Chief Li Xiang was fortunate that Wu State's governance of Jiangbei was relatively extensive. Except for the Huaisi area where there were counties, the rest of the country received "tribute" regularly, so everything was fine.
King Wu would not use "Jianli" or "Wu Jia" to attack unless necessary.
Later, Gongzi Xuan was granted the title of Lord Yiyang, and a city was built at the foot of the Huaihe River. A large area in the north of the Yangtze River was completely controlled by the official forces of the State of Wu.
The two generations of Wu kings conquered large areas of Jiangbei for only one reason: to go north to dominate.
At its peak, the current king Gou Chen suppressed Chu and Yue, and allied with Qi and Lu. Thirty-six countries, large and small, surrendered and seventy-two countries paid tribute.
Of course, when necessary, "Baisha" can also be turned into a small state, and there are more than a hundred fake ones...
Extensive management is both helpless and beneficial. The benefit is very simple and the cost of governance is basically zero.
In short, if the dog barbarian is obedient, he will not be beaten, do you understand?
After the "Huaiyi" large and small administrative states were destroyed, their ability to rebel has been reduced to almost nothing. The remaining "remnants" are mostly fighting among themselves, fighting for the scraps on both sides of the Huai River.
Come.
When Township Chief Li was still Village Chief Li, he could accidentally hit someone, grab something, and run away. In addition to the fact that he was "outnumbered", the complete decline in the combat readiness of "Huaiyi" was also one of the reasons.
"Wuji, is the matter done?"
"First Li, don't worry. Lord Yiyang is very happy. There is no need to worry about crossing the river and managing the strategy."
"That's how you do things. You may win if you do more, but you may win if you do less. Things cannot be perfect, but you should strive for perfection. The fewer mistakes you make, the higher your success will be."
"..."
Shang Wuji took out paper and pen again. He felt that he had used a lot of paper recently.
Why? Why does he talk so much despite being a reckless man?!
"By the way, Wuji, those who go to Yancheng to buy salt have other choices?"
"In the name of the Zhi family and the Wu family, I went to Yancheng to purchase. Lord Yiyang would not have guessed that it was Yinxiang's plan."
As Mayor Li said, more is more likely to win, less is less and details determine success or failure.
When you want to make a big deal, you know that there is a giant crocodile in the area where the deal is located. It would be a bit foolish and bold to place your hopes on the giant crocodile taking a nap.
"Zhi family? Wu family?"
"They are my mother's clan."
Seeing Li Jie's confused look, Shang Wuji said, "It's the big 'Huaiyi' clan in the old years. King Yu conquered Dongyi and excluding the Thirty-six Kingdoms, the leader of Huaishang was Wu Zhiqi. He was the Zhi clan, the descendant of the Wu clan."
Ancestors.”
"Wuzhi Qi? Where have you heard of it?" Li Jie rubbed his chin and suddenly remembered that he had contracted a big job back then, which was to build a temple for a monkey. That monkey was the local god of Huaishui, incense.
It's also very prosperous.
Moreover, the locals also said that the prototype of the monkey in "Journey to the West" is this Wuzhi Qi.
The stick used by King Yu to poke monkeys was later used as a monkey weapon in "Journey to the West".
"Does Grandma Wuji have any magical weapons in her house? For example... the Ruyi Golden Cudgel? Have you heard of it?"
"What is this?"
"Where's the Dinghai Shenzhen?"
"..."
Are you kidding me?!
Sometimes Shang Wuji feels very helpless because his boss is such a tease.
"It's a pity. When the paper quantity is enough, I will write a story for Wuzhiqi myself. It's called "Havoc in Heaven". It will be absolutely wonderful."
As he said this, Mayor Li patted the confused uncle on the shoulder.
However, Li Jie was still a little surprised. He never expected that Shang Wuji's family would have such a connection.
King Dayu...that is a very familiar title.
Suddenly, Mayor Li was a little excited.
It's a pity that in the era we live in now, we really don't understand what it is, and we have never heard of any famous people.
You still have to visit libraries in various countries!
Mayor Li made up his mind that the private collections among the people were bullshit, and only the National Library had detailed and rich information.
The only drawback is that it is too difficult for a country bumpkin like him to get in.
As long as the Taishi of various countries heard that he was a "savage" and did not let the security guards chop him to death, they would be in a good mood.
After defeating Lord Yiyang, the entire Yin Township began intensive training, announcing to the outside world that it was the autumn harvest. This year's bean harvest would be bumper, and labor had to be organized to harvest it.
The training of farmers and soldiers is a very boring thing, but there is a good thing. Illiterate people don't dare to resist when they are beaten. No matter how stupid they are, they can be trained. This is really good.
In order to prepare for this war, Li Jie spent a whole month designing processing equipment, mainly drilling equipment and looms.
Drilling is actually very simple. Just add a connecting rod and a fixed frame, push and pull the drill bit like a grinder, and you can drill the stone.
The efficiency is quite high and can basically be guaranteed to be five to ten times the original processing efficiency.
Traditional work mainly relies on hand rubbing, which is similar to drilling wood to make fire, but now a simple instrument can greatly improve production efficiency.
The components of agricultural tools and weapons such as stone adzes, stone axes, and stone hammers that are completed every day will be sorted into categories and stored in the designated "Daxie". Then the workshop will be assembled, and the components will be allocated from the designated "Daxie" in batches according to the progress.
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There is a "warehouse manager" in every link, and signing and stamping is a necessary process for every production team leader.
In other words, if you want to be the leader of a production team and get a high salary, which is a bit of a power, you must first be literate, or at least be able to write your own name.
In addition to the production and processing of weapons and agricultural tools, Li Jie was familiar with looms, but the reason for improving looms was not to improve living standards.
Still in order to improve the combat effectiveness of the "White Sand Warrior", the boiled bamboo armor is sewn into the sandwich layer of the fabric, which will naturally improve the defense.
In addition, after the hemp material is subdivided and re-wired into thick hemp ropes, it can be made into a shield with a considerable defensive area through the wire rod method.
At the center of each shield is a small round shield lined with polished stone.
The total weight change is limited, but the defense area is greatly increased.
It is not a problem to defend against one or two cuts from a bronze sword. As for piercing attacks, defense against bow arrows depends on the situation. Bronze arrowheads will still penetrate, but stone arrowheads can be defended against, at least they cannot pass through.
Earlier, Shang Wuji planned to spend huge sums of money to purchase a large number of weapons and equipment, but when he saw the results after Township Chief Li launched a large number of indigenous equipment... he was still speechless.
Of course, I was more shocked.
And what Shang Wuji admired even more was that when Chief Li used a bunch of stone weapons and farm tools as compensation when he recruited the young men of the "Baisha" to "harvest" them, the leaders of the "Baisha" originally dared not speak out in anger.
As a result, after receiving these compensations, I immediately smiled happily.
Shang Wuji originally persuaded Township Chief Li not to do this, as this was scheming the enemy.
In the end, Township Chief Li said that it was just a pile of rubbish and you could trick a group of illiterate people into working for me for free. Why not?