Because of his great contribution in the defense of the capital, Huang Degong's application for a supplementary troop supply plan was approved by a certain prince despite the high casualties of the Yongwei Battalion.
The infantry sub-battalion will be supplemented with 3,000 soldiers, the chariot sub-battalion will be supplemented with 1,000 soldiers, the cavalry sub-battalion will be supplemented with 2,000 troops, and a second cavalry sub-battalion will be formed with a tentative strength of 4,000.
Except for the various ministries that went south to suppress the bandits, since there is no Beijing camp to share the cake, the Yongwei camp needs priority in supplies such as wages, grain, ordnance, ammunition, and ammunition.
After Huang Degong's troops regain their combat effectiveness, the total force will reach 18,000, becoming the number one trump card in defending the capital and even the Jifu area.
Sun Chuanting's Qin army also suffered casualties in the process of chasing and intercepting Wu Zha. According to preliminary statistics, nearly 300 people were killed and more than 1,000 were injured, of which about 200 were completely lost in combat effectiveness.
The treatment of these wounded soldiers is the same as that of their counterparts in the Yongwei Battalion. They can be resettled nearby in the Jifu area, or they can choose to return to their hometowns to enjoy retirement life.
Excluding those who were injured and those who were left to take care of the sick, the actual attrition of the Qin Army was about two thousand. These people would not be able to return to the army in a short period of time. Sun Chuanting had no way to supplement his fellow Shaanxi people, so he could only endure it for the time being.
After careful consideration, Yaoji agreed to transfer 2,000 men from the garrison in the Guanzhong area to Sun Chuanting before the troops arrived in southeastern Shaanxi, and ordered them to go south to join the Qin army for the attack on the Luo Rucai group.
For security reasons, in the name of commending the annihilation of the rebellion in the Beijing camp, He Renlong's deputy generals Li Guoqi and Gao Jie were promoted to the rank of commander-in-chief, with each receiving a reward of 5,000 taels of silver. Deputy general Hu Dawei was placed under the command of Baoding Governor Yang Wenyue.
Li Guoqi followed Sun Chuanting to the south to suppress the bandits. Gao Jie's troops were repairing their camp outside the city, waiting for Yang Wenyue to lead his troops to the north. After the troops gathered together, they went to Shanqian Datong to attack Wang Pu, who was resisting and disrespectful.
Although the five scumbags in the Beijing camp have not been beaten, this battle has more or less demonstrated the combat effectiveness of the various units of the Qin army. They may not be able to resist the braids, but they should not have much problem in dealing with the rogue bandits.
A certain prince reactivated many Yulin citizens who were idle at home, and ordered them to use Yulin as a base to gather young men from northern Shaanxi and organize and train about 30,000 new troops in the Sixth Brigade.
Each brigade has one battalion each of cavalry, chariots, and infantry, with a total of 3,000 combat soldiers and 2,000 auxiliary soldiers. The salary and benefits are the same as those of the active Qin army.
The three brothers You Shigong, You Shiwei, and You Shilu, and six others including Wang Shiqin, Wang Shiguo, and Hou Shilu were named general soldiers.
Their unit will serve as Sun Chuanting's reserve team. After half a year of training, they can go south to participate in the suppression of bandits.
The western group commanded by Sun Chuanting this time is dominated by the Qin army. Even if there are consecutive battles and victories, the troops will gradually be depleted.
If it cannot be supplemented in time, its offensive will inevitably become exhausted over time.
With the addition of these 30,000 new troops, even if the war goes unfavorably, we can at least fight to the death for a while.
If the troops are not enough, then train another 30,000 to remove all the young men in northern Shaanxi.
There are not even many young and middle-aged men left, so the court no longer has to worry about them returning together.
From training to combat, basic expenses plus silver rewards, the annual consumption of money and food for every 10,000 troops must reach at least four to five million taels.
Thirty thousand horses and horses require 1.5 million taels, which is definitely not a small amount.
A certain prince originally planned to recruit more people at once, but after calculating, he gave up temporarily.
Huang Degong's department needs to replenish military and horse equipment. Although the quantity is not too much, the quality must be excellent, which will cost about 500,000 taels.
Zhou Yuji's East Palace Guards are being formed, and the budget will not be lower than this amount, not counting Sun Yingyuan's armed North Factory.
The injury on this guy's crotch has not worsened for the time being. If there is no danger after a few more days of observation, it will probably take a little more time to heal.
In the future, Beichang under "Sun Banban" will be a serious field force, with a strength of not less than 10,000, and annual expenses of not less than 500,000 taels.
The total cost of these three troops is 1.5 million taels of silver.
In other words, not counting the Liaoxi Group and the troops that went south to suppress the bandits, three million taels of silver were evaporated just in the training of these four troops.
If calculated, the military expenditure easily exceeds 13 million taels. Adding in other dirty troops, the annual expenditure will reach 15 million taels, which is equal to Taicang's annual income last year.
If the annual income this year is similar to last year, it will definitely become difficult to make ends meet. If it really reaches that point, it will not be easy for everyone.
Including the expenditure on relief for various places and the construction of the new capital, the financial budget set by a certain prince for this year is about 25 million taels of silver. No matter what the means, he must do everything possible to achieve this goal.
The income of the Ministry of Household Affairs mainly comes from several channels. First, it is routine taxes and fees. After exempting the three rates and northern taxes, there will probably be about four to five million taels of income.
The second step is to search the properties of the nobles and the moths. According to the statistics of relevant personnel and the estimates of bricklayers, the total amount of gold, silver, jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings confiscated by the factory guards will not be less than four million taels.
The third is the family property of the unscrupulous businessmen who are causing trouble all over the city. A certain prince first dealt with the tea merchants, and then the salt merchants and grain merchants. As long as the tax amount in Shuntian Mansion was less than one hundred taels, they were all arrested and sent to the factory guard to "haoshenghao" ".
Adding up these three items, Yaoji believes that after those luxury goods are cashed out, the household department should be able to earn about 12 million taels, which is still half the amount short of the established goal.
The feudal king's ATM is the private property of a certain prince, and no one else can get involved in it. The remaining share must be borne by the Shanxi Merchant ATM and the Jiangnan Merchant ATM.
It shouldn't be too difficult for the two major ATM groups to each bear six million taels of silver. If there are difficulties, you must bring your whole family to the capital to explain it to a certain prince face to face...
Anyway, the bottom line is 25 million taels, which cannot be lowered at all. The overcharged part will be picked up. If we are optimistic, the income of the household department may climb to 30 million taels.
By this time next year, whether it is gold mines, coal mines, oil fields, or salt fields, they should all be able to produce decent output. If there is more, there is no guarantee. The total income of these four pieces is 10 million taels, which is the bottom line.
If the mining goes well, it may exceed 15 million taels, and it will save the court two bottomless pits of worry and save no less than 4 million taels of disaster relief expenses.
Assuming that the annual income in the south next year is still 5 million taels of silver, and the export of high-tech products can also earn this amount, then the total fiscal revenue will be at least the same as this year, and maybe even higher.
As long as the imperial court is guaranteed to have this level of income every year in the future, it should be able to offset the damage caused by the braids in the north, the rogue bandits in the south, and the natural disasters at the end of the Little Ice River.
This is just a warning line. If you really want to get ashore safely, you must at least reach the 30 million mark.
In terms of current financial capabilities, this is a bit like using a reduced pressure cooker to make liquid ammonia - there is more pot but not enough pressure!
Yaoji hasn't figured out where to get the money to hire foreign aid for the war. It would be best if the other party agrees to exchange high-tech products.
Sulfonamide is an antibacterial drug, and it is also a poison, and the production can only surge during the coldest three to nine days. This year, we may not be able to rely on exporting this stuff to earn foreign exchange.
Once we have no less than one ton of inventory, and then appropriately fool foreign customers, we should be able to make some money next year.
"Your Highness, this is the latest total purchase amount of Zijin Bonds!"
Li Jizhou, the eunuch of the East Palace Bingbi, handed over the booklet respectfully. As the director of the private equity fund, he had been doing his best these days and did not dare to make any omissions.
When Yao Ji opened it, he couldn't help but be a little surprised. The total purchase volume of the inner court had quietly reached 4.25 million taels. Well-informed officials also bought nearly 800,000 taels. In order to save the lives of the whole family, the merchants even more They rushed to buy more than 2.9 million taels, bringing the total to nearly 8 million taels.
Outsiders don't know it, but everyone in the inner court is already going crazy, because Yang Jinchao has already revealed that the prince has two parties in the three gold mines in Shaanxi, and the prince owns the six gold mines in Shandong. Ten percent.
With just nine gold mines, would you still question His Highness the Crown Prince's ability to repay the loan?
The ten-year Zijin Bond has an interest rate of 25%, the only one in the entire Ming Dynasty!
And after it expires, the prince must still be gold!
Judging from the current mutual exchange rates of gold, silver and copper, gold will become more and more valuable in the future, while silver will further depreciate.
so……
Anyone who works in the inner court, as long as they are not fools, will spend all their money buying purple bonds.
Guys like Yang Jinchao who knew the inside story had already sold off their property and bought all the bonds, with less than a thousand taels of silver to spend.
Although this kind of means burning the boat, you can show your loyalty to the prince, and when you get old and come out of the palace, you can get a huge whitewashed pension, plus a lot of interest.
Yang Jinchao calculated that as long as the prince could fulfill his promise, he would receive a convertible bond of no less than 50,000 taels of silver in his old age.
With this money, not to mention returning to his hometown, he can live a very comfortable life in the capital, living in a big house and surrounded by a lot of servants who are responsible for serving him.
Not only him, this is the ultimate dream of all the chamberlains. With a huge sum of money, he can escape from the undercurrent of the inner court and live a luxurious life covered with gold and silver. It will not be in vain to spend most of his life groveling and compromising.
Except for the middle and high-level chamberlains, small purchases of less than one hundred taels were temporarily stopped. This made some chamberlains and palace maids who were hesitant regret it and asked people to find ways to buy more.
This is also what a certain prince meant. Word-of-mouth marketing has become an intensifying trend, because many low-level chambermaids and maids have begun to spread the news to their family members outside, asking them to sell their homes and properties to purchase purple bonds. They have begun to sacrifice the good for the last.
Yaoji didn't mind that eunuchs of Yang Jinchao's level were bankrupting their fortunes like this. At least they could afford it, so the people below should save their energy and not be guilty of spending their ancestors' wealth just for 25% interest.
I can even repay the principal with interest, and I will not delay or even refuse to repay the money at all, but I will not let the people below buy bonds at will regardless of the cost when their minds are hot.
Just invest all your spare money in it. Don't use the money from selling farmland or family members' medical treatment to buy this thing. Otherwise, I won't be able to get rid of this big pot even if I want to...
Ten years may be said to be long or short!
I am only ten years old, of course I can endure it!
I don’t know if your family can survive it...
"For those merchants, they can only buy purple bonds after paying the evaded taxes in full first. Otherwise, even if they collect their money, they will have to return all their money. Otherwise, I will become their shield. This little clever guy is playing tricks. Yes, hum~!”
Yao Ji knew very well the thoughts of profiteers. His prospective father-in-law had planned to play this way at the beginning, but he fell into it before he could.
They thought they didn't have to pay back taxes after buying the Zijin Bonds. Aren't they using themselves as if they had two hundred and fifty?
A bunch of things that need to be cleaned up. If the factory guards don't whip them for two days, they will come over early on the third day and ask for malaria!
"My slave has reminded the merchants that they cannot purchase Zijin Bonds without a tax payment certificate issued by Shuntian Mansion. All the merchants on the list have issued tax payment certificates, so I dare to let them buy Zijin Bonds!"
Faced with the buyer's pleading, Li Jizhou was also helpless. If a large amount of money could not be accounted for, he could not show his ability in this area.
However, the prince had something to say first, and the back door could not be opened without authorization. Otherwise, apart from the merchants with ulterior motives, he would be the first to suffer misfortune.
The prince hates the arbitrariness of his ministers the most, and takes the prince's words as a matter of course. As long as Li Jizhou is still clear-headed, he will never gamble his own life with his own head.
"That's good. I don't want to hear that someone is using bonds as a guarantee to continue to evade taxes!"
That's it for Zijin Bonds. Yaoji doesn't want others to take advantage of him, and his repayment pressure is no longer small.
In the end, it should be close to 10 million taels. Combining the two products with five-year and ten-year terms, it means that the repayment with principal and interest will be about 12 million taels.
Yaoji originally planned to use the money to build giant companies such as Imperial Petroleum, Xianji Chemicals, Daming Communications, and Guanghui Pharmaceuticals.
But now that the imperial court has no money, he has to invest millions of taels of silver first, and the imperial court cannot repay the money, which is a trap for himself.
Take the wired telegraph line starting from the capital and passing through Tianjin to Shanhaiguan as an example. The construction cost is 200 taels of silver per mile, and 200,000 taels for 1,000 miles. The later operating costs are calculated separately.
Since this line was used purely for military purposes in the early days, there was no profit return at all, so it was a waste of money.
But judging from the current border affairs situation, in order to communicate with Wang Zaijin in time, we have to get started immediately.
From the initial research and development of equipment, laying lines, training personnel, and many later expenses, the total will not be less than three hundred thousand taels of silver.
For the time being, we can only hope that the income from newspapers, noodle restaurants, rickshaws, and Kailuan Coal Mine can cover the investment cost of this line.
If there are rich VVVIP customers overseas who are willing to pay a high price, a certain prince can also consider exporting the finished product immediately to earn foreign exchange.
France and Osman are relatively wealthy and should be the main potential users. If you find someone to fool them, you may get unexpected surprises.
It would be a good strategy to sell airship technology to Spain and the Shinra, sell telegraphs to France and the Ottomans, and then let the two sides fight each other.
If it can be successfully sold, that would be great~!
