Farm Girl's Manor

Last year, Great Chu and Qiuzi Country allied with 150,000 troops to fight against a foreign tribe’s 20,000 elite soldiers. Although Great Chu and Qiuzi Country ultimately triumphed, the cost was too steep: of the 150,000 allied troops, fewer than 30,000 survived, while the enemy’s 20,000 elite managed to have 5,000 escape. Carefully considering the outcome, Great Chu and Qiuzi Country were actually the ones who suffered a disastrous defeat.

Nobody had expected that the foreign tribe’s 20,000 elite would come to battle armed with such deadly weapons, an irony being that these weapons had been developed after the technique of gunpowder had spread from Great Chu.

It wasn’t that nobody in Great Chu had thought of using it to make weapons; Emperor Taizong had once assembled hundreds of skilled craftsmen to study gunpowder. Yet no weapon of significant destructive power was produced; instead, these craftsmen were blown to bits overnight in a catastrophic explosion. Among the deceased was Emperor Taizong’s most beloved son.

Emperor Taizong, after losing his son in his prime years, was greatly devastated. Deeming gunpowder too dangerous for human use and believing it had claimed the life of his beloved child, he decreed that no one should touch gunpowder thereafter.

As of today, while the method of concocting gunpowder still exists, no one dares to research it for weaponization, but that foreign tribe, using the techniques that had spread from us, managed to create gunpowder weapons first. Even though their killing power was limited and they could not be produced in large quantities, in an era dominated by cold weapons, they were now the most advanced weapons; no flesh and blood could withstand them.

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Although in Mo Yan’s first life, a muddled monarch and corrupt politics were the main reasons the foreign tribe managed to occupy Great Chu’s beautiful territories in just a few years, without these improved ammunition weapons, Great Chu wouldn’t have fallen so quickly. If Great Chu didn’t develop ammunition weapons, no one knew if it would repeat the same mistakes twenty years later and become slaves under the foreign tribe’s iron hooves.