Lord of Ming Dynasty

Military expenditures became the bulk of the entire Jinhua Rebel Army.

At present, I want to develop Chixian City again, as the bridgehead of the comprehensive strategic treasure island in the future.

The funds I need are not a little bit.

But Zhang Qiang was soon relieved, because he seized Zheng Cai's family property, did business with Zheng Chenggong and the Longwu court, and the money he earned from doing business with the Dutch and Portuguese in the early stage was enough to support the family property.

Today, the entire Jinhua Volunteer Army’s territory is taxed at only 150 million taels, and many places are tax-free, and the corvee does not require the service of the common people. Although the Jinhua Volunteer Army government stipulates that the common people are obliged to perform corvee, but until now there are not many common people who use it. Most of them are craftsmen. With them leading the captives to work, the people basically didn't have to work hard.

The most important thing is business tax. Since Zhang Qiang develops industry and commerce, industry has just started, and many of them are subsidies, so there is almost no tax. The tax is only [-] to [-] per month, but business is different. People in Zhejiang are born to do business Because they don't have many resources, and the food production is not enough for them to eat, many families are small handicraftsmen, and there are also many big businessmen.

Although the current territorial policy of the Jinhua Rebel Army does not allow big businessmen to exploit small people and speculators to appear, some formal business activities are still encouraged. Therefore, the business tax is not small at all, basically reaching 300 million taels. It is still increasing, because the territory of the Jinhua Rebel Army has been stable for more than a year, and it has been nearly two years. In troubled times, many people yearn for such a place.

The Jinhua Rebel Army examines the citizens and businessmen who are naturalized strictly. Compared with the United States in the later generations, there are still many people who rush to the territory of the Jinhua Rebel Army with their families. with these people.

From 300 million people a few months ago, when the Jinhua Rebel Army cleared up spies, raided unscrupulous businessmen, and arrested disruptive intellectuals who respected the emperor and old Confucianism, the number of diehards has dropped to less than 200 million, but this still cannot stop the peace-loving common people. Arrival, according to Zhou Porridge's statistics, the territory of the Jinhua Rebel Army has now reached a population of 350 million.

Therefore, this month's business tax has reached 600 million.

The government-style trade hosted by various governments has obtained about 800 million yuan in funds. In addition to the capture of Zheng Cai's confiscation of the property of businessmen and diehards, the Jinhua Rebel Army now has an income of 300 million yuan.

Today, Zhang Qiang and the Zheng family are doing business again. In addition to paying Zheng Chenggong to buy land, ships, artillery, guns, and those old captured guns, artillery, ships, Zhang Qiang seized another 800 million yuan from Zheng Chenggong and his generals. two silver.

There is a lot of income.

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Calculated, including other income, the Jinhua Rebel Army has achieved a monthly income of 200 million yuan.

Compared with the annual treasury income during the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, this is simply against the sky.

Zhu Yujian, the emperor of Longwu, who is still living with his belt, working day and night, worrying about the country, is even more incomparable.

There must be no shortage of places where Zhu Yujian lives now. In order to keep his banner alive, the officials of Nanming are doing their best. There are the best houses and the best food there. If you give it to him, it’s free, the emperor Yes, there is this privilege, but if you want to talk about Zhu Yujian’s pocket and the treasury, there is silver in the pocket, but it is not enough. It is all given by the ministers. The treasury is not a mouse, but a horse race in it, a game of horses The ball game is over, and the air is so empty that you don't even want to go in.

Does such an excellent Fujian managed by such a shrewd Zhu Yujian have no tax revenue?

Yes, there are, but they all went into the pockets of the gentry and officials of the Ming Dynasty, and the little that was left was not put into the treasury at all, and was divided up by officials of various departments, and only a little bit was left to do the affairs of the court. , Most of the expenses in the form of welfare, official salaries, and various items have entered the pockets of officials.

As the governor of the Longwu court, as the Jinhua Rebel Army who wants to carry the great banner of Longwu and hide behind it, he has to pay taxes. Zhang Qiang pays taxes from the local government to the central government on time every month. From the beginning, Longwu Wu Qian subsidized Zhang Qiang with 100 million taels of silver and some supplies to repay him for saving his life. Zhang Qiang also paid 150 taels of silver to Long Wu every month as the price for him not to interfere with each other. With the expansion of the government and the gradual increase in income, Zhang Qiang will pay [-] million yuan for the central government's tax revenue every month.

And most of this will be handed over to Zhu Yujian himself to enrich his wallet, and the remaining 50 will be given to the imperial treasury as the operating expenses of the Longwu court.

As for Zhu Yujian's purse, besides rewarding servants, officials, and spending it himself, he also opened the door to do business, and in the end, not many left behind. However, this has nothing to do with Zhang Qiang.

In short, the Jinhua Rebel Army will spend 150 million yuan here in the Longwu court. In addition, in order to obtain information and support some officials, let them speak for themselves in the court, and spend another 20 taels of silver every month as a special fund , In addition, in order to maintain the garrison expenses in Fujian and Guangzhou, and protect the Longwu court from the Qing army's attack, Zhang Qiang lost the banner of righteousness, and the Jinhua volunteer army spent 30 taels of military expenditure.

Summing up in this way, the money spent on the Longwu court is 200 million taels of silver a month, almost catching up with the current commercial taxation of the Jinhua Rebel Army.

In the territory of the Jinhua Volunteer Army, with the change of troops, the matchlock guns of the troops are not static. They always hold a matchlock gun there, talking but not practicing. As many as [-] troops use damaged and worn matchlocks every month for training. The gun needs a month's output of an arquebus factory to maintain it.

Moreover, matchlock guns are also being continuously improved every day. Today, change to a matchlock that is not easy to extinguish. Once the technology is mature, immediately replace the matchlocks of all matchlock guns in the army. The old matchlocks can be recycled and reused, or when the goods are delivered to Milin The quartermaster department was sold.

This change of clothes requires a lot of money to support, so although the army does not have to change their clothes every month, it costs this sum of money, but once every two or three months, it is not a small fee, small changes, But 20 taels of silver, like changing clothes with a matchlock, cost 25 taels of silver.

Big change, when the matchlock gun technology is improved to 80.00% of the parts have been improved, a collective change is performed, that is, to change the gun, before the matchlock gun version 0, after the improvement is 1 version, 0.2 version, a big change Installed once is version 0.3.

Improvement The weight of the first arquebus gun was a catty lighter, because a better wood was found to make the stock, the wood is light and not easy to be damaged in battle, the power of the trigger has become lighter, and it is easier to fire, adding a new The sight gauge is aimed at the crosshairs, which makes the shooting rate more accurate. Because of the progress of steelmaking technology, the original thick barrel has become thinner, but it is more pressure-resistant. Compared with the cast barrel, the whole gun is more pressure-resistant. Lightened by 30.00%, the tripod gun mount was removed, and the gun became much lighter.

Based on these changes, the arquebus troops underwent a major refit, and the old arquebus guns are being sold one after another. This time, in the transaction with Zheng Chenggong's subordinates, Huang Yan, Liu Guoxuan, and Yu Xing's troops followed Zhang Qiang and the others to fight against the Chixian City. , was deeply shocked by the fierce firepower of the Jinhua Rebel Army's matchlock guns, especially the gorgeous lineup of volleys, and asked Zhang Qiang to sell them matchlock guns and help them train the troops.

So Zhang Qiang took advantage of the situation and sold the arquebus goods and silver that were manufactured by the Jinhua Rebel Army equipment from the Jinhua Rebel Army arsenal in the previous version 1.0 to Zheng Chenggong, a few generals who were close to him, but after all, Zhang Qiang’s Jinhua Rebel Army had a large number of troops , Equipped with a lot of matchlock guns, removing those cold weapon troops, there are 3 troops equipped with matchlock guns.

Thirty thousand matchlock guns, plus the replacement matchlock guns, as well as matchlock gun parts, gunpowder, matchlocks and other things, Zhang Qiang needs to sell [-] matchlock guns.

Zheng Chenggong has a lot of troops, but they still mainly fight with cold weapons. They don’t have many arquebus shooters. Even for Zhang Qiang’s reasons, three or four of his subordinates want to train a batch of arquebus troops. The total number of them is only 6000. People's matchlock troops, but bought [-] pieces, which is a big gap with Zhang Qiang's huge inventory.

For that change of clothes, Zhang Qiang used 300 million taels of silver to produce and 20 taels of silver to transport. He spent half a month in the early stage to conduct intensive training for some outstanding soldiers, and then let them teach the soldiers to be familiar with the clothes after the change of clothes. The performance of the new firearms cost another 1 taels of silver for the training, and it took a month for the refitting. More than 100 officials were directly used for the refitting. They formed a weapon refitting evaluation team, and they completed the task. Afterwards, Zhang Qiang gave each person a bonus of 100 taels of silver, but of course it couldn't be silver, because the Jinhua Rebel Army Territory has its own currency, yuan, which can be converted into silver, which is equivalent to [-] taels of silver.

In this way, Zhang Qiang spent 3205 million taels of silver for a change of clothes.

So far this cost has not been recovered.

In the accounts of the Jinhua Rebel Army, this change was still a loss.

Even if 15 old matchlock guns were sold, the friendship price of each gun ranged from 8 taels of silver to 6 taels of silver, which was only about [-] taels of silver, and even less in terms of profit, only [-] to [-] taels.

Even if all the more than 3 guns are sold, it will still be a loss.

But it’s hard to die, Jinhua Rebels will never stop improving the matchlock gun. When something happened to François, Jinhua Rebels is going to carry out a second change, this time it is version 2.0.

The matchlock gun has improved the matchlock tap and added a fireproof cover for the gunpowder chamber. For the first time, the gun body has become gorgeous and artistic. There are many carved patterns, which make people feel that the matchlock gun of the Jinhua Rebel Army is a work of art.

The bayonet has been improved, and the connection method between the bayonet and the arquebus has been improved. It is more like the modern rifle with a bayonet. Combat is more convenient, and the arquebus can be used directly as a pikeman.

The direct result was that the Jinhua Rebel Army reduced the two-meter-short pikemen among the pikemen who covered the matchlock guns, and eliminated the pikemen.

The bullet is fixed loaded, and the shape of the bullet becomes the shape of a miniature bullet. A cork plug is added at the bottom. After the gunpowder explodes, the expanding gas deforms the cork and the back of the lead bullet, closing the chamber , so that the pressure of the barrel increases and the range is farther.

The gunpowder is also improved into granular gunpowder, which reduces the smoke and increases the power of the gunpowder, making the gunpowder more convenient to carry and not suitable for moisture.

The barrel has also become a gradually tightened barrel. The barrel is no longer the same size from the front to the back. The area of ​​the rear barrel is increased, so that the gunpowder explodes in the barrel, which can produce a larger In the process of pushing the bullet to the muzzle, the bullet shrinks, shrinks again, and is pushed further by the gas.

Now the 2.0 version of the matchlock gun has a combat distance of 100 meters. After the bullet flies 70 to [-] meters, the accuracy is still very high. Because the speed is too fast, the bullet reaches the enemy before it can change its trajectory.

Now even the Dutch rifled guns can only be loaded at a very slow speed, and then kill the enemy at a distance of 80 meters to 100 meters. It sounds like the Dutch rifled guns are more powerful, but they do not have a large area They used matchlock guns that were equivalent to the 0.6 and 7 versions of the Jinhua Rebel Army. Therefore, for a long time, they were unable to compete with the Jinhua Rebel Army in a large-scale, large-scale, line-up shooting battle.

Based on these reasons, if Zhang Qiang changes to the 2.0 version, it will cost more than 300 million yuan, and it is more than that, because the matchlock troops of the Jinhua Rebel Army are expanding, and there will be 4 troops. According to the previous, With a force of 4, at least 4 guns are needed for equipment and replacement, training and maintenance.

According to calculations, the cost of replacing a new matchlock gun will reach 120 taels of silver. Maybe the cost will decrease after gaining experience, but it will not be too much. According to the calculations of Zhou Porridge and Zhu Dayou, at least 115 taels of silver are needed to replace it. Load a new matchlock gun.

The two replacements will consume 670 million taels of silver, but the cost recovered is less than 100 million taels of silver.

Therefore, changing clothes is a big financial expenditure. No wonder the military industry in many countries in later generations is very underdeveloped, because it is better to buy than to make.

Two dress changes and a loss of about 500 million taels of silver.

This reduced Zhang Qiang's fiscal revenue of 200 million taels.

Although the income of the arsenal has increased, the income of the enterprises affiliated to the arsenal has increased, and the life of the ordinary craftsmen who serve the arsenal is better, but the arsenal does not need to pay taxes. It is a government-run enterprise of the Jinhua Rebel Army.

Because the affiliated enterprises are small workshops and small factories, the tax they receive is very meager. The main reason is that Zhang Qiang wanted to let the people recuperate, so he didn't increase the tax.

The tax for the emperor, the cost of the garrison in Fujian, the expenditure of special funds, and the expenses that need to be paid for the two expenditures, so calculated, each monthly expenditure needs an average of 500 million taels of silver.

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