Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 746

A smoothbore gun does not pay more attention to marksmanship than a rifled gun. Firing at the target is the marksmanship of a smoothbore gun.The accuracy of this thing is very touching, expecting it to accurately hit the enemy at a distance of [-] meters, it is better to dream!

Colonel Hanger of the British Army wrote in 1814: "If you want to shoot a person 200 yards away with an ordinary gun [smooth-bore gun], you might as well shoot the moon instead, and the chances of hitting are the same."

Therefore, for Musketeers, it is very important to go through the tempering of the battlefield, but for them, daily hard training is the foundation for strengthening the lower limit of Musketeers' combat power.

Because in the Qi army, only talking about the current era, there is no need for musketeers to fight desperately with bayonets.

If so, only half a month later, this freshly baked No. 5 Musket Battalion of Yuqian Division was sent to Jinzhou.They did a really good job in training on weekdays.Able to successfully fire ten times in one word, that is, in [-] minutes.What else could Emperor Lu say?This operation is already very fast and easy to cut?What the Musketeer Battalion needs to do now is to ensure such speed on the battlefield.

Emperor Lu naturally threw them into the battlefield.

At this time, the financial report for the first half of the year was also handed over to Lu Qian by the cabinet.Not surprisingly, the consumption in the first half of the year was beyond the schedule.

In the first half of the year, the military expenses alone exceeded 2000 million guan, plus millions of shi of grain and millions of cotton cloths—the military salaries in the Liangshan Army era were all in silver, but when Lu Qian’s stall After spreading out, when the food collected each year has far exceeded the expenditure, Lu Qian naturally changed the salaries of officials and soldiers into cash + food + cloth.

Because it saves money.The cost price of grain and cloth in the national tax must be lower than the market price. Using grain and cloth to offset cash, Lu Qian still saved money.

What's more, every time a large amount of grain and cloth is collected, don't you spend it as much as possible and put it in the national treasury to give birth to cubs?

Therefore, the current cost of raising troops for the Qi army is not much higher than the cost of raising soldiers in the Northern Song Dynasty.

However, the number of the Qi army is far less than that of the Song army, at least not as large as the Song army's strength on paper.In the five-army governor's mansion, the former army's governor's mansion is dominated by cavalry, which is naturally less than 5;

The remaining 15 men and horses under the Dudu's Mansion of the three armed forces, plus the imperial army and the garrison troops of the provinces, have a total strength of less than 60.And the Forbidden Army of the Great War, on paper, has a strength of more than a million people.

There are 30 in Hebei, at least 30 in Northwest, and 30 in Gyeonggi. There are more than 10,000 people in Mabusi Sanya, the guard in front of the Tokyo city palace.Counting the garrisons in Huainan, southeast and southwest, these places have a small number of troops, but there are still [-]+ people, right?
It is almost the treatment of two Song soldiers to support a Qi soldier, and the money, food, cloth and silk received by the latter are still not discounted, no one dares to be greedy.In this way, considering the preferential treatment given by the Emperor Lu to the army in terms of acres of land and food taxes, if such a well-raised army cannot fight or fight, there will be ghosts.

Of course, in addition to military expenses, there are many other expenses in the financial expenditure of a dynasty.For example, administrative expenses, officials also have to eat, don't they?

The treatment of Lu Qi officials is not as good as that of Zhao Song. The old Zhao family is "those who are favored by hundreds of officials are afraid that they will not be enough; those who take money from all people will not keep more than enough." But the quality is not enough to make up the quantity. There are many officials in the court.Compared with Zhao Song's redundant officials, Lu Qi Dynasty really had more officials.

In a county, in addition to the Zhengtang official and his deputy, there are police, taxation and judicial systems, and even in the county government, Liufang has been upgraded to a separate government agency, and the head of each department is Zhengerbajing official.

This Lu Qi seems to have more redundant officials than Zhao Song, but the officials of the old Zhao family only take money and do not work. The bureaucratic group has expanded viciously, and the number of personnel far exceeds the normal work needs.However, Lu Qi once had so many official positions.

Moreover, the salaries of officials are linked to local taxes. Emperor Lu did not divide his official positions into upper and lower counties, but he did have divisions in salary.Between the highest and the lowest, there is always a difference of [-] to [-] percent.This can be regarded as a means of spurring it.

But Emperor Lu was not Zhu Yuanzhang either. He only gave officials dozens of taels of silver a year to make ends meet, which was forcing officials to be greedy for money.Lu Qi's treatment of officials cannot be compared to that of Zhao Song, but it is also enough for officials to live a decent life.

In addition, the construction of water conservancy and transportation, as well as education and health care in various places, Lu Huangdi has opened several medical schools, and has also set up public hospitals in some big cities, all of which require money.

After all, the current Emperor Lu is not the King Lu in the water. He has already dominated the world, and only Sichuan, Shu and Guangxi have not recovered. Unavoidable.

Like military expenditures, many items exceeded expectations.

If only comparing the fiscal revenue in the first half of the year, Emperor Lu would die of sorrow.But now he can completely ignore that number.

Not to mention the gold and silver mining on Sado Island, nor the high profits of human trading firms, but only the banking system, which is a gold-absorbing beast with a national brand.Not to mention the deposit and loan matters, it is just gold, silver and banknotes, and the high income is a number that Lu Qian can wave to the sky.

It is specifically stated that if the bank exchanges banknotes of one tael of silver, it will not only earn one tael of silver.

With one tael of silver as a reserve fund, the bank can print notes of three taels of silver.

In the past, it wasn't that no one took paper money to the bank to exchange for gold and silver. As long as the handling fee was paid, it was as much as they wanted.

Those merchants are now more and more trusting in paper money.After all, if they want to conduct a large amount of transactions, it is far less convenient and quicker to directly count the money than to take copper and gold and silver to calculate with others, and it is also safer, isn't it?
Therefore, after consulting the cabinet about the money and food in the treasury, the rich and powerful Emperor Lu made a decision called a great artist, which even made Emperor Tianzuo and A Guda shudder after hearing about it.

Expand the army, he wants to expand the army again!
The Yuqiansi's army will expand from 5 cavalry to [-], adding [-] troops, and setting up ten battalions of Musketeers.

At the same time, the former military governor's mansion, in addition to selecting the vanguard and strong army, set up a white army, and Hua Rong, the right deputy governor of the former military governor's mansion, was the general.

Hua Rong was transferred back from the Yanjing front line to Hu Yanzhuo for his meritorious service in attacking Jinzhou and to strengthen his position as general manager.Shi Wengong changed from right to left, and the position vacated by him was filled by Yelu Mawu.As for the position vacated by Yelu Mawu, Yue Fei came to take over.Just as Emperor Lu sent Luan Junshi and Wang Gui to Yang Zhi, he also sent Yue Fei, Xu Qing, and Yao Zheng to Yanjing.

After Yang Zhi sent troops to capture the area south of Yanshan Mountain, he asked Xuan Zan to lead the cavalry and continue westward to concentrate on conquest of the remnants of the party in the former Xixia Heishan Fuwei Army Division in the northern part of Hetao.That is, the North Fleeing Party led by Brother Li Cha.The progress was also very smooth.

Especially when Yan Yun surrendered, although most of the Khitan survivors chose to be obedient citizens dutifully, there are always some people who are willing to rely on knives to eat.These people looked down on Emperor Tianzuo, whose reputation, like a great artist, had been ruined long ago.

If it is said that the guy fled from Shangjing and Zhongjing to Nanjing, it is understandable.But as soon as the Battle of Nanjing started, he fled non-stop to Datong Mansion in Xijing, and then fled westward into Jiashan.A hat of timidity was firmly put on Emperor Tianzuo's head, so how could he win the support of the Khitan civilians?

Commoners are not nobles. The Khitan nobles with deep Sinicization still have a group of diehard loyalists of Emperor Tianzuo.But civilians forget it.These Khitan people are pure grassland nomadic psychology, abandoning a timid leader, they did it with ease, without any fireworks.

For those Khitan people who have to rely on knives, the first choice is naturally not Zhenghuangqi. Zhenghuangqi is treated very well, but they have no human rights, really no human rights.The same is based on the knife this time, no matter how you look at it, the Qi army is stronger than Zhenghuangqi!However, it is also impossible for the Qi army to recruit all the Khitans who are willing to sacrifice their lives into the army, and the Khitans in desperation can only vote for the Zhenghuang Banner.Let Xuan Zan be a strong soldier for a while!It was even worse that Brother Li Cha was battered and overwhelmed.

Lu Qi's wanton expansion of the army, the news has already spread, and the athletes from all over the country shouted long live.

Lu Qi's army was well paid, and the status of soldiers was high, especially the military merit medal system was implemented.Those veterans who retired with first-class and second-class military medals are really not timid to face the officials.

Along with the large-scale recruitment, there is also a plan to popularize artillery.He planned to establish an elite garrison army in each province as a force directly under the provincial garrison department.As for how to count as an elite force in the garrison, it depends on the artillery.

Now in the provinces under Lu Qi's rule, the strength of the garrison army has generally been fixed.The largest ones, such as the garrison in Guanzhong and Northern Hebei, can have as many as 5 to 2 troops.And the fewest provinces such as the Central Plains, Huainan, and Jiangnan have only [-] or [-] troops.

In the early days, it seemed that the garrison of a state could be as high as ten battalions, or even more, and it will never happen again.Like Qilu in the early days, the garrison of a province has exceeded [-].But now it is the province with the most soldiers and horses, and it is impossible to have more than [-] troops.

Moreover, the large number of garrison troops in Guanzhong and Northern Hebei will be greatly reduced after the border troubles are completely resolved.

This is not purely from a financial point of view, but more of a political need.

Under such circumstances, there should not be too many elite troops directly under the garrison department of each province. 5000 people is a limit, less than 3000 people are enough.

As for the artillery battalion, it is stipulated that the number of artillery in each battalion should not be less than twenty.And it is mainly five catty guns, supplemented by a small number of eight catty guns.

The latter has already been finalized. 14.5 times the diameter, because Lu Qi's current eight-pound gun is smaller than the Western twelve-pound gun, but it is already the closest to the twelve-pound artillery in the Qi army.If you make another nine-pound cannon, it is indeed very twelve-pound, but is it necessary to make a ten-pound cannon?You can only jump to the twelve-pound cannon in one step, but the overall weight of the latter is too heavy.Considering the ease of transportation in China at the moment, the twelve-pound gun is destined to be a ship-mounted gun.

Therefore, in Emperor Lu's eyes, the multiple diameter of the eight-pound gun must be infinitely close to 14.3. The refined iron gun body plus the gun carriage, that is, the gun body, gun carriage, wheels and trailer, and the attached ammunition box, total three One thousand nine hundred catties.

The total weight of the 5000-jin cannon is naturally greater, infinitely close to [-] jin. It is conceivable how big the [-]-jin cannon is.

In his plan, the artillery battalions held by the garrison divisions of each province must have no less than twenty artillery pieces.Mainly five catty guns, supplemented by a small number of eight catty guns.Such a force should not be underestimated even in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, right?

Therefore, although Emperor Lu's family background is not weak, he will spend money.

(End of this chapter)