Chapter 55: Shang Gong War
After Wang Dou's wedding date was set, there was naturally Zhang Luo of the Zhong family, and after the news came out, everyone in Jingbian Fort was happy. After that, this night will be specially stationed in Wansheng and listen to the movements of various parts of the state city. Han and the DPRK would often go to the state city to contact this person in the name of buying rice.
For Zheng Jinglun, Wang Dou is not in a hurry to deepen the relationship between them, he wants to see if this person can be used and supported. If it can be used, he will have large-scale plans in the future, but the conditions are not allowed now, specifically, the financial resources are insufficient.
After dealing with these things, Wang Dou issued an order to officially prohibit the private fighting of the soldiers in the fort, and if they violated, they would be severely punished. At the same time, Wang Dou was still brewing the relevant treatment of military households going out to fight in the future, and he hoped that in the future, he would govern the land by himself to form a simple folk custom of fighting for the public, fighting timidly, and congratulating each other on the war.
The first emperor Fen VI Yu Lie, unified the world, and made great achievements, a big reason is that the provisions formulated by the Shang Dynasty at the beginning, prohibiting private fighting, prohibiting private discussions, administrative transparency, and strengthening the army with one people. It is precisely because of this series of systems that the Qin State has created the universal people of kings and the good officials of the ancients, so that Great Qin finally won the world.
The reason why the Ming Dynasty perished, in fact, there is also an important reason, the late Ming Dynasty officials and the people were too free and chaotic to speak, especially the Qing discussion of the folk scholars, creating endless internal friction. Wang Dou would rather the people under his rule be silent supporters and opponents than their mouths croaking and dragging countless hind legs.
In the future, if possible, Wang Dou would also follow the Qin State's 20-level military merit title system to enhance and improve the combat effectiveness of the army under his rule.
I believe that in the future, there will be a military household system, a military merit title system, and the thirsty people who hear the war and congratulate each other, and in the future, in this world, they can not only survive, but also gain their own place on this stage.
Wang Dou has decisive power and majesty in Jingbian Fort, and the military households in the fort are awe-inspiring to obey Wang Dou's ban.
At the same time, Wang Dou also refined the duties of the various officers in the fort.
Qi Tianliang managed the troops and was responsible for the water conservancy of Tuntian in Tunpu. Zhong Rong managed the clerical work in the fort, managed the grain and grass warehouse in the fort, and was responsible for handling disputes among the military households in the fort.
Wang Dou's current inventory, captured from the Houjin army, including the twelve pairs of iron armor in front of him, a total of twenty pairs of iron armor. In addition, there are several pairs of cotton armor and leather armor.
There were more than 30 knives, guns and shields, more than a dozen foot bows, and horn bows seized from the Houjin army. He also bought 30 spears and 10 three-eyed guns from Dongjiazhuang. After Li Maosen joined, a total of 41 bird guns, 15 waist knives, and 74 spears were made. More than a dozen knives and guns were seized from the Sitianliang bandit village.
That's all for Wang Dou's family.
At present, Wang Dou has five teams of soldiers, two teams of soldiers, and one team of soldiers at night, and there are more than 80 soldiers.
Jingbian Fort has 100 households, more than 200 men, and more than 100 men in the prime of life. This is also a military fort in Jingbian Fort, so it can be combined with farming and warfare, and has this mobilization advantage.
Among these sergeants, each team had two sword and shield soldiers, and at the same time they were captains, four bird soldiers, and the rest were pikemen. The baggage team is even more pikemen. If you don't close the team at night, the use of weapons is miscellaneous, depending on each person's own hobbies and habits.
After each team had one weapon, there were very few weapons in stock.
For a tunpu, such a military weapon is sufficient, but it is far from enough for Wang Dou.
The problem of raw materials puzzled Wang Dou, the source of iron is small, and every pound of iron must be calculated and then used, especially for making armor and firearms.
Perhaps he could make more spears, cut wood into poles, and a furnace of iron could easily produce dozens of spear heads, and later give each of the military women in the fort a spear. As long as there is a steady stream of manpower, these pikemen can be trained for three months before they can go into battle.
However, without long-range firearms and shields, these pikemen went to the battlefield and were in danger of becoming targets in the future when fighting the Qing soldiers. After all, the bullet bullet can't be seen, but the arrows shot by the nomads are only visible, and standing there stupidly and being shot is too much of a test of people's psychological pressure.
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It is necessary to make more firearms, more knives and guns, and it is not the way to rely solely on buying iron, and it is better to open mines and practice iron by yourself.
According to his understanding, this place in Baoanzhou, later called Zhuolu County, is still very rich in mineral resources, coal, iron, manganese, gold, silver, lead, zinc, limestone, marble, gypsum reserves are also very rich, as well as all kinds of pyrite, phosphate rock, zeolite, sepiolite and so on.
Coal is needed for iron training, and the coal in Baoan Prefecture is mainly distributed in Wujiagou, Huzhuang and other places in the later generations, with reserves of more than 20 million tons.
Iron ore is also in many places in Baoan, and Zhuolu County has a total of more than 300 million tons of iron reserves in later generations, if it is mined, it is enough for Wang Dou to use it for hundreds of years. However, these places are not under their own control for the time being, and it is very difficult to mine in the local area.
There is only one hematite in a certain place in Huiyaobao, and the proven reserves in later generations are more than 2 million tons, and the iron content is medium to low. This is the only place where Wang Dou can figure out a way at the moment.
There is also limestone, and the limestone reserves in the Taipingbao area of Zhuolu County in later generations are more than 300 million tons, and most of the ore body is exposed, the stripping ratio is small, and it is easy to open pit mining. If you want to build a kiln to burn red bricks and lime in the future, it is also a resource.
From May, Wang Dou selected a group of people from the fort to help Li Maosen manufacture the customized paper tube ammunition, the paper tube ammunition is divided into a lot, but the gunpowder saltpeter purchased from the outside consumes a lot, there is no nitrate mine in Baoan Prefecture, and some nitrate can be accumulated by collecting human and animal manure and other soil methods, and it will certainly be far from meeting the demand in the future.
How to find the source of this saltpeter is also a problem.
However, at present, the most realistic problem for Wang Dou is that there is not much money and food left in the fort.