Chapter 513: Unpredictable
At the end of spring, the first batch of rotational troops walked the route of Cangwu County from Nanling and went south to rotate with the troops that had attacked Lingnan in advance.
When the 100,000 army left Nanjun, there was also official news from Qi Yan's side that Qi Wangdan and Yan Wangchang would participate in the grand event and would arrive in Surabaya County in a month, waiting for Lu Zhe to leave, and they would leave for Shen.
There was also news from Wei Han that the high platform used for the alliance was already under construction, and the oath platform would definitely be completed before the official meeting of the alliance.
The so-called oath alliance platform is very particular, in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, "Taiwan" is not everyone can build, it depends on the identity of the person who built the oath alliance, and what kind of identity can make several steps of the oath alliance platform, which is divided into king-level, hegemon-level, first-order strong country, second-order medium country, and third-sequence small country.
However, no one has taken the hierarchical constraints of the Oath Alliance Station seriously now, as long as it is necessary to build the Oath Alliance, it will be built according to the scale of the king level.
In order to bring in more troops equipped with iron weapons when he went to the alliance, Lu Zhe issued an administrative order, ordering each Yuecheng to temporarily stop other work, and concentrate manpower and material resources to make iron soldiers and iron armor, and be sure to drive out at least 6,000 ordnance within a month and a half.
There are fifty-six in the south of the county, which was built under the condition that the mining industry was developed. At the same time, because of the development of mining in Cangwu County, Lu Zhe added 30 new Yuecheng in the mineral concentration area of Wuling. The scale of Yuecheng is large and small, the largest scale is naturally close to the side of Nanling, at present, Yuecheng can produce thousands of iron soldiers per month on the edge of Nanling, one is in Cangwu County, the newly established Wuling County.
The so-called Yuecheng is actually the city of Zhijin, and the title of "Yuecheng" is a continuation of the name of the Chu State during the Warring States Period.
Not long after the birth of the nascent iron-making technology, Lu Zhe has not had time to rectify the functions of each Yuecheng, and many Yuecheng are still producing bronze weapons, and the output of iron weapons will naturally not be high.
LΓΌ Zhe estimated that it would take a year to carry out a planned transformation of the total number of 143 Yuecheng under his rule, and the Yuecheng in Nanjun would be integrated into ten Yuecheng that specialized in the manufacture of iron weapons. Thirty medium-sized Yuecheng, and small Yuecheng do not need to continue to survive.
In addition to Nanjun, the rest of the counties also look at the actual situation, such as the Wuling side of Cangwu County has been confirmed to have more iron ore and excellent ore quality, and there will be five large-scale Yuecheng planned to be purchased, and twenty medium-sized Yuecheng will be built. If there is iron ore production in the remaining counties, they will also purchase Yuecheng with corresponding production capacity.
The construction of Yuecheng in the mineral area can save a lot of transportation costs, after all, Lu Zhe began to formalize the governance, and will separate the Yuecheng that specializes in the processing of ore to smelt iron ingots, and then there is a special Yuecheng for the production of finished products to cooperate, and then use the assembly line manufacturing process of the Qin State after the functions are clear. Productivity can also be maximized.
Of course, because it was the autumn of war, Lu Zhe would only pay more attention to the production of weapons, and iron tools such as farm tools needed to make concessions to serve the military.
The planning of Yuecheng is only a part of the internal affairs, and the other foundations such as the division of acres of land, water conservancy and roads actually account for the majority, and these are also difficult to build for a while, and it takes a long time to lay a solid foundation.
Speaking of acres of land, under Lu Zhe's rule, it is now the size of a semi-Central Plains. And because all the counties were captured by the army after the war, the land currently held by the government is really difficult to calculate. Although he has always treated the army well, the soldiers have only divided more than 50,000 hectares of land for their military merits, which is preliminarily measured according to Xiao He's order. The ripe fields and raw fields that belong to the government are still about 1.5 million hectares.
One and a half million hectares is 250 million mu, and the so-called mature fields are those that have been properly developed, and raw fields are newly developed fields.
Let's be honest, a territory of the Central Plains and a half. Even if the south is not well developed, the amount of land owned is at least 200 million mu, and now more than two-thirds of the land will fall into the hands of the government, because the original owner died or disappeared. Any one turmoil. It is already a common practice for Tian Mu to be controlled by the government in large numbers, not because the government is arrogant and domineering and confiscated anything, just because the war wiped out a qiΔ.
The Tuntian soldiers under Lu Zhe are still constantly opening up new fields, and it can be expected that if the development continues, the number of acres will definitely increase. The south has always been a state of many water systems, as long as the plain area is suitable for cultivating farmland. If the two crops of rice can really be cultivated in various counties and counties, then it is not too difficult to feed the whole of China, after all, the total population of the whole of China is only 30 million, and the population after the war will definitely decline on a large scale.
With the support of military salaries and the system of awarding land for merit, Lu Zhe has been deliberately improving the social status of soldiers, and being a soldier has become a profession that everyone envies. In some ways, if Lu Zhe's wealth can withstand it, if he wants to gather an army of one million people, he is really not afraid that no one will join the army, but Lu Zhe understands very well that it is not advisable to drain the civilian labor force, so he has been controlling the number of troops.
ββ¦β¦ For example, Qin State or other countries only have the elite with armor, and the armor is basically leather armor, and the metal armor is the elite of the elite. "The person who spoke was Xu Yang, he has now officially joined the Lu Zhejun sequence, because he has no merit and has been placed in the forbidden army system, and he is a hundred generals.
This topic will be talked about because Xu Yang came to Lu Zhe's side and found that almost all the officers and soldiers in the army were wearing armor, and he didn't know much about the situation of Lu Zhe's army, thinking that Lu Zhe was rich enough to equip a large number of armor.
For Xu Yang, the sworn brother who came to take refuge, Lu Zhe is still very welcome. Xu Yang didn't come to take refuge with his real name, he married a pseudonym named Yangshuo, and of course he did this because he didn't want the Xu family to have any bad situation on the Qin side.
Lu Zhe can realize that the Qin State is really a little bad, otherwise Xu Yan would not let the more promising Xu Yang in the clan take refuge in him, and it seems that not only the Xu family, but also some people in Great Qin who are connected with the Xu family are also using Xu Yang's mouth to test the possibility of sending talented people in the clan to come over to serve.
Is this a kind of branching out of the clan? That was in the era of the formation of the family and the gate valve, and the favorite thing of the family and the gate valve was also called long betting.
Another thing that surprised Lu Zhe the most was that the Wang family also intended to send the children of the clan over. The Wang family is an old Qin person, not the nature of the ancestral home of the Mengshi and the Xu family. In other words, what is the situation in Qin State?
"Armor?" Lu Zhe was a little absent-minded: "Brother, this situation is special, it will be difficult to explain clearly for a while." β
It's not that he doesn't want to explain in detail, it's that Lu Zhe was confused by the gang of people in the Qin State, otherwise Xu Yang would have poured out his heart and lungs to introduce the situation on the Qin State's side, and he would not hide the information of the Central Plains countries that he had contacted, what did Lu Zhe have to avoid?
The popularity of Lu Zhejun's armor is indeed the highest among the Chinese countries, which is based on the large-scale killing of wild beasts in the territory, and it is also a "by-product" of cash-for-work.
Xu Yang didn't care, when he was asked about the topic that the person who went to Shenguan Alliance this time was really Meng Yi, he nodded very definitely: "It's Meng Yi who is plotting internally." β
Meng Yi is Meng Tian's younger brother, and it seems that he is also the right and left hand that the First Emperor relies on the most?
Xu Yang said again: "In addition to Meng Yi, there is also Wang Liye who led two thousand tiger elites to accompany him. β
Wang Li? Isn't this Wang Qian's grandson and Wang Ben's eldest son?
Whether it was the Qin State that he knew from Xu Yang's mouth, or the information revealed by Zhao Gao, or even the information collected by the spies sent by Lu Zhe himself, the Qin State did not come to this point, right?
After chatting with Xu Yang for a while, Lu Zhe saw that Xu Yang was about to be on duty, so he got up to see him off.
Almost as soon as Xu Yang left, Kuaitong and Yan Bi came on their hind feet. They stood in place and watched Xu Yang leave from a distance, and then turned their heads to look at their own master with a confused expression.
The two of them listened to the whole process of the situation that Xu Yang brought to the Qin State, and they actually wondered what the situation of the Qin State was, but compared to Lu Zhe, who couldn't figure out whether the clans of the Qin State were betting at both ends, they were more inclined to that it was an infiltration.
ββ¦β¦ It is obviously impossible to be hard, after all, the Qin State is about to launch a major war in the Central Plains, and it must also be prepared to deal with the southward movement of the grassland Hu people before the autumn comes. Kuaitong's eyes flashed with wisdom: "It may be difficult for the Qin State to get through this difficulty, but if it is said that the Qin State is separated from Germany, it will not be enough." A large number of clan children went south, and in some ways wanted to reverse the status quo of the small number of Qin people under the lord's command. β
Probably, right? Lu Zhe can't treat the children of the Qin clan who went south, after all, for their forces, accepting a group of Qin people can also provide convenience for entering Qin land in the future, and if the operation is done well, maybe this time the Qin State will not be able to support it under the multi-faceted attack, and will be able to obtain some Qin land without bloodshed.
Lu Zhe does not reject which country he is from, and he is not afraid of what those Qin people will do after they come to the south, after all, the administration and the army are in control, and the Qin people have no foundation in the south to make any big trouble?
"The children of the clan have received a good education, and this group of clan children who are about to go south are being cultivated by each family according to the seedlings of the general, and the Lord should use it properly." Kuai Tong saw that his master nodded, and then he continued to say with a smile: "If it is used properly, we can quickly fill the loopholes that lack middle and low-level officers." β
There is no need to say more about the latter words, the structure of Lu Zhe's army is different from that of other countries, the military salary can control the loyalty of the army, and then there is the support of the south to grant land, not to mention that no officer who wants to incite the army to rebel can succeed lightly, not to mention that in addition to military judges, there are also political commissars in the army. (To be continued......)