Some friends in today's two chapters argued more fiercely, and the old guest deliberately opened a leaflet to explain.

The Qin Dynasty did not have a monopoly on salt and iron, so the copper and iron smelting in the Qin Dynasty was still in a private state, and there may be government-run ones, but there is no historical record.

Moreover, after Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries, he moved the six kings and the world's wealthy merchants to Xianyang, cutting off the opportunity for the rich and the six kings and nobles to collude with the nobles to the greatest extent, and then gathered the world's copper and iron merchants in Nanyang, so as to maximize the smelting of copper and iron, which may cause hidden dangers, all the merchants are centralized to monitor and prevent poor supervision and management after dispersion, and the most important thing is to supervise copper and iron from falling into the people in large quantities.

After the unification of the Qin Dynasty, the soldiers of the world were also collected and cast into twelve bronze men weighing a thousand stones, and the weapons collected here were mainly the weapons of the soldiers of the six countries, and the civilian ones were also available, but not the main ones.

In the Qin Dynasty, there was strict weapon control, and the people were not allowed to privately hide bows and crossbows and military standard weapons, but it did not mean that the people did not have weapons, but there were strict restrictions on the civil weapons, and the length and size were regulated, and it was deemed illegal and punished if it exceeded the regulations, for example, the hunter could prepare a bow and arrow, but the hunter belonged to a special household registration, and the same as the craftsman should be included in the scope of monitoring and management.

There is also the Qin Dynasty's management of craftsmen is extremely strict, not officially recognized craftsmen, not allowed to build weapons at all, not even farm tools, and whether it is a weapon or a farm tool, it must be the name of the worker, that is to say, every weapon or metal farm tool built by the craftsman must be engraved with his own name, if it is a quality problem, it must be held responsible, if it is built and sold privately, it is a felony, and it will be stripped of the craftsman's status and degraded to a slave.

Now let's talk about the promotion of smelting steel invented by Chen Xu.

In fact, before the steel was smelted, the copper and iron smelting of the Qin Dynasty had always been officially supervised, and the same was true for private smelting, including weapons.

That is to say, the Qin Dynasty did not have a unified official weapons manufacturing factory, once there was a war, craftsmen would be recruited to build on time as needed, there was strict official supervision, and it was not allowed to go to the people, this method and process were not fundamentally different from Chen Xu's method.

When Chen Xu first arrived in Wancheng, the old guest had already written that there were a large number of copper and iron workshops near Wancheng, and these workshops were operated under the strict supervision of officials, whether it was smelting copper and iron or making utensils, there were officials responsible for registering to prevent copper and iron merchants from making weapons privately, Ran Feng was a special case, and he had long wanted to rebel, so he used money and goods to corrupt Wancheng officials, resulting in a blind spot of surveillance, but this kind of thing can never be avoided, after all, the rule of the Qin Dynasty is not a day or two can be eliminated for the hatred of the six countries.

In Chen Xu's method, the every move of the participating businessmen is also strictly monitored by the government, but the former government's recruitment of craftsmen to build weapons has been changed to businessmen calling craftsmen to build weapons, but these people are still under the strict supervision of the government, and the smelted steel and manufactured tools and weapons cannot be exported to the people, which is the standard weapon of the army, and the people are also not allowed to hold it, so there is no problem of leakage of the country's heavy weapons, and there is no essential difference between steel weapons and bronze weapons. If you want to rebel, you can rebel with bronze weapons, and the copper and iron merchants in Nanyang used to smelt copper and iron every day, but no one rebelled every day.

What's more, the nature of businessmen is different from that of nobles, they mainly make money, and the country does not have much sense of belonging to them, when the Seven Kingdoms fought in the past, merchants did not come and go between the Seven Kingdoms to make money in business, because the concept of the country at this time was different from that of later generations, the country at this time was still nominally the Zhou Dynasty, the country was only princes, and the scholars were the same, taking turns to be officials between several countries, and the country would serve whoever was good to him, and the sense of belonging to the country was not strong, Li Si was a native of Chu, Ran to Qin as an official and destroyed his motherland.

The last thing to say is the point, the country is still very stable at the moment, there are nearly one million troops in the country, these are real soldiers, when Qin Shi Huang is still alive, even if someone wants to rebel, it will not be able to set off a big wave at all, dare to jump out and be crushed to death with a light stroke.

Later, when Xiang Liang and Xiang Yu rebelled, they still killed the county guard first, and got the official seal to coerce the county lieutenant to control the military power before they succeeded quickly, that is to say, if they did not master the army of Huiji County, Xiang Liang could not have become the most powerful force in the rebel army so quickly, and it can also be seen in the later battles that the peasant army led by Liu Bang was like a rabble, and it was completely impossible to defeat Xiang Yu, and he was almost wiped out several times, because Xiang Yu was originally a family of military generals and had the ability to lead the army. It was completely different from the ordinary peasant rebel army.

And the most important thing is that the rapid spread of steel is conducive to the development of agriculture, because the output of steel is much larger than that of copper, so the promotion of steel implements under strict control and sufficient force guarantee will not cause chaos in the country, which is a process in which the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.

The above is the old customer's explanation of this matter, which may not satisfy friends, but it will not be any problem in the current era.