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Of course, not only Yuezhi merchants are interested in doing business in the Western Regions, but also Central Plains merchants.
It is said that Shazhou merchants developed a habit afterwards, which was to start from Shazhou as the starting point to rush to the Western Regions because they had to cross a dangerous desert area.
In order to pray for blessings, before completing the journey, they would dig caves on the mountain to build Buddha statues, and after they came back, they could fulfill their wishes.
Over time, more and more caves have become the famous "Mogao Grottoes".
From this we can also tell the importance of Shazhou in its geographical location. If we were not prepared to replenish water and grain in Shazhou, it would be almost impossible to reach the Western Regions under ancient conditions.
Chen Bing didn't care much about these things, he was more about military plans.
The cavalry had an instant increase of 50,000, and the Yuezhi Cavalry, who was good at riding and shooting.
When Chen Bing saw the high morale of these Yuezhi cavalrymen, he knew that his actions were correct.
A considerable reason for being able to command this army with greater confidence is that Qiu Jue became the King of Yuezhi. Otherwise, the eyes of these Yuezhi cavalrymen were probably full of suspicion when they looked at Shen Bing. Be alert and resist, rather than expecting with awe.
What Chen Bing didn't know was that the reason why these cavalry performed like this was on the one hand, but on the other hand, there was indeed the reason why the Yuezhi King was, but more importantly, the Qin army had just defeated them, and they were convinced.
Nomads usually have a habit of respecting the strong.
As mentioned earlier, this is a primitive, instinctive, a jungle law for the survival of the fittest.
Just as the wolves regard the strongest wolf as their king, it is natural for the Yuezhi people to take the lead in subordinating the strong.
Moreover, the Qin army defeated the Yuezhi army with less than 40,000 troops very simply with less than 40,000 troops.
What made Yuezhi even more frightened was that the Qin army's magical "Pi Li Fireball", "Poisonous Smoke" and "Fire Bomb".
They had long been frightened by the new equipment of the Qin army.
At this time, he became an ally of the Qin army... Of course, he was still an ally in name, so he immediately felt a sense of security and pride.
Another reason for this is that the nomadic countries have a low cultural level and do not have a strong concept of countries with different tribes and ethnic groups that are annexed and integrated together are easier to accept the reality in front of them.
However, although this cavalry has a large number of troops, it still cannot take on the heavy responsibility.
After all, most of their officers were Yuezhi nobles.
Chen Bing was very clear that the Yuezhi nobles had their own interests. They were wronged and wanted to follow the Qin army to survive, so they could not expect them to sacrifice their lives to fight the enemy at all costs at critical moments.
At the same time, for the Yuezhi Cavalry, they were actually slaves of the Yuezhi nobles and appendages.
Therefore, there is no saying that after sacrificing oneself to kill the enemy and becoming a hero, there will be rewards or even promotions to be granted fiefs... This also makes them have no motivation and reason to sacrifice themselves.
Therefore, what Shen Bing values is the cavalry he formed himself, that is, the Western Regions cavalry based on Pule cavalry led by him.
They have the motivation and reason to sacrifice themselves.
Because they are commanded by the Qin army, they follow the Qin system, and the twenty-year military merits and title system is also applicable to them. If they die in battle, their families will obtain fiefs and the titles can be passed on to their children.
Simply put, the Yuezhi Army is still an army without souls, without military souls, and even national identity is in a state of chaos.
Chen Bing has a clear understanding of this and has clear goals.
So without thinking, we will continue to expand the scale of Pu's cavalry and recruit new recruits from the Yuezhi.
This move will have a great impact on recruits.
There is a total population of 400,000 in Shazhou. When Yuezhi was in charge of the recruitment, the people hid as long as they could... They were slaves in Yuezhi, and they could hardly get anything except for casualties.
But it is different for the Qin army to recruit soldiers. Not to mention the personal freedom, there are also military titles, but more importantly, it is to allow the family to become Qin.
This is necessary. If the family does not become a Qin family, how can the soldier give his fiefdom and title to his family after he has made meritorious service and promoted his title?
With such a big temptation and such a big contrast, of course, it is to join the Qin army.
So in just over ten days, the Pule Army stationed in the country had increased from more than 5,000 to more than 10,000.
This is actually because Shen Bing intended to do so... The cavalry cannot be dominated by Pu Le, even if he is loyal to Shen Bing.
After a large number of Yuezhi cavalry recruited, two major forces, Puli and Yuezhi, will be formed.
In fact, it should be said that it is the three major forces... The third force is the scattered soldiers who came to the Western Regions. If their strength is too weak, they will inevitably join forces to keep warm.
These three major forces will naturally form a competitive relationship and then check and balance each other.
But of course, "forming cliques" in the army is not a good thing after all.
In future battles, Shen Bing will transfer those officers who have made meritorious service and promoted.
That is, after the Yuezhi soldiers were promoted, they were transferred to Pulei, and after the Pulei soldiers were promoted, they were transferred to Yuezhi, and the scattered soldiers were also operated.
Over time, the gang in the army will naturally be broken up.
What surprised Chen Bing was that Yuezhi actually had the technology of smelting copper and iron.
After asking Qiu, I realized that Yuezhi's smelting technology was learned from Qin.
Qiu replied to Chen Bing like this:
"Originally, we didn't want to make trouble smelting copper and iron, we just need to use cattle, horses or fur to exchange it with Qin."
"Iron smelting is time-consuming and of poor quality, so it's better to raise more cattle and sheep!"
This has always been a huge pit in equipment and technology.
There is a saying in modern times that "it is better to buy than to make."
Simply put, if you want to build many things yourself, such as producing tanks and aircraft, the R&D costs, the time and capital costs of talent cultivation are all bottomless pits.
From the perspective of money alone, it is indeed "it is better to buy than to make", because the cost of making is much more expensive than buying, and sometimes even the things you invest dozens of times the money in it are not as good as those you buy.
So why not just spend some money to buy it?
It is cheap and easy to deal with, and even more noble.
However, once you buy some equipment and give up making it yourself, the result is that the military is blocked by other countries and is destined to become a second-rate or even third-rate country.
So the Internet says that a certain country has purchased advanced equipment... Just ignore it directly. Purchase equipment without producing it by itself. Once a war starts, one loss will be reduced.
On the contrary, if the equipment produced by itself is combined with industrial foundation and production capacity, it means that one can produce two, and the more you can make it.
In short, the equipment purchased can basically be said to be vases, used to recharge the storefront in peacetime.
The Yuezhi could have used barter to buy metals from Qin, but if it was driven to Shazhou and far away from Qin... it would not be allowed to produce it on its own.