Chapter 382: This high-ranking person is too reliable
Of course, Zhiyao is building internal affairs, and military training is also part of the internal affairs.
In the current era, there are not many countries with standing armies, let alone families with standing armies.
Not to mention the countries that are too far away, among the Xia, only Chu has a standing army, that is, the "left and right". According to the family, only the Zhi family has a standing army.
In addition, as the internal chaos of Chu State became more and more chaotic, the "Left and Right Guang" belonging to the monarch were no longer the elite standing army during the period of the Chu Communist King. Not only were the sources of troops getting worse and worse, but the usual training was also abandoned, and the maintenance of armor and weapons was long gone.
The quantity is even more worrisome.
Therefore, the Zhi family's only remaining army that can be regarded as the regular army of Zhu Xia, especially under Zhi Yao's attention, the equipment of the Zhi family's standing army can be said to be absolutely sophisticated.
Zhiyao knew very well that quantity should be more important than quality in pursuit of quality. It was not about increasing the number of people in the standing army, but the main thing was to seize the opportunity for the Zhi family to gather young people for training two months a year.
There is a related term for this, Zhiyao calls it compulsory military service.
In fact, it is not a high-end thing, and it is not complicated at all. Zhiyao borrowed from the Western Han Dynasty's policy of changing soldiers, requiring various places to gather local young people in late summer and early winter every year, and then carry out military-related tasks locally.
Just training.
In the Jin State, the annual training of young adults was only for the "Xian" class, and there were no relevant requirements for the other Li Shu people.
Because the Jin State had such a system for "Xian", the young men within the Zhi family were very enthusiastic about being summoned for training. Outside the family, they were surprised how the Zhi family could prepare so many "Xian".
Like the Wei family, they quickly learned to follow up after being surprised. However, due to the cognitive gap or the logistics were weaker than the Zhi family, they added more "Xian", but the scale was not as good as the Zhi family.
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Subsequently, the Han family, the Hu family, the Zhong family and a few middle-level families that remained independent also began to increase their reserve personnel, copying the Zhi family's answer, and also summoned young men for military training in late summer and early winter.
Why choose late summer and early winter? Simply because there is nothing that must be done in these two seasons, and they have just finished farm work, which is very convenient for gathering.
In the same way, many countries choose to go to war in late spring and mid-autumn, also because the farm work is completed at that time, which will not affect farming and is more convenient for gathering.
After all, although many countries in Zhuxia are in the stage of farming and nomadic life, they will pay more attention to farming, and everything they do must not affect farming as a prerequisite.
Because she was in the Wei area, Zhiyao could not avoid inspecting the local military training in the second half of the year, but she only seemed a little ostentatious.
For example, I suddenly saw an army coming outside the village one day, and I was stunned when I saw it.
It wasn't that he was embarrassed that there was an enemy attack. He had seen the Zhi family's flag several times. How could he not tell what kind of army it was? He was simply surprised by the large number of cavalry and what seemed to be mostly soldiers wearing black armor.
Those cavalrymen were riding taller horses than usual. Their breastplates reflected silver light. Bows, quivers, and small bucklers were hung on the side of the horse's neck. In their hands, they held a spear about four meters long.
What the hell? Spears can be divided into walking spears and mounted spears? Of course they do!
First of all, the shaft of the walking spear will be thicker, and the spearhead will appear larger, that is, the "jiè" will be larger, the tapered "ridge" will be more protruding, and the semicircular "wings" will expand outward.
Bigger.
The shaft of the riding spear is thinner, and the material selection is more particular. It is either extremely tough, or it is easily brittle wood. At the same time, the spearhead will be smaller to reduce weight.
In fact, the emergence of cavalry spears is enough to illustrate the problem, proving that Zhishi's research on cavalry has made new progress.
The reason why the Chi cavalry are equipped with spears is embarrassing. In fact, the cavalry bows are too soft. They can shoot soldiers without armor, but their lethality against enemies with armor is almost non-existent.
What's even more embarrassing is that it is difficult and expensive to manufacture mounted crossbows, resulting in too few Zhishi cavalry who can be equipped with mounted crossbows.
Therefore, before a suitable cavalry bow is developed, long-range attacks are actually a harassment function, and the real lethality that can be exerted is very limited.
Zhiyao had no idea about those things before. After becoming a wise man who "understood everything", the Zhishi cavalry actually used cavalry and shooting down several times and made timely tactical adjustments.
The cavalry equipped with lances are already training in the direction of assault cavalry. Only by actually engaging in combat can we see the actual results of how powerful they are.
"Why did the armor become black?" This was the first time I saw a Zhishi soldier wearing black armor.
The blackening of the armor is due to the addition of a painting process. Currently, only Zhiyao's guards wear this kind of armor.
Painting armor plates is not a black technology. It may have been used in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty...maybe during the Yin and Shang Dynasties.
Of course, lacquer is difficult to obtain. Although there have been trees producing lacquer in Zhuxia for a long time, and there have been records of artificial planting for a long time, there is still a saying of "a thousand miles and one ounce of lacquer", which is obviously similar to those in Nanyang or South America.
There are large differences among tree species.
Chi's painted armor is not to increase defense, it is usually only one millimeter thick, it is mainly to prevent rust.
If there is no shortage of paint, armies in many places actually use it extensively on armor, and will paint thicker layers to increase the armor's defensive power.
It was not until the period of Emperor Wen (Liu Heng) of the Western Han Dynasty that Zhu Xia began to fully paint their armor, and the number of armors at that time was not large. It was not until the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty that the channels for obtaining lacquer were probably increased, and it was most likely also the case between Emperors Wen and Jing.
The accumulated inventory was large enough, and not only the number of painted armors used by the army increased sharply, but also the amount of paint used in palaces was also extremely large.
Zhiyao will not engage in private visits incognito. While not taking her own life seriously, it is also an act of abandoning the legacy of her ancestors.
To put it bluntly, the monarchs who engage in subterranean service are all mentally ill. If nothing happens ten thousand times, if something happens to them once, they will die a hundred times. If they are not dead, they will kill many people and their heads will not be saved.
Actually, right? The superior's inspection is more of a urging function. Let more people know that the superior is patrolling, and the effect is much better than sneaking to a certain place to find the faults of subordinates.
The reason is quite simple. If everyone knows that the superior is patrolling, but they don’t know where the superior will go, they will definitely pay more attention to it. Even if the manager is pretending, the effect will be the same.
If it's to catch pests in the team, doesn't the person in charge have a few close followers?
In other words, it would be better to send more people to secretly visit and investigate, rather than having a superior person play blind cat and hit a dead mouse, right?
This was not the first place Zhiyao had inspected. They took "Puyang" as their starting point and spent half a month making a full circle around Wei. Overall, Zhiyao was quite satisfied.
"Zongzi?" When Qu saw Zhiyao, the back of his head felt a little swollen and he was stunned.
Not only was he embarrassed, everyone who recognized Zhiyao had a dull expression.
How do you describe this situation? When ordinary people look at national leaders without any psychological preparation, their heartbeats will accelerate instantly, their brains will "bang" and then they will lose their thinking. This is probably what happens.
In the current era, the power of those in power is infinite. One word can determine life or death, and one word can make people rise to fame. Their authority is beyond imagination, and the sense of awe they give people is a super-double effect.
The village chief is a former Wei man who was captured by Zhishi a long time ago. Later, he became a slave and then became an auxiliary soldier. He had the same experience as Guan from Qidi.
This is a trick played by Zhiyao. It takes several years to integrate a group of people, then conduct certain training on them, and then send them back to the original place to work as grassroots.
It must be said that this method is very easy to use. It can always digest a certain occupied area in a very short time, and it is easier for the local people to have a sense of expectation for Zhishi.
That sense of expectation is when ordinary people learn that hard work can change their destiny and have greater hope for their future life.
If you have a goal that you can see and achieve, you will be more motivated.
What I have to say is that ordinary people in the past really had no goals. They just lived in a muddleheaded way, just because their goals were impossible to achieve.
It is the first time I have a goal in life, and it is still achievable. People who have not had a similar experience cannot describe it at all.
Zhiyao inspected the village without making any comments or even talking to the village. He just followed the route of "I came with great fanfare and left without saying a word, taking one or two lucky people with me"
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I was in a daze as the team left, and it wasn't until I camped that night that I finally came to my senses.
"I, I...became the eldest son's bodyguard?" I felt like I was dreaming.
What's the situation? The situation is that Zhiyao will randomly take away one or two people from some villages or cities during his inspection.
Of course, Zhiyao had his own purpose in taking them away, which is similar to creating a "langguan" system. If you can train them, train them. One day, you will serve as an officer in the army. If you can't, you can return to your hometown and work as a grassroots, further helping Zhishi to accelerate
Integration with the local area.
This method has been used by many powerful people, and has been proven to be effective to the point of exaggeration time and time again.
According to an unnamed person, he relied on this method to end his exile from a small island for the second time and successfully achieved a restoration. What was even worse was that a hundred days later, he was fooled again.
Of course, Zhiyao did not play it just for the sake of restoration, but mainly because he found that it was effective and in order to sum up more experience, he not only played this game with Qi people and Wei people, but also recently strengthened the training of Lu people.
Once Zhishi completes the annexation of Qi, his next goal is to stop Lu.
Therefore, Zhiyao swallowed Qi and Lu, and then quickly destroyed Yan. The Zhi family seemed to have a pattern of excluding Cao Wei and Guanzhong.
Well, it seems that apart from the smaller territory, the population of the Zhi family is smaller than that of Cao Wei?