It is a matter of time before firearms are equipped, and it is inevitably a process of equipping the core troops first and then extending them to the rest of the troops.
The core army is the first to be equipped, there are considerations about loyalty, and on the other hand, it is not that production is restricted.
After all, the output is only that, and when the production capacity reaches the demand, more troops will be installed.
At present, the Han State can produce about 20 to 30 guns of various calibers per month, first of all, due to the constraints of materials, not that there are not enough craftsmen.
The material used in the current artillery is not steel, mainly copper, but also in line with the evolution process of artillery, first play with the bronze cannon to be familiar, and slowly look for materials that can play better performance, that is, a material research process, you have to wait for a material to be thoroughly pondered before there will be a step of upgrading.
In fact, there is such a product as steel in the Han Kingdom, which is just a deeper refining of iron ore, which also involves chemistry, such as chemical additives and some proportions, but it is inseparable from the increase in temperature.
Now there are absolutely not many nations in the world that can produce steel, the Han people are one, Ah San is also one of them, and then the Romans and Persians, and the rest are really gone.
There are many peoples who have not even mastered the art of smelting bronze, let alone iron or steel.
The Indians have spent thousands of years not mastering the technology of metal smelting, and the World Island has entered the stage of firearms, but they still live a life in the Stone Age.
What is the reason why the Indians are so uncivilized is not that they are stupid, in fact, there is no open-pit copper mine in North America, first of all, there is a lack of materials to open the "smelting technology line", and the bronze stage has not entered.
I don't know what metal is, the relevant detection technology has not been extended, the Iron Age, the Steel Age just can't be clicked on anyway.
The first discovery that ore can be made into bronze or iron tools is the credit of volcanic lava, so that human beings know that the original temperature is enough, and then find the right ore, they can use the heating and combustion method to smelt the metal they want, and then carry out various processing for various metals.
All technology is based on hypotheses and conjectures, and many times there is enough technology to make something, but because there is no relevant concept, it is naturally impossible to talk about making it.
After making gunpowder, Zhuxia traveled for hundreds of years before it was used for military purposes, but this process was interrupted by the nomadic people from the steppes called Mongolia, and since then research on firearms has lagged behind Europa.
To say that the use of gunpowder was interrupted by barbarism, a lot of science and technology was actually locked up by Zhuxia himself, and the credit was naturally to reject the Confucianism of strange skills and ingenuity, and the contempt and contempt for craftsmen itself was to cut off the way forward, otherwise the mechanical research that was still very slippery in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period would go back more and more Liu Yan will never take the wrong path, not only will he not cut himself off, but he will also follow the route he knows firmly.
Of course, it is impossible for him to do it himself, but if he can be used as a mouth cannon mentor and put forward relevant concepts, there will naturally be countless people to study them.
"In less than ten years, Dahan will change a lot."
Liu Yan is now riding on the horse-drawn rail car with several ministers, feeling what it means to turn the wind: "The pre-Qin invented the galloping road, and it was only in our generation that he reappeared. ” Indeed, Chidao was widely used in the pre-Qin Dynasty, and it was responsible for calculating the weight in wartime, and it was also used to provide civilian transfer of goods or transport people in peacetime, but with the collapse of the Qin Empire, Chidao disappeared.
It is not only the gallop that has disappeared with the Qin Empire, but also the assembly line operations, I really don't know if the Han Empire really doesn't know those technologies, or if it is simply abandoned in order to draw a clear line with the Qin Empire.
It doesn't seem right to say that the old Liu family abandoned the gallop and assembly line operations in order to draw a clear line with the Qin Empire, the old Liu family even inherited the system of the Qin Empire, and there is no reason to abandon the technology that is beneficial to the country, so what is going on In fact, it is very simple, the war at the end of Qin is a major reshuffle, first experienced the collapse of the Qin Empire, and then there were Liu Bang, Xiang Yu and many other princes to fight, and then entered the stage of Chu and Han contention, the war not only caused a large number of population declines, but also a lot of historical materials were destroyed and lost.
In the initial stage of the collapse of the Qin Empire, the remnants of the Six Kingdoms did not like anything related to Qin, beating, smashing, robbing, and burning were accompanied by that era, how many people should have died and how many things could be destroyed, and many knowledge could be lost, and technology was definitely not privileged.
In fact, any change of dynasty in Zhuxia was such a process, the population that had increased in peacetime was drastically reduced due to war, and many accumulated cultures and research technologies were destroyed.
Any newly founded dynasty in the Central Plains will basically usher in a so-called "prosperous era", that is, the available resources such as land have not changed at all, but the number of people who need to use resources has become smaller, so as to produce false prosperity.
There is a very clear example, Yang Jian created the Great Sui, to Yang Guang lost the country, the population and productivity of the Great Sui only to the stage of war, until Li Yuan established the Tang Dynasty and then to Li Shimin's Kaiyuan Dynasty, in fact, the data can show a point, until the stage of the demise of the Tang Dynasty, in fact, the Tang Dynasty was only "Wenxing" defeated the Great Sui in terms of data, and the rest of the aspects were really inferior.
What is the situation of any dynasty, in fact, can be seen from the size of the population, first of all, the output can support a large enough population, so that the population can surge.
At the same time, that dynasty must not be on the defensive, it must be an aggressive posture to ensure that the basic plate is not disturbed by the flames of war.
If you look at the population data of each dynasty, the population of the Western Han Dynasty has always been at the peak of most dynasties, and the data of the population of 59 million in the second year of BC was maintained until the data of 1600 AD in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, but the population statistics of the Wanli period were only a little more than that of the Western Han Dynasty.
The Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty are both strong, not only in foreign conquests, but also in the number of populations, you must know that the 59 million in the Western Han Dynasty and the 56 million in the Eastern Han Dynasty are rare in all dynasties, and in many cases it is twice or even three times that of some dynasties, so it can be seen that there is a reason to say that the two Han Dynasty are strong.
Nowadays, the Han country will recount the population every three years, but the statistics are becoming more and more difficult to complete, which is related to the fact that the Han country does not restrict the movement of population, for example, the population census conducted this year has been precipitously reduced, from 17 million people three years ago to 14.26 million, and nearly 3 million people have "disappeared".
Those three million people are not dead, in fact, they are in a state of flux, such as going to the Indochina Peninsula or the Western Regions or grasslands, and they may also be halfway on the way, so it is difficult to be counted.
The Han method of population counting is borrowed from previous dynasties, such as the pre-Qin to Eastern Jin algorithms, that is, from the age of eight, the age of eight is not counted in the population.
The reason for not counting people under the age of eight is that the mortality rate is currently high for a variety of reasons, especially in the newborn infant stage.
In the previous dynasties, not every person born was registered because of a vice, that is, the widespread phenomenon of baby drowning, to put it bluntly, there was no birth control measures, and the things that were done with love were crystallized, and the children in the family were enough to pass on the lineage, and they felt that they could not be raised, so they were ruthless and let the little life kill before they had time to see the world.
"There's no longer that."
Sang Yu said that there is relevant legislation, and then the government is very strict in this regard: "In addition, the local government will give assistance according to the head." ” Liu Yan still very much agrees with the legislation of the Imperial History Office, the people can't afford to raise it but can afford it, it just so happens that now the country desperately needs the population to increase, and the people can't be forced to raise it, which may force a family to die, and it is very appropriate to use relevant assistance to help.
The Han Kingdom not only had assistance in having more children, but once the number of births was reached by the government, there were many benefits, including rewards for land.
Giving birth to a child can get land, which is the second way to obtain land in addition to meritorious service, and it directly broke out in the baby boom.
One thing, although the government has made corresponding preparations at the beginning, such as paying attention to midwifery and sanitation, it still underestimates the people's desire for land, and is still unprepared for the baby boom, and there are still many problems, such as the survival rate after childbirth, although it has improved, it is still bad.
"With the current conditions, it is already very difficult."
Liu Yan looked at the scenery that kept flashing outside, the surrounding area kept following the cavalry not far away, and then looked at the outline of the city in the distance, and said with emotion: "At least our generation is improving, and we are arranging it in a targeted manner, not just announcing policies." ” Now all the expenses for giving birth to children in the Han Kingdom are paid by the government, and the government pays for them regardless of the number of children.
Of course, it is to relieve the burden of the people, who makes the country really lack population, anyway, it does not cost much money to calculate it seriously, but what you get is the population, those people will grow up one day, there will be the output of labor, they will become soldiers, and there is really no loss in the country's efforts.
"The Prime Minister's Office has made relevant estimates that the number of registered Han people will surge to about 44 million in ten years."
Sang Yu still thinks that the estimate made by Ji Chang is quite reliable, and the population over the age of eight in ten years should be that data, and the number of newly recorded people in the household registration will increase by one million every year after that: "The Prime Minister's Office believes that the Han Dynasty will remain in a difficult time within twenty years. ” As the population increases, the burden will inevitably go up, especially since the state has already made a package ticket, and the newborn will be assisted every day until the age of thirteen, which must be an astronomical expenditure.
"It's going to be worth it."
Liu Yan must think so: "Once they become a source of labor and soldiers, we will reap the whole world." ” In fact, Liu Yan still thinks that 44 million is too little, but its own population base is so large, and it is already a remarkable achievement to more than double it.
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Twenty years later, 44 million men and women will be united with each other, and in another 10 years, the population should exceed 100 million, and as long as there is no change in the policy, it will certainly continue to combine with the increase in the population base to produce a new population, and within 50 years there will be 500 million or 600 million Han people in the world.
Fifty years later, if Liu Yan did not die, he would be eighty years old, and he felt that by that time, the Han people would have conquered the world island, and even if the yield per mu of land did not increase fundamentally, the Han people would not go hungry.
In 60 or 70 years, the Han people in this world will break one billion to say the least, and if they control the entire world island, they may also invade Africa, and the living space is completely sufficient.
Liu Yan's generation has attached great importance to the ocean, and the exploration of the sea has not stopped for a moment, and it will not be able to set foot in North America and South America for fifty or sixty years, maybe the North Pole and the South Pole will go, and life will continue to develop, as long as there is no civil strife in the nation, the earth will become a single country sooner or later.
Liu Yan, who was constantly thinking about it, was finally awakened, and galloped to the Lady City in Changshan County.
He asked, from Guangwu County to Lady City, the overall time is almost five hours, and there is a pause in the middle of changing horses, which means that the speed is about seventy miles per hour "Chidao should be built more."
Liu Yan's idea is very simple: "Unify the width design in advance, use a horse to pull it before the steam engine is developed, wait for the steam engine to be used and the locomotive is made, and the track will be replaced with iron, and new equipment can be provided and put into use immediately." ” Everyone was confused, they knew that the steam engine was being studied, but what was the train, and they were extremely surprised that the wooden tracks were going to be replaced with iron.
The current annual pig iron output of the Han Kingdom is maintained at about 28 million catties, which is converted into a weight of 140,000 tons, which happens to reach the highest level in the Song and Song dynasties.
Of course, this does not include system production, but system production is directly ordnance, not pig iron ingots.
The annual output of 140,000 tons of pig iron is really not small nowadays, and the Han State can reach this level in the world today, Liu Yan knows that the annual pig iron of Rome is only about 40,000 tons, and the Sassanid of Persia can reach 60,000 tons.
The pig iron output of the Han Kingdom will be so much Naturally, it is inseparable from Liu Yan's spur, he is not satisfied with that figure at all, but considering the current level of science and technology, he really can't have more luxury.
"No wonder Daqin has been looking out to buy weapons."
Yu Yi said with a look of reminiscence: "Since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Great Han and the Great Qin, in just two years, the Great Qin has purchased more than 70,000 weapons of all kinds from the Great Han. ” It has to be said that it is still stuck in transportation problems, otherwise the number will be more, and the Han side sells weapons in exchange for glittering gold
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