Bronze smelting is a thing of the past for the Chu State, with the popularization of coke pig iron, bronze has also become a thing of the past for the Kwantung countries, only the royal palace is still using bronze, the name of the treasure. The technological progress led by the construction of the government directly brought half of the world into the age of great iron, but the artillery pulled the bronze back.

The Qin State cast a bronze cannon that did not explode for the time being, so as long as it went one step further: knowing that the main component of gunpowder was saltpeter, and knowing that saltpeter was refined by the recrystallization method, it would have entered the threshold of hot weapons. Could it be that ten years later, the two armies of Chu and Qin will shoot at each other with arquebuses and bombard each other with artillery at a distance of hundreds of paces? This picture should not be too pretty.

On the plus side, although the war between Chu and Qin was only a short decade, it brought about more technological progress than it had been in the previous centuries. Stirrups, mounted cavalry, spear arrays, iron, artillery, gunboats, and seafaring ...... are really going to be popularized, and military technology will directly leap forward for 2,000 years, reaching the level of East Asia before the Opium War, and the two armies will inevitably line up to shoot and fight in the future.

The military technology is advanced, coupled with the overall warfare system that the Qin Dynasty did not have, and the gluttonous cargo ships are used as the means of transportation, and there is no pressure at all to crush the whole world, and the Greeks and Romans will shrink in the city and tremble. When the artillery smashed the city walls, they were completely finished, and when the time came, the battle was priced in large horses, and the first to ascend was rewarded with a hundred great horses.

However, these are only possible if the Chu State continues to exist. Overseas territories have traditionally been difficult to control and can only be divided, that is, self-government in the colonial era, with central rule symbolic. The butt decides the position, and the people who support the imperial court in the central government will definitely oppose the imperial court when they go overseas, and the Zhou, Han, British, Japanese, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, are all the same.

The Qin State allowed the purity of non-county counties such as 'Dao' and 'vassal states', because they would not threaten the rule, and the most important thing was that they were barbarians. The Qin people living in the Dao and the vassal states were still subject to the Qin law, and it was stipulated that as long as one of the parents was a Qin, the child born would be the 'Xia Zi'. 'Xia Zi' was governed by the Qin law, and his political status was very different from that of the people of the vassal state.

When Xiong Jing saw this Qin law at that time, he thought to himself: How much does this person who makes the law hate the Qin people!

After committing a crime, the Qin law clearly stipulates that the people of the state can directly use money to atone for their sins, unlike the Qin people who need to accommodate officials to atone for their sins. If this is the case, which vassal woman would marry a Qin person? Which state man would marry a Qin woman?

Not only will they not marry or not, but the Qin people are likely to do everything they can to impersonate themselves. Once he impersonated himself and became a citizen of a vassal state, he became a foreigner with a green card and a yellow belt in the Manchu Dynasty. Such a yellow belt walks on the streets of Qinguo, aren't the third-class Qin people and the fourth-class Qin people sincere and fearful, and scatter birds and beasts - people can spend money to atone for their crimes when they kill people according to Qin law, but if you kill people, you have to abandon the city lord, who dares to provoke?

But after thinking about it again, Xiong Jing couldn't help but nod deeply: The person who makes the law is really high, really high!

Looking at the legal decrees, you must not be able to substitute yourself into the role of the common people, and many of the laws and decrees are difficult to understand, not only difficult to understand, but will produce a kind of complaint: why are the first three rows so stupid. The ruler doesn't take the common people seriously, and he never thinks about the well-being of the common people, but you make a fool of yourself and say that the law and policy don't think about me, this is the princess's illness after chicken soup poisoning.

The Qin State treated the Ba and Rong people leniently, but never allowed the Qin people to become Ba and Rong people by impersonation, especially by marrying, so the Qin law stipulated that either parent was a Qin person, and the children born were all Qin people. Otherwise, if you marry a woman and marry a man, you will become a citizen of the state after giving birth to an heir, and your political status is much higher than that of the Qin people, and then the streets will be full of Manchu yellow belts who kill people and foreign adults who get green cards, how can this country be governed?

If the people of the subject state and the head of the Qianqian are disposed of in this way, the overseas colonization will also be dealt with in the same way. The leaders of the Qianqian have gone overseas for self-government, don't sit together when they break the law, and they don't fear the officials anymore, so it's better not to colonize. Non-colonization did not cause much loss to the imperial government, but colonization became a threat to domination.

The formation of today's political system in the state of Chu is a historical necessity, and Xiong Jing has no way to change it if he wants to, so he can only take advantage of the situation and simply divide the contract. If you want to die, everyone will die together, and you must live together, otherwise he will clean up the nobleman surnamed Mi with the front foot, and Zhao Zheng will clean him up with the back foot.

He hopes that many countries in the world can coexist, but the reality is that the world is unified, and it is impossible for the Chu people to be unified.

The Chu people are the Chu people, and they are the same as the Qin people, the Zhao people, the Qi people, and the Wei people...... The existence of contrasting with each other, the existence of the Chu people reminds the remnants of the Six Kingdoms all the time: you are the Qin people, you are the Zhao people, you are the Qi people, you are the Wei people...... you are all the people of the dead country!

Identity is the cornerstone of a country, without which a legal system cannot be established. The unification of the Chu people can only be a Xiang Yu-style feudalization, and even if it is county-like again, it will be resisted by the remnants of the Six Kingdoms. Don't forget that this is not the Sui and Tang dynasties of 'blessing hands and feet [note 19]", nor the Great Song Dynasty of 'I have a heavenly spirit cover', nor the Jiangnan of 'water is too cold', nor the Manchu Qing Dynasty of 'measuring China's material resources'.

At the same time, the countyization will inevitably be opposed by all the nobles, and the result of the countyization is that the imperial court is dominant, and the next step for the imperial court is to cut the feudal domain. No matter how idiotic the aristocracy is, they have mixed up hundreds of steps, and there are many people everywhere, and even an eight-year-old child knows this bit of political common sense.

And if the political system of the Chu State is extended, the counties of the Six Kingdoms also implement the foreign dynasty system. This will also be strongly opposed by the nobles and honorables of various clans - if the Philippines is incorporated into the United States, more Catholics will vote, and the congressional power of the Protestant majority will have to be reshuffled, so if the Philippines cannot exist as a colony, it would rather be independent.

In the final analysis, only the state of Chu, which has heavy internal checks and balances, can colonize the whole world, and the state of Qin has no possibility of colonization, only the possibility of burning ships in the forbidden sea. The improvement of Qin's military technology will be a disaster for the Chu State, and it will also be a disaster for the world.

That's the downside. The inevitable disadvantage - the artillery was cast two months after the delivery, and the Shaofu of the Qin State did not try to cast the artillery before the delivery, and Xiong Jing died and did not believe it. The drying of the clay mold took several months, and the Shaofu of the Qin State had already actually tried to cast the cannon at least two months before the delivery, otherwise it would not have been cast so quickly.

Are the guns cast by the Baidi people durable? This question is not known to Ou Chou. The bronze cannon made of pure tin in Jutiefu only had a lifespan of 60 or 70 rounds, and after 60 or 70 rounds, cracks would appear in the tail of the cannon.

Ou Chou's answer made Xiong Jing's heart begin to chill, no matter what the lifespan is, it is bad news that the Qin people can cast artillery. He couldn't help but think of the Baidi people, and Aristotle IV. The Baidi people are an unexpected factor, and with them, things that are planned will go wrong.

Xiong Jing thought about it like this, he didn't realize the seriousness of the problem, he thought that the enemy of the Chu State was only the Qin State, and the Bai Di people were just engineers hired by the Shaofu of the Qin State. The real situation is that after the coup d'état in Bactria, King Eutidemus negotiated peace with Seleucus to jointly deal with the Pani, while Chu was at odds with Seleucus, and Qin was at peace with Bactria.

In addition, Hongmou's Red Ocean fleet is sweeping through the spice-rich southern Arabian Peninsula and the Somali Peninsula with 8,000 mercenaries, while blocking the shipping lanes of Persia Bend and the Gulf of Aden, confiscating and seizing trade ships and goods that could only sail along the coast in this era. The state of Chu will soon be at odds with India, and soon with Egypt, and what the state of Chu will really have to fight against will be the entire known world.

"Please return to the palace, Xuan'er has returned." In the afternoon, on the banks of the willows, Mi Xuan, who was still smiling in the carriage, kissed the man gently, and then wanted to get off the car and return to Xiaoyi.

"Don't worry, the hour is ......" Xiong Jing accidentally ruined the atmosphere of laughter and dragged the two into reality. He secretly scolded himself in his heart for being too stupid, and said: "Tell Jinling as soon as you go back, don't use bronze again." ”

"Yes." Mi Xuan agreed, trying to keep her smile unchanged.

"You say......" Xiong Jing was speechless and grabbed her. Do you want to inform the world about this, and inform them that there is lead in the treasures to a greater or lesser extent, and that lead is highly poisonous? ”

"Huh?" Mi Xuan was a little stunned, "This is a state affair, a state affair ......"

"The State of Chu has never forbidden women from interfering in politics." Xiong Jing was happy to divert her attention. "But there has never been a woman in politics."

Mi Xuan didn't quite understand what the man meant, and after losing her mind slightly, she said: "Tell the world about this matter, and the Qin people should know." If the Qin people know......"

"What if the Qin people know?" Xiong Jing had also thought about this issue just now, and he wanted to hear the woman's thoughts. What Mi Xuan didn't know was that the man was still thinking about another sentence in his heart: 'The woman is in charge, and the house collapses.'" SB said.

"If the Qin people know, they can cast ......" Qi Xuan intuitively objected to this matter and let the Qin people know, but thinking deeply, the Qin people had already cast usable artillery, at least Bai Di knew that there was tin and lead in the lapis gold. Regardless of whether the life of these guns is 60 or 70 rounds or 1 or 20 rounds as Ou Chou said, it shows that the Qin people were able to obtain a steady stream of usable artillery.

In this sense, there is no point in not informing. But why tell me again? Isn't it beneficial for the King of Qin to eat the meat soup cooked in a lead-containing treasure vessel every day? Mi Xuan's eyebrows frowned slightly, she was thinking, Xiong Jingai looked at her serious thinking expression, and kissed her again.

"Xuan'er is puzzled." Qi Xuan said. "But the injury is not dead, how can it not be serious? If love is seriously injured, then do not hurt; If you love it, you will be obedient. The ...... of Chu and Qin"

Mi Xuan is a woman who has read books, and she is talking about Sima Ziyu of the Song Army during the Battle of Hongshui in the Chu and Song Dynasties, refuting Song Xianggong's words that he was not seriously injured and did not capture Ermao. 'Why can't you kill [the enemy] if they are wounded but not dead?' If you pity (them) and (don't) hurt your wounded enemies again, it is better not to hurt them in the first place; It is better to pity the gray-haired enemy than to give in.

Xiong Jing nodded again and again as she spoke, and when she finished speaking, she unexpectedly asked, "Who is the enemy?" ”