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Chapter 124 Military Expenses
For the smooth progress of the Hetao Raiders, Zhang Zongxian also adjusted the courses of the college disciples.

Added two hours of military training to them every day.

And organize them directly into a cavalry regiment, and the overall equipment should be on par with the Qingshuiying cavalry brigade.

Zhang Zongxian served concurrently as the head of the regiment, and then he was appointed as the battalion commander according to his personal instructions, the inner disciples were officers, the outer disciples were squad leaders, and the registered disciples were ordinary soldiers.

The entire college also turned to militarized management.

Not only that, the new youth camp in Qingshui Camp has also been expanded.Children who have not been admitted to the college in Jiazhou can also come to the youth camp.

Even the poor boys from other military fortresses in Yanshou Town could have a full meal after learning that they entered the camp.

One after another came to join the youth camp, and the number of the entire youth camp exceeded 1000 in less than a month after its establishment.

And there are teenagers from remote areas who are still on their way.As the so-called half-child eats my father to death, most of them are the second sons of the family.

Can't inherit the family business, can only come out to make a living.

The children who enter the juvenile camp do not have military pay, but they will be provided with the corresponding daily necessities.

During the day, in addition to daily training, these children are also responsible for taking care of the horses and wiping the weapons.

In the evening, after dinner, there is also a literacy class, where the intern disciples teach them literacy and tell them about history.

The outstanding ones can also enter the college for further study after passing the assessment, and then directly become outer disciples.

Although the disciples of the youth battalion do not need military pay, so many off-duty personnel need to be supported, causing military expenditures to skyrocket.

As of mid-June, including the juvenile battalion, Zhang Zongxian directly controlled nearly [-] military forces.

At present, Zhang Zongxian's military forces are divided into:

First of all, for the soldiers recruited by each county, each county has a line infantry company with reinforcements and an artillery company equipped with six five-jin guns.

In addition, it is planned to store [-] flintlock guns and [-] five-pound guns in the military camps of the counties.

The young and strong in each county will conduct batch training during the slack season, and each county can pull out a line infantry brigade when needed.

Only Qingjian County has completed the training camp so far.

Changsheng Fort in Qingjian County also has a complete line infantry battalion.

The equipment cost is not included in the sum of all places, and the monthly military salary is 7000 taels plus 2000 taels for food.

Half of the expenses were borne by the counties, and Zhang Zongxian subsidized the rest.That is 4000 taels.

Then there is the strength of a regiment composed of college disciples.There is no combat power yet.

The disciples of the academy don't have military pay, only living expenses, and it's Zhang Zongxian's private account.

Finally, there are cavalry brigades and juvenile battalions being formed in Qingshuiying and Huangpuchuanbao. At present, the cavalry brigade has completed the formation of a cavalry regiment and a teaching regiment.

There is also a cavalry battalion under the name of the Escort, and the cavalry regiment of Qingshui Battalion will take turns to protect the caravan.

Because of Boren's objection, he believed that this would affect the training of the cavalry brigade, so the cavalry battalion would return to the Qingshui camp later, and Changsheng Fort organized another cavalry company to protect the caravan.

Coupled with the shortage of officers, the original plan to hide the cavalry brigade in the escort agency was abandoned.

After the formation of the cavalry brigade, the military salary expenditure of the entire cavalry brigade is 19000 taels a month.

Adding a horse is equivalent to the food expenses of three infantrymen, the food expenses also need 12500 taels a month.

The juvenile battalion does not need military pay, and it costs 800 taels a month just to manage meals.

At present, the purchase price of a long flintlock gun is 4 taels of silver, that of a five-jin bronze cannon is 350 taels, and that of a ten-jin bronze cannon is 800 taels.

A soldier who is fully equipped also costs 5 taels of silver.

For a few months, it costs 4 taels of silver just to support the army without monthly expenditure.

Fortunately, Zhang Zongxian's business territory is constantly expanding.

The horse market, which created huge profits in the early days, is still growing at a high speed every month.

With the increase in production, spirits have dropped to two taels of silver at this time.Selling five catties of wine on the grassland can still be exchanged for one horse.

The caravan from the horse market has already gone to Hami, and not only spirits, but also tea and silk business have been transported there.

Many merchants from the south went to the horse market and directly exchanged porcelain, tea, sugar, silk, and cotton cloth for horses, spirits, and wool.

The caravan under the horse market took iron pots, tea, cotton cloth, spirits, and salt to the grasslands to exchange for horses, cattle, sheep, and furs.

Moreover, in the horse market, Qingshuiying controlled by Zhang Zongxian went out of the side wall, which saved him from being exploited by the frontier generals.

It is less than six hundred miles from Qingshuiying to Guihua City.A caravan under Mashi even has a store in Guihua City.

This makes it impossible for the smugglers who monopolized the place to compete completely in the horse market, and even the dark tricks cannot beat the caravans with flintlock guns.

The master behind him has nothing to do with Zhang Zongxian, and the frontier army dare not provoke the caravan in Mashi.

The horse market provides Zhang Zongxian with a profit of no less than 20 taels of silver every month, but there is very little cash, most of which are goods.

These goods are provided to the major workshops.

Down from the horse market is the woolen workshop. After the new workshop using the large animal-powered spinning wheel was built, the supply of wool could not keep up with the production speed of the workshop.

The wool workshop currently has [-] large animal-powered spinning wheels, with a daily output of [-] catties of wool.

Naturally, the price of wool has also dropped. Currently, a catty of wool has dropped to eight renminbi.This is also caused by insufficient wool supply.

If we continue to increase the number of machines, the price of wool can continue to drop.

Some businessmen saw that the large animal-powered spinning wheel could make a hundred catties of defense line every day, so they immediately purchased the large spinning wheel and started spinning cotton thread.

On XCMG's side, there are more and more orders, and the workshop is also constantly expanding.

The entire wool workshop produces 12 catties of wool per month, and the profit even reaches 7 taels a month.

After Zhang Zongxian promoted the development of honeycomb coal, the demand for coal has increased. As more and more people began to use honeycomb coal.

There was a coal mining boom in northern Shaanxi, and in Jiazhou, with the support of the state government, new mines were dug every day.

Not only coal mines, but also iron mines. The main income in this area is the monopoly of honeycomb coal and the retained mining tax.

The monopoly of briquette mainly cooperates with local people, and the profit is not high.It is still summer, and the main thing is to open up business routes.

At present, more than 1 taels of tax can be withheld every month, and it is still growing rapidly.

Another surprise for Zhang Zongxian was the profit of the insurance industry. The insurance was originally set up to protect the miners.

It also makes the boss of the mine pay attention to the life of the miners.

With the upsurge of mining, the number of people engaged in mining has reached 1, and the insurance funds called back by major mines are more than [-] taels.

After the Xiazhou Chamber of Commerce was established, Zhang Zongxian mentioned the benefits of insurance to the Chamber of Commerce, and the Chamber of Commerce believed that paying insurance was similar to paying protection fees to Zhang Zongxian.

Soon the insurance premium of Taiping increased to 3 taels, and it was thought that there were 3 off-duty workers now.

Not because Zhang Zongxian separated the insurance business from Taiping and handed it over to Xiaoxue to manage.Anyway, with the guidance of Zhang Zongxian, I am not afraid of anything happening.

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