Qin Yuedang Kong

Chapter 9 Preparing to Build the Daqin Ordnance Academy

Although the ministers no longer objected to uniting the Yuezhi to crusade against the Huns, there were still three very real difficulties that hindered the implementation of the plan to crusade against the Huns;
One is the issue of cavalry and horses.Whether it is cavalry or horses, Daqin is far behind the Xiongnu.The Qin State fought for a hundred years and finally wiped out the six countries. It has indeed created a powerful army, but this strength is mainly reflected in the infantry, while the cavalry is a bit weak.On the other hand, the Xiongnu have been dominated by cavalry since the era of dog soldiers. Even King Zhou You, who was a vassal of Fenghuo, died in the hands of dog soldiers. Frightened by the power of dog soldiers, King Zhou Ping, the son of King Zhou You, had no choice but to move the capital. Arrived in Luoyang.

The second is the issue of food supply.Grassland warfare is different from siege of cities and land, and the previous method of food and grass supply is obviously not feasible.Cavalry combat is all about flexibility and mobility, and Daqin’s previous food supply method will limit the mobility of cavalry, thereby restricting the effectiveness of cavalry combat. How to ensure that cavalry can get sufficient food and grass supplies in long-distance and large-scale mobile operations is particularly important. This is also a problem that Fusu must solve right now, otherwise the Daqin cavalry will be impossible to talk about.

The third is the problem of weapons and equipment. The weapons and equipment of the Qin army were mainly built for the purpose of positional warfare and siege warfare. They were mainly long-handled stabbing weapons such as Ge, halberd, and spear, while the weapons needed for cavalry operations were required to be short and sharp. , such as scimitars, short-handled hook sickle guns, etc.The single metallurgical technology of Daqin was also an important factor restricting the development of weapons. The metal smelting in this period was mainly bronze. Therefore, most of the weapons used by the Qin army were forged from bronze. Bronze weapons are fragile and easy to break. It is very unfavorable for cavalry to use in long-distance raids.Looking at the weapons equipped by the Xiongnu cavalry, most of them are iron swords, supplemented by close combat weapons such as meteor hammers, and also long-distance combat weapons such as long bows and arrows.As far as weapons and equipment are concerned, the Xiongnu cavalry is by no means invincible to the Qin cavalry.

As an educated youth who traveled from later generations, it stands to reason that these problems should not become obstacles in the way.As long as a little bit of superficial material science is used in later generations, these problems will be easily solved.However, Xu Yun studied finance before time travel, so he knew nothing about material science.If you know that you are destined to travel through time, if you choose a major, you must choose a major in materials science, or even buy a book on the Encyclopedia of Mysteries and read it madly.

"Yeah, I've never eaten pork, haven't I seen a pig running? Isn't it just making compressed dry food and making steel? I also understand the general principle. I don't believe that such a little thing will hinder my morality, intelligence, physique and beauty. Promising young people with all-round development of labor".Fusu made up his mind to find something useful from his bulk knowledge base.

After scratching his head for a while, Fusu suddenly came up with a good idea. If he gathers the skilled craftsmen of Daqin together, and then imparts his scattered knowledge to these craftsmen to brainstorm, are these problems still problems?Fusu even admired himself a little, isn't this the resource integration of later generations.

So the idea of ​​establishing the Daqin Academy of Military Sciences came to Fusu's mind. Of course, the name must not be called the Academy of Sciences, otherwise, a group of bad old men would be surrounded to delve into the meaning of the word science, so it should be called the Daqin Academy of Military Sciences.

What followed was another meal of hard-working and coercion, and finally, at the cost of an additional [-] acres of fertile land per person, the establishment of the Daqin Ordnance Academy was successfully turned from an idea into a plan.Fusu appointed Xiao He as the person in charge of the Daqin Ordnance Academy, and the construction cost of the Ordnance Academy was drawn from the cost saved from the suspension of Afang Palace.

In fact, Fusu originally did not plan to give out thousands of acres of land in exchange for the support of the officials for the construction of the Daqin Armory Academy. With the power of the son of the Daqin Supervisor, as long as he insists on building the Daqin Armory Academy, all officials can only obediently cooperate. Moreover, when discussing the matter of uniting the Yue clan to conquer the Xiongnu, each of the ministers was rewarded with one hundred acres of fertile land.But Fusu changed his mind after listening to Han Xin's private suggestion, and took the opportunity of discussing the Daqin Ordnance Academy to give each of them a hundred acres of fertile land.

There are happy smiles on the faces of the officials in the court. It is two hundred acres of fertile land. For most people, it is definitely a valuable property. Although I don’t know when these rewards will be honored, it is definitely worth looking forward to. .

The salaries of the hundreds of officials in the Great Qin Dynasty are also at the upper-middle level in the salary rankings of various dynasties. However, due to the frequent occurrence of rebellions in various places, the actual salaries that the hundreds of officials can get are less than a quarter of the regulations stipulated by the court council. There are only about 2000 shi. Even if the prime minister Li Si is at the level, the salary he gets is only more than [-] shi, which is far from the [-] shi stipulated by the court.

Two hundred acres of fertile land, calculated according to the average value of 120 catties of landed grain per mu in Qin Dynasty, that is four hundred shi of income, enough to match the salary of most courtiers for a year, such an income is enough to separate the officials from the crusade The Huns were tied together.

Each person has 30 mu of fertile land, and 900 people have [-] mu of land.For the Hexi Corridor, which can reclaim [-] million mu of fertile land, it is insignificant. Using this insignificant price in exchange for the full support of the ministers for uniting the Yuezhi to attack the Huns is definitely a super cost-effective for Fusu .

In the next month, the construction work of the Daqin Ordnance Academy started rapidly. After receiving the official documents from the imperial court, the counties and counties immediately started looking for skilled craftsmen in their respective jurisdictions. He fled to the deep mountains and hid.

Because many of them are laborers who have just been released from the Great Wall, Lishan, and Afang Palace, and they are extremely afraid of serving the imperial court.They are deeply afraid that this time they will be arrested by the Yamen and serve corvee as before, and they will die of exhaustion on the construction site like their former workers.According to the past practice, the government had already arrested people and sent them to Xianyang, but this time, Fusu personally added a Zhu criticism for recruiting craftsmen, demanding that craftsmen from all over the place be treated kindly.The counties and counties did not dare to disobey, so they had to arrange government servants to carry the bulletins and beat the gongs to do propaganda.

"Everyone in the village, our Daqin Ordnance Institute is recruiting skilled craftsmen. Any skilled craftsman who has a skill can go to the county government to send a name card to participate in the registration. The son Fusu Zhu approved the imperial edict and we have three chapters, just to treat our Daqin craftsmen with courtesy.

First, all counties and counties must treat those artisans who voluntarily go to Xianyang with the courtesy of national scholars.

Second, according to the person's wishes, those who originally went to Xianyang treated them kindly, and those who did not want to go to Xianyang obeyed them, and should not be punished.

Third, anyone who is selected by the Daqin Ordnance Academy will be exempted from household tax for three years, and his salary will be equal to that of the county magistrate.If you go to Xianyang but are not selected by the Daqin Ordnance Academy, you will be exempted from taxes for one year. "

When the artisans learned from the yamen servants that the Daqin Ordnance Academy's recruitment of skilled craftsmen had been endorsed by his son Fusu Zhu, the artisans who had been on the sidelines no longer struggled, and took their famous cards to their respective county government offices to report.Even those craftsmen who were worried that they would die of exhaustion in the Daqin Ordnance Academy put down their guard and rushed to the county government with their name cards.

The sudden appearance of this scene shocked many county magistrates and sheriffs. It has been many years since the people so supported a decree.And it's all thanks to Fusu.For the common people who experienced harsh punishments and heavy corvee during the Qin Shihuang period, the two reform measures of the son Fusu relieved them from suffering and gave them hope in their lives.

For the common people, the young master Fusu is like a god in their eyes.Since Zhu Bian, the son of Fusu, endorsed it, the people naturally have no worries.That's why a large number of craftsmen voluntarily went to the county government to sign up for the Daqin Ordnance Academy.

(End of this chapter)