In the afternoon, when Zhu Jianji took a lunch break, Dai Yi served lotus seed soup and stood aside and said softly: "Zheng Shi Xin, the supervisor of military weapons, Xia Xuan, the doctor of the household department, Yang Dan, the director of the military department, and Chen Ruyan, the doctor of the military department and the treasury department, are asking for an audience."
Zhu Jianji drank the lotus seed soup, squealed, and said with a smile: "It's so positive."
In other words, Cheap Daddy has reached a tacit understanding with them.
Otherwise, there will be all kinds of tricks to deal with it.
After thinking for a while, he said to Dai Yi: "Let Xia Xuan come to the study for an audience first."
Xia Xuan, after Mingchen.
His father is Xia Yuanji.
Because of Xia Yuanji's relationship, Xia Xuan was transferred to the position of head of the household department during the Jingtai period, from the fifth rank to the fifth rank. It looked like he was demoted, but in fact he was promoted.
Shang Bao Sicheng is a sinecure, but the head of the household department has real power.
Xia Xuan saluted after arriving in the study.
Zhu Jianji had a smile on his face and looked harmless, "Did Chen Shangshu ask you to hand over the military supplies for three thousand people?"
Xia Xuan said: "Yes, Your Highness."
Zhu Jianji suddenly became more energetic, "How much?"
Xia Xuan replied: "Chen Shangshu allocated 120,000 taels to His Royal Highness the Prince's young army based on the military requirements of 3,000 people, including 72,000 taels of military pay for one year, 24,000 taels of 3,000 pieces of armor, and a young army camp.
The house will be rebuilt twenty thousand li, and the extra four thousand taels can be used by your highness as weapons and equipment, and you can also raise dozens of war horses and set up cavalry in the young army."
Chen Xun still supports His Majesty and the Prince.
Zhu Jianji asked: "How much does it cost to raise a soldier?"
Xia Xuan was in charge of financial matters in the household department. He was very knowledgeable about these matters and immediately said: "A soldier's annual military pay is 24 taels, a pair of armor is 8 taels, and a sword is 300 taels. If it is a spear, halberd, axe, it is even more expensive.
Especially war horses, which are generally equipped by senior generals and most of them are prepared by themselves. As for war horses, each one is worth about 60 taels, and it costs about 15 taels to raise a horse for a year."
He looked around and lowered his voice, "If Your Highness has the right people to handle these things, the price of the armor can be reduced to 4 to 6 taels, and the price of the war horse can be about 50 taels."
Zhu Jianji yelled.
Is this a kickback for myself?
Not necessary.
The world belongs to me, how can I be rich for the rest of my life just by eating this little kickback?
Let Xia Xuan go and explain to Dai Yi.
The money did not go to the avant-garde of the government army, but went directly to the East Palace Treasury. Zhu Jianji personally decided how to spend it on the young army.
I picked up the pen and calculated silently.
Three hundred people, three hundred sets of armor are 2,400 taels, a year's military pay is 7,200 taels, buy or make 300 swords, buy better, budget more, 200 taels, rebuild the young army barracks for 20,000 taels, buy 300 horses for 18,000 taels,
It costs 4,500 taels per year.
There are 67,700 taels left.
If we can really lower the prices of armor and war horses, will we have more money left, or will we not buy war horses for the time being?
Because we plan to equip all three hundred people with firearms.
Of course not a firecracker.
Fireguns are dirt cheap. You can buy a firegun for about one tael.
Let the weapons supervisor build the rifle!
In fact, three hundred modern rifles are not that expensive, but the problem is that they don't have to be made by oneself, so the cost will be very expensive, not to mention that there are still technical problems that have not been solved.
Just over 60,000 taels, I'm afraid it's a bit too much.
No problem.
When the time comes, let the cheap man go to Jiang Yuan, the Minister of Industry, and let the Ordnance Inspector use the labor and resources of the Ministry of Industry for free, which can save a lot of money.
After the handover, Xia Xuan resigned.
Yang Dan and Chen Ruyan came to visit.
Yang Dan, the head of the Ministry of War, also came from a famous family. His father was one of the Three Yangs, Yang Pu.
Chen Ruyan has no background.
After seeing the ceremony, Yang Dan said: "Your Highness, which of the three hundred people you want to choose from is the personal military guard. In addition, Dr. Chen came here today because of Yu Shaobao's intention, saying that since the Ministry of Revenue has allocated military expenses for the young army,
The three hundred people selected from the pro-military guards do not need to bring armor and weapons to the young army. Doctor Chen is responsible for counting."
Zhu Jianji had no expression on his face, "Is Yu Shaobao so willing to spend money so much?"
Chen Ruyan said with a smile: "Shaobao is in charge of the military department. He is actually responsible for the army and horses of the world and protecting the peace of the world. Please be considerate of Shaobao's difficulties."
Yang Dan glanced at Chen Ruyan in surprise.
Zhu Jianji was also a little surprised.
On the surface, Chen Ruyan's words seemed to be correct, but in fact, he was implicitly telling himself that all the soldiers and horses in the world only obeyed Yu Qian, so what about the emperor and the prince?
Giving you three hundred men is just a favor, but if you still want armor and weapons, that's too much.
Have Yu Qian’s people grown so large?
Zhu Jianji waved his hand and said to Dai Yi: "Ask Zhao Mu to go to the Metropolitan Procuratorate to invite Zhang Peng, and let him go with Chief Yang and Chen Langzhong to the 26th Guards of the Pro-Army to select 300 people, except for Teng Xiang and Wu Xiang Si.
In addition to the guards, the brocade guards and the horse guards, each guard will select fifteen elite soldiers from the twenty guards. The age limit is twenty years old. Those with or without battlefield experience are welcome. Those who are familiar with firearms will be given priority."
Three hundred people, all selected with the strongest physical fitness.
Moreover, soldiers at the bottom generally have no backers, in other words, no position. They are just ordinary sergeants of the Ming Dynasty, so that they can cultivate their loyalty.
Not to mention picking on people from other forces.
Dai Yi immediately went to find Zhao Mu.
Zhu Jianji waved his hand, "You two, go wait for Zhang Peng outside the palace, and let Shi Xin in by the way."
Yang Dan and Chen Ruyan resigned.
After a while, Shi Xin entered and saluted, "Does Your Highness have any other thoughts?"
Zhu Jianji was speechless, "I asked you to improve the barrel craftsmanship of the Dongfeng sniper rifle before, so I put that aside for now. The top priority is to solve the problem of spring steel."
Without spring steel, mass production of rifles would be impossible.
Using piano strings as a replacement part and using the bowstring principle to replace the role of springs is an expedient measure. To mass-produce flintlock rifles, spring steel must be conquered.
Well, actually once you conquer the spring steel, you can also make a pistol.
The essence of spring steel is still medium-high carbon steel, with carbon, manganese and other elements added. Zhu Jianji does not know the specific proportion, which is in his blind spot of knowledge.
It requires repeated trials and is particularly expensive.
Before the coup, Jiang Yuan, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, had been playing tricks. He would not cooperate unless Zhu Qiyu issued an imperial edict. Therefore, it was considered lucky for the weapons inspector to come up with a Dongfeng sniper rifle.
Zhu Jianji continued: "Today the Ministry of Household Affairs will allocate a sum of money to the East Palace. After it is put into the treasury and registered, I will first allocate 10,000 taels to the Ordnance Supervision tomorrow. You will push the Ordnance Supervision to do all it can to tackle spring steel!"
The road must be walked step by step.
The barrel of the traditional fire gun cannot meet the needs of modern rifles. Therefore, after finishing the spring steel, we need to develop the process of seamless steel pipe. Otherwise, in a large-scale team battle, the 300-strong army will have to change the barrel after firing a few shots. It is of practical value.
Too low.
I can't afford the money either.
After finishing the seamless steel pipe, you need to do the gunpowder process.
There is also a technical problem.
Rifling!
Dongfeng sniper rifle is the result of experimental research.
When forging a gun barrel, rifling convex lines are created on the casting model to form rough rifling, which is then manually polished, which is time-consuming, labor-intensive and expensive.
Even so, the rifling of the Dongfeng sniper rifle is not up to standard.
Therefore, the accurate shooting distance is low.
If you want to mass-produce rifled rifles, you have to overcome the alloy process or use strong acid etching.
Shi Xin's face was excited. If you have money, it will be easy to do things. As long as the money is in place, even if the Ministry of Industry does not cooperate, the Ordnance Supervisor can do it on his own. He immediately said: "Wei Chen accepts the order!"
Zhu Jianji continued: "This matter is kept confidential, um... Gasol, the gunpowder expert in the Ordnance Supervisor, you have to be careful about him. Forget it, as a technician, just stay in your professional field. Gasol,
I'll let Lu Zhong take care of it."
The firearms technology of the Ordnance Inspector cannot be allowed to spread abroad. This chapter has been completed!
