Zhao Ming walked around Zhoushan and returned to Jintang Island. Soon Chen Mingyu counted a detailed list for him.

Zhao Ming carefully checked it in the room and found that the amount of money consumed on Jintang Island was still the military pay.

Twenty thousand warriors were paid according to the ninth level, with the lowest level of lower-class baggage soldiers being seven cents per month, and the highest level of upper-class swords one tael and six cents per month. Adding the salary of officers at all levels, the salary was more than 30,000 taels per month.

In addition, more than 300 craftsmen, doctors, staff and clerks on the island consume more than 2,000 taels of silver every month.

In this way, the fixed monthly payment is about 32,000 taels, and it costs more than 384,000 taels of silver a year.

In addition to fixed expenses, there are other expenses that require one-time consumption. The soldiers are given 20,000 taels of pension, and the military merit rewards are 60,000 taels. The purchase of fine iron, gunpowder, leather, and cloth costs about 70,000 taels. The budget for building a fortress is 60,000 taels, and the construction of a ship platform is about 30,000 taels.

In addition, there are also purchasing oxen, farm tools, piglets, chickens, and ducks, and the budget is 20,000 taels.

According to Chen Mingyu's statistics, after removing the one-time consumption and adding the military pay so far, the commander still had about 380,000 taels of silver in the treasury room.

In this way, if only military pay is paid, it will be enough for one year.

At present, Zhao Ming is indeed rich after the merger of Zhoushan.

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.

Compared with sufficient money, food is relatively short.

Each of the 20,000 soldiers had to eat half a kilogram of rice a day, and in a month it would cost more than 2,000 stones of food.

Zhao Ming ruled more than 600,000 people, and the people ate less than the soldiers. In a month, they had to eat at least 40,000 stones of food.

Previously, Zhao Ming had eaten more than half of the 80,000 stones of grain. Now, with the grain stored in Zhoushan, there are only 70,000 stones of grain in the warehouse of the commander-in-chief, which is less than 600,000 people to eat for two months.

Of course, the local people in Zhoushan may have some food storage, but the overall shortage of food on the island is not optimistic.

The Zhoushan Islands and Chongming Sand Banks can harvest about 200,000 stones of grain in two seasons a year, while 600,000 people consume at least 500,000 stones of grain per 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 vegetables. 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 expand and settle other islands, and the other is to prepare to take advantage of the summer harvest to go to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to grab grain.

Cengang and Liegang are the two most important ports on the Zhoushan Islands.

As Chen Mingyu reorganized the people in Zhoushan and included them in military households, the evacuation work has begun.

At this time, sailors were transporting food and tools on board the ship at the edge of the dock, while a large number of military households were waiting to be named on board.

In order to reduce the pressure of evacuation, the relocated military households were not the local residents of Zhoushan who were well-off, but the rebels who fled to Zhoushan.

They have nothing in Zhoushan and take every day to provide relief, so they are not so reluctant to move to other places.

Most of these people will take a boat south, and after entering Wenzhou along the coast, they will take the last supply, and they will venture to land in northern Taiwan and expand their farms there.

Another small part will take a boat north, after replenishing supplies in Chongming, and head to the islands east of the two Huaihe Rivers and the coastal islands on Shandong.

They will be stationed in Kaishan Island at the mouth of the Huaijiang River, Zhu Island, Ya Island in Haizhou Bay, East-West-West-Lian Island, Lingshan Island, Pingshan Island, Sumen Island and other islands along the coast of Shandong.

The two directions of north and south, going south to Taiwan, are the main evacuation directions. Zhao Ming planned to quietly transport people to the ground first. After establishing a stronghold, he continued to transport population to Ryukyu and set up a guard.

In the future, the Navy Zhao Ming raided the coastal areas and the population they obtained would be sent to Taiwan one after another.

The main task of the military households evacuated to the north is not to farm farms, but to harass the coastal areas to collect intelligence.

Most of these islands are very small, and no one will send too many people on each island. It depends on the situation on the island, mainly Baihushou and Dunbao.

Zhao Ming will send supplies to the soldiers on the island regularly and allocate ships to the island. They will operate the island into advance bases and build warehouses to facilitate the robbery fleet to obtain land information and temporarily moor here.

In the harbor, ships shuttled through, and military households were transported out of the harbor from time to time.

On the island, Zhao Ming stood in front of two teams, special soldiers.

These two teams of soldiers, one is the hired Japanese soldiers and the other is the captured Dutch.

The Japanese soldiers fought bravely, were stubborn, were not afraid of death, and were relatively loyal to their employers. Zhao Ming had nearly a hundred Japanese soldiers who were seeking life at sea.

Their main task was to protect merchant ships to Japan, but they had no trade recently, so they stayed on the island and were organized into ghost soldiers.

There were more than 300 Dutch prisoners on Jintang Island. Zhao Ming would build equipment, control sailboats, and pick out those who knew how to shoot artillery. There were still about 100 people left. He had no special skills, so he formed a team of Baifan soldiers.

Now there are more than ten days left before summer harvest. Zhao Ming is preparing to hurry up and train, and then the driver logs in and grabs the summer grain to surprise Hong Chengchou.

At this time, on the school field, the Bai Fan soldiers and the Ghost Soldiers were accepting challenges from each Ming army to the soldiers, and the two sides fought fiercely.

Ruan Mei stared at the school ground with a toothache expression on her face, "Master, the red-haired ghost man is tall and big, it's okay for the brothers to fight, why can't even beat a group of short men?"

Many Ming generals beside Zhao Ming were all calm and had a bad look.

Zhao Ming glanced at Ruan Mei and said, "You ask me, whom do you ask me? Find the reason from yourself. Have you written the post-war summary that I asked you to write?"

Ruan Mei and others heard the words, and quickly lowered their heads, "Master, the lowly vocationals are still thinking about it~"

Zhao Ming snorted coldly and stared at the school ground. At this moment, Ma Shiao hurried to the school ground, walked to Zhao Ming, and whispered.

Zhao Ming raised his eyebrows and asked, "Where are people?"

Ma Shiao said: "Just arrived at the pier!"

Zhao Ming immediately turned around and said to everyone: "Your Highness the Crown Prince sends someone here, you can go with me to greet me!"

The group hurried to the dock, and an official wearing a fourth-grade blush robe, embroidered with cloud geese on his chest and black sand on his head happened to get off the boat.

The person who came was less than thirty years old, was tall and thin, and had a very majestic state. It was Zhang Huangyan, the right censor.

When Zhao Ming saw him come down, he immediately bowed and smiled, "Brother Xuan!"

When Zhang Huangyan saw Zhao Ming, he bowed and said, "Pinglubo!"

Zhao Ming asked, "Brother Xuan came to the island, don't you know what happened?"

Zhang Huangyan looked a little solemn and sighed, "It's a long story!"

Seeing this, Zhao Ming hurriedly turned sideways, "Then go to the official hall to talk!"
Chapter completed!