During the Three Kingdoms period, everything else could be obtained, even horses, in fact, it was not difficult to get, but war horses were different.

There are three types of horses used during the Three Kingdoms period.

One of them is the Wuhuan horse. This kind of horse belongs to the medium-sized horse breed, and the origin is in the area of Youzhou and Bingzhou. Gongsun Zhan's "White Horse Yicong" is the kind of horse used.

The second is the Xiongnu horse. The horse belongs to a large horse, the origin in the Western Regions of Dawan, Xia Yue area, after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the introduction of the horse breed from the Western Regions, the general origin in the Liangzhou area, the so-called "West Liang Iron Ride", is used this kind of horse.

This is also the main war horse under Liu Zheng's command at present, whether it is the war horse of the Northern Army snatched from the hands of Huangfu Song, or the war horse ridden by the tiger and leopard under Cao Cao, or the hundreds of war horses snatched from Dong Zhuo not long ago, they all belong to the Hun horses.

And the third type is Southern Malaysia. This horse lives in the south and is found in Jingzhou, Yizhou Ba County and other places. Small in stature, not suitable for use as a war horse, but hard-working, very suitable for use as a logistics pack horse.

These three kinds of horses, the price is different, the first two prices are extremely high, the price of a single war horse, more than 20,000 yuan, and basically, the horses used in Jingzhou are all southern horses, this kind of horse is not suitable as a war horse, although the price is cheap.

But even if it is for Liu Zheng, it will not have much effect.

"If you need a horse, I can get you some, but what you need is a war horse, do you know that war horses are introduced by the government, and every transaction needs to be recorded?"

Cai Mao looked at Liu Zheng with some contempt, if he could get a large number of war horses, how could he lose to Liu Zheng.

Although Liu Zheng wanted a war horse, as soon as he heard Cai Mao say this, he also knew that there was no play, so he no longer bothered about the war horse.

"It's okay, if you don't have a war horse, I won't force it, after all, I just scavenged a batch of war horses from Dong Zhuo's hands, and there is no shortage for the time being, uncle, you just need to give me some weapons and armor."

Liu Zheng said that he needed a war horse, but he just said it casually.

After all, he also knows how scarce war horses are, even Cai Mao is difficult to get a war horse, and once the war horse is obtained by Cai Mao, he will not sell it to Liu Zheng easily, after all, he himself lacks war horses, if there is a war horse, it must be used to enrich his military strength first.

How could it be sold to Liu Zheng?

But weapons and armor are different.

The price of these things is much lower than that of war horses, and the quality of the weapons made by the imperial court is not bad. From time to time, there will be some people who have unclean hands and feet, and sell these items privately, after all, they are dead things, and it is much easier than war horses to turn them upside down.

After Cai Mao and Liu Zheng negotiated a price, they decided to go back to help Liu Zheng collect some, and if there was any, he would send someone to escort some supplies to Runan City to give them to Liu Zheng.

With Cai Mao's words, Liu Zhen was also satisfied.

After all, as long as Cai Mao promised him to make the first transaction, Liu Zheng was not afraid that he would not continue to trade with him later.

Cai Mao went back like this, and within two days he sent someone to get in touch with Liu Zheng, he had already inquired about the approximate price of the things Liu Zheng needed, and he also did his best to be able to provide Liu Zheng with some of the weapons and armor he needed.

Liu Zheng took a look at the price list presented by Cai Mao's people and fell into deep thought.

Cai Mao's offer is actually not too low.

A hundred steel knives cost 12,000 yuan, and high-quality blades cost eight or nine thousand yuan.

However, ordinary military swords are cheap, you can buy them for seven or eight hundred dollars, and bows and crossbows are even cheaper, you can buy them for five or six hundred dollars.

However, the armor is more expensive, costing 7,000 yuan for a set.

If Liu Zheng wanted to buy high-quality swords and armor, the amount of money spent would not be small.

Judging from the money he extorted from Cai Mao, he could only buy a few hundred sets at all.

And Liu Zheng's money, as early as when Cai Mao gave it to him, he directly took out half of it and rewarded the soldiers and horses under his command.

The leaders, 200,000 yuan each, the Yellow Turban Army who followed Liu Zheng from Quyang City at the earliest, 2,000 yuan each, and then distributed hundreds of money to the other thousands of Yellow Turban Army.

The amount of gold in Liu Zheng's hand suddenly decreased, if he hadn't had some savings before, he was afraid that the money to buy weapons and armor in Cai Mao's hands would not be enough.

Fortunately, the current Liu Zheng does not need too high-quality weapons and armor, all he needs is weapons, such things as armor, buy a few sets, and hand them over to the commander under his command, after all, the generals need to go into battle to kill the enemy, and the enemy generals are single-handed.

If the equipment is not good, it will be a loss, when Xu Huang and Hua Xiong were single-handed, Hua Xiong was wearing a set of silver armor, although there were many gaps on it, but the protection ability was much better than the soft armor on Xu Huang's body.

If you don't use enough force, you may not be able to break the armor on Hua Xiong's body with a knife.

In the end, Liu Zheng told the people sent by Cai Mao that he only needed thirty sets of armor and a hundred steel knives, and the rest was 10,000 military spears and steel knives.

Although the amount is not much, these alone have already cost Liu Zheng more than a thousand gold.

The rest of the money was directly rewarded by him to the people below, and he didn't have any more money, so he went to Cai Mao to buy it, at most, he asked Cai Mao to collect some more raw materials such as pig iron and leather to him.

Although he can't afford it, he can build some of it himself.

Moreover, these weapons created by Liu Zheng himself are not necessarily worse than those purchased from Cai Mao.

After Cai Mao's people went back, news came again within two days, Cai Mao had already started to prepare these things, and it would only take three days to send someone to send them.

And Liu Zheng was not in a hurry, while continuing to train his soldiers and horses, and retraining the war horses captured from Dong Zhuo, he was building equipment and waiting for the arrival of the next big war.

His cavalry, when fighting with Dong Zhuo's cavalry, suffered serious casualties, seven hundred, and in the end only three or four hundred survived, most of the wounded, although he took them back to Runan City for treatment, but some were seriously injured, and they could not even continue to fight in this life.

This is also why, as soon as Liu Zheng got Cai Mao's money, he distributed it to his own people so quickly, because most of the money was given to the injured.

Liu Zheng knows a truth, that is, to gather people's hearts, as the saying goes, those who win people's hearts win the world, and now in this situation in Runan City, the fastest thing to gather people's hearts is tantamount to comforting the injured.