Chapter 1098 Army Construction

Of course, because the merchants were throwing money like crazy before, it led to inflation, and Pingzhou is the place with the worst inflation, and the prices of many things have also doubled and increased. For example, the military salary of an ordinary county soldier was only seven silver a month, but now it has soared to three gold, and the military salary of the Zhan Jun and the Imperial Guard is even more exaggerated.

Of course, this is not bad, at least the average income in Pingzhou and other places is much higher than that in Guanzhong, which has attracted a large number of people to voluntarily immigrate to Pingzhou.

The twenty-four combat legions other than the Imperial Guard, although each legion has only 200,000 to 300,000 people, the annual military expenditure is as high as more than 30 million gold, and the annual maintenance cost of the Imperial Guard is as high as 180 million Gold is almost equal to the sum of all the county soldiers under the rule!

It can be said that the Shangji army can always maintain a strong combat effectiveness, which is inseparable from a large amount of capital investment, and there is no way for the gods to come without money!

Including the county soldiers and naval divisions from all over the country, the military expenditure of the whole army is as high as 1.5 billion, accounting for about 35% of the total financial revenue of the merchants.

From a modern point of view, military spending accounts for 35% of fiscal revenue, which is absolutely insane and militaristic. But in the flames of war, 35% of the military expenditure is simply the conscience of the conscience, especially under the premise that the current situation is becoming more and more tense, the military expenditure of only 35% can be said to be not enterprising up.

"The Wancheng Project has been preliminarily completed. All the large cities in the territory have been connected to each other and cooperated with the water transport system. If there is a problem in any place, the rapid response force of the county soldiers will be able to respond within eight hours after receiving the news. Arrive at the scene of the incident.

In addition, our army has built more than 900 large-scale granaries throughout the territory, storing 13 billion shi of grain and 1 billion boxes of high-quality finished military rations (300 servings per box, enough for a soldier to eat for a month) ). Generally speaking, our military's financial operations, material reserves, and resource allocation are in good condition. After three years of laying the foundation, we have laid a solid foundation and possessed the strength of accumulation and development. "

Speaking of the latter, Deng Yan glanced at Shang Ji, obviously meaning something.

Although he is the boss of the government affairs system, his desire for expansion is not as urgent as that of the military. But after three years of painstaking internal training, the civil servants headed by Deng Yan also strongly desire to expand their territories.

The civil servants are all like this, and the mood of the generals can be imagined.

Seeing that Deng Yan had finished his report, Liu Yi couldn't wait to get on the stage, and said loudly: "My colleagues, my fellows, under the wise command of my lord, after three years of development, our army has made great progress."

"In the past three years, the size of the army has not changed significantly, and it still maintains a total strength of 9.6 million county soldiers, 6 million war troops, and 200,000 imperial guards.

However, the troop structure was further optimized, and the proportion of high-level special arms such as Ice Battle Shield, Dragon Spearmen, Northern Crossbow Warriors, Furious Battleaxes, and Divine Sword Guards was further expanded, replacing the original Giant Shield Soldiers, Giant Axe Soldiers, Heavy Armored Swordsman.

The proportion of special auxiliary units such as Star Girl of Light, Taoist Priest of the Five Elements, and Wolf God Priest has been greatly increased, enhancing the combat effectiveness of the army.

After three years of hard training, the number of ninth-rank soldiers in the Imperial Guard Corps has increased from 40,000 to 50,000, and the rest of the Imperial Guards have a minimum of eighth-rank soldiers.

Among the twenty-four combat legions, the proportion of seventh-rank soldiers is close to 50%. At present, there are more than 3.2 million soldiers of seventh rank and above in the whole army (including generals).

According to intelligence, in terms of the number of high-ranking soldiers, our army has undoubtedly surpassed all other princes!

Among the county soldiers in various places, there are currently more than 2.3 million reserve troops (meeting the sixth-level standard of the war army, but because there is no shortage, it is temporarily unable to replenish the army). "

Compared with three years ago, the comprehensive combat effectiveness of the Shangji Army has improved significantly.

It stands to reason that no decent war has been experienced in three years, and it is impossible to make such obvious progress only by training, especially the newly added 19,000-rank soldiers-as we all know, the ninth-rank soldiers are fought, not trained, and then It is impossible for generals who are good at training soldiers to train ninth-level soldiers in an organized manner on the training ground.

But the newly added 19,000-rank soldiers of the Shangji Army broke this iron law!

The reason for this situation is still related to the willingness of businessmen to invest.

Different soldiers have different treatment, whether it is military pay, status, food, the higher the rank of the soldiers, the better the treatment.

Since the beast farm was able to produce beast meat stably, the Shang Ji Army modified the recipes of the top soldiers, and the soldiers of the ninth rank could enjoy the super high treatment of beast meat + spirit rice every meal.

The eighth-rank soldiers are much worse, they can only enjoy a meal of beast meat every three days.

As for the ordinary soldiers below, unless there is an extra reward for their meritorious service, they can only get a piece of beast meat weighing less than two taels in half a month.

Ordinary county soldiers, unless they have made meritorious service, can only be rewarded with a small piece during the Chinese New Year.

Although the amount is pitifully small, the effect is surprisingly good.

Needless to say the value of beast meat, the eighth-rank soldiers can feel obvious changes after eating it, and the ninth-rank soldiers can also benefit from eating it for a long time.

Over time, although the Shangji Army did not engage in high-intensity warfare, it managed to accumulate 10,000 new rank-9 soldiers by relying on resources.

It is obvious that the abnormal proportion of soldiers of the seventh and eighth ranks has a lot to do with "eating meat".

When Shang Ji received the report, Le couldn't close his mouth. Originally it was just a whim-like experiment, but the effect was so obvious. It was from that time that ferocious beast breeding became a major strategic plan of the Shang Ji Army, with a very high priority.

Shang Ji sells countless elixirs, even god-level elixirs such as Potian Pill, but he has never sold a piece of beast meat from the beginning to the end. From this, it can be seen that Shang Ji attaches great importance to beast meat degree.

Previously, he thought that the conditions were not met, and the breeding of beasts was still in its infancy, and the output was very low. From this year onwards, it will enter a period of production capacity explosion. Shang Ji is looking forward to the day when the beast meat will be popularized in the whole army.

"In addition to the significant improvement in the quality of soldiers, after three consecutive years of huge investment, our army's military equipment has also been further optimized.

According to the plan formulated by the lord three years ago, the county soldiers' standard equipment is half-silver, (that is, the main equipment is silver-level, and the secondary equipment is iron-level. Taking archers as an example, the bows and arrows equipped are silver-level, and the rest are iron-level The same applies to the following), the standard equipment of the warriors is half-golden, the standard equipment of the Imperial Guard is half-purple, and the ninth-level soldiers are equipped with a full set of spiritual equipment.

So far, our army has completed all the re-equipment according to the above requirements, and some combat regiments have overfulfilled their missions (for example, some troops of the First Combat Legion led by Liu Yi have achieved semi-purple glory).

In addition, large-scale equipment has also been improved, with stronger attacking capabilities and faster maneuvering. According to the evaluation of the Department of Participation under the General's Mansion and several military exercises, the overall combat effectiveness of our army has increased by at least 60% compared to three years ago! "

After a pause, Liu Yi looked around at the crowd, held his head high and said, "According to comprehensive research and judgment, our army's comprehensive combat power is already enough to form an absolute advantage in combat power over any prince in the world!"

After finishing speaking, he looked at Shang Ji with burning eyes, the meaning was self-evident.

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