The price of crossbows is extremely expensive. Even in the Han Dynasty, which has more advanced technology, it costs 8,000 yuan. Xiong Jing asked the crossbows equipped by the Chu army not to be arm-opened or slapped, but to be crossbows with both feet stepping on the string. The crossbows of this kind have not been equipped with such crossbows. The reason why they have not been equipped with it may be because of their ideas, but the more important factor is that there are generally no crossbows at present.

Guo is not Guo in the city, but a copper box on the crossbow arm. The crossbow machine with Guo is fully equipped in the copper box. Without Guo, the crossbow can only be carved on the wooden arm and then loaded into the crossbow machine. The strength of the crossbow arm is incomparable to that of the copper arm. Perhaps the wooden arm can withstand the tension of twelve stones. After the string is turned, it is entirely relied on the crossbow machine to maintain the tension of twelve stones. The copper arm has a strong and large force surface. The crossbow machine installed with the wooden arm is small and the wood strength is not as strong as metal, so the damage rate of the crossbow is greatly increased and it is very durable.

Crossbows are expensive, and in order to withstand ten stones and twelve stones of pulling force, plus the price of copper crossbow is even more expensive. A bow is cheaper, and it can make a good performance mulberry longbow with five or six hundred coins. Unfortunately, the archer is very long and the price is very expensive - a light arrow shaft costs four or five cents, plus arrows and feathers, each one needs at least six or seven cents. Even if the arrows can be reused, the archer will lose more than a thousand arrows a year. After four or five years, the cost will be more than a crossbow.

At the same time, a qualified archer cannot be piled up with money, but also requires talent. Tens of thousands of archers in the Chu army, three stone bows (81 square kilograms) account for more than half, more than 60%, four stone bows (108 square kilograms) account for about 30%, and five stone bows (135 square kilograms) are very few. It is counted that less than 600 people can dig six stone bows (162 square kilograms)... There has been a record in this regard, and in fact, even several crossbow generals cannot dig six stone bows.

The crossbow is simple. Not to mention the three-stone arm, the crossbow can be opened, and more than half of the soldiers of the six-stone to eight-stone slash crossbow can be opened, and the range of the crossbow is no less than that of most Chu army archers. If it is a crossbow, the range of the light arrow is more than two hundred steps. It is just that the crossbow is expensive, and eight thousand coins is just the price of the crossbow machine. With the crossbow arm and bow string, the price of a crossbow is almost equal to one gold. There are about seven or eight hundred soldiers in the Chu army of 300,000 Chu army, and each of them is 64 crossbow drivers. It takes 40,000 or 50,000 gold to equip the entire army.

The finances seem more than enough now, but it is not.

The sea ships assume that 500 gold per ship, and 200 100,000 gold will be needed - in the future, if they really retreat to Jiangdong, if they are not enough to plant sweet potatoes and potatoes, the solution can only be based on foreign trade. Good luck, you can buy grain on the Korean Peninsula and the Indochina Peninsula, and you can travel several times a year; if you are not lucky, there is not enough food on the Korean Peninsula and the Indochina Peninsula, and the sailing fleet can only cross the Strait of Malacca to buy grain or simply make grass valleys. According to the monsoon, it is extremely difficult to travel once a year.

Two hundred 400-ton sailboats transport only 80,000 tons of grain a year. If 80,000 tons are all rice, they can only feed 400,000 people; if 80,000 tons are all rice, they can feed 600,000 people. However, the Chu State has a population of three million, and if all moved to Jiangdong, 80,000 tons is far from enough. At least 160,000 tons are needed in the early stage, which is 400 sailboats, which will cost 200,000 huge gold;

In addition to the ship, the previous budget for horses was 72,000 gold, not including the expenses of forage, stables, slaves, etc.; the large wing, the middle wing, the small wing, and one thousand inland warships are definitely not enough, and two thousand inland warships cost at least another fifty thousand gold;

These are just big heads. The entire army needs to be replaced with giant iron weapons and equipped with armor made of giant iron, which is also a huge expense. Although the pull-up and rolling technology reduce the cost of replacement to the greatest extent, it still costs countless money to build a brand new Chu army.

As the king of Chu, Xiong Jing was not facing a single thing or a problem. He was facing a piece of cloth that was connected and intertwined. He had to observe the overall situation for any small problem, even if it was just a crossbow. Now he thought of the equipment choice of crossbows from the crossbows, and from the expensive crossbows to the financial difficulties that Chu would face in the future.

"The Grand Sima Mansion believes that it should not be equipped with a waist-opening crossbow?" Xiong Jing calmed down and began to think about the choice of the crossbow again.

"Yes." Naoji nodded, "Although the crossbow is strong, a crossbow is almost equal to a horse. The building of the mansion thinks that the crossbow machine is too high and not as good as a bow. The archer is difficult to practice, and the arrows are also consumed a lot, but the arrows can be made by the archer. The Grand Sima Mansion can distribute twelve stones of corn every year."

"Twelve stones of corn? How much does it cost if there are 100,000 archers?" Xiong Jing asked. "Don't forget that the price of corn will rise to fifty cents."

"There were more than 6,000 gold that year." Naojiu estimated the number in his heart, which was roughly correct. "However..."

"Ten years are more than 60,000 gold. How many people can you have a hundred thousand archers to pull the four stone bow?" Xiong Jing interrupted. "More than 60,000 gold is equal to more than 60,000 waist-opening crossbows. How many people can a hundred thousand archers to pull the four stone bows and five stone bows?"

Archers must be trained from children. Only when they are trained from childhood can they be able to open a five-stone bow. If the four-stone bow is not trained when they are young, they must be healthy when they grow up and train for a period of time. The range of the four-stone bow is equivalent to that of the eight-stone crossbow, and the range of the twelve-stone crossbow is equal to that of the six-stone bow. With the same range, the crossbow's armor-breaking ability is stronger than that of the bow. In terms of effectiveness, instead of starting to train archers at the age of seven or eight, it is better to use this money to build a waist-breaking crossbow, even if a crossbow costs a gold.

"King, the Qin army does not have iron armor, but leather armor." Naojiu changed the angle. "Although the new armor-breaking heavy arrows have a short range, they can be very good at breaking armor. One arrow is required to kill twelve stone crossbows, and one arrow is also one arrow. In addition, there are too many 64 crossbowmen for each soldier, 300,000 Chu troops, and nearly 50,000 are crossbowmen. The Grand Sima Mansion believes that thirty-six crossbowmen for each soldier are enough."

"Thirty-six?" Four times four are sixty-four, three times three are thirty-six. There are only 36,000 crossbowmen in a thousand soldiers, which is not much different from the number of Chu army archers at present.

"That's right. There are 36 soldiers per soldier, and the entire army is less than 30,000. If the current archers cannot draw four stone bows, they will no longer be archers, but archers. Those who are not enough should select teaching from the boys. The king ordered all counties and township learning to run villages, and there are three lessons in archery, spear art, and riding art, and archers can be selected from them. In this way, five or six thousand people can be selected every year to make up for this number, and the cost is very small."

The method proposed by Naojiu is indeed the most cost-effective. When Xiong Jing was hesitating, Naojiu said again: "The king had asked before whether he could make a crossbow with a giant iron. The generals disagree, but the ministers agreed. Why?

In the summer and summer months, plum rain is steaming and the tendons are easy to get rid of, so you should use a wooden crossbow; in the autumn and winter months, the wind is cold and the wood ropes are severely stagnant, so you should use a horn crossbow. Wooden horns seem to be better than giant iron, but a crossbow of giant iron can be used in spring, summer, autumn and winter, but a wooden crossbow is not the case. With this alone, a huge iron crossbow is better than a wooden crossbow. Crossbows with waists should be made into two types, so they should be used all year round."

"Two kinds of crossbows?" Xiong Jing smacked his tongue. One crossbow was already very expensive, so how could he build two?

"That's right. Otherwise, there are only wooden crossbows, the Chu army can only fight in spring and summer, and only horn crossbows, and the Chu army can only fight in autumn and winter." Nao's military knowledge is much richer than Xiong Jing, and his understanding of crossbows is much deeper than Xiong Jing. Chu was the first country to invent crossbows, but crossbows cannot be widely popularized on a large scale. One of the reasons is that crossbows are too expensive, and crossbows are not all-weather weapons.

"Then choose a bow." Xiong Jing, who knew the reality, had to withdraw his previous thoughts. He wanted the Qin army to taste the taste of opening a crossbow. "It's just that there are only thirty-six bowmen in one hand, is it too few?"

"How many people do you think are suitable?" Nao Ji asked back. "Don't forget, how many people do I have in Chu State."

"Three million." Xiong Jing said. After he said that, he remembered another thought, and after thinking about it, he mustered up the courage and said, "Naoqing, look, when can my State of Chu predict the people once?"

"King, no, no!" As soon as the people cunningly mentioned, their faces changed drastically and they waved their hands repeatedly. "The people are the leader of evil politics. Even if the minister agrees, the court officials will not answer."

"Hey!" Although he guessed that Naojiu would react like this, Xiong Jing still sighed.

What is the people? The people are the top-down census of the country. This is very normal in later generations. It will happen every few years and no one opposes it. But in this era, the earliest people in various countries were King Xuan of Zhou to "receive people in Taiyuan" (789 BC). Even if it is not a national census, it is just to make people in Taiyuan, which has caused complaints from the world for hundreds of years. "The people cannot be expected" and the "head of evil politics" originated here.

Xiong Jing seemed to have forgotten that the Qing court said it was to promote constitutionalism. In the 33rd year of the Guangxu period (1907), it also predicted that the people would be in chaos without any accident, the villagers would riot, burn the government offices, and all the country were like this.

What is the purpose of the people? This is like an IQ, experience test. I think the people are for the good of the people. The IQ of those people is self-evident. Everyone else knows that the people have only two goals: one is to conscription and the other is to collect taxes.

King Xuan of Zhou believed that the people were in Taiyuan, and the Zhou army fought against the Jiang family for thousands of acres. The Zhou army was defeated and urgently needed to recruit troops. The national capital of the late Qing Dynasty was for constitutionalism, but in fact, it was because of the copper yuan and the annual decline in the year, and the new policies could be made to make money, and the new army in Mongolian was trained. The 36 towns of the new army required money to defend the "My Qing Dynasty", so taxes were required.

The Qin State had no problem with the people, and the people had no power to resist. The Three Jins had predicted the people, but that was a few decades ago when the country was strong. The people were forced to predict the people. The people recorded in the eight hundred years of the Chu State were only once: during the reign of King Kang of Chu, the military tax was sorted out, and even this time, it was just a rough material, and it was probably more speculated. The number of people in the Chu State's Fu family was reported from the villages and counties, rather than from the court to the top to the top. The number of households is currently more than 460,000, and the number of people in Dingkou is more than 2.8 million.
Chapter completed!