Breastplate may be feasible in Zhuxia, but plate armor has basically no market in Zhuxia.
How should I put it? Zhuxia's requirements for the army are relatively high, which means it is difficult to pursue a single purpose. Just a flexible maneuver makes plate armor difficult to accept.
Let’s talk about the protection of thighs and calves. The West adopts the method of equipping metal leggings below the crotch, while Zhu Xia adopts the skirt armor route. The reason is of course that installing armor on the legs will make too many movements inflexible.
To put it bluntly, the territory of Zhuxia is really too vast, especially the mountainous terrain. Europa’s military ideas really cannot be applied to Zhuxia’s army.
Zhiyao could understand the Wei family's eagerness to make reforms. The Zhi family would also be very anxious when they saw other families making new moves and showing results time and time again.
Wei had a ready-made idea and saw its feasibility, so why not try it?
"I can be regarded as leading the development of the times." Of course Zhiyao felt pressure in her heart.
The "Wei soldiers" in the original version of history were all kinds of outrageous, and there was even a battle in which 50,000 "Wei soldiers" violently attacked the 500,000 Qin army.
No matter how little Zhiyao didn't understand the history of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, he didn't even know about the "Battle of Yin and Jin".
Of course, before the reform, the Qin State seemed to have been more powerful when Duke Mu of Qin was alive. Later, it was continuously brought down to the generation of Duke Xiao of Qin. It was only after Shang Yang's reform that it became more powerful.
The Zhi family is leading the times, and the Wei family within the Jin Kingdom has stepped up to keep up. The other families cannot remain indifferent.
The follow-up also proved that point. No matter how big the movement was, several families started some new measures of their own.
What is more interesting is that the Fox family and the Zhong family fully imitated the Zhi family within the framework of the Zhi family. They even sent people to "Huang Father" to learn from it after consulting with the Zhi family.
Others, no matter how good their friendship is, would not want people from other families to study here. Zhiyao has seen a series of impacts brought about by "further education".
At the beginning of modern times, America was willing to pay people to study in their country, for what purpose? Later, Jianbaji also attracted a large number of foreign students, and at least six or seven of the ten officials of a certain government went to Jianbaji to study.
experience.
When you go to a certain place, because they are really advanced, the more they understand the reality, the more you will feel awe, and then there will be a tendency for their thoughts to be assimilated.
To put it bluntly, being strong is a natural trait, and most people's will is easily shaken.
Fox and Zhong want to study at Zhi? They will experience countless experiences. The greater the gap between the two, the more likely they are to become "Zhi Biao".
Zhiyao himself wanted to swallow up the Hu family and the Zhong family, and the two families also showed a gesture of getting closer, so increasing cooperation became an ideal way.
To be honest, the Hu family and the Zhong family are just a handful among the existing high-ranking families. They obviously know this, and they very rationally do not conflict with anyone, and just hug the thickest one.
Of course, Mrs. Hu and Mrs. Zhong would never have thought that Zhiyao was going to Dai Jin.
If one day Zhiyao really gets things done, the whole country cannot be controlled by the Zhi clan in all aspects, and some "outsiders" will still be needed.
After many inquiries, Zhiyao learned that the "Wei Wu soldiers" were trained by Wei Ju himself.
During this period, Wei Ju mentioned to Zhiyao that he wanted to hire Zixia, and Zhi could just ask for anything he wanted.
This made Zhiyao a little surprised. Later she found out that Zixia was originally from Jin and was born in the "Wen" area.
Don't ask why Zhiyao didn't know before. This is just like why a country's political leaders have to know about a county-level official. There is no reason to know.
After Zhiyao got to know her better, she was confused as to why Wei Ju valued Zixia.
Among Zhi's talents, Zixia was a "Confucian" with high attainments in literature. If he had any characteristics, it was probably that he did not follow Confucius' principles.
At present, Zixia is not in Zhishi. He is completely free and has returned to his hometown of "Wen". It seems that he wants to teach and educate people.
Since Zixia once held a position in Zhishi, Wei Ju, who did not want Zhishi to misunderstand, specifically approached Zhiyao about hiring Zixia.
In fact, Zhiyao didn't know that Zixia had accepted two disciples, named Li Kui and Wu Qi respectively.
If Zhiyao knew about it, she would not let Zixia go so easily no matter what. Whether it was useful or not would be tied up in her hands.
Because Zhiyao didn't know, she naturally wouldn't stop the Wei family from recruiting Zixia.
As for what the Zhi family has obtained from the Wei family? The Wei family does not have very outstanding talents at the moment. It would be philistine to ask for anything else, so it can only be left to the future.
What Zhiyao and Wei Ju didn't realize was that they had added strength to the arrival of the new era. With Zixia's precedent, first there was a frequent flow of talents within the Jin Kingdom, and later it simply led to the flow of talents from other countries.
"We have entered the era of great reforms!" Zhiyao hugged Zhike and said something that no one could understand.
It’s not that I don’t understand what the Great Reform Era was, it’s just that Zhiyao said it in Mandarin.
The Zhao family of the Jin State was the first to take a step towards reform. Later, under the control of Zhi Yao, the Zhi family took the biggest step. The Wei family and other families followed suit, which means that the Jin State was undergoing a reform.
A country as powerful as Jin is seeking change, but other countries don't want to have more self-protection capabilities, and even some countries don't want to surpass Jin?
The Chu State, which had been in frequent contact with the Jin State recently, took the lead to follow suit. Chu Junzhang entrusted the new commander Yin Baigong Sheng to preside over the reform.
The first thing Bai Gongsheng did was to invite nobles from all over the country to the capital. During the banquet, he suddenly threw a cup as a sign of honor. A large group of warriors rushed out and killed some of the nobles who came to attend the banquet. The rest followed the list.
arrest.
The incident happened in the Chu State, and even though the Chu State was quite unruly, it would still make people’s jaws drop when they heard about it.
Zhao Yang was scolded for so long for killing Zhao Wu who came to attend the ceremony, and it became one of Zhao Jianzi's unavoidable black spots.
Duke Bai Sheng killed about twenty nobles who were invited to the banquet and imprisoned about thirty people. Can you say that the matter was not serious enough?
Something even more outrageous happened later. Bai Gongsheng united with the Qu family, the Jing family, and the Zhao family to send troops, sweeping through one family after another, and relatively easily wiped out the leaderless families.
Among the Qu family, the Jing family and the Zhao family, the Qu family appeared the earliest, while the Zhao family just emerged. They are not the most powerful people in Chu State now, but with this action, Bai Gongsheng really got rid of them.
The rise of those disobedient families, the Qu, Jing, and Zhao families, will become an inevitable trend.
Bai Gongsheng did this for one reason: he wanted to use such drastic measures to end the separatist situation within the Chu State and re-strengthen the central government's control over the local areas.
"Wu Guo is just looking at it like that?" Zhiyao didn't understand this very well.
To be honest, Zhiyao was really shocked by Bai Gongsheng's ruthlessness and determination!
There is no doubt that killing nobles will bring a bad reputation. The reason is that the right to speak is in the hands of the nobles. When the nobles see so many of their kind being killed, they will not care about the reasons. First, they will have a "
The empathy of "things harm their own kind".
If this kind of thing is done, it will not leave a good reputation. If it is not done, a large-scale civil war will break out. It means that the risk is too great. Bai Gongsheng is using himself as firewood to illuminate the Chu country.
The current situation is that the Chu State is in war all over the country. It is impossible for the Wu State not to be aware of the situation in the Chu State. Why is Fu Chai just watching?
On this day, Zhiyao came to attend the banquet again.
The venue was the Han family's residence. There were not many people attending the banquet, mainly because of the level gap between them.
Let's put it this way, there is a class gap between people, and they will form their own circles. It really doesn't mean that you can enter if you want to.
Besides, the gap between each other is too big, and the weaker party will be the one who suffers when the time comes.
A word of conscience, if you know you are weak, don't use force. Others have long been tired of hearing flattery, and if you bump into it even slightly, it will lead to disaster.
The one who organized the game today was Han Geng, and those present were either "Qing" or "Qing"'s children. It was considered a high-end game.
At the beginning, Han Geng pointed out the theme and exchanged his thoughts on innovation.
I don't have much interest in having this kind of banquet with Zhiyao, and it won't work if I don't come.
As long as Lao Han's dishes were a bit new, Zhiyao wouldn't have to move her fork a few times. She would just sit back and listen to them talk about possible or unfeasible tricks.
Most of them seem to be executable, but in fact there are big problems when they are actually implemented.
For example, Wei Ju mentioned the complete abolition of the "well field system", but did not mention any new plans to replace it.
Then, when Han Geng mentioned the release of slaves, he inevitably mentioned the extremely violent slave uprising in the State of Lu.
According to rumors, Bandit Zhi led his troops on a rampage all over the territory of the Lu State. He defeated the troops of the Lu State that came to attack several times. After repeated ravages, he was close to the areas of several small countries.
If nothing else goes wrong, Sanhuan of Lu State should enter the stage of exerting force, forcing Bandit Zhi to lead his team into several small countries?
In this wave, the Lu State suffered the heaviest losses, and the other countries were not completely unaffected. The scale of slave uprisings was not as large as that of the Lu State. What was terrible was that it happened frequently. Then there was the problem of the number of assassinations of nobles by the countrymen increasing again and again.
Taking advantage of the great chaos in the Lu State, Lao Zhijia absorbed more than 100,000 Lu people in less than seven months, which really made a lot of money.
"I heard that there was also great chaos in the state of Wu. There was a violent uprising of Yue Li at the Dihe River, and there were many followers." Han Geng said.
Zhiyao's attention immediately focused.
It turns out that the reason why Wu State did not seize the opportunity to attack Chu State was because a slave uprising also broke out?
"How come the Han family got the news first?" Zhiyao was confused about this.
Zhishi paid a lot of attention to the south, especially when Fucha got back on his feet. Seeing Goujian's various tempers, he didn't know what the situation would be like.
The Han family sent the news back before the Zhi family. The main reason was that they sent people to Wu State to seek to obtain smelting technology, and it seemed that they had achieved some results.
No joke, in terms of smelting technology, the south was really ahead at the beginning. The old Han family went to Wu State to learn from it, and didn’t the old Wei family also send people to Chu State to learn from it?
Why not seek advanced technology from Zhishi? This question is too profound to give an answer...