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Chapter 571: Have you heard of the arms race? (two-in-one chapter)(1/2)

Lu Wu will definitely start the "Warring States Period" in his generation!

People in Zhuxia have a problem: they rely on the next generation to do things that cannot be accomplished, but it is difficult to educate the next generation properly.

To put it bluntly, it is a kind of "procrastination disease". The difference is how serious the "procrastination disease" is for everyone.

Lu Wu spent nearly twenty years developing his family into this, and spent about twenty years to make arrangements. By then, he would be fifty years old. After starting the "Warring States Model", he would still have a life of 10 or 20 years, which would be enough to stabilize the situation.

There is even another possibility, that is, in about 30 to 50 years, Lu Wuhua managed the Yin family to be able to promote the country and directly achieve the goal of "unification" that many people want to do but cannot do.

"That's not successful yet, comrades still need to work hard!" Lu Wu encouraged himself.

A new conscript order has been issued. According to the requirements put forward by Lu Wu, Yuanrong, each family cannot take the farmers to make up the numbers this time. It will strictly inspect the troops brought by each family. If the number of "publicans" is not only unable to participate in the southern expedition, but also severely punished for making false fraud.

Including other indicators, such as how many soldiers you need to bring and what the standard weapon is, all have relatively strict requirements.

There is nothing we can do about it. They won too much money from attacking each other last year!

Adding to the past examples, who doesn't know that following Lu Wu to the battle will gain something again and again, and the danger can be ignored. They just rush up and hug Lu Wu's thighs and never let go.

On the day it was the turn to go to war, Shi Yi joked and said to Lu Wu: "Does the Yin family's armor be sold out?"

It is because the Yin family has made progress in smelting that iron tools can be used on a large scale, without the use of copper to make armor and weapons, which is very expensive.

Of course, armored soldiers do not simply refer to soldiers wearing iron armor, and leather armor with sufficient defense is also considered.

In some aspects, leather armor has higher defense than iron armor, among which rhino leather armor and crocodile leather armor are the highest.

Rhino leather? It’s not something you can get when you go to the Black Continent to hunt.

The land of Zhuxia is different from the future. Some animals have not yet disappeared, with a large number of local rhinos, elephants, crocodiles, etc.

How did they disappear? Perhaps it was because of the changes in the climate and environment, or because they were hunted and killed by the ancestors of Zhuxia.

When checking the soldiers' components of each family, it is naturally impossible for Lu Wu to go to see them in person. There will be special people to inspect them in front of the military camp gate. Usually, the "military lieutenant" does this job.

Because of Lu Wu's strict requirements, the number of soldiers in the central and lower ranks combined reached 13,000. Among them, five thousand soldiers came from the Yin family, the Fan family's Shiji and Shi Jue sent out 4,000, and the Wei family brought 2,000, and the rest were soldiers from each family.

It must be reiterated that the armored soldiers have their own indicators, either they are wearing armored soldiers or armored soldiers.

Their equipment is one thing, whether soldiers wearing that armor can pierce armor and carry weapons, and it is another thing that marches for hundreds of miles on the load of supplies.

At the same time, the soldier also has requirements for height and weight.

Many times, the Central Plains dynasty did not lack good equipment, but people who could make good use of those equipment.

Most of the time, the Central Plains dynasty used technology to ensure its dominance. What is tangled is that it is often used by aliens to fight wildly.

"There are 7,800 soldiers in the central army, and 13,000 disciples." Shi Yi had to work hard to control his facial expressions to suppress his envy and jealousy.

Yin’s family has dispatched five thousand soldiers!

There were five thousand soldiers who were dispatched alone, and God knew how many more Yin had hidden.

More than ten years ago, a family in Jin State should have scared a large group of people if they could produce 500 soldiers. Who would have thought that more than ten years ago, just one family would have produced the total number of soldiers in Jin State?

In the past, smelting technology could not keep up, and the relevant competitiveness was insufficient, which brought a sense of urgency.

The "arms race" that the Yin family first started, and the rest of the families could only keep up.

Shi Yi calculated silently in his heart. Fan spent a lot of money just by purchasing equipment from Yin, and his heart began to heal.

Jin State was under pressure to continuously strengthen its standard armed forces, and the rest of the countries also purchased equipment from the Yin family. Shi Yi could not calculate how much Yin family made just by selling equipment, but only knew that it would definitely be very profitable.

This time, the five thousand armored soldiers were pulled out, which was because Lu Wu deliberately illuminated his muscles.

It’s already Yuanrong, and lighting up the muscles from time to time is the way to deal with people. While it can shock the slut, it can also attract more families to come closer.

Why did Zhongxing Yan become that way after becoming Yuanrong? In addition to his black history of regicide, the main reason was that when he was a "Qing", he only took one or two "brigades" at all times, and only three "brigades" were used to receive taxes, giving people the impression that Xun and Zhongxing were really not good.

Not strong enough? Others find it difficult to be awe. Without fear, they are prone to disobeying the emperor and even face it directly.

When Lu Wu became Yuanrong, he first supported Qi State, and then took out five thousand armored soldiers at once, showing his ability and strength. I don’t know how much strength there is in secret, who will try it?

Wei Qi said: "The army's soldiers are four thousand and six hundred, and the 'publicans' are 14,000."

That is to say, the four noble families captured 11,000 soldiers, and the remaining 1,400 soldiers came from the rest.

From this perspective, Jin State has entered an era where strong people are always strong, and families with insufficient foundation cannot catch up at all.

Lu Wu thought to himself: "The situation has been formed, and it is hard to say about other countries. Jin State will enter the environment of large-scale annexation if nothing unexpected happens."

Why did he have to be strict with the troops going to the expedition? It is to create a situation where "big fish eat small fish".

For families that cannot meet the standards for receiving taxes, it would be fine if they can grit their teeth and keep up with the echelon. If they cannot, they would be unable to obtain the quota for receiving taxes again and again, and they would fall into the vicious circle of the weaker the weaker.

No matter how hard the families gritted their teeth, they could not keep up with the echelon, and they did not want to be eliminated, so they could choose a big family to surrender. They might become vassals first and then be slowly eaten up.

During that process, the smelting technology of the other families was not upgraded, or they could not find the materials and workmanship to make armor and weapons, so they could only continue to buy them from Yin.

What situation will that be? Various families may be stronger, but the Yin family is the family that keeps making profits. The situation caused by the strength of others is that the Yin family is stronger.

Which commodity has the highest profit? From the moment weapons appear, selling weapons undoubtedly occupies a leading position in the high-profit industry.

In this environment, Lu Wu could not stop a family from smelting and developing, but Yin could have a means of "eliminating" after discovering that a family's smelting technology had been broken through.

Then, what Lu Wu needs to guard against is that they united to obtain smelting technology in Ganyin, which forced Yin not to relax at all, and needed to repeatedly strengthen their own force.

Shi Feng didn't know what he was thinking, and suddenly said: "Just the central army, the upper army can fight alone in Zheng State."

you do not say!

The two legions combined have 12,400 armored soldiers. If they come out, they should be scared to death. There is no need for the rest of the soldiers to participate in the battle. Just the armored soldiers can fight a crushing game.

Lu Wu said: "If the Chu army heads north this year, it will naturally be the best."

The State of Chu was also using iron tools, but because the smelting was not mature enough, it was used on internal agricultural tools rather than weapons.

The Chu State, located in the south, is very unique in some ways. If they are ruthless, some places will hunt rhinos, elephants, and crocodiles and obtain enough leather to create leather armor with strong defense.

Once the State of Chu learned that the State of Jin had tens of thousands of soldiers as soon as they were dispatched, they would definitely not care about the losses of those who hunt animals, and they would think about quickly leveling the gap in strength again.

Shi Yi said: "Fan bought another 6,000 armor, one thousand swords, and one thousand swords, and one thousand swords."

Lu Wu was stunned for a moment when he wanted to say something.

If Lu Wu remembered correctly, Fan's armor purchased more than 8,000 sets of armor. Considering the need for losses and backup, it can be roughly guessed that Fan's armor will not be less than 7,000.

I bought another six thousand sets of armor at once? Did I notice something and want to rush into the super soldier???

Wei Qi was silent for a while and also said, "Wei's family needs eight thousand armors, three thousand swords, ten thousand swords, and twenty thousand spears."

A big deal!

However, the Wei family has always been famous for its ability to resist. The family has no shortage of excellent troops, especially the "puppets" who can serve as heavy infantry soldiers. It is understandable to conduct large-scale procurement.

Lu Wu narrowed his eyes and said with a little embarrassed: "My family is not short of money. Can Fan and Wei pay for the majority of food?"

The sequelae of the special grab in Qi State emerged. The Yin family, Fan family and Wei family really have no shortage of wealth at the moment, and they all took advantage of the wealth and power to buy and buy.

With the Yin family, Fan family and Wei family took the lead, and the rest of the families who made money in Qi State must have followed suit.

It is not difficult to guess what the result will be. It will raise the commodity prices in Jin State and will soon spread this trend to surrounding countries.

Why did Lu Wu even sell armor and weapons to other families even if he knew one day, and even started a war, he would sell armor and weapons to other families? With huge profits, it would be stupid not to sell them. Next, the weapons and equipment they sell are not the best products.

Yin's group is usually the best batch to use, sell the average batch, and then develop the next generation.

Among all the products, various crossbows are non-selling products from Yin.

Shi Yi and Wei Qi shook their heads together.

Who doesn’t want more population or food?

Wei knew the Yin family best. Even if he didn't react for a while, he could see some tricks after so many years.

From the beginning to the end, Lu Wu had an imaginative persistence about population and food. Whenever he had the opportunity to purchase, the Yin family had always been ahead of each company and relied on his wealth to buy at a high price.

Wei did not fully understand why Lu Wu obtained population and food when he had the opportunity. In the past, Yin did not show off without showing off, but how could he still let it go?

Fan also attaches great importance to population and food. It is precisely because of this that they are the representative of Jin State with a large population and a large amount of food. If they don’t rely on this, they really have no special military service.

To this day, the political structure of Jin State has obviously changed. Sometimes they feel dazed and wondered: "How did Lu Wu come up? Why did it take less than twenty years to transform from nothing to Yuanrong???"

The army has completed the inspection and relevant data have also been reported.

Lu Wu seized this opportunity and did not agree to the purchase request of Fan and Wei, and ordered the army to set off.

It is one thing to need to sell weapons and equipment, and it is another thing to control the number of "high-end" equipment in each family.

Lu Wu didn't want to start a war one day. He was facing a vast ocean of soldiers, and a few waves slapped Yin to death.

What he played was that the number of soldiers in the Yin family could not be less than 80% of the total of each family, which would have a comprehensive quantitative advantage for a certain family.

Are you a little familiar? Actually, it’s right to be familiar with it. Isn’t it just the European stuffed messenger?

Including last year, the Jin State had four legions dispatched together for two consecutive years.

If the various vassal states knew that Jin had dispatched four more legions this year, they would definitely understand that Jin had recovered.

The re-active Jin State is terrible. Not only Chu State has to be on guard, but the other vassal states should be smart and not provoke Jin State, otherwise Qin State and Qi State will be their fate.

March to a place close to "Wangye".

The ministers and nobles from the Zhou royal family were waiting in the "old place".
To be continued...
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