"Your Royal Highness, the Imperial Horse Supervisor and the Four Guards and One Battalion, there are still 4,632 people left after the selection of soldiers......"

At the end of the election, less than one-third of the more than 13,000 people were elected.

Zhu Youzhen stood up and looked at them, nodded and said:

"Your official position is still the same, don't worry, continue to dig a moat with people for the big camp these days."

"Three days later, the Qi family army arrived at the barracks, cleared the barracks for them in advance, they will bring new armor and ordnance, and four days later, the army will change their outfits and receive training from the Qi family army."

"Yes!" Hearing Zhu Youzhen's words, Sun Yingyuan and the others were in high spirits.

They didn't expect that they and the others would actually be able to get the guidance of the Qi family.

The news that the Qi family's army went north has spread, especially the leading general is actually Qi Jin, who fought with Qi Shaobao back then, which makes them even more spiritual.

However, their spirit Zhu Youzhen didn't care, what he cared about was how to make his army strong.

He glanced at the queue on the school field, and sure enough, it was all big men over five feet five, and the only fly in the ointment was that most of them were a little thin.

The soldiers and the big ones are here, so they practice desperately and eat with their lives.

Therefore, if you want to train the army, eating is an indispensable link.

"Sun Yingyuan, take the Imperial Horse Supervisor and the Yulin Sanwei to dig a trench, Lu Wenzhao, you stay."

"Mark and command!" Hearing this, Sun Yingyuan was not afraid of the Yulin Sanwei who led the forbidden army to work, and directly used his proficient flag language to command the army out of the school.

After they all walked out of the school field, Yang Lian also got up and said:

"Your Highness the Fifth and the old man need to go to Qingling to see the current situation in Qingling."

"Okay." Hearing this, Zhu Youzhen said to Lu Wenzhao: "Arrange a Jinyi guard of the general banner to protect Yang and them in the matter." ”

In this way, Yang Lian also left the school, and after he left, Zhu Youzhen also said to Wang Chengen:

"Cheng'en, tell me about the silver we have now, and the livestock of the Imperial Horse Supervisor."

"Yes......" Wang Chengen saluted slightly, and then asked the little eunuch to fetch the imperial horse eunuch's book, handed it to Zhu Youzhen and explained:

"At present there are three thousand two hundred and twenty-four military horses, one thousand four hundred and thirty stallions, and six thousand seven hundred and fifty-nine mares."

"In addition, six thousand four hundred and seventy-two oxen, and twenty-four thousand two hundred and thirty-four sheep."

"There were also three hundred and seventy-five camels, thirty-four elephants from Siam, and six hundred forty-seven donkeys."

"There are 26,930 ploughing oxen, 7,600 horses, 14,323 horses, and 4,780 donkeys."

"More than 174,000 chickens, more than 46,000 ducks, more than 53,000 geese, and 4,300 pigs"

Compared with half a month ago, the data of various livestock in the Imperial Horse Supervisor have increased a lot, and Wang Chengen also continued to report:

"Early this morning, those generals handed over the corrupt and dirty silver, and now the Imperial Horse Supervisor has 344,827 yuan and 6 cents of silver."

"However, more than 7,000 people were dismissed just now, and the Beijing soldiers are five taels or six dollars a year, and I am afraid that nearly 40,000 taels will be removed."

"That is, there are about 300,000 taels."

"In addition, there are 1.5 million taels sent by the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households to repair the imperial tomb."

"Hmm......" Hearing all the family backgrounds, Zhu Youzhen thought about it for now.

First of all, the goose can never be eaten by the soldiers, in the Ming Dynasty, the goose is a luxury, a goose is 400 yuan, enough to buy five or six chickens.

He can ask the horse supervisor to sell this goose, and he can also add a hand to him.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen began to spend a lot of money:

"Ask the household department to hurry up and send the wasteland yellow book in Huairou, Miyun and other places."

"After the moat is dug up, Cheng'en you will take 100,000 taels of silver and go to Changping, Huairou and Miyun to buy a sufficient number of chickens, ducks, and pigs, divide them into three hundred places, and keep them in captivity on wasteland."

"The slave takes the command." Seeing that Zhu Youzhen finished speaking, Wang Chengen could only sigh that it was another chore, but Zhu Youzhen looked at Lu Wenzhao and said:

"When Chengen buys all the chickens, ducks and pigs in full number, he will first select them from the imperial estates in the Imperial Horse Prison."

"In the future, the food in the Yanshan military camp will be two catties of noodles and two eggs per person in the morning, which can occasionally be exchanged for corn steamed buns and an egg."

"Lunch must be one meat, three vegetables and one soup, and dinner is the same."

"To build a large canteen in the southwest corner, it must be able to feed 50,000 people."

"If the barracks are not enough at the moment, we will expand them to the east and west."

"This ......" Zhu Youzhen's words were too advanced, and Lu Wenzhao couldn't help but salute with a little embarrassment:

"Your Highness, if you follow the current requirements, there is no problem in expanding the military camp and building a large kitchen canteen, but is it too extravagant to eat?"

He continued: "At present, there are 11,232 people in the whole army, that is, one chicken is three catties, and three people share the food, so the whole army will eat nearly 7,500 chickens for lunch and dinner a day. ”

"One pound of vegetarian food per person, more than 7,000 pounds of vegetables are eaten every day, and more than 20,000 eggs are ......"

"If this continues, according to the price of Changping, the current military camp will have to eat 600 taels of silver a day, and it will be more than 100,000 taels a year......"

"If you add rice noodles, I'm afraid you will have to eat 300,000 stone of rice noodles and nearly 150,000 taels of meat and vegetables a year, with a total of at least 300,000 taels."

An army of 10,000 will cost 300,000 taels of silver just to eat, and then when the seven guards and one battalion are fully established, at least one million taels of silver will be eaten every year.

This silver and flowers are more flowing than flowing water, and Lu Wenzhao mentioned that Zhu Youzhen was distressed.

Of course, more importantly, this money may not be able to be taken out.

However, Zhu Youzhen has his own plans.

He had already thought that after training enough troops, he would send troops to attack Engdel, and then do business with the Fourth Department of Inner Khalkha.

As long as the business can be done, he will naturally be able to afford more than 40,000 horses like Qiwei at that time.

It's really not good, he directly asked the royal brother for silver, and the method was even simpler.

The Qiwei 1st Battalion was directly transferred to Liaodong, and Liaozhen in Liaodong could simply be abolished.

Now it is the year of the Apocalypse, not the year of Chongzhen.

Especially four years before the Apocalypse, Daming's taxes were normal, and the majesty was also in the hearts of the people, and no one dared to make a mistake.

Nurhachi is not the great enemy of Daming, and the real enemy of Daming is the imminent low temperature period of the Xiaoice River and the great drought covering almost the entire Daming.

He had to dismantle the guard system little by little before the drought.

At that time, even if the contradiction of land annexation cannot be resolved, the Ming Dynasty will at least have food for disaster relief and an army that can fight.

As soon as the Xiaoice River period came, as long as Nurhachi could not break through Liaoshen and could not take the Liaodong Peninsula, then what awaited him was the lack of soldiers and horses, and he was trapped and died in Hetuara by Xiong Tingbi.

Thinking so, Zhu Youzhen patted Lu Wenzhao and comforted:

"You just do it for the time being, not enough money is not a problem, and Lone will solve it one by one."

"This ......" Lu Wenzhao smiled bitterly, he really didn't know how to solve it, and it was hard to believe that after Zhu Youzhen trained this tens of thousands of troops, what role could this army play.

Lu Wenzhao also wants to change the way of the world, but for now, he can't change it.

Therefore, he could only bow to Zhu Youzhen, who had the grace of his support, and then retreated.

As for Wang Chengen, although he was helpless, he had no choice but to do it.

In this way, the two of them did what Zhu Youzhen explained little by little, and time passed little by little......