Volume 3: The Land of Jingchu Chapter 250 Kaihua Ji
Perhaps it is because Kaihua Ji was "inspired" by Gan Ning?
Or was it because when Gan Ning put the brocade robe on her, he had the purpose of "civilizing" the ignorant, rather than just conquering and enslaving?
In short, Kaihuaji's ability is closer to that of Hantu's Chengji, but there are still slight differences between them, and she is not connected to Hantu's Chengji...
In the following months, Gan Ning was naturally not idle in Yizhou. Now that he had "Chengji", Gan Ning's journey of enlightenment became easier.
If the entire Yizhou is considered as a "state", it is undoubtedly pitifully small. If it is considered as a county, it is relatively large based on the area alone - at least in densely populated areas such as the Central Plains, Huainan, and Jingbei, it is considered a relatively large county, probably about the same size as the sparsely populated Wuling and Lingling.
However, in terms of population, the Dongyu people in Yizhou have less than 100,000 people in total. A tribe with more than a thousand people is already a relatively large tribe, and the total population is about the same as that of a larger county.
After Kaihua Ji appeared , Gan Ning tried to use Kaihua Ji to collect and deploy the "manpower" of the Kaihua Ministry - the Kaihua Ministry was also a new name given by Gan Ning.
The first batch of Yi soldiers were successfully "trained" - there was no other choice. Even though Gan Ning mastered the training methods of several types of soldiers, perhaps due to the limitations of manpower and equipment, he could only train Yi soldiers armed with crude wooden spears and small curved bows.
However, Gan Ning had already discovered that the composition of the Dongyu people, the manpower required for the Yi soldiers, and the Han Dynasty's Chengji were significantly different - only 10 manpower were needed to train a Ji-made Yi soldier, while training with the Han Chengji generally required 50 manpower!
And it also only needs one person per year to maintain it, which means... ten years later, even the Dongyu people with "Kaihua Ji" will be able to have almost as many Yi soldiers as the young and strong tribesmen.
But at the same time, the corvée of the Dongyu people also requires 10 people, the same as the Han people, and... the corvée trained by the Dongyu manpower has very low labor efficiency. Even the most basic farming efficiency is only one-third of that of the Han people's corvée. More sophisticated labor is even more of a disastrous.
It seems that we need to teach the Dongyu people how to do it first, otherwise the trained corvées will still not know how to do anything.
"That is to say... the quality of the population still has a great impact on the human resources?" Bai Tu interjected.
"Population quality? Well, you can say that. I asked a few shipbuilders to try it out, and found that the manpower of ordinary Han people cannot be taken over by Kaihua Ji." Gan Ning said.
"By the way! What about the official seals and military tokens? Can Princess Kaihua give these to the Dongyu people?" Bai Tu asked curiously.
"I was just about to say, stop interrupting me all the time..." Gan Ning said with disgust.
Bai Tu had no choice but to keep silent for the time being.
Gan Ning naturally also tried Kaihua Ji's other functions. As the Grand Admiral of the Navy, Gan Ning could theoretically set up a government office, and Kaihua Ji was also "pulled" by Gan Ning to the subordinate sequence of the Grand Admiral of the Navy.
Equivalent to the leader of the Kaihua Tribe, she is a "staff member" under the Grand Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, so Gan Ning can give orders directly to Kaihua Ji.
For testing purposes, Gan Ning first tried it on the Dongyu people of the Kaihua tribe, and found that Yi Ji's original ability to grant weapons to young and strong men and women of the Dongyu and make them warriors had disappeared, but... she was still able to give a small group of the bravest and strongest Dongyu people "animal masks" - that is, masks of wild beasts.
After putting on the mask, the Dongyu warrior's strength is increased by as much as the armor, which is the same as other Yiji.
Officers who already had military tokens and became generals could no longer be granted animal masks. However, in order to be more rigorous, Gan Ning also found a shipwright to try...
The fleet also includes a small number of ordinary people, who are neither Jizao soldiers, nor generals or scribes, but generally ordinary people with outstanding abilities in navigation.
This shipbuilder was the "house slave" that Gan gave to Gan Ning. Gan Ning had discovered before that he was very strong, had a habit of exercising, and was a dream shipbuilder. In addition, as a house slave of Gan, he was a "hidden household" and had rarely been conscripted by the court since he was a child, so he met the conditions for awakening the military talisman!
Gan Ning had promised him on the boat that after returning to Jiangdong, he would recommend him to participate in the next selection of generals in Chengji Mansion.
But now, for the sake of "experiment", Gan Ning pulled him over...
The result... was actually successful!
Although it is impossible to extract manpower, it is possible to grant beast masks to the Han people and have them transform into Dongyu warriors.
Under this accident, the boatman who became a beast-faced warrior did not suffer a loss - as a servant of the Gan family, Gan Ning changed his surname to "Gan" and gave him the name "Hua", and promised that he could serve as a general in Yizhou.
If he were in Yangzhou, with his qualifications and without any special luck, being able to rise to the rank of captain would have been his limit.
Gan Ning also tried to test the ability of the beast-faced warrior.
After putting on the mask, the beast-faced warrior's body will partially turn into a beast.
The amplification effect is similar to that of the battle pattern warrior painted by Barbarian Princess. It mainly increases strength, speed and intuition, and has little effect on weapons, especially long-range weapons.
There are two types of masks, one is a wooden mask and the other is a bronze mask. The latter is extremely rare, with only one or two in each of the five largest tribes.
The degree of amplification is basically comparable to the wooden and stone military talismans and the gilded military talismans. As for the gold and jade military talismans... there is no mask that can match them. After all, there are less than 100,000 people in Dongyu, so it is not surprising that there has never been a gold and jade level warrior. Moreover, there is no practical text, so even if it has appeared in the long years, no later generations know about it.
Gan Hua was left in Yizhou by Gan Ning, but among the Dongyu people who returned with them, there were also beast-faced warriors, whose specific abilities could be further tested by the General's Mansion.
In the three months after Kaihua Ji appeared, Gan Ning also traveled across Yizhou!
If we only rely on Kaikahime and the Kaika tribe, although their strength has greatly increased after "enlightenment", but... let alone conquering Izuku, I'm afraid they can't even defeat the neighboring Amberjack tribe.
After all, soldiers are born through "training". Even if the Dongyu people need less manpower to synthesize soldiers, but... it is the first step in separating the military and civilians and stepping out of the past era of universal military service. In the short term, the combat effectiveness will decline.
It's just that because of the addition of the beast-faced warriors, it seems a little stronger than before...
Gan Ning briefly taught the twenty or so beast-faced warriors who had just emerged in the tribe, and then appointed Gan Hua as a headhunter without any objection - not a headhunter who focuses on talent, but refers to the "leader during hunting", who usually has a status second only to the chief in the tribe.
After mixing in some of Gan Ning's generals, the force was filled up to a total of ten people per squad leader, which meant that half of them were Han generals and half were Yi warriors.
Fortunately, the Ji Zaoyi soldiers could also be led by Han generals.
At the same time, the more than 400 Ji-zao Yi soldiers were given weapons that were either spare or damaged by the navy...
Compared to before, the strength of the Yi soldiers has been greatly improved because of their weapons, but compared to Gan Ning's regular army, they are probably still ten to one.
After all, the weapons they changed to were just simple knives and guns. As for crossbows, bows and the like, they still needed training. As for armor... the navy didn't have much extra, so they only put armor on more than twenty masked warriors.
This also convinced Gan Ning that when they partially transformed into beasts, the armor would merge with their "fur", just like when the battle armor was loaded with armor...
However, these beast-faced warriors can only rely on special roars to command or encourage their subordinate barbarian soldiers, and their command efficiency is very poor.
Moreover, the training difficulty of the Ji-zao Yi soldiers is different from that of the Ji-zao soldiers who are composed of Han people. In terms of basic combat, such as swinging a sword, stabbing a spear, and staying calm and courageous when facing the enemy... they don't even need training for these, but when it comes to obeying dispatches and commands, the training difficulty increases sharply.
In the end, Gan Ning ran out of patience and only taught them the basic commands: to march with drums beating, to stop with shooting, and to retreat with horns sounding, and then took them out for a stroll.
The reason why there is such a big difference is that the combat effectiveness of the Yi soldiers is obviously negligible in Gan Ning's view, but he still specially armed these newly trained Yi soldiers, naturally for the purpose of "promotion".
As an outsider, if you only use absolute strength to conquer, the other party is likely to be unwilling to accept it in their hearts. However, it will undoubtedly be easier for the Dongyu people to accept it by supporting them to establish a new order.
When Gan Ning brought down batches of "relief grain" from the ship, the entire Kaihua tribe was in an uproar...
These relief grains were originally the leftovers from the years of disaster and were used by Gan Ning as ballast. Under normal circumstances, Gan Ning would not want to use the relief grains unless the military rations were tight.
Although it is easy to store and can provide enough food to fill you up, it is not yet adapted to the navy's long-term sea marches. Morale is easily reduced during continuous sailing, and the "friendliness" of the food is an important aid in preventing the decline in morale.
And for the Kaihua tribe, such abundant food would be enough for them to not have to hunt or pick for several months, right?
Even according to the "Grand Commander", these foods can be preserved for a long time!
This made them feel very relieved, and their sense of happiness had never been so high...
Of course, Gan Ning didn't support lazy people for nothing. The reason why he gave them food for a few months was to teach them how to farm later - well, Gan Ning didn't know how to do it, but there were always people in the navy who could.
These Dongyu people are actually not used to daily labor centered on farming, and they also doubt in their hearts whether they can really eat enough by relying on the harvest from their crops next year?
After all, for the Dongyu people, not only was the farming technology insufficient, but the land had not been reclaimed or fertilized. Even the crop seeds were still very "primary", almost all of them were wild seeds, completely different from the seeds used by mature agricultural civilizations.
But... as long as there was food, no one dared to oppose the "Grand Commander".
Gan Ning also brought with him several kinds of seeds grown by the Han people. Although these seeds needed to be improved by the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Industry, they were already "high-yield crops" in the eyes of the Dongyu people!
As for the more than 400 Yi soldiers, Gan Ning led them to fight...
