The weapon tycoon who traveled to Daqin

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The city population of Qin State is so large that it is unimaginable that airships flying in the sky have all kinds of land transportation under the planes to provide them with cars, trains, and unified and orderly expressways, which are all at a high speed. Qin State is developing these things at a high speed and Chu countries form a huge contrast

Chu State does not have a decent road, and even the roads built by the country are mainly dirt roads. Such roads are difficult to compare with the highways of Qin State, and the construction methods of these expressways in Qin State are eye-opening

It was the first time he knew about reinforced concrete structures. It was the first time he knew that the steel produced by Qin's steel factories is so hard. Usually these steels are used to make weapons, and Qin used these steels to pour their highways. It's really hard to imagine that the amount of steel used in those high-rise competitions has far exceeded negative understanding. There is also a thing called cement. Qin has mastered this technology and can turn soil into a rock hard. These things are really too much. puzzling

There is also something like electricity that can illuminate the dark night and quickly transmit information to various places in Qin State. As long as there is a cable, the information can be transmitted to Negative. This is the first time I have come across so many strange things.

"With all these strange things, why isn't Qin strong?" He sighed that the strength of Qin made him helpless because Qin was so powerful that it was difficult for Chu to compete with it with its current national strength.

The state of Chu can't even make materials like steel and cement. These things can only be imported from the state of Qin to meet the needs of the country. Not only these building materials, but also the trains of the state of Qin, which can transport a lot of things at once. The Yunshun tool scared Chu, because he saw that Qin State could quickly increase its troops to fight on the border of Chu State through the railway, and Chu State needed two months of mobilization to barely raise a large army. The soldiers can only be put into battle when they arrive at a certain time, and the fatigue of the long distance requires the soldiers to rest, but the people of Qin can easily mobilize the army, and their soldiers can immediately go into battle.

This point is incomparable to Chu State. Not only the speed of mobilizing troops, but also the developed telegraph system of Qin State. These telegraph systems can quickly transmit information to Guanzhong Xianyang, the central area of ​​Qin State. In this way, Qin State can **As his huge land, Qin State expanded its territory far faster than the imagination of the six countries

From the point of view of Qin, it is precisely because of the rapid expansion of the territory of Qin that it takes a certain amount of time for Qin to digest and absorb these territories. The time for digestion is just the golden time for Chu's own development.

But can the state of Chu seize this opportunity? I am very worried about the development of the state of Chu.

"Dong dong dong" came the sound of the beating of the cowhide drum, and began to shift his attention to Beigang, a new and rapidly rising city in the Qin Kingdom.

"Come and see the newly arrived slaves!" A man singing Chu Guoyin loudly stood on the high platform and shouted, but with the sound of drums, a large number of Qin people were attracted.

"What a good slave, bring it here and let's have a look." As he said that, the Qin people began to roll up their sleeves and went to the stage to inspect the slaves, while the man from Chu Guoyin let the Qin people inspect the slaves at will

"Hey brother, let me ask." Negative Chu asked

"Why are all the people who bought slaves from the state of Qin?" Negative Chu asked

"Ah, I dare to ask, which country is Mr. from?" the questioner asked back.

"Oh, I'm from the state of Chu," said Xiang Chu

"Well that's right," said the man

"I'm the people of Qin, we Qin are in urgent need of a large number of slaves," said the Qin man

"We Qin people have changed a lot! Qin is building everywhere, have you seen the railway?" said the Qin people

"The state of Qin needs a lot of slaves to build the railway, and there are too many people," said the people of Qin.

"En" nodded negatively

"Not only these, but also the development of Bashu and Bashu is quite large," said the people of Qin himself.

"Most of the land here is gathered in the hands of a few people. A farmer has thousands of acres of land, and even larger ones have hundreds of thousands of acres of land. How do these lands be cultivated?" Qin Ren said.

"There are machines in Guanzhong, we don't have this thing, that thing can't be transported here, we have no choice but to use slaves," Qin said.

"Ah" said with some surprise

"If you think about it, the demand for slaves is very high," Qin Ren said.

"Look, most of these slave traders are from your country of Chu," Qin Ren continued.

"Ah, we are from Chu State?" Lu Chu asked in surprise

"That's right, how can any of us Qin people plunder so many slaves? The south is full of dense jungles and mountains. It is difficult for the Yue people to catch a slave. The cost of capturing a slave is too high. Not only these, but more and more of us Qin people are concentrated here. Many people in the city went to work as workers, some went to fight in the army, and many people became farmers, ranchers, farmers, herders, and factory workers. We Qin people have so many people who go to serve as soldiers," said the Qin people.

"So that's how it is." It suddenly dawned on me that the use of Qin's population resources greatly affected the pace of Qin's unification war. Qin began to have a large number of cities, and a population of one million cities suddenly appeared. Three large populations began to concentrate. In the city, the rural population merged a large amount of land and sold the land. The population quickly flooded into the cities of the Qin State and they became workers. This made the industrialization of the Qin State a large number of laborers.

The other part became mercenaries, and these soldiers could not become the regular armed forces of Qin State because Qin State was undergoing military reforms in Qin State. Qin State cut down a large number of military personnel. The conscription system has adopted the military salary system, which has accelerated the professionalization of the Qin army. The professional army will become more and more professional, and its combat effectiveness will be greatly enhanced.

At the same time, the military equipment of 20 people can greatly reduce the financial burden of the Qin government. Although the size of the army has decreased, it has increased Qin's civilian power. These forces have added a lot of wealth to Qin.

"No wonder" said to himself

"Look at those slave traders who used to be from the state of Chu," said the people from the state of Qin

"In addition to Chu people, there are Koreans now," said Qin people.

"What?" Negative asked

"To the Koreans, the Queen of Korea strongly supports South Korea's development of overseas business, and the Koreans also began to obtain slaves from Chu State to participate in the slave trade of Qin State," Qin Guoren said.

"Oh" said with a nod

"Okay, let's not talk about it, I'm going to the shipyard," the Qin people said, and then the Qin people left. Looking at the Qin people who were going away, he began to think about a question, why did the Chu people get involved?

"Two and a half, two and one slave deal," a man from Chu State shouted loudly in the distance. This is the reason for the slave trade. Money and more money allow Chu people to participate in the slave trade.

Not only people from Chu, but also Koreans are involved in this most profitable business. Qin’s tax reform is a burden. I still know that Qin used to collect taxes in kind, but it was reformed. After that, Qin State immediately changed the way of tax collection, and the real objects directly became coins. Coins became currency in circulation, which accelerated the commodity market and became a market economy. The market economy allowed Qin State to regulate the circulation of resources through coins. What Qin State collected was coins rather than real objects. By encouraging some commercial trades, the state's finances can grow rapidly by collecting taxes. Qin's taxes are very low, and many people are willing to participate in Qin's reform of taxation. The reform of taxation has made Qin's economy grow rapidly.

Thinking of this, he seemed to understand the courage of that young man. Such a reform is unimaginable in this era.

930 The Power of Paper

The experience of traveling in the Qin State gave him an intuitive understanding of the Qin State. This understanding is based on his intuitive feeling of the Qin State.

However, if you want this ambitious man to have a new strategic awareness, you still don't have such an idea. At least you don't have a decent person around you to assist him.

However, with the rapid popularization of paper, especially the rapid rise of the newspaper printing industry, Qin’s Xiaozhuan has the highest understanding of characters in various countries, because most of the newspapers are printed by Qin. Qin’s newspaper offices account for 90.00% of the entire newspaper printing industry. The other 5.00% are only occupied by some small newspapers in Zhao and Yan countries in South Korea, but a considerable part of the 5.00% still use Qin’s Xiaozhuan. The reason is simply that Qin’s Xiaozhuan was used in the initial newspaper occupation of the market. occupies an absolute position

In various countries, there is such a phenomenon that people know Qin Xiaozhuan but cannot understand their own country’s characters. Using Qin Xiaozhuan to publish articles has become some unspoken rules for scholars.

Because only when the theories of the scholars are published in newspapers with a large circulation, can others say that they know it, and at the same time, they can increase their reputation explain views etc.

Not only that, some people also spent a lot of printing and flying to publish their own books. In this era when paper was just popularized and a hundred schools of thought contended in the Warring States period, various theories competed with each other, which formed a huge academic boom period. The appearance of paper accelerated this academic development. The Second Great Prosperity produced a large number of theories, and more people began to publish articles in newspapers or publish books to explain some of their views, and then formed a complete system to publish them.

However, books of this theory are not very popular in Qin State, because the main popular books in Qin State are technical books. Qin State has a large number of industrial workers. Workers only care about technical skills. Farming methods, so people in Qin State generally work hard to care about technology, even if they don’t care about technology, what they care about is art books. Qin people spend a lot of time on artistic cultivation.

The reason why Qin State did this is because Qin State is already the most powerful and largest country in the Warring States Period. Qin State is powerful and strong, and has no fear of any country. In addition, the culture is gradually liberalized, especially the status of artists and other professions in the law. It is the relationship of equality and no discrimination, so Qin State began to have certain achievements in culture

But the six countries are not the same. The six countries compete fiercely with each other, especially when the society is in rapid turmoil. Qin's strong national power may launch a large-scale attack at any time to annex the six countries. The scholars of the six countries naturally have such worries because of the current situation. Now that the Qin State is in a dominant position, scholars still don't know what strategic stage Qin is in, so scholars have published books and articles to explain their own governance concepts for the rulers to use, but most of these books are read in Qin State. not on

Qin State is the most powerful country in the Warring States Period. They are not afraid of all kinds of challenges from the Six Kingdoms at all.

However, Qin State still has a considerable number of articles and books circulating in Qin State. These books and articles have high strategic insight. With the increase of books in Qin State, bookstores have also begun to increase, and bookstores have also served as the function of publishing newspapers. Newspapers have a huge market. The function of information dissemination carrier, so there are still many such bookstores in Qin State, and as long as it is a small town in Qin State, there must be a bookstore in Qin State

Negative Chu also started to develop the habit of reading in Qin State, because some opinions in newspapers and books can be easily learned by combining his experience in Qin State

"Today's Qin State is in the midst of a huge social and historical change" This is an article widely circulated in Qin State All kinds of changes in place can become the most real material in the writing

"Qin's agricultural foundation has undergone tremendous changes. In Qin, the era of a family with more than ten acres of land has passed. Ten acres of land have become large-scale contiguous land. The scale of these lands has reached more than one hundred acres. The most basic farm of a unit. A farm can only focus on planting one type of crop. The advantage of this is that the farmer can let slaves or agricultural machinery only use one farming method. For example, planting wheat only needs to invest a certain amount of irrigation. The equipment still has some chemical fertilizers. Even if the weather is bad, the Qin State can still ensure that the farmers have enough grain to sell to the market and then convert it into coins through the market. The farmers pay the coins to the country. The country can also purchase them in the most difficult times. The way to purchase those grains so that the country’s grain production will develop rapidly”

"Facts have also proved that a single machine on a large scale will form a high-yield agriculture. We call it the era of large agriculture. Qin has achieved this by merging land. Compared with the six countries, only the six countries can achieve this. South Korea, a family of South Korea, is still suspected of being reluctant, but after all, they have followed Qin’s footsteps and sold an important step,” said the article

"Let's take a look at the solution to the population and food problem, especially the beginning of large-scale agriculture, so that the Qin State can free up a large number of people from agriculture. The lack of population has always been an important problem facing the Qin State. Qin State had to support a 100 million army before. Although the size of the army has now been reduced to a quarter, the pressure on Qin's army is still very high, especially the issue of national defense."

"And these population problems vacated in the countryside suddenly gave the Qin State a large personnel quota for the national defense industry"