After all, Qi Jin is a veteran of the field, and after his eyes were moist, he wiped it forcefully and said:

"There is sand in the eyes, let His Highness see the joke."

"Where are the words ......" Zhu Youzhen was helpless, and then talked about business:

"The old general went north to Liaodong this time, did he know about the Houjin Eight Banners under Nurhachi?"

"Hmm......" Hearing Zhu Youzhen talk about business, Qi Jin also became serious:

"It's not a secret, the last general's trip to the north this time is also the result of Xiong Jingluo's repeated visits to the first emperor."

"Xiong Jingluo also sent a report to the last general, the army under the command of Nurhachi, the general of the Jianzhou Weilonghu who rebelled this time, according to the forty-fourth year of Wanli, the full number of soldiers was only 16,800 people, and then it expanded rapidly to the current 100,000 people in three years."

"Although it was also said in the Tang newspaper that the old slave had built an ordnance shop and an armor factory for more than ten miles under the city of Hetuala, the last general thought that in three years, with the strength of the captive, it would be impossible to equip the whole army with heavy armor."

"According to what the last general can see, in the army under the command of the old slave at the moment, there are only more than 30,000 or 40,000 people wearing heavy armor."

Qi Jin finished his opinion, and Zhu Youzhen also nodded secretly.

Unlike many people in later generations who thought that Houjin was a barbarian, with the support of Li Chengliang, the population of Jianzhou Wei had already exceeded 200,000.

Nurhachi's troops were the three guards of Jianzhou in the Ming Dynasty, one guard in the Ming Dynasty was generally 5,600 soldiers, and the three guards of the Jianzhou Department were originally about 16,800 soldiers.

It was recorded in the "Ming History Military System" that the Ming Dynasty had 184 guards and 20 guards in various tribes in the Northeast, and one of the soldiers was 1,120 people, so there were nearly one million Jurchens in the entire Northeast region.

Maybe it is an exaggeration of the strength of the Jurchens in the Northeast, or it is reversed when transcribing, in short, according to the above records, the Jurchens have exceeded one million people, which is naturally impossible.

If it is reversed, then the Northeast Jurchen should have 20 guards and 184 institutes, that is, less than 320,000 people.

Such data is more in line with history, and after conversion, the maximum number of men is less than 160,000.

These 160,000 men, from the 25th year of Wanli to the 45th year of Wanli, were annexed by Nurhachi and destroyed countless Jurchen tribes, and then considered the war losses of the unification war.

In addition, there are about 30,000 or 40,000 men on the side of the Haixi Jurchens, and the East China Sea Jurchens are attached to Nurhachi, so it is normal for Nurhachi to have 100,000 men in his hands.

If Zhu Youzhen is not mistaken, he said when he read the book in his previous life, and the record of Houjin before entering the customs was that there were 308 Manchurian cattle records in the Eight Banners Cattle Records, 76 Mongolian cattle records, and 16 Han Army cattle records, a total of 400 cattle records.

Houjin's 300 households 1 Niu Lu, 5 Niu Lu 1 Jia La, 5 Jia La, 1 Gushan 2 Gushan 1 color, 8 Gushan 1 leader, theoretically 120,000 soldiers.

So in other words, the number of Eight Banner men in the early stage of Huang Taiji in the Later Jin Dynasty was about 90,000, and at present, Nurhachi has not recuperated and has not been incorporated into the Beishan Jurchens, so the Eight Banners in his hands should be around 60,000 to 80,000.

But what needs to be considered is that Nurhachi still has Li Yongfang, a traitor, under his command, and he has gathered tens of thousands of Liao troops, which means that the real strength is between 70,000 and 90,000.

In the future, it is impossible for Jin to equip so many heavily armored foot soldiers, so the result of Zhu Youzhen's analysis is that at present, Hou Jin still uses a small number of heavily armored dead soldiers as the main forward, and the second is the armored soldiers as the two wings, and the rest are light foot soldiers.

Of course, this light armor does not refer to the absence of armor, but to the ordinary foot soldier who has only one cloth or cotton armor.

At present, in the Houjin army, soldiers who can wear triple armor can be called white armor, which shows that armor is scarce.

If there are enough field troops, they can actually wipe out Houjin in one fell swoop, but the embarrassment is ......

No.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen could only say to Qi Jin:

"Before the old general came to the future, I had already screened the soldiers of the Imperial Horse Supervisor and the Yulin Three Guards, leaving more than 11,000 people."

"This time, I asked the imperial brother to send the old general, just to hope that the old general can take the Zhejiang soldiers to train them for a month."

"As long as you train for a month, after which the generals of the headquarters know how to train the troops, then you can train the troops in this way."

"The old general and others only need to hold on to Liaodong, and it is only a matter of time before the old slave is pacified."

"That's all going to be clear." Qi Jin replied:

"The time of January is indeed too short, but the last general can send his youngest son Yuan Bi and lead an official Zhejiang soldier to help His Highness train troops later."

Saying that, Qi Jin looked at his youngest son Qi Yuanbi, and Qi Yuanbi also got up and saluted:

"President Qi Yuanbi will meet His Highness."

"Good! Good ......" Hearing that Qi Jin was willing to leave a team to help him lead the troops in a month, Zhu Youzhen was also a little happy.

According to the establishment of Zhejiang soldiers, there are 192 people in one officer, which is already quite a lot.

However, as soon as he thought that after the division of troops, there would be no 4,000 Zhejiang soldiers, Zhu Youzhen said:

"At present, the imperial court relies on the old general, and the general's soldiers are recruiting in Zhejiang."

"If the general is willing, I can offer advice to the imperial brother and recruit another 8,000 troops from Zhejiang alone."

"If that's the case, that's great!" Qi Jin didn't expect that he would still have the time to lead tens of thousands of soldiers.

Since he resigned, he no longer dared to imagine that he could lead more than 10,000 troops, but although he led more than 10,000 troops, he ......

Qi Jin thought of the military salary, so he hesitated:

"It's good to recruit troops, but if the army recruits another 8,000, our department will have 12,000 people, and the military salary required may be ......."

"Don't worry about military salaries." Zhu Youzhen raised his hand and comforted:

"Does the general know how much Liao Xiang has spent since the forty-sixth year of Wanli to the present?"

"Uh...... The last general doesn't know ......" Zhu Youzhen was a little embarrassed by Qi Jin, and seeing Qi Jin like this, he shook his head and said:

"From the forty-sixth year of Wanli to October of this year, Liaozhen has used nearly 12 million taels of Liao."

"This ......" heard that Liao Xiang actually used more than 12 million taels of silver, except for Zhu Youzhen, Wang Chengen, and Lu Wenzhao, the rest of the people were shocked.

12 million taels of silver, which is a hundred taels of silver for the head of a Jiannu, can also buy 120,000 Jiannu heads.

However, after thinking about it carefully, the beheadings of Jiannu that the Tang Bao of the Ministry of War has received so far are only more than 2,000 people, with an average of 6,000 taels of silver per head.

"Don't hide it," Zhu Youzhen then said:

"This time, the old general was transferred to Liaoyang and the white pole soldiers were stationed in Shenyang, just to dismiss the local Liao soldiers."

Zhu Youzhen broke another news and explained:

"Although Xiong Tingbi has reduced the army of Liaodong to 160,000 and is further reducing it, many of these Liao soldiers are still overwhelmed."

"After the general is transferred to Liaoyang, Liaoyang garrisons soldiers and horses, and the old general can cut them all, leaving only the soldiers who dare to fight, no matter how many they are, they can be sent to southern Liaoning."

"Even the 8,000 soldiers and horses in Zhejiang, after the training is successful, the old general can send them to garrison southern Liaoning and dismiss all the more than 30,000 Liao soldiers in southern Liaoning."