Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 433 The New Army's Combat Strength Guarantees Tens of Millions of Military Expenditures!
On the other side, Hao Guangming is also helping Auntie Zhu to analyze the army's problems and related data.

"The improvement of the Ming's new army's combat effectiveness, I think, is mainly divided into three aspects.

The first is the improvement of the quality of equipment—in today’s new army, taking the border guards as an example, there are as few as one general (thousands) of musketeers equipped with bright-style flintlocks in a town of border guards, and as many as one battalion.

There are also ten to twenty bright cannons, and more than fifty tiger crouching cannons.

In addition, as long as the border guards have been formed for more than a month, the armor rate is basically [-]%.

This armor is not ordinary leather armor, nor is it the inferior cloth face armor of the past, at least it is the standard cloth face armor or high-quality cloth face armor.

The cold weapons such as knives, guns and arrows used are made of fine iron even if they are not made of steel.On the whole, it is much stronger than the previous Daming Frontier Army. "

Hao Guangming talked eloquently.

"Secondly, the generals and soldiers were all selected from the former Guanjun, Shunjun, Daxijun and other armies.

The last time was also the soldiers who dared to fight in the past, and in the border guards, they were all the elites from the past.

The generals are either veterans with 20 years of combat experience, or young warriors with military talents. Even mediocre people, after training in the general training camp, their level will be significantly improved compared to before. "

Having said that, Hao Guangming paused and took a sip of tea.

Then he continued, "Finally, there is an increase in military salaries and full distribution, as well as a substantial increase in military food.

During the reign of Chongzhen, that is, when your father was alive, the general military salary for recruiting soldiers was actually raised to two taels per month, and in some places it was even as high as three taels.

However, at that time, the military salary was not full since it came out of the treasury, and after layers of corruption, it would be considered good if half of it was distributed to the army.

Lieutenant generals' salaries will also be deducted layer by layer.Therefore, even if the military recruits of the former army received two taels of silver a month, they may not have two taels of silver when they actually get them.

Even the two coins are often out of reach.Therefore, in the end, it became common practice to make wages, and the army must be rewarded first when it sets off and fights.It is even necessary to plunder places to guarantee the income of ordinary soldiers.

Regardless of whether it is arguing for salary, asking for rewards, or plundering, it may be because the military salary is not enough at first, but it will almost deteriorate later, and become doing things for self-interest from top to bottom.

At that time, the official army was no longer an official army, and it was no different from bandits and bandits.

As for the food for the officers and soldiers, let alone - there is no guarantee.Occasionally there are big fish and meat, but most of the time they can't even fill their stomachs, and even many people starve to death. "

Aimee Zhu smiled bitterly when she heard this, and then sighed again.

Hao Guangming continued: "In your new army, the right to pay the salary is transferred to the central government, that is, the Military Pay Department of the Military Affairs Academy, and it will do its best to ensure that the military salary is paid in full.

In addition, not only ensure that the soldiers are fed and clothed, but also try their best to improve the standard of food in the army.

For ordinary soldiers, their treatment has improved compared to the past.With such incentives, the combat effectiveness will naturally be greatly improved. "

After listening to Hao Guangming's speech, Auntie Zhu said: "I think my husband missed one point - the current military law is much stricter than that of the past, not only for generals, but also for ordinary soldiers.

When they went to the battlefield, if they fought to the death, even if they died, their families would be protected. It can be said that they died with honor.

But if he escaped on the battlefield, not only would he be executed, but his family members would also be humiliated. There was no guarantee at all.

In this way, most of the soldiers would dare to fight and die, and the combat effectiveness of the new army would naturally be greatly improved. "

"Okay." Hao Guangming laughed after hearing this, "Now you can check and make up for me."

Auntie Zhu smiled, and continued to look at the relevant data on military pay.

After she ascended the throne at the end of May, she made an adjustment to the salary of the new army, which was higher than before, and it was regarded as a reward for the whole army - after all, everyone helped you to sit on the throne, and it would be a shame not to reward you .

However, nowadays food is expensive and silver is cheap, and the increase in military pay is also affected by this, which is also falsely high.

In order to facilitate the return to normal standards in the future, after research by Aunt Zhu and the Military Affairs Academy, the general's salary is divided into regular salary and living allowance.

In addition, after practice tests, it was found that the division of strong soldiers, main soldiers, and auxiliary soldiers established in Chengdu when training the new army was not easy to use, and all of them are now cancelled.Only auxiliary soldiers are left in the imperial forest army, which are actually reserve soldiers of the imperial forest army.

Among the new army, it is natural that the Royal Forest Army pays the highest.

Regular soldiers pay three taels a month and living allowances two taels.

Auxiliary soldiers are paid three taels a month, and living allowances are one tael.

Among them, the female soldiers of the Suzaku Battalion also receive five taels of silver every month.

The military salary report in front of Zhu Yuxi clearly stated that the five battalions of the Yulin Army needed a total of about 16.2 taels of salary per month (part of the salary of the general Gao Yu’s soldiers was not included in it, and the same applies later).

Because the Imperial Forest Army was directly commanded by the emperor, it could be said to be the emperor's private army, so the military salary was also allocated from internal funds.

The imperial guards received the second treatment, and all members were considered regular soldiers.

The regular salary is three taels per month, and the living allowance is one tael.

Therefore, the monthly salary of the 6 imperial guards is 24 taels.

The treatment of the frontier guards is third, with a regular salary of three liang per month and a living allowance of eight dollars.

Therefore, the 16.8 border guards need a total of 63.84 taels of salary per month.

The garrison received the last treatment, with a regular salary of [-] taels per month and a living allowance of [-] qian.

Therefore, the 55.2 garrison troops need a total of 154.56 taels of salary per month.

The imperial court is only responsible for the military pay of the imperial guards, border guards, and garrison troops, so a total of 242.4 million taels of silver is required every month!

In one year, 2908.8 million taels of salary will be allocated!

Seeing this data, Auntie Zhu not only shrank her pupils slightly.

Because she knew that this did not include the rewards and pensions that needed to be issued after the war.

Although the new army of the Ming Dynasty does not have to recruit silver and reward silver before the war like the old army, will the soldiers be rewarded for meritorious service after the war?Should the dead and wounded soldiers be compensated?
It is impossible to replace all of them with honors such as military medals, and there must be material rewards.

If there are several wars a year, I am afraid that the reward plus pension will cost tens of millions of taels of silver.

Finally, military supplies such as military rations, military uniforms, ordnance, etc. cost a lot of money. Although no specific data has been reported yet, Auntie Zhu estimated that it would cost tens of millions of taels, or even no less than the total military salary for a year.

At this point, Auntie Zhu knew why the civil servants who used to stay at the center of the Ming court didn't like to fight anymore - this is not a war, it's obviously a waste of money.

And whether it is dealing with border troubles or quelling internal troubles, for the court, there is only investment and no income—at least no timely income.

Even at this time, Auntie Zhu was also thinking about reducing the number of garrison troops after driving the Qing captives out of the pass.

It is true that the army burns too much money, and has driven out the Qing captives and pacified a large number of bandits and bandits. There is no need for so many troops to guard the interior of the Ming Dynasty.

Like Huguang, there are definitely many garrison troops in twelve towns in a province.

No, Du Yinxi, who had been promoted to governor of Henan, Huguang, and Jiangbei, took advantage of the opportunity of forming the Henan garrison to consciously reduce the Hubei garrison before Zhu Yuxi ordered the reduction.

If he hadn't transferred some people from the Huguang garrison, the surrendered Shun army would not only have formed four towns, but at least one more town.

However, the garrison cannot be reduced too much, at least not in the past few years.

In addition, under the influence of Hao Guangming, Auntie Zhu has long recognized a truth—military expenditure is high, and reducing the army is by no means the main solution.

Only a part can be appropriately cut. To solve the problem, we still have to open up sources of income and increase Daming's financial revenue.

　Second more.

　　Correct the typo later.

　　Good night~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)