Chapter 639

Liu Yan is only 32 years old this year. The youngest ministers and those generals are also about 30 years old, most of them over 40. His physical condition has always been very healthy. He has no disease or pain. In terms of normal life span, how can he endure longer than those who follow the country.

Han Xin, the greatest hero of the Western Han Dynasty, will die. Everything else is empty. The main reason is that Han Xin is younger than those who have won rivers and mountains and high positions in the war. Liu Bang and others are all in their fifties and sixties, but Han Xin is only in his thirties. Who wouldn't be afraid of whether Han Xin, who is also the older generation but so young, would revolutionize the country after the death of the older generation.

The general inside story of killing meritorious officials is not so simple. The basis is that the rulers are worried about the instability of the ruling power. The founding king kills those people who follow him. Usually, the founding king is afraid that his children can't hold down after his death, and those meritorious officials are too domineering.

Liu Yan doesn't want to kill any minister now. With the passage of time, no one is sure about many things. Maybe one minister wants to die by himself, or Liu Yan is old and afraid that his children can't hold someone down.

Because of their own wishful thinking, Liu Yan devoted himself to the drought and locust disaster that would happen in the Central Plains. Xiang, where the inspection team returned, not only did not become lively again, but the atmosphere was even more depressed and dull than before.

It was in that atmosphere that the team that should go to Guanzhong in advance was going all the time. When the season entered summer, Ji Chang returned to Xiang from Yandi.

The background of Ji Chang's return to the center is that the Han Army has fully occupied the territory originally belonging to Murong Yan state. He was ordered to hand over the command of the army to LV Tai and set foot on his way home with ran min, Xie AI and other people.

The people who returned to Xiang soon noticed the difference. Taking ran min as an example, he learned that his colleagues were worried about the possible cleaning. He laughed for a while, and then said to his family officials, "I first established the country as king, and then I had no way to go to the king. I can still get a high position and lead the army to fight."

Ran min means that the person who should be most afraid is him, but he thinks Liu Yan is not such a person.

It seems that it is the same thing. If Liu Yan doesn't have a broad enough mind, he can't accept ran min's defection, and then give the army command again and again.

As family officials, the master of the family can be optimistic, but they have to be careful. Liu Yi said, "the world will see stability, and there will be no threat to the power of the Great Han, but I don't know if the king still has a big mind?"

Jiang Gan, Miao song and Dai Shi showed the same concern, but ran min laughed again.

"Simple." Ran min immediately stood up from the posture of bending his knees and kneeling, and said carelessly, "I will go to the palace city immediately and ask the king face to face."

For a moment, one of the family ministers was a man, and his head was full of: "...."

Ran min strode out without waiting for his ministers to react. He was shouted and didn't stop. He really went directly to the palace city, which scared his ministers to break their courage.

Xiangguo can be regarded as a palace city. Ran min arrived at the palace gate to ask for an audience. The gatekeeper reported it layer by layer and waited for Liu Yan's consent. It took nearly two quarters of an hour.

Ran min met Liu Yan in Linyuan. At that time, Liu Yan was stirring up a machine that looked rectangular.

"Yongzeng, come." Liu Yan greeted ran min, but he stepped aside from the position of the thresher, pointed to the pedal and said, "step here."

Ran min heard a "roaring" sound from a distance. He was curious about what it was. According to his words, he approached the pedal and found that the pedal had a return force. The round thing on the machine was moving with the pedal.

"What is the metal ring on the round barrel for?" Ran min stretched out his hand to touch it, but he was stopped by Liu Yan. Otherwise, there would be no good results. He stepped on happily, with full curiosity: "thresher?"

This machine is the 13th prototype after Liu Yan ordered the research. Before, the bearings were easy to take off or the gears were easy to get stuck.

Liu Yan didn't know why ran min came. After doing something, he introduced the thresher with a show off mood.

The latest sample machine uses only a few metals, but it has a great test on the process, such as gears and bearings.

In the pre-Qin period, there was a mature use of molds. The process of the state of Qin was the most perfect. A large number of military instruments were poured and molded with molds, and then polished. The error could be limited to within one millimeter.

After the Qin Empire, the mold forming method disappeared without knowing why the technology was lost, or the Han Empire had its own technology. It can be determined that the manufacturing technology of the Han Empire was far inferior to the error specification of the Qin Empire.

Liu Yan's Han capital was already making bronze guns. The use of molds must have been picked up again, but in a wide range of application, it was unable to achieve an error of less than one millimeter in the Qin Empire.

Mold pouring method, including assembly line production, and other production technologies and concepts, some are to pick up the lost ones created by the ancestors, and some are the "initiative" of Liu Yan. The inability to catch up with the standards of the Qin Empire is not a technical deviation, but a management problem. For example, if the Qin method engraves the name of the produced items, whoever fails will have serious consequences.

No matter what you do, you actually rely on people. That is, with the modern intelligent production line, if people operate improperly, they will still produce waste products. People-oriented can refer to many aspects.

The reason is that the number of craftsmen is too small. More than 70% of the ordnance production in the Han Dynasty depends on the system. Even if Liu Yan can be as strict as the state of Qin, in fact, the effectiveness of the time is really not very good. Of course, he wants to be strict with the process of production personnel, but it needs more craftsmen. Otherwise, the most likely thing is that the craftsmen will be killed

Ran min obviously didn't do farm work, and his education couldn't find the importance of threshing machine to farming. Liu Yan was still talking about the benefits of large-scale application of threshing machine, but he couldn't wait to mention his purpose.

"Leader?" Liu Yan frowned a little. He knew why ran min asked, and then said, "there is a war to go forever."

Before Liu Yan made an inspection tour, ran min mentioned in Yandi that he was going to Dingxiang. Later, he was delayed.

"I'll tell you, those guys just don't bother themselves." Ran min didn't know whether he was really honest or gave eye medicine to anyone: "it's ridiculous to say that the king wants to clean meritorious officials!"

Perhaps ran min just said what he thought in his heart, but judging from his experience of being safe in Shijie for so many years, he should not be so upright.

Liu Yan's face became very wonderful. Of course, he knew what the ministers were thinking recently. Ran min was the only one who dared to come over and say it carelessly. He really didn't know whether ran min had no political intelligence or ran min was stupid.

"..." Liu Yan looked at ran min and said angrily, "that's how they share their worries for the few?"

Ran min didn't care after firing the gun and asked about the number of uniformed soldiers.

"Dingxiang already has two armies." Liu Yan said the troops under Li Tan's command and said to ran min, "Yongzeng will go this time and bring a firearm song."

The state of Han has transformed the military system from top to bottom, namely, corps, group army, army, division, Qu, Tun, team, Shi and Wu. The staffing establishment is two five for one, five for one team, five teams for one village, four villages for one song, five songs for one division and three divisions for one army.

The so-called firearm troops are actually troops fighting with gunpowder weapons. At present, bronze guns, explosive bags and grenades are used.

The reason is that the porcelain can grenade is really unreliable. The porcelain can grenade behind is no longer produced. It is a follow-up study of the wooden handle grenade. However, the wooden handle grenade certainly cannot be compared with modern technology. There should be pull rings, safety paper, fire ropes, fuses, explosives and cartridge cases, but detonators, copper wire springs, lead pipes and screw sleeves can not be mass produced at present.

By the way, Liu Yan has ordered the workshop to study firearms, but it must be admitted that it is countless times more difficult to manufacture firearms than bronze guns. Unless the system is upgraded to the imperial era and can produce Musketeers, there will be no large number of troops with firearms in a short time.

In addition, Liu Yan has no concept of the Musketeers that the system can summon. For the time being, he doesn't know what the guy in the hands of the Musketeers will be.

"This is good." Ran Min said happily, "the scene of bombarding armor, cavalry and heavy infantry with artillery must be spectacular."

Dingxiang has been besieged for nearly two years, and countless ditches have been dug around. The horse pits are surprisingly dense. The armor and riding gear of Longteng guard have been beaten back after several attempts to break through the siege. However, those heavy infantry are not limited and play a greater role.

The remnants of the Jie nationality hiding in Miyagi have been breaking through for nearly a month. There were originally three standing armies under Li Tan's command, and one of the remaining two lost too much in the fight.

Dragon guards break through in order to survive. The troops fighting for survival are definitely more ferocious than mourners. Although there are many adverse factors, there is no lack of will to die.

The bronze cannon of the Han Dynasty needs a soldier to serve it. Most of them have wheeled bases and rely on animal power to pull. However, unlike other troops who can use warehouses for convenient supply, the firearms force needs a large number of logistics personnel to ensure supply. There are only 300 soldiers who really operate artillery, but 700 to support 30 bronze artillery.

"Is it not enough to have only one song?" Ran min, of course, wanted to carry as many guns as possible: "why don't you have a division?"

Liu Yan immediately laughed and scolded: "there is only one song. Do you want to love or not."

At present, the number of bronze cannons in the Han Dynasty is nearly 100. The bronze cannons made in the early stage were put into the war to destroy Yan. The thirty gates where Liu Yan transferred the song to ran min were made in the back.

It's better to have than not. Ran min laughed and scoffed at Liu Yan's need to clean. The firearm troops played a great role in the war to destroy Yan. Everyone who has seen it knows where the artillery is going. Liu Yan, such an important army, will give it as soon as he says. Is it a bit like killing meritorious heroes?

"Give the most lively funeral to the most elite troops of the Jie nationality. After the Dingxiang war, Yongzeng led the army into Xiliang." Liu Yan didn't want ran min to rob Xie an's work: "Qiang and di joined the army and took the basin as a place for cultivation and rest. An dared to harass Longyou and other places. I don't want to hear from them anymore."

Ran min was more relieved. After Dingxiang, he still had to continue to unify the army. It was really not something assigned by the king to clean up. If he wanted to clean up, he wouldn't let people unify the army outside.

When he got what he wanted, even more than he thought, ran min happily went out of the palace city. After returning, he scolded those alarmist family ministers, and soon the news on his side spread.

The king thinks that if the world is settled and who wants to be cleaned, it is definitely the generals who control the army. In fact, those who do not control the army have the lowest risk factor.

All kinds of people heard that ran min went to the palace city and knew what he was going to ask. People were scared to death. There was no lack of people who were ready to commit suicide. They just asked that their family would not be involved after their death.

Waiting to learn that ran min not only didn't do anything, but also got a task of unifying the army to end the Capricorn family. When Dingxiang finished, he would continue to unify the army to Longyou. At that moment, the rumors about Liu Yan's cleaning were broken.

The essence of cleaning is those guys with big minds. They think all kinds of thoughts because of their ambitions, and extend their fear.

Even if Liu Yan doesn't want people to panic, he can't appease without reason and let the situation develop. He recalled Ji Chang, ran min and others for an unspeakable purpose. Ran min didn't come this time, and Ji Chang who got a hint in a few days will come.

Those who originally invaded the Central Plains have been destroyed and those who fled far away. It is time for the country to enter the stage of development and construction. It is not a good thing that people in officialdom are worried. While no one is willing to work, if it continues to develop, it can not rule out escape or even rebellion.

Such a thing also reminded Liu Yan that if those people didn't have the right mind, they wouldn't scare themselves so badly. He should think about it. Some restrictions should be.

People's hearts stabilized again. Ran min also led the army to Dingxiang, but Liu Yan began to frequently summon opposition people.

The so-called opposition refers to those who are not officials in the government and can be called opposition people. They are not referring to ordinary people, but generally refer to groups with reputation.

What Liu Yan summoned was not people from various families who did not become officials, but people from various schools.

The first response is the Confucian schools, who have long looked forward to such a day to be personally summoned by the king. No matter how many schools Confucianism is divided into, they all have the same goal, that is, the rulers continue to respect Confucianism alone.

When the new dynasty was established, some surviving hundred schools were more urgent than Confucianism. They had no better chance to change the fate of their own schools than when the Dynasty changed.