A new soldier's individual equipment was equipped with ten taels of silver, of which half of the Minni rifle and thirty rounds of ammunition accounted for half. Secondly, the tactical vest with bulletproof effects required one tael.

Then there are steel helmets, grenades, steel daggers, and small compass with glass covers are not cheap either. Together, they look like four or five taels of silver.

Secondly, there are military uniforms, combat boots, backpacks, etc.

These are all produced by various factories in Xishan, and are basically purchased at a cost price. Of course, you can’t buy them even if you have to buy them outside.

Sun Chuanting once told Zhu Youjian that if the Ming soldiers in his hometown could have ten taels of silver equipment, they would definitely be able to chase the Mongolians all over the ground.

Ordinary Ming soldiers, except for military uniforms, basically only have a waist knife or a spear, and basically can't spend a dozen silver dollars, which means they need more money, but they usually only have one tael of money per month.

The Xishan New Army only has ten taels of silver for equipment, which is not counting the ammunition cost of training.

The lead bullets of Minni rifles are simple to make and have low cost, but the launching medicine is not cheap. At this time, the saltpeter mines were not in the capital and needed to be transported from Shanxi and Shaanxi.

Sun Chuanting calculated that every time the new army fired a lead bullet, it basically required two cents of silver.

Zhu Youjian also emphasized that sharpshooters are fed with bullets, so new soldiers shoot live ammunition every five days, and each time they shoot, they consume ten bullets, which is almost half a tael of silver, and one tael of silver a month.

But ordinary Ming army is different. Basically, they will issue weapons such as swords and guns. They can be used for one or two years if they are properly maintained.

In addition, each new soldier also has one or two taels of salary, four seasons of military uniforms, food expenses, etc.

Sun Chuanting carefully calculated that it would cost about 35 taels a year to train a qualified new army soldier, which was amortizing equipment and other items for three to five years.

This fee is basically twice that of ordinary Ming soldiers, and this is still the premise that ordinary Ming soldiers are not deducted from military pay. In fact, most Ming soldiers rarely get one tael of silver in a month.

Generally speaking, when not fighting, most Ming troops could get five cents of silver.

Zhu Youjian knew the result and just laughed it off.

The cost of the army's individual soldiers is nothing worth mentioning than the artillery and the navy under construction.

A three-pound cannon costs five hundred taels of silver, and firing a shell is basically a tael of silver as a base.

A small sail warship costs 3,000 taels of silver, which is not the cannons to be installed on the ship.

And to get the artillery and the navy to a well-trained level, it is not necessary to pile up slowly with silver.

Therefore, infantry musketeers are the most cost-effective military service in the modern army.

Sun Chuanting, a native of Shanxi, felt distressed when he mentioned artillery training. One shot was full of money.

The military preparation is well prepared, and the rest is to increase the amount of training. Compared with the traditional Ming army, the training of the new army is actually much easier, so it is completely possible to do it every day.

With good logistical support, the soldiers can eat well every meal, so the soldiers have no complaints when they train every day.

But the traditional Ming army was not good. First of all, the traditional Ming army had a large amount of training, which was different from the training movements of the new army's musketeers walking around the queue and raising guns. The traditional Ming army's swords and guns were all physical work.

In addition, food is not good. If you really fuck it every day, you will definitely be a mutiny. Therefore, the general elite Ming army soldiers are fucking every three days.

In addition to conducting queue training at the Xishan martial arts field, Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting often carried out field training in the capital according to Zhu Youjian's instructions, and sometimes had to hold exercises.

Words such as field training and exercise were also invented by Zhu Youjian. Lu Xiangsheng initially did not understand the benefits of field training and exercise, but Zhu Youjian said that training as close to actual combat as possible is the best training, but this sentence is extremely acknowledged.

After several field training and exercises, Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting gradually understood the benefits of doing so.

It is obvious that the extremely good strategies and tactics deduced in the military camp and in the staff room will definitely have problems of one kind or another when they go to the field.

The knowledge on paper is always shallow, and you must know that you have to practice this poem, so it was engraved by Lu Xiangsheng in the staff room and training ground in the military camp.

While pursuing the training of the new army, the Ming Dynasty was not idle on another battlefield. After more than two years of preparation, the Jinyiwei Foreign Intelligence Department continued to grow and grow.

Because the Jin Dynasty had lost Li Maofang, the work of the Intelligence Department became increasingly prominent, and under the guidance of Zhu Youjian, some intelligence work was carried out more and more hidden.

In the war room in Xishan, the staff room and the officers in the platoon squads of the regiment battalion, the Liaodong map made using the new mapping method has become popular.

The spy sent by the Jinyiwei who had professional mapping training took no time to obtain the map landforms of Mongolia and Liaodong.

Because in this era, there is no concept of military maps, and naturally there will be no awareness of keeping geographical terrain confidentiality.

Therefore, as long as the secret spies of the Jinyiwei are not inquiring about the military's garrison, information on these terrain and landforms can be easily obtained, especially when the Jin Dynasty is short of materials and smuggling is becoming increasingly difficult.

Some business teams pretended to be Jinyiwei have gained more and more conveniences in the Jin Kingdom.

According to Luo Sigong's report, in addition to the main cities of the Jin Kingdom, the spies of the Jinyiwei have penetrated near the birthplace of the Liaohe River and Hunhe River.

In addition to surveying and mapping the terrain of the Jin Kingdom in Liaodong, the Jinyiwei also cooperated with Dongjiang Town to plan several guerrilla operations in the Jin Kingdom. Of course, he had also done several assassinations and other wet jobs, but because of the heavy casualties, he was stopped by Zhu Youjian.

Zhu Youjian knew that it was not easy for the soldiers of the Jinyiwei to lurk in the Jin Kingdom. Compared with the assassination of one or two high-ranking officials and nobles, doing some tricks to spy on military intelligence would be more effective.

In order to avoid unnecessary losses, Zhu Youjian did not advocate assassination and other activities, unless Huang Taiji could be assassinated, it was basically impossible.

Of course, Zhu Youjian resolutely stopped activities such as blasting and poisoning. Such actions that are not up to the surface are likely to cause common hatred among the enemy's army and people, and secondly, they are afraid that they will be learned by the Tartars, and the losses will be huge when they are used in the Ming Dynasty.

The current main operation of the Jinyiwei Foreign Intelligence Department is to spy on military intelligence and assist the Ming army in carrying out large and large military operations. If you can do this job well, it means that the intelligence work is competent.

Of course, during this period, the Jinyiwei also did an extremely important task, which was to support the Korean people's restoration movement.
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