The Struggle of the Reborn Prince

It has been two years since Xijing took over Zhao Qiong. His attention is mainly on two tasks, one is military, and the other is the development of agriculture and animal husbandry. High-quality updates

Military is the foundation of a country in troubled times. Without a strong armed force, it cannot defend against the enemy outside and cannot be stable inside. While the Loyal and Brave Army and the Kruel Army merged, combined with the implementation of the new military system, the internal stability will be more stable, and combat training will be entered.

The recruited new army has been trained and assigned to each army. The first graduates of the martial arts lecture hall have also left the school and started to intern in various positions.

The military workshop that moved to Shuozhou in advance not only resumed production with the support of the strong capital of the prince, but also further expanded its scale. The number of people employed has reached more than 10,000, reaching an annual production of 30,000 guns and 5 pistols.

The production capacity of thousands of machine guns, thousands of cannons of various types, two million bullets, and fifty thousand shells can not only meet the training and combat needs of the ZTE Army, but also reserves enough to support the needs of two major battles.

The abundant coal and iron resources in Xijing area have greatly reduced production costs. The refined iron produced by several smelters can not only meet the needs of military production, but also support the consumption and production of agricultural tools and daily necessities. The development of local sulfur mines has enabled

They no longer spend a lot of money to transfer from Fusang every year.

The most difficult copper needed to make artillery and bullets is now reduced. Fortunately, Zhao Qiong reserved a large amount of copper coins back then, which were all high-quality copper and had high purity. He considered that once the war broke out, it would inevitably lead to the exchange.

As the depreciation of the Zi, the exchange rate of gold, silver and copper naturally increased. If you want to make money from the national crisis, you have to use it for emergency response.

The related workshops for both military and civilian use have also been vigorously developed. The candles, lubricants, leather goods, tents, military foods and medicines they produce have been welcomed by all walks of life. Especially in order to support agricultural development, the various types of production are produced

Horse-drawn seedlings and harvesters are in short supply. High-quality updates are just around the corner, but the perfumes, glass products and other luxury goods they produce are rarely sold locally, and are sold to foreigners, earning real money.

The unrest in history is often caused by famine. Famine triggers rebellion. In turn, rebellion destroys order. Once the order is chaotic, fewer people will grow food. This is a vicious cycle: the more chaotic, the less people will grow food.

;The less people grow food, the more chaotic it becomes. In order to eat, the rebels who rise up due to hunger are cruel, and the officials are also cruel. Both sides rob grain crazily, and finally eat all the food and the farmers. In the end, the troops kill each other

What a tragic scene it would be to eat your own people’s flesh!

The importance of agriculture is self-evident. Food is not only a daily necessity, but also an important strategic material. As the saying goes, "If you have food in your stomach, don't panic." If you don't even have basic living security, who will play with you.

, if you don’t make you rebellious, you will be worthy of yours.

Therefore, as soon as Zhao Qi took over, he introduced a series of policies to encourage farming, which had their experience in developing rivers. A series of policies not only stabilized people's hearts, but also set off a wave of agricultural development, and a large number of advanced agricultural tools and horse trench

Promotion not only improves production efficiency, but also saves a lot of manpower and can reclaim more wasteland.

Not only did he call on farmers to cultivate more, but he also allowed the army to join the ranks of settlements while ensuring military training to reduce consumption. In just one year, more than 200,000 hectares of arable land were added in Xijing, and the grain was basically self-sufficiency.

This year he has increased his efforts to support agriculture, advocated intensive cultivation and planted mulberry and hemp, and also began to conduct experiments on large-scale cotton planting. If there were no major disasters in the past two months, it would be a bumper harvest, and fill his granary.

, it can also open the door of the winery that has been closed for a year.

Now that Xijing maintains a powerful cavalry unit, it will inevitably require a large number of war horses. War horses cannot be easily pulled over and become war horses. Among them, it is very particular. High-quality updates of how many horses can be found in a horse herd.

What about using it as a passenger horse? Strictly speaking, not much! Not even half of it, even the best horse breeds or herds of horses are generally the case.

This is also one of the important reasons why the combat effectiveness of the Central Plains agricultural ethnic cavalry is lower than that of the nomadic cavalry. Because there are too few places to raise horses in the Central Plains, there is little room for selection of horses, so the quality will naturally not be so strict. It is basically a passenger horse

It is good for warriors to use, and there are so many things to pay attention to. Zhao Qi's army has experienced such twists and turns.

When he was in Xiangyi, although Zhao Qi spent a lot of manpower and material resources to cultivate the quality of the war horses that could not be satisfactory, this was the condition at that time. Even though he occupied the river and seized many war horses in Xixia, it was still difficult to meet and still needed

The situation was not eased from the Uighurs to purchase excellent war horses and used them until the Xijing was controlled.

This is because war horses, like humans, have age restricted their physical strength and ability, so their service time is limited. The lifespan of a horse is generally between 25 and 30 years old. At the age of three, they are adults and can be used for riding after training; at the age of eight, they are eight years old.

The best period is to the best, physical strength, endurance and agility. This state can be extended to the age of fourteen or five, which is the golden period of war horses. As the age of war horses increases, various functions gradually decrease, and thus reduce coping.

The ability to have complex war scenes should be retired at the age of eighteen under normal circumstances.

But these just refer to normal circumstances. Because war horses live a tense battle life all year round, it is difficult to ensure that they are raised, managed in place, and service are ineffective, which can damage their health, and is even more inevitable. Especially in long-distance marches, especially in urgent marches.

, forcibly march day and night, the war horses do not get enough forage, clean water, rest, and have to carry heavy loads. And the horses have a strong competitive mentality. The parallel horses always move faster and faster, and no one is willing to fall behind.

Even if you are not strong enough, you are still unwilling to slow down, and even more unwilling to stop. If you still whip forward, you will easily die. Therefore, in the long-distance marching and rapid transmission of information, the loss of war horses is uncountable!

The casualties of horses in battle are also very large, because on the battlefield, the cavalry, men and horses are integrated. Whether vertically or horizontally, the area of ​​the attack by the opponent is always more than several times the warriors. From this, it is inferred that the casualties of warriors are also

It is several times more than the warriors; in addition, it has become a consensus on the battlefield that "shooting people first" is that the risk of horses is much greater than that of people; in addition, the rider attacks the opponent's stabbing, slashing and other attacks.

, you can use dodge or use weapons to block the frame to protect yourself. But the war horse does not. Even if the agile war horse is at most agile, it can only do some tricks in dodging, so casualties are inevitable.

Now there are 100,000 people in the Zhongxing Army. If it reaches the conservative double riders, it will take 200,000 horses. In addition, there are also horses that pull carts and cannons, and pack horses that transport supplies. This is a very large number, and the minimum number will be

It will be several times this number, so the domestication of war horses is also a arduous task.

On the premise of restoring the former Xijing Qunmusi Ranch in the northwest Xuanfusi Ranch, Zhao Qi established a new ranch in Fengshengzhou and introduced good breeds to cultivate and improve horse breeds. Although this will not take effect many years later, it must be done.

At the same time, he also bought horses from private ranches in the form of taxes to supplement military use, basically solving the problem of military horse supplementation...

No farming is not stable, no business is not rich. Business also plays an important role in Xijing. This not only can communicate with each other, but also can bring a lot of taxes to Xijing. After years of war, the people have no money in their hands.

In order to develop agriculture and recuperate, Zhao Qi had to reduce and exempt rent and tax to support it, but the army and the government also asked for money everywhere, so his little wealth would not last long.

If you cannot 'plunder' from farmers, you can only get money from merchants. If you impose heavy taxes on merchants, then merchants will only be scared away. This is a contradiction, and it can only cultivate a prosperous market.

Only by making businessmen profitable can a virtuous cycle be established. Therefore, while Zhao Jie cuts taxes, he also works hard to spend money.

Consumption, one is to complete personal consumption through the market; the other is to do not need a market, and one can only rely on national salary and rewards to make personal consumption. The former can promote social production and circulation, so Zhao Qiong ignores everyone's

Oppose, the rules for issuing salaries for soldiers and officials were revised.

In the past, due to financial constraints, countries often used physical goods as salary payments, and gave rice or silk according to grades. At the best time of the Song Dynasty, the capital officials gave six points to money, and four points to external responsibilities, but that's it.

It greatly stimulates consumption, so the increase in the proportion of cash must be caused by the development of the commodity economy, which is caused by the increase in the use of money; this adjustment will inevitably deepen the degree of involvement of the huge official class in the market.

The soldiers and officials all ate public food, and Zhao Xiao gave all their salaries to cash, and eating, drinking, defecation and urination were inseparable from the circulation of money, so that their inevitability and necessity of entering the market were enhanced. They might be for the purpose of operating.

Perhaps it is for consumption, it will inevitably have a certain impact on the market.

And because they were also an important group in society at that time, from a class perspective, they belonged to the ruling group; but from a sociological perspective, they were the managers of society. Like other members, they had social values ​​of existence.

Therefore, their consumption, especially through the market, has not all negative impact on society.

This change not only improved the status of merchants, but also greatly promoted circulation. At the same time, Zhao Qiong also handed over all the necessary expenses of the government to the market and purchased them on the market, and no longer collected them in a way that was offset. To a certain extent

Promote the prosperity of commerce and handicrafts, and farmers can also put production surplus and agricultural and sideline products on the market to sell. If they have money in their hands, they will inevitably become consumers, which forms a cycle. Although it cannot be effective at that time,

It is conducive to long-term development. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!