Some friends argued a lot in the two chapters today, so the old customer specially gave a single to explain.

There was no such thing as salt and iron for sale in the Qin Dynasty, so the copper and iron smelting of the Qin Dynasty was still in a private state, and there may be some official ones, but there is no historical record.

Moreover, after Qin Shihuang unified the six kingdoms, he moved 120,000 households of the six kings and wealthy merchants in Xianyang, cutting off the opportunity for the rich to collude with the six kings and nobles in the six kings and nobles in Nanyang, and then gathered copper and iron merchants in the world to the greatest extent, so as to monitor all merchants who might cause hidden dangers, which would be smelted, to prevent the difficulty of supervision and management after dispersion. The most important thing is to supervise and prevent the large number of copper and iron from falling into the people.

After the Qin Dynasty unified the army, the soldiers from all over the world were confiscated into twelve bronze men weighing 1,000 stones. The weapons seized here were mainly weapons of soldiers from the six countries, and there were also among the people, but not the main ones.

In the Qin Dynasty, there were strict weapons controls. The people did not allow private hiding of crossbows and military weapons, but it did not mean that there were no weapons among the people. Instead, there were strict standard restrictions on civilian weapons. There were regulations on the length and size. If it exceeded the regulations, it would be considered illegal and would be punished. For example, hunters could prepare bows and arrows, but hunters had special household registration and should be included in the scope of surveillance management like craftsmen.

In addition, the Qin Dynasty was extremely strict in the management of craftsmen. They were not officially recognized by craftsmen and were not allowed to build weapons at all. They were not even allowed to build agricultural tools. Moreover, whether it was weapons or agricultural tools, they had to be named. In other words, every weapon or metal farm tools created by craftsmen must be engraved with their own name. If it is a quality issue, it must be held accountable. If it is built and sold privately, it would be a serious crime and would be stripped of the craftsmanship and demoted to a labor slave.

Now let’s talk about the promotion of steel and steel invented by Chen Xu.

In fact, before the steel was smelted, the copper and iron smelting of the Qin Dynasty was always official supervision, and the same was true for folk smelting, including weapons. Official supervision, craftsmen, and confiscated after passing the inspection. This is a form of corvee service.

In other words, there was no unified official weapon manufacturer in the Qin Dynasty. Once a war was to be fought, craftsmen would be recruited to build on time as needed. There was strict supervision from officials and was not allowed to fall into the people. This method and process were actually not essentially different from Chen Xu's method.

Before, when Chen Xu first arrived in Wancheng, Laoke had already written that there were a large number of copper and iron workshops near Wancheng. These workshops were operated under the strict surveillance of officials. Whether it was smelting copper and iron or making equipment, officials were responsible for registering to prevent copper and iron merchants from making weapons privately. Ran Chi was an exception and wanted to rebel for a long time. Therefore, he used money and money to corrupt the officials in Wancheng, resulting in a blind spot in surveillance. However, this kind of thing was never avoidable. After all, the rule of the Qin Dynasty could not be eliminated in a day or two for the hatred of the six countries' demise.

In Chen Xu's method, every move of the merchants involved was also strictly monitored by the government, but the previous government recruited craftsmen to build weapons was changed to merchants summoning craftsmen to build weapons. However, these people were still under strict official supervision. The smelted steel and manufactured equipment and weapons could not be exported to the people. This is a standard weapon of the army and is not allowed to be held by the people. Therefore, there is no problem of the leak of important weapons from the country. There is no essential difference between steel and bronze weapons. If you want to rebel, you can rebel with bronze weapons. In the past, the copper and iron merchants in Nanyang were also smelting copper and iron every day, but no one rebelled every day.

What's more, the nature of merchants is different from that of nobles. They mainly make money. The country does not have much sense of belonging to them. When the seven countries were fighting in the past, merchants did not go between the seven countries to do business and make money, because the concept of the country at this time was different from that of later generations. At this time, the country was nominally the Zhou Dynasty, the country was just the princes, and the gentry was the same. They took turns to serve among several countries, and the country was good to him. The country was not a strong sense of belonging to the country. Li Si was a native of Chu and went to Qin to become an official and destroyed his motherland.

The last thing to say is the key point. The country of Daqin is still very stable at present. There are nearly one million troops in the country who can conquer and fight well. These are real soldiers. When Qin Shihuang was still alive, even if someone wanted to rebel, he would not be able to stir up a big wave at all. He dared to jump out and crush him to death.

Later, when Xiang Liang and Xiang Yu rebelled, they killed the county magistrate first, obtained the official seal to force the county magistrate to control the military power before they quickly succeeded. In other words, if they had not mastered the army of Kuaiji County, Xiang Liang could not have become the most powerful force in the uprising army so quickly. In the later battles, it can also be seen that the peasant army led by Liu Bang was like a mob, and could not defeat Xiang Yu at all. They were beaten several times and almost wiped out the entire army, because Xiang Yu was originally a family of military generals and had the ability to lead the army, which was completely different from the ordinary peasant uprising army.

The most important rapid promotion of steel is conducive to the development of agriculture, because the output of steel is much larger than that of copper. Therefore, the promotion of steel equipment under strict control and sufficient force will not cause national chaos. This is a process where the benefits outweigh the disadvantages.
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