Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 962 Poverty Is Original Sin Robbery Is Instinct

Chapter 84 Poverty is the original sin Robbery is instinct
In war, what is fought is national strength, and what is fought is the economy.This is an indisputable fact.

Chen Ying decided to launch the Western Expedition.In fact, these generals have been idle for three years, and they have already screamed.

As Chen Ying decided to use gold and iron horses to solve the Western Turkic issue, the eyes of the generals became eager.

Sicang joined the army and Lu Zhikun reported the current situation in Anxi to Chen Ying and the generals of the Anxi Army.

Lu Zhikun was already prepared, he didn't even need to look at the account book, and said directly: "Now, our Anxi Governor's Mansion has reclaimed a total of 260 million and [-] fertile fields."

Hearing this number, Chen Ying felt a little surprised. 260 million dumps is equivalent to ten good fields in Guanzhong. If converted into mu, it is equivalent to 700 million mu.Even if it is like in Guanzhong, 260 million young and strong people are needed to cultivate one hundred acres of land, which is almost equivalent to 260 million families.

If Anxi's war slaves and all kinds of slaves are counted, the population can definitely exceed 300 million.However, Anxi has tens of thousands of troops, and it is impossible for the number of young and strong people who can farm to reach 70 million.

In fact, these changes are due to Chen Ying's support for agricultural technology.

The Han people are a peculiar nation: if you give him weapons and training, he can become one of the best fighters in the world; if you give him the opportunity to do business, he can become one of the best businessmen in the world; if you give him the opportunity If you give him tools, he will become one of the best craftsmen in the world; if you give him a field to farm, he will become one of the best craftsmen in the world. Excellent farmer - bar none!

What Anxi lacks most is horses. If you are in Guanzhong, you must have a family with more than a million dollars to raise a horse.However, in Anxi, regardless of Han or Hu, almost everyone has horses and cows in their homes.

After all, plowing land with horses is more efficient than plowing cattle.

For example, with two horses and two plows, one person can plow [-] mu of land a day, and a young man can sow [-] mu of land a day with a cow.

Even if it is a wheat harvester (an ancient large-scale wheat harvesting artifact, which is still used in some remote mountainous areas and is eight times more efficient than the traditional sickle), one person can harvest eight acres a day.

Just as no one dislikes their own wealth, farmers never dislike their own land.Inspired by the Anxi Protectorate's policy of encouraging farming, the people of Anxi, especially the peasants or refugees who migrated from the pass, have given countless enthusiasm.

A young and middle-aged man plowing a hundred acres of land is definitely a joke in the eyes of farmers.If there are no restrictions, each of them can cultivate a thousand acres of land.

Even the selected agricultural machinery invented by Chen Ying has been improved.

Compared with the double plow, there are now four double plows with six horses.Although it is a waste of the physical strength of the horse, the efficiency is only twice that of the double plow.

However, for the people of Anxi, it doesn't matter if the animals are tired anyway, and it's a big deal for them to raise a few more horses.Sixty mu of land is cultivated in one day, and six hundred mu in ten days.During a one-month farming period, nearly [-] mu of land can be cultivated.

If it weren't for the fact that Chen Ying was killed, Chen Ying wouldn't believe that there are people who are monogamous and take care of more than 800 acres of land with two unweaned milk babies without using slaves. .

In fact, there are definitely no more than 35 farmers farming in Anxi, but they own a full 260 million acres of fertile land, which means that the per capita owns nearly seven acres of land.

The government did not restrict the development of land, so they began to reclaim wasteland desperately.

In just six years, the arable land in Anxi has increased from less than 260 arable land to a full [-] million arable land.Almost thirty times the original size.

Lu Zhikun continued: "Last year, we in Anxi had a bumper harvest, collecting a total of 360 to [-] shi of grain."

Hearing this, Chen Ying had no way to complain.

The Anxi Protectorate's Mansion has given the highest tax preference system to the Tang people, the group with the highest class composition, one tax per thirty, absolutely no discount.It is this taxation system of 360 taxes and [-] tax, which still collects [-] million shi of grain, which shows how much grain there is in the whole of Anxi.

For 300 million shi of grain, for the [-] Tang soldiers in Anxi, even if they sleep on the grain pile to eat, they will have to eat for ten years.What surprised them the most was that with the intake of a large amount of meat, the food consumption of Tang soldiers was rapidly decreasing.

Originally, almost all the generals and soldiers of the Tang army were big-bellied men, and it was normal for them to eat a liter of rice in one meal, but now, let alone a liter, most of them couldn't finish eating even a catty.

Lu Zhikun continued: "Today, there are 130 seven warehouses in the Anxi Protectorate's Mansion, which store silage fodder, a total of 750 million shi, which is enough for a hundred thousand troops to consume for years!"

Chen Ying saw that the supplies were enough to support him in launching the Western Expedition, so he ordered the generals to go back and prepare.

At the same time, Chen Ying took Li Xiuning to visit the Huaergou Iron and Steel Workshop in Anxi.

The Huaergou Iron and Steel Workshop not only produced the steel rails used to build the road, but was also responsible for the production of armor for the generals of the Anxi Army.In the Huaergou large factory, in front of several giant impact machines, workers are carefully putting workpieces made of steel blanks into the mold one by one, and then stepping on the pedal, the stretching mold driven by the water wheel With a powerful impact force, it fell hard, with a loud bang.

Then the workpiece was pressed into a plate armor with the curvature of the human body. This is the prototype of the plate armor equipped by the generals of the Anxi Army.Compared with Mingguang armor, the advantages of plate armor are more obvious.

After testing by later generations, the protection of the plate armor surpassed that of the fish scale armor, not to mention the Mingguang armor, which was worse than the fish scale armor.It is more prominent in defense against muskets. Gothic full-body plate armor can defend against matchlock guns at a distance of 20 meters, but fish scale armor cannot. Moreover, although plate armor is heavier than fish scale armor, it shares the weight of the whole body, compared with fish scale armor. There is not much difference in mobility.In terms of comprehensive performance, plate armor completely crushes fish scale armor.

Of course, plate armor is not without weaknesses.

As heavy armor, the advantages of plate armor are more replaceable.However, bulkiness is the blemish of plate armor, and armor is very complicated.

Of course, this processing method is still quite primitive, the machines are also backward, and the production capacity is not high. With so many machines, it can only process more than 1000 workpieces in a day, but in this era, such efficiency is already very scary.

Another machine tool, which was so much bigger that it had to be powered by two water wheels to fully operate it, was busy machining the arm of a ballista.Of course, the machine tool responsible for processing it is not an idler. The sharp milling cutter is driven by the water flow and rotates quickly, and is sent to the crossbow arm little by little.

There was a tooth-piercing sound, and a large amount of steel debris splashed out from it, which was the cutting of the crossbow arm.The ballista is originally bulky, in order to reduce the weight, the extra steel is definitely not needed.

Others have a flywheel to rotate the machine quickly.This kind of machinery exists exclusively for sharpening arrowheads.The arrowheads that are cast naturally have flashes and burrs, and of course there are no blades.These machines are designed to sharpen the arrowheads and at the same time be responsible for grinding them.Although the efficiency is still low, it is more than a hundred times faster than the original manual polishing.

When Chen Ying was sharpening his sword in the Anxi Dadu Protectorate in Beiting City, all ethnic groups and tribes in Anxi, as well as the Western Turks, already knew this terrible news that was equivalent to a thunderbolt.

Three years later, Chen Ying came to Anxi after the defeat of the Eastern Turks. Even if he didn't think about it with his head, he knew what Chen Ying came to Anxi with his knees.

Yipidulu Khan, who was located in the Yili River Valley, was the first to react. He sent his son Ashina Gushe and 150 people including his confidant general Goshunur to Beiting to beg for surrender.

Just as Ashina Gushe entered Jieshan City, he was stunned by the prosperity of Jieshan City.

Although it is still covered with ice and snow at this time, what the ice and snow cannot cover up is the wealth of Jieshan City.

Goshunur looked at the winding steel road outside the city, and said enviously: "If these steels are forged into armor, even seven or eight-year-old children in our tribe can be equipped with armor made of steel. "

Ashina Gushe was secretly vigilant, secretly saying that his father Khan was wise.

The people of the Tang Dynasty have so much steel that they need to expose it for storage. It is probably one of the few wise decisions made by his father Khan not to be an enemy of the people of the Tang Dynasty.

However, when Geshunur saw everything in Jieshan City, he exclaimed from time to time, especially looking greedily at the long queue formed by the four-wheeled carriages full of rice.

Geshunur licked his lips, his eyes glowed green, and said, "A lot of food... If we send troops to take down Jieshan City, the food will be enough to feed our entire tribe for two years!"

Geshu Nur's words were recognized by a group of Turkic warriors.

However, Ashina Gushe yelled sharply: "Geshunur, don't always think about robbing, use your brains! The army guarding Anxi, even the powerful Khan Tongyehu's attached army They can all be defeated, looting their territory, what is the difference between courting death!"

Goshunur said helplessly: "But what can we do if we don't rob us? We don't know how to grow food, and we have very few livestock. If the Tang people refuse to sell us food, we can only starve to death..."

Ashina Gushe was even more annoyed, and wanted to scold him, but he couldn't scold him when he thought of the tragic situation of changing children within the tribe, so he finally let out a heavy sigh.

In the eyes of many Xiaowenqing, grazing outside the Great Wall should be.The blue sky, the white clouds, a gust of wind blows away, and the tall pastures fall down layer by layer, showing a large herd of cattle and sheep; the clear blue sky always echoes loud and clear pastoral songs, and when night falls, outside the tent will appear There are piles of bonfires, fat and tender sheep and roe deer are grilled on the fire, and the strong young man and the beautiful and passionate shepherdess are singing and dancing around the fire. …

Isn't it very romantic?It sounds very good, but people who hold this kind of thinking must have never tasted milk wine milk tea, milk tofu, and cheese in rotation for 360 five days a year. Apart from this, they have everything else, and they don’t even have to eat wild vegetables. After driving cattle and sheep on the road every day, I couldn't take a bath for ten days and a half months, and my body was full of the smell of cow dung and sheep dung.

Of course, I have never experienced the pain of waking up in a daze in the middle of the night and suddenly finding that the tents of the entire tribe were on fire, and a group of ferocious cavalry were slashing and killing their relatives wantonly with machetes.

Life in the grasslands is far more difficult than plowing the fields. Wind, sand, frost and snow may come at any time and take away lives. Sometimes when a heavy snow falls, several tribes all freeze to death or starve to death, disappearing from the grasslands. If there is less snow or no snow, it will be even worse. Grazing requires a lot of water, and the water on the grassland mainly comes from snowfall. If there is no snow, there will be no water. Where there is water, the pasture is sparse, and the pasture grows well. How about without water, do you really want to die?

Also, if the Han people get upset and close the border market, they will not be able to eat salt, drink tea, or buy cloth all year round, would they want to die even more?

Now you know why the northern nomads like to go south to rob so much, right?If you don't grab them, you will die if you don't grab them!The Geshunurtang people who were in extreme distress transported grain and carts of rice, and their first reaction was to grab a ticket. This was already an instinct.

Ashina Valley looked at the generals and soldiers of the Tang army who were monitoring them and said, "Where are you transporting so much food?"

I already regretted it after I finished speaking. This is an aboveboard spying on Tang Jun's secrets. Will he be executed as a spy?

However, the generals of the Tang army who watched over them laughed and said, "There is so much food that we can't finish it, so we have to use it to make wine! Now Anxi has more than 100 large and small wineries, and the number of wine brewed every year is as high as more than 100 million altars."

In fact, Anxi's best-selling goods are not silk, nor porcelain, nor tea.

It is a mellow liquor brewed from grain.

Liquor is a good thing. It can be used to keep out the cold in winter, and it can also be used to disinfect injured people to avoid infection and inflammation.

Moreover, the taste is far more mellow and smooth than those kumiss.

This kind of baijiu is very easy to get drunk, unlike kumiss, which can only pee when drunk too much. Turkic people usually don't get drunk after ten catties, and their alcohol capacity is amazing.But they drank white wine, and they would die after a catty, and they would collapse after a lot of half a catty.

As long as you are drunk, you can have everything you want.

Many Turkic people were so impoverished that they sold their last lambs and drank them for wine.Lying drunk in the snowdrift, he died silently and painlessly.

After half a month, they finally arrived outside Beiting City.A group of cavalry galloped out of the city. The knights immediately held a strong bow in their hands, a bag of white feather arrows on their backs, and a saber with a slender blade. They wore steel helmets and armor. They are all skilled riders.

Their iconic black cloak flag flew up like a big flag, and the terrifying momentum was overwhelming. Ashina Gushe, Geshunur and others were horrified, and their talking and laughing stopped abruptly.

Goshunur tried his best to straighten his shriveled chest and waist.Everyone has self-esteem, and their tribe is now in extreme distress, almost like a dog in the water, but in front of the cavalry of the Tang army, they still subconsciously want to support the dignity that has long since disappeared, so as not to be looked down upon by others.

However, it is useless.

All the cavalry of the Tang Army did not say a word, and quickly lined up in two rows, moving quickly, and the formation was as neat as a straight line.There was no glaring, no murderous look, and the aura of a strong army was naturally released with every gesture, which made people dare not despise it a little bit.

The neat formation separated on both sides, and Chen Ying rode his horse, and the cavalry shouted in unison: "The general of the hussars is here, kneel down to meet him!"

PS: I am not in good condition recently. As an old man, the pressure to survive is too great.To borrow a joke, foreigners are desperate to die, but we are desperate to live.Rest assured, Lao Cheng will have a beginning and an end, and he will never be a eunuch.And at night.

(End of this chapter)