The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 208 Make Money

The various departments reported some data one after another, small supplies, chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep raised, everyone is not interested in remembering, the most concerned thing is the military industry they value.

At present, there are ten machine tools in Pig Island, and they were available in May, but no new ones have been made since there is no clam wood.

Ten machine tools can produce [-] barrels per month.

Ding Yi has 6000 troops, half of them are musketeers, and they have all been assembled. There are still more than 1000 rods in the Craftsmanship Bureau, and they are continuously accumulating.

This ensures that they can fire happily in training and on the battlefield, with new guns to replace.

After Ding Yi thought for a while, he immediately told the Craftsmanship Bureau that it would stop when the inventory reached [-] rods, and cooperate with the artillery to make guns.

He wants to develop flintlock guns in the future. He estimates that by the end of this year, he will be able to save [-] soldiers. Next year, the number of violent soldiers will reach [-]. Five thousand blunderbusses will still be enough.

If there is no accident in the next year, there should be a flintlock gun that can be replaced. Even if it cannot be replaced, it will be too late to do it again. There will definitely be more machine tools next year.

Li Zhongyi wrote it down immediately and said it was okay.

There is no problem with the accumulation of granular gunpowder and charcoal. In Li Zhongyi's words, 10 people can't finish the savings of gunpowder in a year. Of course, he refers to the case of using guns.

Ding Yi asked to continue to stockpile. In the future, the world will be dominated by guns. In the future, the navy will be full of guns, and a salvo will be fired. I don't know how much gunpowder will be needed.

Li Zhongyi and the others immediately turned serious.

These people are happy to be satisfied with the status quo. In the eyes of most of them, Ding Yi's stockpile of supplies has far exceeded the sum of several generals of the Ming Dynasty.

Some things, even the court of the Ming Dynasty couldn't come up with so much at once.

Dan Ding Yi, seems to never feel enough.

He dug countless underground warehouses in Lushun, and built countless cave warehouses in places with mountains, and he was working all the time.

Whenever money was available, he bought supplies and hoarded them immediately.

Now there are no problems with other weapons in the Craftsmanship Bureau, and the spear and shield soldiers are equipped with knives.

The only thing is that the production of iron armor is a little slow. Right now, the entire army only has about a thousand pairs of iron armor, and everyone else wears cotton armor first.

The current output is 120 pairs per month, mainly because there are few craftsmen and apprentices.

But Li Zhongyi said that at present, many apprentices have learned almost the same, and the Bureau of Craftsmanship has selected more than 300 apprentices from the common people.

It is estimated that after January next year, the monthly production capacity will exceed [-].

Ding Yi nodded. There are too few excellent craftsmen and skilled craftsmen in this era. He spends less than half of the year collecting money, which is still not enough. It seems that it will speed up next year.

Think about Houjin in Shenyang, the artisan shops stretching for more than ten miles, there are tens of thousands of craftsmen there, which supports the consumption of more than [-] soldiers and horses of Houjin, ensuring that everyone is wearing armor.

Ding Yi turned his head and said to Ruan Siqing and Ruan Wenyan: "Next year, we will look for craftsmen everywhere. Our craftsmen in Lushun will strive to break the thousand mark next year."

"No." The two nodded quickly.

At this time, Li Zhongyi also mentioned that some soldiers pointed out that our shields are too heavy, and the backs are fine. When fighting, the handles will be heavy after a long time. He built the front shield and the rear shield, each lowered two Jin, there is no problem with protecting bows and arrows.

Ding Yi thought for a while, and immediately agreed.

His shield is relatively large, and it is also used to defend against the golden bow and arrow, and the protective surface has been enlarged, so it is relatively heavy.

This problem was also considered in the previous design, so all shields can be placed on the ground.

When fighting, only the first row squatted on the ground with shields, and the second row behind had to fight hand-to-hand. Only when advancing or defending against arrows, did the shields be raised.

During the training of spear and shield soldiers, they have to lift their shields for more than an hour every day to practice their arm strength and endurance.

But everyone still feels heavy.

Taking into account the power of the bow and arrow, the Craftsmanship Bureau thought it could weaken two catties.

The Craftsmanship Bureau finally reported that according to the current manpower and the speed of smelting copper materials, it can produce [-] bronze [-]-pound field guns per month.

Four [-]-pound iron guns.

Ding Yi heard that it was a little short, but there was no way around it. The Craftsmanship Bureau had limited manpower, making blunderbusses, armour, knives and guns, bows and arrows, all of which needed people.

Li Zhongyi said, stick to next year, next year there will be more copper materials, more manpower, and the speed can be improved.

Ding Yi nodded, expressing his understanding.

Xilaojing interrupted at this time, the training of gunners will take time, now there are too many cannons, and no one knows how to use them, so you can take your time.

Ding Yi deeply agrees.

Right now, he is still taking defense as his defense and aiming at hunting. He doesn't want to take the initiative to attack, and he doesn't need too many cannons.

After all the reports, Ruan Wenlong began to report the expenses. Everyone was most interested at this time. They wanted to see how many people in Lushun have reached after more than a year of development.

Because the big projects such as the bastion have been completed in Lushun, and the bunkers are now being built for free, so the expenditure has been reduced a lot.

Only counting the monthly food and rice, the salaries of the people and the troops, and the wages of the family members, and miscellaneous expenses such as gunpowder destroyed during training, there are 4 people in Lushun, and the monthly expenditure is 5000 taels.

Everyone yelled in unison again, didn't it seem as much as last time?
Ruan Wenlong smiled and said: "The bulk is Master Ding's purchase, and it is not counted. For example, the goods that Master Ding brought back from Japan this time are worth several 10 taels. Before they are sold, they are all expenses. 10,000+ are bought and sold to make money.”

"Hiss..." Everyone gasped again when they heard it.

So the current monthly fixed expenses are about 5000 taels.

At least 18 taels of silver a year.

When everyone heard this, they looked at Ding Yi with more solemn and respectful expressions.

Up and down the Ming Dynasty, there is also the general soldier who can feed 4 horses like Ding Yi, and has enough soldiers and food.

Think about it more than a year ago, they lived like a year in Xu Dabao, terrified all day long, many people barely ate enough to eat every day, and they were not even clothed. Under the leadership, they have more than 1 expenses per month.

Master Ding is like a fairy.

Not only is he good at fighting, but he is even better at making money.

The following is even more good news, that is, after more than a year of losing money, Lushun finally started to make money.

Last month, Lushun’s Yantian, plus service centers, bathhouses, theaters, restaurants, etc., plus the hypermarkets in Dengzhou, and short-distance transactions with Pidao, Dengzhou and other places, Lushun earned 9000 taels, earning [-] taels.

With the arrival of summer, salt drying is faster and more, and people's livelihood business such as Dengzhou store and service center is getting better and better, Lushun finally started to make money in the first month.

Everyone was very happy to hear that, and they must not be able to make ends meet.

In fact, Ruan Wenlong did not mention another income, which is the salt profit from the Dengzhou Inspection Department, which is about 1 to [-] per month.

This is Ding Yi's private money, and now it is mainly used for the external development of the Intelligence Department and Lu Chao.

Right now, Ding Yi still has 30 taels of silver in his hand, and he will continue to use it in the next step. After all, the silver in his hand will be used up soon. Only making money for profit is his favorite thing to do.

Everyone was very happy to hear that, Mr. Ding's money seems to be inexhaustible, and there are always several 10 taels to spend.

After everyone finished speaking, Ding Yi began to summarize with a solemn face, and the people in the conference room subconsciously did not dare to smile, and everyone sat upright.

"Over the past year or so, our development in Lushun has been smooth and we have made some progress."

"However, everyone must not be proud, let alone take it lightly and slack off."

"Because we can't afford to lose."

Everyone's faces became more serious.

"The Hou Jin army can lose ten times, and return to Shengjing to make a comeback."

"If we are careful, if we are careless, if we are defeated and broken, and let Hou Jin rush in, everything we have worked hard here will be over."

"At that time, everything will be in vain."

"Even if we survived and ran to the sea, what's the point? Daming is so big, how can we make a comeback?"

Everyone looked solemn and nodded.

"You are in the fort, Master Ding, as long as I, Xu Wei, am alive, I will never let any Tartar come over from the South Pass." Xu Wei said sharply.

"We are craftsmen, and we will work hard to manufacture more weapons to strengthen our Lushun army." Li Zhongyi also hurriedly expressed his anger.

The Xilaojing said: "I want more people who can read and write, general."

Song Zhe nodded immediately: "Don't worry, the Department of Education will definitely speed up training and education."

Many people wanted to express their opinions, but Ding Yi waved his hand to interrupt.

He doesn't need words to express his position, as long as everyone works hard and does their job well.

Then he announced that he would reorganize and adjust again to make the structure more perfect.

The soldiers and horses of most divisions and six battalions basically did not move.

1000 people were selected from the auxiliary soldiers and became a guard battalion, with three divisions under it, with Qu Haibo, the former training division, as the general manager.

Qu Haibo was also one of the hundred families who came out of Xu Dabao. Ding Yi personally trained the first batch. Because of his good queue, he later established a training department with Gao Weimin and Yang Xiaochuan to train new recruits.

At present, there are many excellent squad leaders in the training department. Ding Yi transferred him out to set up a guard battalion, with Qian Zong as the guard.

Of course, the court does not approve of this defense, Ding Yi's own battalion will do.

The guard battalion is mainly responsible for the protection of the warehouses and docks in Lushun, including the guards of the original craftsman bureau.

There are also guards in the residences of Ding Yi and the officers, and one of them has to guard the prisoners.

The Logistics Department and Craftsmanship Bureau have met with Ding Yi, and there are more and more warehouses in Lushun, which need soldiers and horses to guard them.

About 300 people are needed.

Ding Yi set up a special battalion, and the three divisions took turns guarding the warehouse.

Under normal circumstances, one division guards the warehouse dock, one division trains, the other monitors prisoners, and the third division rotates to ensure that they all have time for training.

Among them, the Finance Department and the Publicity Department did not move.

The original medical department was divided into two, divided into the medical department and the education department. Zhao Li was still mainly responsible for the training of doctors and nurses and the construction and maintenance of Lushun Medical Center.

Song Zhe is the person in charge of the Education Department, mainly responsible for the teaching and literacy of the whole army and the construction of schools.

Ding Yi requested that by this time next year, there will be more than two medical centers in Lushun, one for military use and one for civilian use.

There must be three colleges in Lushun, so that all school-age children in Lushun can go to school, and they can maintain continuous learning and training for officers and non-commissioned officers.

When everyone heard it, they felt that they would spend more money next year.

The Naval Secretary Sirao Jingna was also divided into two.

Ding Yi currently has 27 ships, including eight warships and nineteen merchant ships.

The warship will return to Xilaojing and Seinfeld in the future. The two will comprehensively train the [-] navy and [-] artillery, and often go to sea for drills.

They seldom went to sea before, because they didn't have any guns, and they would only be beaten passively if they encountered problems when they went to sea.

Now that they have some guns, they can go out to sea, play guns, and improve the quality of the navy and artillery.

Ding Yi's plan is to wait for the first batch of qualified artillerymen to come out, and then assign an artillery division to Sein Fei alone.

Seinfeld has also started to study calligraphy seriously recently. This guy is naturally cruel and likes to lead artillery.

The merchant ships are all owned by Ruan Siqing and Ruan Wenyan, and the trade and transportation department was established. The main purpose is to do business in the near sea and to do business with the ocean.

Now they only run in Dengzhou Phi Island, Jiangnan and other places. Naturally, they don't need naval escort. They also have guns on board to deal with it.

When the meeting was about to end, Zhong Zhennu from the Construction Department raised a matter.

It turned out that two incidents happened recently. A Liao citizen who had just joined the auxiliary army molested a woman who passed by while taking a break from training.

Another soldier, who fell in love with a woman from the Liao people, was caught by Xiao Qi and had a private meeting outside the camp.

Both of them are closed for the time being, and they will be dealt with when Ding Yi comes back.

Originally, the soldiers were trained in the barracks, and those with family members were sent home in turn. Moreover, among the [-] soldiers in Lushun, less than one-tenth of them had family members, and most of them were single.

The barracks and family bunkers and barracks are also thousands of meters away, and they are closed management.

The place where the auxiliary soldiers are trained is relatively close to the Liao people who store land, such as the South Pass, where there are people stocking land and training.

So men and women naturally meet together.

Ding Yi was silent for a while, and then said, the molesting Liao people, after asking clearly, was really rude, so he went out of Lushun and informed the whole army.

If the soldier and the woman are in love, let them go.

At the same time, Ding Yi also thought of a problem. There are many people in Lushun now, and there are many single women. The sergeants train every day, so they will have ideas.

Besides, he is going to get married soon, and if he gets married by himself, he can't let his brothers stay single?

"Blind date, we take turns to arrange blind dates, to have friendship, and any woman who is willing will be arranged." Ding Yi said with a smile: "Let the women choose the man."

Zhao Dashan's mouth suddenly opened into a grin.

Zhang Jing looked at him strangely, thinking he was insane.

At present, Ding Yi asked the Propaganda Department to come up with a plan, how to choose, how to choose, give priority to officers, and then go down one level.

Don't force it, do it voluntarily, let the woman choose the man, if you agree, you can talk first, and if you want, you can get married first.

After all, in this era, there is very little free love, and many women want to find a man.

Many men also just want to find a wife to sleep with.

At the end of the meeting, Ding Yi found out that when he went to Japan, Zhang Jing's mother-in-law actually gave birth to a son.

Damn it, Ding Yi scolded with a smile: "I let you take the lead."

"Hahaha, my lord, you want to make up for the full moon wine."

"necessary."

Many people around looked at Ding Yi eagerly.

Everyone must want to watch Ding Yi give birth to a fat son.

At the end of July, several major events happened in Daming.

The first was Lushun Friendship. Within five days, more than 300 pairs were successful. This made Ding Yi and the others overjoyed and decided to do it again next month.

Then Ding Yi got married. Dongjiang hadn't held a happy event for so many years. Many Dongjiang generals attended, and some didn't.

Emperor Chongzhen also sent someone to send a gift of 1000 taels, including some rewards from the palace, which is considered a rare handwriting, and tried his best to win him over.

Then before August, Chongzhen decided to kill Yuan Chonghuan.

Historically, Chongzhen decided to kill Yuan Chonghuan only in August.

But after confirming that Zu Dashou didn't dare to have any objections and Ding Yi had no objections, he killed Yuan in July.

The news spread to Pidao and Lushun, Xu Fuzuo went to Lushun specially, and drank with Ding Yi all night.

(End of this chapter)