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1675, Yuan Chonghuan was imprisoned for two years

No one can guess which weapon was the most expensive in ancient times.

The most expensive weapon in ancient times was arrows.

In fact, weapons like bows and arrows are not only very expensive, but also complicated and take a long time to make. And arrows are really unaffordable as consumables.

According to the "Qing Dynasty Huidian Cases": During the Yongzheng period, arrows made of green crane feathers were first-class. Every five arrows cost 1.8 taels, second-class arrows cost 1.6 taels, and third-class arrows cost 1.4 taels. Arrows made of cicada and goose feathers cost first-class.

Every five arrows cost 1.7 taels, the second grade 1.5 taels, the third grade 1.3 taels... Sesame-carved war arrows cost eight taels per hundred, and arrows made of wild goose feathers cost five taels per hundred.

You must know that the horse armor in the Qing Dynasty was paid only two taels of silver per month, plus thirty bundles of grass for horse feeding, three buckets of soybeans, and some other horse materials. The monthly salary for raising horses was less than one tael. The infantrymen were only paid one tael of silver per month.

Money. There are also some other subsidies.

With this little money, how can they afford to buy arrows themselves? There are very few arrows issued by the state, and the basic ones are enough. They can only scavenge on the battlefield, and at the same time, try to pick up as many arrows as possible. They really can’t afford to throw them away.

ah.

In the above account, there are no heavy eagle-feather arrows at all. It is not easy to shoot a creature like the eagle. That is a job that can only be done by eagle shooters. If you can't shoot a big eagle, just make a crappy eagle-feather arrow.

Taking the cheapest arrows as an example, a person will spend 0.5 taels per drill. The most expensive bullets for a matchlock gun are gunpowder. In addition to the relatively large investment in purchasing the gun, the matchlock gun consumes gunpowder and lead bullets at other times.

It's really not expensive.

Lead is not a precious metal.

As for arrows, the arrow clusters must be made of fine steel, and last but not least, must be made of good iron, otherwise they will not be sharp enough. Armor-piercing arrows are best made of triangular steel. I haven’t seen the inside of Yang Fan’s musket lead bullet.

Do they all need to be equipped with a steel core? Otherwise, the armor breaking effect will not be good because the lead bullet is too soft.

The Qing bow is very easy to use. It is based on the Manchu bow and incorporates some characteristics of the Kaiyuan bow to form a more finely crafted rib-angle recurve compound bow. The Qing bow has a fast shooting speed and strong armor-piercing ability. The Ming and Qing Ding leather

At this time, the bows and arrows of the Later Jin Army were not inferior to the firearms of the Ming Army, and they could be said to have reached the pinnacle level of ancient Chinese bows.

Until the First Opium War, Qing bows were not inferior to British rifles in terms of range, rate of fire or lethality. But it was not easy to train mature archers. The cost of arrows was particularly high. Production was also greatly affected.

Force majeure restrictions.

In a large-scale war, if you are equipped with a bow, it is difficult to use good arrows.

An arrow consists of four parts: arrowhead, arrow shaft, arrow feathers, and arrow bracket.

Before the Qing Dynasty, bamboo was mostly used as arrow shafts, and the earliest arrows were made of wood or bamboo without arrowheads. In the Qing Dynasty, arrowheads were made of metal, and "any arrowhead was made by smelting iron." In the Qing Dynasty, the "arrow shaft"

Made of poplar, willow, and birch.”

The production is very tedious and requires a lot of attention. The technical requirements are also very high.

If the arrow shaft is made of bamboo, in order to determine the location of the arrow bracket, you need to first observe the yin and yang sides of the bamboo wood. The yin side is often harder and heavier than the yin side.

Place the bamboo in the water, with the side facing up as yin and the side in the water as yang.

The bayonet part used to set up the string - the arrow bracket, should be taken as the dividing line between the negative side and the positive side, "engraving the mouth to hold the string is called the bracket".

The arrow feathers are made from the long, hard feathers on the bird's wings and tail, and are sandwiched on both sides of the arrow bracket. They are arranged symmetrically up and down, left and right, so that the arrow can be balanced horizontally and vertically after it is launched.

Because there were no woodworking lathes in that era, standard round arrow shafts were turned out. Needless to say, the cost was incurred by hand-cutting. The arrow shaft was not straight, or the cross-section was not perfectly round, so it was impossible to shoot accurately.

There is also a problem with the material of the arrow shaft.

The material of the arrow shaft is best to have important characteristics such as natural roundness, solid texture, sparse material between the eyes, and chestnut color. In the Qing Dynasty, the arrow shafts were mostly made of Liudao wood (Lonicerae). The wood is tough and not easy to use in the autumn and winter seasons in the north.

Cracking. And easy to process.

The last arrow feathers must be removed from the birds. The birds will stand there and let you pluck all their feathers. They will fly away when they see people from a distance.

In large-scale wars or long-term wars, it is impossible to obtain a large number of bird feathers. The geese raised by the common people have to be culled and the goose feathers are used as arrow feathers.

I won’t mention the performance of this kind of goose-feather arrow, just make do with it. It’s better than nothing anyway. The archer had better pray that there won’t be strong winds on the battlefield. Otherwise, it’s hard to say where it will float.

Chongzhen looked at the logo on the arrow coldly. The words Ning Yuanjun were very clear.

He turned to look at Tu Shan. Tu Shanyong was also called to attend the platform meeting today. In fact, Chongzhen didn't believe it at all. Yuan Chonghuan would really shoot arrows at Mangui's army. There was a rumor the day before yesterday that Mangui's army passed by Yuan Chonghuan's camp.

, was bombarded.

Tu Shan didn't show much interest and just whispered: "Your Majesty, don't forget the army led by Zhao."

Chongzhen was stunned for a moment, and then he understood what was going on.

Zhao led the army thousands of miles to the capital, but was surrounded in Zunhua and the entire army was wiped out. Since bows and arrows are so expensive and the supply is tight, the Qing army would definitely want to capture more arrows. Use the arrows that Zhao led them to use.

It couldn't be better.

Chongzhen did not intend to continue to dwell on this issue.

"Why did you kill Mao Wenlong?" Chongzhen asked with a cold face.

Yuan Chonghuan was stunned.

You gave me the power to manage Liaodong, and you also gave me the sword Shang Fang. When I killed Mao Wenlong, I reported to you and received your commendation. Now that His Majesty has turned his back, he doesn't know how to return for a while?

According to the usual practice, ministers cannot argue with the emperor. Why don't you ask him to say, "Didn't you say that I killed well? There is also a reward."

Seeing that he was dumbfounded and unable to answer, Chongzhen continued to ask.

"Why did Jimen's natural barrier fall in one day? You said it was sneaking through at night. Why couldn't more than 200,000 people hear the sound?"

In this matter, he was tricked by Mr. Zhou Ge. At this time, he could not argue, Zhou Wenyu had already run away. He has not been caught until now. He has no way to defend himself. You said that Zhou Wenyu did this privately, now

He disappeared. Wasn't he killed and silenced by you?

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Yuan Chonghuan's mouth was filled with bitterness and he could not say a word.

Seeing that he couldn't answer, Chongzhen's face became even more gloomy.

"Did you, Yuan Chonghuan, intentionally injure Man Gui?"

Yuan Chonghuan was speechless. His troops were at Guangqumen and Mangui was at Deshengmen. How could he hit them? Even when Mangui led his troops from the east yesterday, there was a very long distance between the two sides.

He smiled bitterly, he had already seen it. The emperor wanted to incriminate him without any excuse. Nothing he said was of any use. Today was a meeting specifically to deal with him.

After three questions, the emperor saw that he was silent and said, "What do you think of Governor Yuan?"

Immediately, a large group of censors came out to impeach Yuan Chonghuan.

"What's the point of allowing Ling Qi, a slave chief, to plunder and plunder under my city? I don't see Chong Huan killing him!"

"Chonghuan's troops are all capable of fighting. He picks up men and horses immediately. He once reported it to me. He also said that the captives did not have more than five thousand elite cavalry, and the rest were not enough to kill. Why didn't they move?"

"It's been more than a month since Guan Ning's army arrived in Beijing, but they always have to move their cameras and inflict heavy damage on him... Why does the supervisor allow the enemy to penetrate deep and harm the people?"

Yuan Chonghuan's heart was sinking. This was obviously all arranged. He was not given a chance to speak at all. How can one mouth speak more than dozens of others. If you really want to confuse right and wrong, there is nothing you can say.

Yuan Chonghuan remembered that during this period, he asked only 3,000 people to be allowed into the city for repairs.

Chongzhen said: "Not even thirty people!"

On the 25th, Yuan Chonghuan again invited "retired scholars from outside the city" and asked his ministers to provide assistance. Emperor Chongzhen's response was "no".

On the contrary, Mangui's troops were allowed to rest in the outer city. This shows that Emperor Chongzhen no longer trusts Yuan Chonghuan.

He already knew the emperor's intention at this time, and he didn't bother to defend himself. Anyway, now that the enemy is facing you, you can do whatever you want.

He questioned the emperor and the ministers and answered them with silence.

He stood there alone, without saying a word. His thin body stood stubbornly upright. Instead, there was a hint of ridicule at the corner of his mouth, laughing at the hypocrisy and incompetence of these people.

Zu Dashou was so frightened that he didn't know why it suddenly happened like this. His face was white and his whole body was shaking. He murmured: "What's going on, what's going on."

Yuan Chonghuan was very calm at this time. He kicked the trembling Zu Dashou and gave him a stern look. Don't embarrass me.


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