sweeping the world

Chapter 639 Come to an end
Liu Yan is only 32 years old this year, and the youngest of the central ministers and those generals is also around 30 years old, and most of them are over 40 years old.His physical condition has always been very healthy, no disease or pain, in terms of normal life expectancy, he can live longer than the group who followed Dajiangshan.

Han Xin, the greatest hero of the Western Han Dynasty, will die, and everything else is false, mainly because Han Xin is younger than those who gained power and high positions during the war.Liu Bang and others are all in their 60s and [-]s, but Han Xin is only in his thirties. Who would not be afraid of the death of the older generation, whether Han Xin, who is also an older generation but so young, will revolutionize the world.

The general inside story of killing heroes is not that simple. The basis is that the ruler is worried about the instability of the ruling power. The founding king kills the group of people who followed him to fight the country, usually because the founding king is afraid that his heirs will not be able to suppress him. , and those heroes themselves are too domineering.

Liu Yan doesn't want to kill any of the servants now. As time goes by, no one is sure about many things. Maybe some of the servants will seek death by themselves, or Liu Yan is old and afraid that his heirs will not be able to suppress someone. .

Because everyone was thinking wildly, Liu Yan devoted himself to the drought and locust plague that would occur in the Central Plains. Xiangguo, where the inspection team returned, not only did not become lively again, but the atmosphere was even more depressing and dull than before.

It was in that atmosphere that the team that should go to Guanzhong in advance was going on all the time. When the season entered the summer, Ji Chang returned from Yandi to Xiangguo.

The background of Ji Chang's return to the center is that the Han army has fully occupied the territory that originally belonged to the Murong Yan Kingdom. He was ordered to hand over the command of the troops to Lu Tai, and set foot on the battlefield with Ran Min, Xie Ai and others at the same time. way home.

It didn’t take long for everyone who returned to Xiangguo to notice the strangeness. Taking Ran Min as an example, when he learned that his colleagues were worried about the possible purge, he burst out laughing, and then said to his retainers: “I will build the country first. As the king, he was desperate and defected to the king, and he was still able to obtain a high position and lead an army to fight."

What Ran Min meant was that he should be the one to fear the most, but he felt that Liu Yan was not that kind of person.

It seems to be the same thing. If Liu Yan didn't have a broad enough heart, how could he accept Ran Min's defection, and then gave the army command over and over again.

As a retainer, the head of the family can be optimistic, but they have to be cautious. Liu Yi said: "The world is about to be stable, and there will no longer be any power to threaten the Han Dynasty in the world, but I wonder if the king still has a big heart?"

Jiang Qian, Miao Song and Dai Shi also expressed the same worries, but Ran Min laughed "haha" again.

"Simple." Ran Min immediately stood up from his kneeling posture, and said carelessly, "I will go to Miyagi immediately and ask the king face to face."

In an instant, one of the retainers had a head filled with: "..."

Ran Min strode out without waiting for his retainers to react, and didn't stop when he was shouted at the back. He really went straight to Miyagi, scaring his retainers almost to the point of losing their courage.

The scope of Xiangguo that can be regarded as the palace city is very large. When Ran Min arrived at the gate of the palace to ask for an audience, the gate guards reported to him layer by layer, and waited for Liu Yan to agree to an audience. It took nearly two quarters of an hour.

Ran Min met Liu Yan in Linyuan. At that time, Liu Yan was tinkering with a rectangular-looking machine.

"Yongzeng, come here." Liu Yan greeted Ran Min, but he moved away from the threshing machine, pointed to the pedal and said, "Step here."

Ran Min heard a "bang" sound from a distance, and was curious about what it was, so he approached the pedal according to his words, and found that the pedal had a return force, and the round thing on the machine was moving with the pedal.

"What is the metal ring on this round wooden barrel?" Ran Min reached out to touch it, but was stopped by Liu Yan, otherwise there would be no good results.He stepped on it happily, full of curiosity: "Threshing machine?"

This machine is the No.13 prototype after Liu Yan ordered the research. The previous ones were either easy to take off the bearing shafts, or the gears were easy to get stuck.

Liu Yan didn't know why Ran Min came. After he accomplished something, he introduced the threshing machine in a show-off mood.

The latest prototype machine only uses a small amount of metal, but it is a test of craftsmanship, such as gears and bearings.

In the pre-Qin period, there was a mature use of molds, and the craftsmanship of the Qin State was the most perfect. A large number of military equipment was poured and molded with molds, and then polished, and the error could be limited to within one millimeter.

After the Qin Empire, the molding method of the mold disappeared for some reason. I don’t know if the technology was lost, or the Han Empire had its own technology. It is certain that the manufacturing technology of the Han Empire is far inferior to the error specifications of the Qin Empire. .

Liu Yan’s Han Dynasty was already making bronze cannons, and the use of molds must have been picked up again, but in terms of large-scale use, it was still unable to achieve within one millimeter of the error of the Qin Empire.

The mold pouring method, including assembly line production, and some production technologies and concepts, some are created by the ancestors but lost, and some are Liu Yan's "first".The inability to catch up with the standards of the Qin Empire is not due to technical deviations, but to management issues, such as Qin Fa's engraving of the names of manufactured items, and anyone who fails to meet the standards will have very serious consequences.

No matter what you do, you actually rely on people. Even if there are intelligent production lines in modern times, waste products will still be produced if people do not operate properly. People-oriented can refer to many aspects.

Due to the small number of craftsmen of all kinds, more than [-]% of the ordnance production in the Han Dynasty is dependent on the system. Even if Liu Yan can be as strict as the Qin State, the actual effect is really not very good for a while.Of course he intends to be strict with the craftsmanship of the production staff, but that requires more craftsmen, or the most likely thing that will happen is that the craftsmen will be killed...

Obviously, Ran Min has never done farm work, and the education he received could not discover the importance of threshing machines to farming. Liu Yan was still talking about the benefits of large-scale application of threshing machines, but he impatiently mentioned The purpose of coming here.

"Leader?" Liu Yan frowned slightly, knowing why Ran Min asked that, and then said: "There is a war that requires Yong Zeng to go."

Before Liu Yan made his inspection tour, Ran Min mentioned in Yandi that he was going to Dingxiang, but was delayed later.

"Let's just say, those guys are just mediocre." Ran Min didn't know if he was really upright or who was giving eye drops: "It's really absurd to say that the king wants to cleanse the heroes!"

Maybe Ran Min just said what was on his mind, but judging from his experience of being able to hang out in Shijie for so many years, he couldn't be so gentle.

Liu Yan's face became very exciting. Of course he knew what the ministers were thinking recently, and Ran Min was the only one who dared to come and speak out.He really didn't know if Ran Min had no political IQ, or if Ran Min was wise and foolish.

"..." Liu Yan looked at Ran Min and said somewhat annoyed, "Is this how they share the worries of the widow?"

Ran Min didn't care about it after setting off the cannon, and asked about the number of soldiers in command.

"There are already two armies in Dingxiang." Liu Yan was talking about the troops under Li Tan, and said to Ran Min: "Yong Zeng is going this time, just bring a firearm."

The Han Dynasty has rebuilt its military system, from top to bottom, it is Corps, Group Army, Army, Division, Qu, Tun, Team, Shi, and Wu.The personnel establishment is two corps for one team, five teams for one team, five teams for one village, four villages for one qu, five qu for one division, and three divisions for one army.

The so-called firearms troops are actually troops that use gunpowder weapons to fight. At present, only bronze cannons, explosive kits, and grenades are used.

Because the porcelain pot grenade is really unreliable, the porcelain pot grenade is no longer produced, and the wooden handle grenade was developed later.It’s just that grenades with wooden handles are definitely not comparable to modern technology. There are pull rings, safety paper, matchsticks, fuses, explosives, and shell cases that should be available. It is not currently mass-produced.

By the way, Liu Yan has ordered the workshop to study firearms, but it must be admitted that manufacturing firearms is infinitely more difficult than bronze cannons, unless the system is upgraded to the Empire era to produce musketeers, otherwise there will be no mass deployment of firearms in a short time force.

Also, Liu Yan has no idea of ​​the musketeers that the system can summon, so it is not clear what the summoned musketeers will hold.

"That's good." Ran Min said cheerfully, "It must be a spectacular scene to use artillery to bombard armor and cavalry and heavy infantry."

Dingxiang has been under siege for nearly two years, not to mention countless ditches dug in the surrounding area, and the horse pits are even more densely packed. The Longteng Guard's armored riding equipment tried to break through the siege several times and was beaten back. Those heavy infantry with limited restrictions play a greater role.

The remnants of the Jie tribe hiding in Miyagi have been breaking out for nearly a month. Li Tan originally had three standing troops under his command, and one of the remaining two was damaged too much in the fighting.

The Longteng Guards broke out in order to survive, and the troops desperately seeking to survive were definitely more fierce than any mourning soldiers. Although there were many disadvantages, they did not lack the will to die at all.

The bronze cannons of the Han Dynasty needed a lot of soldiers to serve them. Most of them had wheeled bases and were pulled by animal power.However, unlike other troops, the firearms troops can use warehouses for convenient supplies, so a large number of logistics personnel are needed to ensure supplies. There are only 300 soldiers who can actually operate artillery, but 700 are needed to guarantee [-] bronze cannons.

"Isn't it not enough to have only one song?" Of course Ran Min hopes to carry as many artillery pieces as possible: "How about one division?"

Liu Yan immediately scolded with a smile: "There is only one song, do you want love or not?"

At present, the number of bronze cannons in the Han Dynasty is nearly a hundred. The bronze cannons produced in the early stage were used in the battle to destroy Yan, and the [-] bronze cannons that Liu Yan tuned to Ran Min were made later.

Something is better than nothing, Ran Min grinned and sneered at the fact that Liu Yan wanted to clean up. The firearms troops played their best in the battle of destroying Yan. Anyone who has seen it knows the direction of the artillery fire. Such an important troop Liu Yan gave it as he said, a bit like killing a hero should look like it?

"Give the most elite troops of the Jie people the most lively funeral. After the battle in Dingxiang, Yong Zeng led his army into Xiliang." Liu Yan didn't want Ran Min to take Xie An's job: An Gan has been harassing Longyou and other places in the place where he lives and rests. I don’t want to hear about them anymore.”

Ran Min felt more at ease. After the battle of Dingxiang, he still had to continue to lead the army. That was really not something that the king would assign if he wanted to be purged.

Having got what he wanted, even more than he thought, Ran Min happily left Miyagi, and when he returned, he scolded those alarmist retainers, and soon news spread from his side.

The king feels that the world is fixed, and if he wants to clean up anyone, it must be those generals who command the army. Those who do not command the army are actually the least dangerous.

When people of all kinds heard that Ran Min was going to Miyagi, those who knew what they wanted to ask were scared to death. There was no shortage of people who were mentally prepared to commit suicide. They just hoped that their family would not be implicated after their death.

Waiting to learn that Ran Min not only has nothing to do, but also got a task of commanding troops to end the Jie clan, and will continue to command troops to Longyou after Dingxiang, the rumors about Liu Yan's purge will be self-defeating at that moment.

Those cleaning things are those guys with big enough minds, and they have extended their fear because of their own ambitions.

Even if Liu Yan didn't want people to panic, he couldn't appease them without a reason, so he just let the situation develop.He recalled Ji Chang, Ran Min and others for an unexplainable purpose. Ran Min didn't come this time, and Ji Chang, who received a hint in a few days, would come too.

The various ethnic groups that originally invaded the Central Plains have been wiped out, and those who have fled far away have also fled far away. It is time for the country to enter the stage of development and construction. flee, or even break out in rebellion.

Such a incident also reminded Liu Yan that if those people didn't have the thoughts they should have, they wouldn't scare themselves so badly.He should think about it carefully, and there should be some restrictions that should be there.

People's hearts stabilized again, and Ran Min also led his army to Dingxiang, but Liu Yan began to frequently summon people from the field.

The so-called opposition means not being an official in the court. The group of people who can be called the opposition is definitely not referring to ordinary people, but generally refers to groups with reputation.

What Liu Yan summoned was not people from various families who had not become officials, but people from various schools of thought.

The first to respond were the various schools of Confucianism. They had long been looking forward to the day when they could be summoned by the king in person.No matter how many schools of Confucianism are divided into, they all have the same goal, that is, the rulers continue to respect Confucianism exclusively.

At the time when the new dynasty was establishing itself, some of the surviving schools of thought were more urgent than Confucianism. They wanted to change the fate of their own schools, and there was no better opportunity than when dynasties were changing.

(End of this chapter)