Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Horse Arrives
Wan Yan Honglie returned to the mansion angrily, locked himself in the study, and smashed a good inkstone.
Not long after, the next person reported that King Rong was visiting, and Wanyan Honglie had to force himself to suppress his anger and welcome Wanyan Hongxi into the study.
Wanyan Honglie sat still, still angry: "The third brother is in front of his father, why don't you help me speak!" ”
Wanyan Hongxi saw that his anger was uncontrollable, and smiled bitterly: "My brother is naturally on your side, but when King Lu said about King Hailing, my father was speechless." Brother, I think my father also understands the harm of border troubles, and it is good for you to cultivate in the mansion for a few months, and it is good to accompany your younger siblings and Kang'er more. ”
When Wanyan Honglie heard this, he slowly calmed down: "Brother is not strange, my younger brother is also extremely angry for a while, and he only hates King Lu, an old thief, relying on his high seniority, and he has always been in harmony!" ”
Wanyan Hongxi said with a smile: "King Lu is just beating the side drum, after a while, you and my brother will go to the palace to walk around more, and my father's ears will be soft, and he will support you and me." ”
Wanyan Honglie was originally a smart person, and after his anger subsided, he had already begun to have some calculations in his heart, but it was inconvenient for him to say that Wanyan Hongxi knew, so he only greeted Wanyan Hongxi to drink tea and chat.
After a meal, Wan Yan Hongxi saw that Wan Yan Honglie's mood had stabilized, so he got up to say goodbye and picked up his two sons by the way.
The two brothers, Wanyan Hu and Wanyan Leopard, were used to staying in Zhao Wang's Mansion, and the boss was reluctant to go back to his home.
Wanyan Hongxi had to coax his two sons with a good voice, and promised to bring the two of them over from time to time, so the two of them were willing to follow him back.
After Yan Honglie'an, he recuperated at home with peace of mind, enjoyed the joy of family, and checked Yan Kang's homework from time to time.
Although Wan Yan Kang has been mainly practicing martial arts for more than a year, Xu Daosheng's homework has not been left behind, which makes Wan Yan Honglie very happy.
The time of March passed in a hurry, and after the expiration of Yan Honglie's grounding period, he let Wan Yankang lead the way and rode his horse to the Shenbing base.
Wanyan Kang's base, Wanyan Honglie should have been used for children to play. But recently, listening to what Ye Siming, Wu Feixiong and others said, this small base is already extraordinary, and I heard that Xu Daosheng also moved to the base to reside, and Wanyan Honglie was even more curious in his heart.
According to Yan Kang's thoughts, Yan Honglie is an inspection work, at least let the soldiers learn a few slogans and make their father happy. However, Wanyan Honglie decided to visit temporarily, and everyone at the base was almost unprepared.
Wanyan Honglie stood on the platform, and saw that everyone behind him was a little cramped, so he smiled at Langsheng: "Don't be nervous, just let them practice every day." ”
The morning was a physical training project, Wan Yankang wanted to let a group of children run in circles for a long time, but he couldn't see anything, he suddenly remembered the scene of the military parade, so he beckoned down, and ordered the young students of the base to move forward as a whole team and pass in order.
A group of small soldiers under the stage, a team of twenty people, holding wooden spears, lined up in a phalanx, and walked through in unison.
When passing by the audience, Wan Yankang shouted: "Stop! ”
The phalanx of twenty people stopped in unison, turned around and saluted the stage.
These cohort training is one of the daily training items. These ten teams of small soldiers all walked through, and there was almost nothing wrong, which made Wanyan Honglie stunned: "Although they are all children, but the order is forbidden, there is already a bit of elite soldier atmosphere, Kang'er is good, everyone has worked hard!" ”
Hearing his father's praise, Wan Yankang smiled and said, "It's all taught by all the masters, and my father has to reward him heavily." ”
Wanyan Honglie smiled: "That's natural, but if I want to make that Yanyun Eighteen Riders reappear, there is still something missing!" ”
Wanyan Kangqi said: "What's wrong! ”
"Yanyun eighteen rides, how can there be no horses!"
Wan Yankang was overjoyed and jumped up happily!
It is said that after a year of operation of the Divine Soldier Base, the training of a group of small soldiers is also good, and Ye Siming proposed to ask for a batch of war horses to train the riding skills of the small soldiers.
Riding training is not an overnight thing.
Children on the Mongolian steppe, almost from the age of four or five, have been crawling on horseback since they were four or five years old, and when they reach adulthood, riding skills are naturally natural.
Ye Siming thought that in order to train invincible cavalry, he had to start with these baby soldiers, and he mentioned his idea to Wan Yankang, and of course the two hit it off.
Wanyan Kangxing rushed to the housekeeper to ask for a horse.
As a result, the housekeeper had a bitter face and said bluntly, if he wants money, he can still squeeze out a little, and if he wants horses, especially hundreds of war horses, he can't be born if he is killed.
Wan Yankang waved his hand, no horse, spend money to buy it!
The housekeeper took the abacus and finished settling the account with Yan Kang: "Little prince, don't you know that this horse is not something that can be bought casually." Let's have a lot of money, all the buying and selling of horses must be registered by the company, and that's it, it's not a problem for our palace to come forward to buy horses. But if you want to buy a horse, you can't pay a penny, not to mention war horses, even ordinary horses, they all have to be thirty or fifty taels of silver. The price of this war horse that can be used has to be increased by at least five or ten times, and most of them are priceless. Like the little prince, your little white dragon is even more difficult to find! ”
I don't know if I don't listen, I was startled when I heard it, and Yan Kang calculated the account, my obedient, I approved three thousand taels of silver a month, according to my own algorithm, one or two pieces of silver can be converted into a thousand yuan, even if there are three million expenses a month.
With three million pocket money a month, Wan Yankang thought that he could buy hundreds of horses casually. The result is preliminarily calculated, even if everyone in the base does not eat or drink for a month, they will not be able to get a few horses if they save all the money!
No wonder Master Ye was so happy when he heard that Huang Bi was given to him, and he was so generous that he gave a supercar out!
Thinking of this, Wan Yankang couldn't help but feel a little painful!
Wan Yankang thought about it, no! It is said that there is no shortage of horses in the north, but I have heard that the Song Dynasty lacked horses, and my Dajin Kingdom started with cavalry, where will there be a shortage of horses!
Hearing the little master's question, the housekeeper frowned, thought for a while and said: "What the little prince said is also reasonable, and the villain doesn't know why the horses in our capital are so expensive, maybe the horses are all under the control of the government, and there are too few transactions into the market, and the price is so outrageous!" ”
The housekeeper of Zhao Wangfu is still a little knowledgeable, the horses, swords and soldiers of the Jin Kingdom are all key control materials, and there are very few that can flow into the market, and the price is naturally several times or even more than ten times the normal price.
However, after all, this housekeeper has limited understanding, and he doesn't know that although Jin Guo claims to be the strongest in the world, it is actually short of horses in the whole country.
Decades ago, Wanyan Liang, the king of Hailing, devoted the whole country to crusade against the Southern Song Dynasty, covering the world's mules and horses, not only requisitioning horses from the herds, but also trying his best to loot private horses, with a total of more than 560,000 horses. Later, King Hailing's conquest of the Song Dynasty failed, and he was killed by his subordinates in rebellion, and the rest of the Khitan launched a major uprising.
By the time Sejong finished Yan Yong to stabilize the political situation, the Jin country had been in turmoil for four or five years, because of the war and poor maintenance, resulting in heavy casualties among the domestic horses, and when Yan Liang sent out the army, there were only more than 1,000 horses left in the country!
Later, Sejong Wanyan Yong strictly practiced pastoral policy, strengthened horse husbandry and protection, and spent a lot of money to buy horses from Mongolia and Western Xia, so that the horse husbandry industry in the Jin Kingdom was slowly recovered.
However, although Sejong encouraged horse breeding, most of the people who used the pasture were Khitans, and the Jin and Khitan people were suspicious of each other, and the Khitans who raised horses in the pastures often defected with horses. The Jin people had to take strict precautions against the Khitan herdsmen, and the horses were handed over to the Jin people when they were raised at the age of three and became adults. In this way, how are the Khitans willing to raise horses with their hearts.
For decades, the horses of the Jin Kingdom have not recovered to half of the time of King Hailing's Wanyan Liang period! The quality of the horses is even more different than it was at the beginning!
Wan Yan Honglie was resolute, and after having dinner at the base at noon, he took Wan Yan Kang and a group of guards to the Imperial Horse Prison in a hurry.
Wan Yan Honglie originally didn't dare to gallop on his horse, only let the horse trot, seeing that Wan Yan Kang's riding skills were good, and from time to time he ran in front of him, he couldn't help but be interested, and shouted: "Kang'er, how are our father and son comparing horsepower!" ”
Wan Yan Kang rode or the jujube red horse, and he was carefully taken care of by Wan Yan Kang, eating all fine grains, and galloping every day, which can be described as excellent. This jujube red horse has just come of age, and it is more than eight feet tall, and it is almost not inferior to the dark clouds and snow that are full of beauty.
Wan Yankang heard this, laughed, and pinched the belly of the jujube red horse, the horse knew what the master meant, and ran away with his four hooves.
Wan Yan Honglie originally wanted Wan Yan Kang to run up, and then he slowly caught up. After Yan Kang ran dozens of meters first, he couldn't catch up for a while, so he had to urge the horsepower again.
The dark clouds and snow can be described as the king of horses, seeing that the jujube red horse is leading, and the owner urges, he can't help but get wind under his hooves, and he accelerates to catch up again.
Wan Yankang saw that his father surpassed him, and his heart was competitive, and he couldn't help but bow down, and the whole person seemed to be attached to a horse, and his body fluctuated with the horse.
Originally, the jujube red horse still had to be a step away from the dark clouds and snow, but after Yan Kang and Ye Siming learned the art of integrating people and horses, and they were a lot lighter, the jujube red horse chased after it crackling. The second horse sometimes chases after me, so it's not lively.
Seeing that the Imperial Horse Supervisor was dozens of steps in front of him, Wanyan Honglie and Wanyan Kangqi stopped at Qilema.
Wanyan Honglie laughed: "Kang'er is really a thousand miles away!" ”
Wan Yankang is also addicted!
Xiao Laifu of the Imperial Horse Prison received the report and hurriedly came out to greet him. Xiao Laifu first gave Wan Yan Honglie a salute, and then turned to Wan Yan Kang and praised: "Little Wangye's equestrian skills are really amazing!" ”
Wanyan Honglie smiled: "You fat man, how do you know that my family is good at equestrianism." ”
Xiao Laifu said with a smile: "The horses of the prince and the little prince are still a little out of breath, and the guards are not here, presumably the prince and the little prince are riding the horses in front, and the others can't keep up." The little prince is so old, he can keep up with the dark clouds and snow of the prince, and the minister admires it. ”
Thousands of wears, horses don't. What's more, this Xiao Laifu shot right to the point, Yan Kang was very happy after speaking, and said with a smile: "It's still the horse that Lord Xiao gave me before, otherwise how can I keep up with my father." ”
As he spoke, a group of guards finally followed. After Yan Honglie stopped chatting with Xiao Laifu, he raised his whip and waved: "Xiao Fatty, prepare two hundred good horses for this king!" ”
When Xiao Laifu heard this, his originally smiling face immediately cried: "Lord Wang, you want the villain's life!" ”
Wanyan Honglie snorted coldly: "What's the matter, this king's face is not worth a few horses!" ”
Xiao Laifu smiled bitterly: "Lord Wang, you have to choose a few good horses, and the villain naturally has nothing to say." However, there are only a thousand horses in the entire imperial horse supervision, and they still have to supply the needs of the palace, how can the villain allocate two hundred horses out! ”
Wanyan Honglie knew that what Xiao Laifu said was true, so in the end, he had to ask for ten good horses from the Imperial Horse Supervisor, and then tried his best to get two hundred horses from elsewhere to carry them.
Although most of these horses are horses, the day the horses arrived, the Divine Soldier Base was already boiling!