The Guanning Army's military pay is the highest among the border troops, about 1.4 taels per month.

Chongzhen waved his sleeves and the new army set a 1.8 tael each month first.

The new army is going to recruit 30,000 people.

Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong army was 10,000, Sun Chuanting's Shenwu Guards, and Hong Chengchou's Gongsheng Army were 10,000.

30,000 people, a theoretical account is 54,000 taels per month (35.1 million yuan per month) and 648,000 taels per year (about 421.2 million yuan).

With the equipment, you must prepare at least 1 million taels of silver this year (650 million yuan per month).

It is still no problem to be able to pull out a group of people to fight the peasant army in a year. When the number of people is enough, we will train for half a year and burn and kill and plunder in Shuntian Prefecture. Oh no, there is still no problem to confiscate the house.

Chongzhen can take out this money at present and has set aside a budget.

So far, Chongzhen has discharged money from the eight major locust merchants that have not been transported yet. He copied a total of 5.38 million taels, plus his own 100,000 taels, a total of 5.48 million taels.

The rewards and pensions were directly allocated 2.5 million taels.

There are still 2.98 million taels left, and purchase 400,000 s of grain, 1 tael of silver per stone, and then 50,000 taels of money to consume 450,000 taels.

There are 2.53 million taels left.

Allocation of 1 million taels for military expenses, and there are still 1.53 million taels left.

I took 1 million taels to send out red envelopes, but there were still 530,000 taels left.

This money must be kept to continue to stabilize the grain prices in Shuntianfu.

Wait, the eunuch's money has not been handed over yet!

Don’t think that there are only eunuchs from the Chongzhen Dynasty. Now there are eunuchs from the Wanli Dynasty, eunuchs from the four dynasties of Taichang, Tianqi and Chongzhen in the palace.

According to the rules, when the new emperor ascends the throne, the eunuchs need to be replaced. The eunuchs above are the eunuchs above, and the eunuchs below stay by giving some money.

Now there are 30,000 to 40,000 people in the palace, and 40,000 to 50,000 to 40,000 to 50,000 to 30,000 to 30,000 to 30,000 to 30,000 to 30,000 to 30,000 to 30,000 to 30,000 to 30,000

Don’t underestimate the Ming Dynasty’s palace. The palace is very large, and the Forbidden City is only part of the palace.

As soon as Chongzhen settled the matter for the Privy Council, Sun Chengzong and the others went down first, and Gao Qiqian quickly came in with small steps.

"See you, the emperor."

"Get up and talk."

"Thank you, Emperor."

Gao Qiqian submitted a report. After Chongzhen finished reading it, his hands under his robe shook slightly.

Damn it!

Ten thousand eunuchs were sent out, and everyone took them!

Now Gao Qiqian can do it, and each eunuch is fined 150 silver!

The total is 1.5 million taels. In this way, I made 500,000 taels back?

This investment seems to be similar to what I expected.

However, Gao Qiqian must have won a lot of them during this process.

Forget it, keep him for the time being.

Only by letting him want to get more can he be motivated to continue simplifying the people in the palace.

It is more than enough to leave up to 6,000 people in the palace.

In other words, there is actually a sum of money in the palace that can be squeezed out.

But you can't be anxious about this, as it's easy to get rid of it if you squeeze it hard.

"Have you communicated with Royal Manor?"

“It’s been communicated.”

"Okay, do what I told you, soothe their emotions and don't make trouble, otherwise I will use your head to convince the public."

Gao Qiqian shivered and hurriedly said, "Yes!"

OK, I have 2.03 million taels in my hand now, waiting for the eight major locust merchants to come, a total of 10.03 million taels.

He had done a lot before, and this year he needed a total of 16.9 million taels.

In addition to the eight major locust traders, they have already made 13.78 million taels with various despicable means, and still need 3.12 million taels, and the tax should be able to be filled.

However, to be on the safe side, you must make 20 million taels of money.

In fact, this is a very difficult thing!

Because the amount of silver in the late Ming Dynasty was only about 600 million taels, this was after the Longqing switch.

The silver standard is only in the southeast, and many places in the mainland even barter.

In this way, we must pilot the bank in Shuntianfu this year, otherwise the money will not be enough in the future.

On the 20th day of the first lunar month of the third year of Chongzhen, Xu Guangqi entered the palace to meet him.

Three things were placed in front of Chongzhen, one was soap, the second was shampoo, and the third was toilet paper.

In addition, Chongzhen also saw a blond and blue-eyed foreigner.

Johnson Choi!

"See Your Majesty."

Johnson Chan speaks Chinese very well, but he also has some accents, which is normal.

Although I knew there were foreigners in the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen still felt a little incredible after seeing it with his own eyes.

"Please get up quickly."

Xu Guangqi said: "Your Majesty, the old minister suggested that Tang Daren return to Beijing to serve in the Imperial Heaven Supervision. He knows a lot about astronomy."

"No, no, no, the Imperial Heavenly Prison is a waste of talents. Go directly to your Ministry of Works and become the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Works first. I plan to set up a big firearm bureau, so let Tang Aiqing preside over it."

The firearms in the Ming Dynasty were mainly produced by military weapons and military warfare.

It is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry, but it is full of copper fragrance everywhere, corruption is common, and cutting corners is common.

If you really throw Joshua Than there, he will be transformed into the environment soon.

The Ministry of Industry is a department with very heavy oil and water.

So the best way is to set up a new one, slowly cut out the manufacturing of firearms, and gradually extend it to iron smelting and mining, and rectify land and resources.

Of course, that's the follow-up, and it's best to start from the firearms bureau.

Xu Guangqi did not expect that the emperor was so happy and directly served as the Left Minister of Works.

There are people at the left and right assistant ministers of the Ministry of Works now, so they have added the title.

Just like the current Minister of War is Wang Qia, but in fact, Yuan Chonghuan is also the title of Minister of War, and he is only given the title of additional to mobilize resources.

Joshua Chan was flattered and hurriedly said, "Thank you, Your Majesty."

"No need to be polite. I still have many things to do in the future, and I need you two."

"I am willing to devote myself to your Majesty."

"Xu Aiqing, keep these three things here first. Wang Chengen has found the factory and someone will take you over to see how many people you need. You should tell me. It is best to draw up a plan and we will implement it in a unified way, which will be faster."

"yes!"

“Can you produce 1,000 soap, 1,000 shampoo and 1,000 toilet paper next month?”

Speaking these words from later generations, Chongzhen felt as if he had changed back to Zhang Chen, which was particularly kind!

Xu Guangqi was slightly stunned and said, "Production is not difficult, as long as people and raw materials arrive, it will be enough."

"Okay, everything is a human problem. The raw materials also need to be prepared by people. I will prepare raw materials for you 500 people first. I will also let the following people arrange the places where these people live. I will ask a group of people to help you alone. Just make the things for me."

"yes!"

"And you, Tang Aiqing, have two days off, go shopping in Beijing, and eat roast duck from Bianqifang. It tastes very good. After the rest is done, let's go and see the cannons and muskets together."

Johnson Chan visited Beijing during the Tianqi period and was appreciated by many officials of the Ming Dynasty. He was also organized by the court, but he worked in Xi'an Prefecture in recent years.

He felt that the emperor in front of him was particularly friendly and said quickly: "Your Majesty, I am not tired. If your Majesty wants, I can accompany you to see the cannons and muskets at any time."
Chapter completed!