The weapon tycoon who traveled to Daqin

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Finally, the overall defensiveness of the carriage is not strong. From the idea of ​​​​the appearance of armored combat vehicles, it can be found that tanks are actually armored combat vehicles. Another nickname is that the earliest mobile weapons of mankind are chariots, but human industrial civilization has changed its driving method. And it is equipped with armor, which has a certain degree of defense. On this basis, weapons are added, so that a brand-new weapon that perfectly combines defense and offense is formed. This is the armored combat vehicle.

"Can this weapon be sold to us?" the special envoy of Yan State asked eagerly

"Of course the situation in Yan State is very bad now, so our king asked us to show you Qin's weapons and equipment display." Wang Jian obviously became a weapons sales specialist.

"To be honest, only one battalion is equipped with such weapons in Qin State. If necessary, our factory can produce more chariots," Wang Jian said.

"General, you also know that the current situation of Yan State is very bad. We need excellent weapons such as new equipment and special tanks. We hope that we can get these weapons immediately by paying the money now," Prince Dan eagerly interjected at this time.

"In terms of this price," Wang Jian came to play hard to get at this time.

"It's easy to say that the equipment of a battalion in Yan State can still be paid for," Prince Dan said loudly. He has planned to spend the military expenditure from his own property. Prince Dan has been serving as a hostage in Qin State for a long time. Yes, and King Qin also thinks so, but it is a tradition after all, even if Qin does not need such a hostage, Yan also thinks it is necessary to improve the relationship between Qin and do this as a gesture of sincerity.

However, this kind of action gave Prince Dan of the Yan Kingdom another unique advantage, that is, to take advantage of the rapid development of the Qin State to purchase a large number of Qin State's industrial products at cheap prices, from steel pipes, cement, asphalt, to screws and screwdrivers, etc. He reselled a series of products to the country of Yan in large quantities, earning a huge price difference. This huge price difference is enough to make Prince Dan the richest man in the country, but he only dumped the goods and did not participate in the country's construction. This is mainly because he has been in the country for a long time. Because of the state of Qin

However, Prince Dan's patriotism allowed him to buy the equipment and equipment of this battalion with his own money Rich and quite bold

That is to help Yan State establish the Yan State Air Force and at the same time retrain a new Yan army. This Yan army is equipped with a new smokeless gunpowder rear-pull rotary magazine rifle and a water-cooled air-cooled machine gun. Infantry light and heavy artillery, these weapons and equipment were equipped with three full-staffed divisions, and Qin State exported a batch of weapon manufacturing machine tools to Yan State to allow Yan State to manufacture subsequent weapon production.

This proposal stunned the special envoy of the Yan State, Ju Xin, but Wang Jian thought it was very difficult because it involved the politics of the Yan State and this kind of politics is very delicate. The power struggle between the king and the prince, especially the relationship between father and son, and the core is the control of the army. Qin Fang Wang Jian evaded this question on the spot on the grounds that he needed to consider technical patents, but armored vehicles and infantry weapon systems can be discussed through discussion. As for weapons export processing and manufacturing, Qin needs further consideration.

However, when the Yan and Qin countries purchased a battalion of armored combat vehicles and equipment, another new situation had taken place on the eastern front Before contact, they began to flee on a large scale. Their weapons were not as powerful as Qi's army at all.

A flag of Yan State was thrown down from a dilapidated county town of Yan State, and replaced by the battle flag of Qi Army and the flag of cavalry troops

"Follow me into the city" shouted a Qi cavalry officer

"Come on!" The cavalry of the Qi army rushed into the city quickly. The entry of the Qi army marked the fall of the county. Before the county of Yan State officially entered the city, the local governor opened the city gate and surrendered. It is clear that the dilapidated city cannot resist the attack of those explosives and shells. It is better to surrender voluntarily than to be harmed by innocent people, and the local garrison has no intention of fighting, so they all ran away.

The main force of the Yan army has become an empty shell. On the surface, there are only 3 people in the large establishment, but in reality there are only more than 5000 people, and these 5000 people can't even open their guns, let alone go to war.

The local army is even more so. For example, the local garrison in this small county that has just surrendered even has bows and arrows among the weapons. Some soldiers still use bronze spears and halberds as weapons, and some private armed forces are already equipped with machine guns, especially the Qi army. The rhythm of changing firearms, and the Yan army actually still uses cold weapons. The difference in weapons directly affects the difference in combat effectiveness between the two sides. Needless to say, it is very wise to surrender and flee.

However, the equipment of Yan State from the border to Yandu is everywhere, and it is impossible to form a combat force at all.

But Yan State is very special in Liaodong. There are mountain people in the north. These mountain people are tough. Even the best-equipped Qin army can only fight their opponents in a tie in the mountains. The east and south of Liaodong are North Korea. These Koreans formed some small countries. These small countries began to migrate southward from today’s Changbai Mountain to live on the Korean Peninsula. The reason for this is that in Liaodong, the civil armed organizations of Yan State and Qin State mercenaries jointly launched attacks against it. harass its life

This kind of harassment is disastrous. A large number of people are captured as slaves, and some old, weak, sick and disabled are directly killed. Their property is robbed as spoils of war. This kind of harassment cuts off the signs of human activities in this area from the root, and then these The armed forces will establish an activity base in this settlement and then continue to expand to the surrounding area, and the north has a huge demand for slaves. This demand leads to continuous harassment of such wars.

This is also how the Koreans in the east and south formed some small countries. These small countries jointly established the Korean State in order to resist the constant harassment of armed groups. This country also has a confederal system, which means a federation of states. The leaders take turns. The current stable settlement of such a country is on the south bank of the Yalu River today. They hope that the river will serve as a line of defense against the attacks of armed groups.

This kind of harassment has tempered the civilian armed forces of Yan State. They are good at sneak raids, reconnaissance and mountain operations. This is the reserve combat force of Yan State, but no one in Qin State and Yan State has noticed this force, but it has let another country know that this country is Qi State.

Sangmoon of the United North Korea called it so in a later statement. The United North Korea believed that they could not sit still like this. They believed that the greatest threat to their country was the constant harassment from the North. This harassment was disastrous because the United North Korea lost a lot of people. North Korea is a lightly agricultural country. This country can grow certain crops, such as millet in the Central Plains, but has no technology to grow wheat. The rest relies on hunting for a living. In terms of technology, it also knows how to smelt bronze.

But these are very backward for those countries that can keep shooting with guns, coupled with the stimulation of the slave trade, this kind of violation makes the United North Korea feel a great sense of crisis

For this reason, the United North Korea began to actively seek foreign aid. They arrived at today's Qi State by sea and by boat. After constant exchanges with the fishermen of Qi State, they finally knew that Qi State was at war with their enemy and that the enemy could not defeat this country. After receiving the news Afterwards, the United North Korea sent a special diplomatic mission to the state of Qi

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The South Korean diplomatic missions soon arrived in Linzi, but the upper echelons of Qi State thought they were a group of barbarians and did not receive them immediately, and treated them coldly.

Qi State has Qi State's own plans. In their view, if they unite with the barbarians to deal with Yan State, Qi State's prestige will be greatly damaged, especially the practice of introducing aliens to attack the Chinese state is very undesirable.

If this is done, then Qi State will face a major diplomatic crisis. This crisis is the loss of the sense of recognition of the Central Plains countries in the same ancestors. This loss of awareness is extremely terrible. If the pretext for attack is formed, Qi will face new pressure

For this reason, Qi State tried its best to deal coldly with the North Korean mission. In fact, Qi State also has its own ability to solve Yan State. The prerequisite is that no country takes intervention measures, but Qin State's export phalanx of relaxing arms exports is destined not to let Qi Guo's idea succeeded

The major military factories in Qin State have adopted various means and tried their best to obtain military weapon orders from Yan State. The weapons they provide range from the latest rifles to submachine guns and machine guns. These weapons are more advanced than those equipped by the Qin Army, but Yan State Although the country's shy weapons are good, they have to spend money. The financially tight country of Yan cannot spend a large amount of military expenditure to buy arms.

Although Yan State has a huge demand for war weapons, it does not mean that it purchases a large amount of war weapons. This has a lot to do with a country's wealth power. Yan State just lacks such wealth power. This wealth power is not just gold. Production and the growth of national wealth are necessary to create wealth. At the same time, it is very important for a country to be good at management. The monarch of Yan State lacks this kind of management ability. They just blindly ask for the wealth of the country instead of contributing what they should do

In fact, the largest consumer of Qin's firearms comes from Chu State, followed by Qi State. The military weapons consumption ratio of Chu State and Qi State is very close, and the positions of the first and second positions of the two countries have been exchanged many times within a month.

The amount of firearms purchased by Chu is from private groups, and the amount is very large. Their smallest unit is calculated in hundreds. The arms trade in Chu State is a business that has just emerged. Before this business was extremely profitable, the arms business was always in the hands of the Koreans. In their hands, they resold arms and weapons from fire dealers in the Qin Dynasty and sold them to Chu State. The price is very expensive. Most of the buyers are nobles. They buy weapons mainly to look after their homes.

But now the demand is getting stronger and stronger because the inflow of weapons is relative. Merchant ships of the Chu State can import a large amount of weapons from the ports of the Qin State. These weapons are not only cheap but also have superior performance. Some of them are pistols and submachine guns made by the original Qin State factory. This gun has strong firepower and can fire dense bullets in an extreme time, but this demand comes from water pirates

Water pirates longed for an automatic weapon when they were constantly robbing merchant ships of the Qin State, especially in the narrow space on the ship, so this weapon was quickly favored by water pirates and bought in large quantities. They thought the cost of machine guns was still too high. The price of the machine gun is as high as [-] gold. Although it comes with [-] rounds of ammunition, the price-performance ratio is still close, so the water pirates still purchase semi-automatic weapons such as submachine guns and pistols.

In addition to water pirates, there are also private merchants in Chu State. They mainly focus on maintaining their own safety and going out to capture slaves. Their combat targets are the dense jungles in the south, so the types of weapons they purchase are very diverse, ranging from pistols to rifles, submachine guns to shotguns. They will buy and purchase some other powerful weapons. These weapons include ** safety explosives and hand grenades.

What is strange is that the purchase volume of the Chu government is very small, except for the [-] water-cooled machine guns purchased by the Chu State Navy, they have not bought anything for the time being. This surprised Qin State very much.

The procurement of military weapons in Chu State is mainly purchased by non-governmental organizations, while the procurement of military weapons in Qi State is more reflected in the military. Qi State imports a large number of weapons from Qin State. There is still a big gap in the overall quality of the weapons. The best ones are the two weapons workshops in Linzi. The weapons made by these two workshops are almost the same as those made by Qin State Machinery except for the serial number.

However, those made in other regions are purely rough products. These military weapons are not even used by domestic soldiers. The reliability is too bad. The locking structure of some barrels often causes bullets to jam. soldier has a headache

Manual work requires a certain level of technical content, that is, work experience accumulated over a long period of time. This kind of work experience requires time accumulation, and the summary of science and technology can speed up this accumulation time. Some processing difficulties can also be solved using scientific methods, such as some of the machine tools. Density, etc. Qin's domestic production is solved by this kind of processing. They not only have scientific management methods, but also the compactness of machine tools and various processing methods, while Qi only relies on the experience of manual workers. It can be clearly seen when mass production

Moreover, the Qi State changed to a large number of military weapons in an extreme time. This change requires a lot of funds to support Qi. With such savings, financial resources and needs, Qi State can become Qin State. The second largest purchaser of military weapons, their weapons purchases are done through the Koreans. The Koreans buy from the Qin people at a lower price and then sell them, or the Qin merchants directly participate in it. However, the weapons they buy are not ordinary weapons but submachine guns. Machine guns are two types of weapons that Koreans cannot buy in large quantities because Qin merchants have monopolized this purchase channel.

The Qi army's 15 troops have been replaced with weapons from Qin on a large scale. Except for some valve rifles in stock, most of these weapons are new-style long rifles with rear pull rotation and magazine design. The range of this rifle is extremely amazing. The shooting distance of one thousand steps surprised the people of Qi. It is precisely because of this that they buy in large quantities.

But this is not enough. For the Qin ** factory, these arms orders are just to maintain their livelihood. If you want to make money, you must fight a big war. Only in this way can you earn more money.

However, the state of Qin has no such plans in the country. King Qin, monk Wen, and most of the cabinet members held a long meeting in Xianyang Palace. The content of the meeting was to establish a dense transportation network for the state of Qin. After the completion of the transportation network, the speed of logistics and urban construction for the state of Qin Speed ​​and all kinds of business activities will have a great impact

"There will be three layers of railway lines in the north, and then three vertical railways will be built, and then the local government will invest in the construction of branch lines between these railways," Meng Yi said.

The state of Qin first wants to cover the north with a large-scale railway network starting from the Yinshan Mountains of the Yellow River. The construction of three vertical and three horizontal railways will cover the entire grassland. In the middle of the railway network is a dense road and expressway network. There are already several intermittent railway lines in the vertical and horizontal directions. The next step is to build such a railway and highway network in Qin State

The railway and road network in the Guanzhong area is currently the most developed area in Qin State, but Qin State wants to extend the role of this railway transportation hub. There is only one railway line in the Western Regions. This is caused by the special terrain, which cannot be changed.

However, there are many railways in the south that will be built. Bashu is the land of Qin’s strategic preparations. Qin has been operating here for several generations, but there are still no railways there. King Qin’s intention is very clear, that is, to build the Bashu railway at all costs, but there. What the special geographical environment requires is not machinery and equipment but a large number of manpower. At present, the most urgent thing in Qin is manpower.

The number of slave deaths has not been clearly calculated, but the number of deaths has always been high. On average, [-] people per ten people died due to heavy engineering projects. The death rate is very high, resulting in an extremely strong demand for slaves, but Qin has not yet solved it. The ability to capture slaves in the north has dropped to the lowest point in history. The Huns adopted guerrilla tactics to deal with the Qin army and Zhao army. They paid attention to protecting their own vital forces. Except for some actively seeking asylum from the Qin State, the rest of the mountain people in the east fled to more In the remote primeval forest, the Koreans in the south began to take the initiative on a large scale and inevitably carried out strategic migration. They have roughly entered today's Korean peninsula.

The south of Qin is today's Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, and the west is the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. One is mountainous and the other is a high-altitude plateau. The population density of the two places is not large and it is difficult to exert greater combat effectiveness.

But the King of Qin would not consider these things. He thought the Western Regions could solve this part of the demand. Shang Wen could only shake his head. For Qin, the Western Regions were too far away. It would be difficult for Qin to further expand the results of the war if it could not effectively solve the logistics supply problem.

However, the merchant armed forces of the state of Chu are helping the state of Qin to solve this huge demand for slaves, and this demand path has gone through a long time, and the trade is mainly based on slaves, and the auxiliary arms, weapons, light industry, raw materials, etc. up

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The construction of the Bashu Railway requires a large number of slaves. In addition to the construction of the railway connecting Wan and the Yangtze River in the south, a large number of slaves are also required. The construction of the southern railway is progressing slowly. High, and the cost of transporting a large amount of southern resources from the highway is too high for Qin's industry, which requires Qin to quickly open up the railway channel from the Yangtze River in the south to the north.

The limited railway sections in the south, especially Wanna, an important transfer station of the southern railway, have accumulated a large amount of industrial commodities and raw materials. Qin’s military and various industrial finished products. Camera batteries and even cars. In addition, there are various light industrial products from Sinzheng, South Korea. Clothes Shoes, socks, leather shoes, belts, and various blended fabrics, etc. A large amount of ore and copper ingots transported from the south are piled up here, and it has become an important north-south cargo transfer station.

Wan's status is so important mainly because a section of railway was built here and this is the north-south traffic artery, so Wan developed into a traffic transfer station in an extreme time. This also shows from the side that the railway is important to the south. The importance of transportation Large-scale transportation can only be done by railroads and not by automobile and horse-drawn carriages

Just as Qin was planning their railway and road network step by step, the Yangtze River in the south has undergone tragic changes. This change has dyed the Yangtze River red.