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Chapter 155: Using some tools to educate the barbarians is normal, right? !

It is worth mentioning that Chu Shizhao only has half of the country.

Now we only have this piece of land in the south. As the development of the Zhou Dynasty is biased towards the north, except for a few rich places in the south, most of the other places are relatively poor.

The Dajing Dynasty was in a state of development with a lot of work to be done. The economic income was low in the early stage. Although the economy recovered quickly after its demise, it still needed a cycle.

The economy is important.

Only with economy can we develop.

Only the economy can enable soldiers to unleash their true combat effectiveness.

If you don't give your brothers the full subsidies, how can they work hard for you?

You opened a company and gave your employees a basic salary of 3,000 yuan, and required them to work overtime twice a week. The overtime pay was not double, and everyone just did a good job of it.

But if you learn from Liu Bang, open a company, pay your employees a basic salary of 10,000 yuan, and triple the weekly overtime pay, not only that, but also allowances and regular vacation activities, then you can see if your employees can type until they smoke.

If you can still share the joys and bear the difficulties alone, when something goes wrong the big brother can handle it alone, and when nothing goes wrong everyone can share together.

For a company like the latter, no one would even consider running away.

Chu Shizhao’s greatest advantage is that he can truly see the morale of the soldiers and the strength of the equipment made by the craftsmen.

It fundamentally eliminates the possibility of passing off shoddy products as good ones.

The state only gives money to military officers. This is corruption, this is bribery, and it is a sign of the country's demise.

But the money distributed by the court can be delivered to every soldier. This is the useful military morale and these are the guards who are fearless and brave.

Moreover, Chu Shizhao is not the weakest Taizong like Gaolianghe Cheshen, who would pursue a foreign policy of defending the interior and weakening the exterior.

National sovereignty has only one goal, and that is to unify the country.

To defend the interior and weaken the exterior means to give up the policy of protecting rights externally and to be consistent internally.

[In the first month of the third year of Shengwu, you raised the status of craftsmen, increased customs duties, and opened the sea to trade, thereby stimulating and promoting trade.]

[After you improve your craftsman status, there is a certain probability that the craftsman will produce new technology. ]

[In February of the third year of Shengwu, three years after the founding of the Dajing Dynasty, the social economy had recovered to a certain extent. Under the leadership of Chu Shizhao, technology, culture and education had achieved remarkable results. After removing the bloated and redundant systems of the Dazhou Dynasty, the system of the Dajing Dynasty became increasingly strict.]

[In March of the third year of Shengwu, after Chu Shizhao spread the ideas of Gongyang School, the people of the Dajing Dynasty had a growing demand for national identity. Many people criticized the current situation and believed that the Dajing Dynasty should not live in a corner and should restore the glory of the nation.]

[In April of the third year of Shengwu, the imperial examination system gradually became popular in the Dajing Dynasty, and common people gradually had the opportunity to become masters of important positions. The Luyi Hall founded by Chu Shizhao became an important institution for the training of generals.]

In May of the third year of Shengwu, a mutiny broke out in Datong, which was under the control of the Mongols. The old generals of the Great Zhou Dynasty, led by Yang Zhuting, raised a fire at night as a signal, killed the Mongol general Batu who controlled Datong, opened the warehouses of Datong, and distributed food. Yang Zhuting even opened the prison himself, released the prisoners held by the Mongols, and occupied the city of Datong.

[In June of the third year of Shengwu, Yang Zhuting sent his son Yang Yanchao to the south to contact the court of Dajing and ask for help, announcing his rebellion against Yuan and his return to Jing to rectify his status as a Chinese.]

[In July of the third year of Shengwu, Chu Shizhao saw that the situation in the north had finally changed and that the Dajing Dynasty, which had been on the defensive, had a chance to advance, so he decided to raise an army again to attack the Mongols.]

【But the rebel generals led by Wang Shouyi had a different view on this. 】

[First, they thought that Yang Zhuting might not really want to surrender to the Great Jing Dynasty, because Yang Zhuting was a former general of the Great Zhou Dynasty, not the Great Jing Dynasty. The current court has changed dynasties, so Yang Zhuting's loyalty is hard to predict.]

【Secondly, once Yang Zhuting had surrendered to the Mongols, he and the Mongols devised a plan to trick the army of the Dajing Dynasty into advancing rashly. The Dajing Dynasty was already in a disadvantageous position when crossing the river to fight, and it was difficult to fight the enemy. If the army was destroyed in one battle, the Dajing Dynasty would never be able to unify the country.】

[The generals urged Chu Shizhao to think twice before acting. ]

【Yang Zhuting sent his own son to Dajing to ask for help because he knew that Dajing might not trust him, so he used his son as a hostage to ask for help.】

[In the eyes of the civil officials, this move is difficult to gain trust, but it is the only thing Yang Zhuting can show. ]

【Chu Shizhao thought it over again and again, and then made a decisive move.】

[“If I miss this opportunity, and someone in the north really starts a rebellion, how can they trust me?!”]

[“If I don’t attack, wouldn’t that discourage those people who want to return to China?”]

After much consideration, Chu Shizhao decided to attack. This was not only to protect the name Yang Zhuting, but also because of the pressure cooker-like history of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

At that time, the Qing Dynasty had not completely stabilized the situation in the north, and former Ming generals continued to revolt in the north against the Qing Dynasty, such as Datong General Jiang Ge.

Although Jiang Ge surrendered to the King of Rebellion when he came, and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty when he came, he did not act like a coward when faced with the Qing Dynasty's Ajige who killed innocent people indiscriminately and wanted to kill the entire family of Han people because they did not want to shave their heads and wear braids, and even robbed women everywhere and took away other people's newlywed wives.

He led his troops in an uprising, recaptured Datong, and finally faced the Qing army's persuasion to surrender, and the battle lasted for nine months.

He fought until all the soldiers and civilians were starving and died, with only a few soldiers left. He was then beheaded by his subordinate Yang Zhenwei and surrendered the city.

It is not important how he is evaluated. What is important is that Jiang Ge started an uprising in the rear of the Jurchens without any actual military power, and effectively resisted the Qing Dynasty for nearly a year. During this period, Jiang Ge tried to find the Southern Ming many times, but what was our Southern Ming doing? !
The Southern Ming did nothing. They were just studying how to live a life of debauchery and extravagance. What did the war in the north have to do with them in the south?

In response to the commotion caused by Jiang Ge, the Jurchens dispatched a large number of heavy troops to suppress it. When it was obvious that the defense line against the Southern Ming began to loosen, the Southern Ming did not send troops to try, but instead focused on defense, mediating internal conflicts, and indulging in pleasure. This destined the Southern Ming to become a parasitic court.

Chu Shizhao could certainly miss the opportunity created for him by Yang Zhuting, but he would have to accept the possibility of a long-term division between the North and the South.

The conditions for the South to succeed in its Northern Expedition were extremely harsh.

There is no need to say much about the coincidences in Zhu Yuanzhang's success. Others who went north to fight did not have cavalry, but Zhu Yuanzhang did so by uniting the oppressed Mongolian poor people.

Didn't expect?

I, Kublai Khan, used the Han people to defeat the Han and Mongolian people.

I, Zhu Yuanzhang, used the Mongols to defeat the Mongols and the Han people.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the number of former Yuan Dynasty officers and soldiers from the Mongolian, Jurchen and other ethnic groups who surrendered to the Ming Dynasty was close to 700,000. Many of them were later incorporated into the Ming army. Zhu Di's Doyan Three Guards were also composed of Mongolians.

Even during the Battle of Tumu, a Mongolian general shouted that the time had come to serve the country. He single-handedly defeated wave after wave of Oirat warriors and died a martyr for the Ming Dynasty.

In the feudal dynasties, there was indeed a sense of national identity, which began to appear in the Western Han Dynasty, but even more acute than the sense of national identity was the class contradiction.

Because the feudal dynasty's hierarchy was so clear, the difference between the lower class and the upper class was a world of difference. Your fellow tribesmen didn't treat you as a human being, those Mongolian nobles wanted to suck your blood, rob your women, beat your children, and return your cattle and sheep to them. Then a man named Zhu came and told you to follow him and kill those nobles, and your women and children would be returned to you, and your cattle and sheep would be yours to raise.

Do you think these poor Mongolians who have been oppressed for who knows how long will kill themselves to defeat those pampered Mongolian nobles?

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang in the early Ming Dynasty had cavalry that was even more powerful than that of the Yuan Dynasty.

Chu Shizhao did not have the qualities that Zhu Yuanzhang had. If he wanted to emulate Zhu Yuanzhang's Northern Expedition, he would also need a large number of cavalry.

Therefore, Chu Shizhao cared more about and needed opportunities for war than Zhu Yuanzhang.

[In August of the third year of Shengwu, gunpowder began to be gradually used in the battlefield. Chu Shizhao sent his most elite infantry across the river to assist the Datong mutiny in the north.]

[In September of the third year of Shengwu, the Mongol cavalry and Chu Shizhao's infantry started a battle. Wang Shouyi was unable to use the infantry to fight against the fierce cavalry of the Mongol court, and was at a disadvantage in many battles.]

[In October of the third year of Shengwu, after Yang Zhuting's uprising was supported by the Chu Shizhao Dajing Dynasty, people in various parts of the north who were suppressed by the Mongol Yuan Dynasty began to revolt.]

【A single spark can start a prairie fire. 】

[Jiang Huai Si, former subordinates of Li Jin of Jinyang, rose up against the Yuan Dynasty. ]

[Duan Jiong, the eldest son of Duan Qi of Liangzhou, raised an army to rebel against the Yuan Dynasty.]

【Lu Huan, the nephew of Fanyang Lu En, raised an army to rebel against the Yuan Dynasty.】

[In November of the third year of Shengwu, after gunpowder was put into war, technology was fully developed and the fire lance appeared.]

[In January of the fourth year of Shengwu, after the uprisings in various parts of the north, the Mongol Yuan court had to focus on suppressing internal rebellions, which gave Wang Shouyi a chance to catch his breath.]

[In February of the fourth year of Shengwu, the Dajing Army, which was struggling on the front battlefield, did not collapse due to casualties. Because the army had sufficient pay and received generous subsidies for participating in the front-line war, they still actively participated in the war.]

[In March of the fourth year of Shengwu, a craftsman who worked full-time at the Dajing Military Quartermaster Department, under the advice of Chu Shizhao, accidentally obtained a new product - the Sky-shaking Bomb - while tinkering with gunpowder.]

[The production method is extremely simple, and soon the output of Thunder Bombs began to increase. ]

[This weapon is also very simple to use. Just throw it out and it will create a huge explosion, which is very useful in siege battles.]

[In April of the fourth year of Shengwu, the Dajing Dynasty continued to dispatch troops, and all parts of the south were actively preparing for war. They all believed that there was great potential for recovering the country. As the military strength steadily increased, many people began to have extreme pro-war thinking.]

In the picture, in the territory controlled by Chu Shizhao, all kinds of opinions and demands kept popping up over the heads of the people.

Chu Shizhao’s construction in Nanjing was also completely crazy.

In terms of commercial data, Chu Shizhao's commercial development of Tianfu is already very close to Chang'an in its heyday.

Chu Shizhao built whatever he had. As long as it could accelerate economic development, Chu Shizhao would build it.

Without money you can't do anything, with money you can do everything.

Military pay, food and fodder, sometimes when disaster strikes, money is also an important product for emergency response.

[In May of the fourth year of Shengwu, Wang Shouyi, with the support of Yang Zhuting, defeated the main force of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty.]

[In June of the fourth year of Shengwu, Wang Shouyi was shot in the chest by a Mongolian archer and was unable to command the army. Han Gu took over the position of the army and fought against the Mongols again.]

[In July of the fourth year of Shengwu, the Mongol Yuan court put down Lu Huan's uprising in Fanyang.]

In August of the fourth year of Shengwu, Yang Zhuting actively advanced, thinking that Lu Huantong was a general who had rebelled against the Mongol Yuan court and should be rescued, so he sent troops to Datong to rescue him. However, the rescue route was cut off, and in the situation of besieging the point and attacking the reinforcements, more than 10,000 Datong soldiers were killed. Three days later, Datong was depleted of troops and therefore lost. 】

[In September of the fourth year of Shengwu, craftsmen developed a new weapon based on the fire lance - the fire gun.]

[After Chu Shizhao learned the news, he immediately asked all the craftsmen to start making weapons such as fire guns. ]

At this moment, Chu Shizhao finally had an outlet for the anger he had been holding back throughout the entire simulation.

The real terminator of the cold weapon era - the musket.

From the beginning to the end of the feudal dynasty, the status of long-range weapons became increasingly higher, so that the bow and arrow became the king of long-range weapons, establishing its profound value. It can be said that the bow and arrow has long been in a strong position in this version.

But the biggest problem with bows and arrows is that the learning cost is too high.

This thing doesn't mean you can shoot as long as you draw the bow.

It takes more than ten years to train a professional archer who can also shoot on horseback.

After all, this is one of the six arts of a gentleman.

Secondly, arrows are really expensive, and most of the arrows that have been shot are difficult to recover.

The biggest feature of the fire gun is its low learning cost and low consumption cost.

In other words, I can produce a group of soldiers who can flexibly use muskets for long-range attacks in seven days, and the gunpowder of muskets can be used by the pound, while bows and arrows can only be used by the stick.

It only cost one tael of silver for a soldier to fire 1000 rounds with a musket, but it would cost one hundred taels of silver for a soldier to shoot a thousand times with a bow and arrow.

Secondly, if a person pulls a bow a thousand times, he will become disabled, but if a musket breaks, it can be thrown away, the cost is not high, and people will not be so tired from shooting that they cannot continue fighting.

The only weakness is its short range, but when you are new to the battlefield, it can definitely be effective if it suddenly hits you a few times.

I am often confused by the fact that some people don't know how to use tools.

As a Chinese, it is normal to use some tools to educate the barbarians, right? !

Fortunately, the productivity and situation of the Zhou Dynasty were extremely similar to those of the middle and late Tang Dynasty, and it had the foundation of gunpowder.

Otherwise, Chu Shizhao would never have imagined that one day he would be able to use a musket and become a Trisolaran.

Chu Shizhao felt that if he could build a Ming Dynasty-like Shenjiying, he would have a chance to succeed, and he could even consider developing the shipping industry and plundering silver wealth on a large scale.

(End of this chapter)