In the end, the three of them only gave Fanyi 10,000 taels to Governor's Yamen to buy peace.

"If we are not someone from the palace, if we are not from the Jia family, then we have to give 300,000 taels." Jia Baoyu said angrily.

"No, if we didn't have these two things, we wouldn't be able to reach the scale of their request for 300,000 taels of filial piety." Jia Lian said coldly.

"In this case, wouldn't we use a budget of 300,000 taels from the beginning to build an army?" Jia Rong suggested.

This is a matter of course.

But none of the three expected it to come so quickly.

They thought it would take a few more years until the scale was bigger, at least with an annual income of tens of millions of taels.

"According to Ji Xiao's new book, a new army with combat effectiveness that can sweep away other feudal armies needs to spend 12 taels of food silver plus 3 taels of clothing and clothing allowance...Beheading one person will give 10 taels, and beheading 10 people will give 300 taels.

Two, the more you kill, the more you will be given... The fixed expenditure is 24 taels per year, which is roughly equivalent to the income of an oil seller in the capital in a normal year." Jia Lian said.

It seems that he has already started researching it.

"Sure enough, the principles are the same all over the world, even beheading an army requires KPI."

"Three hundred thousand taels, let me calculate, is only enough for the fixed expenditure of 10,000 people for a year. Once there is a battle, the budget will be doubled immediately, which is 1.5 million taels. This battle is indeed difficult to fight. No wonder the imperial court in the middle and later periods

I don't want to fight." Jia Baoyu sighed.

"Ten thousand people are enough for us to become hedgehogs. At least we need a few more heads to collect our protection fees." Jia Rong gritted his teeth and paid.

Rebellion must be prepared as early as possible... prepare early and start later.

Generally, if you are forced to take action in advance, failure is basically not far away.

"Then, should we start hiring troops and buying muskets now?" Jia Baoyu asked.

"Of course not, but to buy blacksmith shops, garment shops, and establish military industries related to the army." Jia Lian said.

"It always feels like it's a bit troublesome. The three of us alone are not enough." Jia Rong felt a headache after thinking about the details.

"Yes, so we need to recruit some potential rebels."

"Wait, before that, I would like to ask, what are the chances of success of this rebellion?" Jia Baoyu asked.

If it was not high, he would still marry Sister Lin and live happily ever after, and then let Xue Baochai renew his relationship after Sister Lin died.

This is more realistic.

At least it can meet the minimum customs clearance requirements.

"To analyze this probability, we need to understand why the Westerners failed to defeat this big Eastern dynasty in the end and could only rule it by proxy?" Jia Lian asked.

"It's very simple, four words, too far apart." Jia Rong said directly.

Jia Baoyu nodded slightly.

Yes, it’s not too complicated. It’s just that it’s too far away and technology doesn’t support such large-scale delivery.

The barbarians are far worse and more barbaric than Westerners, but they can rule the Eastern dynasties time and time again, but they are too close.

And they are willing to directly absorb the foundation of the Eastern dynasty, the landowners and scholar-bureaucrats, into the ruling class... This is the most important thing.

Anyone who cannot accomplish this cannot rule it safely.

"Okay, our next step is to select the rebels. Since ancient times, there have been basically two types of rebels. One is those who don't have enough to eat, and the second is those who are full and can hold on."

"There are too few people who have enough to eat, but there are the most people who don't have enough to eat."

After the three people discussed it, they took action.

Of course, you cannot directly tell them that you want to rebel, as this would go too far beyond people's psychological limits.

Jia Lian only said to the workers in the factory: "We must protect our factory. The factory is my home and everyone loves it. The factory is the job of everyone. Our money, shelter, and the food, clothing, housing, and transportation of the whole family all depend on the factory."

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The first plant protection team was initially set to consist of 300 people.

The workers accepted this easily.

After all, I come to work every day, I get paid every month, I get gifts during the four festivals, and I visit the elderly at the end of the year.

These common tricks in factories of later generations are great weapons in this era.

Why everyone yearns for the Jia Mansion? Isn't it because the servants are doing well in it?

The slaves have become masters.

If it was really a sweatshop, the people from the Jia family would have run away long ago.

"There have been bandits everywhere recently, and people often peek into our factory. We need to organize a factory protection team. The people in the factory protection team only work for half a day and receive double pay. They work in the morning, train in the afternoon, and have two days off every ten days."

The workers easily accepted this statement.

After all, every big family has guards and a team to protect the village.

This is a common thing.

Little did they know that as long as they persisted in the idea of ​​"protecting the factory", as the factory grew bigger and bigger, sooner or later they would overthrow the entire court.

Because only in that way can the factory be protected.

The feudal court could not accommodate large-scale factories.

There are only one thing: there are too many workers, they gather together, and they go to work uniformly every day. They are a natural rebel group and cannot be tolerated by the court.

This is why miners in the past were mostly feared by the imperial court. This is why private mining has always been strictly prohibited.

Jia Lian didn't say much. He just asked the shopkeeper, foreman, and line manager... to say it day by day and month by month: "Protect the factory. Only when you have a factory can you have a job. Otherwise, you will live on the streets and become a refugee."

There are no messy theoretical ideas, and workers who are refugees and urban bankrupts don't understand much.

As long as they know that by protecting the factory, they will have jobs and wages, that's all.

Jia Lian and the other three knew that rebellion would be a natural thing when the time came.

Because feudal lords will take the initiative to force workers into corners.

And they, who came from later generations, knew full well how intensely militant the workers could be in order to protect the factory.

The fighting power is much stronger than that of farmers.

Workers work together every day, and assembly line work itself is highly organized.

They are a natural born army.

They line up to work together every day, cooperate with each other and obey the foreman's orders year after year.

A factory can become an army by simply transforming it into an army.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! For example, it is enough to replace the foreman with the platoon leader, the workshop director with the company commander, and then the factory director with the battalion commander.

This is an organized army.

The small-scale peasant economy will no longer work.

Farmers are scattered and work from household to household.

There is a natural lack of organization, so tragedies often occur where a few government officials force a large number of villagers to death.

The mobilization power of industrialization is even more terrifying.

An industrial country with a population of 80 million can mobilize an army of 10 million.

The pharmaceutical factory built by Jia Lian and others can be directly used in wartime.

Providing medicines and food, the process of pharmaceutical manufacturing is much more rigorous than that of manufacturing food.

As long as the assembly line is slightly modified and the input is replaced by grain, wartime dry food can be output there.

In fact, to put it bluntly, the best medicine in this era is... high protein, high fat and high salt.

80% of patients die from malnutrition.

This way they solved the logistical problem.

Then there is the weapons industry.

Muskets, cannons.

The weapons factory chain in this era was not too complicated, and the work could be completed in the manual workshop.

Looking further back, modern military industry is no longer a system that can be completed by a single country.

If you want a musket, you must first have good iron. Secondly, you must have a lathe.

Guns can be processed by hand.

At this time in the West, many muskets were made by hand.

But they did not acquire the blacksmith shop because the target was too obvious and too scattered to be protected during wartime.

They need to build a coal and iron center.

I chose an island with coal and iron and spent money to buy land.

The names of the Four Families were not easy to use, and they could not be used here. In the end, they paid 20,000 taels to the nearby big pirate leader, and the island was taken.

As for why the pirate leader was willing to accept the 20,000 taels, it was because the Xue family had found someone who promised to prepare extra supplies for them.

The pirate leader needs goods on land to have a foundation...

Circular collusion.

After taking the island, we began to transport people upwards and transport refugees.

Feudal society lacked everything, so there was no shortage of refugees. It just depended on which year you were a refugee.

As soon as people had it, they began to cultivate some land, grow vegetables, and grow rice... mainly to burn the soil to eliminate dysentery and other tropical diseases.

Burn the grass, shrubs, and woodlands, leaving only windbreaks.

Then there will be coal mining, iron ore mining, and blast furnace construction...

Next comes gunpowder.
To be continued...