Sir, you have to pay more

In theory, weapons and equipment belong to the state, and it is only right and proper for officers and soldiers to go to the state to give them to them.

Don't bother Jia Liu, the great general, to have a headache and worry.

However, the national conditions of the Qing Dynasty were more complicated.

In terms of system, the weapons of the Eight Banners Army were divided into three parts: government-made, self-made, and paid-made.

Official manufacturing mainly refers to the weapons and equipment issued by the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry.

Both self-made and paid-made weapons are self-made weapons.

The "Great Qing Huidian" clearly stipulates this, which is "one's own equipment, or one's own old military equipment."

Generally, they are weapons handed down from the ancestors.

There is a big bow left by Mrs. Jia in Jia Liu's house.

That is to say, when the banner soldiers went out to fight, except for special weapons such as muskets, cannons, and medicines, the imperial court system actually had to prepare their own horses, armor, bows and crossbows and other weapons.

If it is not enough, the bannerman needs to purchase it at his own expense.

There would be no problem with this system at the beginning of the country, because the Eight Banners are essentially a robbery gang.

The banner owner is the brains of the robbery group.

The rate of return on robbing the Ming Dynasty, Mongolia, and North Korea was extremely high, so the officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners enthusiastically brought their own dry food for the expedition.

After the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, it encloses land throughout North China to meet the basic land needs of the Eight Banners.

The Shunzhi Dynasty ordered the Eight Banners soldiers to inherit 30 mu of land from generation to generation.

In addition, the country pays the soldiers of the Eight Banners every year, and the level of military pay is divided according to the Manchurian, Mongolian, and Han armies.

A low-level Manchurian Eight Banners forward, guard, leader, and vest are paid 4 taels of silver per person per month, plus 46 hu rice a year, which is equivalent to a year's salary of a seven-rank county magistrate.

However, all males in the Eight Banners families of Manchuria can enjoy the "imperial food", and newborn babies also have it, which is relatively less.

High wages, basic land, and rewards for military achievements, as well as past robbery income, made the income of even the lowest vest of the Manchurian soldiers in the early days of the country comparable to that of the middle class.

In this way, there is no financial pressure for the banner soldiers to prepare their own weapons, and they will have a future and rewards for their military exploits. The enthusiasm for going out for the country is not generally high.

The problem is that after a hundred years, the Eight Banners have all decayed from top to bottom, and they all know how to eat, drink and have fun. They can't ride a horse or pull a bow.

Sitting and eating for a long time will definitely lead to family decline. Therefore, many Eight Banners' children's fields are mostly pawned and they become landless households.

On the contrary, the population of the Eight Banners is growing rapidly, which makes the livelihood of the Eight Banners difficult.

I wonder if they can't even support a family, how can they expect the Eight Banners' disciples to raise war horses and take good care of ordnance just like their ancestors, so that the country can immediately go to war as soon as the country needs it.

Obviously not!

The situation at the court is similar.

The famous prodigal son of the current emperor Qianlong, in order to reduce the expenditure of the national treasury, Qianlong specially issued a decree in the 21st year that "the armor and other military weapons of the officers and soldiers in the future should be prepared by themselves, and they should be repaired by the holders after a certain number of years. Stronger than the official system."

That is to say, from that year on, except for the guns and artillery that the Ministry of Industry was still manufacturing, the manufacturing of armor, bows and arrows, throwing bags, waist knives, flails, and conch shells for the officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners was stopped.

When it comes time to go on an expedition, even the government-made equipment in the past has to be purchased by the bannermen themselves, which will undoubtedly increase their burden.

Back then when Jia Liu's gang of Baitang'a went out to fight, they were able to get the weapons and equipment they were issued, mainly because they were reserve officers of the Eight Banners, and they were all the sons of the princes, and there were not many of them.

If there are tens of thousands of people going, I am afraid that Jia Liude will pull the big black horse at home, which is too old to walk, and go to the battlefield with the big bow left by his old man on his back.

Now, together with the Eight Banners of the clan, 4 people are going to fight at a time, and food and drink can be made up to solve the problem. Where can we put such a scale of armor and weapons?
Is it true that the Eight Banners soldiers should prepare by themselves?

It's hard for a daughter-in-law to cook without rice.

You must know that the Qing family is so rotten, Jia Liu will not be the general king no matter what.

There was no other way, so I had to ask Enming, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, to ask Old Fu at the Military Aircraft Department, and Old Fu replied simply: "We will do it according to the custom."

In the past, custom-made guns and artillery made by the government were sent out, and the rest were resolved by themselves.

What Jia Liu understood meant that as long as he could get weapons and equipment, Lao Fu would not care whether he killed people or set them on fire.

For armor, swords and spears, the Eight Banners soldiers basically have them, and the difference is only a little bit, but there are really not many other consumables.

For example, Prince An's newly-organized white flag guard army has 3000 people, and the bows and crossbows required to be equipped with at least a thousand according to the system, but the actual number of bows and crossbows equipped by this army is less than [-].

The main weapons are standard long knives and spears, and there are also some scary-looking ceremonial weapons.

For the musket, the basic equipment is a few tenths.

Where are the muskets?
Most of them were stolen by Jia Liu.

After the unlucky incident in Mancheng, in order to fully arm himself, he established a military industrial park in Tianjin and vigorously developed new firearms, thereby increasing his success rate of armed seizure of power.

Jia Liu quietly ordered behind the back of the old rich and the uncle, that the gunpowder depot in Xizhimen Inner Street under the jurisdiction of the former Ministry of Industry, the military department, military case room, and military calculation room under the Yuheng Qing officials' department stocked muskets, cannons, lead and The cannon storehouse where scrap iron cannons are collected and stored, as well as the inventory of ordnance in the Hall of Mental Cultivation Manufacturing Office, together with technicians packed [-]% of them to Tianjin.

To what extent were the gunpowder depots and armories managed by the Ministry of Industry cleaned up?

At the same time, a large number of weapons and equipment were snatched by banner people for self-defense.

As a result, when the imperial court came to its senses, the military industry inventory of the Qing Dynasty for decades was only left in underpants.

In the past two days, the Ministry of Industry has gathered a total of equipment that can only arm about 7000 people, and many of them are garbage that Jia Liu didn't like at the beginning.

This was Jia Liu's first real command of a large army. The last time he fought against the chaos in Shandong, the command power was not clear, and the number of troops was not too large.

Therefore, for his debut show, Jia Liu does not seek the most expensive, but also the best.

At least, have a posture.

Fresh clothes and angry horses, bright helmets and pointed tops, galloping war horses, waving pennants, and a lot of knives and guns are enough to line up.

So, I was really anxious, and scolded Enming, a liaison officer sent by the Ministry of Industry in Xingyuan, to the point of blood.

"Your Majesty, I have personally visited several warehouses, and there are only a handful of usable weapons, and the ironware rooms in the yamen of each capital can barely make up a batch."

It's not that Enming doesn't want to share his worries for the prince, it's really that he can't change it.

Jia Liu rubbed his temples, and said distressedly: "If it really doesn't work, I will send a message to the provinces passing by, asking them to hand over all the ordnance in the warehouse."

Enming shook his head: "My lord, I'm afraid it will be difficult."

Jia Liu was puzzled: "What do you mean?"

Enming said that more than ten years ago, the fourth devil made a decree, which was to ask the provinces to "not allow additional firework that consumes lead", and the rest of the military expenditure "to be handled according to the materials used to manufacture lead matchsticks in the capital."

That is to say, except that the capital can start to build ordnance, the provinces and localities are strictly forbidden to build weapons.If there is any need for military weapons, please ask the imperial court to be verified by the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Industry will allocate them.

Jia Liu was dumbfounded: "According to this, the king led an army to go out, and he didn't even have any decent weapons?"

"There are some."

Enming dare not say no.

Tell the prince that he found a batch of muskets in the ironware room of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. There are more than 1600 rods. In addition, there are 4 iron cannons and more than [-] catties of medicine.

"Quick gun?"

Jia Liu noticed that Enming used the term "quick gun", and was immediately very interested, asking what kind of fast gun it was.

Enming asked someone to bring two shots to show the prince.

Jia Liu took a glance and found that the gun did not have a matchlock. Looking at the structure, it turned out to be a flintlock gun that he had asked to be developed and produced in Tianjin.

I couldn't help feeling extremely excited and curious, and asked Enming: "Is this gun produced by our Qing Dynasty?"

Enming said no, saying that since the Great Qing Conquest to Burma, many generals who participated in the war reported to the court, saying that the muskets used by the Burmese were not like the bird ropes used by the Qing soldiers. Therefore, the imperial court is required to spend a lot of money to purchase imitations.

At that time, Fu Longan, Minister of Military Aircraft in charge of the Ministry of Industry, asked the imperial court to allocate funds and send personnel to Macau to purchase a batch of flintlock guns, which were handed over to the Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for imitation.

A total of more than [-] rods were imitated before and after, but they were not promoted. Except for some of them used for hunting, the rest were sealed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

After hearing what Enming said, Jia Liu picked up his flintlock gun and pointed it around outside the big tent, thought for a while for someone to load the gunpowder, and then took the trigger and fired.

Sure enough, the firing speed was several times faster than that of the matchlock gun.

"Why is such a good gun not promoted in the Eight Banners and the Green Camp?"

Jia Liu actually has the answer in his heart, but he still wants to get a definite answer from Enming.

"At the beginning, the emperor said that our Qing army should use cavalry to conquer the Han people and conquer the world. Therefore, cavalry and archery are the foundation of the Qing Dynasty. The officials thought that the emperor intended that the Eight Banners should not be used. If they can't concentrate on learning riding and archery, they will rely on simple firearms. , they are even more reluctant to learn.”

Enming found a good reason for his old master.

Jia Liu did not speak after hearing this. Apart from defending against Han and emphasizing riding and shooting, the fourth devil did not promote new firearms. The biggest reason may be that the defense environment of the Qing Dynasty was relatively stable at this time, and there was no great external pressure.

Throwing the gun to the people next to him, he told Enming: "If you erase these flintlock guns from the account book, they will not be issued anymore. This king has other uses."

"Whoo!"

Enming was also quick in his handling of affairs, picking up a pen and blackening all the flintlock guns on the account book with ink.

He also reported some other ordnance, and said that there was another batch of muskets eliminated from the wars over the years, some of which had been simply maintained, and some were going to be returned to the furnace for rebuilding.

Jia Liu casually handed Enming a cigarette: "How many?"

Enming glanced at the account book: "More than 4000 strokes."

After hearing this, Jia Liu ordered without hesitation: "Equip all these high-quality muskets with the Yellow Belt Battalion."

Hearing this, Enming couldn't help being taken aback, and whispered to remind the prince that these muskets had serious quality problems.

"Quality issues?"

Jia Liu waved his hands disapprovingly, "Emperor Taizu dared to gather a crowd to attack the tiger-like Ming Dynasty with only thirteen sets of armor, and finally laid the foundation for our Eight Banners to be strong, and also laid the foundation for our founding of the Qing Dynasty!

What does this matter mean? It means that only the theory of weapons can't do it!
Explain that fighting depends on courage! "

Speaking of joy, Jia Liu slapped the two most advanced pistols in the world on the table at his waist:
"If weapons could really determine the outcome of a war, there would be no Qing Dynasty today!

This king firmly believes that as long as all the disciples of I Aixinjueluo are brave and take the lead, they will be able to protect the Qing and eliminate the thieves! "