Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 60 Planning the Prairie
"The sloping land at the foot of Changping is ordered to guard the guard under the command of the Imperial Horse Supervisor. Anyone who is over five feet five and under the age of thirty-five and joins the army will be paid fifteen taels a year."

"In addition, the whole family of soldiers who join the army will be allocated land according to their head, one mu per person, free of tax for two years, and only need to pay [-]% of the harvest with the Yumajian in the third year."

On the stage of the school, Zhu Youjian was generous when he spoke, and he was targeting the more than [-] million tenants behind the Yumajian.

[-] million people, even if there are only [-] males after half men and women, and less than one hundred of them are [-] feet [-] feet tall, it is enough to find [-] people.

And this is not over yet, Zhu Youjian continued:
"In addition, recruitment notices can also be issued in Northern Zhili, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Shandong, Henan, and even Jiangnan, Zhejiang, or other places in the two capitals and thirteen provinces except Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi."

"Daming has a population of [-], can't you find a man over [-] feet?"

"Eh..." Hearing what His Royal Highness said, Wang Chengen could only say with difficulty:

"Your Highness, if the salary is based on fifteen taels of silver a year, I am afraid that the Imperial Horse Supervisor will not be able to continue..."

Wang Chengen wasn't telling lies, it's just that the royal store of the Yumajian, plus the Huangzhuang, and the pastures, after the rectification of these places, the annual income was at most [-] taels.

Not to mention the three guards of Yubayashi, if the four guards and one battalion are full, there will be [-] people, and each person will have fifteen taels of silver a year, which is three hundred and eighty-one thousand taels.

This is just military pay, [-] people, at least [-] shi of grain per year, and the yearly income of the Royal Horse Supervisor is only [-] million shi of grain and straw.

In this calculation, the grain that can be sold is only [-] shi, plus the grass bundles, the income is [-] taels at most, and the [-] taels from the Huangdian, the annual income is only [-] taels.

If [-] taels are used to support the army and [-] taels, then there are only [-] taels.

This is only counting the staple food. If you count the chicken, duck and fish meat during the festival, you will have to eat at least three to forty thousand taels of silver, and by then there will be only one hundred thousand taels of silver left.

However, this is only the cost of the four guards and one battalion.

Beside the Four Guards and One Battalion, there are still three guards from Habayashi right now.

The three guards and horses, after the full number of military pay plus expenses, will cost at least [-] taels of silver a year, so the Imperial Horse Supervisor can't afford it at all, and Zhu Youjian knows this too.

But the army he wants is not the one that just stays in the capital foolishly.

Right now, he has a very good opponent for training, and that is the Mongolian tribe of Nekhalka.

The territory of the Inner Khalkha and Mongolian tribes is located in the northeast of Yanshan Mountain and the vast hilly grassland area in the west of the Liaoxi Corridor, with a strong military force.

The five major ministries have a total population of about [-], and a force of [-] to [-]. They are basically all light cavalry, with only a small amount of heavy armored cavalry, but hundreds of thousands of cattle, sheep and horses.

From the perspective of cattle, sheep and horses alone, they are very rich, and since the establishment of the mutual market in the [-]rd year of Wanli and the Ming Dynasty, they have achieved short-term stability. I am afraid that it is not impossible for cattle and sheep to exceed one million.

Due to the special geographical location of Inner Khalkha, Chahar Mongolia is to the west, Horqin Mongolia is to the north, Houjin is to the east, Guangning is to the south, and it is between the Ming Dynasty, Chahar and Houjin. There are many opportunities to win.

At present, Nekhka Mongolia is divided into two major divisions and five minor divisions. One of the minor divisions is the Bayot Division. A Mongolian consort.

This Engedel obviously belongs to the unconquerable kind.

Compared with him, Zhu Youjian can win over the two major ministries of Neikalkha, Chaohua and Zaisai, who are more dependent on the Ming Dynasty.

It's just a pity that after winning the Sarhu victory in March last year, Nurhachi fell into Kaiyuan in June and captured Tieling in July.

Since Tieling was the place of trade between Ongilat, Bayut, and Jarut and the Ming Dynasty, Tieling was conquered by Hou Jin, which meant that the three tribes lost the market entrance with the Ming Dynasty.

As a large part of Taiji in Inner Khalkha, Zai Sai contacted Zalut Taijibake, Seben, and more than [-] Taiji from Sang'er Village, the son of Horqin Belemingan, and gathered more than [-] troops to prepare for the ambush. Army, take back control of Tieling.

As a result, Nurhachi personally led the army to fight back against Zaisai's army, and captured all the heads and brains of Zaisai's party. Zaisai, the leader of the five tribes of Neikalkha, who had been rampant for a while, was broken in the first battle.

The results of the Battle of Tieling stunned Baylor, the five tribes of Nekhka. In order to save Zai Sai’s life, the Nekhka Mongols requested to exchange Zai Sai with [-] livestock, plus Zai Sai’s two sons and one daughter. Race back.

Nurhaci also did not kill the game, but used Zai Sai to hijack the five tribes of Neikha, sent ministers to Nekhka, and signed an alliance with Baylor, the five powerful nobles of the alliance. All present.

So far, Neikalkha has all turned to Houjin.

Therefore, logically speaking, in terms of camp, the Neikha Mongols entrenched in the northern remnants of Yanshan Mountain less than [-] miles away from Changping at the foot of Zhu Youjian were the enemies of the Ming Dynasty at this time.

However, all military operations revolve around economics and politics, and not all Nekhalka tribes cannot be used by him.

These tribes all need to trade with the Ming Dynasty to ensure the livelihood of the herdsmen and nobles. This means that they will only obey Houjin superficially, and will not send troops to attack Daming in order to help Houjin.

Zhu Youjian has read the military newspaper of the Ministry of War and has a general understanding of the situation in Neikalkha.

Although the Five Divisions of Neikalkha have signed a covenant with Houjin, not every lord abides by the covenant. Zhongnen, Ang'a and other small tribes led by the Zhalut tribe often rob Houjin's Messenger, looting property and livestock.

From this point of view, as long as Zhu You checks out the strange soldiers and defeats the loyal Empress Engdel at a certain time, he will be able to deter the rest of Neikalkha.

At that time, it is only necessary to establish an official exchange market with Sibu in the Baimaguan area, and then Sibu will fall to itself.

The cattle, sheep and horses plundered from Engedel's tribe can enrich the wealth of the Yumajian, and the complete fall of the four tribes to the Ming Dynasty will bring political embarrassment to the Houjin Dynasty.

Zhu Youjian can use Huangdian to carry out mutual market, mutually benefit with the four departments, and enrich Yumajian.

Apart from other things, as long as his soldiers and horses are enough to suppress the four tribes of Nekarka, a simple coal and salt during the exchange market can make the four tribes honest.

Although the Little Ice Age has not come yet, the low temperature period has come.

The trees in the northern part of Yanshan Mountain will always be cut down by them, and the cattle and sheep will have to eat grass. Once Zhu Youjian gets out the briquettes, he can harvest four parts.

Honeycomb coal is not difficult. When Zhu Youjian was young in his previous life, there was a honeycomb coal factory not far from his home, and the craft was very simple.

He also learned about the price of coal in the area of ​​Shuntianfu. Ten catties of medium coal cost only thirteen cents.

According to the ratio of coal to soil of 10:3, the cost of making [-] catties of honeycomb coal is only [-] yuan, which is equal to one catty per penny.

He can use corvee to ask the Yumajian to send out one person per household. With the work of [-] people, the labor cost is zero.

It doesn't matter if there is no combustion accelerant, as long as the amount is large and the tube is full.

Even if he sells a low-grade horse for thirteen hundred catties of briquettes, he still makes money.

The cost of [-] catties of honeycomb briquettes is at most one or two or three dollars. According to the daily burning of forty catties, it is enough to burn around the clock for a month.

Even if the winter lasts for 120 days, it is at most four inferior horses.

In other words, the briquettes that cost less than five taels of silver can be exchanged for four low-grade horses worth nearly thirty taels of silver.

Therefore, in Zhu Youjian's mind, he has already begun to prepare how to greet Neikalkha, and at this moment, the selection of soldiers under the school field is over...

(End of this chapter)