Chapter 804

Firearm loading is a matter of time. It must be a process of equipping the core forces first and then extending to the rest of the forces.

The core troops are the first to be installed. There are considerations about loyalty. On the other hand, the output is restricted. After all, the output is so small. When the production capacity reaches the demand, it will be more troops.

At present, the Han country can produce about 20 to 30 guns of various calibres every month. First of all, it is restricted by materials, not without enough craftsmen.

The materials used in today's artillery are not steel, but mainly copper, which is also in line with the evolution process of artillery. First get familiar with the bronze artillery, and slowly look for materials that can give play to better performance, that is, a material research process. You have to wait for a material to be thoroughly figured out before there are steps to update it.

In fact, there is a product of steel in the Han Dynasty, which is just a deeper refining of iron ore, which also involves chemistry, such as chemical additives and some proportions, but it is inseparable from the increase of temperature.

At present, there are absolutely few nations in the world that can produce steel. Han people are one, ah San is one of them, and then there are Romans and Persians. The rest are really gone. There are many nationalities who do not even master the smelting skills of bronze, let alone iron or steel.

The Indians spent thousands of years failing to master the metal smelting technology. The world island has entered the firearms stage, but they still live in the stone age. What makes Indians so uncivilized? The reason is not that they are stupid. In fact, there are no open-pit copper mines in North America. First, there is a lack of materials to start the "smelting technology line", and the bronze stage has not entered. I don't know what metal is. The relevant detection technology has not been extended. Iron age, steel age... Anyway, I can't open it.

It is the credit of volcanic lava that human beings first found that ore can be made into copper or iron, which makes human beings know that the original temperature is enough, and then find the right ore, they can use the heating combustion method to smelt the metal they want, and then carry out various processing for various metals.

All technologies are based on hypotheses and conjectures. Many times, there are enough technologies to make something, but it is impossible to make it because there is no relevant concept.

After Zhuxia made gunpowder, it took hundreds of years to use it for military purposes, but the process was interrupted by nomads from the grassland called Mongolia. Since then, the research on firearms began to lag behind Europa.

To say that the use of gunpowder was brutally interrupted, many technologies were actually locked up by Zhuxia. The credit was naturally the rejection of the ingenious Confucianists. The contempt and contempt for craftsmen themselves were cutting themselves off. Otherwise, how could the mechanical research, which was still playing very smoothly in the spring and autumn and Warring States periods, go back to the back?

Liu Yan will never take the wrong path. Not only will he not give up his way, but also he will go firmly along the route he knows. Of course, it is impossible for him to do it himself, but if he can exist as a mouth gun mentor and put forward relevant concepts, naturally countless people will study it.

"In ten years, the big man will change greatly." Liu Yan is now riding on a rail car pulled by a horse with several public officials, feeling what is called wheel wind galloping: "the galloping road was invented in the pre Qin Dynasty, and it was not until our generation that he reappeared."

Indeed, chidao was widely used in the pre Qin Dynasty. In wartime, chidao shouldered the important task of calculating luggage. In peacetime, it also provided folk goods transfer or transporting people. However, with the collapse of the Qin Empire, chidao disappeared.

Not only did Chi Dao disappear with the Qin Empire, but also assembly line operations disappeared. I don't know whether the Han Empire really didn't know those technologies or simply abandoned them in order to draw a clear line with the Qin Empire.

It seems wrong to say that the old Liu family abandoned the galloping road and assembly line operation in order to draw a clear line with the Qin Empire. The old Liu family inherited the system of the Qin Empire and there is no reason to abandon the state-owned technology. What's the matter?

In fact, it is very simple. The war in the late Qin Dynasty was a big reshuffle. First, it experienced the collapse of the Qin Empire, then the struggle of many princes such as Liu Bang and Xiang Yu, and then entered the stage of the struggle between Chu and Han. The war not only led to a sharp decline in the population, but also destroyed and lost many historical materials.

At the initial stage of the collapse of the Qin Empire, the survivors of the six countries were unhappy with anything related to the Qin Dynasty. Beating, smashing, looting and burning were accompanied by that era. How many people died and how many things were destroyed? A lot of knowledge can be lost, and technology must have no privileges.

In fact, any dynasty change in Zhuxia was a process. The population increased in peacetime was sharply reduced due to war, and many accumulated cultures and developed technologies were destroyed. Any newly founded Central Plains Dynasty will basically usher in a so-called "prosperous era", which is that the available resources (such as land) have not changed at all, but fewer people need to use resources to produce false prosperity.

There is a very clear example. Yang Jian created the great Sui Dynasty. Before Yang Guangnong lost his country, the population and productivity of the great Sui Dynasty only reached the stage of war, until Li Yuan established the great Tang Dynasty and Li Shimin's Zhenguan prosperous age. In fact, the data can show that up to the stage of the extinction of the great Tang Dynasty, in fact, the data of the great Tang Dynasty is only "Wenxing" better than the great Sui Dynasty, Other aspects are really inferior.

How any dynasty is, in fact, can be seen from the number of people. First, the output must support enough people, so that the population can surge. At the same time, that dynasty can not be defensive, but must be aggressive in order to ensure that the basic plate will not be disturbed by war.

If we look at the population data of each dynasty, the population of the Western Han Dynasty has always been at the peak of most dynasties. The population of 59 million (the data of the second year of BC) was not broken until the middle of the Ming Dynasty (the data of the year 16000). However, the population statistics in Wanli period were only a little more than that in the Western Han Dynasty.

It's true that a strong man is a strong man without telling lies. Both the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty are strong, not only in foreign wars, but also in the number of people. You know, the 59 million in the Western Han Dynasty and the 56 million in the Eastern Han Dynasty are rare in previous dynasties, and are often twice or even three times that of some dynasties. It can be seen that there is a reason to say that a strong man is mentioned in the two Han Dynasties.

Nowadays, the Han country will re count the population every three years, that is, it is becoming more and more difficult to complete the statistics, which is related to the fact that the Han country does not restrict the flow of population. For example, the census conducted this year has suffered a cliff like decline, from 17 million people three years ago to 14.26 million, and nearly 3 million people have "disappeared".

The three million people are not dead. In fact, they are in a state of mobility. For example, they may be halfway to the Indochina Peninsula or the western regions and grasslands, so it is difficult to count them.

The method of population statistics in the Han Dynasty is to learn from previous dynasties, such as the algorithm from the Pre-Qin Dynasty to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, that is, from the age of eight, the population under the age of eight is not included in the population. The reason why people under the age of eight are not included is that at present, due to various reasons, the infant mortality rate is very high, especially in the newborn stage.

Before those dynasties, not every born person entered the registered residence, but also because of a bad habit, that is the widespread phenomenon of drowning. In other words, there is no contraceptive measures, and the work of doing love has crystallized. The children in the family are enough to pass the family line, and when they are born, they feel that they can not support themselves, so that they can hardly see the small life before they see the world and kill it.

"There is no such phenomenon now." Sang Yu said that there is relevant legislation, and then the government pays close attention to this aspect: "moreover, local governments will give assistance according to the head."

Liu Yan still very much agrees with the legislation of the imperial palace. The people can't afford it, but they can afford it. Just now the country desperately needs population growth, so it can't force the people to support it. It may kill a family. It's very appropriate to use relevant assistance to help.

The state of Han is not only helpful to more students, but also has many benefits once they are born to the number specified by the government, including land rewards.

Giving birth to children can get land, which is the second way to obtain land in addition to fighting and meritorious service. It is directly the outbreak of the baby boom.

For one thing, although the government had made corresponding preparations at the beginning, such as paying attention to delivery and health, it still underestimated the people's desire for land. In the face of the baby boom, there were still many problems. For example, the survival rate after birth was improved, but it was still bad.

"Under the current conditions, it's not easy." Liu Yan looked at the scenery flashing outside, followed the cavalry nearby, looked at the outline of the distant city, and said with emotion: "at least our generation is improving and arranging purposefully, not just announcing policies."

At present, the government pays for all the expenses of giving birth to children in the Han country, no matter what number of children they have. Of course, that is to solve the burden of the people. Who makes the country really short of population? Anyway, it doesn't cost much money to seriously calculate. What they get is the population. Those people will grow up one day, have the output of labor and become soldiers. There is really no loss in the payment of the state.

"The prime minister's office has made relevant estimates. In ten years, the Han nationality population will surge to about 44 million." Sang Yu still believes that the prediction of Ji Chang's lead is quite reliable. After ten years, the population over eight should be the data. After that, the population of new registered residence will increase by millions per year. "The prime minister thinks that the Han will be kept in a difficult time within twenty years."

As the population increases, the burden is bound to rise. In particular, the state has guaranteed that newborns will be assisted every day until they are 13 years old. That must be an astronomical expenditure.

"It will be worth it." Liu Yan must think so: "once they become a source of labor and soldiers, we will harvest the whole world."

In fact, Liu Yan still thinks that 44 million is too small, but his population base is so large that it has been fruitful to more than double it.

Twenty years later, 44 million men and women will combine with each other. Without another decade, the population should exceed 100 million. As long as the policy remains unchanged, it must continue to combine with the increase of the population base to produce a new population. Within 50 years, there will be 500 million or 600 million Han people in the world.

Fifty years later, if Liu Yan had not died, he would have gone up at the age of 80. He felt that by that time, the Han people should have conquered the world island. Even if the output per mu of farmland had not increased fundamentally, the Han people would not be hungry.

In 60 or 70 years, the Han people in the world will at least break through a billion. If they master the whole world island, they may invade Africa. There is enough living space.

Liu Yan's generation has attached importance to the ocean, and its exploration of the sea has not stopped for a moment. Can't they set foot in North and South America in 50 or 60 years? Maybe the north pole and the South Pole have gone, and life is endless. As long as the nation has no civil strife, the earth will become a single country sooner or later.

Liu Yan, who was constantly comfortable with association, was finally awakened and galloped to the lady city of Changshan County. He asked, from Guangwu county to Madame City, the overall time is almost five hours, and there is a pause in changing horses, which means that the speed is maintained at about 70 miles per hour?

"Chi road should be built more." Liu Yan's idea is very simple: "unify the width design in advance, use malala before studying the steam engine, wait for the steam engine and the locomotive, and replace the intermediate track with iron, so as to provide new equipment for use immediately."

People are full of fog. They know that they are studying the steam engine, but what is the train? They are very surprised that the wooden track should be replaced with iron.

The current annual output of pig iron in the Han Dynasty is maintained at about 28 million jin, which is converted to a weight of 1400 tons, which happens to reach the highest level in the Song Dynasty. Of course, this does not count the system production, but the system production is directly ordnance, not raw iron ingots.

The annual output of 14000 tons of pig iron is really not small now. In today's world, Han can reach this level. Liu Yan knew that the annual pig iron in Rome is only about 4000 tons and that in Persia Sasan can reach 6000 tons. If the envoys of the two countries did not cheat, the annual pig iron output of the two countries would be less than that of Han.

There will be so much pig iron production in the Han Dynasty. Naturally, it is inseparable from Liu Yan's encouragement. He is not satisfied with that figure at all, but considering the current level of science and technology, he really can't have more extravagant demands.

"No wonder Daqin always wanted to buy ordnance." Yu Yi said with a look of memory: "since the Han Dynasty established diplomatic relations with the Qin Dynasty, in just two years, the Qin Dynasty has purchased more than 70000 weapons from the Han Dynasty."

It must be said that it is still trapped in the problem of transportation, otherwise the quantity will be more. The Han country sells weapons in exchange for glittering gold.