sweeping the world

Chapter 804 The future of the big man

The installation of firearms is a matter of time and must be a process of first equipping the core troops and then extending to other troops.

The core troops are the first to be installed, and there are considerations about loyalty. On the other hand, the output is restricted.After all, the output is only so much, and when the production capacity meets the demand, more troops will be deployed.

At present, the Han Kingdom can produce about [-] to [-] artillery pieces of various calibers per month. First of all, it is limited by materials, and it is not that there are not enough craftsmen.

The material used in the current artillery is not steel, but mainly copper, which is also in line with the evolution of artillery. First, get familiar with the bronze cannon, and slowly look for materials that can perform better. This is a material research process. , you have to wait for a piece of material to be thoroughly considered before there are steps to update it.

Han Guo now actually has such a product as steel, which is just a deeper refinement of iron ore, which also involves chemistry, such as chemical additives and some proportions, but it is inseparable from the increase in temperature.

There are absolutely not many peoples in the world who can produce steel. The Han people are one of them, and Ah San is one of them. Then there are the Romans and Persians, and there are really no others.There are many ethnic groups who don't even have the skills to smelt bronze, let alone iron or steel.

The Indians have spent thousands of years failing to master the metal smelting technology. World Island has entered the stage of firearms, but they are still living a life in the Stone Age.What makes Indians so uncivilized?The reason is not that they are stupid. In fact, there are no open-pit copper mines in North America. First of all, there is a lack of materials to start the "smelting technology line", and the bronze stage has not been entered.I don't know what metal is, and the relevant detection technology has not been extended. The Iron Age, the Steel Age... Anyway, there is no way to click on it.

Humans discovered for the first time that ores can be made into copper or iron. It is the credit of volcanic lava, so that humans know that the original temperature is sufficient, and then find the right ore, and then they can use the method of heating and burning to smelt the metal they want. Then it is for various processing of various metals.

All technologies are based on hypotheses and conjectures. In many cases, there is enough technology to make something, but because there is no relevant concept, making it is impossible to talk about.

After Zhu Xia made gunpowder, it took hundreds of years of "road" to use it for military purposes, but that process was interrupted by nomads from the grassland called Mongolia. Since then, the research on firearms has lagged behind Europa.

To say that the use of gunpowder was interrupted by barbarism, many technologies were actually blocked by Zhu Xia himself. The credit is naturally due to Confucianism, which rejected strange techniques and ingenuity. The contempt and contempt for craftsmen itself is a self-destruction. , otherwise the mechanical research that was so popular during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, how could we go back as we went to the back?

Liu Yan will never take the wrong path. Not only will he not kill himself, but he will also firmly walk along the route he knows.It is of course impossible for him to do it himself, but if he can exist as a talkative mentor and propose related concepts, countless people will naturally conduct research.

"In less than ten years, the big man will change a lot." Liu Yan is now riding on a horse-drawn rail car with several ministers, feeling what is called wheel-wheeling: "In the pre-Qin period, the galloping road was invented. This generation brought him back into the world again."

Indeed, Chidao was widely used in the pre-Qin period. During wartime, it was responsible for the heavy responsibility of computing and luggage, and it was also used by the people to transfer goods or transport people. However, with the collapse of the Qin Empire, Chidao disappeared just like that.

It was not only Chidao that disappeared with the Qin Empire, but also the assembly line operations. I really don’t know if the Han Empire really didn’t know those technologies, or simply abandoned them in order to draw a line with the Qin Empire.

It seems wrong to say that the old Liu family abandoned chidao 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. There is no reason for them to abandon technology that is beneficial to the country. So what happened? thing?
In fact, it is very simple. The war at the end of the Qin Dynasty was a big reshuffle. First, it experienced the collapse of the Qin Empire, and then there were many princes such as Liu Bang and Xiang Yu. , Many historical materials were also destroyed and lost.

In the initial stage of the collapse of the Qin Empire, the survivors of the Six Kingdoms disliked anything related to Qin. Beating, smashing, looting, and burning were the accompanying events of that era. How many people should have died and how many things should have been destroyed?A lot of knowledge can be lost, and technology certainly has no privileges.

In fact, any dynasty change in Zhuxia is such a process. The population that increased in the peaceful years was sharply reduced due to the war, and many accumulated cultures and researched technologies were also destroyed.Any newly founded Central Plains dynasty will basically usher in a so-called "prosperous age". It is just that the available resources (such as land) have not changed at all, but fewer people need to use the resources to generate false prosperity. prosperity.

There is a very clear example. Yang Jian created the Great Sui Dynasty. Before Yang Guang lost his country, the population and productivity of the Great Sui Dynasty were only in the war stage. Until Li Yuan established the Tang Dynasty and then reached the Zhenguan era of Li Shimin, in fact, using data It can be pointed out that until the demise of the Tang Dynasty, in fact, the data of the Tang Dynasty only surpassed the Sui Dynasty in terms of "Wenxing", and it was really inferior in other aspects.

What any dynasty is like can actually be seen from the size of the population. First, the output must be able to support a large enough population, and then the population will surge.At the same time, that dynasty cannot be on the defensive, but must be aggressive in order to ensure that the basic market will not be harassed 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. data) was broken, but the population statistics in the Wanli period was only a little bit more than that in the Western Han Dynasty.

To tell no lies at all, if you say a strong man, you really are a strong man. Both the Western Han and Eastern Han Dynasties were strong, not only in terms of external conquests, but also in terms of population. You must know the 900 million in the Western Han Dynasty and the 600 in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Six million is rare in the past dynasties, and in many cases it is double or even triple that of some dynasties. It can be seen that there is a reason to call the strong Han when it comes to the Han Dynasty.

Today's Han country will re-count the population every three years, but it is becoming more and more difficult to complete the statistics. This is related to the fact that the Han country does not restrict population movement. The population of 700 million years ago dropped to 420 million, and nearly 300 million people "disappeared".

The 300 million people are not dead, they are actually in a state of flux, such as going to the Indochina Peninsula or the Western Regions, or the grasslands, and they may also be halfway on their way, so it is difficult to be counted.

The method of counting the population of the Han Dynasty is based on the previous dynasties, such as the algorithm from the pre-Qin to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, that is, counting from the age of eight, and those under the age of eight are not counted in the population.People under the age of eight are not counted because the current mortality rate is very high due to various reasons, especially in the newborn stage.

In the previous dynasties, not every birth was registered because of a bad habit, that is, the widespread phenomenon of infanticide. To put it bluntly, there was no birth control measures. When they came out, they felt that they could not support themselves, so they made up their minds to let the little life be killed before it had time to see the world.

"This phenomenon no longer exists." Sang Yu said that there is relevant legislation, and the government is very strict in this regard: "Furthermore, local governments will provide assistance on a per-capita basis."

Liu Yan still agrees very much with the legislation of Yushifu. The common people can’t afford it but they can afford it. It just so happens that the country desperately needs an increase in the population, and the common people can’t be forced to raise it. That might kill a family. It is appropriate to have relevant assistance to help.

The state of Han not only has assistance for multiple births, but also has many benefits once the number of births stipulated by the government is reached, including rewards for land.

Having children can get land, which is the second way to get land besides fighting for meritorious service, which directly caused the baby boom.

There is one thing, although the government has made corresponding preparations at the beginning, such as paying attention to childbirth and hygiene, but still underestimated the people's desire for land, and is still insufficiently prepared to face the baby boom, and there are still many problems. Problems, such as the survival rate after giving birth, although they have improved, are still bad.

"Under the current conditions, it's not easy." Liu Yan looked at the scenery passing by outside, the cavalry troops who followed 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 making targeted arrangements, not just announcing policies."

Now all the expenses for giving birth in the Han Dynasty are paid by the government, regardless of the number of children.Of course, that relieved the burden of the common people, who made the country really short of population, anyway, it didn’t cost much money, but the population was obtained, those people will grow up one day, and there will be labor output, Will become a soldier, the country's contribution really does not exist at a loss.

"The Prime Minister's Mansion has made relevant estimates. Ten years later, the population of the Han nationality will surge to about 400 million." Sang Yu still thinks that the estimate made by Ji Chang is quite reliable. Ten years later, the population over the age of eight should be It is that data, and the number of people newly recorded in household registration will increase by millions every year after that: "The Prime Minister's Office believes that the big man will remain in a difficult time within 20 years."

As the population increases, the burden will inevitably increase, especially since the country has guaranteed that newborns will be assisted every day until they are 13 years old, which must be an astronomical expenditure.

"The effort will be worthwhile." Liu Yan must think so: "Once they become a source of labor and soldiers, we will gain the whole world."

In fact, Liu Yan still thinks that 400 million is too little, but his own population base is so large, more than doubling it is considered a remarkable achievement.

After 20 years, 400 million men and women will combine with each other. It doesn't take another ten years. The population should exceed 50 million. As long as the policy does not change, new population must be continuously combined with the increase of the population base. [-] Within a year, there will be [-] to [-] million Han Chinese in the world.

50 years later, if Liu Yan hadn’t died, he would have been 80 years old. He felt that at that time, the Han people should have conquered the World Island. Even if the yield per mu of the field did not increase fundamentally, the Han people would not be hungry .

In 60 or 70 years, there will be at least one billion Han Chinese in this world, and if they control the entire world island, they may even invade Africa. There is enough room for survival.

Liu Yan's generation has already attached great importance to the ocean, and has not stopped exploring the ocean for a moment. Can't they set foot in North and South America in five or sixty years?Maybe both the North Pole and the Antarctic have gone, and life continues 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 comfortably, was finally awakened, and the drive to the Madame City in Changshan County had come to an end.He asked, from Guangwu County to Furencheng, the overall time is about five hours, and there is a pause for changing horses in the middle, which means that the speed is maintained at about [-] miles per hour?
"Much more Chidao should be built." Liu Yan's idea is very simple: "The width design should be uniform in advance, and horses should be used to pull them before the steam engine is developed. New equipment can be put into use immediately.”

Everyone was confused, they knew that they were studying the steam engine, but what kind of train was it, and they were extremely surprised that the wooden track was replaced by iron.

The current annual pig iron production in the Han Dynasty is maintained at about 800 million catties, which translates to a weight of [-] tons, which happens to be the highest level in the Song Dynasty.Of course, this does not count the production of the system, but the production of the system is directly ordnance, not pig iron ingots.

The annual output of [-] tons of pig iron is really not small nowadays, and only the Han Kingdom can reach this level in the world today. Liu Yan knew that the annual pig iron production in Rome was only about [-] tons, and that in Persia and Sassanid could reach [-] tons. Ton, if the envoys of the two countries did not cheat, the annual pig iron production of the two countries combined is not as large as that of the Han country.

The production of so much pig iron in the Han Kingdom is naturally inseparable from Liu Yan's encouragement. He is not satisfied with that figure at all, but considering the current level of technology, he really cannot have more extravagant demands.

"It's no wonder Daqin has been asking for armaments from abroad." Yu Yi continued with a look of reminiscence: "Since the establishment of diplomatic relations between Dahan and Daqin, Daqin has purchased more than [-] various weapons from Dahan in just two years. .”

What has to be said is that they are still stuck in the transportation problem, otherwise the quantity will be even more. The Han country sells weapons in exchange for glittering gold.

(End of this chapter)