Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

Chapter 58 New Things

"I don't know if we should keep the Baekje clan and whether we have accommodated the Silla people too much, but it's not wrong to indulge soldiers and plunder?" He Bayong frowned: "Everyone came across the sea, but they all If you risk your life, if you won the battle, the generals in charge will increase their ranks and enshrine their wives and sons, if they don't let the lower ones get some benefits, who will work hard next time?"

"The benefits are deserved, but is it necessary to let soldiers kill and set fire to rob them? Baekje has been established for hundreds of years. Although it can't compare with Datang, it is also a big country with more than 70 households, and the treasury can't afford it. Do you believe that hundreds of thousands of pieces of silk cloth reward the army?

Even if the treasury can’t be moved, it’s enough to temporarily lower the tax on Baekje. Anyway, the household registration is ready-made, and each household will receive an additional cloth. Even if they only collect half of it, there will be hundreds of thousands of cloth. It is enough to reward the army.Why bother to cause anger and resentment, and how many people will share the benefits? "

After hearing Wang Wenzuo's words, He Bayong was already speechless. According to the land equalization system in the Tang Dynasty, [-] young men were awarded [-] mu of land.
And every year, you have to pay two stones of millet to the state, which is called rent; you pay two feet of silk, three liang of cotton, or two feet and five feet of cloth, and three catties of hemp, which is called transfer; 20 days of corvee service, plus two days in leap years, is called regular service. If you do not perform hard labor, you can pay three feet of silk or three feet, seven inches and five cents of cloth per day, and pay the full amount of 20 days in lieu of labor. This is called Yong.

At that time, the laws of Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla were similar to them. Considering that there was no generational difference in productivity among East Asian countries at that time, their national strength was basically proportional to the number of households.

In a big country like Baekje with 76 household registrations, millions of pieces of silk cloth are collected every year. At that time, the troubled times were not far away. Although copper coins were popular in the market, the quantity was limited, and cloth and silk were still circulated as currency. In the eyes of people at that time, those silk cloths were all green dollar bills, the hardest currency.

Isn't it a big joke to burn, kill and loot to reward the army with such a rich cash income?
"I heard what you said, Saburo, and it makes sense, but at this time and at that time, they are all enemies now!"

"Not yet, but who knows what will happen in the future? If you kill those who have surrendered now because they may be enemies in the future, then all the people in Baekje will really become enemies? There are at least two or three hundred people in Baekje." If they refuse to surrender, let us fight one by one, this bottomless pit will not be filled with enough lives!"

At this time He Bayong had been completely convinced by Wang Wenzuo, he sighed: "It makes sense for you to think so, anyway, I'm just a messenger, how do you plan to arrange here?"

"The hostages were brought back to Sibi City, and the property and food that could not be taken away were scattered among the poor. The original owner of this chaichuan gate was named Miao Fu, who was also a local rich man. After being poor, he was killed by a slave. Subordinate!" Wang Wenzuo smiled: "I plan to hand over this place to that slave!"

"Good plan!" He Bayong immediately understood: "Sanlang, you really have prepared, that slave is surrounded by enemies, if you want to secure your position, you must not dare to betray you!"

"Whether he can sit still or not is uncertain!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "He still has a few henchmen, it depends on his own wrist!"

"The left and right are in your urn, so what if you have wrists?" He Bayong's smile narrowed: "When are you leaving?"

"There are too many food vehicles, let alone a few days!" Wang Wenzuo stood up: "The things you just said are life-threatening, and I won't admit it when I go out!"

He Ba solemnly said: "I'll save it, I won't talk too much!"

After sending He Bayong away and returning to the house, Wang Wenzuo let out a long sigh of relief. He only knew a rough idea of ​​the history of later generations: Although the Tang Dynasty eliminated the old enemy of Goguryeo, it still failed to gain a foothold on the Korean Peninsula. Fan made wedding clothes for others.

But he didn't know the exact time when the Tang people finally withdrew from the Korean Peninsula. He only knew that it should not be later than the Anshi Rebellion. Otherwise, the Anlu Mountain in Fanyang (Beijing) would be stabbed in the back by King Qin's army who came back from the Korean Peninsula. The situation of the war Nor will it develop as it has historically.

From what I have seen and heard in Baekje, Tang Baekje’s economic strategy was to serve the goal of eliminating Goguryeo. Therefore, even after the destruction of Baekje, Gaozong immediately set up the five capitals in Baekje, and included it in the Tang Dynasty. Jiji state system.

But in fact, it did not manage it carefully, but indulged the soldiers to plunder, and did not suppress the expansion desire of the allies Silla, in an attempt to induce them to send troops and help the Tang army attack Goguryeo from north to south.

But so far, the results can only be said to be unsatisfactory. The Silla people casually obeyed on the surface, but most of them were perfunctory in actual actions. It is difficult for the Jifu Army to extricate itself from the swamp.

"We must find a way to change all of this, otherwise we will fall into it sooner or later!" Wang Wenzuo clenched his fists and said to himself.He walked to the desk, took out dozens of parts, and began to assemble them carefully.After a while, there was already a strange machine in his hand.

"I hope this time it will be successful, otherwise there will be too many things to do when I go back, and I'm afraid I won't have so much free time!" Wang Wenzuo stood up and came to the courtyard. It bends, hangs the bowstring on the slight groove of the other end of the claw bow, fixes one end of the strange machine to the handle of the walnut longbow, straightens the bowstring, and then takes out five feathered arrows and fills them into the machine one by one. in the upper groove.

Finally, he raised the longbow with one hand, held the handle at the end of the machine tightly with the other hand, took a deep breath, pulled the handle hard, and pulled the slide rail to the top. The bowstring was pulled, the bow arm was bent, the trigger was pulled, and the bowstring With a sudden rebound, the arrow shot out, piercing through the rattan target thirty steps away, and then Wang Wenzuo fully pulled the trigger again, pulled the bowstring, and repeated again and again. At the fourth time, he finally exhausted himself. Wang Wenzuo dropped the walnut longbow and said with a wry smile: "Those foreign outdoor houses are really animals, they actually come up with such a thing!"

The strange machine Wang Wenzuo is testing is a continuous launch device he saw on a video site before crossing. The video was shot by a bald man named Joerg Sprave, who called his invention a semi-automatic bow , composed of slide rail frame and arrow slot, can automatically set the arrow and hang the string through the action mechanism, pull the slide rail to guide the bow and aim, there is a trigger at the end of the machine, and the rear hand pulls the trigger to release the bowstring. After each arrow is fired , the arrows in the quiver will fall into the arrow rails.

　In order to avoid people in the discussion area spraying Weber's nonsense, keywords are still left in the article, and those who are interested can go to station b to search to see what it is.Let me also reply to the person who said that the torsion spring existed hundreds of years ago, and its power is not that exaggerated. I just want to say that whether the weapon is easy to use or not depends on who owns it, how it is organized, and how it is configured.The English longbow was useful to the primitive people, and it is still famous all over the world in the hands of the British.As for Crassus' loss to the Parthians, the torsion spring crossbow didn't play a big role. That's Crassus' problem. No matter how good the weapon user is, he can't help it. You don't know that the Parthians have eaten a lot Is it the fault of the second torsion spring crossbow?

　　
　
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