Chapter 1308: National Assholes
Xian Bisong looked at Cao Yun with some surprise. He found that the Grand Marshal really cared about Wu Ling.
"The last general has been confronting Wu Ling on the border for several years, but I really didn't find anything special about him. It's just a mere rule and a middle-class discipline!"
Cao Yun smiled: "He successfully gave you this image and had deceived you. When you find out that he is extraordinary, it is when you are facing failure. Just like in Zhengyang back then, when all of us think we will definitely win, the crushing defeat is actually in front of us."
"Master, is it so mysterious?" Xian Bisong said in a dissatisfied manner.
Cao Yun spread his hands, "Xiaosong, what do you think Qin Feng is using?"
"This is quite amazing." Xian Bisong thought for a while and nodded, "Otherwise, the Ming Dynasty would not have developed today."
"That's right." Cao Yun said: "Wu Ling, the man who used to follow Wu Xin. Although Wu Xin died at the hands of Luo Yishui, the planner behind the scenes was Qin Feng. So in order to avenge this, Wu Ling had been fighting against Qin Feng for several years, causing great losses and pressure to Qin Feng. It was such a person. After the final defeat, Qin Feng spent a lot of effort to recruit him and finally took him under his command. Looking at Qin Feng's employment, it was the only time to recruit someone so hard."
"How do you know so clearly?"
"Isn't this idle? That guy Cao Hui often sends some things to me. It's okay. Let's study our biggest enemies in the future. When will the emperor want to know something, I can also say one, two, three!" Cao Yun laughed and said, "So, you just need to remember this."
"The general will definitely remember that the general was careless in the past. How can a person who can make the general think so much? "Xian Jiang is qualified to look down on him?" Xian Bisong said seriously.
"That's good." Cao Yun said: "With so many soldiers gathered on the front line, conflict is indispensable. Can it gain the upper hand?"
"We are very restrained, and the Ming army is also very restrained. The two sides are all scouts who have fought, and have taken advantage of them, and have suffered losses." Xian Bisong hesitated for a moment, "I dare not hide it from the generals. I suffer more losses. The Ming army's equipment is really much better than us."
"Let's talk, when you fought with the Ming army, your old boss Guo Xiancheng still remembers the equipment of the Ming army. Now in Kunling County, the Chu people use weapons sold to them by the Ming people, so we are obviously at a disadvantage." Cao Yun said.
"Yes, the Grand Marshal." Xian Bisong said: "Just talk about the cavalry. Their scouts are all one person and two riders. They are better than us in terms of maneuverability and durability. This is also impossible. After the Ming people conquered Qin, they had a stable source of war horses, which we could not compare. However, we can still find ways to avoid it. However, in terms of personal equipment, we are far from each other. For example, in order to maintain maneuverability and flexibility, the cavalry cannot bear too much weight. Our cavalry uses leather armor, so we only add a little special defense in key areas.
Just protect. But the Ming army used Tie Kai. The key is that their Tie Kai is very light and very thin, but its protection ability is much stronger than our leather armor. Furthermore, their cavalry standard equipped with a long-distance weapon is a horse lance, and a melee weapon is a saber, and equipped with a handheld short crossbow. Our cavalry is completely incomparable. Especially the horse lance, for the cavalry, it is a sharp weapon, but the cost is too high, and we cannot equip cavalry with standard. How did the Ming people do it? How can the cavalry be able to have a cavalry hand? We have seized several of them, and the workmanship is almost the same as that of our horse lance."
Cao Yun knocked on the carriage beneath him, "It's not just a horse lance? Can we build this carriage? If it were the kind of carriage from our Daqi, I wouldn't have brought my old wife. Oh, and these pretty and lovely beauties came out, that would be a complete suffering, but this carriage is different, and traveling is a kind of enjoyment, right? Then I would rather ride a horse."
Xian Bisong was stunned. He was just talking to Cao Yun and the others, but he had never felt this. At this moment, when Cao Yun mentioned it, he realized that if Daqi's carriage was riding for a long time, he would indeed suffer. Now he and Cao Yun have been in the carriage for a long time, and he really didn't feel anything abnormal.
"How did they make it?" Xian Bisong certainly knew that what Cao Yun was talking about was not just a carriage, but he was talking about the entire system of the Ming Dynasty. They could make it, but Daqi could not make it. This was not only reflected in military industry, but also in civilian things like carriages.
This is overall backwardness.
"I asked the craftsmen in the mansion to dismantle the carriage. I want to study how to make it. You also know that the craftsmen in my mansion should be considered the best craftsmanship in my Daqi? After they opened it, they figured it out and copied it, but it didn't take a few days to use it. It was either broken or broken. It was completely impossible to reach their level. It was not that the craftsmen in my mansion were not attentive, but that our materials could not meet the requirements at all." Cao Yun's face was expressionless, "I can't make it in my mansion, and the craftsmanship camp in Daqi could not make it. I can still be sure of this."
"Iron and steelmaking." Xian Bisong gritted his teeth and said, "Why can't we achieve their craftsmanship after so many years?"
"This is a matter of no way. After we have opened nine orifices, the remaining one cannot be opened. What can we do?" Cao Yun smiled in disbelief, "Do you feel that there is no abnormal noise in the wheel of the carriage?"
Xian Bisong nodded, "feel it."
"A small thing, I heard it is called a flywheel. Two iron rings, one big and one small, with round steel balls in the middle, greased and turned silently. Looking at such a small thing, we can't make it." Cao Yun smiled: "Our craftsmen only think this thing is good, but they don't know how shocked I saw this thing. It's not just used on the wheels of the carriage. It's very useful. A few such things can easily lift a heavy object of tens of millions of pounds. Xiaosong, do you know what this means? This means that the Ming Dynasty can use less manpower to do more things."
"The Ming people are indeed far ahead of us in the way of craftsmanship." Xian Bisong said with a little bitterness.
"Where is the way to craftsmanship? This is the way to use people." Cao Yun said seriously: "After all, it's all about people! You don't know what Maeyue looked like before. In front of us, Daqi, they didn't even dare to breathe loudly. Why are they suddenly leading us so much now? Instead, we are overwhelmed. It's about hiring people, or hiring people."
Xian Bisong looked at Cao Yun in confusion.
"Don't you understand? It's a very simple truth!" Cao Yun smiled, "The craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty are basically the same group of people from the Forbidden Edge. Why did they suddenly explode? Because Qin Feng gave them different treatments, craftsmen became officials, and it became a routine in the Ming Dynasty. As long as they made contributions and made inventions, they could instantly turn from being a cunning civilian into an official. Although they were still engaged in the past, their identities were very different. Do you think that those craftsmen could do these things without trying their best to do these things? Isn't this the same truth as the soldiers' desire to go to the battlefield to kill enemies and make merits and change their destiny?"
Fresh Bisong nodded.
"Qin Feng's official reforms implemented in the Ming Dynasty broke the original official system of Maetsu Ekimae from top to bottom. After greatly concentrating the power of the country to the central government, he broke the barriers between officials, civil and merchants in the past. Anyone with outstanding talents in a certain aspect can become an official to exert greater ability. His first Minister of Personnel, in order to promote this matter, could be considered exhausted in office."
"Wang Hou, after this person died, Qin Feng personally helped the spirit back home, and he was extremely mourning and honored!" Xian Bisong said.
"In recent years, while Qin Feng has been fighting all directions, he has also spared no effort to do one thing, that is, centralized central government. Whether it is the reform of the administration, the tax system, or the monetary reform, everything has pointed to a goal, concentrating power to the central government, so that they can concentrate the power of the whole country to do something, so that they can do this thing in the shortest time." Cao Yun said: "The benefits of doing this can now be easily seen. The Ming Dynasty has been established for less than ten years and can compete with me."
"We can do this too!" Xian Bisong said loudly.
Cao Yun laughed: "You finally got to the point. This is why the emperor must implement reforms. What we can see, the emperor sees more. This is why I retreated without regrets to make way for the emperor's reforms. If Qi does not change, one day, it will lose to the Ming Dynasty."
"But unlike Qin Feng, his reforms were easy, because whether it was the Molo rebellion, Luo Yishui or Chen Ci's rebellion, it made the foreground mess. A large number of wealthy nobles disappeared in these turmoils. The people were eager to change, and people's minds changed. This was Qin Feng's best opportunity, and he also seized this opportunity." Cao Yun shook his head, "But our Da Qi is different. The wealthy family has become the biggest obstacle to reform, because every reform of the emperor, undoubtedly, the first thing that touched them is their interests!"
Fresh Bisponge also sighed.
"Blocking people's wealth is like killing money! This is the reason for those wealthy families. They are more afraid that these reforms will touch their foundation. Yes, if each of these reforms is implemented, it is indeed the first one to harm them, but it can make Daqi stronger. In recent years, you have also seen that there has been a vigorous vitality in those prefectures and counties that have implemented the new policies. However, the rich land of Daqi is under the control of the wealthy families. The largest workshop is in their hands, the best craftsmen are in their hands, and the most advanced craftsmen are in their hands, and they control the largest iron ore, the largest iron smelting and steel workshop, and the road transportation and construction. Tell me, what do they do not interfere? And once they intervene, how can others still have a way out?"
Chapter completed!