Recruiting five or six thousand people is not just about paying five or six thousand taels of wages. Recruiting people to work requires people to eat, drink, defecate, and urinate. The money spent on these is basically the same as the wage.

In other words, if you recruit five or six thousand people to work, you will have to spend at least 10,000 taels per month. And this alone is not enough. You have to spend a lot of money to build weapons and equipment, such as the mining and purchase of materials, the consumption of back-and-forth transportation of carriages, the manufacturing of tools and equipment, etc. If all the costs are added, you will spend about 20,000 taels of money in a month.

At this moment, Yang Cong finally understood why the Ming army was getting weaker and weaker. It was a major reason. Just one Xuanfu Town, it would take so much money to improve the level of weapons and equipment. All the weapons and equipment of the nine border towns in the Ming Dynasty were improved, and there was no need to think about it if there were only a few million taels.

However, this lack of money does not mean that the Ming Dynasty court cannot spend so much money. If Jiajing really knows everything, it is not a problem to spend hundreds of thousands or even millions of taels of military expenses a year. After a few years, the weapons and equipment of the Ming border army can be improved to a higher level.

The problem is that Jiajing doesn't know everything. He may think he is very capable, but in fact he is quite average in his ability. Especially in making money, he is even worse than an ordinary juren.

He was so powerful that he could just take charge of the eunuchs in the palace, and he could earn three or four million taels more in a year.

If he really has the ability, he can copy the homes of corrupt officials and spend several years on military expenses.

Unfortunately, he doesn't know how to make money at all, and he doesn't even know what others have made.

For example, the eunuchs in the palace can retrieve at least three or four million taels from the imperial village a year. If he is really powerful, he will hold down the eunuchs and copy them. Not to mention anything else, everyone in the palace can basically copy million taels. With this money, it is enough to completely redeem all the border army equipment. It is not a problem to defeat the Tartars at all.

For example, there must be corruption in the court of 30,000 taels of corruption a year. If he is really powerful, he can also make the Ming army's combat effectiveness soar.

Unfortunately, he didn't know this at all. He thought he was skillful and played around with court officials, but he didn't know that he was often played around by others.

In some later dramas, he seemed to be very powerful, and he also said something about water clear and water turbid. It means that he has to use it regardless of corrupt officials. He even relies on Yan Song, a big corrupt official, to make money for him. It is simply inexplicable and confused. If he is really powerful, he needs to rely on corrupt officials?

The reason why the Ming army had no money to equip new weapons and could not even have enough food to eat is the incompetence of the emperors such as Jiajing!

Of course, lack of money alone would not lead to the Ming army's combat effectiveness plummeting. There was no money in the early Ming Dynasty, but the Ming army was quite powerful. In many cases, the reason why the Ming army was weak was also a big factor.

A strange phenomenon occurred in the Jiajing Dynasty in history. It would be useless if the governor or governor leads troops to fight. If he stands in the wrong team or has no background, he will die no matter how great his merits are!

For example, Zhejiang Governor Zhu Wan once defeated the Japanese pirates and killed all the pirate leaders who colluded with the Japanese pirates. As a result, it angered the four major maritime merchants. The maritime merchants joined forces with Yan Song to falsely accuse them, and Jiajing actually issued an order to dismiss Zhu Wan from his post and investigate, which made Zhu Wan so angry that he committed suicide.

For example, Zhang Jing, the governor of the five Southeastern provinces of the Minister of War, and Li Tianchong, the governor of Zhejiang, won the Wangjiangjing victory, and beat the Japanese pirates to the point of urination. As a result, all their contributions were stolen by Yan Song's godson Zhao Wenhua. They were also framed by Yan Song and Zhao Wenhua, and were finally beheaded in the West City by Jiajing.

For example, the three-sided governor Zeng Xian defeated Altan and proposed a plan to recover Hetao and drive the remnants of the Northern Yuan out of the Great Wall. Unfortunately, he was involved in the evil fight between Xia Yan and Yan Song for no reason, and was framed by Yan Song. Finally, he was ordered to beheaded at the Meridian Gate by Jiajing. His family was exiled for three thousand miles to be exiled to serve as an army!

In history, the only hero in the Jiajing Dynasty who was not guilty of being killed for his merits in resisting Japanese pirates and Tartars seemed to be Hu Zongxian. Because Hu Zongxian endured humiliation and defected to Yan Song's disciples at that time, he was appreciated by Yan Song. Unfortunately, Yan Song fell in the end, and he was implicated and committed suicide unjustly.

Of course, these things have not happened yet. Zhu Wan, Li Tianjing, Zeng Xian, Hu Zongxian and others have not yet fought with the Japanese pirates and the Tartars. Yang Cong may become the first "frontier official" to defeat the Tartars and obtain unparalleled merits.

Of course he knew the endings of Zhu Wan, Zeng Xian and others in history, so he was extremely careful in doing things and tried to avoid being grabbed by others.

He also knew that neither Xia Yan nor Yan Song were selfless good people. Once these two guys grabbed his braid, they would definitely deal with him without hesitation. No matter how great his contributions he made, it would be useless.

At this time, the struggle in the court is so cruel. Nowadays, if you want to do something, you will offend the relevant interest groups.

Fortunately, he also has the Yangming lineage, Duke Dingguo and other Duke Hou Xungui, Lu Bing and Zhang Yue, so he is not afraid of Xia Yan and Yan Song slandering him out of nothing. As long as there is no real evidence, he is not afraid of

At this moment, he just wanted to quickly build weapons and equipment such as thunder, fire dragon chariots, crossbows, and catapults, and win the battle first.

After the test of the catapult and giant thunderbolt test was successful, he began to take charge of Xuanhua Factory himself, urging Wang Xuan and others to recruit people quickly and prepare production equipment to achieve mass production of weapons and equipment such as sky thunder, fire dragon chariots, hand crossbows, and thunderbolt testers as soon as possible.

What a good guy, this guy is a good trick. The money is like flowing water. At the beginning, he stuffed 50,000 taels of silver to Li Fang and Meng Chong, and then he recruited people, purchased materials and purchased equipment. In less than a month, he spent about 200,000 taels.

Fortunately, he didn't have much else, but he had a lot of money. With the full support of the Yang family, weapons and equipment such as thunder, fire dragon chariots, hand crossbows, and catapults were quickly mass-produced.

Then he started to train again. You should know that except for the thousands of soldiers from Shenji Camp brought by Zhu Xizhong, other elite soldiers from the border army and the guards of the Beijing camp were not very familiar with gunpowder weapons. If they didn't train well, they might not have been able to use the thunder to bombard themselves.

At this time, Tang Shunzhi's role was reflected. He was even more proficient in the application of gunpowder weapons than Yang Cong. He was able to do all kinds of strategies and tactics at will. He also arranged various training plans in an orderly manner. The elite border troops, the guards of the Jing camp and the soldiers of the Shenji camp were quickly bonded together by him, and various tactics gradually began to show their power. I believe that in less than two months, these 10,000 soldiers would be able to compete with 40,000 to 50,000 Tartar cavalry.

The weapons and equipment and training were on the right track, and Yang Cong suddenly discovered another problem. He seemed to have not visited the battlefield.
Chapter completed!