Valley Emperor

After the army has captured Central Asia, it needs to take a breather and suspend the plan of the western expedition to continue to cross the Ural River and attack the Volga River.

He also called on the entire army to be self-reliant, cultivate farms, raise pigs and cattle, and at least be self-sufficient in part of the rations.

Self-reliance has always been a fine tradition of the Army. Since the end of the War of Reunification, military expenditure has dropped significantly, but the army's strength has been increasing, which is forcing the army to continue to reform.

Garrisoned troops, raising pigs and cattle, etc. all started at that time.

The recruiting system has become a compulsory military system, a reserve force, a militia force, a mobilization mechanism, and so on.

In fact, it is the plan that the Army was forced to make in this environment.

If possible, in fact, the Army is more willing to maintain an active-duty front-line combat readiness force of several million, and is not willing to only engage in a few hundred thousand combat readiness troops, plus hundreds of thousands of second-line troops, plus several million. Reserve troops!

But that's not money!

If the Tatars or European countries know that the Tang Army is poor, they will definitely be very speechless.

You Datang people's military spending is several times more than the sum of all the financial revenue of the whole of Europe and the Tatars, what else do you want!

These days, the income of the royal families in Europe is actually not much, no more than a few million Tang Yuan, and if it is less, there are hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands.

A few years ago, on the way to the Americas, a fleet of England was attacked by a storm, and then unfortunately attacked by pirates, which finally led to the annihilation of the entire army.

As the major shareholder of the fleet, the English royal family directly lost about 100,000 Tang Yuan!

The royal family of England almost went bankrupt!

Spain and Portugal are much better. They also have a steady stream of blood transfusions from overseas colonies. At the same time, in order to support the two against the Tatars, the Tang Dynasty simply acquiesced to the merger of the two.

A few years ago, King Sebastian I of Portugal, who was belligerent and liked to go to the battlefield, led his army to fight against the Tatars on the French front and died in battle. Because this unfortunate king liked wars and did not like to live. children, so there is no heir.

Later, the throne was succeeded by his uncle, Enrique I, who was also a fool, the kind of bishop who could not have descendants.

As a result, after the death of Enrique I last year, the Kingdom of Portugal was once in trouble without an heir, and finally there were several candidates.

The current King Philip II of Spain is a strong contender.

Although Datang’s diplomats in Europe still didn’t understand the strange inheritance system in Europe, considering that the Datang Empire still needed Spaniards and Portuguese to fight against the Tatars, and if the Spaniards annexed Portugal, they could also Better integration of the peninsula and colonial power against the Tatars, so acquiesced.

Therefore, although there are still divisions between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Kingdom of Spain, the two have actually merged.

After the merger of Spain and Portugal, their national strength has risen a lot.

Today, the whole of Europe, Spain, Portugal, England, plus the Netherlands, Sweden, a group of states in the Italian peninsula, Austria, Ottoman and other messy countries, their total fiscal revenue is estimated to be tens of millions.

And Datang's military expenditure alone is more than 70 million, and there is no comparison between the two.

However, in this way, Datang's military has been calling poor.

No way, Datang's military expenditure is high, equipment is expensive, and combat consumption is also expensive. Even if you do nothing, just eat, drink, sleep, and spend tens of millions a year.

Not to mention that in the past two years, the Army intends to change equipment on a large scale, and the ammunition consumption of the rear-mounted weapons is higher, and the combat cost is also getting higher and higher.

Even though the Army has already taken the bulk of military spending, it is still troubled by military spending.

Otherwise, the army would not farm and raise pigs by itself. It was really forced by military spending.

Fighting requires money, and this Western Expedition campaign is even more expensive. Even if the army saves money, it cannot support it alone. It needs temporary war expenses to launch a large-scale battle.

Therefore, in desperation, the army's top management can only cut down expenses. At the same time, the costly campaign of the Western Expedition will be stopped first. The troops will first farm the fields and raise pigs for a while, first focus on changing the rifled weapons, and save money after the replacement is completed. fight.

This made the soldiers in the Western Expedition Army very helpless and even dissatisfied.

However, there is no way to be dissatisfied. It is not popular in the Datang Army to give up the following. Since the high-level has already made a decision, the people below naturally have to obey the order, otherwise they will die miserably.

Therefore, the large-scale battle cannot be fought for a year and a half. At most, it is just a cover for the railway company to continue to build the railway.

And there are so many soldiers on the front line, it is impossible to be idle, so let the garrison start to reclaim, and by the way, help the new immigrants to build a house, dig a canal or something.

The Western Expedition Army suspended its large-scale offensive, which also relieved the Tatars on the opposite side.

In the past few years, the Tatars have been losing ground in Central Asia, and this opportunity to breathe is rare. Now there is finally time to take a breath.

As a new immigrant, He Xihua naturally does not know the layout of these upper floors. He is currently busy reclaiming wasteland.

Now that he has the ground, he also has the seeds and tools. All he has to do now is to clear the ground and sow the seeds.

It's just that he came alone. Although he had the help of horses obtained from low-interest loans, it was still very difficult.

The progress of its reclamation is far less than that of several surrounding neighbors.

Because the surrounding neighbors are all immigrants from the whole family.

It's just that this family came here, there are old and young, not all of them are young laborers, and the area of ​​land reclaimed per capita is actually not as good as Xihua alone.

And a family of young and old immigrated, and the cost was not small.

The days passed, and He Xihua was busy in the fields every day. When he found time, he even sent a letter to his home.

There was a telegraph office in the city that could send telegrams, but the high price scared him away.

Since the successful development of telegraph, Datang Telegraph Company has started to erect telegraph lines. The first long-distance telegraph line from Jinling to Shanghai has not been completed, but it has already been laid all over the country.

Among them, the northwest region is related to the war, and it is also a first-class priority project. It does not consider profit or loss at all. The government directly gives a large amount of financial subsidies to the telegraph company, and organizes banks to lend them. This is the successful laying of this telegraph line.

Otherwise, relying solely on their telegraph company, I don't know that it will take the year of the monkey and the month of the horse to raise enough money to build it.

But the telegraph lines with such a high cost are naturally not affordable for ordinary people. The main users are the military and local officials, which are used to transmit emergency documents.

He Xihua could not send a telegram, so he could only send a letter back.

Fortunately, letters these days are also delivered quickly by railways and ships. Although it takes a long time to send them back, it is better than nothing.

The letter he sent home was mainly to reassure his family, and at the same time to persuade them to immigrate too.

If nothing else, the hundreds of hectares of land alone are enough.

No matter how good the hometown is, what is the use of not having enough fields and not having enough to eat, it is better to come to Haidong Province to give it a try.

But the father's side may not agree. After all, although their family's land is a little less, they still have land, but it's not that there is no land at all for the poor and settled households.

Hesitation is normal.

Busy with land reclamation every day, He Xihua took the time to go to the city, and he was going to buy some chickens to raise.

In the past few years, he has saved a little money. In addition, the Royal Bank has special low-interest loans for new immigrants, so he can barely buy some livestock to raise.

The only problem was that he was alone and couldn't be too busy.

But if you are not busy, you have to do it.

In the past few days, he has already inquired about it, and now there is a shortage of everything in the city, especially all kinds of food are in short supply, and the prices are very high.

In addition to farming, he thought about growing vegetables and raising chickens, and then selling them in the city.

He didn't know that the current Curry City was the base camp of the Western Expedition Army. At the same time, the newly established Haidong Province also established the Curry House here, and established the government city directly in Curry City.

Many of the newly arrived officials, officers and their families have a relatively high demand for living materials~www.wuxiaspot.com~ In addition, many living materials have to be transported from the mainland, not to mention the high transportation cost. Moreover, it is difficult to eat fresh food, which has also caused some living materials in Curry City to be in short supply.

He reclaimed wasteland, grew vegetables and raised chickens, and after a while he also raised a few pigs.

To this end, in addition to spending all his savings, he also owes a lot of money to the bank.

But don't worry about the food issue.

The Immigration and Reclamation Division generally targets new immigrants, and will provide them with low-priced food for one year. Although this food also costs money and the price is very low, the most important thing is that you can owe it on credit, and then gradually wait for a year. return.

So there is no need to worry about this ration. If you are hungry, you will not die of starvation. Otherwise, so many people would not choose to emigrate to the frontier provinces or simply go overseas.

In addition to free distribution of fields and necessary production tools and seeds, they can also owe food on credit.

If immigrants want to expand production, raise pigs and chickens, etc., and have no capital, then there will be special immigration loans for immigrants.

It's just that these are purely commercial loans, which require interest, but the interest is very low.

He Xihua calculated, he spent all his savings, and signed a loan of more than 20 yuan from the bank, which made him feel even more pressure.

However, as for the pressure, watching a large group of slowly growing chickens and a few pigs, he was relieved.

As long as there are no accidents, and if you survive the first few months, you can buy the raised chickens from the establishment, so that the debt pressure will be much less, and the production can be further expanded.

Maybe a year later, I will not only be able to pay off my debts, but also make a lot of money.

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