Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 787

Chapter 792

Ran Ming was invited out, and Yang Daozhi and the others greeted him in formal attire with the door open.When Ran Ming saw the table full of food and wine, he thought it was a meal with a severed head.Even if it is a prisoner on death row, the Chinese will give him a good meal of wine and meat, so that the prisoner on death row will become a full ghost.

Ran Ming was actually hungry too, so he wasn't polite at all.A big mouthful of vegetables was paired with a glass of wine. Before the wine entered his throat, the voice of admiration came out first: "These small country dishes are also top-notch."

As soon as the wine entered his stomach, blood rose from his chest and abdomen, and Ran Ming seemed to be shining with red light.It turned out to be the fairy drunk he brewed.Ran Ming didn't care, picked up another chopsticks dish, put it in his mouth and chewed carefully, trying to suck out all the flavors inside.

In ancient times, meals were divided into meals, and Ran Ming quickly ate all the dishes in front of him.Ran Ming said: "I have eaten your food and drink, so naturally I will not let your painstaking efforts be in vain. I think you know what I am. If you want something, please speak as soon as possible. Don't delay. No surprises, Wei's army will arrive within half an hour, tens of thousands of troops can be gathered in one day, if something unpleasant happens to Ruyi, it will be bad!"

Ran Min was the first to speak out because he had the confidence.The Mohist school has been in decline for too long, and although they still have some background, it is a pity that the concept of learning literary and martial arts and selling to the emperor's family has long been deeply ingrained.Nor can it be changed overnight.The Mohism has been around for thousands of years, and it has already become a legend. Ran Ming is actually more curious about the Mohism.

Yang Daozhi said: "If it's just the head craftsman, then don't worry about anything. It's better to be broken jade than to be whole."

Ran Ming said: "If it's just the head craftsman, why should I go to great lengths to fight? You must have known about what I did. I didn't discriminate against the Mohists, nor would I condone Confucian scholars."

Yang Daozhi and Yang Zheng didn't understand what Ran Ming meant. Although Ran Ming had an example of reusing craftsmen (Xianzong of Mohism), they still understood what they could do.official?Jazz?In fact, the Mohists don't care, what they care about is to show their strengths.All they need is a stage to display their talents.

In fact, this is Yang Daozhi and his son thinking too much.Letting corrupt Confucians be high-ranking officials is harmful to the country and the country, and letting Mohists be high-ranking officials is also a waste of resources and harming the country and the people.Professional things should be entrusted to professional people. This is the real way of employing people.Among all schools of thought, Legalism is the most effective means of governing the country.In particular, France is unique in terms of construction projects and national macro-control according to the system.Only by combining the methods of the Legalists, the techniques of the Mohists, and the Mohism can the road to a strong country be achieved.

In history, the Qin State adopted this combination method to establish a complete farming and warfare system, and to support millions of troops with a mere 500 million people.

This is one of Ran Min Weifu's biggest gains when he subdued the Yang family's Mohists.Ran Min and Ran Ming set foot on the return journey.It wasn't that Ran Min wanted to go back, but that something big happened in the middle school.

Jin Emperor Sima Dan sent an envoy with Wang Tanzhi as his envoy.It is required to purchase weapons and various materials from Wei State.Along with Huan Wen Zheng Liao, Sima Dan also carried out the great development of Lingnan.The so-called South of the Five Ridges actually refers to the south of the Five Ridges, which is the entire territory of Guangdong, Guangxi, and Hainan, and the northern part of Vietnam. In this vast area, the Jin Dynasty established Guangzhou, Ningzhou, Jiaozhou, and a part of Xiangzhou.Originally, because Ling was far away from the Central Plains and the roads were impassable, the development was late.

But in history, because the northerners are good at horses and the southerners are good at boats, no matter how powerful the north is, they will not be able to do it along the Yangtze River.Therefore, the development of these places has not been put on the agenda.However, not only the cavalry of the State of Wei was strong, but also the navy was not bad. The three wars almost wiped out all the navy of the Jin Dynasty, which brought a sense of crisis to the Jin Dynasty.

Therefore, the Jin Dynasty proposed the great development of Lingnan.Although Lingnan is considered a poor place since ancient times, the Jin Dynasty obtained a large amount of valuables such as grain, spices, gems and ivory from Lingnan.Sima Dan is a good student of Ran Ming. He learned from Ran Ming's way of the gentry to colonize, and he raised the gentry to develop Lingnan in the Jin Dynasty.

For the indigenous forces of the Baiyue tribes, the Jin Dynasty can also completely defeat them.After the army passed, the indigenous forces in all parts of Lingnan were either dead or gone.The land in the Lingnan area was fertile. The gentry of the Jin Dynasty repaid the sweetness from Lingnan and occupied the fertile land reclaimed by the aborigines. After occupying these Lingnan fields, the gentry needed to send people to cultivate them, and they couldn't be idle anyway.In this way, a large number of cute households and tenant households were liberated from the eight counties of Xuyang, the original prosperous area of ​​the Jin Dynasty.This greatly alleviated the problem of less land and more people in the Jin Dynasty.

Sima Dan's financial crisis has also been greatly improved. With money in hand, Sima Dan wants to develop military power.However, because Ran Ming destroyed the strength of the craftsmen of the Jin Dynasty, the self-production capacity of the Jin Dynasty in terms of armor and equipment was greatly reduced, and it would take time to recover.Sima Dan wanted to buy it from Wei Guo.

Since Ran Min came back, the Minister of the State of Wei has figured out the purpose of the Jin envoy's visit. It turned out that he wanted to buy military armor, equipment, horses and other national strategic materials.Almost all the ministers of the State of Wei opposed the transaction, saying that it was an act of capitalizing on the enemy.

If time can be reversed, Ran Ming really wants to take a closer look at what Sima Dan has done in the past half a year or so.It's a pity that this is not the world of Xianxia, ​​and Ran Ming doesn't have that much help.

The Eastern Jin Dynasty is like a company on the verge of bankruptcy. After Sima Dan, the chairman, took control of the company, he not only turned losses into profits in just a few months, but made a lot of money.Obviously, the financial crisis of the Eastern Jin Dynasty has been greatly improved. Not only has it improved, but it has a lot of money to buy military equipment.This is not three melons and two dates, but a huge sum of money.

A Magong crossbow costs 1 yuan. To form a crossbow shooting army with a scale of 3 people, you need to prepare [-] crossbows. (If it is damaged and replaced), it will cost as much as [-] million yuan if it is all paid with copper coins. More copper coins, of course, [-] yuan is only the purchase price of Wei Jun's horse crossbow in Wei State, if it is not sold outside this basis, it will not be increased by three or five times, and it will definitely be embarrassing to see people.

After buying the crossbow machine, one needs enough crossbow arrows, which are not expensive, only fifteen yuan each.Based on the normal equipment in ancient times, there are 24 pieces of two pots. If all of them need to be purchased, even if a small-scale war is maintained, ten thousand crossbowmen need to be equipped with at least 100 million crossbow arrows.

According to the figures required by Wang Tanzhi, if the Jin army wants to organize 300 crossbowmen, it needs at least 13 crossbow machines and at least 13 million crossbow arrows.The purchase cost of the crossbow machine and crossbow bolts alone is as much as 20 billion yuan, even if it is paid with gold, it will need 70 gold.Of course, this is not all of the military purchases. The Jin Dynasty also wanted to buy [-] war horses. Even if they were rough horses, the price of each horse was more than [-] yuan.Forty thousand sets of armor, the cost of Mingguang armor is not high, about fourteen thousand.It's still a horizontal knife, although the new technology is adopted, each horizontal knife is about [-] yuan.

Ran Ming really couldn't figure out where Sima Dan got such a huge sum of money. Even if he wanted to rob the bank, he had nowhere to rob it.In fact, Sima Dan did not rob the bank, he just robbed Baiyue, Shanyue, Guiyue, Minyue and other ministries.These Baiyue tribes have accumulated wealth for several or dozens of generations.However, these Lingnan tribes are obsessed with gold. During the process of exterminating the Zhuyue tribes, gold was the most seized.

Gold is not only liked by the barbarian kings who are the leaders of the various tribes in the south of the Five Ridges, but also by those gentry clansmen.When it was discovered that such a huge wealth was buried in the poor mountains and remote areas of Lingnan, the entire Jin Dynasty gentry went crazy.In fact, the Jin Dynasty had no shortage of troops. Almost every gentry family had its own soldiers. These soldiers were no weaker than the regular army of the Jin Dynasty. All these family private troops flooded into Lingnan, and they also became organized and purposeful. to rob.Those tribes in the South of the Five Ridges who had just finished buying goods from primitive society to slavery society suffered disasters.

Numerous Lingnan aboriginal tribes were captured from the mountains and forests by the gentry development army of the Jin Dynasty. Their tribes' gold, ball treasures, grains and various spices, gems, and pearls became the trophies of the Eastern Jin gentry.There is an old saying in China, that is, every man is innocent, but he is guilty.Possession of treasures, without the ability to protect them, becomes their deadly poison.

In just a few months, tens of thousands of gentry private soldiers poured into Lingnan.According to the contract agreement, Sima Dan himself accounted for [-]% of Lingnan's development interests, but it was this [-]% wealth that allowed Sima Dan to get [-] ships of gold and jewelry.

Sima Dan had money in his hands, so he naturally made adjustments to the Jin Dynasty court, and these adjustments included all aspects.Sima Dan considered that the people of the Jin Dynasty had done too much for the country, but gained too little.When he had no money in his hands, he was powerless, but after he had money, Sima Dan began to be a money-spreading boy.In one breath, the eight counties of Xuyang, the people in the Jin Dynasty, a place of heavy taxation, were exempted from paying taxes.

Of course, the exemption is only the tax, not the tax exemption like Ran Min.In the feudal era, taxes were specially collected for the emperor and the royal family to use as taxes, and local officials dared not touch this part of the money at all.

The royal family of the Jin Dynasty is different from the royal family of the Wei State. The royal family of the Wei State has only one emperor, Ran Min, and several vassal princes, Ran Yu, Ran Cao, and Ran Rui. Besides Ran Ming, no royal family is married. very small.Coupled with Ran Min's advocacy of thrift, the expenditure of the royal family of Wei State is less than one percent of that of the royal family of Jin Dynasty.But the Jin Dynasty advocated luxury, and there were many members of the royal family.How many royal families were there in the Jin Dynasty? There were 36 vassal kings from the Guangzong clan, 33 from the Wendi clan, and [-] from the Wudi clan. Plus win over, what do you use to win over, it's nothing more than money.

The Sima family has a very large population. In the Sima Dan era, there were more than 300 clans recorded on Guangzong's disk (not only did they not die during the war, but they became bigger and bigger. This is an irony. .) Sima Dan just did what an emperor should do. He used the internal treasury to support the group of clans that depended on the state for support, and exempted Xu Yang from the eight prefectures. rise up.There is simply the taste of ten thousand families living Buddha.The voice of the people inevitably reached Sima Dan's ears, which made Sima Dan work harder.

Sima Dan remembered that Ran Ming had told him that money was stored in the treasury, but it was just a pile of useless scrap copper and iron, and it would only be meaningful if it was spent.Sima Dan tried every means to rectify the army, so that the sour smell could not spread any longer. From the military regulations to the reward and punishment system, those that violated the fairness and some conflicted with the real environment, only by correcting them can the The Jin army, capable of conquering and fighting well, was revived again.

Whether it is Huanwen's Xifu army or Wei's Wei army, they all have a very obvious feature that they are good at fighting, that is, soldiers have regular promotion channels, and rewards and punishments are clearly defined.They also have relatively generous salaries.Sima Dan began to rectify the soldiers and horses of the five cities. First of all, the old and the weak were abolished, and the soldiers under the age of 15 and over 45 were sent home. Treatment issues.

Ordinary soldiers of the Jin army who meet the standard of soldiers are given three dou of salt per month, eight dou of rice per stone per month, and three thousand four hundred yuan a year for clothing. Although they are not paid like the Wei army, they are much better than before. up.A soldier gets 21 stones and six buckets of rice grain a year.Three stones and six buckets of salt, one soldier can completely allow a family of five to live a carefree life.

The worries of the soldiers were eliminated. Tens of thousands of soldiers and horses from the five cities of the Jin Dynasty were abolished and only 7 people remained. However, these 7 people had good morale and were very loyal to Sima Dan.

(End of this chapter)