The Yanmen armor and the right guards protected the northern border in the middle, blocking all threats from the outside.

At the same time, Zhang Qin, the chief housekeeper under Chu Jiang, also rushed to Beiliang City from Liangshan City, and began to take over the treasury left by the Beiliang Palace, and all the good things in the entire northern territory were basically in the Beiliang Palace.

There are three states in the north, but in terms of heritage, Beiliang Prefecture occupies eighty percent, and the remaining two states each have one percent.

The area and cultivated land of the three states are about the same, but ninety percent of the annual taxes need to be handed over to the Beiliang Palace, which is distributed by the Beiliang Palace, and the salaries of the various armies are issued, etc., and the remaining one percent is left for the government's own use.

The Beiliang Wangfu is supported by the entire three northern states, and the Beiliang Prefecture alone cannot support the two armies under the command of the Beiliang Wangfu.

"Lord Wang, this is the situation of the materials of the Beiliang Palace."

Beiliang Palace, no, it should be the current Liangshan Palace's study, Zhang Qin put an account book on the Chujiang table.

Seeing Chu Jiang pick up the account book, Zhang Qin below opened his mouth and said: "The silver and grain in the treasury of the Beiliang Wangfu are about twenty times that of Liangshan Prefecture, if it is according to the previous situation of the Beiliang Wangfu, even if the entire northern realm has no income at all, it can support two years." ”

"And iron ore, timber and other resources, is about fifty times that of Liangshan Prefecture, and in terms of medicinal materials, the inventory of Beiliang Wangfu far exceeds that of Liangshan Prefecture, and the two are completely incomparable.

"In addition, under the Beiliang Palace, there are two iron mines, three salt farms, and four armor casting workshops. The land directly belonging to the Beiliang Wangfu is 80,000 hectares, which can provide a large amount of grain for the Beiliang Wangfu every year. ”

"Under the Beiliang Palace, there is also a firm, called Tongtian Firm, which monopolizes eighty percent of the industries in the entire north, whether it is a transaction with the Beiban or a transaction with Dayan in the south, it is all completed by the Tongtian Firm."

"Tongtian merchants will exchange grain for furs, medicinal materials and other items from Beiban, and then resell them to Dayan at a high price, and there are many items unique to the north that will be brought to Dayan by the firm to sell at a high price, and the entire Tongtian firm can bring nearly 100 million taels of silver to Beiliang Wangfu every year!"

Putting down the account book in his hand, Chu Jiang's eyes suddenly lit up, nearly 100 million taels of silver, Beiliang Wangfu is going to resell it to understand, you must know that there are six million people in the entire Liangshan Prefecture, ten taxes and seven, and the tax revenue in a year is only 10 million taels of silver.

The number of fields and population in Beiliang Prefecture and Qishui Prefecture are about the same, and the tax revenue is about the same, and the tax tax in the entire northern border is only 30 million taels of silver a year, and relying on the reselling of the north and south, the Beiliang Wangfu can earn nearly 100 million taels of silver, which is basically more than three times the field tax.

It is no wonder that the King of Beiliang can raise two armies of warriors under his command who are like gold-swallowing beasts.

An army of warriors, even if it is an army of warriors at the lowest level, the cost of raising one is ten times that of an ordinary army of the same number, and the cost of supporting 45,000 Xiliang elite cavalry is no less than the cost of supporting 400,000 five major troops.

And the price of five thousand peerless iron horses is even greater!

Not only the food has to keep up, but the soldiers' salaries must also keep up, and the corresponding weapons and armor must also be upgraded, and the cost is even much greater than the military salary, just like the white tiger horse under the crotch of the peerless iron horseman, each horse is expensive.

The two armies of the Guang Wushuang Iron Cavalry and the Northern Liang Jing Cavalry, together with 50,000 people, required far more resources to support them than the 450,000 troops in the three prefectures of Liangshan, Beiliang and Qishui.

If the Beiliang Mansion has no additional income, it can't support these two armies at all, and with the current situation in the north, it is already the limit to be able to feed 450,000 state troops, and it can't afford to support the Peerless Iron Cavalry and the Beiliang Jingqi no matter what.

At that time, knowing the financial situation of Liangshan Prefecture, Chu Jiang was also curious about why the King of Northern Liang wanted to be independent, with the financial situation in the north, it could not support the consumption of the entire army at all.

Chu Jiang forgot about the stubble reselling in the north and south, smuggling and reselling is already profitable, plus the things in the Beiban, most of the things in Dayan cannot be found in the territory, and the things inside Dayan are also needed by the Beiban.

With such luck in the north and south, the profit has increased at least tenfold, no wonder the king of Beiliang is so confident.

"Give all the medicinal materials to the Medicine King, and all the alchemists in the entire Beiliang Palace's Mansion will be assigned to the Medicine King, responsible for refining the pills, all kinds of pills need to be refined, as long as they are the pills that can gather the medicinal materials, all of them will be practiced for me."

"Among them, the quenching pill and various pills that break through the great realm are the mainstay, and the rest of the pills are in the back row, and the pills that are not very useful should not be refined." Chu Jiang tapped his fingers lightly on the table and said.

"Yes!"

"Also, the food needed by the 400,000 warrior army will be deployed, and the three armies in the north will be reduced to 400,000 in the future, and the food in the army will be supplied according to the warrior army!"

"Yes!" Zhang Qin's face remained unchanged, and he bowed and said.

An army of 400,000 is the upper limit of the military attache of the right military guard of the first army who can lead the army, since this is the case, then Chu Jiang simply only needs an army of 400,000. The army, no matter what, must be held in their own hands, and with die-hard summoned characters, it is the best choice to let the summoned characters lead the army.

At present, there are 450,000 regular troops in the three northern prefectures, and 900,000 young and strong people stationed at the border passes, and Chu Jiang is also recruiting new soldiers and soldiers in the counties and counties of Liangshan Prefecture. The reserve troops in the entire northern territory are probably more than 2 million people, far exceeding the 400,000 people needed by Chu Jiang.

Chu Jiang pondered for a moment and said, "Pass on my order to recruit soldiers in the cities and villages of Beiliang Prefecture and Qishui Prefecture to double the treatment of the army." Let Cheng Yanjin select 400,000 troops from the Sanzhou army, government soldiers, young and strong, and those who are interested in joining the army in the north! ”

"If you come to join the army and are not selected, the palace will give you one or two pieces of silver as travel expenses."

The army, if you want to be elite, to be honest, the three armies in the north, Chu Jiang is completely unsightly, and the army composed of ordinary people is of little use in this world with monks.

If you want to refine, then refine an army of warriors, Chu Jiang intends to build the 400,000 army under his command into an army of warriors, loyal to Chu Jiang, and a warrior army personally led by the right military attaché.

After this conscription, the number of people under Chu Jiang's command who want to join the army is at least two million people, and 400,000 people are selected, that is, one of the five people, and those who are selected in this way must be elite people.

Handed over to the right Wuwei to be trained according to the training method of the Tang Dynasty, with the assistance of Sun Simiao's elixir, this army will inevitably be able to become an army of warriors.

With an army of 400,000 warriors, when Chu Jiang went south to attack Dayan in the future, there would be people who would follow the rear to guard the city.

And there is no need to temporarily recruit soldiers on the battlefield, and those who surrender can rest assured that they have trained and cultivated them.

"Yes!" Zhang Qin bowed again and said.

(End of chapter)