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Of course, this is the case in the history of cold weapons operations. For example, after the rise of firearms, even if the performance of firearms is not very good, they have gradually replaced the position of bows and crossbows, and even until Zhang Jiashi crossed, the production and even use of bows and crossbows can only be planned with the word hobby.

This is not entirely the case, and some special operations will also have scenes of special crossbows, but overall, the use of such crossbows is quite rare.

And right now, the Qin officers and soldiers are facing the suicidal battle of the Huns, and Yang Wengzi has a toothache when he looks at the consumption of arrows.

Although in Cloudsdale's inventory, the corresponding number of arrowheads is not less than one million, and some of the more commonly used arrowheads have even more numbers.

It's just that this kind of inventory will always be completely consumed one day, and it is difficult for the Qin officers and soldiers who stick to the city to effectively replenish the arrows that are consumed.

It is possible to recycle some arrowheads, but this is more of a drop in the bucket. Because the number of recycled arrows is not to be said, just the fact that these arrowheads still have a certain probability of loss after recycling is enough to show that the number of recycled arrowheads is unlikely to meet the corresponding needs.

Yang Wengzi wanted to order his officers and soldiers to save some arrows, but in the face of the Huns' cavalry, it was very difficult to hit the opponent more accurately, and if the rhythm of shooting was not as good as the Hun riders, then for these Qin officers and soldiers, it would increase the probability of being hit by the other party.

In a sense, this situation is not worth the cost.

And one thing that Yang Wengzi had to pay attention to was that those Hun infantry units wearing armor, even if some arrows hit the opponent, except for some unlucky Huns, most of the arrows were difficult to directly cause effective damage to the opponent.

In a sense, some arrows that are not too penetrating can not even effectively penetrate the armor pieces of these armors, or can only cause a little skin trauma to the opponent, and cannot effectively make the opponent directly incapacitate or even die.

After Yang Wengzi took a deep breath, he directly issued an order, that is, to let the bed crossbows arranged on the city wall launch fire at these Hun heavy infantry.

Yang Wengzi didn't really want to use this kind of mass killing weapon all at once, and when he slaughtered the Huns who attacked him last time, Yang Wengzi didn't order the use of these weapons.

Because the crossbow of this weapon is relatively large and the number of crafts is smaller.

Even in such a few months or even a year, Zhang Jiashi ordered these crossbows to be mobilized from other places to support Cloud City, but the number of bed crossbow crossbows in Cloud City was less than 100,000.

In other words, the crossbow of these bed crossbows must be used in the most suitable place.

If it weren't for that, I'm afraid he would have ordered these bed crossbows to conduct a deterrent shot at the Huns.

At this time, in the face of the Hun heavy infantry that was gradually advancing without obvious attrition, Yang Wengzi finally decided to use the bed crossbow, a big killing weapon:

"The order went down, and the bed crossbows of the nearby city walls fired twice at the front row of the opposing infantry. ”

After Yang Wengzi's order was conveyed to the nearby officers and soldiers operating the bed crossbow, they quickly came to their posts from the place on standby, and quickly operated the bed crossbow to prepare to shoot at the target.

The greater the tension required for the bed crossbow, the greater the number of people pulling the crossbow arm. Of course, an unscientific person like Xiang Yu can play a strong crossbow with a tension of more than seven stones alone, and it is just pediatrics.

But more Qin officers and soldiers could only work together to pull the crossbow arm, because one person or a small number of people could not pull the crossbow arm to the limit of loading, let alone these people could use a bed crossbow with considerable tension alone.

And the bed crossbows in Cloudsdale are not like some of the bed crossbows of the Great Wall, they are single-shot crossbows, and these bed crossbows are a batch of crossbows ordered by Zhang Jiashi to be produced urgently after thinking about it.

Zhang Jiashi was very aware of the positioning of Cloud City, so the bed crossbow with stronger range and penetration ability was not too likely to pose a sufficient threat to the Huns, and if so, it was better to equip it with a row of crossbows that were relatively weak in terms of range and power.

Because these crossbows are certainly inferior to the single-shot crossbows of tension in terms of range, there is no doubt that being able to shoot more crossbows at once will have a stronger impact on the Huns and deterrence.

After Zhang Jiashi understood some of the situation of the Huns, he knew that the Huns might still be far inferior to the Great Qin Empire in terms of equipment, but this did not mean that the Huns did not have carefully armed special forces.

In this case, Cloudsdale would bear the brunt of the Huns' elite troops, and the rate of fire of the single-shot bed crossbow and the low margin for error, even if it had a greater advantage in range, would not be enough to effectively block the Huns' elite troops' onslaught on Cloudsdale.

This is also the reason why Zhang Jiashi ordered the urgent production of a batch of crossbows.

As for why Zhang Jiashi did not fully resume the production of crossbows, the main reason is that the production process of these crossbows is obviously more complicated, and in many ways, the parts required for these crossbows are of higher quality, which also means a significant increase in costs.

Although Zhang Jiashi's business operations have improved because he occupies some industries with more and more profits, on the whole, Zhang Jiashi's income cannot maintain the military and political consumption of the entire Great Qin Empire.

And the taxation of the Great Qin Empire in this matter is a joke in a sense.

After all, the population has been reduced by such a scope, and if you want to improve in terms of taxation, unless you take the common people as you did during the Huhai period, I am afraid that there is really no way to do so.

Of course, Zhang Jiashi did not think about issuing some banknotes and other things, after all, the amount of money in the Great Qin Empire itself is fixed, and the issuance of some banknotes can indeed alleviate the financial pressure of the Great Qin Empire, which is becoming more and more serious in deficits.

It's just that after Zhang Jiashi thought of one point, that is, how did Jiaozi kill part of the financial system of the Song Empire, Zhang Jiashi directly gave up this very unreliable idea.

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Originally, Jiaozi was issued by wealthy private merchants in Shu.

"History of the Song Dynasty: Food and Goods" recorded: "Sixteen heads of households who enrich the people. "As Jiaozi became more and more widely used, Jiaozi had a unified denomination and format, which was gradually accepted by everyone and used as a payment tool, thus having the characteristics of credit money, evolving into a symbol of coinage, and becoming a real paper money. As a paper money, Jiaozi has no value compared with gold, silver, copper, iron, etc., and if it is not supported by coinage, it itself becomes worthless. Therefore, the realization of its circulation function lies in people's trust that this banknote can represent the actual coinage, and as long as the credit is guaranteed, this banknote can play its circulation function and exist reasonably.

However, it is not easy to maintain credit, and the average person cannot afford to guarantee the existence of this credit for a long time. Due to the loss of the morality of the wealthy businessmen or the change of economic conditions, the Jiaozi under the auspices of the wealthy businessmen soon appeared in a situation where "the rich people were slightly declining and could not repay the burdens", which led to the inability of paper money to be cashed and the emergence of a credit crisis, which also made it impossible for Jiaozi to continue to be issued under the auspices of private individuals. Therefore, in the first year of Song Renzong's Tiansheng (1023), at the suggestion of Xue Tian and Zhang Ruogu, the transfer envoys Xue Tian and Zhang Ruogu established Yizhou Jiaozi, and issued the "Guanjiaozi" in February of the second year, and the issuance power of Jiaozi was transferred to the hands of the imperial court.

In order to ensure the success of the issuance of Jiaozi, the Northern Song Dynasty issued a set of relatively complete management regulations and policies, the general content of which is as follows: First, the circulation period of Jiaozi is generally two to three years as a boundary, called "exchange boundary", and after the expiration of the period, it must be exchanged for the next boundary Jiaozi before it can be used. The reason for the creation of the "exchange boundary" may be that at that time Jiaozi was made of paper, which was prone to damage and forgeries; second, the total circulation of each realm was limited to 1,256,340 yuan, and its denomination was usually consistent, five-run, Third, a certain amount of reserves must be prepared for each Jiaozi printed and distributed to ensure that the banknotes can be freely converted; fourth, it is forbidden to print Jiaozi privately, so that not only those who print Jiaozi without permission will be punished, but even those who know about it and those who do not tell it will be implicated and imprisoned; Fifth, the circulation area must be limited, and at first, the "Jiaozi" was mainly limited to the Sichuan region, and later expanded to Shaanxi and western Beijing.

In the early feudal government was more cautious about the issuance of paper money, the introduction of paper money supervision laws and policies also shows that the government is fully aware of the characteristics of paper money relying on credit and the weakness of easy imitation and indiscriminate issuance, and this set of financial supervision system and measures should be said to ensure the smooth circulation of "Jiaozi" in a certain period of time.

However, the feudal government often can not effectively control the issuance of paper money, when there is a huge government expenditure needs, the government often can not restrain its own behavior, use the power in its hands, abuse credibility, unlimited issuance of paper money, and eventually cause inflation, so that paper money loses credit, and it becomes waste paper, the fate of the Northern Song Dynasty Jiaozi also proves this.

The government issued banknotes, sometimes there were no reserves, for example, during the reign of Renzong Qingli (year), Yizhou Jiaozi issued 600,000 Jiaozi in Shaanxi to pay for grain and grass, and there was no banknote. The government also no longer adheres to the fixed amount of issuance per sector, and over-issuances are massively exceeded. "History of the Song Dynasty, Food and Goods Chronicles" contains, Zhezong Shaosheng years (years) "the rate of gifts, to Shaanxi along the border to buy and recruit soldiers, less hundreds of thousands, more or to millions, and Chengdu is useless, with please print, so there is no fixed number of books per year." It can be seen that in order to meet the needs of Shaanxi's military situation, the number of multiple Jiaozi will exceed several times the total amount of a realm, and even lead to the lack of Jiaozi in Chengdu, and it will have to be increased. The result will inevitably lead to inflation and the loss of credit for paper money.

The demarcation of banknotes has slowly become a blind method of "inflation", because each new banknote is issued, and it is often stipulated that the new currency is worth one to several old banknotes, such as when the Yuan Fu year (year) is renewed, the new Jiaozi one is exchanged for the old Jiaozi five, that is, the new and old are 1:5.

The government's abuse of credit has led to Jiaozi becoming a tool for its wealth accumulation, and without credit, Jiaozi has lost its function of circulation, thus losing the value of its own existence. The feudal government then used the method of changing the name of the banknote to plunder the wealth of the people. In the fourth year of Huizong Chongning (1105), "make Zhulu more with money", the paper money was named "money citation", although the name changed, but its essence was a tool for collecting money, and even intensified. In the first year of Daguan (1107), Jiaozi Wu was changed to Qian Yinwu, and the number of issuances in this year was "more than 20 times that of the Heavenly Sage First Realm, and the price became more and more lost." That is to say, the circulation has increased from 1.2 million to more than 20 million. And there is no reserve, "without accumulating capital and adding no art, to lead a dozen dollars." It can be seen that a thousand yuan worth of money can only be used as more than ten dollars, and how serious the depreciation of paper money is.

The rise and fall of Jiaozi in the Northern Song Dynasty also has a reference for today, and the government's regulatory legal system has played a vital role in the stability of the financial currency system. The issuance and stability of banknotes can promote the development of the commodity economy, create wealth for the country, and play a major role in solving the country's temporary needs. The government destroys the original financial legal system and abuses credit, which will inevitably lead to inflation and the collapse of the monetary system.

Zhang Jiashi is very clear that the bad consequences of the indiscriminate issuance of paper money, that is, in the absence of financial reserves, the indiscriminate issuance of paper money will only cause the country's credit to decline directly according to the corresponding range, and this decline is still the premise that the country has at least the corresponding reserves.

At present, the Great Qin Empire actually did not have a real way of financial reserves, and Zhang Jiashi could only abandon the idea of paper money himself. If it weren't for this, rashly and directly using currency as a secondary currency or even the mainstream monetary system, Zhang Jiashi really didn't want the Great Qin Empire under his rule to end the day when his precious son Yingxun was really pro-government......

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Therefore, under the premise that the financial situation did not improve for the time being, Zhang Jiashi could only order the urgent production of a certain number of crossbows to be equipped with the city defense system of Cloud City.

In order to get enough space for these crossbows, the bed crossbows originally installed on the city wall were selectively removed in some quantities, and these crossbows were installed.

As for the dismantled row crossbows, Zhang Jiashi did not choose to hand them over to other places, but used them as bed crossbows in Cloud City.

After all, there are not many of these crossbows, and they can basically barely strengthen the defense of Cloud City.

In a sense, these crossbows are like bed crossbows installed on the city wall, but they are also limited in terms of firing depression angles, for example, only a very small number of bed crossbows can only shoot at enemies below the city walls, and once the ladder is attacking the city, these bed crossbows are basically unable to hit the enemies who climb the city walls.

Therefore, on the road of the enemy's siege, these bed crossbows are the existence that can play a corresponding role. (To be continued.) )

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