Riding and chopping: Overlord of the Han and Hungarians

Chapter 415 Chapter 414. Guns and Weapons

After years of fighting in the Han Dynasty, Ma Zheng was not the only one who was dragged down.

It was founded by Emperor Wen and managed by Emperor Jing. By the time Emperor Wu ascended the throne, the Han Dynasty was breeding more than 40 horses.

But even with such a rich family fortune, Liu Che's lavish spending against the Huns had already been consumed.

Before the troops move, food goes first.

Liu Che organized four large-scale wars.

The first Mayi plot mobilized 18 troops. Even if this time it was a joke, the amount of food and grass consumed in the advancement, waiting, and return of the troops was not a small amount.

How to transport food and grass?
Manpower, water transport, and animal power.

Every time grain is transported, it is also a consumption for the horses.

Therefore, in the past ten years, after experiencing several large-scale wars such as the Ma Yi conspiracy, the Xiongnu invasion of the border areas, Wei Qing's departure from the fortress, and the Liao Hou rebellion, the Ma Zheng of the Han Dynasty had already collapsed.

You must know that war horses need to be castrated, geldings are sterile, and other horses that are not selected as war horses are considered defective to a certain extent.

The offspring bred from these horses will naturally have a high probability of becoming so-called inferior horses.

Same as Ma Zheng.

Most of the copper and iron veins in the Han Dynasty are not actually in Liu Che's hands.

In the Han Dynasty before the Salt and Iron Order appeared.

Those who control the Tongshan and Iron Mountains the most are the princes.

But now most of these vassal states rich in copper and iron are in the hands of Zhang Qi. In the Han Dynasty, Liu Che can only supplement copper and iron through the vassal states in the south.

But Liu Che didn't have other options.

That is to remelt the existing weapons and use the furnace method traded back from Qingzhou to cast iron into steel.

But will he do it?

Will not.

Having lost nearly half of his country, Liu Che's sense of security had dropped to its lowest point. It could be said that every prince and king in the entire Han Dynasty was his enemy.

Although the current ordnance cannot compete head-on with the Liaohou army, his armaments are still far ahead of the princes and kings in the country.

Zhang Qi's chariot drove back to Liaoning city.

Sitting back in his familiar office in the Government Affairs Building, Zhang Qi looked through the copper and iron production in Liaoning in recent years.

Zhang Qi is not concerned about copper production at the moment, he is looking at iron production.

Thanks to Liao Di's mature classification method, it didn't take him too long to find the catalog of iron products.

Detailed explanation of epigraphic records of Liao Dynasty.

There are 120 iron ore locations in total, with an annual output of 310 million tons of iron ore, 110 tons of steel and [-] million tons of iron ore.

See there is a remainder.

Zhang Qi's eyes brightened, but then wrinkled again.

"In other words, Liaodi's steel production capacity has not yet reached its limit, and there are still iron ore left every year."

"Come on."

He raised his head and shouted towards the office door.

"Your Majesty."

The shadow guard entered and saluted.

"Go to the Forging Hammer Shop and ask Thirteen to organize the construction of a new steelmaking plant and use the most advanced technology to increase steel production capacity."

As he spoke, he quickly wrote the appointment letter on the table and handed it to the shadow guard.

In fact, he is quite satisfied with the current steel production value of Liaodi. The annual steel output of [-] tons has surpassed Liu Che by more than ten blocks. According to his estimation, the current Handi can produce one thousand tons a year. One thousand tons of steel is already the limit.

And Liao land.The power of just one place exceeds him dozens of times.

You must know that the fleet returning to Australia has already set off today. In the future, Liaoning Real Steel will not be able to compare with a finger of Australia.

The quality of iron ore in China is far inferior to the quality of iron ore in Australia.

In Liaodi, one ton of iron ore produces only 350 kilograms of steel, which is almost 35% iron content. Of course, this may also be due to the lack of modern steelmaking equipment, which prevents the ore from being fully utilized.

In Australia, he expected that one ton of iron ore could produce at least [-] kilograms of steel, so he included his starting number in the fleet returning to Australia this time.

While a large part of this was because he was testing the practicality of steamships, more importantly, the Initiation was also a symbol of his identity.

"White Star."

"Subordinates are here."

"Arrange the merchants who weave the net to trade iron ore with Chang'an. In the next year or two, Liu Che will need these things to build a steel cage for himself."

"promise."

Bai Xing lowered his head to accept the order, and the corners of his mouth also evoked the same smile as Zhang Qi's.

Others may not know it yet, but as Zhang Qi's personal manager, Bai Xing was deeply impressed by the weapon called the firearm.

She knew very well that the furnace-smelting technology obtained by the Han Dynasty this time was actually sent to the Han Emperor deliberately by her emperor. No matter how many weapons were made, what was the use?

Is it comparable to the thousands of cannons currently in Liaodi and the tens of thousands of guns that will soon be installed?

If it weren't for the purpose of digesting the skyrocketing territory and officials' reserves in the past year, Zhang Qi would have pushed Han Dynasty across the board.

Cold weapons really have no combat effectiveness in front of hot weapons.

He only gave Liu Che three years.

Three years later, regardless of whether Liu Che had the ambition to go to war with him or not, Zhang Qi would completely regain the Chinese land.

During this year, a large number of graduated students have devoted themselves to local governance. Each village is governed by a chief official and is equipped with dozens of students to cooperate.

With the old leading the new, in just a few years, the number of talents under Zhang Qi who can manage a village will increase dozens or even hundreds of times compared to now.

By that time, he would have enough officials to govern the entire Asia.

Operation Earth United can officially begin its operations.

Although I don't know whether his descendants can really fulfill his ambition, at least Asia, whether it is Central Asia, West Asia or any other Asia, will be China's legal territory since ancient times.

Such a vast land and such abundant resources are enough for future generations of Chinese people to take the lead on the journey to the stars and the sea.

My thoughts were a little far away.

Zhang Qi put back those distant thoughts.

Looking out the window at the budding greenery, he shook his head and returned to his daily work.
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Snapped!
"The first column closes its guns and cleans up, the second column moves forward!"

"Get ready to shoot!"

In the former Huben Army barracks, the muffled thunder was the main melody here.

Fortunately, the two major military camps were built far away from villages and towns, so these daily shooting training did not affect other people.

a winter.

These three thousand Shenji Battalion soldiers have been practicing with guns all winter.

Today was their first live firing.

The power of the musket did not surprise the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion much.

After all, they were all selected from the Tiger Crouching Army reserve army. If you really want to talk about it, the power and momentum of the cannons are far greater than those of these muskets.

It's just a matter of converting multi-person training into single-person shooting.

(End of this chapter)