The weapon tycoon who traveled to Daqin

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There was a scream.But Meng Tian concentrated on checking the prisoners.

"Damn slaves. How much do they know?" Meng Tian learned from the interrogation records.The one who took the lead in the riot turned out to be a slave leader who was familiar with the practices of the Qin people.The reason seems to be food.Or a verbal conflict.This has always been the case with northern nomadic tribes.They are prone to such things.Because their self-esteem is fragile.

"These slaves know us too well," Meng Tian said.

"Let's go back first. Report the situation here to the king. We have to find some way to deal with these damned slaves." Meng Tian said after checking the situation for a day.

"Da da da." Said.Meng Tian and his party got on their horses and left.The billowing smoke from the grassland indicates that this is a war zone.The fighting in this theater is still going on.As for the specific details.Meng Tian still doesn't want to know.But he knows.The North cannot continue to be soft like this.The rioting slaves will surely pay a heavy price.otherwise.They will not be honest.

As for how to do it.That's for the future.

869 The Northern Slave Problem

"According to the general's preliminary understanding, the chaos in the north probably came from our own negligence." Meng Tian was using a long report to inform King Qin in Xianyang of something he didn't understand.

"According to the explanations of the slave prisoners of war and my local people, the leaders of the slave riots are often the Huns and Hu people. They are originally locals and are familiar with everything on the grassland. The advantages of the locals suddenly become so important on the grassland. "

"The reason why the slaves rioted was because they were able to organize an army of slaves to rebel in an extreme time and our people couldn't guard these slaves"

"...the number of slaves in the whole North exceeds a million and our two states remain low at less than 100, two-thirds of which are concentrated in some towns on the prairies The population of China is much lower than the number of slaves. The worst thing is that the number of slaves is increasing by 40 per year, while our population is growing slowly because it is an extremely cold area, and few people here will take the initiative to settle down on the grassland. People still like it. It's town life”

"... Our defense system also has a serious loophole, that is, the main force of the entire army is deployed along the border defense line, while our militia is deployed in depth and sparsely along the border defense line. In this way, our strength in the border defense is concentrated to a certain extent. advantage but creates a serious void in the rear of our two states"

"Not only that, we lack more power to control this huge slave army. Normally, each of us needs to take care of nearly a thousand slaves. In this way, we have to rely on the locals, the Huns or the Huns. The nomadic tribes know us in more detail, and they will have some initiative in future riots, which is not a good thing for us."

"...Although our country has already promulgated a law to stipulate that local slaves are not allowed to be used locally, what's the use? The transportation situation in the north is very tense, and the industrial products in the customs need to be filled with a whole train. After driving from Xianyang to the north, the flocks of cattle and sheep leather and various mineral resources in the north have filled the train's wagons. The highways and roads are full of vehicles full of goods, but there are no slaves on them. "..." Meng Tian only had a preliminary understanding of the potential factors of the slave riots. This factor has been intuitively described by Meng Tian's telegram

The slaves used in the northern part of the state of Qin turned out to be locals, the Huns and Hu people. Their understanding of the grasslands is much higher than that of the Qin people. Although the Qin people have advanced management methods, they are sparsely populated. Facing the vast grasslands, they urgently need a lot of manpower. And these Huns and Hu people are accustomed to the way of studying on the grassland, so they naturally became an important helper for the Qin people to manage the grassland, and the Qin people gradually relied on such helpers. Grasslands of more than [-] mu need to be managed, and some of them are more than [-] mu. Without some helpers, it is difficult to manage such a huge grassland well.

However, Qin State can't produce so much. Qin State has many places that need immigrants The gap between the total population of the Qin people in the north was very dangerous from the very beginning.

The traffic situation in Qin State is also an important restrictive factor. Although Qin State has built a lot of roads, the road conditions are still tight. Even with the convenient and fast transportation mode of railways, Qin State still has great transportation difficulties.

The industrial base in Guyang in the north has a large number of industrial and semi-industrial products that need to be transported. In addition, there are more mineral resources such as some rare earth ores. These things are in great demand in the metallurgical industry of Qin State, while the Guanzhong area is concentrated. More than half of Qin's industrial products need to be sent out in large quantities. Railway transportation has undoubtedly become their first choice. Under such circumstances, slaves are much cheaper than industrial products, which also leads to a large number of prisoners of war captured in the north staying in the north. Going south, although the state of Qin clearly stipulated that local prisoners of war should not be used as slaves in the law, but it is obviously impossible to implement this rule in the north.

"The number of slaves in the north has far exceeded our expectations, can we suppress them with 3 people?" A minister in Xianyang Palace said anxiously, and everyone present was circulating this telegram. From this telegram, the minister of Qin State We are analyzing the reasons behind the slave riots in the north of Qin

"Although there are millions of slaves, they are scattered in various places and it is difficult to form a whole. As long as our army concentrates its forces and uses slaves to riot, it is difficult to form a big climate and the grassland is wide. It is difficult for millions of people to be scattered on the grassland. It is difficult to form a large army against us. The army poses a threat," Wang Jian calmly analyzed at this time.

"Besides, our army is well-equipped, well-trained and well-prepared. These are incomparable to those slaves. Therefore, although our army is only 100, it is difficult for the opponent to pose a threat even if there are millions of people." Wang Jian is very confident about this, and the facts are also true. Indeed, the equipment and training of soldiers of the Qin army has far surpassed that of the Xiongnu army for several generations of weapons and equipment. The threat posed by the company to the Huns usually requires the Huns to pay the price of thousands of people to complete the attack on the Qin army. It can be seen that the equipment training of the Qin army is better than that of the Huns.

"Old General En Wang is right." King Qin nodded at this moment in agreement with Wang Jian's analysis, and Wang Jian cupped his hands to express his respect. King Qin agreed with his opinion.

"But the slave issue must be resolved, otherwise such things will still happen in the north." King Qin then explained the root of the problem

"The king's slave problem is difficult to solve," Meng Yi said at this time

"Although the idea of ​​exchanging slaves that the prime minister said is very good, it is very difficult for our country of Qin to actually implement it," Meng Yi continued.

"Oh." King Qin just nodded at this time and didn't say anything.

"Your Majesty, please take a look. This is the border map of my Qin State. In the south of my Qin State, slaves here are difficult to obtain. The lack of development in the south is not only poor transportation. The most important thing is that the agriculture here lacks enough labor force. Although my Qin State A large number of hired armed forces have been encouraged to enter the south to capture slaves, but the gap in the number is too large to be completed in a short period of time." Meng Yi said directly that half of Meng Yi's work is to fight with the economy. No one can refute Meng Yi's rhetoric on economic issues. of

King Qin looked at the map seriously

"Then where do the slaves in our south mainly come from?" King Qin asked

"Chu State comes from Chu State Chu State can get Yue people by crossing the Yangtze River, but we can't go further south. There are mountains where the terrain is complicated and it is difficult to catch Yue people," said Meng Yi.

"En" King Qin nodded

"Not only are there fewer slaves, but the most important thing is that transportation is very tight," said Meng Yi.

"Important mineral resources in the north have already accounted for half of the railway transportation volume. Adding passenger transportation and various cargo transportation, the northern railway transportation has reached saturation. If there is a temporary troop transport, then my Qin State will stop more than half of the passenger transportation and freight transportation." If we move troops on a large scale, our railway system will completely stop the transportation of mineral resources in the north." Meng Yi said seriously

"There is only one railway in the north, right?" King Qin said with his back to the minister, looking at the huge map hanging up

"Yes, Your Majesty, there is currently only one railway in the north. This railway is an important lifeline for us to maintain the transportation in the entire north," Wei Liao suggested at this time.

"Huh" King Qin didn't answer anything but just let out a heavy breath and said nothing that Qin State's railway network is under construction. In some places there is a railway, which is already considered very good, and in some places there are no railways, but railways. The situation made the King of Qin very worried. In some important places, the Qin State had only one railway to maintain this situation, which made him feel a sense of crisis.

Also feeling a sense of crisis is Shangwen in Yandu

"A large-scale slave riot broke out in the north." Shang Wen looked at the long telegram sent by Meng Tian. Shang Wen didn't take care of being an assistant for the time being because he was dealing with Yandu's affairs. When he handed this report to him, he only showed surprise. I was surprised that riots broke out in the north at this time. The state of Qin is already chaotic enough. There are still so many things happening at this time. Shang Wen felt a little headache, but he still held back and read all the reports.

"This matter is very difficult. What we can do now is to suggest that the king mobilize troops from the Guanzhong area to suppress it. We have no other solutions," Shang Wen said helplessly.

"Dong dong" just as Shang Wen was talking to his assistant, the door rang at this moment

"Come in" Shang Wen said

The person who came in was Lieutenant Zhao Jun

"What's the matter?" Shang Wen asked

"This is a letter that our battalion commander asked me to hand over to you personally," the lieutenant said respectfully.

"Oh, take it here and let me have a look." Shang Wen stretched out his hand and said

870 The Qi Army is Arriving

This letter is from Battalion Commander Mu, also known as Li Zuoche.Shangwen still doesn't know that this battalion commander Mu is the future Li Zuoche.

The content of Li Zuoche's letter is very confidential.After a quick scan, Shangwen rewrapped the letter.

"Tell you Battalion Commander Mu, I have read his letter. He is fully responsible for military matters, and I will not interfere." Shang Wen said to the Lieutenant Zhao Jun with his hands clasped.

"Yes, sir, I will convey your meaning." The lieutenant said with a salute.

Wen nodded.Then the lieutenant turned and left.

The content of this letter involves future combat plans.Shang Wen didn't know what the battalion commander's battle plan was, but he didn't have any good ways to defend the entire city at the moment, out of security considerations.Shangwen still needs some reports from the major, or his defense plan can be considered solid.

But Li Zuoche was busy training the newly recruited Yan militiamen, and had no time to make any kind of report.So he wrote his plan in the letter.

After Shangwen read it.Immediately I feel more at ease.So, he completely handed over the military commander to Major Mu in his heart.

At this time, Li Zuoche was undergoing a series of military training.

"This is an old-fashioned flintlock. You need to reload the bullets so quickly." A sergeant of Zhao Jun was teaching Yan militiamen how to use flintlocks to shoot.And the Yan militiamen surrounded by this sergeant were only five or six people.

"It is very difficult to let these people who can only work, eat, and sleep take up arms to fight." Li Zuoche said when inspecting the recruited Yan militiamen.

In their eyes, what Li Zuoche saw was a kind of bewilderment.They don't know anything.For war, especially the new battlefield where a new generation of weapons is replaced.These Yan people had no idea what was going to happen.

Li Zuoche could only accept this and change them.

In order to speed up the training of these militiamen.Li Zuoche made some procedural changes.