Chapter 604 Settlement
The full name of the pig teammate is "Pig-like teammate". As the name suggests, it refers to those who always drag the team down, betray teammates, and cheat teammates.
Logically speaking, for a person who is quite capable and smart like Han Du, the word "pig teammate" cannot be satisfied with him no matter what, but unfortunately he deserves the title today.
Seeing Gu Bingqian's cannibalistic vision, Han Du's shrewdness could not understand that there must be something wrong with his proposal just now. In just a short time, Han Du's mind quickly turned around countless times, thinking about countless possibilities, but he could not think of where the problem was.
According to Han Yu's experience and understanding, the Jiangning Army currently has about 30,000 to 40,000 infantrymen, plus more than 10,000 Fujian Navy personnel, the military pay required to consume at most is 1 million taels of silver, and this is already given according to the treatment of the Liaodong border army. It is still very worthwhile to use 1 million taels of silver to remove the military power in Yang Feng's hands.
In Han Yu's opinion, as long as Yang Feng loses military power, he will be a tiger without teeth and claws. He will no longer pose a threat to the civil service group in the future. As long as Yang Feng is transferred from the Jiangning Army, will this army still be allowed to be round and flat in the future? It is not impossible to disband this army until Yang Feng has no impact. In this way, even one million taels of silver per year can be saved.
Han Du's wishful thinking was very smart, but he still underestimated the lethality of the monster created by Yang Feng himself.
Yang Feng bowed to Han Yu, with a smile on his face: "Gei Master Han, since Your Majesty said that, then I will hand over the Jiangning Army and the Fujian Navy to you. From next month, the cabinet must be allocated as scheduled and as usual for all the military pay, equipment, supplies and other materials required by the Jiangning Army. Otherwise, if the consequences such as mutiny and troubled wages are caused by insufficient military pay, it will be borne by the cabinet."
Han Yu's face changed slightly. Although Yang Feng's tone sounded faint, he couldn't hear the strong threatening tone inside. It was just that things had reached this point. Of course, he could not retreat and said with his chest straight: "Don't worry, the Ministry of Revenue will order the Ministry of Revenue to distribute 100,000 taels of silver next month to the Jiangning Army as military supplies, and the Jiangning Army soldiers will not go hungry."
"One hundred thousand taels of silver?"
Yang Feng was slightly stunned, then burst into laughter. His laughter became louder and louder, and finally he laughed so hard that he fell back and forth.
Seeing Yang Feng so arrogant, Han Yu had not spoken yet, Zhu Guozhen's face also darkened, "Yang Feng, this is in front of His Majesty, in the Golden Palace, although you are a marquis, how can you be so arrogant!"
Yang Feng's laughter still did not stop. After finally waiting for the laughter to be a little lower, he pointed at Gu Bingqian, "Gei Gu, I'm really embarrassed. Please tell this Mr. Han and Mr. Zhu, how much silver and materials the Jiangning Army and the Fujian Navy need to allocate every month."
Gu Bingqian shook his head helplessly and smiled bitterly: "Mr. Zhu, Lord. Han, you two are just a first-timer. It is understandable that you don't understand some things. I have a list of military pay and expenses reported by the Jiangning Army six months ago. You two can take a look."
After saying that, Gu Bingqian searched his sleeves and quickly took out a list and handed it to them. "Because I was so impressed by this list, I left it on my body, and looked it through from time to time. Now I just happened to see it for you both."
Han Dong took the list first, looked over with a look of ten lines, and his face immediately turned pale.
"Impossible... This is impossible... How can only tens of thousands of soldiers use so many silver equipment every month? Yang Feng must be lying!"
Looking at Han Yu who was extremely excited, Zhu Guozhen, who was puzzled, took the list from him. He just glanced at his face and immediately changed. However, he was not as excited as Han Yu. He looked at Gu Bingqian in confusion: "Ge Lao Gu, the Jiangning army has only 400,000 to 50,000 people. Does the monthly salary cost 300,000 taels? Also, two thousand muskets, one hundred thousand kilograms of medicine, two thousand pairs of iron armor, various military uniforms, bedding, medicines, these expenses also cost 200,000 taels. In addition, the monthly expenses of military salary and equipment of Fujian Navy reached 500,000 taels of silver. Are they eating gold?"
Zhu Guozhen's voice was very loud, enough for the civil and military officials nearby to hear it, causing a huge uproar. If calculated this way, the Jiangning Army's monthly expenses would cost at least one million taels of silver, which would cost 12 million in a year. Such a large expense would not be enough to fill in all the taxes for the whole year of the Ming Dynasty.
"Lie, he is lying. Jiangning Army only has tens of thousands of people. How could it be possible to use millions of taels of silver every month? Yang Feng is exaggerating. He is deceiving the emperor!" Han Yu suddenly shouted and glared at Yang Feng and said, "Yang Feng, you actually made such an outrageous list for His Majesty. What are your intentions?"
Looking at Han Yu's face that became pale due to panic, Yang Feng sneered: "Bullying the Lord... Is it that Lord Han, why did I deceive the emperor? Did he deceive His Majesty's money or did he deceive the equipment and food assigned by the court?"
"you……"
Han Yu was stunned for a moment, yes... Since the establishment of the Jiangning Army, all the equipment and military pay required by Yang Feng himself, and he had never let the court allocate a penny. If he insisted that Yang Feng was deceiving the emperor, even he felt that this crime was unreasonable.
Looking at Han Du who was eating a lump of flies, Yang Feng sighed softly. He knew that not to mention Han Du, there were not many civil and military officials in the court who could understand this issue. He explained patiently.
"Your Majesty, dear lords, the reason why this marquis listed this list was not to make a mess or speak out loud. Although the Jiangning Army had tens of thousands, 200,000 to 300,000 taels per month could maintain its expenses, but the newly built Fujian Navy was different.
For example, there are twelve shipyards in Fujian that are building warships at the same time. The cheapest sixth-level warship requires 10,000 taels of silver, fifth-level warships require 18,000 taels of silver, while the third-level warships under construction now require 57,000 taels of silver.
After two years of hard work, the Fujian Navy now has 32 sixth-level warships, 28 fifth-level warships, and 17 third-level warships. In this way, it takes about two million taels to build these warships alone.
In addition, the few artillery needed on these warships are twenty or thirty, and the most are more than one hundred. These artillery alone require three to four million taels of silver. In addition, sailors need to be trained. The navy also needs to go out to sea to train. The amount of silver required to fire each cannon is one to two taels, which seems not much, but now our Fujian navy has about three thousand artillery pieces, and a volley requires five to six thousand taels of silver. The navy has to go out to sea to train almost every day, so..."
Listening to Yang Feng settle the score there, everyone was shocked. Even Zhu Youxiao was so scared that his mouth was so open that he could stuff a duck egg into it.
According to Yang Feng's algorithm, spending one million taels of silver a month is already considered frugal. If you really want to open your money, the Fujian Navy can swallow the entire year of the Ming Dynasty in two or three months. Yang Feng did not raise a navy, it was simply raising a gold-swalking beast!
"Also, when the Fujian Navy wiped out Zheng Zhilong some time ago, a total of hundreds of thousands of kilograms of rat medicine were consumed, and the soldiers were killed..."
"Okay... Don't say anything about Yang Aiqing. I'll give you a memorial in the future. I'll take a look."
Yang Feng still wanted to continue talking, but Zhu Youxiao, who was sitting on it, could no longer help but stop it. He was worried that his care would not be able to bear it if he continued to listen.
After saying that, Zhu Youxiaocai looked at Han Du with a complicated expression, "Han Aiqing, do you still want to take the Jiangning Army under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War?"
At this time, Han Yu's face was pale and his whole body became a little lost. Now he finally understood why Gu Bingqian was frightened when he heard that Zhu Youxiao planned to take the Jiangning Army into the Ministry of War. The cabinet was responsible for the overall arrangements. He would rather resign than turn off this mission. This is not a matter of withdrawing military power. This is simply a huge trouble.
Chapter completed!