The Six Arts of the Gentleman in the Bright Moon of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 1029 The Unyielding Public Loser [Subscription*Monthly Ticket Request]

After the National Guard Office put forward all the suggestions and demands, Chen Jianlai was responsible for determining the expenses and finally formulated a bottom line quotation for Bingzhou. These demands and prices were then issued to weapon suppliers such as the Mohist School, the Gongshu School, and the Tangxi Sword Alliance.

All the families that received the Bingzhou weapons request fell into silence.

The Gao family of Tangxi Sword Alliance, Gongshu Chou of Gongshu Family, Zhu family of Shennong Hall of Nong Family and others all looked at Jing Ke strangely.

"How much money did the great master give to make Bingzhou make such an important decision?" In the end, Gongshu Chou, who had a lifelong feud with the Mohist school, asked.

"Don't accuse me, I didn't do it!" Jing Ke hurriedly explained, but he couldn't suppress the smile on his lips.

When I woke up, it was already daybreak!
This arms procurement order from Bingzhou was tailor-made for the Mohist School.

As everyone knows, the Mohists are not good at attacking, but are good at city defense. The weapons and military equipment they forged are mainly for defense and training as auxiliary training.

To put it simply, it is military skills.

Bingzhou began to attach importance to the training of soldiers and built military training facilities. Who could compare with the Mohists in this regard?

At least the Gongshu family who focused on the domineering mechanical arts was almost eliminated.

Of course, the Mohist School is not without competitors. The Tangxi Sword Alliance, the Yin-Yang School, and the Farmers' School can still get involved and get a share of the pie.

As for the chief supervisor of the Qin army, he came to watch the fun.

The soldiers of Bingzhou are the envy of the whole world. They are the best soldiers today in terms of both physique and education level.

And from Bingzhou's arms purchase this time, they can also analyze Bingzhou's future development plan.

Bingzhou has no plans to go to war again and has entered the stage of maintaining its military.

According to Qin's original plan, the elite troops of Qin were to be transferred to Beidi and Shangjun to confront Bingzhou, while the defeated troops gathered from the destruction of the six kingdoms were to be unified and concentrated and transferred to the south to attack Baiyue.

It is not appropriate to say that Bingzhou did not prepare for war, but at least Bingzhou had no intention of going to war, so Qin could also separate some of its elite troops and main forces to quickly conquer Baiyue and continue to expand the territory of China.

Of course, it is impossible not to guard against Bingzhou.

Bingzhou’s war mobilization capability is so strong that once a royal order is issued, the entire Bingzhou can instantly switch to a war mode where everyone is a soldier.

In the whole world, only the Qin people and the Zhao State during the Battle of Handan could do this.

"Everyone, the needs of the Bingzhou State Commandery for this year have been raised. Now it's up to you guys!"

As the new state commander of Bingzhou State Commandery, Li Ren smiled and handed the list of demands to each family.

"General, you are too kind!" Gongshu Chou and others also knew that Li Ren would be the one to make the final decision, so no one dared to underestimate the demands in their hands.

After Li Ren left, everyone looked at each other again, and each left the Guowei Mansion with Bingzhou's needs.

"Master, we don't have any advantages."

"What Bingzhou wants is training equipment to assist soldiers in training, but we Gongshujia don't know how to do that!"

Gongshu's disciples had bitter faces, as Bingzhou's needs were really not within their area of ​​expertise.

"I know!" Gongshu Chou waved his hand.

"It is precisely because of this that the Mohist School, Tangxi Sword Alliance, the Nong Family, and the Yin-Yang Family did not regard us as opponents, and this is also our advantage. If we don't know something, can't we learn it?" "As long as it is military equipment, is there anything that our Gongshu Family cannot manufacture?"

Gongshu Chou sneered, are you all waiting to laugh at me?
Gongshujia is no longer the Gongshujia of the past. As long as the money is in place, he can give up any domineering tactics or Gongshujia's ideas.

Isn't it just military equipment to assist in training? The requirements have been put forward, so why can't it be produced?
"They all thought that the ones who were truly qualified to compete this time were the Mohist School and the Tangxi Sword Alliance, but they forgot that I, the Gongshu family, was just used to the domineering mechanical arts, and it's not like I can't give it up!"

"But in this case, are we still Gongshujia?" Gongshujia's disciples hesitated.

"What? If we let all the children of Gongshu family starve to death, will we still be Gongshu family?" Gongshu Chou asked back.

People are starving to death, what ideals are we talking about?
Although they made a lot of money by riding on the Qin chariot and did not starve to death, the cost of scientific research was also enormous. After hundreds of experiments, they might not get the correct answer they wanted, and they might even go in the wrong direction. In the end, all the cost was in vain.

This is not only true for the Gongshu School, but also for the Mohist School and the Tangxi Sword Alliance.

Relatively speaking, they, the losers, spend money faster!

Mohist organs, wood and stone walk, bronze opens the mouth, it is necessary to ask for public transportation.

This also shows that Gongshujia's research is inseparable from metal, and the consumables are much greater than those of Mohism.

Wood and stone are everywhere, but metals require various refining processes.

Therefore, what Gongshujia did most in recent years was to burn various metals, throwing them into the fire and calcining them in various ways, just to get the metal he needed.

This is also the fundamental reason why the Gongshu family made more money than the Mohists, but their development was not as big as the Mohists': they spent money too quickly.

The children of Gongshu didn't say anything. Are they burning metal ore? That's all money!

"One of Bingzhou's requirements is to form a 3,000-man lance cavalry. I've seen the lance tip, which must not only be hard but also sharp. Although the Mohists can make it, it's not hard enough and not sharp enough. When wielded by a galloping warhorse, it's OK against light cavalry, but it will break into pieces when it hits armored soldiers. That's why Bingzhou has proposed it again in this purchase!"

Gongshu Chou pointed to an item on Bingzhou's procurement list, which was also the most expensive item.

"Tungsten steel!" The eyes of Gongshu's children lit up. This was a kind of metal that they had burned recently.

It has extremely high hardness and corrosion resistance, making it most suitable for use as the tip of a lance.

"Yes, this thing was probably made not only by us, but also by the Mohist school and Tangxi. It's just that they may not have changed their mindset yet, and still consider bronze as the best!" Gongshu Chou said with a smile.

Tungsten steel is easy to find. Gongshu Chou didn't believe that Mojia and Tangxi didn't make it. It's just that the popular material for weapons in that era was bronze. After all, it looks golden and looks very classy when taken out.

Compared to iron and steel, which are either bright white or dark black, bronze is the trend.

Between gold and silver, everyone wants gold rather than silver.

In fact, the most important thing is that ironware is easy to corrode and rust and is difficult to preserve.

Especially weapons like the horse lance are extremely expensive to make. If they rust and become scrapped after only two or three years of use, it would be a huge loss.

Therefore, the spearheads of the horse lances made by the Mohists were not made of iron, but bronze.

The cost has soared to a terrifying level.

Not to mention Gongsun Nu's Lixue Divine Spear, even an ordinary horse lance costs around a hundred gold.

(End of this chapter)