Chapter Eighty-Four: Poverty is the Original Sin, Robbery is Instinct

War is fought against national strength and economy. This is an indisputable fact.

Chen Ying decided to launch a westward expedition. In fact, these generals have been idle for three years, and they have long been screaming.

As Chen Ying decided to use the Jin Ge Iron Horse to solve the Western Turkic problem, the eyes of the generals became eager.

Sicang joined the army, and Lu Zhikun reported to Chen Ying and the generals of the Anxi Army on the recent situation in Anxi.

Lu Zhikun had already prepared, he didn't even need to look at the account book, and said directly: "Now, our Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate has reclaimed a total of 2.67 million acres of fertile land. ”

Hearing this number, Chen Ying felt a little surprised. 2,670,000 dumps, which is equivalent to the total number of fertile land in the ten passes, and if converted into acres, it is equivalent to 267 million mu. Even if it is like Guanzhong, if a young man cultivates 100 acres of land, he needs 2.67 million young people, which is almost equivalent to 2.67 million families.

If Anthy counts war slaves and slaves of all kinds, the population can definitely exceed more than three million people. However, Anxi has an army of more than 100,000 people, and it is impossible for the young and strong people who can cultivate it to reach 26.7 million.

In fact, these changes are thanks to Chen Ying's support for agricultural science and technology.

The Han Chinese are a peculiar people: if you give them weapons and training, they can become one of the best warriors in the world; If you give him the opportunity to do business, he will become one of the best businessmen in the world; If you give him the opportunity to study, he will become one of the best scholars in the world. You give him tools, and he becomes one of the finest craftsmen in the world; If you give him a field to farm, he will become the best farmer in the world – there is no one!

The most important thing in Anxi is horses, if you are in Guanzhong, you must have more than 10,000 people to raise horses. However, in Anxi, almost everyone, regardless of Han Hu, has horses and cattle in their homes.

After all, plowing the land with horses is faster than plowing oxen.

For example, with two horses and two ploughshares, a person can plough 30 acres of land a day, take a six-eyed cocoon to sow seeds, and a young man can also sow 30 acres of land with a cow a day.

Even if it is a predator who harvests wheat (a large-scale wheat harvesting artifact in ancient times, which is still used in some remote mountainous areas, it is eight times more efficient than the traditional sickle to harvest wheat), one person can harvest eight acres a day.

Just as no one dislikes having more money, farmers never dislike having more land. Encouraged by the policy of encouraging farming, the people of Anxi, especially the peasants who migrated from the Guannai or were displaced people, gave countless enthusiasm.

A young man cultivating a hundred acres of land is definitely a joke in the eyes of farmers. If there is no limit, each of them can cultivate a thousand acres of land.

Even the agricultural machinery invented by Chen Ying has been improved.

Compared with the double plough, there are now four double ploughshares with six horses drawn by horses. Although it is said that the horse's physical strength is wasted, the efficiency is only twice that of the double plough.

However, for the people of Anxi, it doesn't matter if the livestock is tired anyway, and it is a big deal to raise a few more horses. Sixty acres of ploughland in one day, six hundred acres in ten days. In a one-month cultivation period, nearly 2,000 acres of land can be cultivated.

If it weren't for the facts, Chen Ying would have been killed, and Chen Ying wouldn't believe it, but someone would have been monogamous without using slaves, and with two unweaned milk babies, taking care of more than 1,800 acres of land.

In fact, there are absolutely no more than 350,000 peasants working in Anxi, but they have a full 2.67 million hectares of fertile land, that is, nearly 7 hectares of land per capita.

The government did not restrict the development of land, and they began to desperately reclaim the land.

In just six years, Anxi's cultivated land has increased from less than 100,000 hectares to 2.67 million hectares. Almost thirty times as much.

Lu Zhikun continued: "Last year, we had a bumper harvest in Anxi, and we collected a total of 13,617,000 stone of grain. ”

Hearing this, Chen Ying had no way to vomit.

For the Tang people, the group with the highest class composition, the Anxi Protectorate gave the highest preferential tax system, 30 taxes and 1, absolutely no discount. Even the tax system of 30 taxes and 1 still collects 13,610,000 stone of grain, which shows how much grain there is in the whole of Anxi.

Thirteen million stone of grain, for the 100,000 Tang Army soldiers in Anxi, even if they sleep in the grain pile and eat, they will have to eat for ten years. The most surprising thing for them was that with the intake of a large amount of meat, the consumption of food by the officers and men of the Tang Army was rapidly decreasing.

Originally, almost everyone in the Tang Army was a big-bellied man, and it was normal to eat a liter of rice at a meal, but now, let alone a liter, even a catty, most of them can't eat it all.

Lu Zhikun continued: "Now, in the one hundred and thirty-seven warehouses of the Anxi Protectorate, there are green storage forage, a total of 7.5 million stones, enough for 100,000 troops to consume for many years!" ”

Chen Ying saw that the supplies were enough to support him in launching the western expedition, so he ordered the generals to go back and prepare.

At the same time, Chen Ying took Li Xiuning to visit the Huaergou Iron and Steel Mill in Anxi.

Huaergou Iron and Steel Mill not only produces rails for the construction of gallops, but also produces the armor of the soldiers of the Anxi Army. In the large factory of Huaergou, in front of several giant impact machines, workers are carefully putting workpieces made of steel billets into the mold, and then stepping on the pedal, the stretching mold driven by the water wheel falls down with a strong impact force, with a loud bang.

The workpiece was pressed into a plate armor with the curvature of the human body, which was the prototype of the plate armor equipped by the soldiers of the Anxi Army. Compared with Mingguang armor, the advantages of plate armor are more obvious.

After the detection of later generations, the protection of plate armor comprehensively exceeds that of fish scale armor, not to mention the Mingguang armor, which is worse than fish scale armor. It is more prominent in terms of defensive muskets, Gothic full-body plate armor can defend arquebuses at a distance of twenty meters, but fish scale armor is not, and although the full weight of the plate armor is larger than that of fish scale armor, it shares the weight of the whole body, which is not much different from fish scale armor in mobility. In terms of comprehensive performance, the plate armor comprehensively crushes the fish scale armor.

Of course, plate armor is not without weaknesses.

As a heavy armor, the advantages of plate armor are more replaceable. However, bulkiness is a hard wound in plate armor, and armor is very complicated.

Of course, this processing method is still quite primitive, the machine is also backward, the production capacity is not high, so many machines, can only process more than 1,000 workpieces in a day, but in this era, such efficiency is already very scary.

Another, much larger machine that had to be powered by two water wheels to run it completely, was busy machining the arm of a ballista. Of course, the machine tool responsible for processing it is not an idle person, the sharp milling cutter is driven by the water flow to turn fast, and is sent to the crossbow arm little by little.

A tooth-aching sound sounded, and a large amount of steel chips flew out of it, which was the cutting crossbow arm. Ballistae were originally bulky, and in order to reduce their weight, excess steel was definitely not needed.

Others carry flywheels and rotate the machinery quickly. This machine exists specifically for the purpose of sharpening arrowheads. Naturally, the arrowhead that is cast into shape has a flash and burrs, and of course there is no blade. These machines are designed to sharpen the arrowhead and at the same time take care of the polishing. Although the efficiency is still low, it is more than 100 times faster than the original manual polishing.

When Chen Ying was sharpening his sword in the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate of Beiting City, all ethnic groups and tribes in Anxi, as well as the Western Turks, already knew the bad news that was equivalent to a thunderbolt.

After three years, Chen Ying came to Anxi after the defeat of the Eastern Turks, even if he didn't have to think about it with his head, he knew what Chen Ying came to Anxi for.

The Khan of Ebilu, located in the valley of the Ile River, was the first to react, and he sent his son Ashina Gushe, with his henchman and general Geshunur, and 150 other people to the North Court to beg for surrender.

As soon as Ashina Gushe entered Jieshan City, he was stunned by the prosperity of Jieshan City.

Although it was still covered with ice and snow at this time, what the ice and snow could not hide was the wealth of Jieshan City.

Goshunur looked at the steel gallop that meandered to the end outside the city, and said with envy: "If this steel is forged into armor, even seven or eight-year-old dolls in our tribe can be equipped with armor made of steel." ”

Ashina Gushe was secretly vigilant, and his father Khan was wise.

The Tang people had so much steel that they needed to be exposed and stored, and they did not make enemies of the Tang people, which is probably one of the few wise decisions of his father Khan.

However, when Goshunur saw everything in Jieshan City, he exclaimed from time to time, especially greedily looking at the long dragon formed by the four-wheeled carriage laden with rice.

Goshunur licked his lips, his eyes glowed green, and said, "That's a lot of food...... If we send troops to defeat Jieshan City, this food will be enough for our entire tribe to eat for two years! ”

Goshunur's words were echoed by a group of Turkic warriors.

However, Ashina Gushe shouted: "Goshunur, don't always think about grabbing, use your brain!" The army guarding Anxi can be defeated even by the vassals of the powerful Tongye Huda Khan, and what is the difference between looting their territory and seeking death! ”

Goshunur said helplessly: "But what can we do if we don't rob us?" We don't know how to grow food, and we have very few livestock, and if the Tang people refuse to sell us food, we will starve to death......"

Ashina Gushe was even more annoyed and wanted to scold, but thinking of the tragic situation of changing children and eating within the tribe now, he couldn't scold, and finally sighed heavily.

In the eyes of many Xiaowenqing, grazing outside the plug should be. The blue sky, the white clouds, a gust of wind blows, the tall pastures fall down layer by layer, revealing a large herd of cattle and sheep; When night falls, bonfires are lit outside the tents, fat sheep and roe deer roast on the fire, and strong and fierce lads and beautiful shepherdesss sing and dance around the fire......

Isn't it romantic? It sounds very good, but people who hold this idea must not have tasted the 365 days a year milk wine, milk tea, milk tofu, cheese in turns, except for this, not even wild vegetables have to eat, let alone drive cattle and sheep every day, ten days and half a month can not take a bath, covered with the smell of cow and sheep dung.

Of course, I didn't even try to wake up in the middle of the night in a daze, and suddenly found that the tents of the entire tribe were burning, and a group of fierce cavalrymen were wielding scimitars to slash the pain of their relatives.

Life in the grassland is far more difficult than ploughing the fields and farming, wind and sand, frost and snow may come at any time, take away life, sometimes a heavy snowfall, there are several tribes all frozen to death or starvation, disappear from the grassland, if the snow falls less or does not snow, it is even more miserable, grazing requires a lot of water, and the water on the grassland mainly comes from snowfall, no snow there is no water, where there is water, the grass is sparse, where the grass grows well, there is no water, how, do you want to die?

Also, if the Han people are unhappy and close the border market, they can't eat salt, drink tea, or buy cloth all year round, do they want to die even more?

Now you know why the northern nomads like to go south to rob so much, right? If you don't rob them, if you don't rob them, you'll die! The extremely embarrassed Geshu Nur Tang people transported grain, as well as truckloads of rice, and their first reaction was to grab a vote, which was already an instinct.

Ashina Gu looked at the Tang army soldiers who were watching them and said, "Where is so much grain transported?" ”

I have already regretted it after I have finished speaking, this is an honest spying on the secrets of the Tang Army, will it be executed as a fine work?

However, the soldiers of the Tang Army who were monitoring them smiled and said: "There is so much grain that I can't eat enough, so I have to use it to make wine!" Now Anxi has more than 100 large and small wineries, and more than one million jars of wine are brewed every year. ”

In fact, Anxi's best-selling goods are not silk, porcelain, or tea.

It is a mellow liquor made from grain.

Baijiu is a good thing, it can be used to keep out the cold in winter, and it can also be disinfected with wine to avoid infection and inflammation.

Moreover, the taste is far more mellow and tender than those mare's milk wines.

This kind of liquor is very easy to get drunk, unlike mare's milk wine, which will only pee if you drink too much, usually the Turks are not drunk for ten catties, and the amount of alcohol is amazing. But when they drink liquor, they die of a catty, and many of them fall half a catty.

As long as you get drunk, you can have everything you want.

Many Turks were so destitute that they sold their last lambs and drank them in exchange for wine. Drunk and lying in a snowdrift, he died silently and without pain.

It took them half a month to finally arrive outside Beiting City. A troop of horsemen galloped out of the city, and immediately the knights had a strong bow in their hands, a bag of white feather arrows behind their backs, and a slender saber, and they were dressed in steel helmets and iron armor, and they were very well equipped, and their skills were extremely vigorous, and they were obviously skilled riders with bows and horses.

Their iconic black cloak banner flew up like a big flag, and the terrifying momentum overwhelming the mountains and seas, and Ashina Gushe, Geshunur and the others were shocked in their hearts, and their laughter came to an abrupt end.

Goshunur struggled to straighten his shriveled chest and straighten his back. Everyone has self-esteem, and their tribe is now embarrassed to the extreme, almost like a water dog, but in front of the Tang cavalry, they still subconsciously want to support the dignity that has long ceased to exist, so as not to be looked down upon.

However, it is useless.

All the cavalry of the Tang Army did not say a word, and quickly lined up in two rows, moving quickly, and the queue was as neat as a straight line. There are no horizontal eyebrows and angry eyes, there is no murderous spirit, and the momentum of the strong army is naturally released, which makes people dare not despise it slightly.

The neat queue was separated on both sides, Chen Ying rode his horse, and the cavalry shouted in unison: "The hussar general has arrived, kneel to greet him!" ”

PS: I haven't been in good shape lately, and as an old man, the pressure to survive is too great. To borrow a phrase, foreigners are desperate to die, while we are desperately alive. Rest assured, Lao Cheng will have a beginning and an end, and he will definitely not be a eunuch. There are also in the evening.

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