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"Leave eight blacksmiths and eight carpenters each with the most skillful forging skills to continue making mortars, and the rest of the craftsmen will be transferred to make new guns."
Eight groups of craftsmen can manufacture sixteen mortars a day. Even if they work twenty-six days a month, they can produce more than four hundred mortars. This quantity is enough to meet the needs of each army.
The "right-hand man" led his troops south to offer sacrifices and took away more than 400 gates. Yang Wenyue led his troops north to attack Wang Pu and would also bring the same number.
Excluding these two subordinates, Huang Degong's Yongwei Battalion will also be equipped with at least one regiment. After actual combat verification, there are no problems, and it can be expanded to an artillery brigade.
The organization of the East Palace Guards is also the same. When an artillery brigade fires a salvo, it only has more than 300 mortars, which is really not a lot to cover 30,000 troops.
The inventory that has been urgently worked on these days has either been taken away directly, or it has already been owned. There is not much left in the warehouse. Since the mortar has a simple structure and is easy to manufacture, it can be replenished quickly.
The large-scale production reduction at this time was not because a certain prince despised this crude weapon. On the contrary, mortars were easier to manufacture than howitzers and cannons.
Even when comparing the Hongyi cannon and the Folang machine of the same period, they are both excellent works that simplify complexity. As long as there are blacksmiths and carpenters, such weapons can be made.
Except for the barrel, it has no parts that can be lost. If necessary, even the bracket can be omitted, and a hole can be dug in the ground to launch.
After adopting fixed charges and angle rulers, artillerymen can learn very quickly. As long as they are not stupid, they can master the key points of the process in less than three days.
And because of its extremely light weight, even without mules and horses, a single soldier can carry it over mountains and ridges. As long as a person can pass, a mortar can pass.
If one artillery unit can pass, one artillery regiment can pass.
As long as one artillery regiment is in place, the enemy on the opposite side will suffer disaster.
Because of its simple structure, the cost was extremely low. A certain prince could equip various Ming armies with thousands of mortars with a wave of his hand.
Perhaps it will be difficult to replenish artillery and muskets for Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting, Yang Wenyue and Wang Zaijin, and it will take a long time to wait.
However, there are enough mortars and artillery shells. In the early stage, each unit is equipped with a regiment, and later it can be expanded to a brigade.
Yaoji really wanted to know how powerful the troops could be withstand the salvo fire of an artillery brigade, which was three hundred flying explosive packets~!
As armor factories continue to adjust the weight ratio of powder packages and propellants, the latest range of the Longqing mortar has reached 500 meters.
In other words, even in the face of a frontal charge by the braided cavalry, the Ming army's artillery can load and fire at least twice, and can project no less than 600 explosive packets in one battle.
When the braided cavalry rushes to a position less than fifty meters away from the artillery, it will not be the mortar's turn to shine. This distance is the territory of the grenade.
No matter how close the braided cavalry are to the ground, the Ming artillery can throw grenades directly into their mouths!
In the future, artillery will also need training in shooting and bombing. They cannot just be able to fire artillery, otherwise they will not even have the ability to protect themselves.
Wang Tingchen, who was stationed at Shanhaiguan, was asked to send a group of troops to receive relevant training, and then equipped the department with a regiment of mortars.
This was the meeting gift given to Wang Zaijin when he took office. I wonder what the old Wangtou would think when he saw that the prince gave him more than two hundred "iron buckets"...
"The new helmet can also be mass-produced. We will order 60,000 pieces first, divided into three models: large, medium and small. For the approximate production quantity of each model, I will ask the soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion to measure the head size and compile the statistics. Please let me know!"
Yaoji also told the two of them to make a good inner lining so that the wearer can adjust the height by himself, so that it can adapt to the position of the eyes and facilitate observation of the outside world. Otherwise, even if the helmet is the right size, it will have to be replaced because of the eyes. .
"Your Highness clearly understands everything, and I admire you so much!"
Liu Feng has never seen a member of the royal family who is so proficient in weapons and weapons. He can only attribute it to the fact that he received the true inheritance from Emperor Taizu Gao in the immortal world, otherwise it would not make sense.
As an industry insider with more than 20 years of experience, he secretly admired the prince's talent for detailing everything from conception to drawing to finished product. He was able to peel off the problems and obstacles and resolve them one by one.
Take the so-called "mortar" as an example. All the officials and craftsmen in the armor factory had no idea that there is such a simple mortar in the world, but it is as powerful as the French cannon or even the Hongyi cannon. The prince can do it with just an iron barrel. Arrived, really amazing.
After improvements, in addition to having a slower rate of fire than the Folan machine, the mortar far surpasses the Folan machine in terms of cost, weight, power, manufacturing speed, etc. Compared with other firecrackers, it is more convenient to train mortar gunners. for easy.
"Then let's do it. If you have any difficulties, you can report them and I will solve them quickly."
The craftsmen will help you make the adjustments, the venue will be found for you, the materials will be at your disposal, and the money will be prepared for you. Yao Ji can only wait for good news. If he messes up again within the specified time, then he and you will have to suffer. Taking the blame.
The armor factory is located in the southeast corner of the inner city, close to the Paozi River. It is far away from the imperial city because the sound of hammering when forging weapons and armor will affect the surrounding area.
The location of the factory is also good. There is no need to relocate. If new factories are needed to increase production capacity, the surrounding areas can be bought.
The most thorny problem right now is the inconvenient transportation here. There are only a few small roads leading to the armor factory. Even if a prince comes out of the palace, he has to pass through Yangzhou Hutong to reach his destination.
At this time, East Chang'an Street was very short, and it ended at Chongwenmen Street. Chongwenmen Street is the street north of Chongwenmen. If you don't understand, you can cross the extension line of Chang'an Street and Chongwenmen. You know how short East Chang'an Street is.
A certain prince plans to remove all obstacles between East Chang'an Street and the armor factory. All Min residences will be relocated, and compensation will be based on the same area. An additional 30% of the land price will be paid in cash. This should allow the indigenous people in the area to move. We are satisfied.
I used to have no money, but now I have money. Problems that can be solved with money are no longer problems.
It is estimated that the supreme blame dumper has never experienced the comfortable feeling of having so much money in his pocket...
Because the prince ordered various merchants to pay back the taxes for the past fifty years, after the family members of the tea merchants who organized a petition were all arrested and taken to the East Factory, the remaining merchants were almost scared to death.
The fifteen tea merchants who chose to surrender paid a total of more than 1.3 million taels of silver as their investment certificates. The benefits were obvious. From now on, they had the final say in the tea trading in and around the capital.
In the other three major industries - grain, salt, and iron, the merchants who were engaged in this industry did not dare to continue fighting with a certain prince, because they could not get out of the city, but even if they could get out, their money could not get out.
In front of the city gate, there are special traps to intercept passers-by. The search team consists of four families: Dongchang, Neichang, Jinyiwei, and Yongweiying. The women's luggage is searched by the eunuchs, and the men's luggage is naturally inspected by the animals.
The carriage is the focus of the search. As long as more than 500 taels of silver are found and there are no official procedures, then you have to go to the factory guard to explain.
Some guys are unwilling to give up and want to offer benefits on the spot, but the success rate is extremely low. The division of the search team is very complicated. As long as one family is deliberately merciless, the other three have to pretend to be impartial.
Everyone was so afraid of being reported by their colleagues. Because they had received dozens of taels of silver, and then the prince found out about it, he had himself beheaded in a rage. It would be such an injustice to die.
As long as a box of gold, silver and jewelry is found and the other party can't produce any proof, then the person and the car will be seized and sent directly to the factory guard's prison to be imprisoned, and someone will count their belongings.
A day or two is enough, but if you do it every day, the merchants in the city can't stand it. The factory guards will soon find them based on the past tax payment account books provided by Shuntian Mansion.
"Jingshi Daily" has published on the front page the relevant imperial edict on punishing merchants who evade taxes. If they are caught overdue for payment, they will be sent directly to the factory guard's prison without trial. , the male family members were escorted to Shandong to mine.
After seeing this news, which businessman who evades taxes would not be afraid?
Many people are so anxious that their hair turns white, they can't sleep at night, and they feel haggard.
This was all forced by money. In order to keep the money, everyone even came up with ways to dig holes and bury them.
However, in front of the factory guards who dig deep to see the stolen goods, this clumsy trick cannot get through at all.
Others thought of hiding their wealth with tea merchants who had already paid their taxes, and for the sake of their old friends, they could succeed.
But the tea merchant did a better job. He accepted the money sent by the other party first, then turned around and reported this old friend!
A certain prince felt very happy after hearing the news and asked him to choose 10% of the other party's gold and silver or a full tax exemption for one year as a reward.
This tea merchant with a bad stomach is not stupid. Of course, he chose the latter with great joy, which can save a lot of money.
As for the life and death of that old friend's family, he doesn't care!
These days, if you can't protect yourself, how can you care about others?
Now is not the time for a tax of thirty thousand taels. If you sell tea worth 50,000 taels, you must pay a tax of 10,000 taels.
Since taxes can no longer be evaded, everyone is thinking hard about how to get tax reductions or even full tax exemptions.
Reporting is the easiest way to realize this wish, especially reporting some friends in the business circle that you know.
They didn't care at all whether the whole family was scolded for doing something that seemed almost immoral.
It's enough to save their lives and their money. Whether others die or not has nothing to do with them.
These days, merchants in the grain, salt, iron, cloth, porcelain, sugar, wine and other industries have voluntarily paid back taxes and fees totaling 1.54 million taels.
In addition, the amount of silver obtained from the search of the house has reached 4.22 million taels, which has greatly exceeded the previous item. This shows that there are many profiteers who are still thinking about getting away with it when they are about to die.
The two items add up to 5.76 million taels. Including the contribution of the tea merchants, the total amount of silver provided by the merchants is 8.27 million taels!
Including Luo Yangxing's house, which had just been ransacked, 5,610,000 taels of cash had been recovered from the raids on the mansions of Xungui and Momo.
The Ministry of Revenue has received 13.88 million taels of silver, which made Li Shiwen take a breath of cold air.
This does not include the confiscated jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings. After all these are auctioned, plus the tax revenue at the end of the year, Taicang's annual income of 20 million taels of silver will definitely be no problem.
For a certain prince, this year's collection work can come to an end temporarily. With the addition of Zijin Bonds, the total "financing" between the inner court and the outer court has exceeded the 24 million mark.
After the physical items are cashed out, the previously established safety bottom line of 25 million taels can be easily reached.
Zijin Bond is a small treasury under the personal control of a certain prince. How he spends it is his own business, and the Ministry of Revenue and the court have no right to interfere.
There are still three ATMs outside that have not been withdrawn. Not counting Zijin Bonds, Yaoji is also confident that the annual income of the Ministry of Revenue will reach the level of 25 million taels or even 30 million taels.
Whether we can reach the same amount next year is a matter for next year. Let’s finish this year first.
In the future, the focus of profits and taxes will be on commercial tax, mining tax, sea tax, as well as input from sea salt and gold mines.
Assuming that the total of the three taxes and agricultural taxes can bring in 8 million taels, and the sea salt and gold mines can also have the same income, then the imperial government's fiscal revenue will be stable at around 24 million taels, which can generally meet various expenses. .
The location of the gold mine provided by a certain prince was very accurate. He only needed to organize 500,000 people to mine, and the benefits would be considerable.
Each miner can dig out gold worth six to seven taels of silver in a month. The Ministry of Household Affairs only takes one or two half of it, and the annual income can be as high as nine million taels.
The income from Haiyan is also extremely stable. All we need to do is make all the salt merchants in Lianghuai and Huaihe rivers honest, and then sweep the market with low prices.
The salt merchants from the Huaihe River and Huaihe River were not allowed to revolt, so that Hong Chengchou's army could take advantage of the situation and directly bulldoze the south of the Yangtze River.
At that time, the amount of money withdrawn from Jiangnan ATM will not be as little as five million taels...
If these three big chunks can generate an income of nearly ten million taels, then the court will be able to sit back and relax from now on.
It is safer to use 20 million taels of silver to strengthen the army. Sixty taels per person per year can probably support more than 300,000 troops.
It would be great if they could all be used to deal with Huang Taiji, but it's a pity that it's not realistic.
It would cost 15 million taels of silver to form an army of 300,000 specifically responsible for the Northern Expedition.
Coupled with the supplies of grain, ammunition, weapons and other materials, just from forming the army to setting off, it would take a fiscal year's budget to be burned.
If the income-increasing plan is implemented smoothly, it will take three years to achieve this ambitious goal if no major obstacles are encountered.
Considering the financial affordability, Yaoji can only form and reorganize about 100,000 troops every year.
Strive to restore the Ming army to its strength before the Battle of Sarhu within three years.
After that, the current strategic defense situation can be reversed into a strategic stalemate.
In another three years, when an army of 500,000 people can be assembled, the troops can be divided into three groups, march northward, and launch a full-scale attack on Huangtai Chicken's chicken coop.
As long as you tolerate it properly, the longer it takes, the more beneficial it will be to you. The difficult question is how to survive the past two years...
