743 Four Marshals (1/2)

Chapter 743-Four Marshals

Translator: ryangohsf

Editor: Nora

This round of military organization involved three War Fighting Legions and a total of 200 odd thousand troops, a huge expenditure for the territory.

Based on calculations, if one considered the pension money as well, it would result in a one-time cost of 1.5 million.

The more terrifying part was the daily military expenses.

When the three legions were fully formed, Shanhai City would have 13 legions and just the salary alone would reach 500 thousand gold.

Along with the five squadrons of the Nanyang Navy, considering the monthly grain usage, equipment, war compensation money, and more, Shanhai City's monthly costs would be over a million.

Around 60% of Shanhai City's financial profits would be passed to the military. Deducting all the other expenses, although each month Shanhai City earned over a million in tax, it had truly limited profits.

Even to say that some of the large projects needed loans from the Four Seas Bank to be completed.

The cost for this military expansion was paid right out of Ouyang Shuo's pocket. If not, the Financial Bureau would have to borrow from the Four Seas Bank again.

With that, Ouyang Shuo's personal wealth had shrunk to 6.5 million. If he deducted the 500 thousand in expenses he promised to the No.7 Research Institute, then he would be left with just six million.

During the 4th year global auction, Ouyang Shuo needed at least 5 million. Hence, the amount of funds he could currently take out was not much.

This was also something only Shanhai City, with the help of a prosperous commerce, shipbuilding, military industry, garment industry, steel industry, and others supporting them could handle.

If it was any other territory, it would have been crushed by such large military expenses.

Hence, it was not hard to understand why Ouyang Shuo was pushing for voyage trading so badly. Without the profits from the voyage squadron, Shanhai City would not be able to maintain such a large scale army.

To truly expand like that, the construction all around the territory would have to be stopped.

For Shanhai City to be able to lead the territory industrialization, build basic facilities, perfect education and medical facilities, it could be considered a huge miracle.

So if a territory just focused on conquering the outside and did not bother about internal affairs, building a solid base, and promoting various industrial developments it would be dragged down by the army.

It would be exhausting all the resources to build up the military.

As the military organization plan was settled, the various legions also started to move.

This was without mentioning the City Protection Legion that left after the battle. They would rush to Zhenhai City and board the warships back to Shanhai City.

During the Battle of Lingnan, Ouyang Shuo did not keep a reserve force in his hand, so it was a really risky choice. If an emergency had happened in the west or the north border, he would not have been able to send help in time.

The City Protection Legion housed outside Shanhai City would be a reserve army that could use the teleportation formation to go anywhere to assist the frontlines.

When they established the country, to protect the capital city, they could not move the City Protection Legion. Unless it was an emergency, they would be permanently housed outside the city.

Similarly, it would not be easy for the Guards Legion to go out often.

If not, and a large capital city lacked a strong army defending it, it would be easy to cause unrest. The people would feel uneasy and hidden powers would rise.

If they were not careful, an empire might fall.

In history, every dynasty was like that. Even when they were nearing death, the emperors would not easily move out the city protection army or guards out of the capital.

The reason was just that.

Apart from the City Protection Legion, the 1st legion of the Guards Corps as well as the 2nd legion of the Dragon Legion Corps would rest up before leaving. They would use the mountain path, going past Zhaoqing Prefecture, Wuzhou Prefecture, Xunzhou Prefecture, and Zhen An Prefecture all the way back to the Yunnan Battlefield.

The entire journey would take close to a month.

A con of long distance deployment of troops was that half the time was wasted on the road.

As a consequence, they needed to set up war zones.

In the future, normal battles would be taken charge of by that warzone and there would rarely be cross warzone movement of troops.

As for the Guards Corps 2nd legion that was still forming and the 4th legion of the Dragon Legion, they would follow the same path back to Yunnan Battlefield.

The time to organize them would be around a month.

Hence, by the time the legions were officially formed up, the Three Kingdom generals who were appointed would have basically finished their learning in the Army Military Academy and could meet up with their forces right on time.

The four legions of the Dragon Legion Corps and the two of the Guards Legion Corps, for a total of 420 thousand troops; this would be all they had to conquer the enemy.