Zhao Ming went around Zhoushan and returned to Jintang Island, and soon Chen Mingyu gave him a detailed list.Zhao Ming was in the room and checked it carefully, and the bulk of the consumption on Jintang Island was still the military salary.20,000 soldiers were paid according to the ninth rank, the lowest rank of the inferior soldiers was seven cents of silver per month, the highest rank of the highest-grade sharps was one tael or six cents of silver per month, and after adding the salaries of officers at all levels, more than 30,000 taels of silver were consumed in a month.In addition, more than 300 craftsmen on the island, as well as Langzhong, staff and scribes, consume more than 2,000 taels of silver per month.In this way, the fixed monthly expenditure of silver is about 32,000 taels, and the annual consumption of silver is more than 384,000 taels.In addition to the fixed expenses, there are other one-time consumptions, such as 20,000 taels for soldiers' pensions, 60,000 taels for military merits, more than 70,000 taels for the purchase of fine iron, gunpowder, leather, and cloth, 60,000 taels for the construction of forts, and about 30,000 taels for the construction of slipways and timber.In addition, there are also the purchase of cattle, farm tools, piglets, chickens, ducks, with a budget of 20,000 taels.According to Chen Mingyu's statistics, after excluding the one-time consumption and the military salaries paid so far, there were still about 380,000 taels of silver in the treasury of the commander.In this way, if only the military salary is paid, it will be enough for one year.At present, it seems that after the annexation of Zhoushan, Zhao Ming is indeed rich.Huang Binqing has been operating in Zhoushan for many years, and has accumulated hundreds of thousands of taels of silver by smuggling, which can be said to have helped Zhao Ming a lot.In contrast to the abundance of money, food is relatively scarce.20,000 soldiers, each of whom has to eat half a catty of rice a day, will consume more than 2,000 stone of grain in a month.Zhao Ming ruled more than 600,000 people, and the people had to eat less than the soldiers, and they had to eat at least 40,000 stone of grain in a month.Previously, Zhao Ming's 80,000 stone grain had been eaten, and now with the grain storage in Zhoushan, there were only 70,000 stone grain in the warehouse of the commander's command, which was not enough for 600,000 people to eat for two months.Of course, the local people in Zhoushan may have some grain in their hands, but the overall food shortage on the island is not optimistic.In the Zhoushan Islands and Chongming Sandbank, two crops of rice a year can harvest about 200,000 stones, while 600,000 people need at least 500,000 stones to consume grain a year, and there is still a gap of 300,000 stones to be solved.In addition to food, the army and the people also need to eat, and although there are fishing boats to catch fish, the gap is still very large.In order to solve this gap, Zhao Ming has only two ways at present, one is to evacuate the people to colonize and reclaim other islands, and the other is to prepare to take advantage of the summer harvest to go to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to grab grain.Cen Port and Lie Port are the two most important ports on the Zhoushan Islands.With Chen Mingyu's reorganization of the people of Zhoushan and their inclusion in the military households, the evacuation work has begun.At this time, on the edge of the wharf, sailors were loading food and tools onto the ship, and a large number of military households were waiting for the roll call to board the ship.In order to reduce the pressure of evacuation, the military households that moved away were not the local residents of Zhoushan, but the rebels who fled to Zhoushan.They have nothing in Zhoushan, they eat relief every day, and they are not so reluctant to move elsewhere.Most of these men would sail south, and after making a final supply along the coast to Wenzhou, they would venture to land in northern Taiwan and colonize there.The other small part will sail north, and after replenishing supplies in Chongming, they will go to the islands east of Lianghuai and Shandong coast.They will be stationed on Kaishan Island at the mouth of the Huaijiang River, Zhudao, Yadao, and Dongxilian Islands in Haizhou Bay, and Lingshan Island, Pingshan Island, and Sumen Island off the coast of Shandong.In the north and south directions, going south to Taiwan, is the main evacuation direction, Zhao Ming is going to quietly transport people up first, and after establishing a stronghold, he will continue to transport people to the Ryukyus and set up a guard.In the future, Zhao Ming's sailors attacked the coast, and the population obtained would be sent to Taiwan one after another.The main task of the military households evacuated to the north was not to settle fields, but to raid and harass the coastal areas to collect intelligence.Most of these islands are very small, and on each island, not too many people will be sent, depending on the situation on the island, mainly with 100 households and dungeons.Zhao Ming will send regular supplies to the soldiers on the island, and allocate ships to the island, and they will operate the island as a forward base, build warehouses, facilitate the raiding fleet to obtain land news, and temporarily anchor here.In the harbor, ships shuttled, and from time to time military households were transported out of the harbor.On the island, Zhao Ming stood in front of two teams and special soldiers.These two groups of soldiers, one was hired Japanese soldiers, and the other was captured Dutch.The Japanese soldiers fought bravely, with a tendon, not afraid of death, and were more loyal to their employers, and Zhao Ming had nearly 100 Japanese soldiers who came to the sea to beg for a living.Their main mission was to protect the merchant ships bound for the Wa Kingdom, but recently they had no trade to do, so they stayed on the island and were organized into the Oni Legion.There are more than 300 Dutch captives on Jintang Island, Zhao Ming will build equipment, can control sailboats, and pick out people who know how to shoot artillery, and there are still about 100 people left, who have no special skills, so they formed a team of white domain soldiers.Now there are more than ten days left before the summer harvest, Zhao Ming is ready to seize the time to train, and then the driver lands to grab the summer grain and give Hong Chengchou a surprise.At this time, on the school ground, the white feudal soldiers and the ghost soldiers were accepting the challenge of the Ming army's soldiers, and the two sides fought fiercely.Ruan Mei looked at the school with a toothache on her face, "Da Shuai, that red-haired ghost man is tall and big, it's okay to say that the brothers can't do it, why can't they even beat a group of dwarves?"
”There were many Ming army generals beside Zhao Ming, all of them had calm faces, and their faces were not very good-looking.Zhao Ming glanced at Ruan Mei, and then said, "You ask Ben Shuai, who does Ben Shuai ask?"
Find the reason from yourself, did you write the post-war summary that Ben Shuai asked you to write?
”When Ruan Mei and the others heard this, they hurriedly lowered their heads, "Dashuai, the lowly ones are still pondering~" Zhao Ming snorted coldly and looked at the school, and at this moment, Ma Shiao hurried to the school, walked to Zhao Ming's side, and whispered in his ear.Zhao Ming raised his eyebrows and asked, "What about people?"
”Ma Shiao said: "Just arrived at the dock!"
”Zhao Ming immediately turned around and said to everyone: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince sent someone over, and you will go with Ben Shuai to greet him!"
”The group hurried to the dock, and an official wearing a four-grade scarlet robe, embroidered with a cloud goose on his chest, and a black sand on his head happened to get off the boat.The person who came was less than thirty, tall and thin, quite majestic, and it was Zhang Huangyan, the imperial history of the right man.When Zhao Ming saw him coming down, he immediately smiled and said, "Brother Xuan!
”Zhang Huangyan saw Zhao Ming and said, "Uncle Ping!"
”Zhao Ming asked: "Brother Xuan came to the island, I don't know what happened?"
”Zhang Huangyan's expression was a little solemn, and he sighed, "It's a long story!
”Seeing this, Zhao Ming hurriedly turned sideways, "Then go to the official hall and say!"
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