When Xiao Ming swore in the Northern Expedition here, it was already the end of the year, the transfer of the Great Song Army to the northern front line had been completed, the training of the new army had also adopted a rotation system, and the basic equipment had been equipped with 7788, these equipment included weapons and uniforms, portable equipment and equipment, logistics support rationing, and the most important thing was the completion of the combat sequence of artillery.

The Great Song Army, which has the Great Song Imperial Guards as the main combatants, now finally has nearly 10,000 artillery units to join the sequence, in fact, there was artillery in the Song Army, but it was a very primitive type of troops, and it was operated by the box army that specialized in miscellaneous duties under the forbidden army!

The current artillery equipment of the Song Army basically has three models and calibers of cannons, but the most are still small-caliber infantry guns and mortars, which are used to fight movement warfare when moving into a large-scale march, and there is only one kind of large-caliber artillery, that is, a 125 mm caliber cannon, a giant cannon of more than 200 mm, Xiao Ming is unwilling to make it again! What a waste of resources!

As for the artillery that Yang Qizhong needed, considering his mobility, Xiao Ming gave him eighty small-caliber infantry guns at one time, this kind of cannon has always been stable, and Yang Qizhong is used to it! Today's infantry guns are more advanced, easier and more flexible to operate! And the gun body is equipped with relatively strong wheels, which is suitable for pulling and running.

But considering the problem, Yang Qizhong only asked Xiao Ming for five thousand rifles, but more of it was the Black God Crossbow that he was very optimistic about, this kind of crossbow could be fired on a horse in actual combat! Even so, there are not a few materials that need to be delivered to Yang Qizhong! The three major arsenals of Hangzhou and Jinling in the Great Song Dynasty, as well as Qishuyan, were all working overtime.

The current arsenal, in addition to the arsenal in Hangzhou, the other two are all jointly operated and established by Xiao Ming under the orders of the Imperial Military Department and the Ministry of Industry! There was a professional division of labor, mainly specializing in the production of cannonballs and rifle cartridges, as for the casting of cannons and the production of rifles, they were still concentrated in the Gu refinery and arsenal in Hangzhou.

In fact, the casting of cannons and the production of rifles are very technical work, which requires a lot of professional cooperation, and the cooperation between Gu's refinery and Mojia machine factory and various professional factories in Hangzhou is already very tacit! And the stripping out of this piece of the meat to be manufactured has increased the labor productivity of the arsenal!

Today's Hangzhou Arsenal is not large, and it stands to reason that the scale of the factory that produces hundreds of rifles per day should be very large, but Xiao Ming has adopted an "assembly line" working mode in the factory, which not only does not increase the scale of the factory, but also saves a lot of unnecessary waste!

The establishment of the arsenal is to support the entire war is also a way to promote economic development, the household department and the military department in the preparation of the arsenal, in accordance with Xiao Ming's suggestion to adopt the way of joint shares, some private factory owners flocked to the company, all expressed their willingness to provide funds to participate in the shares, this is a good thing, once the arsenal is established, steel castings, explosives, molds and other purchase orders have made Xiao Ming's factory a lot of money, not to mention the purchase of rifles and artillery!

Making war money is the fastest way for capitalists to make money, and Xiao Ming is of course no exception, but now Xiao Ming's personal wealth is too much to count! He hasn't made a special accounting, and it's really not for him to worry about this matter, just have a big tent at home to help with the accounting!

The preparation of weapons, equipment and food supplies is only a small head, and all the armies of the entire Great Song Dynasty are now all converted into the Great Song Royal Guards! The number of soldiers has also been cut to less than 300,000! These were the numbers after the consolidation, and many of the extra soldiers were paid discharge and travel expenses to return home, and those who were willing to stay were transferred to conscription to serve the army.

In addition to military expenses and salaries, the cost of dismissing the extra soldiers is a large amount of money! According to Xiao Ming's requirements, the main purpose of disarmament is to establish a crack army system, and at the same time to lay the foundation for the next step of professionalizing the army; after the number of troops is reduced, on the one hand, the expenditure for maintaining a huge army can be reduced, and at the same time, the treatment of active duty soldiers can also be improved, which is the best means to improve combat and morale!

However, in fact, the cost of military spending in the Great Song Dynasty was not effectively reduced, but there was a increase, because the cost of weapons and equipment was really not small! A state-of-the-art rifle requires at least twenty pieces of banknotes! It also costs eighteen gold coins to convert into gold coins! There are nearly 500 pieces of artillery! Coupled with the purchase of ammunition, this number is basically enough for Xiao Ming to surprise himself!

But this money should still be spent, the Great Song Dynasty is now very different from the past, the tax revenue of various places has increased year after year, the central financial control of the imperial court over the local areas has never been thorough, the money handed over to the imperial court only needs to be deposited in a special account in the local bank, and the bank is specially rented every day by renting the Richang Long Flying Kite to pass on the accounts of each day for verification, and the flying kite has also become a special postal tool of the Great Song Dynasty on this basis!

Richanglong used the money from others to rent flying kites and then bought more flying kites from the Mo family, and the factories where the Mo family made flying kites also began to work overtime, and the Mo family's mechanism technology also developed rapidly under this drive, and the manufacture of flying kites was not only more advanced and more reliable, but also had a more far-reaching promotion for many other aspects of the mechanism.

This kind of mechanism art is the secret of the Mo family, but with the passage of time and the development of the machine technique, the Mo family has gradually begun to popularize this kind of skill to the outside world, they don't know what kind of change this special magical skill will bring to the entire machinery industry.

And now the Mojia machinery factory with the support of Xiao Ming, has become China's largest complete set of equipment manufacturing base, just the manufacture of train locomotives and steam engines is the Mojia factory workers of tens of thousands, including countless skilled workers, and can continue to absorb talents from the schools sponsored by the Mohists!

This is also the most successful example of Xiao Ming's implementation of professional education teaching, because anyone who is a junior apprentice in the Mojia school can generally work in a factory after three years, and the monthly salary can be worth half of the salary of the county magistrate! This is appealing to most people.

Now that the Northern Expedition is coming, the resources of the whole country have basically been mobilized, and the capacity of the train has also been improved, and many people from the Central Plains who originally came to the north are even more excited, this is a resource worth using, how could Xiao Ming give up easily, he has been planning this aspect for a long time.

According to the strategic deployment, Yang Qizhong's Western Xia Corps will be the first to attack, but the real offensive has already begun, that is, Xiao Ming's financial war! Xiao Ming had already started a financial campaign against the area controlled by the Northland Jin Kingdom half a year ago, which was a kind of war without swords and gunpowder.

If there is an incomparable convenience of paper money, Xiao Ming increased the amount of printing, and replaced a large amount of gold and silver from the people, and now the iron money in the territory of the Great Song Kingdom is basically extinct! However, it was still used in large quantities in the occupied areas of the Jin Kingdom, and the Jin court scoffed at the paper money circulating in the Great Song Dynasty Mirror and ignored it at all.

In the Jin Imperial Court, the province of Shu still minted iron money in accordance with the ratio of one to seven, but many people were willing to use this heavy and inconvenient coin, and the trade of many things gradually rose, and then a large number of gold and silver were used to trade, and even in the civil trade with the Song Dynasty, a large number of paper money was replaced for trade.

The Jin court began to turn a blind eye to this and did not pay attention to it, and after a large number of paper money appeared in the taxes paid by merchants in various parts of the north, the situation was not so simple, and the people with lofty ideals and some Hanchen in the Jin court finally understood that this kind of paper money called Guanzi actually had such benefits, and they immediately wrote to Jin Xizong, the emperor of Jin State.

The benefits of paper money to the development of the entire economy and commodity trade are self-evident, the ministers can see it, and Jin Xizong can also see it, but how to deal with it is a question, how to deal with this matter, and the Jin court is also indifferent about this, most people suggest strict control, not to let paper money appear again, to severely crack down on those who use paper money.

But more people think that since paper money can be regarded as such a valuable thing by the people, if the state hoards a large number of things, isn't it more valuable than gold and silver? And there are already people who are doing this, they secretly take out the gold and silver and other things in the house and replace them with paper money and store them, these so-called wealth is both light and beautiful, which is really lovely!

The Jin court then took such an action, not only hoarding a large number of paper money, but also using these paper money to buy gold and silver and other things from the Great Song Dynasty and then replace them with paper money again, after a period of time, the paper money in the northern occupied area of the Jin Kingdom was in short supply, and the paper money on the market plummeted, and finally forced the common people to start using gold and silver and other things to shop again!

As everyone knows, this is exactly what Xiao Ming intends to control, he knows that the power of financial warfare is not easier than a full-scale war, after a period of time, a large number of banknotes appeared again on the market in Jinguo, this batch of banknotes is numbered and printed, because more than one person reported that the large-scale group purchase of banknotes by the Jinguo government is constantly appearing, so this batch of banknotes is targeted.

Things that can't be seen on the market, in private are slowly going on, the wealth of the Jin Kingdom is slowly flowing to the Great Song Dynasty in some special form, and gradually the Jin Kingdom began to have soaring prices, all kinds of agricultural products, mineral resources and other things are expensive, many people hold a large number of paper money but can't buy things, many people have to take the risk of sneaking into the Song Realm to buy the necessary living materials!

But at this time, due to the increasingly strong atmosphere of war between Song and Jin, the Jin Kingdom added control to the areas bordering the Great Song Dynasty and blocked many passes and border entrances and exits, but this did not prevent the government and large households from still shopping in the Song Mirror through various channels, but a strange scene happened.

The merchants of the Song Dynasty gradually no longer accepted the paper money of the Northland, and instead accepted the use of gold and silver as currency, for what reason people do not say, this is equivalent to the paper money in the hands of many people has become waste paper, panic is spreading, but many people will still use some gold and silver and other things to buy necessities, but this can not change the increasing tune in the entire Jin country, the taxes of the imperial court are also decreasing, and the social unrest is gradually intensifying ......!

At this time, Xiao Ming began to sell war bonds on a large scale in the Great Song Mirror, and after he saw many people's expectations and excitement for the Northern Expedition, he immediately found Gaozong Zhao Gou to suggest the issuance of war bonds, and at first Zhao Gou didn't understand what war bonds were, and Xiao Ming needed to explain to him with difficulty.

In the end, Zhao Gou understood that this was actually a means of financing, and it could also be a means of wealth appreciation through the regulation of the market, so he naturally readily agreed, and he naturally entrusted this matter to Xiao Ming.

Large-scale issuance is certainly indispensable for the participation of banks and banks, and Xiao Ming's Richang Longsheng Bank is naturally a major institution for issuance! Other than that, that's the First Royal Bank of the Great Song Dynasty!