How were weapons and equipment manufactured, managed and maintained in the Tang Dynasty?

The sword of the Tang Dynasty was originally painted in Japan.

(1) manufacturing unit. In the sixth year of Emperor Gaozu's Wude (623), the Military Equipment Supervision Bureau was established, which was in charge of the production and repair of armor crossbows. One supervisor (positive four products) and one supervisor (positive seven products) are responsible for the crossbow.

It consists of: crossbow engineering department, with one person and less than eight grades; Cheng, one person, grade nine. Palm cashier spear, bow and arrow, crossbow, blade, miscellaneous work, craftsman. A prison for two. There are two officials, five senses and two officials. In the sixth year of Zhenguan, the crossbow department was changed to the crossbow department, and the first department was the Jiagong department.

One side, make one person, the next eight products; Cheng, one person, grade nine. In charge of armor, dipping ropes, tendons and horns, handyman and craftsman. A prison for two. There are two officials, five senses and two officials.

(2) storage mechanism. Armor crossbows are supervised by military equipment and handed over to the ordnance department of Weiwei Hall according to the specified time.

A. permanent establishment. Weiwei Temple is one of the nine temples (see the article "Fighting for money, how to distribute millions of soldiers in the Tang Dynasty", which is responsible for the weapons and etiquette of the army). The main manager is Cheng, who is responsible for judging temple affairs and distinguishing the number of document cashiers. The superior unit is Shangshu Province.

The temple was incorporated into the Ministry of Industry in the Southern Song Dynasty, deposed in the Ming Dynasty and established in the Qing Dynasty.

Weiwei Temple has a temple official 1 person, which is divided into three classes; Shao Qing two people, from four products; Cheng two people, from the six products.

The temple mainly deals in instruments and cultural relics, which are divided into three departments: the general armory (mainly the armory in Beijing), weapons (sacrificial utensils) and palace custody (five items in the palace). The storage of weapons is mainly managed by the armory department, and people who enter weapons are based on their names. There are six people in each house, six in history, two in ceremony and five in palm. In the 25th year of Kaiyuan, the East Capital was established.

B. parallel mechanism. Shaofu supervisor is mainly responsible for the casting of weapons and farm tools, which is mainly aimed at barracks in the military.

There were many ironclad in the Tang Dynasty, which also depended on the technology of smelting iron and the number of minerals.

(3) How did the Tang Dynasty manage weapons?

Throughout the ages, the management of weapons production has been strictly controlled. Weapons such as crossbows, armor and spears are strictly prohibited from being produced by the people, and offenders are sentenced to exile or even death. Artisans all over the country are compiled for the government. In order to ensure the manufacturing level, all craftsmen who are newly incorporated into the government establishment (newly recruited) are organized by the Military Equipment Supervision Bureau for two years. After passing the exam, they went to Shangfan Workshop. Even skilled craftsmen should be assessed once a year, and those who have made great innovations in the production of military equipment should be rewarded.

A. The smelting and casting technologies such as iron smelting in the Tang Dynasty provided a lot of raw materials for the production of military weapons.

The iron smelting technology in the Tang Dynasty has been greatly improved, and the output of various minerals has also been significantly improved. "New Tang Book" records that the smelting of silver, copper, iron and tin is 168. Shaanxi, Xuan, Run, Rao, Qu and Xin, with 58 silver leaves, 96 copper, 5 Tieshan, 2 Xishan and 4 Tongshan. Fenzhou Fanshan seven. In the second year of Linde, Shaanxi Copper Metallurgical Co., Ltd. was revoked.

These are very large-scale government management, such as local governments and private tycoons, which are exploited in various counties with the encouragement of the central government. For example, in Yanzhou, Shandong Province, there are thirteen iron smelters and eighteen copper smelters. Due to the widespread phenomenon of mining and metallurgy, in the second year of Linde, Tang Gaozong (665), 48 copper smelting sites in Shaanxi were ordered to be abolished.

So, how many of these minerals are there? In the early years of Yuanhe (806-820), Tang Xianzong collected 22,200 taels of cash, 266,000 Jin of copper, 270,000 Jin of iron and 50,000 Jin of tin, and the amount of lead was unpredictable.

However, by the time Xuanzong, the son of Xianzong, the amount of iron smelting had dropped, with an annual output of 532,000 Jin.

After the "Anshi Rebellion" in the Tang Dynasty, iron ore smelting was mainly related to six places in Inner Mongolia, seven places in Henan, fifteen places in Hedong, four places in Shannan West Road, six places in Longyou, four places in Huainan, fourteen places in Jiangnan East Road, fifteen places in Jiangnan West Road, seventeen places in Jiannan and six places in Lingnan.

Iron ore

Shipbuilding in the Tang Dynasty contributed to the protection of China's territorial waters and the development of its navy.

The shipbuilding industry in the Tang Dynasty was also relatively developed, with more than a dozen large shipyards in Yangzhou alone. In the fourth year of Wude (62 1), Li Jing built more than 2,000 warships while training the navy in Kuizhou. Besides Yangzhou, Changzhou, Hangzhou, Yuezhou, Hongzhou and Sichuan are all shipbuilding bases.

Finally, aside from the topic, the amount of silver mined in the Tang Dynasty is 65,438+2,000 yuan a year, which is not too much. Judging from the economic history of China, China was always a "silver-poor country" in feudal society because of its mining technology. We should pay attention to this and how much silver was easily rewarded in history books. Some of these silver are empty, and some are of low quality. For example, the "medicine (gold) silver" in the Tang Dynasty is often used as a reward. This kind of silver is a by-product of alchemy, which is fake silver and low-quality silver when firing various minerals in refining Dan medicine.