Although Fei Qian said that he would prepare for the army, the march could not be prepared in a day or two, after all, the army still needed a lot of things, and among these equipment, the most important was the ordnance.

In addition to the large number of commodities of the Hu people, the other two types of commodities have also risen rapidly, and even overshadowed the amount of cattle and sheep trade of the Hu people to a certain extent.

Many people have some misconceptions that there has been a tendency to suppress merchants since ancient times, which is actually caused by a lack of understanding, but in fact this is not the case, at least not too obvious in the Han Dynasty.

The Shang Dynasty in ancient China was actually derived from the Shang tribe. In the middle of the Xia Dynasty, the sixth grandson of the Qi Wanghai gradually became stronger by carrying out commercial trade, and in the last years of the Xia Dynasty, the power of the Shang developed from the lower reaches of the Yellow River to the middle reaches, penetrating into the ruling area of the Xia.

It can be said that the foundation of the Shang Dynasty was trade. Because of the wheel technology derived from trade, and because of the communication and exchange, the development of culture and so on, it was ahead of the Xia Dynasty.

Shang in the Jinwen seal style, in fact, is a person pushing a flatbed cart, on the car standing ox and sheep horns, as a symbol of trade, mutual communication and negotiation of a word......

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the perception of merchants was not very strong, or the suppression of merchants was not too strong, but because of the Lu family and the Tian family, the princes began to be vigilant and control the merchants, but in fact, the exchange of commodities is the inevitable product of social development to a certain stage, and it is impossible to suppress it, even if it is not possible to control it for a while, after all, even some rare things that the emperor wants, chasing their sources, many of them are obtained from merchants.

Since the pre-Qin period, the taxes on merchants have been very heavy, and the classic tax of vehicles and ships, which has been extended to later generations, was actually set up at the earliest for these merchants who needed to be transported by vehicles and ships.

The Han Dynasty's control over merchants was not as strict as that of later generations, the main reason is that these merchants were often the scholars themselves, or side branches of the scholars, and suppressing these merchants was equivalent to suppressing the scholars themselves.

For the sake of the so-called etiquette, the Confucians of later generations became desperately attacking Ah Blockage on the surface, and behind the scenes, they scraped the ground to make money, on the one hand, they showed their high status, and on the other hand, they colluded with officials and businessmen.

Fei Qian knows very well that war is actually a huge consumption, so the trade in Binh Duong is to a large extent to supply blood to Fei Qian's war system.

One is the literary system of the Academy, and now there are different price books from books to Qing Treatises, and these books are basically very expensive.

The scholars of the Han Dynasty also had star chasers, but these people were chasing celebrities, and these scholars were very happy about the remarks and books of celebrities, even if they spent a lot of money, they would purchase one, otherwise it would be like they couldn't raise their heads in front of other scholars, so the sales of these books have always been good. If it weren't for the scarcity of the market, Fiqian would sometimes want to sell more of these books.

Binh Duong's other tools that gradually occupy a place are iron tools, including all kinds of simple weapons. Because the cost of the hydraulic forging machine propelled by the 20th and 30th refining of high-quality steel on the Pingyang workshop has been reduced a lot, it can meet certain needs in terms of quantity and quality.

Originally, Fei Qian also had the idea of setting up a so-called craftsman school, but it was quickly canceled, not because of the identity of the craftsman, or something else, but because of the special profession of the craftsman, many people have a bowl of rice because they know a craft, and although some of these crafts are relatively simple, but the so-called insiders look at the doorway, and the laymen see the excitement, if they don't learn it with their own hands, they may not be able to understand.

Large equipment, such as trebuchets, ballistas, etc., it is impossible for Fei Qian to take them out to teach, and small daily necessities, after teaching the apprentice, the master starved to death.

For a small-scale peasant economy like the Han Dynasty, on the one hand, there was no awareness of the protection of intellectual property rights, and on the other hand, these things were spread, which cut off the livelihood of the craftsmen who originally relied on these for their livelihood.

It's not that the craftsman school can't be set up, but when Feiqian can't guarantee nationwide control, the side effects of these things can't be eliminated, and rash actions will cause many unpredictable adverse results.

Many things are also like the craftsman system at this stage, although it is unreasonable, but it is not how the traveler can change it as he wants, and the consequences of taking it for granted are generally very poor, after all, the craftsman system at this stage is formed by accumulation over hundreds of years, how can it be said that it will be changed?

Fei Qian felt that the current craftsman apprenticeship teaching system in the Han Dynasty, coupled with the interests of family blood and so on, was already a relatively complete structure, after all, the knowledge level of ordinary people in the Han Dynasty was not high, how much can they learn and how much can they understand with a few classes in the so-called craftsman school?

It is better to follow the master and teach hand-in-hand is more efficient.

At the same time, although the blood kinship restricts the spread of craftsman technology, it is also the protection of original technical knowledge to a certain extent, not to mention that from another point of view, these skills that Fei Qian understands are not also accumulated by the ancestors little by little, and they are rashly taken out and widely taught, is it also sorry for those ancestors who meditated hard?

Therefore, Feiqian simply gave up the idea of setting up a craftsman school in Binh Duong, even if it was to be set up in the future, it would be more appropriate to build a nationwide school with certain specifications than to open it at will now. Of course, as an alternative, Fidive has improved the treatment of craftsmen, and proposed many reward standards to encourage craftsmen to make innovative inventions.

In any case, in the face of highly attractive material incentives, these craftsmen will naturally voluntarily drive the technology forward and continue to develop.

Just like the gun head originally sold to Yuan Shao, although the price was cheap, but the quality was really not good, there were some opinions, and then the craftsman improved the process and adopted the practice of half-clad steel, that is, using better materials at the edge of the edge, and then most of the rest were still wrought iron with not very good materials.

In this way, although the process has increased some complexity, it is equivalent to only adding a better steel material at the cutting edge, and the cost has not increased much, so it is still very advantageous in price, and Yuan Shao has purchased a lot during this period of time......

Even Cao Cao of Yanzhou sent someone to come to the door, on the one hand, talking about the old accounts he had promised to give, and on the other hand, he also wanted to purchase some more weapons. As for the matter of promising Cao Cao some resources before, Fei Qian has almost completely left it behind, and now that he has been approached, he has reluctantly scraped together some spear heads and arrows of similar quality to Yuan Shao's side and sent them over, as for the war horse, don't even think about it, it still won't be given, after all, the war horse is a strategic weapon.

Fei Qian was looking through the side hall about the output and benefits of the workshop during this period of time, and Huang Cheng came to the hall with a simple smile and asked to see him.

Fei Qian looked up and saw Huang Cheng's face, so he couldn't help but laugh a little and beckoned Huang Cheng in.

Huang Cheng entered the hall, saluted, and just wanted to speak, but was blocked by Fei Qian's words.

"Let's talk about it first, about the topic of the martial arts, Shu Ye Mo came to me......

It's not that Fei Qian has any opinions about Huang Cheng, it's just that the topic left in the martial arts hall is to let these generals open up their ideas and increase their experience on the battlefield, so it is naturally impossible to release water to Huang Cheng. Because if the standards for Huang Cheng are relaxed, it is actually equivalent to harming Huang Cheng.

Huang Cheng laughed twice, swallowed the idea of asking Fei Qian for help into his stomach, and then shook his hand and said, "Junhou, I didn't come here to talk about the homework of the martial arts, but ...... Prince, you see, shouldn't we take more soldiers in our guard camp now......"

General Zhengxi, normally speaking, the commander should be more than 10,000 people, so if Fei Qian is directly commanded, then half of it will be more reasonable, that is to say, there must be about 5,000 people, and now under Huang Chengming, the number of people in Fei Qian's personal guard battalion is only about 2,000 people.

"There are not many soldiers in the elite," Fei Qian said, "but it is not impossible to increase now, but in comparison, there are not many well-trained soldiers who have experienced life and death on the battlefield, and they still need to be trained again......"

Although increasing the number of soldiers can increase combat power in most cases, after a certain amount, it seems a bit frivolous.

Because on the frontal battlefield, it is always a small number of people who are directly confronted, not that 100,000 against 100,000 can have a sufficient and vast battlefield to allow everyone to engage one-on-one.

Sometimes there are too many pig teammates, which is not a good thing. Before the battle, the pig teammates would shout loudly and up, I will support you, and then when it was time to fight, when I turned around, I could only see the swaying and coquettish ass of the pig teammates shaking......

Therefore, for the soldiers, the choice of Fidive is to ensure the quality of a certain quantity.

What's more, for the area to the north, the infantry is like being half a cut short forever, and if he can, Fei Qian even wants to replace all of them with cavalry.

Huang Cheng nodded and didn't say anything, but Fei Qian could see that there was a slight disagreement in it. It's not that Huang Cheng has any disobedience to Fei Qian, but in this era, most people still don't understand the concept of the so-called elite soldiers......

In other words, in most people's concepts, if they are arranged according to the rank of martial arts from high to low, the first of them is naturally the general's personal department, then the commander's personal guard battalion, followed by the general veteran battalion, ordinary recruits, and finally auxiliary soldiers and civilian soldiers.

The concept of strong soldiers, or the concept of one enemy and ten, exists, but it is only for the general's personal troops, and for ordinary recruits, it is only required that they can go into battle, obey and carry out orders when facing the enemy army, and do not run away.

Fei Qian said: "The soldiers and horses have not moved," the soldiers and horses have not moved, and the grain and grass go first. On weekdays, the regular soldier has six liters of rice per day, which is doubled in wartime, and a certain amount of blood food must be provided if necessary, even if it is calculated according to the daily supply of six liters, the uncle will have 2,000 square soldiers, and the need for a month is also 3,600 stones......"

Of course, this is an ideal state, Fei Qian knows that there may be a few companies that can afford this value at this stage, but with the continuation of the war, the destruction of the social farming structure, and the increasing shortage of grain and grass, this standard has been lowered again and again, and in the later period of the Three Kingdoms, not to mention the daily supply of six liters, there is already a very remarkable amount of two or three liters.

Therefore, under such conditions, what the physical strength and combat effectiveness of the soldiers were, it can be roughly speculated, and it is precisely because of this that there are tens of thousands of battles, or even hundreds of thousands of battles, and in such battles, the soy sauce fighters occupy the majority.

"That...... Don't blame you, I don't mean anything special...... It's just that I have a doubt, and I ask the prince to give me advice......" Huang Cheng scratched his head and said hesitantly, "If it is...... Wouldn't lowering the standard allow for more soldiers? I heard that even the forbidden army in Kyoto is only four liters a day......"

Because Huang Cheng was also training in the Pingyang campus during this time, he knew that at this stage, what kind of attraction the daily supply of six liters is, recruiting soldiers is not a difficult thing at all, even if it is four liters, there are still a lot of people who will come, and in this way, and then converted, you can use the same consumption, and half of the soldiers will come out.

Fei Qian put down the wooden slip in his hand and sighed slightly. The destruction of the Guanzhong region is gradually showing its power, and the forbidden army should have been the strongest army of the Han Dynasty, but now it is gradually declining.

Fei Qian pondered for a while, and then said: "Shuye, you are right, it is true that if we lower the supply standard of grain and grass, then we can indeed accommodate more soldiers...... But you have to take into account one problem, if our current soldiers can't keep up with their food and strength, the training will be weakened accordingly...... What do you think would happen if you went to war? If nothing else, the number of battle losses must be higher than it is now, right? ”

Huang Cheng thought for a moment, then nodded silently.

"And then?" Fei Qian said, "The veterans suffered high battle losses, the amount of training was insufficient, and the recruits were not strong enough, so they lost again on the battlefield, and then used the next wave of worse soldiers to go to the battlefield...... At that time, the comparison will not be the combat power of the soldiers, but the reserve of the population...... And once the population reserve is exhausted, even if it is not lost, it will be lost......"

In the end, the three countries are like bad money driving out good money, when only each other is left, there will be no winners in the market, and everything Fei Qian is doing now is not wanting to take such an old path.

What's more, Fei Qian has no background to follow the path of the original Cao Liu Sun, after all, the situation between them is different......