wild trail

Chapter 289 Murals
Xia Guo now has a population of 3 people and maintains an army size of 500 people. This ratio is already quite high, almost reaching a ratio of eleven to one.

In ancient times, cities needed a large area of ​​rural areas to support them. If the rural areas were left out, the people in the cities would not be able to support themselves at all, let alone raise soldiers.

Throughout history, if we simply look at the population ratio of the entire country, the ratio of population to military strength in a centralized country like China in non-wartime is about [-] to [-] to [-] to [-].

For example, at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, its population was nearly 200 million, and it had an army of about 5000 million. When the country was founded, there were only 20 million and [-] soldiers.

In countries with a feudal fiefdom system like Europe, the population ratio is much lower than that of China. Even in wartime, the number of population and army is only one hundred to one, most of which are temporary conscripts. There are fewer troops, so the ancient battles in Western Europe were on the scale of thousands of people, such as the Normandy landing and the famous Battle of Hastings. This battle determined the fate of Britain and France for hundreds of years. However, the total number of troops participating in the war was only 2. .

As for the nomads, they have no country to speak of, and there is no distinction between civilians and soldiers. They have as many soldiers as there are men, and sometimes even as many soldiers as there are people.

But now Xia Guo, although it is a country with a centralized system.But maintaining a standing army of 500 is already the limit.

To expand the army, more people must be added. After much deliberation, Wang Lang decided to send an army of 500 people to the north.Go catch those scattered human tribes.

Three days later, Wang Lang dispatched 200 troops from Yancheng and Linhe City each, and 100 troops from the other three cities, and marched aggressively to the north.

This march was led by the captain of the fourth expedition, and Wang Lang requested to build a new stronghold 100 meters to the north, and requested that 50 troops be stationed there.

Wang Lang estimated that if all the population in the north could be collected, it would probably increase the population of the Xia Kingdom by nearly half. In the past few years, the grain output of the Xia Kingdom has been bumper every year, and the food is enough to feed about 10 people. There is absolutely no need to feed these people. question.

A month later, the Ministry of Industry hammered out the animal power forging.

After seeing this huge animal-powered forging hammer, Wang Lang was very satisfied with the efficiency of the Ministry of Industry.

In order to test the effect of this forging hammer, someone brought over three strong horned dragons.

The ceratopsian with its nose ring was very honest, at the mercy of weak humans.

With the waving of the whip, the horned dragon began to walk slowly, and amidst harsh friction sounds, the forging hammer began to operate.

The huge bronze hammer smashed down rumblingly, its speed and strength were many times stronger than human power.

"Your Majesty, this is really a miracle. With this thing, forging iron weapons is not difficult at all!" Li Tong said excitedly.

"Li Shilang, how long do you think it will take to produce an iron knife with this thing?" Wang Lang laughed.

"Your Majesty, if there are three of these things, I dare not say that there are too many, but it is not difficult to produce ten iron knives a day." Li Tong said respectfully.

Wang Lang nodded. Ten hammers a day is enough. With the current number of horned dragons, only four forging hammers can be maintained. He said in a deep voice, "Send this to the iron-making workshop and try it out for a few days. If there is no problem , you can create a few more.”

"Obey!" Li Tong said respectfully.

While the Ministry of Industry was intensively smelting steel, the "archaeological team" finally made a discovery.

It took more than a month to clear the ruins, and the peasants found some traces of civilization in the buried ruins.

According to Wang Lang's request, they carefully preserved these things and sent them to Yancheng overnight.

It was already noon the next day when the things were sent back. After Wang Lang got the news, he immediately ordered these things to be sent to his "palace".

Looking at the messy things in front of him, Wang Lang frowned.

Most of these things are some weird bronze wares, which should be some kind of sacrificial supplies or living tools.

These things are of no research value for the time being, and what Wang Lang cares most about are the pieces of murals.

Wang Lang carefully put together these murals as if playing a jigsaw puzzle. Although some were incomplete, the general content could be seen.

The murals are painted with brightly colored dyes. I don't know what kind of substance this dye is. It has not faded after being buried in the soil for so long.

In the three-meter-long mural, there are groups of strange-looking people. Although they are relatively abstract, Wang Lang feels that they are similar to the dinosaurs found, and they are probably the same species.

This group of people knelt on the ground with weird expressions, and bowed to a tall statue. Under the statue, there was something like an altar. Next to the altar, there were cages, and inside the cages were A naked human being.

Several dinosaurs stood on the altar, hung a human upside down, cut off his head, and a lot of blood spewed out from the broken neck.

The blood flowed into the altar below, and flowed to the ground following strange patterns.

After reading the content on the screen, Wang Lang became thoughtful.

This mural should depict some kind of sacrificial ceremony of dinosaurs, but I don't know why humans were used as sacrifices, and from the expressions of those dinosaurs, it is clear that they hate humans extremely, as if there is some bloody hatred.

The sluggish expressions of those humans didn't look like they could threaten the dinosaurs, he couldn't figure it out.

With the strength of dinosaurs, it should be easy to eliminate uncivilized human beings. How could human beings survive in the end, but they became extinct? This question has always troubled Wang Lang.

Shaking his head, not thinking about these unsolved mysteries, Wang Lang picked up a bronze and looked at it. This bronze is very exquisite in workmanship. If the copper rust on it is removed, it should be a very beautiful work of art.

This can't help but make Wang Lang amazed at the artistic achievements of this extinct dinosaur civilization. Although the bronze smelting technology of the Xia Kingdom is also very mature, for a new country with no cultural accumulation, everything is practical and made. There is no appreciation value at all.

The advancement of a civilization is not only reflected in science and technology, art also occupies a large part of it. Judging from these unearthed objects, this civilization has reached the peak of the Bronze Age in terms of technology and art. Definitely a powerful civilization.

(End of this chapter)