I am a nobleman in Spring and Autumn

Chapter 365 Am I Scared?What a joke!

Do you know how many princes or heads of families are looking forward to another civil strife in Jin?
The external countries counted one by one, and they all waited for another civil strife in Jin, so that they could take a breather and at the same time take advantage of the internal strife in Jin to expand their own wave.

In the past 200 years or so, history has gone on like this. The internal unity of the Jin State was either expanding externally or pointing fingers at the princes. Every time there was internal strife in the Jin State, the princes had the opportunity to do their own thing.

Why did Zheng Guo have such courage to abandon the northern cities?Isn't it because they saw the internal instability of Jin State and wanted to wait for the internal chaos in Jin State!

Therefore, when the news of the oath of the Zhi, Wei, and Han clans of the Jin State reaches the State of Zheng, it will definitely make the monarchs and officials of the State of Zheng beat their chests and feet, and then stage a scene of crying.

The rest of the countries that are also waiting for the internal turmoil in Jin, they either move closer to Jin, or hug each other with thick thighs, or hug each other to keep warm.

After the oath of alliance, Wei Ju and Han Geng obviously relaxed a lot. They stepped up to arrange the handover of the city, and at the same time frequently visited the Zhi family's house, and proposed some cooperation intentions other than military affairs.

For example, the Wei family hopes to purchase more weapons and equipment from the Zhi family.

Last time Wei bought a batch from Zhi Shi, and after putting it on the list, he found it really useful. He wanted to buy it again, but was worried that Zhi Shi would refuse, so he never mentioned it.

Why is Wei Shi worried about Zhi Shi's refusal?Based on their own cognition and thinking, they feel that good things are of course for their own use, and they will not sell them easily.

As everyone knows, the Zhi family is still happy to sell them outside in exchange for other materials such as grain, livestock, and poultry.

This time, Wei Ju saw that Zhishi was willing to sell, so he cautiously proposed to purchase [-] sets of iron armor and [-] yuan in total for various weapons.

Zhiyao was willing to sell, but only made one request, that is, the Wei family paid the bill with grain.

Of course there is currency now, but the circulation of currency is not widespread, and it is more in the form of barter.

One thing has not changed, food has always been part of the currency, and this situation has been maintained until after 2000.

Another kind of hard currency is cloth, but Zhishi is mainly engaged in textiles. If there is anything missing, it is impossible to lack cloth. What should be worried is that too much cloth is produced and cannot be sold.

The Han family also had a request for the Zhi family, and expressed their intention to purchase horses.

horses?In the past, the Zhao family was a big seller of horses, but later the Fox family took over, and later the Zhi family had the largest number of horses.

That was when the Zhi family robbed the Zhao family first, and has been looting Loufan, Linhu, and Dai Guo for several years. Last year, they even seized a large number of war horses from Dai Guo. Not to mention Zhi Shi himself was in Hebei. And the pastures built on the plain south of "Xianyu" have been slaughtered.

According to unscrupulous statistics, the current number of war horses held by the Zhi family is about [-]. The consumption of wars and the elimination of old war horses can still maintain an increase of thousands of war horses every year.As the scale of the ranch increases again and again, the increasing number of war horses will definitely increase more and more in the future.

There is basically no shortage of war horses in the countries of the Central Plains, but the number is still more or less. In the past, there were enough chariots. When it is the turn to build cavalry, the requirements for horses are higher, and the original number of holdings will appear insufficient.

In fact, there is no shortage of horses even in the southern countries. For example, Chu and Wu have their own horse herding bases, and they can use them for themselves and sell them to the outside world.

As for why the forces in the south or the small imperial court will lack war horses in the future?Or the pastures have turned into plowed fields, maybe the pastures have become forests, and the most likely thing is that the technology of breeding war horses has been lost.

"The Han family wants to train cavalry?" Zhiyao asked.

Han Geng wondered whether it was an infringement of Zhishi's patent rights, nodded and said: "Qin and Baidi both have cavalry, if I am against them, how can I not have them?"

To be honest, there were many forces who wantonly used solo horses before, including ethnic groups other than Zhuxia, Qin, Dai, Zhao, and Hu. It really wasn't the exclusive patent of any family.

However, no matter which side they are on, they are all mounted infantry, using horses instead of walking, and dismounting to become infantry when fighting. The number of people who can really ride and shoot is still very small.

At present, because Zhishi made stirrups and saddles, they are being imitated at an extremely fast speed. Gradually, all forces have more cavalry who can ride and shoot. What is more embarrassing is that the method of use is wrong, and the power of the cavalry is temporarily reduced. like that.

The truth of the fact is that, whether a unit is strong or not depends on the way it is used. It is really not that after the appearance of that unit, it can immediately suppress all kinds of dissatisfaction.

Zhiyao never worried that stirrups, saddles, or horseshoes would become bad street goods. They took the lead in forming the cavalry and had already enjoyed the dividends brought by the cavalry. The next step was to work hard on tactics and tactics.

If there is a good thing that is not used because of fear of spreading it, wouldn't it be a waste of food because of choking?
As for the fact that nomads will become a disaster because of their stirrups, saddles and horseshoes?

As long as the civilization of the Central Plains remains strong, the nomadic people will only develop towards the trend of singing and dancing.

If the civilization of the Central Plains does not live up to expectations, it will not be avoided to be bullied. It is really not the reason why the nomads have stirrups, saddles and horseshoes.

This is the conclusion Zhiyao drew from the history books.

In the era when there were no stirrups, saddles and horseshoes, the Spring and Autumn countries did not fear the nomads at all. During the Warring States period, Qin, Zhao, and Yan all pressed the nomads to the ground. It was the turn of the Xiongnu in the early Western Han Dynasty to crush the newly born Han Empire. Pressed on the ground and hammered, the Han Empire turned around and played chasing death and chasing north.

Therefore, it is not just because of the stirrups, saddles, and horseshoes that the agricultural ethnic group and the nomadic ethnic group hammer who. There are too many factors in all aspects.

As a matter of fact, as long as the Central Plains dynasty does not fall into infighting, there are very few examples of the nomads being completely crushed, and there are very few examples of being bullied without any power to fight back. hammer?

This is the leading nomadic ethnic group in the Central Plains Dynasty in terms of smelting, craftsman technology, population and productivity.However, nomads can rarely open too many technology trees, and generally have an advantage in animal power.

Big coward?The Zhao family dynasty was not a serious Central Plains dynasty at the beginning, and later became a small southern court.

"Modern people have too much misunderstanding of nomadic people, thinking that nomadic people just eat meat every day. How can they know that nomadic people can hardly eat meat?" Zhiyao has personally inspected nomadic tribes.

What is the truth of the matter?The staple food of the nomadic people is all kinds of dairy products, with hunting and gathering to add extra food, and even farming, but compared to the meticulous service of the farming people, the nomadic people are more rough, generally just sprinkle some seeds Let's go, and see how much we can gain when we come back.

For nomadic people, cattle, sheep, and horses are important assets, and it is impossible to slaughter them for food.

In fact, nomadism is just the next stage of civilization compared to the previous gathering and hunting. The mode of production is far behind that of farming, and it is even more precarious. A snowstorm can kill them, and it is not like natural disasters encountered by farming ethnic groups. It can also recover in the coming year, because the pasture does not mature in one season like plants.

Another truth is that before the emergence of modern animal husbandry, that is, before the development and popularization of veterinary technology, nomadic peoples eating meat every day was just the imagination of some literati. They often slaughtered livestock for food, and it was difficult to maintain a nomadic livelihood.

In the history of human economic ecology, nomadic animal husbandry appeared after the gathering and hunting economic stage. Its essence is to use the feeding and mobility of herbivores to transform plants that humans cannot use in vast areas into what humans need.

Then, nomadic animal husbandry is actually an extremely inefficient production method compared with the traditional agriculture that appeared after it.

No kidding, farming ethnic groups still have a fixed output per acre. The busiest seasons are spring sowing, summer harvest, summer replanting and autumn harvest. The rest of the time is still busy with other things.

Calculated based on the modern mu area, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, a family needed [-] to [-] mu of farmland to support them; in the Western Han Dynasty, the yield of corn per mu could reach about two shi, and even refined seeds could reach three shi. From [-] mu to [-] mu is basically enough for people; later, there was a decline, and the yield per mu fell below two stones. (Data taken from)

Nomads take care of livestock all the year round. It takes about [-] acres of grassland to raise a sheep, and a family cannot live on a single sheep.

Raising sheep is only for slaughter and food, and the cycle of raising them to maturity is about one year.Raising sheep is for eating meat, so it must be a one-time product.

The data is there, so we can see which one has more land demand, farming or animal husbandry?How ignorant of common sense must it be to think that the quality of life of the nomadic ethnic group is higher than that of the agricultural ethnic group, or that the potential of the nomadic ethnic group is higher than that of the agricultural ethnic group?
"The nomadic people only had their bright moments in the generation of Genghis Khan, and so did the rest of the historical nodes." Zhiyao never thought that one bright moment represented everything.

Humans always subconsciously ignore the things they take for granted, remember and emphasize individual cases alone, and create a set of survivor deviations, and then create thinking confusion for themselves.

Just look at the history.

In the rise and fall of global history, farming ethnic groups have always occupied a favorable position, even if nomadic ethnic groups have a bright moment, it is extremely short-lived.Many farming ethnic groups are repeatedly bullied by nomadic ethnic groups, in fact, it is more caused by their own disappointment.

Because Lao Zhi's own war horses are not enough, Zhi Yao refuses to sell horses to the Han family.

Han Geng who was rejected was very astonished, but he didn't dare to pester him anymore, and instead made a request to purchase armor, weapons and cloth.

This time, Zhiyao also did not refuse, but also asked to pay the bill with food.

The old wise family always believed that the more food the better, especially when a large project was being launched, and wanting more cavalry in the future would increase the consumption of food.

"Five years, the second five-year plan is completed, but the number of recruited cavalry should exceed [-], right?"

"Of course the armor can be sold, and it's time to sell it, so as not to delay the renewal of our own."

What replacement?In fact, it was Zhiyao who came up with new tricks in the manufacture of armor.

(End of this chapter)