Chapter 469: A New Round of Army Expansion

This wedding is absolutely unprecedentedly grand, of course, how many people can be invited can come Zhang Yu is not sure.

But it doesn't matter, just come to a part and spread the style of Koto.

Zhang Yu no longer needs to be careful about development, at present, as long as he defends, he is not afraid of any enemy.

Show the prosperity of Jiangdong to the world, some people will be afraid, some people will be happy, no matter what, no one will dare to do anything to Zhang Yu in the future.

However, what Zhang Yu was most worried about was whether Xiang Xin could accept it.

Xiang Xin is Zhang Yu's wife no matter what she says, and she is the first person to hold a wedding, and her wedding with Cai Yan surpasses her, and she is always absolutely sorry for her.

In the evening, Zhang Yu deliberately went to find Xiang Xin.

"Xin'er, you should know about me marrying Cai Yan." Zhang Yu hugged Xiang Xin and said.

Xiang Xin smiled sweetly, found a comfortable position in Zhang Yu's arms and said: "I know, my husband should have married Sister Cai Yan a long time ago, and only my husband can be worthy of such an excellent talented woman as Sister Cai Yan." ”

Xiang Xin was not jealous at all, but took it for granted.

"It's so cool in ancient times." Zhang Yu sighed shamelessly.

Zhang Yu has a few wives who don't say it, and a few wives are not jealous.

Then Zhang Yu said: "For several reasons, the wedding with Cai Yan must be grand, and the princes and families of the world need to be invited to participate, so..."

Xiang Xin was very smart and knew what Zhang Yu was going to say, and then she said: "Husband, it's okay, the conditions for our wedding were not allowed at the beginning, and besides, there were so many people blessing us at the beginning, I was already very satisfied." Sister Cai Yan is the most talented woman in the world, and she must not be wronged. ”

Cai Yan is the world's first talented woman is not in vain, after she arrived in Jiangdong, she has a large number of books to read, and she has been helping Cai Yong sort out the information, so she has learned and written several very good famous articles.

Seeing that Xiang Xin was so reasonable, Zhang Yu was very happy.

"Xin'er, come and let your husband hurt you well." Zhang Yu said obscenely, overpowering Xiang Xin.

The sound of the two men fighting again sounded in the room.

Zhang Yu used all his skills, and Xiang Xin also went all out to fight.

The two fought for hundreds of rounds, and the two sides killed in the dark.

After a long absence, the two fought fiercely until Xiang Xin was unable to fight.

When he woke up the next day, Zhang Yu began to enter the process of handling government affairs.

Zhang Yu called Zhang Zhao.

"To show to the outside world, you must have absolute power, so as not to be coveted by others, so you must have a strong army, I want to increase the army in the Jiangdong region to 200,000, 150,000 as the main battle army, 50,000 for the defense army, and set up militia organizations in various places, trained by disabled soldiers, do you have pressure on your side?" Zhang Yu said to Zhang Zhao.

How could Zhang Zhao not be stressed, the welfare of the army is high, 200,000 troops, it costs tens of millions of dollars every month.

The military salary alone, if one person is 100 copper dollars a month, it will cost 20 million, and the usual food is a big comparison, not tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions per month, and it is impossible to support the army at all.

Zhang Zhao groaned and said: "In this way, the overseas part must stop expanding, and there is no need to support the north, so it can completely cope with it." ”

The expansion of the army to 200,000 is not a small number, especially since most of it is the main battle army.

"Taiwan Province should also be about to make profits, how much money can it provide every month recently?" Zhang Yu asked again.

Taiwan Province used to be the focus of Zhang Yu's development.

"My lord, according to your request, the newly opened up cultivated land in Taiwan Province is exempt from tax for three years and half of the tax after three years, and now Taiwan Province has millions of other revenues every month, but it is all invested in development again." Zhang Zhao said.

Zhang Yu suddenly felt that he was really poor.

Taiwan Province and later Guangdong Province, as well as Hainan Island, all need a lot of investment in development.

Guangdong Province and Hainan Zhangyu have not invested much, so the development is very slow.

"That's all there is to it." Zhang Yu secretly decided in his heart that he must immediately start the plan of gold and silver coins and his own minting of copper coins.

These coins have been minted a lot, and Zhang Yu estimates that they are also worth tens of millions, but the scale is still too small, so Zhang Yu has not started to use them, but they are only saved.

Recently, however, many princes have begun to mine copper ore and sold it to Zhang Yu.

With a large amount of copper mines, Zhang Yu also began to mint coins.

At present, tens of millions of copper coins can be produced every month.

However, the scale is still too small, 10 million a month, which seems to be a lot, but it really doesn't cost much.

In any case, the expansion of the army is imperative, and Zhang Yu would rather postpone the development of other places for a while, and also need to arm the army before the wedding.

Zhang Yu and Zhang Zhao spent a few days making a plan, 50,000 troops were trained directly in Taiwan Province, and they would be brought back after the training was completed.

In the overseas part, there are naturally no enemies, at least for now, so Zhang Yuxun only deployed a small number of troops to maintain order in these places.

Now Taiwan Province also has a large number of civilians, and it is not difficult to recruit 50,000 troops.

A number of other armies were also assigned and ready to begin training.

The start-up capital is the millions that Zhang Yu looted back from Xuzhou.

Zhang Yu is preparing various things, but many things have to be temporarily suspended because there is not enough funds.

When Zhang Yu was distressed, a soldier came in and reported: "My lord, the fleet returning from overseas said that there is something important to report. ”

Overseas Zhang Yu takes it very seriously, and if there is something important, the people under him will report it immediately.

Zhang Yu asked the guards to hurry up and bring people in.

Coming in was a man in his thirties, but he looked weathered.

"Zhao Hai, please take a seat."

The person who came was Zhao Hai, a very experienced captain, and Zhang Yu had seen him a few times.

Zhao Hai was very excited, and every time Zhang Yu saw him, he was very respectful.

He is a boatman, if anywhere else, is definitely the lowest level of existence.

But here, there is no farmer, and he is very respectable as a boatman.

Of course, Zhang Yu respects him very much, because in Zhang Yu's eyes, he is a navigator and an adventurer.

Many routes were opened up by Zhao Hai and the people.

Many places in the southeast region were found by Zhao Hai and others, so how could Zhang Yu not respect him.

Zhao Hai sat down in a panic, and Zhang Yu asked people to make tea.

After Zhao Hai rested for a while, Zhang Yu asked, "Zhao Hai, I heard that you have something important to report, what is the matter?" ”

Zhao Hai was about to stand up and answer, but Zhang Yu hurriedly asked him to sit down.

After Zhao Hai sat down, he said to Zhang Yu: "Lord, we have found a large number of islands in the southeast region, and on the islands we have found copper and silver mines that the lord urgently needs, and they are extremely well mined. ”

"Okay, great, Zhao Hai, you have made a great contribution." What Zhang Yu lacks most is money, and now the news brought by Zhao Hai is too important.

(End of chapter)