Chapter 63: The Wedding of Bronze Gunpowder and Lead
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Yu Qian'er took two days to count the number of people, and it took another three days to distribute the wooden cards, and break up and regroup the clan according to the method set by Chen Jian.
As soon as Feng Hao came to Yucheng, he was completely hollowed out by Chen Jian, he lost the management system of the city, and he couldn't do anything alone, and Yu Qian'er only needed to hold on to the food and clothing under his control.
Chen Jian first sent a few chariots and horses to Fenghao, exquisite curved bows from Dongyi, a few exquisite lead tools in the collection, ration rolls from brothels, etc., and asked people to set up feasts every day to entertain wild hunting, so that the people of Windy City could actually live without a leader.
This can be regarded as a luxurious lifestyle within the Xia Cheng system, and generally speaking, the entire Xia City is a group of turtles, including Chen Jian.
Even though the production level of Xia City was much higher than that of the rest of the cities, it was still far inferior to the leaders of the other cities in terms of luxury, the nobles and the big slave owners. What tools can do, talking tools can do and do better.
There were no jade craftsmen in the Xia Cheng system, and metal was basically used in tools and weapons, and most of the exquisite utensils made were sold to the rest of the city, and it was difficult for the entire system to have such exquisite luxury craftsmen.
It was a city that was not suitable for living within the system for the aristocratic chieftains, but it was attractive to most of the lower classes.
However, with the new compromise policy and future development, the huge majority of the people in the deformed system may become the new nobility of the huge country in the future, so the destruction of this special system of the city is sooner or later.
Therefore, before the system self-destructs, Chen Jian should take advantage of the cohesion of this system and the advantage of concentrating on doing great things to do a few things that can ensure the advantages of ethnic civilization, so as to continue to develop in the slow historical process in the future.
There are no technical bottlenecks in many things, but many times there are detours, and they need to be tried and tested so that the development is too slow.
But before that, first of all, it is necessary to ensure that the 30,000 people in Yucheng are self-sufficient in grain, and to develop animal husbandry, to ensure that there is meat and occasionally wine, and that 30 million catties of grain are needed a year.
Based on the current rotation method of two years and three crops, and the amount of 200 catties per mu in a single season, at least about 100,000 mu of land will be needed next year.
The previous farm has reclaimed about 60,000 acres, and another 100,000 acres will be reclaimed when the spring ploughing is completed next year, making a total of 160,000 acres of land.
If ploughing oxen, carts, ploughshares, etc., can be guaranteed, according to the amount of labor of each light and strong ox plus 100 acres, at least 2,000 head of oxen, 500 horses, about 3,000 light and strong men, and a correspondingly greater number of women and old people.
It is necessary to allocate 8,000 to 10,000 people, and there must be no sloppiness in the food problem, and it is necessary not only to be self-sufficient, but also to make adequate preparations for future wars.
Fortunately, now that the population is sparse and land is everywhere, everyone can expand to the limit of what they can cultivate, and with the popularization of cattle, horses, iron tools, and the improvement of the management level of officials, the annual grain production should be sufficient.
Now that everything is public property and everyone is within the system, there is no point in private land.
Because land needs to be planted, even if a Yucheng person has 10,000 acres of land now, it is still meaningless if there is no one to plant.
Nowadays, this can ensure that the least agricultural population can support more of the off-production population, which is different from the mobilization power at the end of the previous feudal dynasty, when it seemed that the population was large, but the vast majority of them were bound to a small amount of land, and could only guarantee that they would not starve to death every year, and it was difficult for the government to mobilize their strength - a person could obviously cultivate a hundred acres of land, but there were not so many, and they could only be divided into the smallest small plots, and could not exert the power of people.
Private land is very attractive because it can deprive some of the fruits of labor from cheap labor without the means of production. There is something inherently magical about private land, and land is worthless without human labor.
Chen Jian is firm in the model of collective labor farms before reunification, and then liberalize control after reunification.
First, the literate population of Yucheng is increasing every year, and there is enough administrative power to govern it, and some wrong methods can be corrected at any time under the conditions of a small country and a small population.
The second is that the method of taking officials as teachers is more suitable for collective farms, which can achieve strict control from top to bottom, and new technologies can be quickly disseminated, and everyone's working limits can be brought into play.
Third, it is easier to build water conservancy and cultivate fertile land through collective labor. This is not something that a single homesteader family can do.
Fourth, once the civil strife in Xia Cheng is pacified, a series of changes will be carried out in the entire system, the first of which is the compulsory military service system.
With the exception of some off-duty and expensive off-duty soldiers, such as the planned stirrup shock cavalry, charging heavy infantry, and gunpowder troops, all spearmen who maintained the front were to be conscripted on a three-year compulsory basis.
The form of a collective farm ensured that one out of ten people would be recruited without affecting the life of the family, but in the case of a separate yeoman farmer system, the mobilization would have been much lower, and now most families are three or two, the children have not yet grown up, and there are no large families to cultivate in the family form.
If all goes well, Chen Jian plans to train about 800 pure full-time professional soldiers within three years, and at the same time ensure that there are about 3,000 standing phalanx conscripts in the entire Xia City system.
And once necessary, a general mobilization can be carried out with the integrated management model, and at the peak, more than 10,000 troops can be mobilized.
The current mobilization system has too much influence on the normal production of Yucheng, and this time it has maintained normal operation thanks to the enthusiasm for labor aroused by the strong morale of the newly liberated people, but all hope cannot be placed on high morale.
Once the system is in place, the military service system that can be created with three years of recuperation will ensure that Xia Cheng will have no more opponents and can guarantee a protracted war.
Many military service systems have their advantages, whether it is the conscription system, the government military system, or the slave owner's spontaneous military service system in the history of the previous life.
But the system needs to ensure that it is not corrupt in order to burst out of power, any system as long as the management can keep up, in fact, in this worse world can fight, the problem is that the executor of the system is people, which is the most difficult to control.
This life may be efficient, but then it may decay to the point that the race will fall into the abyss.
And the only thing that is different from people is technology, which will not change with people, and there is nothing that absolute technology cannot do.
Since Chen Jian was going to make stirrup cavalry, he could not but consider the possible rise of nomads, relying on the suppression of institutional advantages was one thing, and it was also necessary to get technical suppression before dying.
The reflection after the High Priest incident brought Chen Jianxin an insight, he no longer worried that the race would become unrecognizable to him, and he no longer deliberately pursued this race towards the ties of his previous life, so he was even bolder.
Bronze, wrought iron, gunpowder, lead, it's time to put it all together.
Tubular firearms are not so mysterious, nor are they so terrifying technical bottlenecks, as long as they go the right way, they can be made in a very short time.
Even if the lethality at that time was not large, it could be handed down and developed over hundreds of years, and when the nomads learned to unify the steppe with stirrups, they did not have to worry about the fate of the ethnic group to suffer similar to the Five Hu Chaohua.
In the previous life, gunpowder spread to Arabia in 1252, and the bronze fire pistol appeared in 1330, and the walls of Constantinople a hundred years later made the cannon a siege weapon.
Bronze, arquebus-ignited muskets can be made at the current level of productivity and effortlessly - a short bronze tube with a sealed rear and a small hole for arquebus ignition. Although the power is ridiculous, it cannot be denied that this is a gun, which meets the macro definition of a musket.
If the ethnic groups of the previous life had gunpowder and absolutely correct ideas that had been tested by later generations in the Xia, Shang and Zhou periods, it would have been easier to make it with the level of copper smelting at that time.
The arquebus can't be done, and the effect may not be very good, but it is very suitable for Xia Cheng's system, adding long-range projection capabilities to Xia Cheng.
Arquebuses and flintlock pistols have no generation difference in the history of firearms, both front-loading smoothbore guns have no rifling, but in Xia Cheng there is a generation difference.
Because flintlock pistols require reeds, which require thousands of quenching and heat treatment tests to accumulate usable reeds, bamboo can be substituted but the service life is too short to be made temporarily.
The arquebus, on the other hand, ignites the gunpowder inside by the gunpowder in the outer chamber, and it is the arquebus that ignites the gunpowder, not the spark made by the friction between the reed and the flint.
Bulky, inefficient, two-minute rate of fire, possible bore, unusable in rainy weather, etc., are his shortcomings.
However, his strengths include direct aiming instead of projectile, faster production than bows, no need for as long training as archers, and mass production.
If we put our hearts and souls into it now, we can concentrate the power of the entire city. A qualified recurve bow also takes two or three years to make, and even longer to train an archer. Take the time to learn the bow of the Dongyi people and then train the archers, why not just sharpen the musket in one step?
With Xia Cheng's current strength, it is possible to unify without making any changes, but unification is for the better development of the ethnic group, not for the sake of simple unification, so it is worth spending energy to do these things that seem meaningless or even a waste of strength in the long run.
More importantly, it paved the way for future generations, and when flintlock pistols and bayonets appeared, an agrarian country could recruit a large number of soldiers in a short time, and three months of training could be thrown on the battlefield, and relying on piles of people could also win nomads - three months of training archers are not bullshit, and ten flintlock pistol soldiers lined up to shoot a nomad is worth it.
In addition to this, there is another advantage of the era: the rest of the cities are now unarmoured.
Therefore, Xia Cheng's arquebus does not need to have a long barrel, a large caliber, and even a very powerful one, which reduces the difficulty of manufacturing.
Wait until the technology has accumulated enough to lengthen the barrel and pursue precision.
There is nothing to do until everything is ready, and never will it if it is not done.
The arquebus counterpart was a cannon, but instead of wrought iron or cast iron, it could only be made of expensive bronze or brass.
The siege artillery can't be made now, and thousands or even tens of thousands of catties of artillery are meaningless at this time.
But small-caliber field artillery can be made, the quantity does not need to be too much, the quality does not need to be too good, and the technology is not up to par by thickening the cannon body.
It takes three years to get samples and train a group of craftsmen, even if the effect is not good, you can leave an idea for this group, and it can always be developed in hundreds of years.
Since the system cannot guarantee that it will not decay, then use technology to crush the surrounding ethnic groups.
A unified empire with flintlock pistols and artillery, and new tactics to match. It has been proven that the empire will not be defeated by the nomads, even if the empire's ruling class is incorruptible, even if the empire's soldiers have no sense of honor and are only educated with sticks.
It's good if the meat rots in the pot, and it doesn't matter who is orthodox in Zhang Wang, Li Zhao.