Chapter 84 Poverty is original sin robbery is instinct

In war, it is the national strength and the economy. This is an undisputed fact.

Chen Ying decided to launch a Western Expedition. In fact, these generals had been idle for three years and were already screaming.

As Chen Ying decided to use golden swords and iron horses to solve the Western Turkic problem, the eyes of the generals became eager.

Lu Zhikun, a member of the Sicang Army, reported the recent situation of Anxi to Chen Ying and the generals of the Anxi Army.

Lu Zhikun was prepared for a long time, so he didn't even have to read the account book and said directly: "Now, our Anxi Protectorate has reclaimed a total of 2.67 million yuan of land and fertile land."

Chen Ying felt a little surprised when he heard this number. Two hundred and sixty-seven million yuan was equivalent to ten fertile land in Guanzhong. If it was converted into acres, it was equivalent to 267 million acres. Even if it was like Guanzhong, one young man would need 267 million yuan to cultivate 100 acres of land, which would require 267 million yuan to be aged 100 acres, which was almost equivalent to 267 million yuan.

If Anxi counts war slaves and various slaves, its population will definitely exceed more than three million. However, Anxi has tens of thousands of troops, and the young and strong who can cultivate can never reach 260,700,000.

In fact, these changes are due to Chen Ying's support for agricultural science and technology.

The Han people are a strange nation: if you give him weapons and training, he will become one of the best warriors in the world; if you give him the opportunity to do business, he will become one of the best businessmen in the world; if you give him the opportunity to study, he will become one of the best scholars in the world; if you give him tools, he will become one of the best craftsmen in the world; if you give him a piece of land for him to farm, he will become the best farmer in the world - no one!

What Anxi lacks the most is horses. If you are in Guanzhong, you must have more than a wealthy family to raise horses. However, in Anxi, no matter Han Hu, almost everyone has horses and cows.

After all, using a horse to plow the land is faster than plowing oxen.

For example, a double horse and double-share plow can cultivate 30 acres of land per day, and use six-eye plows to sow seeds. A young and strong cow can also sow 30 acres of land per day.

Even if it is a swab for harvesting wheat (an ancient large-scale wheat-graining artifact, which is still used in some remote mountainous areas, is eight times the efficiency of harvesting wheat by traditional sickle), one person can harvest eight acres a day.

Just as no one dislikes that they have too much money, farmers never dislike that they have too much land. With the policy of encouraging farming by the Anxi Protectorate, the Anxi people, especially farmers or refugees who migrated from the pass, have given countless enthusiasm.

A young and middle-aged man farms 100 acres of land, which is definitely a joke in the eyes of farmers. If there is no limit or restrictions, each of them can cultivate 1,000 acres of land.

Even Chen Ying's invention of agricultural machinery has been improved.

Compared with the double-share plow, there are now four double-share plows with six horses. Although the physical strength of a horse is wasted, its efficiency is only twice that of a double-share plow.

However, for the people of Anxi, it doesn’t matter if the animals are tired anyway. At worst, they can raise a few more horses. A farming land a day is 60 acres, and ten days is 600 acres. In a one-month farming period, they can actually cultivate nearly 2,000 acres of land.

If it weren't for the facts that Chen Ying was killed, Chen Ying wouldn't believe that someone would have monogamous without using slaves, and took two unweaned babies to manage more than 1,800 acres of land.

In fact, there are absolutely no more than 350,000 farmers who farm in Anxi, but they have a total of 2.67 million fertile land, which means that the average person has nearly 70% of land.

The government did not restrict the development of land, so they began to reclaim wasteland desperately.

In just six years, the arable land in Anxi has increased from less than 100,000 to a full 2.67 million, almost thirty times the original one.

Lu Zhikun continued: "Last year, our Anxi received a great harvest and collected a total of 1,3617,000 stones of grain."

Hearing this, Chen Ying could no longer complain.

The Anxi Protectorate gave the Tang people the highest tax preferential system, which was the group with the highest class component. Thirty-tax ones, absolutely no discount. Even the thirty-tax ones tax system still collected 13.61 million stones of grain, which shows how much grain there is in the entire Anxi.

For the 13 million stones of grain, for the 100,000 Tang army soldiers in Anxi, even if they sleep in the pile of grain, they will have to eat for ten years. What surprised them the most was that with the intake of a large amount of meat, the Tang army soldiers were rapidly decreasing in terms of consuming food.

Originally, almost all the Tang army soldiers were big-bellied people, and it was normal to eat one liter of rice in one meal, but now, not to mention one liter, most of them can’t finish even a pound.

Lu Zhikun continued: "Now, there are 137 warehouses in Anxi Protectorate, which are stored in green storage forage, totaling 7.5 million stones, which is enough for a hundred thousand troops to consume for years!"

Seeing that the supplies were enough to support him in launching the Western Expedition, Chen Ying ordered the generals to go back and prepare.

At the same time, Chen Ying took Li Xiuning to visit Huaergou Steel Workshop in Anxi.

Huaergou Steel House not only produces steel rails that build the road, but also is responsible for producing the armor of the Anxi Army soldiers. In the Huaergou large factory, in front of several giant impact machines, workers were carefully putting workpieces made of steel embryos into the mold, and then stepping on the foot, the stretch mold driven by the water wheel fell down with a strong impact force, and a loud bang.

The workpiece was pressed into a plate armor with a human body curve, which was the prototype of the plate armor equipped by the soldiers of the Anxi Army. Compared with the Mingguang armor, the advantages of the plate armor are more obvious.

After later detection, the protection of plate armor exceeds that of the fish scale armor, not to mention the Mingguang armor, which is worse than that of the fish scale armor. It is more prominent in defensive muskets. Gothic full-body plate armor can defend against a convex gun at a distance of 20 meters, but the fish scale armor is not good. Moreover, although the total weight of the plate armor is larger than the fish scale armor, the whole body has a weight, which is not much different from the mobile phone. In terms of comprehensive performance, the plate armor completely crushes the fish scale armor.

Of course, plate armor is not without weaknesses.

As heavy armor, the advantages of plate armor are more substitutable. However, bulkiness is a flaw in plate armor, and the armor is very complicated.

Of course, this processing method is still quite primitive, the machines are backward, and the production capacity is not high. There are so many machines that can only process more than a thousand workpieces a day if you last for so many machines. However, in this era, such efficiency is already very scary.

The other machine tool, which is even bigger and needs to use two water wheels to fully operate, is busy processing the gun arm of a crossbow. Of course, the machine tool responsible for processing it is not an ordinary person. The sharp milling cutter rotates rapidly under the water flow and is pushed in front of the crossbow arm a little bit.

A tingling sound sounded, and a large amount of steel debris splashed out from it, which was cutting the crossbow arms. The crossbow cannon was originally bulky, and in order to reduce the weight, excess steel definitely did not need it.

Others carry flywheels and rotate machinery quickly. This kind of machinery exists specifically to polish arrowheads. The cast-shaped arrowheads naturally have flying edges and burrs, and of course there are no blades. These machinery are to cut the arrowheads and are responsible for polishing them at the same time. Although the efficiency is still low, it is more than a hundred times faster than the original human polishing.

While Chen Ying was sharpening his sword at the Anxi Protectorate in Beiting City, all ethnic groups and tribes in Anxi, as well as the Western Turks, had already learned about this bad news that was equivalent to a shocking bolt.

Three years later, Chen Ying came to Anxi after the defeat of the Eastern Turks. Even if he didn't think about it, he could know what Chen Ying came to Anxi for without thinking about it.

Yipidulu Khan, located in the Iri River Valley, was the first to react. He sent his son Ashinagushe with his confidant general Geshunur and 150 people to Beiting to beg for surrender.

As soon as Ashina Valley entered Jieshan City, he was shocked by the prosperity of Jieshan City.

Although it was still covered with ice and snow at this time, what could not be covered by ice and snow was the wealth of Jieshan City.

Geshunur looked at the steel road winding to the end outside the city and said with envy: "If these steels are forged into armor, even seven or eight-year-old dolls in our tribe can equip armor made of steel."

But Asunaguishi was secretly alert and said that his father Khan was wise.

The Tang people, like Yongjin, had too much steel to be exposed and stored. They did not become enemies with the Tang people. I am afraid that it was one of the few wise decisions made by his father Khan.

However, when Geshunur saw everything in Jieshan City, he exclaimed from time to time, especially looking at the long dragon formed by a four-wheeled carriage full of rice.

Geshunur licked his lips, his eyes glowing green, and said, "There is so much food... If we send troops to defeat Jieshan City, these foods will be enough for our entire tribe to eat for two years!"

Geshunur's words were recognized by a group of Turkic warriors.

However, Asunaguishi shouted sternly: "Goshunur, don't always think about snatching and snatching, touching your mind! The army guarding Anxi, even the powerful army of the Great Khan of Yehu can defeat it. What's the difference between plundering their territory and seeking death!"

Geshunur said helplessly: "But what can we do if we don't rob us? We can't grow food and there are very few livestock. If the Tang people refuse to sell food to us, we will have to starve to death..."

Asina Guishi was even more annoyed and wanted to scold him, but he couldn't scold him when he thought about the miserable situation of changing his sons within the tribe, so he finally sighed heavily.

In the eyes of many young literary youths, grazing outside the frontier should be. The blue sky, white clouds, a gust of wind blows away, and the tall grass falls down layer by layer, showing a large group of cattle and sheep; the blue sky always echoes loud pastoral songs, when night falls, there will be piles of bonfires outside the tent, fat and tender sheep, and the roe deer are roasting on the fire, and the strong and tough guys and beautiful and passionate shepherds sing and dancing around the fire, and when they like it, they find a place to come...

Isn't it very romantic? It sounds very good, but people who hold this idea must have never tasted milk wine, milk tea, milk tofu, and cheese in turn. Apart from this, there is nothing to do with wild vegetables, and they have never tasted the pain of driving cattle and sheep every day. They can't take a shower every ten or half a month. They are covered with the smell of cows and the smell of sheeps.

Of course, I never tried it before and woke up in a daze in the middle of the night. I suddenly found that the tents of the entire tribe were burning, and a group of ferocious cavalry were waving scimitars to slash their relatives in pain.

Life in the grassland is much harder than farming. Wind, sand, frost and snow may come at any time, taking away life. Sometimes when heavy snow comes, several tribes all freeze or starve to death and disappear from the grassland. If there is less snow or no snow, it will be even worse. Grazing requires a lot of water. The water on the grassland mainly comes from snowfall. If there is no snow, there will be no water. Where there is water, there is sparse grass, and where there is good grass, there is no water. How about it, do you want to die?

Also, if a Han people are unhappy and lock up the border market, and they can't eat salt, drink tea, or buy cloth throughout the year, wouldn't they want to die even more?

Now I know why the northern nomadic peoples like to go south to rob? If they don’t rob, they will die! The extremely embarrassed Geshunur Tang people transported food and carts of rice. Their first reaction was to grab a ticket, which was already an instinct.

Asina Valley looked at the Tang army generals who were monitoring them and said, "Where are so much food being transported?"

I regret it after I finished speaking. This is an open secret of spying on the Tang army. Will it be executed as a detailed test?

However, the Tang army soldiers who were monitoring them laughed and said, "There is too much food to eat, so I have to use it to make wine! Now Anxi has more than 100 large and small wine shops, and the wine alone is brewed every year."

In fact, Anxi's best-selling goods are not silk, porcelain, nor tea.

Instead, it is a mellow white wine brewed with grain.

Liquor is a good thing. It can be used to keep warm in winter. If you are injured, you can also use wine to disinfect it to avoid infection and inflammation.

Moreover, the taste is far more mellow and soft than those of the horse milk wine.

This kind of liquor is very easy to get drunk, unlike horse milk wine that can only pee when drinking too much. Usually, Turks are not drunk for ten pounds, and the alcohol content is amazing. However, if they drink liquor, they will die of one pound, and they will lose half a pound after drinking.

As long as you get drunk, you have everything you want.

Many Turks were extremely poor and sold their last lambs and drank them in wine. They lie drunk in the snow, dying silently without any pain.

After half a month, they finally arrived outside Beiting City. A team of cavalry rushed out of the city. The knights were holding a strong bow in their hands, carrying a bag of white feathered arrows behind them, and a slender sword with a steel helmet and iron armor. They were very well-equipped and extremely agile. They were obviously riders with skillful bows and horses.

Their iconic black cloak flag flew up like a big banner, and the terrible momentum came overwhelmingly. Asina Gushe, Geshunur and others were shocked and their laughter came to an abrupt end.

Geshunur tried hard to lift his shriveled chest and straighten his back. Everyone had self-esteem. Their tribe was now in a very embarrassing situation, almost like a dog who fell into the water. However, in front of the Tang cavalry, they still subconsciously wanted to support the dignity that had long disappeared so as not to be looked down upon.

However, it is useless to have eggs.

All the Tang cavalrymen were silent and quickly lined up in two rows, moving quickly, and the queue was neatly like a straight line. There was no angriness, no murderous intent, and in every move, the momentum of the strong army was naturally released, which made people dare not look down on them.

The neatly arranged lineup separated, Chen Ying rode his horse, and the cavalry shouted in unison: "The General of the Cavalry is here, kneel down to welcome him!"
Chapter completed!