I am a nobleman in Spring and Autumn

Chapter 308 Wang Ba Foundation
It is the season of spring and flowers blooming again in the new year.

Zhiyao, who was in the city of "Ye", got the news that the Wei family could conquer the city of "Zhao".

It took nearly two years for the Wei family to win the "Zhao" city. I heard that there are still relatively many casualties?
In fact, when attacking a well-prepared city, whether it is the attacking party or the defending party, the casualties on both sides will indeed be relatively large.

Wei's attack on "Zhao" city invested more than one legion of troops.

The Zhao family used about one "division" and a little more to guard the "Zhao" land.

The battle in "Zhao" City was over, and the Wei family paid the price of nearly 5000 people killed in battle, and more than 2000 people were disabled, and the rest were more or less injured.

The result of Wei's battle was to take the "Zhao" city, captured about 6000 Zhao soldiers, killed about [-] soldiers defending the city, and nearly [-] Li Shu.

That is, Li Shu, who lived under the protection of the Zhao family, also participated in the defense of the city, and they still helped regardless of men, women, old and young, which greatly increased the difficulty for the Wei family to conquer the "Zhao" city.

Looking at it this way, Mrs. Zhao is still very popular?At least Li Shu in "Zhao" loves the Zhao family very much.

Zhao Tong and Zhao Kuo presided over the Zhao family, but the Zhao family was besieged by families headed by the Luan family and the Que family. It was wiped out in just one year.

"Yao heard that the Zhao people of 'Zhao' have relatives in 'Jinyang', so that the Zhao people of 'Zhao' gave up their lives to protect the Zhao family?" Zhiyao asked.

Yu Rang said, "That's the rumor."

So what happened?
Speaking of which, it has a lot to do with Zhao Wuxie. He told the Li Shu of the "Zhao" land that once he made a contribution, he would be rewarded, and he promised that the Li Shu of the "Zhao" land would die for the guard of the Zhao family, and his relatives in other places would be rewarded. The bounty of the land.

land!When will individuals be able to own their own land?No wonder Zhao Ren was willing to risk his life.

On the other hand, Zhao Wuji also threatened Zhao people everywhere, telling them that after the Zhao family was destroyed, all classes suffered a very tragic fate.

To put it bluntly, Zhao Wuxie was intimidated and coaxed, and it may be that the Wei family did some brutal things during the attack, which led to the tenacious resistance of the Zhao people in "Zhao".

Zhiyao said rather sadly: "In this way, the war will no longer have nothing to do with Li Shu."

Yu Rang had a different opinion and said: "I heard that the king and ministers of the State of Lu have long rewarded the righteous. The State of Lu and the State of Qi have fought many times, and the people of Lu have sacrificed their lives. It is a pity that the State of Lu has repeatedly lost to Qi."

Zhiyao was a little stunned for a while.

You are right, if you want to say which country first encouraged Li Shu to join the war, it is really the country of Lu.

However, the promises made by the rulers and ministers of the Lu Kingdom will almost never be fulfilled. Even if there is a reward for someone, that person's ancestors will definitely be more generous. A more representative figure is Confucius' father and uncle Liang He.

What are the facts?In the country of Lu, people who have never been rich in their ancestors want to turn over, it is purely a dream!

Although the situation of all countries is similar, the key is that other countries did not fulfill their promises like Lu State did, and did such pure deceitful actions.

Zhiyao has just finished inspecting a smelting base.

Since it is called a base, it must have formed a certain scale.

If a knowledgeable person takes a look, he can see that the technological level of the smelting base has almost reached the level of the Northern Song Dynasty.

That kind of iron-making shaft furnace is about 4 meters high and 2.5 meters in diameter. Not only is the style ahead of all families in the Jin State, but also no other country can match it in terms of technology.

It was not created by Zhiyao himself, he just provided relevant concepts, which were then repeatedly studied by professionals.

It took a total of eight years from Zhiyao's idea to the finished product.

The new type of iron-making shaft furnace has been researched, which means that there is more demand for iron ore and coal mines, and the construction of roads for transshipment has become an urgent need.

So, next, Zhiyao needs to go to "Ye" to Taihang Mountain, take a look at the route along the way, and then discuss with some people from the public loser how to repair the road.

It’s not that there were no roads before, it’s just that some road sections need to be widened, bridges in some places must be rebuilt, and even a certain mountain must be dug out for passage.

In fact, Zhiyao was very fortunate to have brought the Gongshu clan over from the state of Lu, and it played a very large and wide role, and made a great contribution to the great progress of the Zhi clan.

Of course, the Gongshu Clan did not play a crucial role in smelting and weapons. They were best at carpentry, and they opened up the technology tree in road construction and city building.

Just as Zhiyao was about to go to the Taihang, a retainer of the Wei family came to the city of "Ye" to ask for an audience, saying that Wei Ju would come to visit later.

"Ban, I will leave it to you to build the road?" Zhiyao couldn't leave for a while, but she didn't want to delay the matter.

A few years later, Gongshu squad leader became a young man.

It may be related to talent, but the young Gongshuban is superior to his elders in certain skills, especially reflected in the "flash of inspiration" for a certain skill.

Gongshu Ban said confidently: "Prince, don't worry. Ban will definitely live up to his mission, and he may present a gift to the eldest son."

What the hell?gift?

Zhiyao understood all of a sudden, and encouraged Gongshuban to get busy on his own.

A long time ago, Zhiyao knew about the existence of Gongshuban, and mentioned something like "orbit" to Gongshuban.

what track?It is possible to lay sleepers on tracks that are not designated for trains and for horse-drawn carts.

The horse-drawn carriage track appeared in the Warring States Period. It was first used by the Chu State. Later, the Qin Empire also applied the horse-drawn carriage track technology to build Chidao.

Don't think that it is easy to research if you have related concepts. There are a lot of aspects involved. Choose the right sleeper, what kind of layout should the base structure of the sleeper be, and how to get the wheels used for the track. There are so many technologies to figure out.

Zhiyao is still full of expectations for the emergence of "Chi Road". Once such a road exists, it will not only save manpower and animal power for transportation, but more importantly, the transportation speed will be doubled.

If the Zhi family has researched the Chi Dao, of course there is no manpower and material resources for the massive construction. Building a Chi Dao starting from "Handan" and "Ye" and running through to "Tan" will make the Zhi family eat Qi. It is simpler, and at the same time, it can ensure that the problem of rapid troop mobilization after the annexation of Qi is solved, and strengthen the protection of the rule.

Before Wei Ju's arrival, Zhiyao, who had to wait for someone, couldn't go too far.

After doing that, Zhiyao stayed in the city of "Ye" and took the opportunity to inspect more workshops.

Compared with other eras, Zhishi's industry is definitely inferior in terms of scale and technological content, limited by the restrictions of the Spring and Autumn Period.

Compared with other eras, the comparison is nothing but normal, and it is enough to completely beat everyone in the same era.

"My family doesn't need to make 'dollar' weapons anymore, the copper material can be kept in the warehouse, and it will be of great use in the future." The dollar that Zhiyao said is bronze, not the "knife music".

The Zhi family is mining aggressively, mainly looking for iron ore to mine, and naturally they will not let go of copper ore.

Of course, the current mineral exploration technology is not very advanced, and generally only not deep minerals can be found, and the types of minerals that can be identified are only so few.

That is to say, in the era when the power of the monarchy is like a signboard, the Zhi family discovered that copper mines can be mined. If it were earlier, once a copper mine was found, it would either be ignored or reported to the monarch. The reason is that the mining rights for copper mines are only The monarch has.

Not only the copper mines, but also the fishing rights to the water system and the right to use the mountains and forests belonged to the king of a country very early on. Later, the rights to use the water systems and mountains and forests were delegated to the aristocrats. Otherwise, it is an act of violating the "patent".

Taking the present as an example, every plant and tree in the Zhi clan's fief is owned by the patriarch, even the family officials, "scholars", "disciples", "Xian", and Li Shu are all considered as the property of the patriarch. It is conceivable that as a big family, How cool would the Patriarch be... no wonder!
If you just enjoy the benefits of power and don't have to bear the responsibilities of enjoying power, you can ignore it as a premise. It will definitely be very cool, and it will be so cool.

The Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period not only enjoyed the benefits brought by power, but also had to bear the responsibilities brought by power.

In fact, they only care about having fun. There is a high probability of being killed by clan members or retainers while sleeping one day, or the clan will be wiped out under the attack of other clans one day.

As the head of the family now, it’s okay if the ancestors have enough accumulation, and I can dawdle without any ambitions. If I have a sense of responsibility and ambition, I will work harder than anyone else.

To put it more clearly, the head of the family needs to take care of hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions... or even more people, whose food, drink, clothing, use, etc. all need to be taken care of. To be responsible, there is no such thing as easy.

Even if it is hard work, I don't know how many people want to have that hard work.

Zhiyao, who had been waiting for seven or eight days, could be regarded as waiting for Wei Ju.

"I heard the flood in the north?" Wei Ju asked Zhiyao suddenly after chatting with Zhiyao for a while.

Isn't that right?
Sun Wu used water attacks on "Jinyang". The local terrain is a basin, and the accumulated water will not disappear so quickly. The affected area should not be too wide.

Let's put it this way, after the water attack, the surrounding area of ​​"Jinyang" became Zeguo, and even "Pingling" was affected by the diversion of Fen River.

That "Pingling" is about a hundred miles southwest of "Jinyang", and "Pingling" is very close to "Qi", the fiefdom of the Wei family.

Why is Zhiyao not afraid of the news of the water attack on "Jinyang" leaking?Zhishi has a large number of scouts patrolling for one thing, and the water attack interrupted many roads.

The two Zhi clan legions that were originally on the side of "Jinyang" couldn't take the southern route if they wanted to withdraw. They had to go northeast to "Qiu You".

After a water attack, the Zhi family only left two "brigades" of troops in "Jinyang" and stationed in the city of "Jinyang" after the water receded, and the rest of the troops were all withdrawn.

Zhiyao looked at Wei Ju suspiciously, thinking: "Did the Wei family spy on something?"

However, Wei Ju came to "Ye" to look for Zhiyao for another matter. The mention of the flood in the north was more like worrying that the Zhi family would suffer too much damage in "Jinyang".

What makes Weishi worry about the possible major loss of Zhishi, shouldn't they be happy about Zhishi's loss?

(End of this chapter)