The first thousand and fourteenth chapters are all piles of silver
Before, Wang Junlin felt that he had too much money to spend. Except for the money spent by the intelligence organization led by Shen Guoer, he didn't have any big expenses. But every day, he owned perfume, patron wine, Xiaoyu Theater, Lihua Fragrant Tea, Northwest Weapons town, etc., are all businesses that earn tens of thousands of dollars a day, and now this money is just used to raise soldiers.
To maintain an army of 15,000 people, which is almost entirely self-financed, pays, soldiers, and even the garrison, the requirements for logistics and supplies are extremely demanding, not to mention that the county army has a cavalry camp, an infantry camp, and a water camp. The level of complexity increases geometrically.
According to the calculations Wang Junlin asked Nie Xiaoyu to make a few years ago, the property under his name can support up to 30,000 troops. This is certainly enough money for now, but Wang Junlin knows very well that in the future, the situation in the troubled times of the Sui Dynasty will be , 30,000 troops are far from enough.
Of course, when the world falls apart, Fanyang County can naturally handle its own salt tax, commercial tax, and grain tax. It will be no problem to support another 40 to 50,000 people with the power of one county. What's more, the Lu family's treasury can be opened at any time. slaughter.
Wang Junlin put Du Ruhui in charge of the civil affairs of Fanyang County, while Liu Ziming took charge of the logistics and supplies of all the armies. Although these two people were doing things outside the army, they were actually the busiest.
He shared most of the affairs for Wang Junlin, otherwise all these things would pile up on Wang Junlin's desk and stretch his head.
Relatively speaking, although running the army is the top priority, it is an easy task. With the help of Nie Xiaoyu and Shan Xiongxin, in the past few months, Lu Han, Guan Xiaotong, Yuchi Jingde, and Lu Shijun have been recruited. Under his command, these people are all generals or talented people who can be made. With him to guide them, they can stand alone. Of course, the premise is that he always has enough money.
At the moment, Wang Junlin still has a very important thing to do. He wants to form a formal merchant fleet, open up the maritime trade routes to Japan, Goguryeo, and Silla in the north, and directly reach Jiangnan, Guangnan, and even Ryukyu in the Sui Dynasty in the south. Waiting for the Southeast Asian countries.
Wang Junlin knows better than anyone else that after maritime trade forms a safe route, the profits will be more than a hundred times greater. Once the maritime business is done, he will not have to worry about money for a long time.
And this requires
It requires a large number of sea-going ships, and for such a long route, ordinary civilian ships are not enough. He needs shipyards to build large merchant ships of more than three thousand stone.
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Before leaving the salt field, Wang Junlin called Xu Xiaohu, Qian Zhengkuo and Lian Zhongtao over, discussed for a while, and finally concluded: "The salt field will build farms, accumulate fertile fields, purchase livestock power, build water conservancy facilities, and roads. All constructions require long-term continuous investment. In the next period of time, in addition to increasing investment and reclaiming wasteland for farming in the form of collective farms, the most important thing is to build various workshops."
"Those craftsmen trained by Xiaoyu have learned how to use soil to bake bricks. You must seize the time and vigorously promote it. I hope it will be quite large within three months. This is not only the next step of building cities and military villages in the salt field, but also The most important thing for building houses is to be sold to everyone in the eight counties of the county, and even the entire Sui Dynasty."
“This will be a huge financial resource in the plan. It will at least support the army, logistics and people’s livelihood in the salt field. In addition to collecting soil to bake bricks, it will also include iron smelting and iron work, ordnance manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and large-scale pig raising. , shipbuilding, etc. are all basic factory operations that currently require urgent large-scale investment. Some of these have already started, and some have not yet started. The plans and methods have been given to you, and the necessary personnel Xiaoyu has also specially trained for you. What is next? What we are doing is to implement and expand the scale. You can report how much money is needed to Liu Ziming, and I will approve it for you."
"Especially for shipbuilding, the navy under my command must ensure strong surface combat capabilities in the next step, and the scale of the shipyard must be expanded."
Wang Junlin finished speaking in one breath, and the three of them each took a small notebook and wrote it down carefully, and then said yes again and again.
At this time, Lian Zhongtao thought for a moment and said: "Sir, what I just mentioned requires iron tools, armor, arrows, combat tools, warships, and farming in many aspects. The consumption of iron products is huge.
, Nowadays we do not lack the skills and craftsmen for iron-making, but what we lack is iron materials. I have specially calculated that according to your plan, we will need one million kilograms of raw wrought iron and steel filling every year."
Wang Junlin nodded and asked Liu Ziming
He has also made a rough estimate that to maintain the level of military equipment under his personal command, at least 500,000 kilograms of raw, wrought iron and steel will be needed every year, and the level of equipment is almost the same as the amount of iron used by the army.
Proportional.
The ordnance required by Wang Junlin's several armies must be raised by himself. Workshops such as iron smelting, iron work, and various ordnance repairs must also spend large sums of money for construction; it is even necessary to build iron sand, charcoal, etc. from now on.
Storage of supplies to prevent the supply of supplies from being cut off when trouble comes.
Wang Junlin knows better than anyone else that wars often require food and grass and silver. A strong army needs excellent generals and generals with a brave spirit. However, we must also see that any strong army
Almost all were piled up with silver.
As the ancients said, "You don't value more soldiers, you value elites." It's not that we don't want more elite soldiers to be better, but that a regime based on farming civilization simply cannot afford to support a large team of elite soldiers. In history, there have often been cases where fewer troops win against more troops.
Classic battle examples, tactics and strategies are on the one hand, but in fact there is a deeper reason. When there are more troops, it is difficult to ensure that there are no problems with the logistics supply of the troops. This can easily lead to a decline in the morale of the army and shake the morale of the army, while morale and
Military spirit is contagious.
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Nie Xiaoyu has solved the problem of technology and craftsmen. Qian Zhengkuo, Lian Zhongtao, Xu Xiaohu and others are planning these things these days. The manpower of the salt farm is sufficient for the time being, but to build these factories on a large scale, it will be difficult in the early stage.
Four hundred thousand taels of silver are needed to make preparations. To be honest, if Yang Guang is asked to take out so much money at once at this time, Yang Guang can't help but frown, and the household department who implements it will be very embarrassed to collect enough, but Wang Junlin
But he has the confidence.
Of course, even Wang Junlin would be exhausted if he took out 400,000 taels of silver at once. If this kind of confidence comes back a few times, it will be drained if it cannot be replenished.
In addition, there are many places where money needs to be spent. For example, according to the plan, Wang Junlin will build a coastal city in the salt field within three years, but the scale will be smaller, but the construction cost will naturally be astonishingly high.