"Your Highness, the Royal Horse Guards and the First Battalion, there are still 4,632 people left after the selection..."

When the selection was over, less than one-third of the more than 13,000 people were selected.

Zhu Youjian stood up and looked at them, nodded and said:

"Your official positions remain as usual, don't worry, you will continue to lead the people to dig a moat for the camp these days."

"The Qi Family Army will arrive at the military camp in three days and clear out the barracks for them in advance. They will bring new armor and ordnance. After four days, the army will change uniforms and receive training from the Qi Family Army."

"Yes!" After hearing Zhu Youjian's words, Sun Yingyuan and others became energetic.

They did not expect that they and others could actually get guidance from Qi Jiajun.

The news that the Qi army was heading north had spread, especially since the leading general was Qi Jin who had fought with Qi Shaobao back then, which made them even more nervous.

But Zhu Youjian didn't care about their spirit. What he cared about was how to make his army stronger.

He glanced at the queue on the school field, and sure enough, they were all burly men over 5 feet 5. The only drawback was that most of them were a little on the thin side.

Soldiers of this size should train hard and eat hard.

Therefore, if you want to train an army, eating is an essential part.

"Sun Yingyuan, take the imperial horse supervisor and the three guards of Yulin to dig trenches. Lu Wenzhao, you stay."

"Take orders!" After hearing this, Sun Yingyuan was not afraid of the work of the three guards of the Imperial Guard, and directly used his skilled flag language to direct the army out of the school grounds.

After they all walked out of the school grounds, Yang Lian also stood up and said:

"Your Highness, Fifth Highness, I need to go to Qingling to see the current situation in Qingling."

"Okay." After hearing this, Zhu Youjian said to Lu Wenzhao: "Arrange a uniformed guard of the general banner to protect Yang Ge and them."

In this way, Yang Lian also left the school grounds, and after he left, Zhu Youjian also said to Wang Chengen:

"Cheng'en, tell me about the money we have now and the livestock of the Royal Horse Supervisor."

"Yes..." Wang Chengen bowed slightly, then asked the young eunuch to get the imperial eunuch's book, handed it to Zhu Youjian and explained:

"There are currently 3,224 military horses, 1,430 stallions, and 6,759 mares in the Royal Horse Prison."

"In addition, there are 6,472 cattle and 24,234 sheep."

"There are also 375 camels, 34 elephants from Siam as tribute, and 647 donkeys."

"There are 26,930 cattle in the imperial village, 7,600 draft horses, 14,323 draft horses, and 4,780 donkeys."

"There are more than 174,000 chickens, more than 46,000 ducks, more than 53,000 geese, and 4,300 pigs."

Compared with half a month ago, the data on various livestock in the Royal Horse Prison have increased a lot, and Wang Chengen also continued to report:

"Early this morning, the generals handed over the embezzled dirty money. Now the Royal Horse Prison has 344,800 taels of silver, six cents and three cents."

"However, more than 7,000 people have been laid off just now. The Beijing army earns 50,000 taels a year, so I'm afraid it will cost nearly 40,000 taels."

"That's about three hundred thousand taels left."

"In addition, there are 1.5 million taels sent by the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Household Affairs to repair the imperial mausoleum."

"Well..." After hearing all about his family background, Zhu Youjian thought about it.

First of all, geese must not be given to soldiers. In the Ming Dynasty, geese were a luxury item. One goose cost 400 coins, which was enough to buy five or six chickens.

He could ask the Royal Horse Supervisor to sell the goose, and it would also help him get some supplies.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian began to spend money lavishly:

"Ask the Ministry of Finance to quickly send the yellow records of the wastelands in Huairou, Miyun and other places."

"After the moat is dug, Cheng'en will bring you one hundred thousand taels of silver to buy a sufficient number of chickens, ducks, and pigs, divide them into three hundred places, and raise them in pens on the wasteland."

"My slave takes orders." When Zhu Youjian finished speaking, Wang Chengen could only sigh that it was another hard job, but Zhu Youjian looked at Lu Wenzhao and said:

"When Cheng'en has bought enough chickens, ducks and pigs, he will first choose from the imperial palaces in the Royal Horse Prison."

"In the future, the food at Yanshan Military Camp will consist of two kilograms of noodles and two eggs per person in the morning. Occasionally, they can be replaced with corn buns and eggs."

"Lunch must be two meat, three vegetarian and one soup, and dinner must be the same."

"Build a large restaurant type restaurant in the southwest corner, which must be able to feed 50,000 people."

"If the military camp is not enough right now, we will expand it to the east and west."

"This..." Zhu Youjian's words were too forward, and Lu Wenzhao couldn't help but salute slightly awkwardly:

"Your Highness, if we follow the current requirements, there is no problem in expanding the military camp and building a large kitchen and canteen, but isn't it too luxurious in terms of food?"

He continued: "There are currently 11,232 people in the army, and a chicken weighs three pounds. If three people share the food, the entire army will eat nearly 7,500 chickens for lunch and dinner a day."

"One person has to eat more than 7,000 jins of vegetarian dishes every day, and more than 20,000 jins of eggs per person..."

"If this continues, based on the prices in Changping, the military camp will consume six hundred taels of silver a day, which will cost hundreds of thousands of taels a year..."

"If we add rice and noodles, I'm afraid we will need to eat 300,000 taels of rice and noodles a year, and nearly 150,000 taels of meat and vegetables, for a total of at least 300,000 taels."

An army of 10,000 would cost 300,000 taels of silver just for food, so when the Seven Guards and One Battalion were fully established, they would have to spend at least one million taels of silver every year.

This money was spent more than water, and even Lu Wenzhao felt sorry for Zhu Youjian.

Of course, more importantly, this money may not be available.

However, Zhu Youjian had his own plans.

He has already thought about it. After training his troops enough, he will send troops to attack Engelder by surprise, and then do business with the four Inner Khalkha troops.

As long as the business can take off, he will naturally be able to raise more than 40,000 horses like Qiwei.

If it didn't work out, he went directly to the emperor's brother to ask for money. The method was even simpler.

The Seventh Guards and One Battalion can be directly transferred to Liaodong, and Liao Town in Liaodong can be abolished.

It is now the Tianqi period, not the Chongzhen period yet.

Especially four years before the Apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty's taxation was still normal, and its majesty was still in the hearts of the people, and no one dared to make mistakes.

Nurhachi was not the great enemy of the Ming Dynasty. The real enemy of the Ming Dynasty was the upcoming low temperature period of the Little Glacier and the severe drought that covered almost the entire Ming Dynasty.

He must disintegrate the guard system bit by bit before the drought.

Even if the conflict over land annexation cannot be resolved by then, the Ming Dynasty will at least have food for disaster relief and an army capable of fighting.

Once the Little Ice Age comes, as long as Nurhaci cannot conquer Liaoshen and capture the Liaodong Peninsula, what awaits him will be that he will be outnumbered and be trapped to death by Xiong Tingbi in Hetuala.

Thinking so, Zhu Youjian patted Lu Wenzhao and comforted him:

"Just do it for now. Lack of money is not a problem. We can solve it one by one."

"This..." Lu Wenzhao smiled bitterly. He really didn't know how to solve it. Moreover, it was hard to believe that after Zhu Youjian trained an army of tens of thousands, what role this army could play.

Lu Wenzhao also wants to change this world, but for now, he can't.

Therefore, he could only salute Zhu Youjian, whom he had a favor for, and then retreated.

As for Wang Chengen, although he had no choice but to do so.
Chapter completed!