C3731 (1/2)

In that moment, it seemed as if the air had frozen, Ci An finally remembered the rumors that Zai Chun did not return empty-handed, he returned home with a large sum of British pounds.

No one knew how much money it actually was, but it was a secret that was kept secret even until Zai Chun's death, and the British side had even sealed up this secret!

However, the future generations of Historian had once tested themselves, and the decision they made was … There were a lot of them, and the numbers were terrifyingly huge!

”Great!” Now that my emperor's wings are so hard, can he fly on his own and do great things without even needing a court? ”

”Don't even think about it! Don't think that the money given by a foreign devil can solve all the problems. What kind of airship is it today, and what's the next time? General Cai, take out all of your treasures! ”

Ci An really wanted to smash his own foot with a stone. She didn't actually want to buy any kind of ammunition, she just wanted to use Cai Bixia's mouth to say an astronomical number to scare the little emperor with this number.

Great Qing's finances had only improved in the past five years, so she had to throw away the expenditure on the imperial government's quota … That is to say, the old and fixed expenses would actually have a fiscal surplus of more than thirteen million taels of silver per year!

This was a very shocking matter. The government's prestige and public prestige had greatly increased just because of this small surplus!

Managing a country and a small family is actually almost the same, not just counting your income, you also have to calculate how much you spend!

In the last year, you have a surplus in your account.

With a surplus of over 10 million yuan, the imperial government had really done a lot of things. They cleared some old debts, and the most important thing was to build a new army, which was the Xishan Camp!

It was one thing for the new army to not be established, but now that the imperial government had been established, it was time for them to eat the dust!

The new army was completely different from the old army. This was a gold-eating monster!

Initially, he had intended to buy a batch of rifle bullets and give them to the soldiers to train. After a while, he decided to start shooting!

They had already said that training a Musketeers was much easier than training an archer or a cavalry soldier!

This logic was not wrong, but they had forgotten that the simple price required money!

Train the archers, give him a bow and arrow, more than ten arrows, then go train! If the arrows could be retrieved after being shot out, he could just learn how to craft them himself.

After one round of investment, there wouldn't be much to spend. It would just be a waste of time! Three years. Five years of training.

After all, the Mongolian is an ally of the Manchu. There are many children on the Mongolian Grassland who have grown up on small horses, wouldn't that be a natural rider?!

It could be said that those old officials of the imperial court were still using their old ways of thinking to find new problems. They always thought that you, General Gui, had spent six to seven million silver taels to buy a weapon.

Now that the soldiers' weapons were all here, he wouldn't need to spend too much money to consume some food and coal in the future!

But they were all wrong, this new army was not some ancient army, the Musketeers's training was simple, there were conditions, you had to be full of bullets!

The artillery also had to be fed up with artillery shells. The rate of loss of the new army's weapons and equipment was completely unimaginable for the medieval army!

Xishan Camp took a small fight every three days and a big fight every five days!

The soldiers would fire their rifles once every three days, and once every five days, they would have to coordinate their infantry and fire their cannons!

For the past few years, the mountains, forests, and wastelands to the north of Jade Spring Mountain and the west of Sand River City had long become forbidden areas for ordinary citizens.

Every time he trained, he would need to use up a cart of bullets. There were also some wounded that would be carried out. There were even some soldiers who would occasionally die from accidental injuries!

The training of the soldiers was done with the money, like flowing water. When the Ministry of Revenue and the Military Department saw the reimbursement list for the Xishan camp, they were all stunned, if not for the fact that the government was filled with evil people, they would not even be able to afford a silver coin!