Chapter 82: Opening the slave gate and wrapping up the new army
"I have also seen the training methods of the Ming army. They are nothing more than strict discipline, orders and prohibitions, and strict formations. There is nothing unusual about this."
Qianlong said.
It's really nothing unusual.
Because since ancient times.
To build a strong army, we need to train and strengthen it. ,
It’s nothing more than these routines.
However, Fukang'an shook his head when he heard this and said: "This is just the surface, and it does not fully explain the reason for Ni Ming's strong combat power."
"What other reasons?"
Fukang'an thought about it for a moment and said: "The first is a generous salary, the second is that everything is fair, and the third is that there is a ladder to heaven."
Qianlong heard this and thought for a moment.
"What is generous pay, what is fair in everything, what is the ladder to heaven?"
Hearing this, Fukangan took a deep breath.
"The so-called generous salary means generous treatment. Zhu Shun returned from Europe. It is said that his Daohua Trading Company is one of the largest trading houses in Europe. He is also a wealthy businessman, so he recruits soldiers and horses very generously! It is said that he has Based on the policy of replacing wages with farmland, when you join the army, you will be given ten acres of farmland, and after ten years of service, you will be given thirty acres of farmland, plus rewards for meritorious service. If you serve as a soldier for ten years, you will get at least forty acres of paddy field!"
Qianlong took a breath of air when he heard this.
"Where did Zhu Ni get so many fields?"
Fukang'an looked at Qianlong, lowered his head and said, "In Guangdong, the main purpose was to confiscate the properties of the Eight Banners' disciples..."
Qianlong's face stiffened.
"The Ming Dynasty gathered troops with generous pay. No wonder they were able to obtain tens of thousands of elite soldiers in a short period of time."
Qianlong said.
"Everything is public, so what kind of sect is it?"
"Your Majesty, if we say that the military pay is generous, the Green Camp soldiers are actually not bad... But as far as I know, most of the Green Camp soldiers receive only a fraction of the military pay on their books..."
"It has become the norm for military attachés at all levels to be greedy for money, eat up their quotas, and accumulate military pay arrears."
Qianlong nodded, but didn't react much.
Because this was the normal state of the Qing Dynasty.
The salaries of local officials in the Qing Dynasty were very small.
If you are not greedy.
I'm afraid I can't even sustain my life.
So the officials from top to bottom of the Qing Dynasty.
Everyone has to be greedy.
The system of the Qing Dynasty was a system in which the Eight Banners aristocrats and Han bureaucrats worked together to squeeze money from tens of millions of Han people.
If not.
How could the Qing Dynasty gain the support of Han scholar-bureaucrats?
The Eight Banners and Han literati shared the interests of the entire country.
Only in this way can the Qing regime be stabilized.
Only then can the Qing Dynasty be as solid as a rock.
Even if there is a civil unrest.
The local Han people can suppress them if they practice bravery.
"Is it possible that Ni Ming didn't have this problem?"
Qianlong asked.
"Military pay at all levels in the Ming Dynasty is extremely generous, and when the pay is paid, an announcement must be posted to inform the entire army. Officers are not responsible for the payment of military pay. Instead, the Logistics Department of the Ming Army remits money to each employee through Daohua Bank. In the account of a sergeant.”
"This will put an end to the problem of eating empty wages and drinking soldiers' blood."
Qianlong League said seriously.
"Then...what about the ladder to heaven?"
Qianlong asked.
He naturally knows what climbing the ladder to heaven is.
In the morning he was a farmhouse man, and in the evening he ascended to the Emperor's Hall.
This is a ladder to heaven.
Fukangan sighed.
"This is the biggest difference between us and Ni Ming. Whether it is the Green Camp or the Eight Banners, most of the state's military officers are hereditary, and they are only promoted internally for their merits. Green Camp can only be Green Camp officers. Since the Green Camp military attachés are hereditary, Soldiers at the bottom have little chance of advancement, so they can only rely on plunder or rewards to boost morale during wars, which is naturally inferior to Ni Ming."
"There is an Army and Navy Academy in the Ming Dynasty. Soldiers who have been rewarded for meritorious service can be recruited as reserve officers. For meritorious service, they will be rewarded with titles and land. The path to promotion is very smooth."
"Of course everyone is striving to be the first and morale is high."
"Looking at the Eight Banners and Green Camp..."
Fukangan did not continue.
But Qianlong understood what he meant.
The military attachés of Green Camp and Eight Banners are mainly hereditary.
There are intermarriages between them, and the relationship is intricate.
Basically monopolized almost all positions.
The people below have to come forward.
It’s harder than climbing to the sky.
Especially here at Green Camp.
Many children of the Eight Banners could not find jobs in the Eight Banners, so they would ask their elders at home to do activities and be assigned to work as officials in the Green Camp.
Thus.
The lower-level soldiers of the Green Camp want to stand out.
The difficulty is even higher.
If you want to win rewards immediately, climb up level by level.
That's basically unless you have incredible luck.
otherwise....
But Qianlong had nothing to do about it.
Because this problem began to appear since the Kangxi period.
When San Francisco was defeated, the Eight Banners could no longer be fought.
At that time, I relied on Green Camp and...a little bit of luck.
Wu Sangui's sudden death turned the situation around.
Otherwise, if Wu Sangui lives a few more years.
I am afraid that the Qing Dynasty will have to retreat to Liaodong to live a hard life at that time.
"Your Majesty, this Zhu Daohua is a formidable enemy that our country has not seen in more than a hundred years. It is impossible to destroy it with the current Green Camp and Eight Banners alone. A new army must be established!"
"New Army? How to establish a new army?"
Qianlong frowned as soon as he heard about the new army being established.
Fukangan told everything he had thought of along the way.
"First we must expand the Eight Banners!"
"Expand the Eight Banners?"
Qianlong frowned even more tightly.
"If there are too many Eight Banners, how can the country afford them?"
Qianlong shook his head repeatedly.
These Eight Banners disciples all have hard-core crops.
Arrived in the Qianlong Dynasty.
The hard-core crops of these Eight Banners disciples have already eaten up a lot of the Qing Dynasty's finances.
To relieve stress.
The Qianlong Dynasty had speculated on the Eight Han Banners several times and reduced the number of the Eight Han Banners.
And in order to delay the population increase within the Eight Banners.
The Qing Dynasty carried out many policies to suppress fertility.
First of all, Manchus and Han people could not intermarry.
Bannermen can only marry bannermen.
Thus.
It is more difficult for many lower-level bannermen to find wives - because now it is not monogamous. The young women within the Eight Banners must first cling to the upper-class nobles, from the emperor to the iron hat kings to many After the selection of beile, beizi, etc., it is the turn of the lower-level bannermen.
Thus.
Many lower-class bannermen cannot get wives, but some even get them.
The age is generally over 20.
It is a policy to delay marriage and delay childbearing.
The second is the Eight Banners garrison policy. The strong men of the Eight Banners have to be mobilized and rotated, leaving little time for them to make small Eight Banners at home.
Some are unlucky enough to be transferred from Beijing to Guangzhou, stationed for a few years and then return home. During this period, the daughter-in-law will definitely not dare to have children.
Otherwise, how can this be explained clearly?
So over a hundred years.
The population of the Eight Banners of Manchuria only increased to over one million.
In the past hundred years or so, the population of the Han people has doubled or tripled.
But even if there are more than one million Manchurian Eight Banners.
The Qing court could hardly afford to support them.
Now we want to expand the Eight Banners.
How could the Qing Dynasty tolerate this?
"We can recruit the heroes from the Green Camp in the north to join the Eight Banners as wrappers, starting from the wrappers."
"Wrapping?"
"Yes! Just set up a wrapping army and recruit strong men from the north to join the Eight Banners to make wrappings. Once the wrappings are done and they have made great achievements, they can be promoted to the Eight Banners."
Fukangan said with his fingers.
"Baoyi, the Eight Banners Armor, the Horse Armor, the assistant leaders, staff generals, and assistant leaders at all levels. This is a ladder to the sky, which will definitely greatly boost the morale of Baoyi in the war."
"This is a solution!"
Qianlong felt that what Fukangan said made sense.
Don't think that the name "coating" is unpleasant.
In fact, in the Qing Dynasty.
You want to do the coating.
They don’t even have the qualifications yet.
Baoyi is a servant of the Eight Banners at all levels.
For example, He Shen was born in Qianlong's family.
Being a slave of the Eight Banners was definitely a dream opportunity for many people in the Qing Dynasty.
Now we need to expand the Eight Banners.
Recruitment of coatings.
The slave door is wide open.
After making a meritorious service, one can step back from being the boss and become the master.
Just think about it.
They are all a little excited.
Qianlong knew that Fukang'an's method could certainly play a role in motivating the enemy to fight.
But the expansion of the Eight Banners and the recruitment of people are not something that can be said easily.
The first thing is...
Where does the money come from?
........
"Expand the Eight Banners and recruit leaders? This is a good idea."
"The Battle of Guangdong showed that the Green Camp was unfit for use. The Eight Banners are the pillars of the country and cannot be used casually to fight against the Ming Dynasty. This is a good way to build a new army by wrapping them up."
Qianlong also thought Fukang'an's idea was very good.
So Qianlong invited He Shen, Sun Shiyi and others to come together to discuss the matter.
What kind of charter is this for building a "coated new army"?
First of all, how will this money come from?
"Your Majesty, I have just calculated this. If we calculate it based on the new 50,000 coated army, this new army of 50,000 will need to be equipped with flintlock muskets and will also need to imitate Ni Ming's explosive bullets. The manufacturing cost of the flintlock muskets will be Fifty taels of silver total, and 50,000 guns are equivalent to 2.5 million taels of silver. Ni Ming's mortar is actually a kind of mortar, and it is easy to prevent. Just thicken the barrel and build a gun carriage. Although it cannot be combined with Ni Ming's mortars can be carried around, but they can be used when pushed on a cart. In this case, the cost of a vehicle-mounted mortar will be 600 taels, and if a thousand guns are needed, it will cost 600 taels. Ten thousand taels of silver."
When He Shen counted it up to this point.
Qianlong was already frowning.
He Shen looked at Qianlong's face and continued to calculate.
"There is also Ni Ming's howitzer. The shells are made of wooden supports and cannula leads. We can also imitate similar cannons, that is... the cannons are much heavier, but they can still be used. Such a cannon The cost is three thousand taels of silver, and building one hundred doors requires three hundred thousand taels of silver."
"Calculating it this way, the 50,000-strong new army will cost 3.4 million taels of silver just for the ordnance."
"Including other expenses, I'm afraid it will start at four million taels of silver."
Four million taels of silver.
This does not take into account the cost of subsequent expansion.
Just 50,000 coated new troops cost four million.
Fifty thousand new troops are obviously not enough. If it is to be expanded to 100,000 or 200,000 in the future.
Wouldn’t it mean that the cost would double and rise?
After the endless coma, Shi Yu suddenly stood up from the bed. If you want to read the latest chapters, please download the Star Reading app and read the latest chapters for free without ads. The website has not updated the latest chapter content, but the Xingxing Reading APP has updated the latest chapter content.
He took a big breath of fresh air, his chest trembling.
Confused, confused, and all kinds of emotions came to my mind.
Where is this?
Afterwards, Shi Yu subconsciously observed his surroundings, and then became even more confused.
A single dormitory?
Even if he was successfully rescued, he should be in the ward now.
And my body...how could I not have any injuries at all?
With doubts, Shi Yu's eyes quickly swept across the room, and finally his eyes rested on a mirror beside the bed.
The mirror showed his current appearance. He was about seventeen or eighteen years old, and he looked very handsome.
But the problem is, this is not him! Download the Star Reading app and read the latest chapters for free without ads.
My previous self was a handsome young man in his twenties who had been working for a while.
And now, no matter how you look, this appearance is that of a high school student...
This change made Shi Yu stunned for a long time.
Don't tell him that the operation was successful...
The body and appearance have changed. This is not a matter of surgery or not, but magic.
He turned into a completely different person!
Could it be...that he traveled through time?
In addition to the mirror placed by the bedside, which was obviously not feng shui-friendly, Shi Yu also found three books next to it.
Shi Yu picked it up and took a look. The title of the book instantly silenced him.
"Essential Animal Breeding Manual for Beginner Breeders"
"Postpartum Care of Pet Pets"
"Evaluation Guide for Interracial Beast-Eared Girls"
Shi Yu:? ? ?
The names of the first two books are pretty normal, but what happened to the last one?
"cough."
Shi Yu looked solemnly and stretched out his hand, but his arm soon stiffened.
Just when he was about to open the third book and see what it was about, his brain suddenly felt a sharp pain, and a large number of memories came flooding back.
Icefield City.
Pet animal breeding base.
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Beastmaster?
