Daqin Engineering Corps

"Go down!"

Wang and Yang bowed and retreated in response.

After Wang and Yang left, Yingzheng could no longer resist the temptation of scallion pancakes.

He grabbed "Wei Guo" with one hand and "Yan Guo" with the other, and devoured it left and right...

Chapter 80 薄礼

Ying Zheng hurried back to Xianyang early the next morning.

He returned to Xianyang in such a hurry not for anything else, but for another suggestion of Shen Bing: to encourage production.

This is not a simple command, it requires a lot of complicated work...

To encourage production, it is necessary to manage and distribute land, people and agricultural tools.

For example, after Qin destroyed Zhao and incorporated Zhao's land into Qin's territory, the cultivated land would naturally need to be redistributed.

How many people are there in the family, how many main laborers are there, what difficulties are there, etc.

This is especially the latter.

Although Ying Zheng is brutal, he still understands the principle of mutual benefit and win-win.

Years of disasters in Zhao State, the people are in dire straits, and the people are starving to death, so how can there be any surplus food to sow?

So naturally, the government would allocate a piece of land and a house to the people, and then borrow some rice seeds for sowing, and even lend out cattle.

In the end, some grain must be borrowed from the people as rations for the survival of the whole family.

Of course, these are "borrowing" rather than "giving", more precisely "loan".

That is to say, what is given to the people today must be recorded in the book, and it will be doubled when it is harvested next year.

In this way, when the people harvest in the second year, it is actually the harvest of Qin.

In order to survive, the common people had to accept this system and "lending".

This is the root cause of Qin's victory and even the unification of the six countries...

The six countries use enfeoffment, slavery or small-scale feudalism, which are more backward and not conducive to the production of the people.

The Qin State adopted a centralized prefecture and county system and fully recognized the feudal system in law.

Therefore, Qin can always collect more food and recruit more soldiers to support larger-scale wars.

Coupled with the fact that the Qin State produced a large number of talented monarchs, virtuous ministers, and the six countries were vulnerable to its offensive.

All of this needs to be managed.

Therefore, a series of issues such as the establishment of counties, the appointment and removal of officials, registration and bookkeeping, and household registration management must all be put on the agenda.

And everything must be completed within one month, otherwise the farming season will be missed.

Therefore, Yingzheng stayed up all night last night to set up Handan, Julu, and Taiyuan counties in Zhao State and appointed and dismissed relevant officials.

Then I rushed back to Xianyang before the sky brightened.

There needs to be food allocation, policy formulation and other matters to be dealt with.

In fact, he was already busy driving in the carriage.

From this point of view, Shen Bing's previous sentence "Strive for governance, and personally train the officials" is really correct.

But before leaving, Ying Zheng did not forget to explain to Shen Bing.

This is human nature. If you eat someone's soft mouth, you should always say it when you leave.

But in Zhao Gao's eyes, it was a big deal... When is Ying Zheng going to explain to others?

At that time, Shen Bing was practicing on the school grounds.

In ancient times, the practice was more about rehearsing formations, that is, making various shapes with the sound of drums and flags.

Shen Bing was dumbfounded by these things.

Fortunately, Ren is very good at it. Under his command, the gunners can move forward and retreat in a certain way, and have a good balance between left and right.

Shen Bing just had to follow along, and nothing went wrong during the whole drill.

After returning, I saw a bamboo slip left by the merchant.

It is said that if you have to go first, you will see Yunyun later if you are destined, and at the end you said to leave a small gift to express your gratitude.

Small gifts?

where?

Shen Bing rummaged around but couldn't find it.

Then there was a horse hissing outside...

I'll go, can't it be the horse?

Shen Bing and a group of craftsmen had already seen the horse when they came in, and they only knew which cavalryman tied it up.

Ji still stopped in front of the horse for a long time, praising "good horse, good horse" and refused to leave for a long time.

If you think about it further, it might be true!

Isn't that businessman just selling horses?

What else can you give if you don't send a horse?

Shen Bing walked out of the house holding the bamboo slips in a daze.

Jiang seemed to realize something, followed a few steps out, and asked with excited and expectant eyes:

"Master, isn't this horse given to you by the horse dealer?"

Shen Bing looked around and saw that no one was coming, so he nodded slowly:

"It should be."

Immediately, his eyes widened with envy:

"Master, you got a big deal this trip."

"This horse has big eyes, broad nose, and well-developed muscles. Even the northern cavalry rarely have such a quality."

"It's really something you can't ask for. I don't think that horse dealer is so generous, so I will give it to you."

Then he laughed again:

"The horse dealer is also interesting, casually tied outside the door, if someone takes it away..."

How could Jiang have thought that the real identity of the "horse merchant" was Ying Zheng.

How could others dare to touch the things that Ying Zheng sent?

Shen Bing didn't feel anything.

First of all, he doesn't understand horses, good horses and bad horses are almost the same in front of him.

Secondly, he doesn't know how to ride a horse, and it feels like a waste to send such a horse.

If it is really useful, it is thrown to the groom to pull the cart.

But then again.

If this horse is used to pull a cart, it might be a mortal object, right?

It's like using a sports car to load goods... It's a bit inconsistent no matter how you think about it.

More importantly, not being able to ride a horse is a big problem in this era.

One day, if he is chased and cut by the enemy, there will be another horse in front of him.

At that time, if you don't know how to ride a horse, you will lose your life?

So Shen Bing gritted his teeth and decided to learn how to ride a horse no matter what.

But it is not easy to learn to ride a horse in this era, and more importantly, it is dangerous...

Without a stirrup, he couldn't jump up like others.

That movement can be practiced for a few months at least!

And riding and riding, falling off or being kicked by a horse, that's no joke.

Shen Bing looked at the back of the horse that was almost as high as his shoulders in front of him, worrying.

Get the stirrups out?

Shen Bing hesitated.

Just like the trebuchet, the stirrups and saddles are actually not technologically content, but more about creativity.

If it is invented right now, although it can temporarily take the lead.

But the enemy will learn it quickly when they see it.

The Qin army was dominated by infantry, with a small number of cavalry and only auxiliary combat.

In other words, the invention of the stirrup did not help the Qin army much, but it was more beneficial to the enemy with more cavalry.

Fortunately, Zhao, the country with the strongest cavalry among the six countries, has fallen, and there will be much less worries in this regard.

however……

There are also Huns in the north.

They have been playing on horseback since childhood.

If the stirrups and saddles were finished and passed on to the Huns, wouldn't they be going to heaven?

And at this time, Yingzheng has not connected the Great Wall into one piece. If the Xiongnu cavalry enters the Central Plains from the north...

Can Shen Bing bear this responsibility?

Will there be a Great Qin Empire by then?

Can Shen Bing stop him?

But Shen Bing soon had an idea.

It's okay to put iron stirrups on cloth stirrups, right?

When the stirrup was first invented, it was hung under the horse's belly with a cloth belt in a circle.

This invention is almost out now.

Shen Bing was only invented a few years earlier than the Huns, so it should have little impact on history and the overall situation.

Chapter 81 高田

Out of prudent considerations, in the end Shen Bing only dared to kick on one side.

That is to say, a cloth loop is sewn on the left side to facilitate climbing on the horse.

But that's a big deal.

Seeing that Shen Bing easily climbed onto the horse relying on the cloth ring, he couldn't help but let out a "huh" and said:

"The engineer is brilliant."

"This method is practical."

"I've been riding a horse all my life and didn't know it was so easy to get on and off."

"It's usually just that it takes tens of days of hard training to get on the horse. I don't want to just add a cloth ring and solve it."

……

Soon this invention was discovered by the cavalry in the battalion, so they quickly sewed a cloth circle on all the gourds.

Shen Bing sighed inwardly, sometimes he would suffer if he had to hide the method.

Just like now, Shen Bing knows the stirrup but dare not use it.