Tang Ning looked at Emperor Chen and repeated: Go back to Your Majesty, if you want to form a heavy cavalry of 100,000 people, you will need at least 50 million taels of silver every year.
Fifty million taels of silver are actually just his conservative estimate
One hundred thousand heavy cavalry, not one hundred thousand horses and one hundred thousand armor, also includes horse harness, feed, blacksmith labour, cavalry pay, horse replacement, maintenance of armour, and loss of expedition
What's more, there are not only heavy cavalry in the heavy cavalry team. Generally speaking, 100,000 heavy cavalry must be equipped with at least 300,000 to 400,000 auxiliary soldiers, so the money must be included in it.
For a team with 100,000 heavy cavalry, 50 million taels of silver per year is actually not much
After the inner court became rich, Emperor Chen really became arrogant. A few months ago, all the surplus money in the imperial court was spent on heavy cavalry every year, and it could only maintain a maximum of 10,000 heavy cavalry. If you can get out of the court in one year, you can eat up the entire court.
If you don’t be a leader, you don’t know how expensive your food and rice are. If you don’t sit on the dragon throne, you naturally don’t understand these facts.
After being shocked, Emperor Chen frowned and looked at him and asked: It's just a 100,000-strong cavalry, how could it cost so much money?
Emperor Chen didn't understand the concept of 100,000 heavy cavalry at all. Tang Ning looked at him and patiently explained: Your Majesty didn't know that 100,000 heavy cavalry not only required a large amount of weapons and horses, but also required cavalry rations, war horse food and grass. In addition, a large number of auxiliary soldiers, errands, and blacksmiths. These people all need food and salary. Not only that, the annual maintenance cost of heavy cavalry is also a considerable amount. 100,000 iron cavalry consumes 50 million taels of silver every year, but it is not much...
Emperor Chen only knew that 100,000 heavy cavalry could sweep the grassland and be invincible, but he didn't know that it would cost so much money.
If he had to take out 50 million taels of silver every year for these, the court would have to last for two years. Naturally, he could not watch such a thing happen.
He looked at Tang Ning, smiled on his face, and asked: All the money in the treasury needs to be used on the blade, and 50 million taels of nature can't be taken out. What can Tang Aiqing do?
Tang Ning's face turned dark
The treasury has no choice but to do it, what can he do?
Fifty million taels are also an astronomical number for him. If he insists on getting it together, although he won’t be able to get it together, the question is why?
He and Emperor Chen were not relatives or bad things, and there was no reason to spend all their money on this. Anyway, even if he raised so many cavalry for the court, Emperor Chen would not marry his daughter to him...
Emperor Chen's budget for heavy cavalry was only five million taels, so he could only reduce the 100,000 heavy cavalry to 10,000. Ten thousand heavy cavalry, plus other troops accompanying him, it was enough to pose a great threat to the grassland. No matter how many of them were, it was just a waste of resources.
It is considered a bad luck to meet an emperor like Chen, Tang Ning. With his current spending attitude, he might have to wait in less than two years and he would have to go to Jiangnan again...
Ten thousand changes to ten thousand, and the task is not small. While Tang Ning is intensifying supervision, he also has to deal with other miscellaneous tasks in the Ministry of Industry.
Five million taels of silver, only ten thousand heavy cavalry was exchanged. Chen Huang was obviously a little unhappy, so Tang Ning could only save a little, breaking a penny into two to spend it.
The official houses requested by the two Grand Secretary have been built by craftsmen from the Ministry of Works. Tang Ning had urged the responsible masters to keep everything simple. On the premise of ensuring safety, the official houses should be economical and affordable. Some things that are too fancy will be less.
Some places can be less, some places can not be less
The ordnance required by the Ministry of War should be extra cautious about the lives of soldiers, strictly follow the standards, and must not be short of weight or less.
The doctor of the Ministry of Works sent a new batch of ordnance samples, which were randomly sampled and taken. Before handing them to the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Works must first inspect and inspect.
Tang Ning picked up a Mo knife with one hand. This knife is very heavy and it will be very difficult to wield.
Each of these kinds of knives weighs fifteen kilograms. It is converted into a unit of measurement in later generations, and it is about ten kilograms.
An ordinary knife is only three or five kilograms, so ordinary people naturally cannot use this kind of knife. Those who use this kind of weapon on the battlefield are the most brave warriors.
Tang Ning threw it to Lao Zheng casually and said: "Fifteen-pound Mo Dao, see what it is."
Lao Zheng is the ancestor of swords. What he said is whether a sword is good or not
Lao Zheng took the knife, carried it in his hand, and said: The knife is a good knife, weighing thirteen pounds and nine ounces, not as much as you said
The knife produced by the Ministry of Industry is standard. It is said that the weight of fifteen pounds is fifteen pounds. It can float in a small range up and down this number, but one or two more is absolutely not enough. It is even more impossible to reduce one or two less.
Tang Ning looked at a small official and said: Come and take a weighing instrument.
The Ministry of Works has a wide variety of weighing instruments. The man took the weighing instruments specially used for testing military equipment. After weighing them, he said: "Sir, this knife weighs fifteen kilograms, there is no mistake."
Fifteen pounds are just thirteen pounds and nine taels. Lao Zheng is the most honest butcher Tang Ning has ever seen. No wonder their butcher shop has such a good business. Fifteen pounds of meat only cost thirteen pounds and nine taels. It would be strange if the business is not good.
Tang Ning looked at Lao Zheng and said: You may not have touched the knife for many years, and it is normal for you to feel a little bad.
Lao Zheng put a few weights on the weighing instrument in his hand and weighed it. He looked at him and asked expressionlessly: A knife weighed 1300 pounds and weighed 15 pounds. How much do you think this 150 pounds weight?
It is logical that Lao Zheng has sold pork for more than ten years, so he should be very sensitive to weight and is unlikely to make more than one pound of mistakes.
Tang Ning thought for a while, looked at the little official and said: Take another power tool.
The power tool is a weight. The Ministry of Works has created many power tools according to its purpose. The little official quickly brought another set. Tang Ning used a ten-pound and a five-pound sword. After hanging the fifteen-pound sword, there was no sign of lifting the scale rod.
Tang Ning continued to pull the rope on the scale rod. After 14 kilograms or 13 kilograms, the scale rod showed a little sign of being raised.
Tang Ning showed an interesting expression on his face. He weighed fifteen kilograms with one set of weights, but less than thirteen kilograms with another set of weights. The problem was obviously on the weights.
Tang Ning asked the little official to go out, found a butcher shop on the street, and borrowed the name from the store.
Use this rod to call this Mo knife, the knife weighs thirteen pounds and nine ounces, and it is not bad at all
Tang Ning looked at the second set of power tools and asked the little official: Where did this power tools be sent to...
The minor official's face turned pale and said in a trembling voice: Hui, sir, I am sent to the salt farms in various places...
The power tool used to test the armour is obviously insufficient, so it weighs the knife. This shows that there is a greedy material, and one pound of one ounce, I am afraid it will be in the pockets of some people.
There are so many weapons from the Ministry of Industry. There are less here and less there. The sum is also a very considerable number.
The situation is exactly the opposite when sent to salt fields in various places
Although Chen State is a specialty in salt and iron, it also allows merchants to intervene. They buy salt from the court and then sell it at a specified price in the place designated by the court.
The weight of these fifteen kilograms of power tools obviously exceeded fifteen kilograms, which means that the salt merchants took more than fifteen kilograms of salt from the court, but only paid fifteen kilograms of money. This is to grab the wool from the court and steal money from the emperor...
As for the people who have the courage to steal money from Emperor Chen...
Tang Ning threw the knife to the ground and sighed: I really want to die...
Fifty million taels of silver are actually just his conservative estimate
One hundred thousand heavy cavalry, not one hundred thousand horses and one hundred thousand armor, also includes horse harness, feed, blacksmith labour, cavalry pay, horse replacement, maintenance of armour, and loss of expedition
What's more, there are not only heavy cavalry in the heavy cavalry team. Generally speaking, 100,000 heavy cavalry must be equipped with at least 300,000 to 400,000 auxiliary soldiers, so the money must be included in it.
For a team with 100,000 heavy cavalry, 50 million taels of silver per year is actually not much
After the inner court became rich, Emperor Chen really became arrogant. A few months ago, all the surplus money in the imperial court was spent on heavy cavalry every year, and it could only maintain a maximum of 10,000 heavy cavalry. If you can get out of the court in one year, you can eat up the entire court.
If you don’t be a leader, you don’t know how expensive your food and rice are. If you don’t sit on the dragon throne, you naturally don’t understand these facts.
After being shocked, Emperor Chen frowned and looked at him and asked: It's just a 100,000-strong cavalry, how could it cost so much money?
Emperor Chen didn't understand the concept of 100,000 heavy cavalry at all. Tang Ning looked at him and patiently explained: Your Majesty didn't know that 100,000 heavy cavalry not only required a large amount of weapons and horses, but also required cavalry rations, war horse food and grass. In addition, a large number of auxiliary soldiers, errands, and blacksmiths. These people all need food and salary. Not only that, the annual maintenance cost of heavy cavalry is also a considerable amount. 100,000 iron cavalry consumes 50 million taels of silver every year, but it is not much...
Emperor Chen only knew that 100,000 heavy cavalry could sweep the grassland and be invincible, but he didn't know that it would cost so much money.
If he had to take out 50 million taels of silver every year for these, the court would have to last for two years. Naturally, he could not watch such a thing happen.
He looked at Tang Ning, smiled on his face, and asked: All the money in the treasury needs to be used on the blade, and 50 million taels of nature can't be taken out. What can Tang Aiqing do?
Tang Ning's face turned dark
The treasury has no choice but to do it, what can he do?
Fifty million taels are also an astronomical number for him. If he insists on getting it together, although he won’t be able to get it together, the question is why?
He and Emperor Chen were not relatives or bad things, and there was no reason to spend all their money on this. Anyway, even if he raised so many cavalry for the court, Emperor Chen would not marry his daughter to him...
Emperor Chen's budget for heavy cavalry was only five million taels, so he could only reduce the 100,000 heavy cavalry to 10,000. Ten thousand heavy cavalry, plus other troops accompanying him, it was enough to pose a great threat to the grassland. No matter how many of them were, it was just a waste of resources.
It is considered a bad luck to meet an emperor like Chen, Tang Ning. With his current spending attitude, he might have to wait in less than two years and he would have to go to Jiangnan again...
Ten thousand changes to ten thousand, and the task is not small. While Tang Ning is intensifying supervision, he also has to deal with other miscellaneous tasks in the Ministry of Industry.
Five million taels of silver, only ten thousand heavy cavalry was exchanged. Chen Huang was obviously a little unhappy, so Tang Ning could only save a little, breaking a penny into two to spend it.
The official houses requested by the two Grand Secretary have been built by craftsmen from the Ministry of Works. Tang Ning had urged the responsible masters to keep everything simple. On the premise of ensuring safety, the official houses should be economical and affordable. Some things that are too fancy will be less.
Some places can be less, some places can not be less
The ordnance required by the Ministry of War should be extra cautious about the lives of soldiers, strictly follow the standards, and must not be short of weight or less.
The doctor of the Ministry of Works sent a new batch of ordnance samples, which were randomly sampled and taken. Before handing them to the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Works must first inspect and inspect.
Tang Ning picked up a Mo knife with one hand. This knife is very heavy and it will be very difficult to wield.
Each of these kinds of knives weighs fifteen kilograms. It is converted into a unit of measurement in later generations, and it is about ten kilograms.
An ordinary knife is only three or five kilograms, so ordinary people naturally cannot use this kind of knife. Those who use this kind of weapon on the battlefield are the most brave warriors.
Tang Ning threw it to Lao Zheng casually and said: "Fifteen-pound Mo Dao, see what it is."
Lao Zheng is the ancestor of swords. What he said is whether a sword is good or not
Lao Zheng took the knife, carried it in his hand, and said: The knife is a good knife, weighing thirteen pounds and nine ounces, not as much as you said
The knife produced by the Ministry of Industry is standard. It is said that the weight of fifteen pounds is fifteen pounds. It can float in a small range up and down this number, but one or two more is absolutely not enough. It is even more impossible to reduce one or two less.
Tang Ning looked at a small official and said: Come and take a weighing instrument.
The Ministry of Works has a wide variety of weighing instruments. The man took the weighing instruments specially used for testing military equipment. After weighing them, he said: "Sir, this knife weighs fifteen kilograms, there is no mistake."
Fifteen pounds are just thirteen pounds and nine taels. Lao Zheng is the most honest butcher Tang Ning has ever seen. No wonder their butcher shop has such a good business. Fifteen pounds of meat only cost thirteen pounds and nine taels. It would be strange if the business is not good.
Tang Ning looked at Lao Zheng and said: You may not have touched the knife for many years, and it is normal for you to feel a little bad.
Lao Zheng put a few weights on the weighing instrument in his hand and weighed it. He looked at him and asked expressionlessly: A knife weighed 1300 pounds and weighed 15 pounds. How much do you think this 150 pounds weight?
It is logical that Lao Zheng has sold pork for more than ten years, so he should be very sensitive to weight and is unlikely to make more than one pound of mistakes.
Tang Ning thought for a while, looked at the little official and said: Take another power tool.
The power tool is a weight. The Ministry of Works has created many power tools according to its purpose. The little official quickly brought another set. Tang Ning used a ten-pound and a five-pound sword. After hanging the fifteen-pound sword, there was no sign of lifting the scale rod.
Tang Ning continued to pull the rope on the scale rod. After 14 kilograms or 13 kilograms, the scale rod showed a little sign of being raised.
Tang Ning showed an interesting expression on his face. He weighed fifteen kilograms with one set of weights, but less than thirteen kilograms with another set of weights. The problem was obviously on the weights.
Tang Ning asked the little official to go out, found a butcher shop on the street, and borrowed the name from the store.
Use this rod to call this Mo knife, the knife weighs thirteen pounds and nine ounces, and it is not bad at all
Tang Ning looked at the second set of power tools and asked the little official: Where did this power tools be sent to...
The minor official's face turned pale and said in a trembling voice: Hui, sir, I am sent to the salt farms in various places...
The power tool used to test the armour is obviously insufficient, so it weighs the knife. This shows that there is a greedy material, and one pound of one ounce, I am afraid it will be in the pockets of some people.
There are so many weapons from the Ministry of Industry. There are less here and less there. The sum is also a very considerable number.
The situation is exactly the opposite when sent to salt fields in various places
Although Chen State is a specialty in salt and iron, it also allows merchants to intervene. They buy salt from the court and then sell it at a specified price in the place designated by the court.
The weight of these fifteen kilograms of power tools obviously exceeded fifteen kilograms, which means that the salt merchants took more than fifteen kilograms of salt from the court, but only paid fifteen kilograms of money. This is to grab the wool from the court and steal money from the emperor...
As for the people who have the courage to steal money from Emperor Chen...
Tang Ning threw the knife to the ground and sighed: I really want to die...
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