In theory, weapons and equipment belong to the state, and it is natural for officers and soldiers to go to the expedition to the state.

There is no headache or worry about the general, Jia Liu.

However, the national conditions of the Qing Dynasty were relatively complicated.

In terms of system, the weapons of the Eight Banners Army to fight were divided into three parts: official, self-made, and salary-made.

Official craftsmanship mainly refers to the weapons and equipment issued by the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Works.

Both self-made and self-made weapons are made.

The Qing Dynasty's Hui Dian clearly stipulates this, which is "its own equipment, or their own old military weapon."

Generally, it is the ordnance passed down from ancestors.

Jia Liu's family has a big bow left by Mr. Jia.

In other words, when flag soldiers go to war, the imperial system actually needs to bring its own military weapons, except for special weapons, such as muskets, cannons, medicines, other horses, armor, bows and crossbows.

If it is not enough, the flag soldiers themselves need to spend money to purchase.

This system was not a problem at the beginning of the country, because in essence, the Eight Banners were just a robbery gang.

The banner owner is the mind of the robbery group.

The robbery rate in the Ming Dynasty, Mongolia and North Korea was extremely high, so everyone in the Eight Banners brought their own dry food to the expedition.

After the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, it enclosed land throughout North China to meet the basic land needs of the Eight Banners.

The land that the customized Eight Banners soldiers in the Shunzhi Dynasty can be passed down from generation to generation is 30 acres.

In addition, the country pays the Eight Banners soldiers every year, and the military pay is divided according to the Manchuria, Mongolian and Han troops.

A manchu Eight Banners vanguard, guard, led the urging, and each vest paid 4 taels of silver per month, plus 46 hu of rice per year, which was equivalent to the annual salary of a seventh-rank magistrate.

All males in the Eight Banners of Manchuria can enjoy "imperial grain", and there are also newborn babies, relatively fewer.

High wages, basic land, rewards for military merit, and past robberies made the income of Manchu soldiers at the beginning of the country equivalent to the middle class.

In this way, the flag soldiers will not have much economic pressure to bring their own weapons. They will have a future and reward after getting military achievements. The enthusiasm for going to the country is extraordinary.

The problem is that over the past century, all the Eight Banners' children have decayed from top to bottom, and they all know that they can eat, drink, and have fun. They cannot ride horses or bows.

Long-term living and eating the mountains will definitely lead to a loss of family life. Therefore, most of the land of many Eight Banners children is pawned and become landless households.

On the contrary, the population of the Eight Banners has grown rapidly, which makes it difficult for the Eight Banners to make a living.

If you can't even support the family, can you still expect the Eight Banners children to raise war horses and carefully maintain military weapons like their ancestors. Once the country needs it, it can immediately go out to fight.

Obviously not!

The situation in the court is similar.

In order to reduce the treasury expenditure of the current emperor Qianlong, in order to reduce the treasury expenditure, Qianlong issued a special decree in the 21st year saying, "In the future, the armor and other military weapons of the officers and soldiers who went to the expedition should be prepared by themselves, and they should be rebuilt by the holder themselves for a certain period of time, which is more solid than the official system."

That is, since the year of fighting, except for muskets and cannons, the other armor, bows and arrows, bags, waist knives, shackles, conchs, etc. needed by the officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners were all stopped.

When they set out, even the official equipment they made in the past had to be purchased by the flag soldiers, which undoubtedly increased their burden.

When Jia Liu and his group of worshipped Tang A were able to get the weapons and equipment they sent to the expedition were mainly because they were reserve officers of the Eight Banners, and they were all children of Shijue, and they were not many.

If there were tens of thousands of people to go, I was afraid that Jia Liude would pull the dark horse in his family that was too old to walk on the battlefield, carrying the big bow left by his old man.

Now, together with the Eight Banners of the royal family, they will go to battle for 40,000 people at a time, and they can still eat and drink together to solve the problem. Where can I put the armor and weapons of this scale?

Could it be that those Eight Banners soldiers really need to prepare themselves?

It’s really a good wife, but she can’t cook without rice.

You should know that the Qing Dynasty's foundation was so bad that Jia Liu would not be the general king no matter what.

There was no choice but to ask the Minister of Works Enming to go to the Military Affairs Office to ask Lao Fu. Lao Fu answered very simply: "Customize it as you go."

In the past, customization was made by the official muskets and cannons, and the others were solved by themselves.

Jia Liu understood what he meant as long as he could get weapons and equipment, the old rich would ignore whether he was killing or setting fire.

In fact, there are basically all Eight Banners soldiers in armor and swords and spears, and the difference is a little bit, but there are really not many other consumables.

Ruby Prince Se's newly formed Zhengbai Banner Guardian, the three thousand men must be equipped with a 1,000 crossbows according to the system, but in fact, the large bows and crossbows equipped by this army are less than 300 large bows and crossbows.

The main weapons are standard long swords and spears, as well as some ceremonial weapons that look scary.

The basic equipment for muskets is zero point.

Where did the musket go?

Most of them were called Jia Liu stole it.

After the ominous incident in the city, in order to fully arm themselves, and establish a military industrial park in Tianjin, they vigorously developed new firearms, thereby increasing their success rate of armed power seizure.

Jia Liu quietly ordered the gunpowder warehouse under the former Ministry of Industry, the military weapon department under the jurisdiction of Xizhimen Nei Street, the military weapon department under the Qing Li Office, the military weapon filing room, the military weapon calculation room inventory muskets, cannons, leads and scrap iron cannons, as well as the cannon warehouses that store scrap iron cannons, as well as the Yangxin Palace Construction Office, and 80% of the equipment in Tianjin were packed in Tianjin.

How much did the several gunpowder depots and military equipment rooms under the Ministry of Industry have been cleaned up? It was really that there was no piece of scrap copper and iron left for the Ministry of Industry.

At the same time, a large number of weapons and equipment were privately snatched by the bannermen for self-defense.

As a result, when the court came to its senses, the Qing Dynasty's military inventory for decades was only left with shorts.

In the past two days, the Ministry of Works has launched a total of only enough equipment to arm about 7,000 people. Many of them are garbage goods that Jia Liu looked down upon at the time.

This was the first time that Jia Liu had truly commanded the army to fight. The command power was not very clear when he returned to Shandong to quell the rebellion last time, and there were not many soldiers.

Therefore, Jia Liu did not ask for the most expensive ones, but also wanted the best ones.

At least, the posture must be.

Fresh clothes and angry horses, bright helmets and spires, war horses galloping, banners fluttering, and swords and guns standing in front of them.

So, I was really anxious and scolded Enming, a liaison officer sent by the Ministry of Works, to the death.

"Your Majesty, the lower official went to see several warehouses in person, and there were only a few weapons that could be used, and only the iron equipment rooms of the various government offices could be arranged in a batch."

It’s not that Enming refused to share the worries of the prince, but he really couldn’t change it.

Jia Liu rubbed his temples and said distressedly: "If it really doesn't work, I'll send a message to the provinces passing by, asking them to hand over all the weapons in the warehouse."

Enming shook his head, "Your Majesty, I'm afraid it's difficult."

Jia Liu didn't understand: "What does it mean?"

Enming said that more than ten years ago, the fourth Japanese devil issued an order, requiring all provinces to "not be allowed to start additional lead-consuming fireworks", and the rest of the military expenditures were "according to the materials for manufacturing lead-based fuses in Beijing."

In other words, except for the capital, the construction of weapons can be started, it is strictly prohibited in all provinces and localities. Any military weapon needs will be requested to be verified by the Ministry of War and allocated by the Ministry of Works.

Jia Liu was stunned: "As a result, I took the army to fight and there was no decent weapon?"

"Some, there are some."

Enming dared not say that there was no.

He told the prince that he found a batch of muskets in the iron room of the Interior Office, which had more than 1,600 poles, and 4 iron cannons and more than 1,000 kilograms of medicine.

"Snap gun?"

Jia Liu noticed that Enming used the statement of "quick gun", and was immediately interested and asked what kind of quick gun it was.

Enming asked someone to bring two shots for the prince to show.

Jia Liu took it and found that the gun had no fuse. Looking at the structure, it turned out to be a flintlock rifle that he was developing and producing in Tianjin.

I couldn't help feeling extremely excited and strange, and asked Enming: "Is this gun produced by our Qing Dynasty?"

Enming said that it was not, saying that after the Qing Dynasty's war to attack Myanmar, many generals who participated in the war submitted a note to the court, saying that the muskets used by the Burmese were not like bird ropes used by the Qing soldiers, and they were still able to use them in the wind and rain, and they were extremely powerful, so he asked the court to spend a lot of money to purchase imitations.

At that time, Fu Longan, the military minister in charge of the Ministry of Works, asked the court to allocate funds to send personnel to Macau to purchase a batch of flintlock guns and handed them over to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for imitation.

More than 2,000 poles were copied in the front and back, but they were not promoted. Except for some of them used for hunting, Yu Jiku was sealed in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

After hearing Enming's words, Jia Liu picked up his flintlock gun and glanced out of the tent. After thinking about someone to recharge the gunpowder, he then took the pulling machine and fired it.

Sure enough, the firing speed was several times faster than the contrailer.

"Why is such a good gun not promoted in the Eight Banners and Green Camp?"

Jia Liu actually had an answer in his mind, but he still wanted to get a definite answer from Enming.

"At the time, the emperor ordered that our Qing army conquered the Han people with cavalry and seized the world, so riding and shooting was the foundation of the Qing Dynasty. The officials thought that the emperor's original intention of the Eight Banners was unbearable. If they could not concentrate on learning riding and shooting and rely on simple firearms, they would be even more reluctant to learn."

Enming found a good reason for the old master.

Jia Liu didn't say anything after hearing this. In addition to defending against Han and emphasizing riding and shooting, the fourth Japanese devils did not promote new firearms. The biggest reason may be that the Qing Dynasty's defense environment was relatively stable at this time and there was no great external pressure.

Throw the gun to the person next to you and instruct Enming: "If you erase these flintlock guns from the account book, you will not send them down. This king will have other uses."

"Yeah!"

Enming was also very careful in his work. He picked up the pen and painted all the flintlock rifles on the account book with ink.

Some other weapons were reported, and it was also said that there were another batch of muskets that had been eliminated from wars over the years. Some had been simply maintained, while others were preparing to be rebuilt.

Jia Liu handed Enming a cigarette roll casually: "How many are there?"

Enming glanced at the account book: "More than four thousand poles."

After hearing this, Jia Liu ordered without hesitation: "Equip all these high-quality muskets with the Yellow Band Camp."

Upon hearing this, Enming couldn't help but be stunned and whispered to remind the prince that this batch of muskets had serious quality problems.

“Quality issues?”

Jia Liu waved his hand disagreed, "Emperor Taizu dared to gather people to attack the fierce Ming Dynasty with only thirteen armors, and finally laid the foundation for the strong eight banners and the founding of the Qing Dynasty!

What does this matter mean? It means that only weapons theory cannot be used!

It means that the battle depends on courage!”

Speaking of joy, Jia Liu slapped the two most advanced pistols in the world on the table with his waist:

"If weapons can really determine the outcome of the war, there would be no Qing Dynasty today!
Chapter completed!