At the end of Ming Dynasty: I, Sun Kewang!Desperate comeback!

Chapter 159 The Logistically Invincible Jiaqian Army
After Ma Zhaoxi, Wan Niance, Zhang Hu and others heard this number, even though they were prepared, they couldn't help but feel their scalps go numb. "

When Sun Guozhu was in Yunnan in the past, his food income was only six to seven hundred taels, and his silver income was only more than 100 million taels. With an annual income of 800 to [-] million yuan, he could support the more than [-] troops in Xiying!
Now in Guangdong and Guangxi, the annual income of the Imperial Palace has more than doubled, reaching an astonishing 2000 million, which can even compete with the Qing Dynasty's 800 million silver taels and more than 500 million stones, rice, wheat and beans.

Our Qing Dynasty's annual income needs to take care of the whole world, but Sun Guozhu is concentrated in Guangdong, Guangxi and one place.

With such financial resources, why worry about being unable to do so in the world?

"In addition to this year's annual revenue, our main government also has food and salaries collected from Annan and Guangdong."

"With tens of millions of grains and wages, it is easy to supply more than [-] elite soldiers."

Sun Kewang said proudly: "With so much money and food, the recruits can't use it up. Even if there is a war, it is more than enough to go north to Huguang. Zhaoxi and Niance, you must plan well. Water conservancy in Guangdong and Guangxi, as well as Rouzheng and Mazheng can We need to increase our efforts.”

In addition to the annual income in Guangdong and Guangdong, Sun Guozhu also collected a lot of food and salary from Annan and Guangdong.

They squeezed 2000 million from Lord Zheng alone. They also levied grain and wages from the Guangdong gentry and sold the Pearl River Delta at a low price, getting tens of millions of grain and wages.

After careful calculation, it’s more than 5000 million yuan.

Li Zicheng went all over Beijing and only got 7000 million taels of silver.

Most of Sun's more than 5000 million yuan is food.

With so much food being produced, what can't be done in these troubled times?

"Master, please rest assured, we will make careful calculations."

"Whether it's water conservancy, meat management, or horse management, everything is absolutely in order."

Sun Kewang nodded slightly when he heard this. If he had money and food, he would naturally have to do things.

Lord Sun is a man with great ambitions. If he wants to become a member of the world, he must not be short-sighted and hold on to money and food like the gentry.

Whether it is water conservancy or horse administration, the Sixth Department of Administration has planned a large amount of money and food.

With the water conservancy repaired and the yield per mu in Guangdong and Guangxi rising steadily, Sun Guozhu can better cut leeks and gather wool.

If the horse administration is done well, the horse problem of the front army will be greatly improved, and there will be no need to worry about the cavalry problem.

As for the meat policy, Sun Guozhu, who loves his soldiers as his own children, will naturally have to let the officers and soldiers of the front army eat meat after the situation improves.

"Raising one million chickens and one hundred thousand pigs in Guangdong and Guangxi is still too little. If we can raise more pigs and chickens as much as possible, if we can make the lonely driving elites eat meat every meal, Zhaoxi and Niance, you are the ones I, Sun Kewang, was the number one hero in expelling the Tartars!" Sun Kewang said seriously.

"Master, this..." Ma Zhaoxi and Wan Niance were in trouble.

In this era, it is extremely difficult to provide the army with meat every day.

In the chaotic times of the late Ming Dynasty, when no one even had food to eat, where would the leftovers come from to raise pigs and chickens?

Even Huang Taiji could only afford to raise a horse, and the horse was like saving food from people's mouths.

"Don't be too anxious about this problem. This year, we will first find a way to get more chickens and pigs every month so that I can eat two meals of meat every day. When I win Huguang and Jiangnan, I can add more meat." If you have some meat, put it on the agenda." Sun Kewang said with a smile.

"Master, we will do our best." Ma Zhaoxi cupped his hands and said.

"Just do your best. I believe that the Sixth Administrative Department can do it." Sun Kewang smiled slightly.

Neither Li Dingguo nor Sun Kewang's direct troops have the quality of individual soldiers as good as those of the Eight Banners.

The reason is that although the soldiers and horses of Xiying have enough food to eat, they are short of meat.

If a person lacks meat intake, his physical strength will not be enough after all.

When fighting against the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia, which have relatively rich meat, they will inevitably be at a disadvantage, and they can only make up for it with quantity.

It can be summed up in one sentence, how can a vegetarian do better than a meat-eater?
Of course, the premise is that other conditions are similar.

The gentry had fish and meat every time, but their fighting power can be imagined.

The Qing Dynasty controls most of the world. Their most direct descendants, the Eight Banners, even have three or four horses per capita. Naturally, the meat is relatively abundant.

In the past, Lord Sun lived in the southwest. It was good that Yunnan and Guizhou could feed so many soldiers and horses. The remaining surplus grain needed to be used as military supplies for the northern expedition to the Central Plains.

Where is the excess food? Large-scale chicken and pig raising.

It's better now. Although it is still in a corner in Guangdong and Guangxi, there is still a gap between Yunnan and Guangxi and Guangxi.

Sun Guozhu now uses the power of Guangdong and Guangxi to supply a mere 10,000+ soldiers and horses, which naturally means that there is a large surplus of money and food in hand.

These surpluses can be used to further expand the new army, breed horses and mules, and build new water conservancy projects.

Millions more are invested in meat politics.

As early as a few months ago, Sun Kewang allocated money and food to vigorously purchase fish caught by fishermen from the Xijiang River and the sea.

It was imported into the camps in Nanning, Lianzhou and other places to feed the soldiers.

In addition, he also implemented a meat policy in the camps and encouraged people in Guangxi and other places to raise more pigs and chickens. The government formulated special regulations and invested a large amount of money and grain to improve the lives of the officers and soldiers before driving.

What Sun Guozhu said about raising one million chickens and one hundred thousand pigs was not empty talk, and it was also a bit modest.

In Guangxi now, almost every household raises chickens, and every village raises several fat pigs.

These broiler chickens and pigs are purchased by the managers of the camp.

If the people don't have much food, chickens, and piglets, the camp will allocate grain, seeds, and piglets.

Solve all difficulties for the people, as long as the people can raise broilers and pigs for Lord Sun with peace of mind.

All in all, Sun Guozhu invested almost 500 million yuan in food and grain, which was used for his political planning.

"For future generations of high-yielding broilers and pigs, on average, two and a half kilograms of grain will produce one kilogram of chicken, and five kilograms of grain will produce one kilogram of pork."

"It's just that they are all high-tech and centralized."

"But in Guangxi, with the current medical technology, if we engage in large-scale breeding, if we just have chicken fever or swine fever, we will lose everything."

"With the free-range breeding model, let the people breed in scattered areas and then purchase them collectively. If you spend 500 million yuan in grain, you should be able to produce dozens of dan of meat. It shouldn't be a problem for the recruits to eat one or two meals a day." Sun Guozhu made a rough calculation in his mind. Ichiban.

Take the broiler chicken and pig breeds of this era, as well as medical technology.

Naturally, Sun Guozhu's carnal government could not reach the level of flesh-producing that would be as terrifying as that of later generations.

We can only invest money and food to obtain the amount of meat according to the current level.

During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, prices were roughly one tael of silver and two stones of rice.

The price of fine pork is one cent, six cents and eight pounds of silver.

The price of rice is about [-] to [-] compared to the price of meat.

According to Wanshu magazine, rice costs three cents per catty, pork costs twenty cents, and fish costs twenty cents.

The ratio is close to seven to one.

All in all, meat prices are basically linked to food prices.

Only when food prices fall, people will have some surplus food and raise more chickens, ducks, and pigs, and meat prices will fall.

On the other hand, if grain prices rise, the prices of chickens and pigs raised with grains will never go down.

Now, although Guangxi has gone through a year of governance, the price of food is still not as good as the seven yuan per stone in Yunnan and Guizhou.

The price of food this year is basically around one tael or one stone.

Sun Guozhu called on the people to raise pigs and chickens. He loved the people like his own son, so he naturally wanted to take care of the people.

Therefore, the camp that offered a profit was almost buying meat at a price of ten to one.In general, Sun Guozhu's 500 million money and food will go down.

You should be able to get about 50 stone of meat.

Calculated based on the total of 10,000+ troops in Guangdong and Guangxi, as well as officials and administrative personnel at all levels, a total of 20 people.

On average, each person can get two and a half stones of meat.

One stone is 150 kilograms, which means that each person in the Jiaqian army should be able to get about 370 five kilograms of meat per year.

Of course, in addition to soldiers and officials, there are also miners in the mines in Luoding and craftsmen in the workshops around Nanning.

In order to speed up the creation of weapons, the meat produced by the meat administration also needs to be supplied to them.

After all, the importance of craftsmen in major workshops is not low, and in order to enhance ore production, miners also need to eat better to produce light and heat.

In addition to these, the second phase of recruits planned by Sun Guozhu will also be recruited after the autumn harvest.

Although the [-] recruits in the first phase are the top priority, the recruits in the second phase also have to divert some of their meat.

Therefore, veterans of the Qianqian Army basically get one pound of meat every day.

The newly recruited [-] new soldiers can only get half a catty of meat a day.

Of course, although there is a supply of half a kilogram of meat every day, Sun Guozhu, a heartless man, wants the soldiers to practice physical fitness, practice battle formations, and bleed less on the battlefield.

Recruits are drilled basically every day.

In the past, in Yunnan, soldiers who lacked meat, Sun Guozhu only dared to let them perform vigorous exercises.

I dare not conduct military training every day for fear of damaging the recruits' bodies.

Now that he has meat as an offering, Lord Sun is no longer afraid.

Since you have eaten the flesh of Lord Sun, you will of course go to death.

Therefore, recruits who train a lot must also eat a lot.

Not only does he eat food and grass quickly, but he also consumes half a pound of meat every day in two or even one meal.

Sun Guozhu requires meat every meal, but with the current level of meat politics, it still cannot be achieved.

However, the current logistics level of Qianqian Army.

The word invincible is just written on his face!

If the Ming army could eat half a catty of meat every day, Huang Taiji would have hanged himself long ago!

Of course, Lord Sun's preferential treatment of the Yungui elders is quite similar to Li Dingguo's distinction between Qin and Jin soldiers.

But the methods are still very different.

Sun Guozhu can eat whatever food and grass the recruits want. Anyway, there are only 10 people and [-] mouths.

If we eat again, can we finish tens of millions in one or two years?

The difference between new recruits and veterans is meat and military pay.

But the military pay and meat provided by Sun Guozhu to the recruits are basically the ceiling of this era. What can the recruits do?How many more opinions can there be?

The current military pay for the Jiaqian Army is one tael of silver per person per month and five measures of rice for each infantryman.

The cavalry fee is one or two and a half coins per person per month, and seven dou and five liters of rice.

For Yungui old men, infantrymen enjoy the treatment of cavalry, and cavalrymen enjoy the treatment of officers.

The military pay for ordinary infantrymen alone, 12 taels of silver a year, may not seem like much, but it is due to the good prices in Guangxi.

The purchasing power of ordinary soldiers' military pay far exceeded that of the Qing Dynasty's green camp soldiers, and they were still fully paid green camp soldiers.

Even the military pay of the Eight Banners soldiers may not necessarily have better purchasing power in Beijing than the recruits of the Qianqian Army.

As for the five dou per month and six shi per year, that was beyond the reach of the Qing army!

The soldiers were provided with food and accommodation in the military camp, so they did not need to eat extra.

The full amount of six stones and nine hundred kilograms of rice every year is enough to feed his wife and children who don't eat much.

In addition to these, Sun Guozhu has special allowances for clothing, expeditions, and the end of the year.

Each of the recruits' families was given an additional thirty acres of relatively good land, even if their wives and children were unable to work.

Thirty acres of land were handed over to the camp, according to the proportion of [-]% of the military land.

From the output of thirty acres of land, soldiers can obtain [-]% of the output of the land every year.

Without labor, he can obtain more than ten shi of food every year to support his family.

This level of food, this level of military pay, this level of income.

The new recruits of the former army are all well-off and small landowners. What else can they say?
As for the old people in Yunnan and Guizhou, let alone the military pay and food.

Fifty acres of land, the family does not work, and is handed over to the management of the camp.

If you pay [-]% a year, that's [-] shi of food. It's no problem for the family to be well fed, clothed, and happy!
In addition to these, and other perks.

When Sun Guozhu took Lvying and the gentry to divide the 10,000+ hectares of good land in the Pearl River Delta.

Naturally, the fertile water does not flow to outsiders' fields, and tens of thousands of hectares of land are built into the land.

It is specially used to reward meritorious and disabled soldiers in the front army.

All kinds of treatment, what Sun Guozhu did for Jia Qianjun is really nothing to say!

Of course, compared with the eight or nine dou that the soldiers' families in the Yunnan-Guizhou period received each month.

The cost of individual soldiers in the Jiaqian Army has increased significantly.

According to military pay, there are 10,000+ former soldiers, including officers, and the per capita military pay is more than 20 taels per year.

The annual expenditure required is more than 300 million taels of basic military pay.

In addition to the more than 300 million yuan, the distribution of enmi to support the family also requires nearly 200 million shi a year.

As for food and equipment, it is a huge expense.

Calculated piecemeal, military expenditures require more than 1000 million in food and salary every year.

But even so, for Sun Guozhu and the Sixth Department of Administration, who have initially tapped into the potential of the Guangdong-Guangxi war.

With the Guangdong and Guangxi’s annual income of 2000 million, it is more than enough to bear the huge expenses of these 10,000+ elite pre-driving personnel.

Even after Guangdong and Guangxi are completely stabilized, water conservancy is overhauled, and maritime trade is rationalized.

With the financial resources of Guangdong and Guangxi, it is not a problem to double the number of front troops!
It is precisely because of its excellent financial status that the Jiaqian Army cannot expand too much due to equipment and veteran issues.

That's why Sun Kewang dared to spend 500 million yuan on food every year to engage in meat politics.

You must know that even if the salary is greatly increased, the military salary and favors of the 10,000+ former soldiers are only about 500 million per year.

The meat policy costs 500 million in food and salary a year.

This expenditure is enough to pay for another 10,000+ troops.

(End of this chapter)