Chapter 29: Financial Revenue
With the establishment of the navy, Zhao Yan's personnel also carried out a large-scale mobilization. First, he was soothed to the sky monkey. The court had officially granted him the identity of General Denglai, which was higher than the guerrilla Zhao Yan's original guerrilla.
However, Zhao Yan only served him as a company commander, general, guerrilla, and general. The positions of the imperial court were similar to military ranks in Zhao Yan's army, but they were different from the actual positions. The soldiers he brought were all selected. If Han Sheng had the intention to rebel, his soldiers would be the first to cut him down.
The backbone of the bandits who surrendered with Han Sheng were assigned to the recruit camp.
The recruit battalion was just established, and Song Shijin, deputy battalion commander of the first battalion, was appointed as the battalion commander. The task of the recruit battalion is to train recruits and does not require participation in battle.
All recruited soldiers are trained by advanced recruit battalions and then added to the combat battalions. This way, it will be much more convenient after the division of labor.
Some experienced veterans from the infantry, cavalry and artillery battalions were transferred to the new recruits together.
The artillery battalion was almost dismantled during this mobilization, and 400 artillery soldiers were transferred to the navy. The battalion commander Su Buheng was also transferred to the navy and took office as commander of the First Fleet.
Zhao Yan had almost no one on his hands, so he transferred Su Buheng to the "First Fleet" with only four lucky ships. The fleet's mission was very simple, which was to escort.
There were 400 musketeers and part-time rocketers who were transferred to the First Fleet together. At the same time, the First Fleet would recruit another 400 gunners and 800 combatants.
After the training was completed, the First Fleet had four lucky ships, each of which was: 200 artillery, 300 combatants (melee combat, muskets, rockets), 250 pilots and chores.
The training programs are long-distance artillery battles, jumping and catching ships, and anti-jumping training...
Long-distance artillery is mainly used to attack enemy sails, while close-distance artillery is mainly used to sink. These days, the average firing speed of artillery is every two minutes, and Zhao Yan's artillery is one minute in a row. With the application of grenades, he has absolute confidence in artillery battles. The most important thing is the issue of accuracy.
What we need to prevent is the enemy burning ships and jumping to fight. At the same time, if we want to capture the enemy's ships, we must go to fight to fight, so it is also the main training event.
Others such as navigation and epidemic prevention are actually not too complicated issues, and are not as difficult as later generations of navies.
After Su Buheng took office as commander of the First Fleet, the artillery battalion was led by deputy battalion commander Huang Yao, who was not inferior to Su Buheng in ballistics.
At the same time, the First Battalion was transferred to Handan to replace the Second Battalion's guarding work. Next year, a large-scale bandits will inevitably come to the east, and the First Battalion will also make preparations before the war.
In addition, Wang Zheng, the company commander of the Second Battalion, was transferred to serve as the commander of the Yingzhou regiment, and the company commander of the First Battalion, You Xuefeng, was appointed as the commander of the Handan regiment. Each second-line troops were 50,000 people.
Each regiment of the second-line troops has five battalions, each with more than 6,000 people, 3,000 pike soldiers (100 people in a team, 10 rows, and 3 horizontal teams), 1,800 musketeers (300 each team, 6 rows in 6 rows), 600 artillery soldiers (200 artillery pieces), 100 rocket soldiers, and 500 baggage soldiers.
The second-line troops did not have longbow soldiers. After several actual combat tests, the combat effectiveness of the longbow soldiers was still good. However, because of the long-range support capabilities of artillery and rockets, longbow soldiers were not so necessary, and training was too difficult after all, so they were eliminated.
"Well! I'll find some people to study textile machinery in a few days." Zhao Yan nodded. It seemed that the machinery was to be further transformed. For textile machinery, the textile machinery has only more than 100 times efficiency and the loom has only 4 times efficiency, which is still too low.
The normal efficiency of the mule machine should be able to drive more than 400 spindles, which is equivalent to 400 women. After the loom is modified, it should be able to increase to a speed of 20 times.
"In terms of military farming, the grain we produce must be supplied to the army and to support refugees, and there will be no profits, and the maritime trade has not yet been determined." Zhao Quan concluded, "So if we want to pull out 100,000 second-tier troops this year, we must rely on the benefits of private salt and glass mirrors."
"Glass mirrors are currently stable at a monthly income of 700,000 taels, and the revenue in glassware has risen to 100,000 taels per month. Due to the high price of glass mirrors, although the revenue does not look good, the sales volume is not too much."
"Reduce prices and expand sales." Zhao Yan said, the cheapest glass mirrors currently cost several hundred taels, which does limit the number of sales.
"To what extent?" Zhao Quan asked.
"It has dropped to 5 million taels of annual profit." Zhao Yan said that the Ming Dynasty had nearly 100 million people, including poor and rich people. It was possible to do glass mirror business for poor people or glass mirror business for rich people. The price of poor people is low, the glass mirror specifications are small, the frames are rough, the frames are large, the frames are finely crafted, and the prices can be very different. Each person spends 1 tael of silver and has an income of 100 million taels. Of course, this is pure YY. Even if the price is low, as long as it is still monopolized, most poor people still cannot afford it.
Chapter completed!