The weapon tycoon who traveled to Daqin

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"Yan Jun, listen to our patience. Since you don't surrender now, then we will take this method." A Qi Jun did as the general ordered.

"We will execute all the last 50 soldiers of the Yan army who surrendered. We will not kill those who surrendered before and let them go home. The last [-] soldiers will all be executed." The soldiers of the Qi army shouted loudly

At this time, the psychological defense line of the Yan army on the opposite side collapsed at this moment, and the last 50 were all released before they were executed. The last fifty people will be killed The question is who among them will be the last fifty people Before the Yan army would huddle together The main reason is that their collective life safety is threatened, but now the Yan army soldiers have to think about their own lives first They care if they're one of the last [-]

This proclamation touched a lot. All the Yan troops fell silent after muttering, because they had already started planning how to surrender.

"Okay, let our soldiers open a few holes tonight and let those Yan troops leave," Tian Heng said, so Qi Jun began to deliberately release some defensive gaps to let Yan troops escape, but Tian Heng still made a special attack. The order is not to hunt down those Yan soldiers and let them flee back to their home country at will

In the Warring States Period, there was no uniform standard for the treatment of prisoners of war. Some countries could release prisoners of war on a large scale, but the Qin State’s previous practice was to kill a large number of prisoners of war, because after killing prisoners of war, other countries’ military resources would be tense. The military strength of the opponent was greatly reduced, but Shangwen then changed this clause, that is, no longer killing prisoners of war at will. Qin also had prisoners of war who surrendered. People are paying more and more attention to the importance of people, especially the embodiment of human value. A person is no longer farming or serving as a soldier. They can also become another kind of cheap labor force. These labor forces can create more wealth, especially those captured by Qi State. Qi Ren, the pilot of the Qin State, learned a lot from them, such as the principle of flying in formation and how to drive a turbine, etc. These are the reasons why prisoners of war can continue to survive.

The infantry no longer kills, it is more out of political considerations. Not killing the prisoners of war can restore the reputation of the Qi army, and at the same time, it can inspire more Yan people to have a good impression. This kind of long-term plan requires a political purpose rather than a military plan.

What happened in the following night, as Tian Heng said, a large number of Yan troops began to flee crazily. They first tested and saw that the Qi army didn't care at all, so they began to flee on a large scale, and they were scrambling to escape because they were afraid of falling behind. In fact, Tian Heng There is no plan to kill the last fifty because the last fifty can't be counted at all, because you don't know how many Yan troops on the opposite side have escaped, so the fifty are just a last-ditch intimidation method, and they also take advantage of the Yan army's soldiers. This kind of self-interested way of thinking, when the personal safety of the group representative is threatened, people naturally estimate the safety of the group, but when the individual is threatened but the group is not threatened, it is natural to estimate themselves, so this kind of escape began to become the beginning of the collapse of the Yan army.

After the first day, Yan Jun escaped with 2000 people. The next day, the number began to expand overnight, and it grew to 5000 people overnight. They fled in batches, and the Qi army just watched them leave like that. No matter what, nearly 1 people ran away overnight. On the fifth day, the Yan army's position directly surrendered during the day, and they surrendered quickly. The soldiers solved the encircled enemy without bloodshed. For the escaped Yan army, the Qi army began to gather these prisoners in the subsequent march, because individuals could not escape so quickly, and the Qi army soon entered the stage of a major counterattack, but before they had to accept The weapon in the hands of Yan Jun

The most hated weapon of the Qi army is the machine gun, but the most needed weapon is also a machine gun, because Qin State does not export this kind of machine gun weapon to Qi State. Although a small amount of machine guns flowed in, the number is not large, but now a large number of rotary machine guns have begun to be seized by the Qi army. Immediately, these machine guns began to be sent to the rear for research, except that these were the cannons of the Yan army. These were what the Qi army wanted most. They finally knew the secret of the explosive bombs, and a large number of artillery began to be transferred to the rear for research. These researches will be of great benefit. The production of military industry in Qi State is because some weapons and equipment aided by Qin State are also included

Just when the Qi army captured a large amount of military supplies from the Yan army, they also discovered something they were interested in. Some landmines left behind by the Qin State Airfield and some unexploded grenades, these are the Qi army risking their lives. Threatened to get things soon these things are also sent to the rear for research

The army of Qi discovered a large number of new weapons, while the state of Qin was considering who to choose as the political candidate of the state of Zhao. The general election of the state of Zhao had already begun, but the most powerful one was Guo Kai because he also learned from Shangwen's tricks. With a mouth that deceives everyone like the public frequently promises things that he may not be able to do

"I will bring the state of Zhao into a new era, just like the prime minister of the state of Qin. The state of Zhao will become rich and prosperous, just like Guanzhong of the people of Qin. Our Zhao people will earn a lot of money. With this money, we can buy new clothes, canned food, beef, and flour.” Guo Kai said that he is very close to life.

“There are not only delicious but also useful”

"Like the people of Qin, the night is like day. I will bring light to every Zhao people so that every Zhao people can live wonderfully even at night."

"Our Handan is going to become the third city with a population of more than one million, and we Zhao people have no confidence," he shouted loudly

"Yes, yes," the people below shouted loudly, but it was very messy and noisy, because they were all gangsters and unemployed vagrants on the streets of Handan. They listened to him, many of them still didn't know the candidate

What Guo Kai said was very good and powerful, but no one believed it because he had no prestige to build up his prestige, so what he said was just empty talk.

For this reason, Guo Kai stepped up publicity efforts, even used the car, and then distributed free leaflets and newspapers. In order to be elected prime minister, he even urgently produced [-] colorful posters in Qin State. These posters were pasted all over the streets and alleys of Handan, Zhao State. But such a large number of Zhao people are still unwilling to vote for this candidate

They are choosing more candidates which of these candidates they want most but he is not running this candidate is Li Mu Li Mu has publicly stated that he is not running and has no plans to run for Prime Minister on the grounds that he is a soldier The bounden duty of soldiers is to defend the country. Soldiers cannot leave their posts without authorization to do other things. This is absolutely not allowed.

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"May I ask what you want to say about this election?" A Qin reporter immediately interviewed in Handan

"What are you talking about?" said a Handan Zhao man

"It is the election of the prime minister in your country. You must know that the prime minister is the largest among the civil servants and can best concern the vital interests of the people of Zhao State," the reporter said.

"I can't say that, but I know it has nothing to do with us." After the Zhao man finished speaking, he hurried away like this. Zhao himself didn't pay much attention to this election. People in Handan and Zhao are not very concerned about the affairs of those people who are on the verge of polarization, because they only want to find better jobs in Handan for their own livelihood. Slowly, a large city like Xianyang in the Qin Dynasty developed, and the ancient city began to transition rapidly like a modern metropolis. This kind of transition caused the Zhao people in Handan not to care too much.

What they care about is their salaries and salaries and where they can find comfortable and stable income jobs. For example, those who can read and write, especially Qin Guozi, will be hired as company employees. People on all sides are rapidly expanding

This kind of business activity is killing Zhao people's attention to politics. On the contrary, two groups of people at the two extremes of society have become the main political force. The main force is the wealthy end, which owns most of Zhao's production materials, that is to say, they have mastered it. Most of Zhao's capital, land, and various resources are the most important. Those who hold wealth and power have begun to form a new political force.

The other end is that Zhao Guo lives at the bottom and is marginalized or lives the most miserable end. This end is the most exploited people in Zhao State. Their lives are not guaranteed. It can be said that their lives are also at the other end. Wealth is such an end that urgently needs to change, especially to change their current situation. This change is hoped to be accomplished through political politics. This is the current situation of Zhao Guo.

As a special political group in Zhao State, soldiers are not willing to participate too much in such political activities because they are a mixture of both ends. On the one hand, their sources of soldiers are at the bottom, and they lack the necessities of life most. Joining the army is the only best way out. It is to sell their labor force and even their lives, while the other end provides a large amount of military supplies. Their firearms are all paid by these people. It can be said that they feed the army, so although the military is important, it is becoming more and more important in commercial activities. Zhao Guo is obviously not suitable for their entry

But Qin people have their own opinions. Qin people generally believe that although soldiers have a high reputation, especially Li Mu, a bustling street in Qin State is named after Li Mu, but Li Mu is really not suitable to be a politician, especially in the establishment of the relationship between Qin State and Zhao State. When it comes to trade issues, Qin State hopes that there will be a pro-Qin faction figure who listens to Qin State as the Prime Minister of Zhao State

The routines that Guo Kai publicly clamored for were actually designed by the bankers of the Qin State, and Guo Kai also believed that it is the best way to go with the Qin State, so in the future, he is more pro-Qin, that is, to start an extreme battle with the Qin State. Cooperation This kind of cooperation is to allow a large amount of capital from Qin State to enter Zhao State and invest in a series of projects in Zhao State. These projects will naturally have some benefits for those nobles and mine owners who support Guo Kai.

This is what the Qin State needs. They believe that cooperation with the Zhao State nobles to carry out economic and trade activities is a promising market. This market can allow the Qin State merchants to obtain enough wealth, and the Zhao State nobles also believe that only with the Qin State businessmen Cooperate to get what they want It can be said that both parties have ideas

The first thing that Qin State developed was their huge advantages in the financial field. The banking industry has penetrated into all aspects of Zhao State. The next step is that Qin State will start further trade based on the banking industry.

Just when the businessmen of Qin State were paying attention to the election of Zhao State, the people of Chu State did something beyond Shang Wen’s imagination. The merchants of Chu State began to organize their own armed forces. These armed forces began to become their new economic growth point and wealth treasure.

In the Jiujiang area and Wuyue area in the south of Chu State, some Chu people began to organize some private armed forces to go south to the Yue people's area to capture the Yue people as slaves for trading activities. However, this is not a lot because it is the beginning of the merchant armed forces.

Private commercial armed forces are divided into two types. One is the commercial armed forces with mixed land and water routes in the Jiujiang area. This part of the armed forces takes today's two rivers, the Xiangjiang River and the Ganjiang River, as the transportation and supply lines. They start land military operations on both sides of the river.

Their armed force was small at the beginning, the largest was only about 50 people, and usually only about 20 people were dispatched, but they were equipped with more advanced weapons. It is a magazine-type pistol, or a deformed gun of Qin’s 17-style pistol. This is their melee weapon. In addition, they also carry more advanced valve rifles. Note that the bullets they use are black powder bullets, not the smokeless powder bullets used by Qin State. Another laggard is the flintlock ignition method used by shotguns filled with iron beads. Although these weapons are not considered advanced in the eyes of Qin State, and none of them can even be seen as attractive, these weapons are not good against the Yue people in the south. advanced enough

"Bang" a huge gunshot aroused the panic of the surrounding birds and beasts, and the Yue people who gathered in the tribe felt very panic. They thought it was the gods who were angry with them in the form of thunder and lightning. Launch a swift attack against a tribe

The continuous gunshots of "bang bang bang" first hit those who still had some resistance, and the more people were shot and fell to the ground. They didn't even know that there were such weapons that made fire and loud noises in the world. They thought it was Chu. Man is God. The appearance of man is a punishment from God. They lie on the ground and dare not move.

And the Chu people will not kill too many people after killing a few people, because what they need most is slaves, then everyone in this tribe will become prisoners of war slaves, and they will be captured and escorted to the river stop where they will be loaded. ship away

The Chu people attacked the southern Yue natives. These natives are still some primitive tribes. A country with a unified consciousness has not yet appeared. Some of them have been in a matrilineal society for a long time. Their weapons are also very poor. Bamboo bows and arrows, bamboo javelins, or bamboo blowpipes. It is a southern weapon. This weapon is a blow dart with a pinch of feathers. It is made of bone or bamboo and coated with some kind of poisonous substance. It usually kills people easily. The Chu people are extremely disgusted with this weapon, but they have more. gunpowder weapons for advanced weapons

This is the first commercial slave channel in Chu State, and the other one is full of unknown adventures and challenges, but they first bring huge profits.

The state of Chu has many natural ports in the Wuyue region. These ports are close to the sea. For example, Shanghai is located in the Wuyue region. Chu merchants organize armed forces here. These armed forces board flat-bottomed wooden boats suitable for offshore navigation and follow the coastline. Remember that it is the coastline. They have no intention of going out to sea at all and their knowledge of geography is not enough for them to plan to go out to sea and their boats cannot withstand the huge waves

Moreover, there are still many unknown situations at sea. Weather, storms and other bad weather appear, because there are some places near the sea and invisible reefs. These are dangerous places on the sea, but the sea is not so dangerous, and there is the most convenient place. The traffic sea route allows them to drift with the ship to where they want

The armed forces of these Chu merchants are about the same as those in the Jiujiang area. The largest one is only 50 people, but usually the number of people traveling is more than 35. They go out to sea along the coastline in the form of sea boats, and then land randomly on land to launch surprise attacks from the sea to attack those coastal areas. The Yue people tribe and the local Yue people have not thought that there will be an enemy attacking them from the sea, and they will shoot violently as soon as they come up. They cannot resist with any weapon

The earliest fishing nets and harpoons were the opponents of the Chu people's commercial armed forces with muskets. After a short confrontation, those living and intact Yue natives became the first prisoners of war of the Chu people's maritime merchant armed forces. A bucket of gold and slave commodities were escorted to a small boat by the police, and then directly escorted to the Chu people's sea boat through the boat, and then they would capture a full boat before returning to their base.

In this way, the state of Chu has two commercial armed forces that specialize in capturing the native Yue people. These commercial armed forces mainly rely on the developed shipping of the state of Chu as their main means of mobility. They start from the river or the coast and then use the advanced weapons of the state of Qin. Sudden attacks were launched to attack those primitive tribes who mainly captured the local aborigines and then returned them to the Qin people's wharf to exchange with the Qin people for industrial products. These industrial products were in turn sold to the Chu people and then went directly south to continue to capture slaves. This repeatedly formed a new one. The slave trade still has great opportunities and room for expansion

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There is still a lot of room for the development of Chu’s merchant armed forces, because the trade between Qin and Chu has just begun, and the demand for slave trade is extremely strong, especially after the large-scale commercialization of grain production.

Bashu has always been the backup granary of the Qin State. The Qin State has also maintained its attention to the food production of Bashu. This attention makes the food production of Bashu very important. The special geographical location of Bashu makes it impossible for it to be related to the industrial and economic belt of China like Guanzhong. A large number of agricultural machinery is provided to carry out large-scale agricultural planting. These agricultural machinery cannot enter Bashu for transshipment, which is extremely troublesome and the roads are difficult to repair.

But after the annexation of the land in the Bashu area, more and more labor force was needed to work on the farm. In the absence of machinery, the farmers in Bashu began to shift their attention to cheap slaves, and the slaves were easy to transport. In this way, Bashu became the new slave of Qin. It is one of the big demand markets, and this market has a potentially sustainable strong demand. This demand will affect the development of subsequent events.

Local merchants in Qin State also began to pay attention to this demand for slaves, but the number of slaves they provided was far below the demand, and as more and more land was reclaimed, this demand became greater and greater. Bashu fell into a huge crisis. In the state of labor shortage, there has been a new breakthrough in agriculture, which is the two crops of wheat and rice. Wheat is planted in winter and then rice is planted. After the rice is planted, the wheat is mature and the wheat is harvested. When the harvest is over, the rice maturity period is approaching. Although this kind of double cropping in a year is not strictly two crops in a year, it greatly increases the yield of crops, but it also increases the demand for labor. The Qin State lacks the necessary labor completes the balance

Qin's hired armed forces entered the southern region, but to the west of Bashu are high mountains, and to the south is today's Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. The road is extremely difficult to walk. This natural geographical barrier makes it difficult for Qin's hired armed forces to do much.

In comparison, the Chu State relies on shipping to carry out the slave trade, which is much simpler and more mobile. They can travel frequently to various places and adopt a hit-and-run strategy, which is easy to succeed.

However, before the slave trade upgrades, there is an important problem that needs to be solved, that is, water pirates.

"Did you find out?" Xiang Yan asked a Chu army general

"The general has already found out," said the general of the Chu army.

"Water pirates mainly come from fishermen such as Wuyue and others in Jiujiang. They have lived by the water for generations and are familiar with water, so they are very proficient in water warfare," said the Chu army general.

"Well, I also know that the vagrants account for a large part of these pirates," Xiang Yan said.