Originally, they had no way to curb the Qing people's delay in time. After hearing Captain Ma's words, golden lights popped up in their eyes one by one.

His Royal Highness kept telling them about the cost of war. Can the cost of war be transferred to them now?

"How much does the army use every day?"

Hu Qiang turned around and said to several clerks.

These people are usually the clearest about the various expenses in the military camp, so if you want a number, you must have an accurate number in your mind. Of course, the price offered must be much higher than this accurate number.

"If you go back to the general, the military camp will use 200,000 kilograms of rice every day..."

"Stop it and don't tell me these messy numbers. Go and calculate an accurate number for me and convert them all into silver. If all the messy things are here, wouldn't they even talk to us?"

Hu Qiang immediately stopped these people. If these things were sent over, they would definitely have other remarks.

For example, it takes time to collect these things, but they have been wasted several days. Even if we quarrel, we must have our own qualities. We should ask them for money directly, but we don’t want other things.

After half an hour of calculation, these people finally calculated, including the military supplies needed for military training.

Although these things were exchanged by Zhu Cilang, Zhu Cilang did not tell the people below. This was also Zhu Cilang's most important secret, but just told the people below how much these things are worth...

"Report to the general, military supplies consume 300,000 taels per day, and food, clothing, housing and transportation consume 120,000 taels per day..."

After hearing this number, everyone present was shocked. No one of them had calculated the accounts normally, but when this number came out, they deeply felt the pressure from the court.

I have to consume 420,000 taels of silver every day...

This is really not a small number. More than 10 million taels of silver will be consumed in a month.

This is only consumed locally. If the transportation along the way is consumed by those transport personnel, this is probably more, just as an astronomical figure.

Of course, if Zhu Cixuan is here, he will tell them that many places do not cost money, such as military consumption, which only consumes one transportation fee, and all the things are exchanged by Zhu Cixuan according to military merits, so there is not much consumption.

If Zhu Cilang is here, this number is another number.

Without a system, the daily consumption is indeed 420,000 taels of silver.

But if this system is available, the daily consumption is only 80,000 taels of silver.

All military supplies, food and drinks were exchanged. Only some things that could not be exchanged and what was consumed on the road were the real consumption. Therefore, Zhu Cilang could support several battlefields, otherwise the Ming Dynasty would have gone bankrupt long ago.

"Tell them that if they want to start negotiations, they need to pay us 1.2 million taels of silver every day. Only when the money is in place will we negotiate with them, otherwise we will start the attack tomorrow dawn and give them two hours. If we cannot receive their reply within two hours, then we will continue to fight with them."

Hu Qiang thought about it for a while, and thought about it again. He thought that the price offered by the Qing people should be OK.

If the Qing people wanted to reach an agreement, one million and two million silver vehicles would be overwhelming every day, and they would soon sign a contract with us.

If these people had other tricks, then there would be nothing to lose for us to pay one million taels of silver a day, and we would like to hope that they would delay for a while.

"The official is obedient, and the official is going to prepare immediately."

Lord Zhao nodded and immediately went down to write a reply.

"I'm sending you ten more crossbows, and the negotiation location will be set in your military camp, so that your brothers will be more energetic. No matter what Lord Zhao's request, you and your brothers will have to cooperate. The military needs to put enough pressure on them so that our Ming Dynasty can stand up straight at the negotiation table."

Hu Qiang turned around and explained to Captain Ma that if the negotiations officially began, we must let them know how powerful we are. If someone is playing tricks on us at the negotiating table, let them taste the power of artillery.

"I have tried it today. The walls of the capital are extremely powerful. When our grenades are thrown on them, they can hardly cause much damage. Isn't this putting much pressure on the other party? Should we pull the field cannons up?"

Commander Ma thought for a while and said that his army was on the front line. Although he received the order from above, Commander Ma still took the courage to experiment.

The crossbows were tied with two grenades, and they did not cause much damage to the city wall. The city walls outside the capital were different from those in the imperial city.

The imperial city mainly reflects majesty and is not very practical.

So when Li Zicheng attacked, a large crack appeared in just a few days.

But the city walls outside the capital are different. This is really to defend against foreign enemies, and the emperors are extremely reinforced, so there is no big reaction when the grenade is thrown on it.

"Why can't you understand what the prince's meaning is? If you blow up the capital city, how can the prince's capital city be restored?"

Seeing Captain Ma’s confused look on his face, Hu Qiang wanted to go up and kick him, but Captain Ma also discovered a good thing, that is, the threat of grenades to the city wall is not very great.

But if we throw grenades on top of the city wall, will it not be very harmful to the soldiers?

"I understand."

Commander Ma understood what was going on at this time. To be honest, in addition to some people from the upper class in the Ming army, some of them still complained. If we pull our field cannons up, can this city wall still persist?

"Come back to me, I haven't finished speaking yet. Let your artillery soldiers practice well and try to hit the shells on the city wall. Don't hit the side of the city wall. It can kill their soldiers without causing too much damage to the city wall..."
Chapter completed!