Do you know how many princes or heads of families are looking forward to another civil strife in Jin?
All the external countries are waiting for another civil strife in Jin, so that they can take a breather and at the same time take advantage of the civil strife in Jin to expand their own territory.
In the past two hundred years or so, history has been cyclical like this. The internal unity of the Jin State was either for external expansion or dictating various things to the princes. Whenever there was civil strife in the Jin State, the princes had the opportunity to do their own thing.
Why did the State of Zheng have so much courage to abandon the northern cities? Isn't it because they saw the instability within the State of Jin and wanted to wait for the internal chaos of Jin?
Therefore, when the news of the alliance between the Zhi family, the Wei family and the Han family of Jin reaches Zheng State, it will definitely make Zheng State's monarchs and ministers beat their chests and stamp their feet, and stage another scene of uproar and crying.
The rest of the countries that were also waiting for the civil strife in Jin, they either moved closer to Jin again, or they found a thick thigh to hug, or they quickly hugged each other to keep warm.
After the oath of alliance, Wei Ju and Han Geng obviously relaxed a lot. They stepped up their efforts to arrange the delivery of the city. At the same time, they frequently visited the Zhi family's residence and proposed some cooperation intentions other than military affairs.
For example, the Wei family hopes to purchase more weapons and equipment from the Zhi family.
Last time, Wei purchased a batch from Zhi's. After putting them together, he found that they were really useful. He wanted to purchase them again but was worried that Zhi's would refuse, so he never mentioned them.
Why are Wei's worried about Zhi's rejection? With their own knowledge and thinking, they feel that good things are for their own use, and how can they easily sell them to others?
As everyone knows, Zhishi is still happy to sell it to others in exchange for other supplies such as grain, livestock, and poultry.
This time, Wei Ju saw that Zhi was willing to sell, and cautiously made a request to purchase two thousand sets of armor and various weapons totaling fifty thousand.
Zhiyao was willing to sell, but only made one request, that is, the Wei family paid the bill in grain.
Of course there is money now, but the circulation of money is not widespread and is more in the form of barter.
One thing has not changed, food has always been a part of currency, and this situation has remained until two thousand years later.
Another hard currency is cloth, but Zhishi itself is mainly engaged in textiles. If there is any shortage of cloth, it is impossible to lack cloth. What should be worried is that too much cloth is produced and cannot be sold.
The Han family also desired the Zhi family and expressed the intention to purchase horses.
Horses? In the past, the Zhao family was a big horse seller, but later the Hu family took over, and later the Zhi family had the largest number of horses.
It was the Zhi family who robbed the Zhao family first, and they have been plundering Loufan for several years. Lin Hu and Dai Guo also seized a large number of war horses from Dai Guo last year, not to mention the Zhi family themselves in Hebei.
And the ranch built on the plain south of "Xianyu" is out.
According to less serious statistics, the current number of war horses held by Zhishi is about 100,000. Due to the consumption of war and the elimination of old war horses, the number of war horses can still be maintained by several thousand every year. As the size of the ranch continues to increase,
The upward trend in the number of war horses must be more obvious as time goes by.
There is basically no shortage of war horses in the Central Plains countries, but the number is still small and large. In the past, there was enough for chariots. But when it comes time to build cavalry, the requirements for horses are higher, and the original number will become insufficient.
In fact, even the southern countries have no shortage of horses. For example, Chu and Wu have their own horse herding bases. They can use them themselves and sell them to others.
As for why there will be a shortage of war horses in the future political power in the south or in the small imperial court? Perhaps the pastures have turned into farmland, or maybe the pastures have turned into woods. The most likely reason is that the technology of breeding war horses has been lost.
"The Han family wants to practice cavalry?" Zhiyao asked.
Han Geng considered that it was not an infringement of Zhi's patent rights, nodded and said: "Qin and Bai Zhai both have cavalry. If I are their enemy, how can I not have them?"
To be honest, there were many forces that used single-horse riding without hesitation in the past, including ethnic groups other than Zhuxia, the Qin State, the Dai State, the Zhao family, and the Hu family. It was really not the exclusive patent of any one family.
However, no matter which side they are on, they are all mounted infantry, using war horses to travel. When it comes time to fight, they dismount and become infantry. The number that can actually ride and shoot is still very small.
Currently, because Chi's invention of stirrups and saddles is being imitated at an extremely fast speed, gradually all forces have more cavalry that can ride and shoot. What is more embarrassing is that the method used is wrong, and the power of the cavalry is temporarily limited.
That way.
The truth of the matter is that, whether a military unit is powerful depends on the way it is used. It is not that the emergence of that military unit can immediately suppress all kinds of dissatisfaction.
Zhiyao never worried that stirrups, saddles or horseshoes would become useless items on the street. They took the lead in forming cavalry and had already reaped the dividends brought by the cavalry. The next step was nothing more than working on tactics and tactics.
If you don’t take out good things and use them because you are worried about spreading them, wouldn’t it mean that you are giving up eating because of choking?
As for whether saddles and horseshoes will become a disaster for nomadic people in the future because they have stirrups?
As long as the civilization of the Central Plains remains strong, the nomadic ethnic groups will only develop towards being good at singing and dancing.
If the civilization of the Central Plains fails to live up to its expectations, it will not avoid being bullied. It is really not the reason why nomadic people have stirrups, saddles and horseshoes.
This is the conclusion Zhiyao drew from history books.
In the era without stirrups, saddles and horseshoes, the countries of the Spring and Autumn Period were not afraid of nomads at all. During the Warring States Period, Qin, Zhao and Yan all pressed nomads to the ground and hammered them. In the early Western Han Dynasty, it was the Xiongnu's turn to conquer the newly born Han Empire.
After pressing it to the ground and hammering it, the Han Empire later turned around and started chasing death and chasing the north.
Therefore, the question of who is fighting between the farming ethnic group and the nomadic ethnic group is not just because of stirrups, saddles and horseshoes. There are too many factors involved.
In fact, as long as the Central Plains dynasty does not fall into internal strife and is unable to extricate itself, and does not completely crush the nomads, there are very few examples of being bullied to the point of being unable to fight back. However, whoever is willing to work hard to govern is not holding the nomads in check.
hammer?
This is the Central Plains dynasty that leads the nomads in terms of smelting, craftsmanship, population, productivity, etc. The nomads rarely open too many technology trees, and generally have an advantage in animal power.
Are you scared? The Zhao Dynasty was not a serious Central Plains dynasty at the beginning, and later it became a small imperial court in the south.
"Modern people have great misunderstandings about nomadic people. They think that nomadic people only eat meat every day. How do they know that nomadic people can only eat meat very rarely?" Zhiyao has personally inspected nomadic tribes.
What is the truth? The staple food of the nomadic people is various dairy products, with hunting and gathering to add extra food, and they can even farm. However, compared to the careful service of the farming people, the nomadic people are more rough and generally
Just sow some seeds and leave, and see if God will give you face when you come back, and how much harvest you can get.
For nomadic people, cattle, sheep, and horses are important assets and cannot be slaughtered for food.
In fact, nomadism is just the next stage of civilization compared to the previous gathering and hunting. The production method is far behind that of farming, and it is more precarious. A snow disaster can finish them off, and it is not like the natural disasters suffered by farming ethnic groups.
It will be possible to recover in the coming year because livestock are not like plants that mature in one season.
Another truth is that before the emergence of modern animal husbandry, that is, before the development and popularization of veterinary technology, nomadic people eating meat all the time was just the imagination of some literati. They often slaughtered livestock for food, which made it difficult to maintain their nomadic livelihood.
Nomadism appeared after the economic stage of gathering and hunting in the history of human economic ecology. Its essence is to use the feeding habits and mobility of herbivorous animals to transform plants that cannot be used by humans in vast areas into what humans need.
So, compared with the traditional agriculture that emerged after it, nomadic pastoralism is actually an extremely inefficient production method.
No joke, the farming people still have a fixed output from their fields. The busiest seasons of the year are spring sowing, summer harvest, summer replanting and autumn harvest. The rest of the time, they still have time to be busy with other things.
Calculated in terms of modern acres of land per mu, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, a family needed thirty to fifty acres of farmland to support themselves; by the Western Han Dynasty, the corn yield per mu could reach about two dan, and even the fine grain yield could reach three dan per household.
From 15 acres to 15 acres, it is basically enough for a person; then there is a decline, and the yield per mu drops to less than two stones. (Data taken from)
Nomadic people take care of livestock all year round. Raising one sheep requires about twenty acres of grassland, and one family cannot live on one sheep.
Sheep are raised just for slaughtering and eating, and the cycle of raising them to maturity is about one year. Sheep are raised for meat, so they are definitely a one-time product.
The data is there. Can you tell which one requires more land, farming or animal husbandry? How devoid of common sense do you have to think that the quality of life of nomadic people is higher than that of farming people, or that nomads
The potential of ethnic groups is higher than that of farming ethnic groups?
"The generation of nomads has their highlight moments, and the rest of the historical nodes are like that." Zhiyao never believes that one highlight moment represents everything.
Human beings will always subconsciously ignore things they are accustomed to, and only remember and emphasize individual cases, creating survivor bias, and then creating mental confusion for themselves.
Just look at history and you will know.
In the rise and fall of global history, the farming ethnic group has always occupied a favorable position. Even if the nomadic ethnic group has a moment of glory, it is extremely short-lived. Many farming ethnic groups have been repeatedly bullied by the nomadic ethnic group. In fact, it is mostly caused by their own failure to live up to their expectations.
Because Lao Zhi's own horses were not enough, Zhi Yao refused to sell horses to the Han family.
Han Geng was shocked when he was rejected, but he didn't dare to pester anymore, and instead made a request to purchase armor, weapons and cloth.
This time, Zhiyao also did not refuse, but asked to pay the bill in food.
Old wise men have always believed that the more food, the better, especially when a big project is being launched, and the need for more cavalry will intensify the consumption of food.
"In five years, after the second five-year plan is completed, the number of cavalry recruited should exceed 30,000, right?"
"Of course the armor can be sold, and it's time to sell it, so as not to delay the renewal of your own family."
What update? In fact, Zhiyao has come up with new tricks in the manufacturing of armor.
