a starry "core", which was fished over by the deity and grabbed it.

"I preside over the Bohai Zhenjun Divine Throne, respond to the sacrifice, give divine power, although the national feudal restrictions are still strong, but I have already understood some of the mysteries, as long as the divine position is refined into a talisman, and the way of walking the way of the gods and ghosts and spirits is used to walk the way of the gods, the skin and bones of the gods, and the drawbacks can be completely avoided."

"The way of the immortals, the divine position is just a medium for cultivating the truth through pretense, and the real harvest is to understand the principle of the Great Dao and improve the Tao, and you must not put the cart before the horse."