Daqin Engineering Corps

After that, they sent food to Qin State again and again, which made the people of Yan State angry and resentful.

Can such a country of Yan be trusted?

The answer is obviously no.

If Yan State is unreliable, can Dai State be reliable?

Especially after the state of Chu was destroyed, everyone was thinking:

A country as powerful as Chu cannot escape the fate of being destroyed, let alone Yan and Dai?

As a result, the people of the Dai Kingdom were panic-stricken, and many people regretted that they had fled here with Zhao Wangjia to rely on others.

They even believed that they were bewitched by King Zhao.

The reason for saying this is because Zhao Wangjia was willing to move away with him for the sake of the people, and threatened the people that the Qin army would massacre the city and kill Yunyun as soon as it came.

In the era of poor information and the feud between Zhao State and Qin State, there was a precedent of Bai Qi killing hundreds of thousands of troops before, so the people were so frightened that they could only drag their families and move to Dai State with Zhao Wangjia.

Therefore, it may be more appropriate to replace "relocation" with "fleeing".

However, as time went by, the people gradually came to know the truth:

"The Qin army did not slaughter the city when it occupied Handan, how could it still slaughter the city when it occupied the northern land?"

"Could it be that we were bullied by Zhao Wangjia? In fact, there was no massacre of the city?"

"It is said that those princes who have insulted the King of Qin have never questioned them. I wonder if this is true or not?"

"Of course it's true. Those princes are imprisoned in the military camp in Handan, and they live in high-rise buildings with delicious food. Everyone in Handan knows everyone."

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At this moment, they heard two more heavy news:

One is that the Qin army gathered and protected the Zhao people in Yunzhong County, and repelled the Xiongnu's army of more than [-] with [-] troops, killing the Xiongnu's corpses all over the field...

Of course, the real situation is not that they repelled more than [-] Huns, but people always exaggerate by word of mouth: Originally, they repelled more than [-] Huns, but after talking about it, it became [-], and after a few more people, it became [-] Yu Wan.

Another news is that the Qin army is about to attack Dai on the harvest day.

This made the people of Daiguo almost cry.

Then suddenly one day, sheets of paper popped out from nowhere, with pictures of the grasslands and the Yellow River in the Northland, as well as sketches of the Xiongnu being driven away and people farming fields and houses.

The people of the country immediately collapsed:

On the one hand, this is because of homesickness... Although they moved from the south to the Northland, they have lived in the Northland for more than ten years and have already regarded the Northland as their hometown.

Seeing these sketches naturally brings back memories, so I feel like returning home.

On the other hand, everyone knows that there will be no hope for the country, and no matter what angle you consider, you should return to the Northland.

So before the battle started, the same situation as Chu State appeared in Dai State: the people began to lose.

There is a Confucian saying that goes, "Those who win the hearts of the people win the world, and those who lose the hearts of the people lose the world."

If the time comes when the people want to escape secretly and need to be supervised, the country will not be far from perishing.

Of course, this was Shen Bing's tricks.

Although the method used is the same as that used to deal with Chu, why not use the propaganda weapon of paper?

Afterwards, the North Land welcomed the people returning to their hometown one after another.

Shen Bing is also generous, that is, he will not refuse anyone, and he will divide the land according to the population and even prepare seeds.

At this time, only a few of these scattered people returned to their hometowns. If one day Yan and Dai were destroyed, it is conceivable that more people would return to the city.

At that time, Yunzhong County will need to encircle more land to develop into Jiuyuan County.

But as the saying goes, "everything is difficult at the beginning".

When the climax of returning home is ushered in, there must be a "contradiction between man and land".

That is to say, there are too many people returning home and the land has been allocated.

What about the extra people?

Should they join the army and take the land back from the Huns?

Or let them wait hungry for the Liang army to grab the land?

These are unrealistic. Development comes step by step, and it takes time.

But these are not a problem for Shen Bing, because he is in need of labor.

Shen Bing circled another piece of land along the river in the area east of Yunzhong County, which was also five miles away.

There are fewer garrisons in this area, and each city has only more than 200 people.

On the one hand, this is due to the lack of troops, and on the other hand, the eastward direction is the supply route of Yunzhong County, which has always been patrolled and guarded by the Daliang Army, so the possibility of being attacked is relatively small.

This area is different from the farming area in the north. Shen Bing intends to turn it into an industrial area, that is, an area for iron smelting, iron making, and cloth weaving.

This was planned early on:

Industrial areas are suitable to be built on the lower reaches of rivers.

The reason is that industrial water may pollute water sources, such as iron smelting, iron making, paper making, etc.

If the industrial area is upstream, then the river water will flow into the city and directly pollute the urban domestic water.

In addition, industrial areas are also suitable to be built on the tangent or downwind of the prevailing wind.

Iron smelting will emit waste gas, and there is also burning coal, etc. It is definitely not enough to be blown into the city by the wind.

Yunzhong County belongs to the monsoon belt, and the northwest wind prevails in summer and the southeast wind prevails in winter, which perfectly staggers with the west-facing Yunzhong County.

Shen Bing had this plan:

Since there will be more people and less land at the beginning, why can't these extra people be directly converted into workers?

When the modern West was industrializing, in order to drive farmers out of the land to become workers, they also carried out the "land enclosure movement".

Shen Bing didn't even have to rush.

Chapter 3 Prospecting

The industrial zone is mainly divided into three parts: paper making, iron smelting and textile.

The simplest and most mature is papermaking.

It's just that this thing was related to the national propaganda strategy in ancient times, and Shen Bing didn't dare to let go of his hands and feet to produce it and enter the market for the time being.

Therefore, papermaking is only provided for Yunzhong County's own use.

On the other hand, Shen Bing deliberately asked Fusu to report the papermaking method to Yingzheng in detail... Only in this way can Yingzheng be completely relieved and Fusu's position in Yingzheng's heart can be improved.

In fact, in a way, Fusu's position in Yingzheng's heart is not the point.

Because Fusu has always been very important in Yingzheng's eyes throughout history, otherwise Chunyu Yue and Meng Tian would not have bothered to cultivate them.

Although Yingzheng did not appoint Fusu as the crown prince on the surface, it was only because Yingzheng had stricter requirements on the successor, and he was worried that he would not be able to manage the country he had worked so hard for or felt that Fusu had not yet grown into a qualified prince. .

But just imagine, if Fusu has not yet become a qualified prince, which of the other princes can catch up?

The underage Hu Hai?

That's a no-brainer.

Therefore, Yingzheng has always believed that Fusu is the heir, so he will let Fusu preside over the funeral before he dies... This is actually the meaning of letting Fusu inherit the throne, but he was suppressed by Zhao Gao and Li Si Instead of giving death.

Therefore, Fusu's biggest problem is not Yingzheng. Even Shen Bing thinks that as long as Fusu continues to hone with him on the front line, Yingzheng will be satisfied, just like Fusu hone beside Meng Tian in history.

But Shen Bing is still intentionally or unintentionally keeping Fusu in touch with Yingzheng and constantly improving his favor.

This is not only beneficial to Fusu's throne in the future, but also beneficial to Shen Bing and even Yunzhong County.

Although Shen Bing has meritorious service in the war and is "loyal"... "loyal" in quotation marks, Shen Bing knows the result so he is determined to follow Ying Zheng, and he is not loyal in essence.

But Shen Bing is an outsider after all.

Just like what Zhao Gao said, the North has a need for self-government, and because of Li Mu's self-government, he was tabooed by King Zhao, which eventually led to Li Mu's death and the demise of Zhao State.

In addition, the whole country of Qin is divided into prefectures and counties. How can the northern land form a de facto "enfeoffment"?

At this time, Yingzheng let Beidi govern itself... Is it because he can trust Shen Bing or is not as stupid as Zhao Wang?

Actually it is not.

The more important reason should be that Fusu participated in it as the supervisor of the Daliang Army and knew the secret, so Yingzheng knew the details of Shen Bing.

Strictly speaking, Beidi is under the control of Fusu... Fusu is undoubtedly the one with the most right to speak in Beidi. He is the son of Qin, who dares to say "no" to what he wants to say?

So, what happened to Northern Autonomy?

What if you can produce grain and iron and stop the Huns?

Isn't this the whole small country for Fusu to learn to manage?

In the future, the throne will be passed on to Fusu. Is it necessary for Fusu to rebel?

If Mr. Fusu rebelled on his own, he might be out of his mind!

Therefore, Yingzheng's trust in Fusu is directly related to the degree of self-reliance of Yunzhong County.

If you trust and recognize him as the heir, you will give people, resources, and power...

Otherwise, Yingzheng would have to worry that Fusuwei would end up killing his father, just like Touman Shanyu first set up Maodun and then planned to reform.

Shen Bing understands the subtle relationship, which has nothing to do with him as an outsider.

Iron smelting in industrial areas still uses old blast furnaces.

In terms of iron, Shen Bing still maintained enough caution.

If paper is a national propaganda tool, then iron represented the advanced level of military equipment in ancient times.

Shen Bing does not intend to let high-quality new iron enter the market in large quantities, and even his iron smelting workshops are privately set up without rumors.

It is only used as the basis for weapon production, storage, and future industrialization to enhance Yunzhong County's combat effectiveness... Industrialization requires a lot of iron, so steel output will become one of the standards for industrialization.

Because there are many problems in it:

First of all, the outflow of high-quality iron means that Yunzhong County does not have much military advantage over other regions and military weapons?

Second more importantly...

If mass production in Yunzhong County even becomes commodity circulation, it would be impossible to keep secrets from Yingzheng... such as making iron pots, iron bowls, iron buckets, iron hoes, iron plows, etc.

Yingzheng looked at it, is this all right?

Our Daqin army is still using bronze wares. Your self-governing northern land is using such mature iron wares and even mass-producing daily necessities?

Ask Fusu again, even Fusu doesn't know how to make it... Isn't this a rebellion by hiding weapons privately?

So Shen Bing died, and Fusu, the supervising army, would also be implicated.

This is no joke, and it is more sensitive and serious than paper, so Shen Bing cannot be careless.

Shen Bing used the old blast furnace to smelt iron in the industrial area, in fact, he also intended to confuse others... The iron smelted in Yunzhong County is of high quality?

I'm afraid not.

It also has iron of poor quality, and in considerable quantity.

As for the high-quality iron used for arrows and bed crossbows...that is to select high-quality iron for the army from the mass production of inferior iron, rather than any other iron-making method.

With such an explanation, the emergence of new railways in Yunzhong County makes sense.

It's even more reasonable.

Because in this era, occasionally a famous swordsmith in a certain famous mountain inadvertently smelted high-quality iron or even steel and made it into a sword, so a "magic weapon" was released.

What made Shen Bing ecstatic was that Ying Zheng even sent a "prospecting team" of more than a hundred people to Yunzhong County.

The so-called prospecting is to look for iron, copper, tin and other ores in the area so that they can be mined directly without transporting from a distance.

This is good news for Shen Bing.

First of all, this shows Yingzheng's trust in Fusu and Shen Bing.

Secondly, if it is possible to discover mines in Yunzhong County, even if it is only copper and tin mines, it will be of great help to Yunzhong County.