Chapter Ninety-Seven: Development
Without the harassment of bandits, the people of Wu County are much happier, and they can rest assured and boldly harvest the grain they have worked so hard to plant this year.
Seeing that the ripe crops were too late to be harvested, Yang Yun organized the county soldiers in the county to help the people harvest grain. In Yang Yun's opinion, this is a very ordinary thing, but in this era of Dafu.
These officials and men who served as soldiers did not exploit the interests of the common people, so they were Qing officials. Unexpectedly, this King Wu actually sent his soldiers to help the people harvest grain, which made the people feel extremely surprised.
After experiencing the initial anxiety, the common people found that these county soldiers were really helping them, and their hearts were immediately filled with gratitude.
With the help of the county government and the county soldiers in the county, this season's crops were successfully harvested, and the seeds of the next season were sown.
In addition, Yang Yun also searched several kinds from his memory, and ordinary people used some materials that they could see every day to make fertilizer. As a result of this measure, the newly sown seeds grew rapidly, and the people had greater expectations for a bumper harvest in the new season.
For the people, their greatest desire. It's just no longer hungry. But in Yang Yun's view, whether or not to be hungry is only the most basic stage, which can make every ordinary person in Wu County live a prosperous life, which is what Yang Yun expects most.
But things in the world often don't go smoothly, and then something happened. Yang Yun's attempt to rely on the medicinal materials in the mountains, as well as some newly planted medicinal materials, so that the people of Wu County can quickly increase their income, this plan was hindered.
There is a problem with the sales of medicinal herbs. There are several counties around Wu County, which are also mountainous places, and these counties, like Wu County, are very barren.
And the various medicinal materials in these counties are also very rich, so the medicinal materials sold to these counties and districts are almost unattended. And the delivery of medicinal herbs to some wealthy counties and districts further away is too far away.
Although there are some medicinal herb merchants, a steady stream of collected medicinal herbs are transported farther to the county capital. However, the amount of this delivery is far less than the medicinal herbs dug up in the mountains and the medicinal herbs grown by the common people.
The medicinal materials that the common people worked hard to dig up in the mountains turned out to be unable to sell or buy them at a very low price. Of course they weren't happy. In this way, their enthusiasm for digging and planting medicinal herbs has naturally decreased a lot.
Seeing this situation, Yang Yun also felt a little helpless. But in the blink of an eye, he had a new idea, and he collected the medicinal herbs, based on his own experience, for the diseases that often appeared in this era, such as wind chill, typhoid fever and plague. I wrote out some prescriptions and asked the herb dealers to sell these well-matched pieces of Chinese medicine directly.
For the people of Dafu, this is a form they have never seen before, so many people have been in a wait-and-see mode.
Seeing that the sales volume of this method was very poor, these medicinal herb merchants in Wu County began to hesitate and did not dare to configure this finished Chinese medicine for sale.
But Zhong Wenrui, Tie Shan and others, as the first group of people to follow Yang Yun, had a blind worship of him, and felt that this young master was omnipotent, so the method he came up with must be effective.
With the encouragement of these people, the medicinal herb merchants in Wu County insisted on making this finished Chinese medicine with half a doubt. Over time, there were some surrounding people who were sick and didn't have time to see a doctor, and everyone tried to treat them with these traditional Chinese medicines that Yang Yun had matched. When I found that the effect was very obvious.
As a result, this special well-matched traditional Chinese medicine in Wu County began to sell well in many states and counties in Dafu.
The initial success of this step of the attempt, Yang Yun came to enthusiasm again. Based on his own experience, he made some medicinal herbs from the mountains into pills in the way of Western medicine. These pills, compared to Daifuku's most common Chinese medicine, have a particularly fast healing effect.
With the success of the previous attempt, the pill made this time was quickly recognized by the people of Dafu. The welcome of the common people made the medicinal materials of Wu County quickly rise up in the territory of Dafu. Many merchants of medicinal materials far away from Wu County also traveled thousands of miles to Wu County to purchase medicinal materials and various finished medicines.
Merchants continued to travel back and forth in Wu County, which soon led to the development of many related industries in Wu County, and many discerning people benefited from it and earned a lot of silver.
Inspired by this incident, Yang Yun had a new idea. First of all, he began to try to make soap based on his own experience, and after countless experiments, Yang Yun really made soap.
This made Yang Yun happy, and he found some people with flexible minds and instructed them in the techniques of making soap. Soon after, the soap produced was the first to be used among the people of Wu County.
Soon, the people found that this kind of things that they had never seen before were much better than washing clothes with soap horns before, and the price was not expensive, so these things became new things that the people liked very much in Wu County.
Then, let the merchants who come and go sell these things to the various states and counties in Dafu. Soon it was popular in the territory of Dada, and many merchants came to Wu County from far and wide. Bring this kind of magical thing to almost all places in Dafu.
With this success, Yang Yun tried to make glass again. The advent of this new thing immediately made all the people of Daifuku rush to put this kind of thing called glass on their windows, which are much stronger and brighter than the previous papier-mâché windows.
At the same time, with the protection of these glasses. The oil lamps made are no longer afraid of the wind. Many nocturnal people like this new thing called "horse lantern" that is not afraid of the wind blowing.
In addition, Yang Yun also made some attempts, based on his own experience, to create some new products that are not available in this era, but are very practical and inexpensive. In this way, the popularity of Wu County in the entire Dafu has increased rapidly.
With these things, the income of the people of Wu County has increased significantly. Many people are actively participating in the manufacture of these new products.
The income of the common people has increased, and of course, the tax revenue received by the county government has also increased, and everyone is no longer running around to fill their stomachs. With this guarantee, Yang Yun set his sights on the training of the army.
After some efforts, there are now about 5,000 county soldiers, and since there are not many people in Wu County, it is quite good to be able to have 5,000 people. Since it is impossible to increase the number of county soldiers, we can only make efforts to strengthen their combat capability.
Yang Yun's Guo Long, Wei Wei and Liu Yuan are all good at leading troops to fight. They divided them into various arms according to the needs of the battlefield.
Wu County now has 2,000 horses purchased from Attention, so Guo Long and others selected 2,000 people with particularly superb riding skills from the bandits in the riverside cottages in the county seat and county to form a cavalry team.
In addition, 2,000 soldiers with good archery skills were selected to train as archers. He also selected 2,000 people with strong individual combat ability, and Yang Yun arranged for Tie Shan and others to carefully build 2,000 spears for them and trained them into pikemen.
In order to deal with the enemy's bows and arrows on the battlefield, a sword and shield soldier with a shield in one hand and a knife in the other was also trained. Among them, there are some bandits who have crossed mountains and mountains, have very strong climbing ability, and have also been trained as special forces to carry out some special tasks.
After classifying these soldiers according to their specialty, the next step is to train them tactically. Many of these soldiers in Wu County and these bandits in the mountains have a strong ability to fight alone, but they lack tactical literacy.
Therefore, Guo Long and others first trained them to cooperate with each other in combat. Divide these into groups of three, five, and seven. Choose different ways to stand for different situations and put these soldiers together. Some are responsible for defense, and some are responsible for attacking.
After a period of training, the tactical literacy of these soldiers has been significantly improved, and the next step is to practice the formation of these soldiers.
Guo Long, as the former generalissimo of the soldiers and horses of the Chu State, was proficient in various formations. In the era of cold weapons, different formations were adapted to different battlefields. In large-scale battles, many exquisite formations will play an unexpected role. When Guo Long led the Chu soldiers to fight with the soldiers of the surrounding countries, he used these formations to win more with less on the battlefield many times, and defeated the strong with the weak, and won the victory in times of adversity.
But this formation is very demanding for soldiers. If the soldiers cannot reach their exact position according to the commander's orders during the battle, not only will their lives be in danger, but the entire formation may be quickly defeated because others are brought into chaos.
Therefore, when conducting formation training, Guo Long set an example and explained these soldiers in detail. After several months of training, they were able to reluctantly find their position according to Guo Long's instructions, and then use different formations according to different situations.
After several months of training, these county soldiers and bandits in the mountains in Wu County finally ceased to be scattered and brave, and had the appearance of some regular troops, which made Guo Long, Liu Yuan, and others in charge of training very happy.
The next step was to conduct a battle drill according to the plan they had made at the beginning. The battle drill is divided into skirmishes, and the number of soldiers on both sides is the same, and the weapons they hold are the same. Meet in the wilderness and engage in catch-and-shoot fights, with both sides using wooden knives and guns. Due to the regulations, the losing side will be hungry for a day, so everyone will fight hard as if they are really on the battlefield.
Although there were some injuries in such training that was close to real combat, Guo Long and Liu Yuan, who were in charge of the training, were quite satisfied, because the training had to be like a real battlefield, and they had to go all out in order to get the effect of training.
There is also a kind of training is offensive and defensive warfare, and it is often encountered on the battlefield when it is necessary to attack the city, so Liu Yuan and Guo Long divided the soldiers into two parts, one part for the training of city defense, and the other part for siege training.
To this end, Hao Yangyun also arranged for craftsmen to prepare a lot of siege equipment for the team in charge of the project. But at the same time, it also prepared some tools for those who were responsible for defending the city.