Although the families of Wang Yan, Wang Che, Wang Zang, Huo Li, Huo Xiao and others all moved to Luoyang one after another, last year Lu Qingxia's palace coup failed, and Xin Wang Yang Yuanyan was forced to withdraw from the vassal due to the situation.
As more Wang clan members sold their businesses, they moved away from Yangzhou one after another and came to settle in Liyang.
Wang Wenqian and Yin Peng rushed to Liyang with their children and servants, and they did not feel that they were unfamiliar with this place.
Wang Jun also wrote a letter to the officials in Liyang in advance, asking his father Wang Wenqian and the others to live directly in the now vacant Lianyuan after arriving in Liyang. He also asked the officials in Liyang to forward a letter to his father.
Wang Jun was clear about her father's wish to open an academy after he became an official. The letter also said that Lianyuan covers a large area, with complete courtyards and pavilions. The courtyards are well organized and can be disposed of at will. However, she also mentioned that Han Qian will be more vigorous in the future.
To promote the new school, if Lianyuan wanted to open an old-style academy, she would no longer be able to provide funding in the future. She also mentioned that she wanted the half-brother born to Xu to attend the new school in Liyang first.
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In addition to letters, Wang Jun will also entrust officials in Liyang to send to Lianyuan more than a hundred books compiled since the founding of the new schools in Xuzhou and Huaixi.
These new learning books do not yet involve the most secret manufacturing technology of beams, but currently only a small part of them are sold to the public - Wang Wenqian's previous efforts have only been able to access some basic parts - only the historical
Only in this way can the teachers and students of Luoyang Academy be exposed to everything step by step.
With this batch of new learning books, Wang Wenqian temporarily gave up the idea of opening an academy and took Yin Peng to study the new learning every day.
Although Wang Wenqian and Yin Peng had no official status after crossing the river, Zhao Wuji still sent a secret copy every few days that only mid-level and senior officials were qualified to read, so that they could keep abreast of the latest developments in the Jinling peace talks.
Although there are too many differences and conflicts between Liang and Chu, as long as they can clearly understand the reality and are willing to sit down and talk towards a goal, the differences can be easily resolved.
The Chuzhou soldiers and horses and the Youlongwu army owed the Xuzhou official money bureau a total of more than 2 million yuan in principal, interest and penalty. The debt was fully borne by the Chu Ting center, but the interest rate was reduced from 20% per year to
Ten percent, with the principal and interest repaid in installments within ten years.
The Tangyi navy evacuated from the waters south of Aoshan Island, starting from the eastern boundary of Lujiang County to the western boundary of Tangyi County. Liang-Chu ruled by dividing the river, and neither official nor civilian ships crossed the center line; the Liang Kingdom compensated for the sinking and burning of the Aoshan Island water battle.
There were two hundred warships, large and small.
The Chu court disbanded the recruiting army and recalled Zhou Bingwu to Jinling. The Chu army stationed in Jingxiang could only consist of two forbidden troops, the Youwu Guard Army and the Youwu Xiang Army, stationed on both sides of the Han River. However, Jing, Fu, Huang, and others who existed as auxiliary troops
The total number of soldiers in Sui, Xiang, and Shu prefectures does not exceed 15,000.
The state soldiers previously recruited from Hunan, Jiangxi and other places, a total of nearly 50,000 soldiers, must be returned to their places of origin.
Except for Chuzhou, the naval force of the Chu navy must be controlled by the center of the Chu court. Forbidden troops and state soldiers are no longer allowed to set up private water camps. The total transport capacity of the warships under the Chu navy's navy must not exceed one hundred thousand shi.
Correspondingly, the total transport capacity of Liang's naval warships stationed in East Lake, Liyang and other areas along the Yangtze River (including Chaohu) should not exceed 50,000 shi.
The total merchant shipping capacity of the Chishan Society of Liang Guoguan must be significantly reduced to less than 50,000 dan by the year before; the excess shipping capacity needs to be split into more than twelve private shipping companies with no ownership of each other within half a year before they can undertake the tasks between Chu and Liang
Specific water transport of commercial goods.
The total number of troops stationed by the Liang Kingdom in Deng, Jun, Jin and Guangzhou, that is, in the area adjacent to Suiyang, Xiangfan, shall not exceed 20,000; in the territory of Nannei Shifu (Chaozhou, Chuzhou), the total size of the water-containing army and the garrison shall not exceed 20,000.
More than 30,000 people; no more than 5,000 troops can be stationed in Xuzhou.
Huaixi and Dengjun Liang and Jin states determined new land boundaries based on the areas currently controlled by both parties. Chu Ting recognized Daliang's current dominance over Xuzhou and agreed to the peripheral areas of Xuzhou. Chen Si and other governors were nominally subordinate to Chu Ting.
The state maintains its old commercial and trade relations with Xuzhou and is not subject to the restrictions of Chu Ting.
At the same time, the Chu court allowed regular waterways between East Lake, Xuzhou and Xichuan every two months, arranging the exchange of goods and personnel with a total transport capacity of no more than 20,000 shi in principle, but the central naval warships were required to be accepted throughout the Chu Kingdom.
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The trade between Liang and Chu was destined to be completely unrestricted, but Chu Ting agreed to mutual trade between the two countries and agreed to establish trade points in the economic states along the Yangtze River, Han River, Gan River, Xiang River, Han River and Tai Lake.
Correspondingly, Liang Guo also agreed to liberalize border trade in Donghu, Tangyi, Chaozhou, Chuzhou, Shouzhou, Huozhou and other places, allowing Chu's goods to enter.
The two sides mutually exempt each other from customs tax and city parking tax.
The Chu court allowed merchant ships from the Shu Kingdom to sail from Yuzhou and other places to conduct border trade with Liang Guo's Nan Neishi Prefecture via the Yangtze River waterway.
Liang Guo proclaimed himself a vassal to the Chu court and paid an annual tribute of one million yuan. He also disclosed more than 60 latest manufacturing technologies involving shipbuilding, pharmaceuticals, wine making, crossbow making, etc. to the general supervisor and the imperial medical bureau, and agreed to the Chu State's sub-inspector's selection of dispatched personnel every year.
Forty people entered Luoyang Academy to learn new knowledge, and the Chu court was allowed to station envoys in Luoyang and Nannei Shifu; both sides jointly declared war on the Mongolian Army and the Dongliang Army...
Han Daoming, the Minister of Honglu Mansion appointed by Liang Guohuan, on the eve of the Local Officials' Day on July 15th, formally signed a vassal alliance with Zheng Yu, the Minister of Household Affairs of the Chu State and the Counselor of the Political Bureau.
In addition to officially recognizing the annexation of Huaixi and Deng Jun, Liangxu and other states to the Liang Dynasty, this sect-vassal alliance also gave the court face; on the same day that the Liang-Chu alliance was established, the new emperor issued an edict to conclude the Jinling rebellion, and the palace was reversed
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Empress Xu of Anning Palace plotted rebellion in Jinling and punished the principal culprit of killing Zhongliang, who was given silk to hang himself. Sixteen people including "Chu Guogong" Yang Fen, Zhang Xinchun and Chen De were all punished as accomplices, given poison and wine, or dragged to the execution ground.
Beheaded; Queen Mother Wang Chan'er and Prince Xiang Yang Lin were punished for being bewitched by evil words, and they were imprisoned in Yunlin beside the imperial mausoleum to observe the Tao to atone for their sins...
Not only was Yang Zhitang unable to stop the peace talks, he could only watch helplessly as the new emperor issued an edict to remove Zhou Dun and others from their general positions, and to investigate the crime of losing the army. Zheng Xuanxi, the governor of the Imperial Guard, and other generals were ordered to climb Aoshan.
The island collected the remnants of the island's troops and used them to form a new Five-Tooth Navy Navy under the direct jurisdiction of the Imperial Guard's Governor's Mansion.
Since the Chongwen Hall meeting, many imperial censors and supervisory censors have taken turns to write letters to impeach King Shou Yang Zhitang for neglecting his father's hatred and secretly consorting with barbarians. Yang Zhitang was also forced to write a letter pleading guilty and asking to leave because of his illness.
It was also the same day that the Liang-Chu feudal alliance was concluded. The new emperor agreed that Yang Zhitang should resign from the Privy Council and recuperate at home. At the same time, he transferred the Secretary of the Ministry of War, and Jingxiang recruited Zhou Bingwu as the Privy Councilor to return to the court.
Han Daoming, Feng Yi, and Wen Ruilin delayed until early August, waiting until the formal
After the vassal and vassal alliance signed with the chief seal of the Daliang Kingdom was delivered to Jinling, he then crossed the river to East Lake with the vassal and vassal alliance that had been collected by the Liang Kingdom and stamped with the seal of the Dachu Emperor.
The day before them, Tian Cheng and Wei Xu led the generals who had been laid off from Xuzhou and a group of mid-level and senior engineers, totaling more than 4,000 people, to arrive at East Lake.
At this time, the importance of Xuzhou is still undoubted, but it is not that important anymore.
In order to further reduce Chu Ting's vigilance, in addition to reducing the garrison and gradually moving the production of Xuzhou's precision castings and heavy war equipment and warships to East Lake and even Luoyang, Han Qian finally appointed Qiao Weiyan as the governor of Xuzhou, and other generals were mainly appointed by Han.
Laoshan's stepson Han Dong, Tan Yulin's eldest son Tan Qiu, Pei Xiu, the medical apprentice that Zhao Zhixian took in Xuzhou in his early years, and a group of people whose reputations are not very conspicuous but reliable enough to serve.
The arrangement of generals in Xuzhou is definitely better than that of Tiancheng or the generals of the same level, which naturally makes the surrounding Jizhou and Chuzhou feel much more at ease.
Tian Cheng will stay in East Lake and succeed Zhao Wuji as the governor of Nanneishi Prefecture.
According to the vassal covenant, in addition to Lin Zongjing, Wei Xu, Zhao Qi, Chen Mu and other generals who will subsequently lead two naval brigades and two infantry battalions to garrison Nanneishi Mansion, there will also be three reserve brigades and three reserve brigades in peacetime.
Only the organizational structure of military attachés ranging from 300 to 500 people is retained, and almost 20,000 troops are transferred from active duty to reserve forces in order to control the garrison of Nanneishi Mansion to about 20,000 people. It seems that it is not suitable for the Jinling and Yangchu areas.
Maintain a military threat.
Zhao Wuji led Feng Zhang and He Liufeng to the north, and joined the three cavalry brigades of Li Xiu, Cao Ba, and Zhao Ci who went north at the same time to garrison Xuzhou. He added a new Xuzhou camp army, making Zhao Yuanji the general manager of the camp and the commander of the capital, and Li Xiu the deputy.
The general manager of the capital and the deputy commander of the capital are responsible for the nearly 600-mile battle zone defense line of Chen and Xu on the west bank of the upper reaches of Yingshui River and the southern part of Yingzhou.
In mid-August, the Chu court also formally disbanded the recruiting army, and soldiers from various states crossed the river and embarked on their way back to the states. The minister of war, the recruiting envoy Zhou Bingwu, returned to Jinling to serve as the privy envoy, which meant that the Liang-Chu peace talks were essentially formally reached.
At this time, hundreds of merchant ships were plying back and forth along the Yangtze River. The cotton cloth, ironware, lamps, paper, coal and other commercial goods that had been backlogged for more than half a year were pouring from their places of origin to the border cities in the main states and counties along the river like the river opening its floodgates.
Han Daoming, Feng Yi and Han Qian issued an imperial edict to recruit Yin Peng, who was appointed as the Military Intelligence Staff Office Langguan, along with his family, and then embarked on the journey to Luoyang.
June and July are also the seasons with abundant rain in the Songnan area, but the continuous road construction has never stopped.
Fifty years ago, Han Daoming went on a study tour to Chang'an City, the current imperial capital. At that time, he was young and energetic, and he wanted to see the mountains and rivers with great interest. He chose the mountain path instead of the waterway, and took his entourage over the mountains and ridges of Songshan Mountain to Luoyang. For Songyang, Ru
He was deeply impressed by the rugged roads between Yang and Yang, and thought that even if he traveled on horseback this time, he would still have to suffer a lot if he wanted to reach Luoyang as soon as possible at his age.
After crossing the Huaihe River, the Yinghe River flooded, and there was no other waterway that could lead directly to Ruzhou, so it was necessary to take the land post road instead.
Several wide-bodied carriages were prepared in the place for everyone, women and children to ride. Yin Peng, Lu Ze and others were strong and strong, and they were still accustomed to riding horses with their retinue.
Han Daoming thought that after arriving at Ruzhou City, women and children would need to ride horses, but he did not want to enter Ruyang County. He saw a post road more than three feet wide running across the mountains, enough for two heavy-duty carriages to cross each other.
OK.
The wide-body carriage made by Donghu is equivalent to two pairs of traditional two-wheeled carriage frames connected with a movable vertical shaft. However, the carriage body is placed on the vertical shaft, which solves the steering difficulty of the traditional four-wheeled carriage to the greatest extent.
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This principle is contained in the new learning books that Wang Jun sent to Lianyuan. It is no longer considered top secret in Daliang, but when he actually tried to ride on this new carriage, Yin Peng felt that even when the carriage was moving quickly,
, the vibrations are much smaller than those of traditional carriages - Yin Peng began to choose horse riding, a big reason is that he did not like the violent vibrations and bumps of traditional carriages when they traveled quickly.
After listening to Lu Ze's explanation, he learned that Donghu's newly built carriages have a spring plate between the carriage and the vertical axis. It is a shock-absorbing structure buckled with multi-purpose thin steel plates, which minimizes vibrations. Not only is the ride comfortable, but the carriage is also
The body also greatly reduces wear and tear.
"Don't look at the considerable number of more than 60 new technologies we have disclosed to Chu Ting this time, but the carriage that Mr. Yin is riding has more than 60 new technologies integrated," Lu Ze said, although he has been in Korea in recent years.
The government is responsible for the security work, but this is on the surface. Secretly, he is also responsible for part of the secretary's affairs in Jinling. Han Daoming and Feng Yi didn't understand many details, but he knew them all. He smiled and told Yin Peng
Explained, "Your Majesty has always wanted to use fine iron to cast a long-range war crossbow, but there has been no progress for several years. The Institute of Engineering has studied new techniques for building cars and thought of twenty or thirty ways to reduce the vibration of the car body, but
Limited by the level of steel casting, it was not ideal. Finally, someone came up with the idea of fastening multiple layers of curved thin steel sheets together to make a spring plate for shock absorption. The effect was satisfactory - the Engineering Institute gave this engineer
When applying for the award, Your Majesty saw the spring plate structure and said that this method could be used to make crossbows. The Engineering Institute spent more than a year thinking about it, and it was not until last year that it was able to mass-produce the giant crossbows that can shoot 400 steps. But it is a pity.
The number of divine machine giant crossbows that have been built so far is still too small. They were mainly equipped with main warships before and could not be used in the Heluo War at the beginning of the year. Otherwise, the casualties would not have been so heavy..."
During the battle on Aoshan Island, many people with good eyesight could vaguely see the whole process standing on the shore. At that time, Yin Peng and Wang Wenqian were also watching the battle on the river bank.
After all, in addition to the huge structural flaws in the Aoshan Island water camp, another point is that the commander-in-chief Zhou Dun put all the warships into the water camp before the war began, but he did not expect that the Tangyi Navy's war weapons had a range far beyond
their imagination.
Of course, Yin Peng was too far away at the time, so we could only roughly confirm that the weapons equipped by the Tangyi navy had a longer range, but we had no accurate idea of how much further.
At this time, Yin Peng was shocked when he heard Lu Ze mention it.
After the middle period of the former dynasty, there were many vassal towns and endless battles in the separatist areas. In the past fifty years, the wars in Hehuai, Jianghuai, Yongshu, Heluo, Hedong and Heshuo became even more intense and frequent.
While warriors were in power, various factions began to attach great importance to the casting of armor and weapons.
Yang En can be said to be a master in this field. For many years he was demoted by Emperor Tianyou to the position of General Supervisor of the Right School Office. However, the effective range of the elite bed crossbow made by the Chu army was only 200 steps, and at most 250 steps.
Weak and difficult to penetrate thin plates, the Shenji giant crossbow made by Huaixi can have a range of up to 400 steps. It can almost accurately shoot at the enemy surrounded by it when placed on the top of the city.
The city's tornado gun emplacement.
Of course, Yin Peng did not doubt what Lu Ze said.
The first is that the Aoshan Island water battle has proven that Daliang has a higher level of casting technology of power-accumulating materials. Second, he and Wang Wenqian have also found craftsmen to trial-produce fine steel tire longbows in Chuzhou in recent years. It is really through traditional
It is too difficult to control the overall strength and toughness of the fine steel|crossbow arm just right due to the tempering and quenching treatment, resulting in a usable iron-tied bow. Not only the performance cannot surpass the traditional wooden bow, but the cost is
It is far higher than the Tuomu bow.
He also knew that Han Qian had been trying to make iron-tied bow arms and crossbow arms for a long time, and some finished products were equipped in the army, but the range and penetration were not necessarily superior to traditional bows and crossbows, but he did not expect that the beam would pass through
The spring plate structure uses multiple layers of elastic long steel sheets that are relatively easy to quench to be buckled, which nearly doubles the range of the traditional heavy-duty bed crossbow.
Yin Peng has been appointed as the Military Intelligence Staff Officer, not to mention that he is also a long-standing and successful general. There is no need to hide these matters that are generally confidential in the military from him.
Besides, Lu Ze only explained the principles, and from knowing the principles to mass-casting physical objects, it would not have been possible without the continuous accumulation of new craftsmanship over the past ten years.
However, the cost of this new spring-arm giant crossbow is still too high, and it is currently not suitable for the casting of ordinary single-man bows |
Crossbows can be said to be heavy-duty weapons.
Even if the cost is high and the iron material is wasted greatly in the casting process, it is still worth mass manufacturing.
Han Qian currently ordered the two armor and weapons workshops in Donghu and Huaiyang to work hard to manufacture new crossbows, but they cannot produce dozens of them a year.
The biggest good news at the moment is that when this spring-arm giant crossbow was put into mass production last year, Han Qian decided to give priority to equipping the navy. Now that the Liang-Chu peace talks have been successful, not only will the spring-arm giant crossbows produced in the future be given priority to equip the main force of the northern line.
When the war brigade, led by Zhao Wuji, He Liufeng, and Feng Zhang went north, they directly dismantled thirty of the fifty spring-armed Scorpion crossbows and spring-armed bed crossbows from the warships in Tangyi Navy and towed them away.
Already.
The new study book officially named the cyclone cannon as a counterweight trebuchet. Although it can throw stone bombs and kerosene cans four to five hundred paces away, the cyclone cannon has a huge and bulky structure and cannot be used in field contact battles and rapid siege operations.
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In the past, although Tangyi tried its best to componentize the manufacturing of the cyclone cannon to make it easier to transport, install and disassemble, so that it can be more widely used on the battlefield. This has also been the focus of imitation by other companies in recent years, but there is still no way to completely overcome its bulkiness.
It is a weak point that it is difficult to move when put into the battlefield and easily destroyed by enemy assault troops.
Yin Peng could not imagine that this winter, in the ice and snow on the east bank of Yingshui River, the Dongliang Army encountered spring-arm scorpion crossbows and spring-arm bed crossbows that could be moved quickly by being dragged by a light chariot.
The main combat brigade of Daliang will feel so bitter in his heart.
Entering the mountainous area where the southern foothills of Songshan Mountain and the northern foothills of Funiu Mountain intersect, and seeing the newly built iron beam bridges along the way, and then hearing Han Daoming doubt the difficulty of walking this journey when he went north to study as a boy, Yin Peng can deeply understand what Wang Wenqian said.
The profound meaning of the capture of Guanzhong and the unification of the world in Daliang.
It's not that Daliang didn't have the foundation to unify the world at this time. It was actually that it couldn't be conquered in Guanzhong. The situation in Heluo was so clumsy that the few soldiers and horses needed to be dispersed in too many directions, and they were passive in almost every direction.
In a defensive situation.
Only by seizing Guanzhong can we have a wider and deeper hinterland, and can we concentrate our limited elite soldiers and horses into a limited two or three directions to attack the city and seize territory.
At the beginning of the year, Han Qian defended the mouth of the Yiluo River regardless of casualties. The main reason was that Heluo did not leave much depth in the hinterland. Hulao Pass and Gongxian were not defended, so he retreated to Yanshi and Luoyang. In addition to allowing the enemy to gain a foothold in the Yiluo River, there was nothing more
On the other hand, more importantly, Heluo's agricultural production will suffer a devastating blow.
Not to mention the 700,000 to 800,000 people in the Heluo area. There are tens of thousands of troops stationed in Heluo alone, generals and their families, and their annual rations are as high as millions of dan. If they all need to be transported through the southern route, the transportation cost will be extremely high.
The arrival of overland post roads is very likely to destroy Daliang's current precarious financial balance.
Although the current military expenditure is seriously overdrafted, Han Daoming and Yin Peng entered Yichuan County and saw that the crops in the fields on both sides of the Yi River were slightly yellowing. The harvest season will enter in ten days and a half, and they felt a lot relieved.
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At this time, it can better reflect the significance of guarding the Yiluo River mouth at the beginning of the year.
Not only Mengjin, but also the agricultural production of more than 8 to 9 million acres in the area south of Yanshi has not been interrupted. After the autumn grain harvest, it can provide Heluo real estate with a total of more than 10 million shi of grain in the next year (Heluo Farming
Planting is mainly for one season harvest, and the per capita land occupation is high, but the per household grain output is lower than in the south). After the implementation of the new system, local forces such as family clan clans and large and medium landlords are greatly reduced to occupy a large amount of resources in the middle, and the central government can pass
Through methods such as taxation and unified purchase, more than two million dan of grain were directly raised from the Heluo area, which could basically satisfy the food supply for the garrison in the Heluo area and the urban residents of Luoyang.
In addition, blocking the enemy from the mouth of the Yiluo River allowed nearly one million acres of land to be allocated to the families of generals and soldiers, and was completed before May. With the victory of two defensive battles, the Heluo army's mental calculations were stabilized.
What's even more rare is that a batch of new mining workshops have been built on both sides of the Yiluo River. Luoyang's industrial and mining production has now generally returned to the level before the sudden changes in Heshuo. More refined development is needed in the future to bring Luoyang's industrial and mining production
It will take two or three years to fully upgrade to the level of Donghu and Xuzhou.
The fates of Daliang First Savings Bureau, Han Qian, and Daliang have been tied together. Even though the current overdraft is getting worse, it just means that everyone is tied together more deeply.
And even if we don't expect to dominate the world, only Han Qian can stabilize the current situation, and the overdraft of Daliang First Savings Bureau can be quickly made up to protect the interests of everyone.
The most critical thing at present is that the internal production of grain, grass, coal, iron and other materials cannot be interrupted.
As long as the internal production and supply of materials is sufficient, even if the method of borrowing money from the Daliang First Savings Bureau to expand the purchase of military supplies will become invalid due to serious overdrafts, which will exhaust the storage and capital of the Daliang First Savings Bureau, Han Qian issued a national edict.
, with his power and reputation at this time, the Official Money Bureau minted coins in a cheaper way, and comprehensively increased taxes on domestic industrial, commercial and agricultural production, and implemented a stricter and more comprehensive sales system to ensure that Daliang's resources were fully transferred.
It is not that difficult for the military to tilt.