"Back to Your Highness, the Ministry of Industry has reported 1,074,532 taels for the materials."

"If we follow the private price of materials, the cost of the materials should be 1,024,300 taels and 4 cents."

Jin Yiwei reported the water content to Zhu Youjian, and Zhu Youjian couldn't help but smile after hearing it:

"Okay, those of you who are looking for materials and money, please go to Wang Zhangyin later to receive fifty rewards, fifty taels each."

"Thank you, Your Highness!" Upon hearing this, the Jin Yiwei who were checking the money were overjoyed and knelt down to salute.

The other Jin Yiwei who heard Zhu Youjian's promise sped up their movements.

You must know that their annual salary is only twelve taels of silver. If you check the account, you can get fifty taels per person. This is a very good deal.

They checked the accounts carefully, and Zhu Youjian also had a good time.

He looked at these people checking the accounts, then turned to Lu Wenzhao and said:

"There are too few people in Nanzhen Fusi. The total number of people inside and outside can only be 3,600. In this case, you will recall all 3,600 people to the capital and train them well. Train everyone according to the small banner.

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"When the time is up, take them with you and sit in the commander's seat."

"I obey my command!" Lu Wenzhao hurriedly knelt down to write. At this time, the meals prepared by the East Palace chef for Jin Yiwei and Lu Wenzhao were also served.

"Okay, you get up first and leave after eating." Zhu Youjian explained.

"Yes" Lu Wenzhao stood up, took his seat, lowered his head and started eating.

Soon after they all finished their meal, Jin Yiwei, who had been responsible for manpower calculation for a long time, stood up and saluted:

"Your Highness, the manpower has been calculated. The Ministry of Works has calculated each craftsman at five taels a year. It will employ four thousand craftsmen and require 80,000 taels. In addition, the food and clothing for the civilian laborers during the construction will be eight shi of grain per year."

"That is to say, if we use 50,000 civilians, we will need 1.2 million dan of grain in three years."

"According to the price of grain purchased by the Ministry of Industry from Tongzhou Dacang, it will cost about 350,000 taels."

"If we use four guards and one battalion, plus the three guards of Yulin, there is no need to launch corvee service."

"The Yumajian still has 500,000 shi of grain in stock. Next year's autumn harvest, after the Huangzhuang plus the Yumajian's fields are divided 64% with the tenants of the Huangzhuang, we can still collect 1.6 million shi of grain."

"Qingling's 1.5 million taels is about 440,000 taels. If the people from the Ministry of Industry go by their prices, they'll be greedy for about 120,000 taels."

The man spoke slowly, which made Zhu Youjian's eyes light up. He looked up and down at the person in front of him.

I saw that this man was less than 1.8 meters tall, with a somewhat sad eyebrow, and a square appearance. He was a good person.

After looking at him, Zhu Youjian also smiled and said, "What's your name?"

"Your Highness, I humbly serve Lu Jianxing." The man bowed, and after Zhu Youjian heard this, he looked at Lu Wenzhao and said:

"This guy is not bad. Let's raise the general flag in front of him first."

"Yes..." Lu Wenzhao quickly stood up and nodded in agreement, while Lu Jianxing also quickly knelt down on one knee and saluted and said loudly:

"Thank you for your support, Your Highness!"

"Okay..." Zhu Youjian waved his hand and said:

"Opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared. You and your people who settle accounts will each receive fifty taels."

"That account book is pretty good. If you make more contributions in the future, it's not impossible to be promoted to 100 households."

"In your humble position, you must do your best and do your job well!" Lu Jianxing bowed his head and thanked her loudly, never letting go of his editing hand.

"Okay, everyone, please exit." Zhu Youjian nodded slightly, and upon seeing this, Lu Wenzhao also slowly retreated with his people.

After they all retreated, Zhu Youjian stood up and walked to the account book that had just been calculated by Jin Yiwei and took a look. While looking at it, he said:

"Cao Huachun, how many tenants are there under the Royal Horse Prison?"

Upon hearing this, Cao Huachun took a step forward, bowed slightly and replied:

"There are more than 7,400 households of groom tenants in the pasture, with a population of about 37,000."

"There are 54,300 households with farm land tenants, approximately 270,000 people."

"The Imperial Village is slightly larger, with more than 274,500 households and about 1.37 million people."

"It's quite a lot..." After Zhu Youjian heard this, he closed the booklet in his hand, turned around and said:

"If I remember correctly, the cultivated land of Yumajian plus the land of Huangzhuang totals more than 2.15 million acres, right, and the pasture is 420,000 acres?"

"Exactly, Your Highness has a photographic memory." Cao Huachun did not forget to flatter, while Zhu Youjian said:

"For military horses in the pasture, how many acres of pasture does one military horse need? How many horses and livestock does the Royal Horse Guard have?"

As soon as his question was asked, Wang Chengen stepped forward and answered:

"A military horse needs thirty acres of pasture, a stallion twenty-five acres, and a mare twenty acres."

"There are currently more than 3,200 military horses, more than 1,400 stallions, and more than 6,700 mares in the Royal Horse Prison."

"In addition, there are 6,432 cattle and 24,000 sheep."

"In addition, there are more than 300 camels, 34 elephants and 645 donkeys from Siam."

"There are more than 26,000 cattle in the imperial village, more than 7,000 draft horses, 14,000 draft horses, and more than 4,000 donkeys."

Wang Chengen told a series of data, but Zhu Youjian only cared about the data on farm cattle, military horses, stallions, draft horses, and draft horses.

Farm cattle represent the liberation of productivity, military horses represent war potential, stallions represent the number of newborn horses every year, and draft horses and draft horses represent the logistics support of the army.

The Royal Horse Prison has a lot of land resources, but more than 3,000 military horses are too few.

Military horses can be fed with beans that are very satiating and highly nutritious.

Stallions, mares, and cattle can be raised on pasture.

However, judging from the current data of more than 3,000 military horses and nearly 100,000 other livestock, the pasture of the Royal Horse Prison is simply not enough.

"From now on, all military horses will be fed soybeans. Don't limit the number of horses every year. Give birth to more horses and raise them more."

"The 420,000 pastures cannot support 100,000 livestock, so let the tenants of the imperial village and farmland pull grass to feed them."

"Doesn't the Royal Horse Supervisor still have two hundred and one thousand taels of silver? Take this silver to the foot of Yanshan Mountain and buy more wasteland for pasture."

It was impossible for Zhu Youjian to get the military horses from Taipusi, he could only start from his own horse supervisor.

Since there is not enough pasture, buy it!

Cao Huachun next to him heard what he said and said quickly:

"The wasteland at the foot of Yanshan Mountain is cheap, and the large wasteland in Miyun only costs four taels of silver per acre."

"If His Highness needs it, I'm afraid the officials there can make it cheaper. It won't be a problem to buy 60,000 acres."

"But Your Highness does not need to buy it. Due to the troubles caused by the Northern Captives in recent years, a lot of slope land has been abandoned."

"Especially near Baima Pass and Shixiaying, a lot of slope land has been abandoned."
Chapter completed!