Chapter 9: Preparation for the establishment of the Great Qin Ordnance Academy

Although the ministers no longer oppose the United Yue's crusade against the Xiongnu, there are still three very practical difficulties in front of them, hindering the implementation of the plan to defeat the Xiongnu;

One is the question of cavalry versus horses. Whether it was cavalry or horses, Great Qin was far inferior to the Xiongnu. The Qin State fought for a hundred years and finally swept away the Six Kingdoms, and indeed created a powerful army, but this strength was mainly reflected in the infantry, and the cavalry was a little weak. On the other hand, the Huns, from the time of the dog Rong cavalry, the cavalry was the mainstay, even the king of Zhou You, the princes of the beacon fire opera, finally died in the hands of the dog Rong cavalry, intimidated by the power of the dog Rong cavalry, the son of the king of Zhou You, King Zhou Ping, reluctantly moved the capital to Luoyang.

The second is the supply of grain and grass. Grassland warfare is different from attacking cities and plundering land, and the previous way of supplying grain and grass is obviously not feasible. Cavalry combat is expensive in flexibility and mobility, and the previous supply of grain and grass in Daqin will limit the mobility of cavalry, thereby restricting the effectiveness of cavalry operations, how to ensure that the cavalry in long-distance, large-scale mobile operations to get sufficient food and grass supply is particularly important, this is also a problem that Fusu must solve at the moment, otherwise the Great Qin Iron Cavalry will not be able to talk about.

The third is the issue of weapons and equipment, the weapons and equipment of the Qin army are mainly built for the purpose of positional warfare and siege warfare, and the long-handled spike weapons such as ge, halberd, and spear are the mainstay, while the weapons needed for cavalry combat are required to be short and concise, such as scimitars, short-handled hook and sickle, etc. The single metallurgical technology of the Great Qin is also an important factor restricting the development of weapons, and the metal smelting in this period is mainly bronze, so the weapons used by the Qin army are mostly forged in bronze, and bronze weapons have the disadvantages of fragility and fragility, which is very unfavorable for the cavalry to use in long-distance attacks. Looking at the weapons of the Hun cavalry, most of them are iron swords, supplemented by melee combat weapons such as meteor hammers, and longbows and arrows and other long-range combat weapons. In terms of weapons and equipment, the Hun cavalry was by no means the enemy of the Great Qin cavalry.

As a young intellectual, who has traveled from later generations, it stands to reason that these issues should not become obstacles. As long as we take out a little bit of material science in later generations, these problems will be solved. However, Xu Yun studied finance before the crossing, and he didn't know anything about materials science. If you know that you have a catastrophe in your life, you will choose a major such as materials science when you choose a major, and no matter how bad it is, you have to buy a book on the encyclopedia of mysteries and read it wildly.

"Yes, I've never eaten pork, haven't I seen a pig run, isn't it just to make compressed dry food and steel? The general principle is also slightly understood. I don't believe that such a thing will stump me, a promising young man with all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor." Fuso made up his mind to dig something useful out of his bulk knowledge base.

After scratching his ears and cheeks for a while, Fusu suddenly came up with a good idea, if the skilled craftsmen of Daqin were gathered together, and then his scattered knowledge was passed on to these craftsmen to brainstorm ideas, then would these problems still be considered problems? Fusu admired himself a little, isn't this the integration of resources in later generations.

So Fusu came up with the idea of forming the Great Qin Academy of Military Sciences in his mind, of course, the name must not be called the Academy of Sciences, otherwise he would be surrounded by a group of bad old men to study the meaning of the word science, so simply call it the Great Qin Academy of Military Sciences.

What followed was another bitter meal and coercion and temptation, and finally at the cost of adding another hundred acres of fertile land per person, the idea of establishing the Great Qin Ordnance Academy was successfully turned into a plan. Fusu designated Xiao He as the person in charge of the Great Qin Ordnance Academy, and the construction cost of the Ordnance Academy was taken from the cost saved from the suspension of the Afang Palace.

In fact, Fusu originally did not plan to take out thousands of acres of land in exchange for the support of the ministers for the construction of the Great Qin Ordnance Institute, with the power of the prince of the Great Qin Prison State, as long as he insisted on building the Great Qin Ordnance Institute, the hundred officials could only obediently cooperate, and when they discussed the joint Yue's conquest of the Xiongnu before, they had already rewarded each of the ministers with 100 acres of fertile land. However, after listening to Han Xin's private advice, Fusu changed his mind and took the opportunity of discussing the Great Qin Ordnance Institute to give each person another hundred acres of fertile land.

There were happy smiles on the faces of the courtiers, it was two hundred acres of fertile land, it was definitely a lot of money for most people, although I don't know when these rewards would be cashed, but it was definitely worth looking forward to.

The Yulu of the hundred officials of the Great Qin Dynasty also belongs to the middle and upper level in the ranking of the various dynasties, but due to the frequent rebellions in various places, the actual amount that the hundred officials can get is less than a quarter of the money stipulated by the court, and the average is only about 400 stones, even if the level of Prime Minister Li Si, the Yulu in his hand is only more than 2,000 stones, which is far from the 10,000 stones stipulated by the court.

Two hundred acres of fertile land, calculated according to the average value of one hundred and twenty catties of grain per mu in the Qin period, that is the income of four hundred stones, which is enough to withstand the income of most courtiers for a year, and such an income is enough to tie the ministers with the crusade against the Xiongnu.

Each person has 200 acres of fertile land, and 30 people are 6,000 acres of land. It is insignificant for the Hexi Corridor, which can reclaim 9 million acres of fertile land, and it is definitely super cost-effective for Fusu to exchange this insignificant price for the strong support of the ministers for the joint Yueshi to attack the Xiongnu.

In the following month, the construction of the Daqin Ordnance Institute began rapidly, and the counties and counties immediately began to look for skilled craftsmen in their respective jurisdictions after receiving the official documents of the imperial court.

Because many of them were newly released from the Great Wall, Lishan, and Afang Palace, they had an extreme fear of serving the imperial court. They were afraid that this time they would be arrested by the yamen to serve as forced labor, and they would die of exhaustion on the construction site like their previous workers. According to the past practice, the government had already arrested people and sent them to Xianyang, but this time Fusu personally added Zhu approval to the recruitment of craftsmen, asking for good treatment of craftsmen from all over the country. The counties did not dare to disobey, so they had to arrange for the officials to carry the list and bang the gong to do propaganda.

"In the township, my Daqin Ordnance Institute recruits skilled craftsmen, and all skilled craftsmen with a skill can go to the county government to send a name card to participate in the registration. Gongzi Fusu Zhu criticized the edict and waited for three chapters of the law with us, just to treat my Daqin craftsmen as courtesy.

First, if there are any craftsmen who voluntarily go to Xianyang, all counties and counties must treat them with the courtesy of national soldiers.

Second, if they obey their wishes, those who originally went to Xianyang should be treated well, and those who did not want to go to Xianyang should be punished.

Third, those who are selected by the Great Qin Ordnance Institute will be exempted from household taxes for three years, and their salaries will be the same as those of the county order. If you go to Xianyang but are not in the match of the Great Qin Ordnance Academy, you will be exempted from taxes for one year. ”

When the craftsmen learned from the mouth of the officials that the Daqin Ordnance Institute had the endorsement of Gongzi Fusu Zhu to recruit skilled craftsmen, the craftsmen who had been in a wait-and-see state were no longer entangled, and they took the name cards to their respective county offices to report. Even those craftsmen who were worried that they would die of exhaustion in the Daqin Ordnance Academy let down their guards and went to the county government with their respective names.

I don't know how many county commanders and county guards were shocked by this sudden scene, and the grand scene of the people supporting a government decree so much has not appeared for many years. And all thanks to Fusu. For the common people who had experienced the harsh punishment and heavy forced labor of the Qin Shi Huang period, the two reform measures of Gongzi Fusu freed them from suffering and gave them hope in life.

For the common people, Gongzi Fusu is like a god in their eyes. Since there is the endorsement of Zhu Pi from Gongzi Fusu, the people naturally have no worries. That's why there was a scene where a large number of craftsmen volunteered to go to the county government to sign up for the Daqin Ordnance Institute.