The weapon tycoon who traveled to Daqin

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"Thank you, General." The general replied respectfully at this time.

What Xiang Yan cares about is when his warship will be launched.

In this way, Chu's first warship will be named after "Shuijiao".This is the "Water Jiao" of Chu State.class warship.

The state of Chu in the south is building warships.And South Korea, which lives in the Central Plains, is not idle at this time. In order to expand its overseas business, South Korea actively raised funds. In order to build their own navy, they raised 20 real gold.This has to be said to be a big deal.

Relying on these funds, South Korea will build ten large warships.Equipped with as many as 36 cannons, in addition to ten medium warships.Equipped with 22 cannons.The firepower is still strong.

Although construction has not yet started, funding has already been secured.All countries are developing their own naval undertakings.Although most of them are still in their infancy, they already have the determination to catch up with Qin's navy.

But in Qi State, the people of Qi State are not so relaxed.At home, they were in a panic.

"Quick, close the city gate quickly." An officer of the army who was running in a hurry shouted loudly at this time.While roaring loudly, he ran into the city gate with tired steps.

"Hurry up. Close the city gate, there are rioters outside the city." The officer said wearily.

"Ah." The city gate officials heard such news at this time.I was very shocked.

"Quick. Quick, close the city gate." At this time, the officials guarding the city immediately shouted loudly.

"Here." After hearing such an order, the soldiers quickly took action.

"Get out, get out soon." At this time.A soldier guarding the city gate yelled loudly.

"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo." Then the city gate made a dull sound.

"Clatter." At this moment, the city gate was closed.

"Everyone, go up to the tower and be alert." The officials guarding the city shouted loudly.Some soldiers began to pick up their weapons nervously and entered their battle positions.

Soon the news spread to King Qi's palace.

"What?" When King Qi heard the news at this time, he was very surprised. He didn't believe that the rioters could attack here at this time.

"Your Majesty, this is indeed true." A general who reported told King Qi this unfortunate news in pain.

"Bold, to confuse people with demonic words again." At this time, Hou Sheng couldn't stand it any longer.

"Come on, drag me down and behead him, and behead anyone who deceives the crowd with evil words." Hou Sheng scolded loudly.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, every sentence of the last general is true." At this time, the guards dragged the general away.

"Ah." A scream sounded soon after.

"Your Majesty, don't panic." At this time, Hou Sheng said comfortingly.Although he didn't want to hear the news, it didn't mean that he didn't accept the news. In fact, Hou Sheng already knew the news a day ago, but he didn't expect it.Those rioters really dared to attack Linzi, which is really incomprehensible.And beyond his expectations.You know, Linzi is the largest city in Qi State, with the most perfect military defense.He didn't think about it.These rioters really dare to attack. . ..

Where did the 1212 soldiers come from?

"Linzi is ahead, everyone, hurry up." Twenty miles to the west of Linzi, a mighty army was slowly approaching Linzi.They are rioting people.

The high taxes made it difficult for them to bear such a heavy burden, so after riots broke out in some places.More and more people are getting involved.Quite a few of them had to participate because they couldn't bear the overweight tax.

However, such riots are, after all, a situation of social disorder.The destructive effect caused by the chaos of this order is very serious, after more and more people participate in it.They destroyed everything, noble mansions, and government offices, and robbed all the supplies that could be robbed. As long as they could be used, food, and clothing, they wiped them all out like locusts crossing the border.Then, people in this area could not continue to survive and had to join the rioting crowd.In this way, this army is getting bigger and bigger, and they can survive by destroying everything they can, and then robbing all resources for their survival. This is a social regression phenomenon.

However, the reason why these riots intensified and expanded to such an unmanageable state is closely related to the attitude of the upper echelons of Qi State.

The upper class, especially the upper class nobles of the Qi State represented by Hou Sheng, thought that these riots were just local disturbances and did not attract enough attention. They just ordered the local officials to use their power to quell it immediately. It is a mistake, a serious subjective mistake.

They mistakenly regarded this kind of riot as a series of security incidents, rather than a continuous overall incident.Since what they saw was a mistake, what they did was also wrong.

They only ordered local officials to use their limited power to counter the rebellion.This is simply wrong on top of wrong.The power of the local government can barely maintain their order, so they have the power to deal with such a popular riot.They had less than a hundred people, and the rioters on the other side ranged from a thousand to as many as [-]. There are many finished weapons, and the weapons in the hands of the government are not as advanced as the weapons provided by these handicraft workshops. The weapons provided in the handicraft workshops are all provided for front-line combat use, and quite a few imitations are high-quality goods.These weapons fell into the hands of the rioters, and undoubtedly became the biggest weapons of destruction.

The government is simply unable to suppress these riots, they can only respond passively, or they respond passively later, as long as there are rioters arriving, they will actively avoid them instead of actively responding.

The government asked several times to send reinforcements, but the upper echelon of Qi State had no intention of answering at all.It's not that the upper echelons don't care about it, but that they can't care about it at all.

During the war against Yan, Qi's standing army lost almost all of its casualties, and the country's standing army suffered heavy losses.The Qi army can attack the Tian family army composed of private soldiers of Tian Hengtian's family and the stragglers of some countries' standing troops.Although they are the Qi army in name.But in essence, it is no longer the real Qi army's standing army.

Then there was the Qi army's long drive straight in, causing the troops to be withdrawn.The Qin guerrilla cavalry that kept going south caused great logistical pressure on the Qi army.This left the Qi army with no time and energy to accumulate their standing army.

The newly formed standing army was transferred to the front without any training and became the local garrison. These garrison troops with little training are equivalent to the militia. It can be said that they are of a lower grade than the militia. They went into battle without any training at all.

However, due to the flexible tactics of Qin's guerrilla cavalry, these garrison troops without any quality cost a lot of casualties.In this way, the greater the consumption of personnel.In order to supplement, the Qi army had to continuously recruit civilians from all over the country to form a new standing army to join them.And the quality of the standing army is getting worse and worse, and the combat losses are getting bigger and bigger.This forms a vicious circle.

And the evil result of this cycle is that more and more civilians have entered the battlefield, and the casualties are increasing.The consumption is getting bigger and bigger.Qi gradually consumed almost all of its national power.

The consequences of this consumption are.In the country of Qi, there are only a very small number of standing army garrisons, and these garrisons do not have much combat power to use at all.At this time, the country is very empty.Without the existence of a standing army, it will cause damage to the violent organization of the state.

This injury becomes fatal.The reason is when domestic riots intensify.There is actually no army in Qi State to maintain their domestic security, because all Qi troops are transferred abroad.At this time, Zhao Jun and Qi Jun were in a stalemate, and neither side could break away, and Qi Jun's back had a situation at this time. Obviously, Qi Jun was even worse.

And it was at this time that the riots became bigger and bigger.The reason is that without the obstruction of the army, the rioting people were invincible all at once. They grew to tens of thousands of people almost immediately, then 10 people, and then tens of thousands of people participated in it, and the scale became larger and larger .

The larger the scale, the more materials they consume, and they will only destroy, not produce. This is a group of locusts. They can only maintain their livelihood by destroying more and more things. Otherwise, they will Destroying themselves, after sweeping all the surrounding counties, they finally found that there is no valuable thing nearby. At this time, they must have the necessary materials to maintain their survival, so they aimed at the current Qi China's largest city, Linzi, has what they want.

Food, weapons, ammunition, women, and all kinds of supplies.These are what they need.So, they headed towards Linzi.

And this way, the local government can only avoid it far away, and along the way, the troops that were originally blocked are fighting abroad at this time, and even if they are, they are unable to fight them.Thus.At this time, a large number of people began to flock to Linzi, this rich city.

"My God. There are so many people." A soldier standing on the tower of Linzi City watched the dense crowd approaching them.This made the soldier feel unprecedented fear all of a sudden.

"There are so many mobs attacking Linzi, at least 20." A slightly experienced veteran said at this time.At this time, he felt that it was a mistake for him not to participate in foreign wars. Originally, he thought that staying in the country could avoid catastrophe. Many such veterans used some despicable means to stay.For survival.Humans usually come up with various means.

At this moment, the soldiers guarding the city nervously looked at the mob of more than 20 people below the city.Linzi was completely surrounded by these mobs.And the number of opponents is still increasing.How many people are there?They don't know it themselves, they know that once the opponent attacks, they will be hard to resist.

And in the main hall of King Qi Palace, the ministers of Qi State are discussing the sudden crisis.The reports they received before were related to public security incidents, which did not attract their attention at all, but now, they finally know that the so-called public security refers to serious riots in Qi.Now, the riot has reached the city.

"The top priority is to deal with the mob attacking the city. Linzi City is high and easy to defend, so it shouldn't be a problem." A doctor said confidently.

"The city of Linzi is tall, but don't forget. With today's firearms, no matter how thick the city wall is, it will collapse sometimes." A minister stood up and criticized at this time.

"This." The minister's accusation really made it difficult for him to answer.As it turned out, the power of this firearm far exceeded the imagination of the ministers present.

"In addition to these, I'm afraid that the troops in Linzi City are unable to afford such a large city defense." At this time, a general stood up and said.

"Oh." The ministers cried out in horror at this time. At this time, when the general puts forward such an opinion, it is usually bad.

"There are less than 3 defenders in Linzi City, and most of them are old and weak, and it is difficult to resist the attack of the mob." At this time, the general said.

Hearing such an answer, ministers look at me and I look at you, they don't know what to do at this time.

"Then, our army should notify the main force of the Qi army to return to Linzi." At this time, a minister shouted loudly.

"How is it possible?" A Chinese doctor said loudly at this time.

"The main force of the army is far away in the country of Yan. Even if they can come back, the city of Linzi has already been breached, and the army is working hard to return, let alone whether they can meet the enemy. Even if they can meet the enemy, they will be defeated by the opponent. Our army is exhausted." This At that time, the Chinese doctor said.

"But we need the army to come back to help. Our army will defend Linzi City to the death." At this time, a doctor said.