Li Yang nodded, but this nod does not guarantee that Guishuang will not pass through Congling. In fact, this is impossible. With the damn terrain of Congling, if you find a mountain road and don't care about time, you can do it anyway. past.
Li Youyou's head means that even if Guishang comes in, there will be no big trouble in Xinzhou. After all, when the people of Liangzhou have medicinal herbs, enough food to eat, and meat to eat, they will be severely beaten by the captains of various counties. They have been practicing for several years, and they are not bragging. Among these soldiers, those who have gone out to hunt wild food or engaged in illegal occupations can be regarded as regular soldiers among the Xiliang cavalry.
According to Li You's suggestion, there are ten counties in Liangzhou, with each person producing 5,000 people. However, Chen Xi has not completely divided Yongliang yet. Although there is the concept of Yongzhou, Yongzhou has no history of being a governor, and Liangzhou and Sili still remain as one. , Guanzhong and Liangzhou people still maintained the spirit of warriors, and together they were called Yongliang.
Therefore, each of the ten counties has 5,000 men, which means that the Chang'an treasury has 50,000 armors. There is no need to reissue the linings and long weapons. Each county has them. After preparing the war horses and getting a horse armor, This is the Xiliang Iron Cavalry with fifty-two swords.
Therefore, Li You is not worried about Fulward coming in at all. With this configuration, even if Fulward really enters Xinzhou, he will be chopped down by 50,000 Xiliang cavalry who are snatching heads. After all, for this group of people, they all rely on the officialdom for their livelihood. For soldiers, it is a very wonderful thing to have someone send you meritorious deeds from thousands of miles away.
"Fifty thousand horse armor, do you have it?" Liu Bei ran to have a cockfight with Yuan Shu and others. The elephant bird is probably a type of chicken, and then Li You turned to Chen Xi and asked.
"Yes, but you have to wait until spring for the horse armor to be maintained and dried." Chen Xi nodded and said, "No one is using the horse armor this year, they are all in the treasury. It needs to be maintained at the beginning of the year to avoid being eaten by insects. It's broken, or the armor is rusty."
"Send the equipment directly and let them maintain it by themselves." Li You waved his hand and said, "Stop doing useless processes. You will be busy making so many horse armors."
"That was not the time to make scale armor. The hydraulic forging hammer produced a lot of iron pieces in one batch. But later you said that scale armor was not as good as plate armor. Then the forging room in Sanmenxia mainly made plate armor." Chen Xi explained casually, " The excess iron pieces were used to make horse armor."
Chen Xi didn't turn a corner at first, or maybe Chen Xi just didn't use his brain at first. When he was producing armor in the early days, he mainly focused on scale armor, because Li You didn't even know that Chen Xi was building a large waterwheel in a place with fast currents in the Yellow River. Water conservancy hammer forging, but Chen Xi himself didn't pay attention. Li You said that the scale armor was good, so Chen Xi placed an order for 400,000 scale armor.
This is the reason why Liu Bei's entire army was in scale armor during the early military parade.
In fact, Li You said at the time that scale armor was good because it had strong defense, good flexibility, and relatively light weight. It was much easier to use than leather armor, and more importantly, it saved iron.
However, at that time, Chen Xi had already begun to lead his men to build a local blast furnace, and the output of the local blast furnace was simply unparalleled for this era, so the subsequent plan to produce scale armor was quickly stopped. The problem was semi-mechanical, Assembly line production of iron armor pieces...
Chen Xi has produced iron armor pieces enough to arm millions of people. Later, he worked on plate armor and redesigned the production line. The production speed is faster and the defense is stronger. As long as the ergonomic design is reasonable and the shoulders are stressed, plate armor will not only be heavy. A little bit beyond the scale armor.
So what to do with this piece of iron armor, which is enough to arm millions of people, is a big problem. After all, even if this thing is used as a lining, it is not as useful as leather armor, so it is very embarrassing. If it is remade, the cost of manufacturing will increase. The heat consumption made Chen Xi feel that it was not cost-effective to open the furnace.
Fortunately, when he saw Zhang Jaw later, Chen Xi found a way out for the hundreds of thousands of scale armor that were enough to make, plus the hundreds of thousands of scale armor that had already been made - horse armor.
Needless to say later, Chen Xi stockpiled horse armor in the northern state capital's armory on a scale that made people think that someone might have some mental problem.
"Let me ask, how many pieces of scale armor did you produce back then?" Li You was silent for a while, "Why do you feel that you started eliminating this thing from Yuanfeng years ago, and there are still so many after eliminating it, and I heard It is said that the treasury has a lot of armor pieces in reserve, and they are all rusty."
After asking this question, Liu Ye and Lu Su snorted twice and looked at Chen Xi. They both knew very well that one of them was responsible for Chen Xi and the other was responsible for Chen Xi's ordnance.
"Um, didn't you say that scale armor was useful back then? It's light, has strong defensive power, and has good flexibility. It doesn't restrict the soldiers' performance." Chen Xi pondered for a moment and decided to pass the blame. He really didn't want to admit that he had made it. Scale armor capable of arming approximately 1.5 million people.
After all, there was no large-scale consumption of shipbuilding in the early days, only agricultural tools and scale armor weapons. Chen Xi built a lot of them based on the idea that scale armor would be the future development direction in the future.
"I just want to know how many you made. I know you like to collect things. How many have you collected? Seven hundred thousand?" Li You looked at Chen Xi and asked.
"One and a half million." Lu Su replied on behalf of Chen Xi, "A total of enough scale armor to arm one and a half million regular troops was made, because during the Yanzhou period of Qingxu, Zichuan's processing factory only produced agricultural tools. , weapons, and scale armor.”
Li You covered his forehead. He had a migraine. Should he be called Chen Zichuan? Are you crazy? With so much nail polish produced, it’s hard to even process it now.
"I didn't know that back then. You said the scale armor was good. I found someone to design the hydraulic forging hammer and blast furnace. After arranging the production scale for them, I just left it alone." Chen Xi was also helpless. During the Qingxu Yanzhou period, It's when Chen Xi is most diligent, okay? There are so many things to do, and after arranging them, there really isn't any extra time to take care of them.
"You two didn't care at that time?" Li You asked, looking at Lu Su and Liu Ye.
"At that time, we implemented a redundant officer system. A legion was equipped with positive and negative soldiers in order to expand the army in the face of war. Our preparations at that time were 300,000 regular troops, and when needed, the number could be increased to 1 million in a short period of time, including reserves. We really don’t think there’s a problem with the amount of money and wealth.” Lu Su sighed and said, “But didn’t we change the equipment later?”
"Then you made nearly one million plate armors in a short period of time?" Li You looked at Chen Xi and asked, "You are really capable!"
"My equipment is used to make iron plates!" Chen Xi said with a dark face, "You said you wanted scale armor, so I made scale armor. The scale armor pieces require a lot of hammering."
Yes, for a hydraulic forging hammer, it is easier to make plate armor than scale armor. Except for the first design, the efficiency will be greatly improved after the design is completed.
"What do you do with these scales now?" Li You asked curiously.
"As a supplement to the joints and other parts of the plate armor, the remaining ones that don't want to be dismantled will be sold half and half given to those guys going abroad, and the rest will be made into horse armor." Chen Xi said expressionlessly, "Anyway, it is When it comes to recycling waste, use whatever you can."
"About 500,000 horse armors will be made?" Li You looked at Chen Xi and asked.
"Don't worry, we will have one million horses sooner or later." Chen Xi waved his hand and said, "Yuanfeng should have 700,000 horses in about ten years, and the horse armor will be used up sooner or later."
Li You looked at his hand, raised it, and gave Chen Xi a thumbs up.
"This is nothing. Today we have solved the parts that may be blocked by major aristocratic families. Tomorrow will be the big trap." Chen Xi waved his hand and said, without much cover-up. He didn't care if the principals of major aristocratic families eavesdropped. , anyway, these people probably know what they are going to talk about tomorrow.
"Everything that will happen tomorrow requires help from the major families." Lu Su sighed and glanced at his father-in-law twice. Ji Zhong looked pretty good. He was not rejected by the major families. He looked like a different person. The big family is well aware of this dangerous experiment.
"I have been finalizing these since today and have pushed them forward tomorrow. What else can they say? No one is doing anything wrong. What can I do if I don't know how to read?" Chen Xi said angrily, "I want to teach ordinary people something. Something, but I don’t have much else to do, so I’d better be realistic.”
"Population first, education first, or economic restructuring first?" Zhuge Liang, who had been silent until now, suddenly asked.
"Neither population nor education can be solved at once. We need to adjust the economic structure first. I have worked hard to merge villages and merge them. Many problems have been solved, but there are still many that cannot be solved. I feel that if this is not possible, the only option is to The imperial dictatorship is over." Chen Xi said with a sigh.
"We can only continue to sink and open up villages. Supply and marketing cooperatives are not the best choice, but now I don't even have any extra options. It doesn't matter!" Chen Xi got angry when he mentioned this, while Mi Zhu fell silent when he heard this. a lot of.
"How about I bring the top twenty wealthy businessmen together and have a good talk with them." Mi Zhu sighed after a while and said. It is impossible for all of their networks to penetrate into every aspect of the country. Twenty Even all the families can't do it together. After all, businessmen want to pursue profits.
Of course, there are more merchants in places where there is money to be made, but in remote places where there is no money to be made, you have to be more realistic. With the current situation in the mainstream villages of the Han Dynasty, the shops of major wealthy merchants are open, let alone making money. Okay, it's not bad even if you die.
At present, the mainstream villages of the Han Dynasty have a group of traveling merchants who buy certain materials from these wealthy merchants, and then sell them from the county or county town to villages in various places.
Chen Xi has established a supply and marketing cooperative. The things he sells are basically just needed materials, and they are semi-official and semi-commercial. It doesn't matter whether he loses money or not. Just don't be ruined. Anyway, there is money to be made to subsidize it and replace it with something else. If a wealthy businessman comes to do this, he will die, and it goes both ways!
