A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 185 Huai country is different after all
Compared with other vassal states of Zhu Xia, Huai State is after all different.As a descendant of the Shang Dynasty, he has been fighting with Bang Zhou for hundreds of years, how could he have no grievances?

The development of Huaiguo Academy was not only the method established by Zijue, who taught without discrimination and did not set thresholds, but also the credit of Laozi, Confucius, Sun Wuzi and other sages.

It was also the arrival of these sages that made Huaiguo Academy spread in Bangzhou.Prior to this, Huai Country's Academy was only famous in Huai Country, for example, the countries in the Central Plains did not agree with the orthodox cultural inheritance of Xuegong Shi Bangzhou.

After all, the Huai State is a descendant of the Yin and Shang dynasties, and acknowledging the Huai State Academy is acknowledging that the Huai State has acquired the orthodoxy of Bangzhou culture.This is unacceptable to the countries of the Central Plains.

Up to now, although Huai State’s academic palace is well-known among other countries, it is still not recognized as orthodox by other countries. On the contrary, Confucianism, Taoism and other theories are recognized by Bangzhou and other countries.

Of course, in fact this is just a fig leaf.

After all, if one recognizes the vassal states established by the survivors of the Yin and Shang Dynasties as cultural orthodoxy, what about the orthodoxy of Bangzhou?This is to deny King Wu Keyin and establish the legitimacy of Bang Zhou.

How could the countries of Bangzhou and Zhou recognize it?
Now that the Xihe Academy was established, these princes of the Central Plains immediately began to praise the Xihe Academy.The purpose is to overwhelm Huaiguo Academy.

Even these people divided the legalists from the Huai country, the Huai country's legalists remained unchanged, and those legalists who left the school to serve in the Wei country's domineering skills were called the Sanjin legalists.

These useless efforts that seem to have no effect on the overall situation are to separate the Huaiguo Academy from its culture.

Fortunately, it is not hundreds of years ago now. The power of Bangzhou and other countries has been weakened, and part of the right to speak has been gradually taken away by Huai. Otherwise, this situation will be even more serious.

After the Huai country discovered that the world was becoming more and more turbulent, it also began to prepare for military expansion.Although Huai State did not use Wei State's domineering technique to reform, and did not exhaust the power of the people, Huai State's reform was also adjusted by several generations.

When Zijue first came to this world, he knew the sufferings of the people, and understood the sufferings suffered by the common people at the grassroots level in China in the following thousands of years, so he hated the phrase "the suffering people, I will bear the name."

The common people are about to have nothing, and if they suffer any more, will they be forced to rebel?Compared with the poor common people, Zijue believes in the nobles and powers of the poor.

Comparing the improvement of national power by Wei Guo's domineering reform method and Huai country's reform method, the upper limit of the increase in national power by Wei Guo's domineering art reform method is 80.00%.The Huai country's reform only brought the national power of Huai country to [-]%.

Calculated according to the state of Chu, before the reform, the power that the state of Chu can exert is only about 30.00%, or even lower.Although the Chu State has a vast territory, there are many feudal monarchs. In many cases, Chu's power is consumed by the feudal monarchs.

In fact, the core of the reform is the redistribution of interests while squeezing out the potential of the country.Because the country of Wei is small, it can only use this extreme reform method if it wants to become strong, but Huai country has a vast territory, so there is no need to use this method at all.

Even if the Huai country only exerted 80.00% of its national power, it is not something Wei can compete with in general. This is the advantage of a big country.

After Wang Pu announced the recruitment of soldiers, a large number of people came to sign up.Huai country's money and food began to be consumed rapidly.

However, this is nothing compared to the grain stored in the Huai country warehouse.The stock in the Huai country warehouse can support the Huai country army for several years without shortage.

Even if you can't fight on the battlefield, you can rely on the vast land, population, and food to consume the enemy to death.

The training of the rattan armor army takes a lot of time, and Huaiguo has formed a 30 rattan armor army.At the same time, there are about 50 ordinary troops.Adding the previous troops of the Huai State, the Huai State can recruit [-] troops.If you don't care about people's livelihood, raise this number to [-] or even a million troops.

Of course, Wang Pu would never mobilize an army of more than 50 before the country was subjugated. This would almost drain the population of Huai country.

The Huai State has upgraded its weapons and equipment. The innermost part of the armor of the Rattan Armored Army is rattan armor, the middle is a layer of leather armor, and the outermost is iron armor scales.These iron armor scales were worn and strapped to the leather armor.The weight of the rattan armor also increased from a few catties to thirty catties.

The defense of rattan armor has been greatly improved, especially rattan armor has a certain arc support, and it also has some defensive effects on blunt weapons.

In addition to the rattan armor, Huaiguo has replaced the bronze sword with a straight knife. The weight of the weapon is much lighter, and the power of chopping is more destructive than stabbing.

Of course, this does not mean that iron weapons can completely defeat bronze weapons.In fact, although the bronze weapon is backward, the gap between the two has not reached a huge difference.

In addition to these weapons, the Huai country craftsman also completed another weapon, the crossbow!
The crossbow actually appeared decades ago, but the power of the crossbow at that time was not satisfactory. Although the power of the crossbow was higher than that of the bow and arrow, the winding speed was too slow, and at the same time, it was expensive, too heavy, and easy to damage.

An archer can shoot three or even five arrows at the same time.

After the Mohist mechanism master joined the craftsman supervisor in Huai State, the development of the crossbow machine increased several times immediately.Although the winding speed of the crossbow is still slow, it has made great progress compared with before.At the same time, the power of the crossbow has also been further enhanced.

Regarding the problem of the slow shooting speed of the crossbow, the martial arts scriptures left by Zijue recorded the three-stage shooting method.Using this method can increase the rate of fire of the crossbow several times in a short time.

After Wang Pu saw the weapon of crossbow machine, he immediately realized the power of this weapon.Immediately recruited 1 people for training, preparing to form a crossbow army.

Although the Huai country has undergone several improvements, the price of the crossbow is still very high.

On the high platform on the side of the training ground, Wang Pu is watching the army drill in the field.

With the sound of a horn, the army in the field immediately changed into formation, and then the army was lined up, and the front row was aiming with crossbows.

The flag waved, and there was a muffled hum, and thousands of crossbow arrows flew into the air in an instant, and countless arrows suddenly appeared on the target a hundred steps away from the army formation.

After the first row of soldiers shot the crossbow arrows, they retreated immediately, and the second row stepped forward immediately. There was another buzzing sound, countless crossbow arrows flew out again, and then the third row stepped forward again.

After some movement, the first row of crossbowmen had finished winding up again and started shooting.The entire army formed like clouds and flowing water, shooting six waves of arrows in a very short period of time before slowing down.

(End of this chapter)