From Gaoliu to the west, cross Yunzhong, Hetao, and further south, it is Qin State.

The world is about to be in chaos, and Qin is naturally within the scope of the world.

While the prisoner Mi and others were eating hot pot and talking about the stories that happened thousands of miles away, Gao Liu's genius had just been dark.

However, in the new capital of Qin, Liyang, it was already dark due to the time difference.

In the majestic palace, the lights sway.

Qin Jun sat in front of his head with a serious expression, with more than ten confidant ministers under him, and a big debate was being held.

"Will my army of the Qin Dynasty bend the bow with a strong crossbow or a musket in the future?"

This is the theme that you are right now.

Qin Jun was in a good mood, and Wei Zhao turned against each other, causing the Three Jin Alliance, which had been unable to sleep or eat, to dissolve! The Mo family destroyed Qi in a battle against Qi, and then stabbed Wei in Zhao!

A few days ago, the Mo family's envoy came and invited Qin Jun to send someone to the Central Plains Alliance, vaguely revealing the Mo family's idea of ​​forming an alliance with Qin.

Qin and Chu have always had a good relationship.

Qi State was abolished after this war. If it could reach an alliance with the Mohist family, then it could completely let go of its hands and start a second more profound change, and do not hesitate to civil war!

Regardless of whether the Mo family will keep their promises after the alliance, it will make Wei State afraid. Wei State has been finished, and it has changed from a strategic offensive to a strategic defense. The situation in the Wenhou era has completely disappeared, and it is only a matter of time before Xihe changes hands.

As for the shocking truths of the Mo family, Qin Jun didn't care. What a big deal about the Zhou emperor? He was just a chess piece in the hands of Wei. If Qin wanted to be strong and Qin wanted to reform, it would be impossible to respect the old nobles again.

The enemy and the enemy attacked each other in the distance, first west and then east. After the Xihe Martial Soldiers trained by Wu Qi were gradually exhausted, it was the time when Qin State went east.

There was a Mo family that disrupted the Central Plains there, and Qin won the opportunity.

Moreover, not long ago, Qin Jun used the westbound caravan organized by the Mohist family to return. Although the silk he brought was not produced by Qin and the price he bought was not low, he still made ten times the profit.

After passing the desolate Xirong, there will be a place with abundant water and grass in no distance. The most important thing is that the tribes of the small countries there are so easy to fight. Relying on stirrups, muskets, chariot arrays, and cannons, it is almost destroyed.

After the reform of the Qin State, what was needed was the population, what was needed were serfs, and what was needed were the serf servants who worked in the homes of upstarts after they were given military merits!

All kinds of goods and arms need to be exchanged for food. However, if the trade goes smoothly in the west, you can use gold and silver to buy various weapons and goods from the Mohist family.

Everything is telling the bright future of Qin.

Before this bright future, what Qin Jun needs to solve is the problem of the Qin military system.

Since reforms are needed, the military system must be changed.

Wu Qi, Shengchuo and others all knew the benefits of the Mo family's firearms. Wu Qi's attack on Daliang City was precisely because of gunpowder that time, he destroyed the city.

So Wu Qi, Shengchuo and others knelt on the left. They supported the Qin army to use muskets in the future, eliminated crossbows, and no longer produced them. All military forces were used to produce muskets. The new military system used muskets as the main means of killing.

The people who kneeled on the right were those who insisted on using crossbows. These people had their own considerations, not just because of conservatism, but really felt that it would not be good for the Qin army to use muskets in the future.

The man in the right hand said first: "A top archer can also hurt people a hundred steps away. A musket can't hit anything."

"A musket is being fired, and you need to stuff gunpowder first and pound lead bullets. At this time, the top archer has shot more than ten arrows."

After the man finished speaking, he looked at Wu Qi.

Wu Qi, who was already in his twilight years, smiled and said, "This is what I say."

Everyone was stunned and thought to himself how he could support other people's ideas?

But Wu Qi turned around and said, "How long does it take to train a top archer?"

"How many people are needed to open the roads, break the well fields, change the laws, serve the recruitment, and the ceremony is broken and the music is broken?"

"In the battle of Qi and Mo, there were 100,000 Qi troops, nearly 60,000 Mo family, and how many archers needed for the 100,000 troops? I have been to Si Shang and know the Si Shang military system. These 60,000 are just regular troops. If it is a comprehensive mobilization, the battle to destroy the country will be even more than a hundred thousand."

"As soon as the fields are opened, and the wells have been broken, how many soldiers recruited can have the art of shooting at the Yangshu?"

"But the musket is not the case. The peasant soldiers recruited and granted muskets, and the fire will be opened in March."

"You seem to be just a archer, but in fact you need a hundred people to support you and be subdivided under the feudal system to support your scholars. You don't have to farm or fight, and you can practice martial arts with full-time jobs."

"Down on the roads and breaking the well fields, all the hundreds of people who support one soldier can join the army."

"Even if Yang Uncle Resurrection, can he be able to defend more than a hundred peasant soldiers with guns alone?"

"Bow can only be achieved in three years of cold and heat. Guns can be obtained by blacksmiths hitting them for three months."

"If everyone is growing a yuchi, what's the use of a musket?"

"But how many people in the world have the skills to raise uncles? After the reform, how many people can practice the skills to raise uncles?"

“Times have changed, bows are not available.”

Qin Jun nodded slightly. He actually had something in his heart, but he was worried that he was not thinking enough, so he wanted to listen to the opinions of these confidant ministers.

The seemingly beautiful methods of the country's shooting art will disappear with the upcoming changes of the Qin State.

With a comprehensive conscription system, a comprehensive mobilization system, and high taxes, which village and community have free time to play archery?

With the destruction of the Ice Field System, how many people can have enough time, money, and energy to practice shooting skills to become scholars?

The man in the right head said again: "Even so, the bows and crossbows can be arranged in a series of volleys, and the muskets can be shot at most three rows together."

Shengchuo, who was in the left head, sneered: "Bow is a bow, and a crossbow is a crossbow. How can a bow and crossbow be side by side?"

"The bows can be arranged in six rows and ten rows, but the people behind them are just shooting at the sky, so what's the use?"

"If you use a crossbow, you can only shoot two or three rows in front of you, do you want to let the crossbowman shoot in the back?"

"The bow and crossbow are separated, and the bow is not available, Wu Qi has said."

"As for crossbows... crossbow arrows are too expensive, and they will take two or three years to make the crossbow body, and the range of crossbow arrows may not be as far as muskets. Crossbows can be used in military systems after the reform, but they are not as suitable as muskets."

"Mozi was a carpenter and a saint of machinery, but the Mo family on Si Shang did not use crossbows, so we must consider this."

"The craftsman who makes a crossbow can make five muskets."

"The craftsman who grinds an arrow can make a hundred-shot lead bullets."

"Besides, even if it is a crossbow, it still requires hand opening. How many times can ordinary people pull it out?"

"In the battle between the Southern Jishui River, the Mo family and the Qi people fought against each other. The battle was the most intense. It is said that each of those companies lost the 60 lead bullets they carried. How many times can the crossbowmen fire?"

The man in the right head shook his head and said, "You only talked about the benefits of muskets, but not the disadvantages. I said that when the battle is over, the crossbowman can shoot three shots, while the musket can only shoot one shot."

Wu Qi laughed and said, "You are not as good as me in the military. The strength of the martial soldiers lies in discipline and military formation."

"In the past, the bronze cannon just came out, and some people said that since there are bronze cannons, the method of forming formation is not feasible. But I said that the more bronze cannons there are, the more needed to form formations, and a military force that still maintains formations under the shelling can be called a strong army."

"Although the fire rate of muskets is slow, if they form a formation and use military orders to tie them up, they can only shoot thirty steps before they can catch up. Then, under the volley, the opponent's formation is loose, how can they break the formation of the spear?"

"Add to it, it is the highest level of war in the future, the world will be in the future."

"I knew that the Mo family would win the battle in Qi and Mo. Why? Their soldiers could still form formations under artillery attacks, and their soldiers could advance and retreat in an orderly manner, and make up for the lack of fire rate with discipline and formation."

The man in the right head stood up and bowed to Qin Jun, and then bowed to Wu Qi, saying, "I can't refute what you said. However, no one in the world can control the gunpowder except the Mo family on Si Shang."

"It's like not being able to smelle copper. Once a war starts, what if the Mo family doesn't sell it to us? If the trade route is cut off, even if we can buy it, we can't transport it? Gunpowder is expensive, the Mo family monopolizes, and they seek profits. How many pearls, jade, gold and silver do we need to exchange for it?"

Wu Qi was about to say something when he heard Qin Jun coughing lightly: "It seems that muskets are not better than crossbows, but are more suitable for the military system after the reform. This is a conclusion. The only way to make gunpowder is, which is the biggest problem only by the Mohist school masters."

"is that so?"

This time, the confidant ministers on both sides unanimously said that this was indeed an unavoidable problem. Although Qin Mo is now honeymoon, he bought gunpowder on the grounds of "starting mines and building canals" not only agreed, but also knew that this was used for combat and was sold in large quantities, but the people in Qin really didn't want to be controlled by others.

For nothing else, it is for the current great struggle. Who is the monarch who has no desire to be the world? To take the world, some things cannot be controlled by others.

Qin Jun suddenly laughed and said, "There is one thing that can solve these troubles."

Paint your hand and then walk into the room after a moment.

Shengchuo had seen this man, but Wu Qi had never seen him. When Shengchuo saw this man, he was still in Anyi, Wei State. He only glanced at him occasionally and knew that this man was a young master and his confidant.

Qin Jun would tell Shengchuo some things, but he wouldn't know some things. So Shengchuo would ask some things, but he wouldn't know some things.

After the man entered, he respectfully put down two items wrapped in silk in front of everyone.

Then the two opened, one was filled with a pile of gray-black powder, and the other was wrapped with a bronze hook, which looked a bit strange.

Just now, everyone was discussing crossbows and muskets, so naturally turned their attention to the pile of gray-black powder.

Because that pile of powder looks like gunpowder.

Wu stood up and asked, "Can it be..."

Qin Jun nodded and said, "That's right. This is gunpowder, and it was not bought from the Mo family, but made by him."
Chapter completed!