Listening to Zhang Han's words, everyone also laughed, Sun Yao pointed to a small flag and said: "The position of the first regiment of the cavalry is now very close to the Chahar department, recently the Bahrain department and the Weng Niute, Asut and other departments have repeatedly harassed the business road, the commander of staff Duo'er commanded to sweep these tribes, and at the same time Zhu Dayong commanded the second regiment of the cavalry to operate in the area of the Balhu tribe, ready to go south to support at any time, the seventh infantry regiment and other regiments are ready to meet the main force of the Chahar department at any time, if it goes well, this autumn can form a battle momentum, Forced Lin Dan Khan to lead his troops to a decisive battle with us. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoIf he doesn't dare, we will continue to advance, settle the Karaqin Department before and after the autumn, and push our sphere of influence outside the mouth of Xuanfu and Jizhen. ”

Xia Xiping said calmly at this time: "Militarily, I don't feel that we have much difficulty, the Chahar Department is known as more than 100,000 Ding, in fact, it is between 70,000 and 90,000 at most, and there are a large number of old and weak men, the combat effectiveness is very weak, and the people who can really drag out and run thousands of miles to fight are at most 40,000 to 60,000 people, these tens of thousands of people are strong herdsmen, dare to fight, among them there are three or four thousand armor, in terms of strength, the Chahar Department can indeed sweep ten or eight Beiyu tribes, and it is worthy of being the strongest of the original 60,000 households...... But that's just it, don't say that their herdsmen are not real cavalry, even if they have 40,000 to 60,000 real cavalry, in terms of our evaluation of the combat effectiveness of the Northern Captives, their combat effectiveness is also surprisingly low, we have deployed nine infantry regiments and three cavalry regiments from Xuanfu to the old Central Capital and even the Eastern Front, with 11,000 cavalry and more than 30,000 infantry, these are all armored soldiers, from morale, training, logistics, armor, weapons, to command, at any level the Northern Captives are far worse than us, Now it seems that there are only two variables: first, whether the Eastern Prisoners will intervene in our dispute with Lin Dan Khan for the Mongol ownership in advance. Second, will we be able to financially afford the military expenses for this year's large-scale war? ”

Zhang Han looked at the young man in front of him with appreciation, this kid has really been trained.

Sun Yao interjected at this time: "This is exactly what the General Staff Department considers, so we emphasize one point when we write to all departments, as long as the Eastern Captives do not come to provoke, we should not take the initiative to provoke the Eastern Captives, attack the Northern Captives, and prevent the Eastern Captives, this is a general purpose, in addition, this year is to strive to oppress Lin Dan Khan, and try to drag out the war until the fifth year of the Apocalypse or even the sixth year of the Apocalypse......

"You can't drag it out." Zhang Han said categorically: "Everything will never be determined by our own will, or there is a saying that how bad you imagine a thing, it will inevitably become so bad." The General Staff Division does not have to restrain the hands and feet of the officers and men in front, and the more ruthless the fight, the better the possible result. ”

Sun Yao bowed and said: "What the lord said is very true, and the subordinates think left. ”

"It doesn't matter." Zhang Han waved his hand and said: "Your thoughts are also right, the military department is indeed very tight in terms of the financial situation this year, or it will be the same tight next year, and the profits of Russia's new trade routes may become better in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, but no one knows what it is." ”

In fact, everyone understands that the main reason for the current financial state is the great expansion of the army in recent years.

The army has expanded from more than 10,000 soldiers to nearly 50,000 soldiers and 100,000 soldiers, and it took an army of more than 100,000 people to eat such a large grassland territory.

Think about the time of Chengzu, the army of 500,000 people is not enough to see on the grassland, the northern captives want to fight, if you don't want to fight, you are barefoot rabbits, no matter how you can't catch them, the labor expedition consumed a lot of manpower and material resources in vain, and in the end what should be done on the grassland.

I still have to learn from the situation of the Han and Tang dynasties, and it takes a lot more effort to plug the tuntian than to fight directly, but it is also able to eat this large piece of land in a solid manner, and Zhang Han's management methods are much more clever than those in the Han and Tang dynasties.

But Gao Ming is Gao Ming, the military forts and piers in various places, a large number of troops, and the people who reclaim the wasteland and build roads and forts, these people want to eat and drink, and they want to pay people, and Yusheng's treatment of the army is so that the families of Datong Town are red-eyed, and the salary of more than 100,000 people is 5 million a year, which is still the role of most of the soldiers who have assumed the role of logistics and construction workers and transportation teams, in fact, it is also a strengthened version of the people's husband, if there are not hundreds of thousands of soldiers, the grassland will have to add more than 100,000 people, and the cost is not small. It is not yet possible to garrison the military fort and act as a reserve force on the battlefield, so in fact, the real daily training of skills and tactics is only more than 40,000 soldiers, so calculated, and Yusheng's annual military salary expenditure of more than 5 million yuan is really amazing, after all, the annual military salary of 140,000 people in Liaozhen is far less than this number.

In the first two months, the financial department was desperately selling cattle and sheep to the Beijing Division, that is, the Beijing Division with a population of more than one million people could eat the sheep on a large scale, turning a group of sheep into cash, and the cattle and sheep sold into cash quickly filled the deficit of the military department, It is those merchants who are ready to go to distant places to do goods saved in advance, and if they can't take out the silver when they get to the place, the reputation of Yusheng will be greatly affected, and the account bureau This kind of business, without reputation, the emperor can't maintain it, and the prestige of Emperor Hongwu is big enough, right? The treasure banknotes issued are not the same as waste paper that wipes the butt and is too hard?

Cattle and sheep are best sold in winter and spring, now the sheep are almost sold, there is still a small amount of cattle left, a large number of cattle are needed to reclaim wasteland on the grassland, the cattle herd must maintain a considerable number, the war horse is not sold, after all, the number of cavalry with Yusheng is not enough, the more the better.

The sheep are sold almost to the people, but fortunately, the income from the copper mine has increased significantly, and it can be regarded as barely making up for it, but with the current situation that the military department is spending more and more money, if there is a large amount of expenses, it will be really bad.

Zhang Han thought about it, but he could only scratch his head and say: "Seeing the footsteps, I really fought with the left wing of the Beiyu, and the cattle and sheep herds were at least ten or two hundred thousand. ”

Everyone looked at each other, and after half a ring, Xia Xiping said: "I think the adults are too rash and irresponsible to speak, but when I think about the Ming Emperor's use of the debt to make up for the shortfall, it seems that we adults still have to be smarter." ”

Everyone couldn't help but laugh.

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Tian Jitang stood on the bank of the river with his hands behind his back, the willow branches and leaves hanging down from the not very tall willow tree could block a very poisonous sun, the weather was gradually getting hotter, the sun was very poisonous, and the sun on people made people feel a burst of heat, his vest was already sweating, but he had no intention of going into the house to enjoy the coolness, but after a while, he untied the water hyacinth on his waist and poured a mouthful of cool boiled water into his throat.

The scorching hot weather makes the distant scenery illusory, as if covered in a layer of whitened light, at this time from the northeast direction of the north and south canals came a group of people, all with a wheelbarrow to push bags of packed lint, bags of lint are pressed very tightly, each bag has a hundred pounds of weight, each trolley is piled with three or four bags, lint, the cart is shirtless strong men, sweat like a small snake from these men flowed down.

These are the soldiers who stayed in Li Zhuang, and the training tasks of the soldiers have been canceled a lot in the past two months, and many of the things that originally hired the master and son to serve were also called to the soldiers, but fortunately, these soldiers did not complain...... The hard work of training is not lighter than doing work, when doing work, the mood is relaxed and happy, there are subject requirements during training, a training syllabus is not completed, the officer's face is very black, everyone has to be careful to beware of being beaten by the stick, on the battlefield, the baggage soldiers also have many battlefield responsibilities such as guarding the fort and serving as support and assistance, and even when nervous, the baggage soldiers have to carry guns and carry guns to rush up, when it comes to training, the baggage soldiers are a hundred times stricter than the battalion soldiers on the nine sides, and they can also fight on the battlefield, and there are many soldiers who have been selected to be soldiers after a while, But no matter what, pushing a cart under the sun is much lighter than going to the battlefield, and the mood feels completely different, it is nothing more than a lot of strength...... In terms of the salary of the soldiers, it is much higher than that of the people, even if they have a little more effort, they should be deserved.

"Just leave it at the door." Tian Jitang pointed to the door of a lobby room and commanded.

The soldiers are all curious, this place is very strange recently, the door is guarded by the battalion soldiers with firearms, there are officers leading the class, and the idle people are not close at all, even the soldiers are the same, every time they transport goods are delivered to the door, and the miscellaneous servants in their own houses run out to move.

In and out are those learned gentlemen from various research institutes, some wear scarves and square cloths, and there are also craftsmen wearing short shirts, and the high-level of the military department comes to see it once every other day, Mr. Sun, Mr. Li, Mr. Kong and others have come to see it, just from these details, this big room must be a great thing!

"Why didn't Tian Heimian go in?" A soldier poured water on his face, and after a period of coolness, he got up and saw that Tian Jitang was still standing at the door and waiting, the sun was so dry, and he didn't enter the house, which was really strange.

The soldiers finished delivering the goods, they were not in a hurry to go back for a while, they stood by the canal and wiped the sweat on their bodies with wet towels, the water level of the north and south canals rose very high at this time, the water was shining, the water color was unusually clear, only the places and tributaries where the ducks were put in the distance, the water color became slightly turbid because the ducks kept drilling up and down.