Daqin Engineers

Needless to say what happened next.

Touman Shanyu went to investigate and was excited to discover that the facts were as they guessed that the weapons such as new crossbows, bed crossbows and bolt arrows in the hands of Yunzhong County soldiers against cavalry were not available in other parts of the Central Plain.

Mouton was still puzzled: If Yunzhong County has a method for making these things, why doesn't the Central Plains area know how to copy them?

What Mouton didn't know was that these things seemed simple but actually not so easy to make.

The difficulty lies in the iron making method... all of these, even arrows, are based on the new iron.

Without new iron, the foot crossbows, bed crossbows, or bolts were made of bronze. Although they had their appearances, they didn't seem to make any difference. They didn't look much different, but they broke and damaged after a few strokes.

Shen Bing had even found an excuse... If others heard the news and asked, Shen Bing replied that it was made of iron by smelting iron with water.

The fact is that iron smelting can indeed improve iron quality, but it has not improved to this extent.

But if Shen Bing doesn't say, and the blacksmith is under strict confidentiality measures, who knows what's going on?

Touman Danyu and Mouton don't need to know this, they only need to know that the Central Plains does not have these terrifying equipment.

Of course, they would not let this opportunity pass, and immediately sent troops to the south to plunder.

However, because they were worried that the Yunzhong County raid would cut off their retreat, they did not dare to go south, but Chen Bing Sanwan was stationed north of Yunzhong County.

This is what Shen Bing likes to see. What he did was to send a 3,000-man foot cavalry to protect Yunzhong County's own supply line, especially Nihequ Village in Nishi.

In fact, protecting Hequ Village is also protecting the supply line, because most of the reinforcement materials from the Central Plains to Yunzhong County must pass through Hequ Village along the Yellow River to the north.

The Xiongnu seems to have a "spiritual heart" with the soldiers of the North, as long as they see the "Shen" banner from a distance, they will detour...

Just kidding, the team of 3,000 people defeated the Xiongnu's tens of thousands of Jingqi last time. How can the looting and looting teams of the Huns afford it?!

The main looted were Yanmen County, and further south were Taiyuan and Handan Counties. With the strength of the Huns at this time and the newly defeated Shen Bing, they did not dare to go deep.

The governor of Yanmen County was named Wu Xiao, a male doctor.

This Wu Xiao was the surrender of the State of Yan... He brought his troops to surrender and gave him the title of knight. At the same time, he was sent to Yanmen County to serve as the county guard because he had long stationed in the frontier of Yan State and had experience fighting the Huns.

Wu Xiao didn't complain about the looting of Yanmen County by the Huns, but he was relieved.

He reported to Ying Zheng as follows:

"Yunzhong County has no more than 10,000 people and the Huns have nearly 70,000 troops."

"The officials thought that the Huns would come and be ready to fight the enemy, but they didn't want the Huns but were afraid that the people of Yunzhong County did not dare to let go and plunder..."

"Previously, the minister replied that Shen Bing had let go of the main points, and he was afraid of fighting."

"Now it seems that Shen Bing's move is based on his ability."

"Although Yanmen County is suffering from looting, it is far less than expected!"

...

After reading the report, Ying Zheng couldn't help laughing "haha". He threw this information to Zhao Gao with a smug look on his face:

"Didn't you say that Shen Bing was timid?"

"Look at the statement of the Yanmen County prefect!"

Zhao Gao looked at the intelligence and felt bitter, but he still wanted to agree:

"Great King Yingming, everything was expected by the King!"

"Subordinates misunderstood Shen Bing!"

Ying Zheng thought about it, and said:

"It's not a long-term solution to transport food in this way."

"Central Plains has long been used to transport grain and mines to Yunzhong County.

"If we want to eliminate the suffering of the Huns... I should make long-term plans."

Thinking of Ying Zheng, I asked Zhao Gao:

"Where can the people move to Yunzhong County on the Daqin boundary?"

Zhao Gao couldn't help being surprised:

"Relocate?"

Ying Zheng nodded:

"Moved people."

"Zhao Wangjia took away the people of the Northland. Without the people, the Northland would not develop."

"Furthermore, the North is located in a remote place outside the Great Wall. Only more than ten thousand garrisons made me wait for my life."

"So why not move the people to the North for production?"

"In this way, the North can be at least self-sufficient in food. It would be even more ideal if it could find copper mines to smelt weapons by itself!"

Zhao Gao replied:

"The king said quite true, but..."

Speaking of this, I stopped intentionally, and put on an expression of hesitant.

Ying Zheng Qi Road:

"But what?"

Zhao Gao whispered back:

"The king pardons sin."

"Back then, Li Mu was jealous of King Zhao when he was in the Northland Autonomy..."

Ying Zheng interrupted Zhao Gao's words with a "hum":

"You are right to compare Shen Bing to Li Mu, but how can the widow be the faint King Zhao?"

Zhao Gao quickly answered:

"The subordinate talks a lot, the subordinate has no intention of this..."

Zhao Gao's intention to suppress Shen Bing was correct, but he was too impatient.

The Northland actually needs autonomy.

The reason is that the grain producing areas in the Central Plains are very far away from the Northland and the traffic is not smooth. Because the countries in the Central Plains travel frequently, and because of their own development needs, straight roads must be built.

However, it is a remote area from Yanmen County, and there are only a few trails that have been in disrepair for years of wars, and transportation is quite difficult.

As a result, there will be a problem that one or even two bags of grain need to be consumed during the transportation of one bag of grain. In addition, iron ore and the like also need grain and grass support.

At this time, Yunzhong County had a small military strength of just over 10,000, plus labor and craftsmen, and it was only 30,000, which was barely able to support Daqin's national strength at this time.

But with the increase in troops, the number of grains and grass required will increase in stages, and it will always come when Da Qin can't support it, especially the great cause of unification has not been completed.

The solution is simple, that is to move the people to the Beidi Tuntian Autonomous... so that the Beidi can at least be self-sufficient without having to waste a lot of materials on transportation.

As for Zhao Gao's "beware".

It is indeed necessary to beware, but at this time the power of the Shen Bing is still insignificant. Ying Zheng needs to strengthen the Shen Bing's power to resist the Xiongnu. This is the interest of Da Qin at this time.

You really have to beware, and you have to think about it when Shen Bing is as strong as Li Mu. It's too early to say this now.

After thinking about it, Zhao Gao said again:

"But the king."

"The North is a bitter and cold land, I'm afraid the people will not move north."

"If the people are forcibly moved..."

Before Zhao Gao finished speaking, Ying Zheng asked:

"How is Mengwu preparing?"

Zhao Gao answered:

"The king, just wait for the grain to be harvested!"

The time when the food is harvested is the day of the offensive, which is the practice of wars among nations.

On the one hand, because the grain is harvested, there will be grain to send troops, on the other hand, the materials seized after the victory will be more abundant.

Then Ying Zheng nodded:

"If Mengwu destroys the country, the North will not worry about no people."

Zhao Gao opened his mouth for a long time and was speechless.

It turned out that the king asked about Mengwu's preparations for the North.