"Well, it's not bad." Chongzhen, you didn't turn around for a while, and it really makes sense when you think about it!

Even if a blind cat hits a dead mouse, if you do it a few more times, you will always encounter some dead mouse one time. Although the scientific research in Shandong is much simpler than you imagined, if they are allowed to hit a dead mouse like this, they will encounter some sooner or later. The electric light is the best example.

So after going back, it is necessary to set up such an institution to hit the dead rat. If you don’t catch up, the gap between the two sides will become increasingly greater!

If Zhao Yan knew Chongzhen’s thoughts, he would probably laugh on the spot.

...Zhao Yan accompanied Chongzhen to wander in Shandong for more than half a month. During this period, Chongzhen saw a lot of things, which were not something that the Jinyiwei could not spy on in Shandong.

Chongzhen himself became the most prominent spy, but Zhao Yan was not prepared for it. He just saw it, as long as it did not involve military secrets.

More than half a month later, Chongzhen finally returned to the Forbidden City with his two princes and queens.

During this half month, Zhao Quan took businessmen from all over the country to visit various commercial infrastructure and introduce business policies in Shandong.

The most reliable profit in Shandong now is raising horses.

The reason why raising horses is profitable is that the Shandong military has always been very happy to acquire war horses.

As long as you have a qualified war horse, you can definitely get a good price on the Shandong Military Headquarters. Building a farm has undoubtedly become the choice of the most merchants.

Whether it is grazing or feeding food in semi-caps, Denglai University will send students to specialize in the management of the farm.

As long as you invest, there will be a return.

Previously, Shandong merchants have opened more than a dozen horse farms one after another, and the scale of horse breeding is about 40,000 to 50,000 horses, and war horses will not be available until next year.

The number is still too low.

This time, after seeing the profit model of the horse farm, more than 30 big merchants decided to open a horse farm in the local area after returning home, or to Liaodong to open a horse farm.

It is estimated that these horse farms can reach a certain scale after opening them.

Cavalry is still a main group of troops developed by Zhao Yan. After all, the railway has to wait for many years, and the troops' mobile surnames rely on horses.

By the end of January, the guests also dispersed one after another.

In mid-February, Chongzhen also returned to the Forbidden City.

Zhao Yan immediately began to expand his recruitment and reform his military system.

The military reform plan continues to be revised. The Shandong Army will reorganize it into two divisions this year.

Shandong First Division is a professional unit, with 5 infantry brigades and 4 cavalry brigades. The division commander is Zhao Yan, with a total force of 114,550 and a baggage unit of 38,180.

The Second Division of the Shandong Army is a conscript unit, with 4 infantry brigades and 2 cavalry brigades, a total force of 86,040 and a baggage unit of 28,680.

At the same time, the mountain regiment will train 5, with a total force of 15,250 and a baggage force of 5,000.

In the Navy, the sailors will be expanded to 50,000. With the current warship organization, a European warship is generally equipped with 300 sailors and only 200 frigates. With the current combat units, only 30,000 people are required. However, it is better to train sailors as soon as possible, so the recruitment is expanded to 50,000.

The Marine Corps will be reorganized into: the First North American Brigade, the First South Ocean Brigade, the Mountain Regiment stationed in Japan, and the Mountain Regiment of America, with a total force of 31,120,000 people and a logistics of 10,000.

At the same time, the inspection force was renamed the "Armed Police Force", and will establish ten armed police forces in Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Hebei (Gyeonggi Region), Shaanxi, Huguang, Sichuan, Jianghuai, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang. The full name is the "XX (Provincial) Armed Police Corps", which will be declared to the outside world that the "Shandong Salt Ship Inspection Force".

The armed police force will be responsible for inspecting the private salts that have been changed to the province, and will also be responsible for the task of cracking down on bandits in the province, and will also be responsible for the task of raiding homes.

Each province has 5,500 people, divided into squads, squadrons, brigades, and brigades. 500 people are scouts and detectives of all kinds of information. 25 people are a squadron, 500 people are a squadron, 5500 people are a brigade, and each brigade of the armed police force is equipped with 20 artillery pieces and each soldier is equipped with a horse.

The total force will reach 55,000 and the baggage personnel will be 5,000, which is 10:1.

The armed police force will draw 20,000 people from each battalion of the Shandong Army to ensure good military discipline and give treatment to the front-line troops.

The baggage troops will all be conscripted (except for overseas teams), so the total number of conscripts will be combined with the soldiers of the Second Division and the mountain regiment, and the baggage personnel of the armed police force will reach 162,900.

The number of professional soldiers, including the army's foreign combat forces of 129,800, the armed police force is 55,000, totaling 184,800, and the navy is 91,120. The addition of the army and navy will reach 275,920, and the total number of conscripts and professional soldiers will reach 438,820.

It is simply a 100,000-mile difference from the original plan. Military expenditure will increase by about 5 million taels, which is expected to reach 30 million taels.

Among the 30 million taels of military expenses, the cost of equipment accounts for a large share. If next year, such a unit will only cost 20 million taels per year, of which 10 million taels are military pay expenses, and 10 million taels are equipment maintenance, soldiers training, and consumption.

If the equipment is updated, it will cause bleeding once.

The military expenditure during the war is nothing more than the expenses of some gunpowder and artillery shells, as well as disability pensions, etc. In general, it is still a drop in the bucket, because the army's food and grass are all borne by the military headquarters, rather than letting most soldiers solve their food and salary as the Ming court did.

There are indeed not many troops of this size for a Ming Dynasty, because with the Ming Dynasty's manpower and material resources, it is easy to maintain such an army.

But in Shandong alone, the burden is too heavy.

But for the Navy, the number of such professional soldiers is necessary. For the Army, such military forces are also necessary. If we want to go to full war with Chongzhen in the future, there will be a lot of territory to control, so we will naturally have more troops.

Moreover, Zhao Yan’s biggest advantage is the army, which is the basis for his life saving. If a ship capsizes in the gutter, it would be a big joke.

The financial pressure next year is still relatively large.

The military expenditure this year has exceeded 5 million taels, so Zhao Yan had to take out 500,000 taels of gold reserves and allocate the money to the military headquarters.

There is no hurry to reserve gold now. When paper money is issued in the future, gold will naturally be concentrated in your hands.

Why could Chiang Kai-shek bring the mainland's gold to Taiwan?

Just because the Kuomintang issued gold and silver, which concentrated most of the gold and silver in the country in the bank. However, the consequences for the country were also heavy, resulting in the gold and silver depreciation of the gold and silver coupons began to depreciate rapidly, and accelerated the collapse... The lessons should be learned from. When there is really no money, it is OK to issue more paper money appropriately, but it cannot transport all gold to Taiwan like the Kuomintang, causing the value of paper money to plummet.

"According to this enrollment expansion plan, we will have a gap of nearly 300,000 people. If we recruit another 300,000 people from Shandong, it will have a great impact on agricultural production. And if we have such a huge military force, is it too fat?" Zhang Buyun looked at this plan. As the Minister of Civil Affairs of Shandong, Zhang Buyun had great opinions on the plan for enrollment expansion and adaptation proposed by the military headquarters.

"We can distribute a Japanese slave labor force to the conscripts, which will definitely have an impact on agricultural production, but I think the impact will not be great." Liu Heng said, "As for the issue of fatness, I think Brother Wenlong is too concerned. Shandong's professional soldiers will engage in foreign wars. The conscripts and 55,000 armed police forces will be used for internal operations and defense, and these soldiers are not fat at all."

"All the troops recruited this year are conscripts, that is, the Japanese slaves need about 300,000 yuan. The value each Japanese slave creates is as simple as one tael of silver, even if it is one tael of silver. 300,000 people is 3.6 million taels of silver, which means that the military expenditure this year will reach 33.6 million taels." Zhang Buyun calculated by his fingers.

"We have nine hundred thousand Japanese slaves, seventy-eighty thousand man slaves, and more than ten thousand euro slaves. If we deduct 300,000, we still have one hundred and three hundred thousand free labor force. Together with 60,000 labor reform prisoners, it will reach one hundred and forty-five thousand, which can create nearly 17 million taels of value every year. This alone is almost enough military expenditure."

"This is an infrastructure construction worker, not a cost to be a military employee."

"Our military headquarters is not eating and drinking for nothing, but we still arrested these Japanese slaves! We have thrown all the money our military headquarters earned in war last year. Besides, we will catch hundreds of thousands of Japanese slaves and come back to you next year." Liu Heng said.

Now Zhang Buyun is silent. The military headquarters made a lot of money in war last year.

However, the expansion of the army at once was 300,000! It was really shocking.

After the Executive Ministry was silent, no one objected. Zhao Quan still did not express any opinions. He was not very clear about the negative side. However, since the expansion of the army did not destroy production much, then expand the army! This is safer. Therefore, Zhao Quan still supported it.

As Minister of Commerce, Zhao Quan knew very well that military expansion will also be accompanied by commercial expansion.

Back then, the master Zhao Gui sold private salt, but he relied on a group of servants to make it. But the master carried forward the master's style, and a group of servants turned into hundreds of thousands of soldiers.

Now that Japan has been defeated, Japan's market has opened. Liaodong and North Korea have been conquered, and now the local specialty trade between Liaodong and North Korea will be completely monopolized by the Ministry of Commerce.

Besides, if the troops are tolerated, wouldn’t it be safer to fight for the world?

In this way, the plan proposed by the military headquarters was approved, and Zhao Yan also allocated 500,000 taels of gold to the military headquarters and determined the list of commanders of each brigade and regiment.

Zhao Yan personally served as the commander of the First Division and the Second Division, and was also the highest commander of the military headquarters.

First Division: 01 Infantry Brigade - Brigade Commander Zhao Yong, 02 Infantry Brigade - Brigade Commander Wang Wenyue, 03 Infantry Brigade - Brigade Commander Li Ran, 04 Infantry Brigade - Brigade Commander You Xuefeng, 05 Infantry Brigade - Brigade Commander Wang Zheng.

01 Cavalry Brigade - Brigade Commander Lin Yi, 02 Cavalry Brigade - Brigade Commander Wu Yongliang, 03 Cavalry Brigade - Qin Zhiyuan, 04 Cavalry Brigade - Brigade Commander He Shunwen.

He Shunwen was commended for his meritorious service in the Battle of Changping, and was later named General by Chongzhen, and was also promoted this time.

Second Division: 01 Infantry Brigade - Brigade Yangtze River Xizhou, 02 Infantry Brigade - Brigade Commander Xu Haize, 03 Infantry Brigade - Brigade Commander Guo Chi, 04 Infantry Brigade - Brigade Commander Weng Yongyue.

01 Cavalry Brigade Tan Chengzhang, 02 Cavalry Brigade Gao Li.

The brigade commanders of the Second Division were almost always raised from the deputy battalion commander below. This expansion of the army would mean that a large number of ordinary soldiers would be promoted to officers.

Marine Corps: Xue Qing, American Infantry Brigade, and Han Sheng, Nanyang Infantry Brigade.

Xue Qing was the battalion commander of the logistics battalion who used his baggage troops to resist the attack of Ajige cavalry. This time he was promoted, but was released overseas.

Han Sheng was born as a thief, and his bandit name was the first thief leader to be recruited. He climbed up step by step with his own efforts.

Liu Guoneng was appointed as the leader of the "Yuanshandi Regiment" and was transferred to Nagasaki, Japan to assist the Tokugawa Shogunate in suppressing the rebellious officials (accusing Japanese slaves) and protecting Shandong's trade behavior in Japan.

In addition to these brigade commanders, who were appointed by Zhao Yanlai, the officers below were promoted from the officers below by the military headquarters, and the outstanding soldiers and officers were promoted one level after another.

At the same time, Zhao Yan also began to plan a house search.

There are two current targets, one is Shanxi merchant and the other is salt merchant. At the same time, the administrative department began to plan to reclaim the land of Kong Mansion and King Lu.

There were nearly 28 large and small businesses on the list of Shanxi merchants, of which eight were the largest.

Because Shanxi merchants are in Shanxi, they have a wide range of overseas business. Most of the foreign trades of foreign races have intervened in Shanxi merchants. It is not just the Qing Dynasty, but also Mongolia, or even west of Gansu.

Usually, it mainly involves long-distance trafficking and setting up shops in Zhangjiakou.

In addition, Shanxi merchants' pawn shops, ticket numbers, hotels and other industries were almost spread throughout the Ming Dynasty.

If these twenty-eight companies are circulated, it is estimated that there will be at least 30 to 50 million taels of silver. If their industries are auctioned off, it will probably be tens of millions of taels higher.

The salt merchants are even more amazing. The salt merchants are divided into two Huai salt merchants and Tianjin salt merchants.

The salt merchants in Lianghuai were the richest, with a net worth of tens of millions of dollars, seven or eight households, millions of dollars, twenty or thirty households, and hundreds of thousands of dollars, even more familiar.

Most of these salt merchants are high-ranking nobles. Because of such a wealthy industry, only these high-ranking nobles can stand their ground. Some are pure businessmen, but they must rely on high-ranking nobles to support them. How much money they give each year is bound to exist.

These salt merchants were probably formed in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and they continued to absorb the money of the people of the Ming Dynasty throughout the middle and late periods. It is not surprising that their wealth is so rich.

The Ming Dynasty did not lack silver, but the silver was hidden in the banknote.

This is why the Qing Dynasty killed so many wealthy families, and when it came to Kangxi and Qianlong period, silver suddenly depreciated as if it was like a dive.

After the silver was robbed by the Qing Dynasty, in the Kangxi period, a large amount of silver was leaked out from the robbers during the Qianlong period. In addition, the production was almost destroyed by the Qing Dynasty, so silver was naturally worthless.

What is the flooding of silver into China during the Kangxi and Qianlong period is simply nonsense? How much foreign trade was there during the Kangxi and Qianlong period? Can the inflow of silver be more than the Ming Dynasty’s foreign trade for more than 100 years?

After seeing the essence clearly, you can see from a logical analysis that historians are nonsense.

It is really hard to calculate how much income a salt merchant can have if it is copied. However, before raiding the house, you have to conduct a thorough investigation to find out the industries of Shanxi merchants and salt merchants and then take them off in one fell swoop.

In theory, home search can make you rich!

Although they each share one-quarter and half of them to the cabinet, this half of the money can be used to repair the infrastructure of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhao Yan's future will be his.
Chapter completed!