Chapter 225

The strong tea has a faint fragrance at hand.

For a moment, Xiao Ming continued: "the huyantuo tribe on the grassland has withdrawn, and now it has become a blood wolf tribe. You all know that."

"Our scouts on the grassland have brought back the news. Last time we were lucky to win, but this time Youzhou was taken over by Bei Shan. It's a lot of trouble." Niu Zhen said with a frown.

Zhan Xingchang said: "yes, the blood wolf tribe has strengthened its surveillance on Cangzhou. There are often barbarian scouts outside the city. Now we can't send craftsmen to build fortresses on the grassland. After your highness went to Chang'an, I made an attempt. The craftsmen just transported the materials to the grassland, and then the barbarian cavalry arrived. We had to withdraw back to the city."

"This Bei Shan is really not an easy character to deal with. Now he must be staring at Cangzhou like a wolf at his prey. If there is any mistake, they will take advantage of the situation." Xiao Ming's brows are locked.

After pondering for a while, he continued: "the fortress promotion strategy can't stop. Since it can't be promoted to the grassland for the time being, the Cangzhou pass must be built into an iron wall. After the meeting, I will teach you a new construction method."

"Yes, your highness." Zhan Xingchang nodded.

At this time, Xiao Ming looked at Chen Qi and said, "what's happened to the military workshop now?"

Chen Qi said: "Your Highness, all the equipment of the equipment department has been moved to the military workshop. Now the guns are in normal production. This month, the military workshop has provided 20 guns for Cangzhou, but now the material problem can't keep up."

Chen Wenlong echoed: "Your Highness, it's just a mine managed by borrowing money. The iron ore can't keep up. Now the iron ore transported from the basic mountain every day is only enough to produce one gun. Sometimes the materials of one gun are not enough."

This problem is basically unsolved for Xiao Ming. After all, the more people there are, the more mining there will be.

Because after the surface iron ore is excavated, it can only be continuously dug underground. The number of people digging in this narrow space is limited, and they can't plug people into it indefinitely.

It is precisely because of this that the difficulty of mining is increased, and the mining manpower tends to be fixed, but the output of iron ore is now basically maintained at a certain amount.

In addition, the iron ore has to be transported, and there is a long delay on the road, which is really bad for the production of artillery.

"There's no need to worry about that. There will be materials coming soon." Xiao Ming said.

Chen Qi and Chen Wenlong look at each other, "really?"

"It's not true. The emperor wants to buy eight thousand taels of artillery from Qingzhou. Some silver will be offset by iron and coal, and there are other vassals. In this way, the iron and coal of Dayu will be basically transported to Qingzhou." Luffy said in a loud voice.

"Purchasing? Your highness, this gun is the lifeblood for us to deal with the barbarians. How can we sell it if we don't have enough Niu Zhen was not happy.

It's hard to take the gun away from him and cut his flesh. After all, these are the armaments of Qingzhou army.

"Old general, just now Chen Wenlong said that the mineral resources in Qingzhou are not enough. We don't want to solve the problem of materials. It's a great restriction to the military industry. It's hard to disobey the emperor's orders. We have to consider the silver. The cost of this gun is only two or three thousand taels. Now we buy eight thousand taels, which means that every gun provided to the court hall, we can get nothing in Qingzhou at the same time If you make two or three guns, you can make a steady profit. " Xiao Ming said.

Niu Zhen was stunned for a moment, and this thought immediately came back to him. He said with a smile, "Your Highness, I'm really confused."

When they heard the words, they gave a kind laugh.

"But our military workshop is going to be tough. Your highness, you have to transfer some more slaves, or you won't have enough hands." Chen Qi said.

"It's no problem, but the guns we sell and our own guns should be produced separately. At least we should ensure that the range and power of the guns we sell are not as good as those of Qingzhou, so that if these guns fall into the hands of foreign enemies in the future, we can also suppress them." Xiao Ming warned.

Niu Zhen and others nodded one after another when they heard the words. They were about to talk about this problem. It seems that Xiao Ming had considered everything.

With the military problems finished, Pang Yukun said: "Your Highness, this year, the six prefectures have a bumper harvest of grain. Many people have sold grain to the Yamen. Now there are 500000 tons of grain in the Yamen. With the army's grain, there are not enough warehouses in the six prefectures. Now the next harvest is coming. Do you want to continue to buy grain?"

Five hundred thousand shekels of grain is only enough for half a million people to eat for three months. It is more than enough to feed the army, but it is far from enough. According to modern standards, war readiness grain should be enough for at least three years.

Because once the war comes, production will be destroyed. For example, in the battle of Cangzhou, although there were only 50000 auxiliary soldiers and soldiers, there were 230000 people mobilized to transport food and grass and prepare materials for the siege.

When these strong laborers are recruited, their fields will not be taken care of properly, because the harvest in autumn will certainly be reduced a lot.Because of this, Xiao Mingcai said that Qingzhou also suffered a great loss of vitality.

"As long as the people sell it, we will accept it. Not to mention everyone, we must guarantee the army's grain and grass for at least three years. As for the granary, now let each state be responsible for the construction. The granary adopts brick and concrete structure, uses cement to lay the ground, and selects highlands to ensure that the grain will not be affected by moisture. Moreover, the target is given to each state, and each state must complete the purchase quantity of grain." Xiao Ming said that the problem of grain should not be joked.

This kind of land depends on the weather. In case of drought, flood and locust disaster, the grain of a year is likely to be over. Therefore, we should purchase a large amount of grain in the harvest season to ensure that there will be no trouble in the event of natural and man-made disasters.

Pang Yukun nodded, wrote down Xiao Ming's words, and then said, "Your Highness, there are only two million taels of silver left in the Treasury. At this time, do you want to have a look at the account book?"

The most sad thing in the world is that people live well and have no money.

Pang Yukun's words made Xiao Ming feel a pain in the stomach. Now all the money earned by the chamber of Commerce will be filled into the Treasury, which will be allocated by the government. So it can be seen clearly in the accounts.

The silver he earned was just to buy farming cattle for the people, and it cost more than 1 million taels to forge farm tools. The plate armour forged for the army was at least 20 taels of silver per set, but the Qingzhou army lost 400000 taels of silver, and the artillery, ammunition and artillery shells in the Cangzhou war lost several hundred thousand taels of silver.

At the same time, there were also the consumption of slaves, the salaries of officials, the timber for shipbuilding, and so on.

Looking at the dense numbers on it, Xiao Ming's head was very big.

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