"The military expenditure is too large, and the number of troops must be cut. ◇↓◇↓ Novel.￥f"

Money is made quickly, but it is spent faster. The financial revenue this year is quite gratifying, but when Liu Jun looked at Long Han's fiscal expenditure report carefully, his expression was very entangled.

A million army sounds really exciting, but the cost of raising a million army can make people feel bleeding. This is not a million guards of the Ming Dynasty, nor is it a government army in the Sui and Tang dynasties. This is a new type of standing army, similar to the professional army in the Song Dynasty.

In order to support his huge professional army, the Song Dynasty spent more than 70% of its annual expenditure on the army. Now the situation of the great man is not much better. If it were not for the victory of several major wars last year, especially the filling of the huge profits and wealth obtained after the annexation of Japan, the Secretary of Finance would have long cried with him.

The big man is now looking prosperous and cooking oil. However, the general increase in salary and commodity prices have led to the increase in salary of the big man soldiers and the sharp increase in equipment costs.

After the last round of layoffs, the Imperial Army and Navy still had one million. In this million army, the proportion of officers was very high, with an astonishing number of more than 160,000. In addition, the number of non-commissioned officers was also large, with more than 500,000 non-commissioned officers, and the number of ordinary soldiers was smaller than that of non-commissioned officers, only more than 300,000.

The proportion of such officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers certainly makes the army very combat effectiveness, but it also makes the army's expenses very high. The salary and benefits of officers are as high as more than 50 million yuan a year, the salary and benefits of non-commissioned officers are as high as more than 60 million yuan, and the salary and benefits of ordinary soldiers are also as high as more than 30 million yuan. The total of the three items is as high as nearly 150 million yuan silver dollars.

This is just the salary and benefits of officers and soldiers. The military expenditure is even more important. The cost of equipment training, training costs, and consumption costs such as food and drink. The cavalry's war horses, artillery artillery, naval warships, military camps and fortresses in various places, naval bases, ports, shore defense artillery, and naval naval ships.

There are also military academies such as land and sea artillery, training camps for training non-commissioned officers, etc.

These expenses are all added, plus the costs of war. The total military expenditure this year has reached more than 600 million silver dollars, which makes Liu Jun’s stomach hurt.

"The army must be cut and military expenditure must be reduced." Liu Jun clenched his fists and pointed at the Secretary of Finance and the Minister of War. As for the Privy Councilor Fu Shan, he could only sit aside helplessly.

He only mastered the imperial military order system, and transferred military expenditure budgets, equipment logistics, salary and benefits to the Ministry of War and the Finance Department.

"Another 200,000!"

Liu Jun could not afford such a large amount of military expenditure. This year he captured Japan, recovered Liaodong, and merged North Korea. Otherwise, the court would not have had a 2 billion yuan in financial revenue. However, although the 600 million yuan in military expenditure this year also included a large amount of war expenses, the remaining expenditure was still huge. Military expenditures were available every year, and the court could not bear such a large amount of expenditures every year.

It is impossible for the court to reduce the salary of the soldiers, and it is undoubtedly stupid to do that.

Professional army is the only way out for the army in the future, and professional soldiers must ensure their income. The consequence of raising the beggar army is that when you need the army's sword, you will find that he just used the painted wooden sword, and then he will still be his own. Just like Zhu Yuanzhang, he always boasted that he raised millions of soldiers without spending a grain of food in the court. The result is naturally known to everyone.

"Another 200,000?" Fu Shan was surprised. The court had just cut 200,000 and was about to cut another 200,000. This knife was too fierce.

"The army is not very strong. At present, the situation around the Han Dynasty is relatively good. At present, only the south and west sides need to use troops. The 800,000 army is a little more. Besides, even if we lay off another 200,000, there is still a huge reserve. Moreover, the Mongolian princes, the Imperial Army, and the foreign legions have a total of 200,000 or 300,000, which is also available at critical moments."

The Mongolian Legion, Imperial Legion, and foreign Legion, these three legions are the three extra-staff forces of the empire and are not affiliated with the empire's active service. Moreover, they are armies that have their own equipment. The court does not pay wages and solves the problems of supplies by themselves. When they are transferred to the battlefield, the court can sell them weapons, food and grass, and they can also divide them from their spoils. Therefore, Liu Jun thinks that such an army is still easy to use, cheap and easy to deal with.

Compared to these three legions, the Emperor** spends 600 silver dollars a year, which is too expensive.

"Also, the Navy's new ship plan will be reduced. Except for the ones that have already started construction, the rest of the new ships will be temporarily stopped and will be shelved."

The Imperial Navy now has a large number of warships. Although many of them are old-style, or even merchant ships transformed, which is considered a transitional style in the Navy, Liu Jun feels that he can no longer support the navy's excessive expansion plan.

New ships need to be built, but the quantity and tonnage must be strictly controlled.

Now the Navy has five major fleets, with more than a dozen squadrons below, which seems to be appropriately streamlined and merged.

"The East China Sea Fleet and the South China Sea Fleet merged, the original eight squadrons of the two fleets were merged into four, the Royal Fleet and the two squadrons of the North China Fleet were merged into one, and the four squadrons of the North China Fleet were combined into three, and the Western Fleet still only retained one fleet. The Yangtze River and Heilongjiang Fleets had to compress the scale and simplify it."

Liu Jun made drastic moves, and the Navy finally retained only nine fleets and two of the Army Navy, but each fleet had to be compressed and simplified.

Some old warships were directly retired, and there was no need for each fleet to retain so many gunboats and patrol ships outside the class ships. Liu Jun even asked the soldiers on each warship to reduce their personnel, one of which was the reduction of the personnel of the Marine Corps on each warship. Since the Imperial Navy is now taking the route of giant ships and cannons and is a line of battles, there is no need to retain so many Marines on the warships.

After all, in the past, Marines on warships were more to deal with docking gang fights, but under the current tactics, there is basically no such tactics, and Marines can be reduced. As for landing operations, it is better to use special transport ships to transport them. Each warship is still responsible for combat, reduce the Marines, and add a few gunners. The total number of people on the ship is reduced, and each ship is reduced by more than ten or twenty. The number of fleets is quite considerable.

The Navy retained more than 16,000 people per fleet, with a total of 150,000 people, and each of the two naval fleets of the Army Navy was 5,000 people each, and the Army field troops had 18 towns. Each town was changed to two divisions and four associations, with a total of 20,000 units. The garrison troops were also reduced to 280,000.

In this way, the army was compressed to 650,000, and the navy was compressed to 150,000, with a total of 800,000 serving.

Another 200,000 troops will be laid off, and the plan to new naval warships will be shelved, and most of the ships will be eliminated. The army will also reduce some military facilities and reduce the number of cavalry and artillery.

Military expenditure is expected to be reduced by 40%. Without war expenditure, military expenditure can be reduced to about 200 million silver dollars. This amount is estimated to account for 20% of the financial revenue when the normal financial revenue is collected. If the war's military expenditure is added, the military budget may reach 300 million.

"In this way, the former Jianzhou Town was also laid off, and the North Korean army was also laid off."

Liu Jun felt that the expenses were still large, and now the Jurchens have been destroyed. Liu Jun felt that there was no need to keep the Jurchen soldiers in Jianzhou Town led by Haoge, who had surrendered. After the merger of North Korea, there was no need to keep the Korean army.

There are 30,000 people in Jianzhou Town and 50,000 Korean troops, which is 80,000.

"How to place it all down?"

Liu Jun thought about it and the Jurchens were completely broken and dispersed, so Liu Jun no longer worried that the Jurchens would have any recurrences. However, the tens of thousands of soldiers in Jianzhou Town were dispersed and resettled at once. They must not be allowed to return to Jianzhou again, otherwise it would always be a problem.

Or let them go to Siberia to clear the land?

Liu Jun shook his head. The ghost place in Siberia is high and the emperor is far away. If the Jurchens are moved there, the court will not be able to truly control it. If they are given a chance to recuperate there, they may get up again and it will not be safe.

"Just change Jianzhou Town into a mercenary army, just like the Imperial Army and the foreign army, to transfer them to Central and Southern China. Fight Nanyue first, and after fighting Nanyue, you can also fight Zhenla, Dacheng, Nanzhang and Dongyu. These Jurchens can't do anything else except war. Let them go to Central and Southern China, and they will be able to do their best."

Liu Jun was unwilling to continue to support the Jurchens. After turning them into mercenaries, they became more free and the court saved more money. When they arrived in Nanyue, they could fight whatever they wanted. They could grab whatever they wanted. Anyway, they got a score from the court and didn't have to give them salary. The most important thing is that if they died and were disabled, the court would not have to give them pensions.

And let them stay away from the Northeast, the court was relieved to save them from doing something unexpected in their hometown.

Let them fight for the court in Central and Southern China, expand their territory, and let them enjoy themselves for a few years. Liu Jun doesn’t have to worry about the big deal. Wars will consume them, and if one war continues one after another, it will eventually be consumed.

The Koreans originally had no standing army. Their army was all peasants, and they took turns to draw the people to serve. However, in the past two years, they have also formed a standing army. After the Han Dynasty merged with North Korea, the farmers who served in turn went home, but this standing army is still retained.

Now Liu Jun plans to convert this Korean army into mercenaries and send it to South Vietnam.

As a result, the court reduced the number of standing troops by 80,000, leaving only 720,000, and the army was only 570,000. Moreover, two hidden dangers were also taken away. After the only indigenous standing troops of North Korea were removed, the court had no more troubles.

With the Imperial Army, the Korean Army, the Jurchen Army and the foreign army joining the Indochina battlefield, they charge to fight the vanguards and let them tear them away from the monkeys on the Indochina Peninsula, the court does not need to invest too much army.

The cost of dispatching the imperial army was very high, and the injury was damaged and dead, and the pension cost was even higher. Moreover, the emperors still bought insurance. Since it was a war, of course they had to send those who did not buy insurance first.
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