A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 538 A new era has begun

Because these aristocratic families were pioneering for the first time and had no experience at all, Wang wanted to personally teach them how to pioneer, how to establish a settlement, how to develop, and how to use the power of Daqian to survive when they were not strong enough.

These skills are actually things left by the ancestors of the Wang family. There were quite a few people who knew these skills originally, but now not many people know them. When Zhou Zhou enfeoffed the world, the princes also brought their troops to entrust the land.

Fiefdoms at that time were pretty much the same as they are now, and they also needed to be built up little by little. Originally there was a lot of information, but after the unification of the Huai Kingdom, all the information was collected by the Wang family.

After the imperial court selected ten noble, powerful, and official families who purchased the development order, they began to provide supplementary lessons to these people.

The first thing is to tell them about health and epidemic prevention. In this era, health and epidemic prevention is the biggest cause of population death, especially in those wild places, where various epidemic diseases, unknown poisonous diseases, bad diseases, poisonous insects, etc., once paralysis occurs If you are careless, the consequences will be extremely serious.

Daqian has been exploring the wild lands over the years, so he has collected and sorted out a large number of cases, and compiled all kinds of poisonous insects, poisonous weeds, poisonous miasma, and epidemic diseases into volumes.

We recorded where these things tend to appear, what symptoms they have when they appear, and how to deal with them as soon as they are discovered, etc.

In addition to these problems, the imperial court has been looking for solutions over the years. Some antidotes have been found for poisonous miasma, poisonous insects, and diseases, and some locally grown herbs are used to treat them, but some problems are still unresolved. Just like poisonous miasma and plague.

Poisonous miasma mostly exists in deep mountains and swamps. It appears every morning and slowly dissipates at noon, but it is most toxic just after it dissipates. It is easy for people who are not familiar with it to get confused. There is no specific treatment for this poisonous miasma, there are only some herbs that can slow it down, and it depends on one's personal constitution to resist it.

As for the plague, because there are many types, Dagantai Hospital does not have a complete response method. It often requires on-site observation before testing and antidotes. The best way is to isolate the patient. After isolating the patient, use some drugs to treat it. treat. Of course, if you call it treatment, you may be waiting for death.

In the end, the imperial court compiled some prescriptions for strengthening the body and enhancing resistance developed by the Tai Hospital. These will be given to those families as prescriptions for treating the plague. These prescriptions cannot directly cure, but they can make the patients live longer and make them live longer. Some physically strong people managed to survive. It would also give doctors more time to research prescriptions.

These books add up to a thick volume. It can be said that if you strictly follow the requirements in this book, the mortality rate of going to the wilderness to open up wasteland can be reduced by 30 to 50%.

In fact, just the knowledge in these books cannot be bought with five hundred imperial silver coins. These things are timely for those wealthy families who are preparing to go to the wilderness.

In addition to training these things, the royal family also conducted training for the armies of these official families.

Due to the complex terrain, inconvenient transportation, and hot climate, the wilderness is completely different from the Central Plains, and the combat methods are even different. If we don't carry out some targeted training, just these people will fight with the barbarians somewhere, and it will be good if half of them are alive.

With such heavy casualties, the wealthy families who went to develop would definitely not be able to withstand it, and they would have to come back in disgrace when the time comes. It will be more difficult for the court to develop in the future, so the court must train these people to get them used to the local barbarian fighting methods.

The imperial court has fought with barbarians everywhere over the years, with varying results, and is familiar with their fighting methods. The barbarians in the south prefer to cross mountains and ridges because they live in this environment all year round. The barbarians in the south can climb mountains and ridges as if they were walking on flat ground, and they are extremely effective in fighting in the mountains and forests. Even the imperial army suffered a lot of heavy losses.

General Zhennan had a deep understanding of this during the Southwest War. In such an environment, heavy armor is a burden. In the hot mountains and forests, wearing armor will not take long to cause heatstroke.

Therefore, when fighting in the south, rattan armor, iron-inlaid leather armor, and ring-mail armor are the best equipment. However, ring-mail armor is difficult to make in large quantities, and the output is not high. Rattan armor is more cost-effective.

When fighting in the north, armor and war horses are even more important, as well as protection from the cold. Among the development orders issued by the imperial court, there were also those to open up the north, Shuofang, Hetao area, Qinghai area, Liaodong area, etc.

The imperial court conducted separate training for the soldiers who went to explore various places. Those in the south were strengthened in mountain warfare, and those in the north were strengthened in riding skills. In fact, it was easier in the north. The various weapons and equipment of the imperial court had an absolute advantage over the barbarians in the north, and there was no shortage of war horses.

With the help of the three-piece cavalry suit, these people's riding skills will not be much worse. Coupled with the crushing equipment, the strength of these soldiers is much higher than that of the Hu people. But a big problem in the north is that there are many barbarians.

The number of Hu people in the north far exceeds that in the south. There are now millions of Hu people living on the northern grasslands. More than a dozen tribes of Hu people are already in chaos, attacking each other, competing for pasture, and constantly fighting. If one of them attacks, at least tens of thousands of troops can be gathered.

The aristocratic families who want to explore the north must take advantage of the mountains and terrain, the large frontier troops, and the cooperation with each other to take root here.

The imperial court provided these people with professional training to adapt them to the battlefield. On the battlefield in the south, try to avoid mountains and forests, and try to solve the problem in the hilly and plain areas. When it cannot be solved, we will use the method of defending various important places.

In the early days of development, we basically focused on persistence. After adapting to the battle, when those Shanyue and Nanman saw that there were many casualties but not enough benefits, they would fade away and not want to fight anymore. At this time, you can pursue, or win over some people, or attack some people.

Although Shanyue has a large number of people, they are mostly divided into various tribes. These tribes often have disputes and even have weapons. They are not monolithic. More importantly, these Shanyue do not have a larger vision and only care about their own interests. , will not take into account long-term interests.

They still have no so-called national concept, no sense of honor like Zhuxia, and no distinction between Huayi and Huayi.

As long as those wealthy families who go to develop are not too stupid, they will understand this truth and know what to do.

It can be said that Wang Yi and Chao Cuo worked hard to help the first batch of wealthy families to establish a foothold. They have no idea what kind of era this development will bring.

(End of this chapter)