Chapter 309 War Army and Finance

"As for the war army, my initial idea is to rely on the original Xiangping garrison and the soldiers who returned from this battle as the basis, and then select qualified warriors from the guards in various places to jointly form a team of up to 60 soldiers. Wan, an elite teacher who can go to battle at any time!"

After a pause, as if thinking of something, Liu Yi added: "Of course, the training of the guards must not be slack, they are also an important part of the Liaodong army!"

"The Liaodong Guards must not have any vacancies. All soldiers must reach the third-level strength. Junhou first-level generals need at least the strength of senior generals to serve. Xiaocheng county lieutenant or battalion Sima needs at least third-rate strength. Zhongcheng county lieutenant or other troops Sima second-rate, Dacheng county lieutenant or school lieutenant first-rate! Those who are able go up to the mediocre, and after a month, the prefect will send a special envoy to inspect, and anyone who is unqualified will be dismissed and demoted!" Shang Ji said coldly.

All the people present were stunned. The standard of Shang Ji was the same as that of the soldiers of the imperial court of the Han Dynasty. However, in recent years, the imperial court has become corrupt and its military equipment has been slack. In pretentious use, only Xiangping City can roughly meet the corresponding standards.

With Shang Ji's character, once this standard is set, it must be strictly enforced. What makes everyone even more nervous is that many of the generals present are unqualified even if judged by the standards of the guards, let alone the Zhanjun.

Although Liu Yi kept saying that both the Zhan Army and the Guard Army were important components of the Liaodong Army, they were treated equally. But if you think about it with your ass, you know that the opportunities, treatment, and promotion in the future will definitely be very different. As long as there is a self-motivated person, if they have the opportunity to stay in the Zhanjun, they will definitely not want to go to the Weijun.

Seeing everyone getting nervous, Shang Ji couldn't help but smile in his heart, but on the surface he was still as cold as frost.

Sometimes people have to be a little stressed, and only when there is pressure can there be motivation. Of course, Shang Ji would not really send a large number of confidant generals to the guards.

If some of them really haven't reached the standard before the deadline, Shangji will help. Although this may be unfair to ordinary generals, how can there be absolute fairness in the world? Many of these people grew up with Shang Ji all the way, so their feelings are naturally very deep, and they have nothing to say about their loyalty to Shang Ji, as long as they don't give up on their own initiative, Shang Ji will do his best to help them.

But Shang Ji will not tell them this good news now, Shang Ji will be more pleased that they can reach the standard with their own strength.

"Brother, please continue!"

Regardless of the anxious generals, Shang Ji waved his hand to signal Liu Yi to continue.

"As for the war army, it is planned to include 50,000 Black Armored Xuanqi, 30,000 Lieyang Cavalry, 30,000 Dayan Cavalry, 30,000 Wolf Cavalry, 20,000 Youlong Bow Cavalry, 30,000 Beidi Strong Crossbow, Long-shot Strong Bow, There are 50,000 heavy armored sword soldiers and 50,000 giant axe soldiers each, plus 280,000 regular troops to form the main combat force. Regardless of whether special arms or conventional arms, the minimum requirement for the four-level combat soldiers. "

As he said that, Liu Yi glanced at Shang Ji, and added: "Military commanders at all levels are required to be one level higher than the guards of the same rank, and you should calculate it yourself!"

Obviously this requirement was inspired by Shang Ji, and it was added temporarily!

As soon as Liu Yi's words fell, even Liu Meng, Guo Biao and others who were stronger among the veteran generals could not help but change their expressions.

Their current official positions are all school lieutenants. According to the standards of the war army, at least a super-first-class force is needed. However, Guo Biao, the strongest among them, is also at the top of the first-class. No one has a clue!

"Make a few adjustments to reduce the size of the army to 500,000. In addition, the Lieyang Cavalry, Dayan Iron Cavalry, Wolf Cavalry, and Youlong Bow Cavalry will each increase by 10,000 to form a 200,000 cavalry army. There are 50,000 strong bows each, 100,000 heavy armored swordsmen and giant axemen each, cancel the regular troops in the army, and use special troops in the army!"

After Liu Yi finished speaking, Shang Ji coughed lightly and spoke slowly.

"Brother!" "Brother!"

As soon as Shang Ji finished speaking, Liu Yi and Deng Yan got up at the same time.

Shang Ji naturally knew what they were going to say,

He waved his hand, motioning for the two to sit down first. Out of trust in Shang Ji, the two sat down for the time being despite their doubts.

"Zhu Wei, do you have any opinions on this war army training plan?"

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, hesitated for a while before saying no.

However, many of them were worried, but because Shang Ji had just ordered Liu Yi and Deng Yan, who were about to speak, to sit down first, they didn't speak out.

"Since this is the case, the change of the army will be based on what Lieutenant Liu said, everyone cheer up, I will see a fully formed army of 500,000 troops in three months' time!"

"The last general takes orders!"

No matter what, Shang Ji's order was issued, and everyone immediately took the order in unison.

"Okay, let's leave it at that for the time being on the military side. If there is anything that needs to be adjusted, we will discuss it in the future. Next, I would like to ask the Prime Minister to introduce the government affairs to us!"

"Third brother, please!" As he said, Shang Ji nodded slightly to Deng Yan.

"According to the previous records, the registered population of Liaodong is more than 36 million, but there should be a large error between this data and the actual data. Next, we will organize a population inventory and come up with specific and accurate population data!"

"According to last year's data, Liaodong collects a total of 24 million gold in taxes a year, of which 15 million gold needs to be handed over to Luoyang, and Liaodong can reasonably retain 9 million gold. In theory, Luoyang needs to repay Liaodong every year. Allocate 20 million gold in military expenses to help the soldiers of Liaodong County resist foreign aggression!"

Hearing this, Shang Ji was taken aback for a moment, and looked at Deng Yan with some surprise. Can you still take out 20 million gold military expenditures from the court every year? Did you hear that right?

As if he understood what Shang Ji was thinking, Deng Ran said angrily: "However, this money is only in name now, and there is not a single copper coin that is actually allocated every year! If it weren't for this, the military equipment in Liaodong would not be so abandoned!"

Shang Ji nodded, expressing his understanding.

Liaodong's actual fiscal revenue of 9 million gold supports more than 2 million troops in the county, as well as the salaries and other messy expenses of officials at all levels, large and small.

Under normal circumstances, the annual maintenance cost of two million troops (regular third-tier troops) is more than 20 million gold. If everything is normal, Liaodong will pay part of it, and the imperial court will allocate another 20 million to barely maintain the military in Liaodong County. The force is functioning normally.

Even if all tax revenues of Liaodong County were withheld and a dime was not handed over to the imperial court, the 24 million taxes could barely maintain the normal operation of the county, and life was tight.

This is also the reason why Shang Ji's appointment can be passed by the court so easily. Liaodong is a mess, and those related aristocratic families don't even bother to come to Liaodong to drink the northwest wind.

In a prosperous county in the interior, the annual fiscal revenue can even be more than ten or twenty times that of Liaodong. Although they are counties in name, just like the difference between the poor counties in the country and the top 100 counties in the country in reality, the gap is so huge that it is desperate.