Speaking of this, looking at the prince who was hearing his teachings for the first time, there was an expression of humility on his face. The King of Guilin County nodded with great satisfaction and said, "Don't think that with the reputation of our Guilin County Palace, as long as there is a tide of soldiers together, the entire Jiangnan can be passed on, and things are not so simple." ”

"What's more, the disparity in strength is only one aspect, the most important thing is that we lack cavalry that can compete with the imperial court. Over the years, the imperial court has been able to compete with the Northern Liao, and has repeatedly gained the upper hand, relying on the cavalry trained by the ancestors. Unless we only plan to stop at the secession of Jiangnan, we will not even be able to cross the river in the face of those elite iron cavalry of the imperial court. ”

"As the saying goes, northerners ride horses and southerners sail, and the sergeants we recruit are all southerners, and they are not good at horseback riding. Plus we also lack horses suitable for cavalry. Although the Guangnan West Road is said to produce horses, the horse can barely transport goods, and it is too reluctant for the cavalry to fight. Dali also strictly followed the requirements of the imperial court to control the number of horses sold to us. ”

"If you buy a horse from other sources, you have to go through the areas controlled by the imperial court. Once it is discovered by the court, we buy a large number of horses that can become war horses, then we will take the initiative to send the knife handle to the emperor. In order to cover up our tracks, we can only buy horses privately by sea to the Jurchen tribes of Liaodong and Goryeo in the north. ”

"But it's a pity that the people of the north are not accustomed to the water and soil of Guangnan West Road, and the horses from the north are the same when they arrive here. In addition, the loss of the Shanghai Road, whether it is the Goryeo horse or the Jurchen horse transported to the Guangnan West Road, is basically not one in ten. In terms of survival rate, it is not as good as Dali Ma Sancheng. And the best big food horse, the price is Qiang, not only the shipping time is long, but also too expensive. ”

"Those greedy big food merchants, a horse dares to pay a sky-high price. Our Guilin County Mansion is rich, but we are not going to feed those hungry wolves. If they had not been needed to import the Macitar and the Great Eater and the Persian Horse for the king, the king would have gone to send them to their Allah. In the conquest of the Central Plains, it is not possible to rely on infantry alone. ”

"How can this king not know what you say? Your ancestors were almost victorious in all battles back then, relying on the use of cavalry to fight. And this tradition is now being passed down by the imperial court. Without a strong cavalry, we would at most divide the river with the imperial court and rule the country, and divide the south of the Yangtze River and a corner of peace. If you want to compete for this world, there is no such possibility. ”

Speaking of this, the eyes of the king of Guilin flashed: "There is no free lunch in this world, they want Hebei and Shanxi Second Road, it's not impossible, but it depends on whether they have that good mouth." After suffering so many losses, I don't have a long memory. Do they think that the border army and the four major battalions of the imperial court are really not set up? ”

"Let's fight with the court snipe first, and we'll wait on the side. As long as there is no connection between the four major battalions, this king wants to see, without the four major battalions and the northern border army, and without our financial support, what can the court with internal and external difficulties still have to compete with us. As for the Xijing camp, the chess piece that the king planted in the northwest was enough for them to drink a pot. ”

"The hatred of extermination, how can it be so easy to unravel? There are no four major battalions, and there is no Xijing camp. Is it just by the way, the guards who can't even go up right away? As long as the world is in hand, not only these two ways, but also how much he Xiao Yu eats us, he has to spit it out for us. This king doesn't believe it, after she has fought out the four major battalions and the northern border army, what else can she compete with us? ”

Looking at his father, who was full of strange confidence when talking about his entire plan, the prince could only hold back what he wanted to say next. After listening to his father's whole thoughts, he actually wanted to ask his father if the last words left by his ancestors were true. If it's true, will it be your own family, when you hear this, you will first mess up.

It is rumored that the ancestor told the second son in the army when he was dying: "If a few decades later, the emperors of the later generations of the Qi family will be like Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, causing turmoil in the world." If the descendants of the Liu family want to take advantage of the chaos to plot the world, they can do it freely. But if it is collusion with foreign clans and peeps at my Chinese artifact, it is not my Liu family's descendants, and everyone in the world can punish him. ”

Today's Guilin County Mansion is similar to the Heavenly Family, which has flourished for more than 100 years. In addition, the kings of Guilin in the past dynasties, together with their sons and nephews, all of them wantonly accepted wives and concubines, and even there were not a few of them who were amorous and obscene. With the joint efforts of these ancestors, a large and flourishing family has now been formed.

Not to mention that he has more than 30 wives and concubines, even the former Tang Dynasty and Tubo princesses are included in the house, and the founding king of the county who gave birth to more than 40 children. The three generations of county kings with the most wives and concubines alone have successively accepted more than 100 wives and concubines, which is not counting the girls who have never been promoted to concubines. During the reign of the third prince of the county, he was ordered to go to Annam many times, and each time he had to take back thousands of women.

Those women who were snatched back by him, in addition to those he rewarded his subordinates and brothers in the house, there were more than eighty people who left behind by him. During the entire period of the conquest of Annam, as long as he did not fight in the army, he had to send his henchmen almost every day to rob women around the garrison to accompany him. Not counting other county kings, this county king alone has more than 100 children.

This is still famous, as for how much he left in Annan and how many outside, even he himself does not know. Looking at the kings of Guilin in the past dynasties, his father only has more than 20 wives and concubines, which is already a few. It's just that his father, although there are not many wives and concubines in the house, he is extremely interested in the wives and daughters of those Yiren tribal leaders.

Every time he went out to inspect, he had to choose the wives and daughters of the tribal leaders to sleep with. As for the daughters and sisters of those tribal leaders, who are married or not, he has never cared. For his father, who has a unique taste, the prince is sometimes very distressed. I often worry when my father goes out on patrol that if those leaders feel that they are insulted, they may not know what happened to their father that day.

Not to mention the previous kings, it is his own son, as well as his brothers, even if they are not married, they all have more than ten concubines now. If you add the maids assigned to him by his father, there are dozens of people. This is not counting the slave girls who went out to patrol in place of their father, and those tribes who came into their own way, but used to sleep with them.

Guangnan West Road is located in a mixed place, and the number of Yi tribes in the territory is extremely large. These tribes of the Yi people fought against each other for land, slaves, cattle and sheep. In order to obtain the support of the Guilin County Palace, all the ministries have to pay a large amount of tribute to the Guilin County Palace every year, among which there will naturally be no shortage of Zhuyi women.

In addition to the Guilin County Palace, he has the right to trade overseas. In order to curry favor with the royal palace of Guilin County, those foreign merchants had to offer a large number of big food, Persia, Tianzhu, Annam, as well as girls from Dongying, Goryeo, Nanyang and other countries every year. Even the Great Qin in the extreme west is not in the minority. Although the number of Han people on Guangnan West Road is far less than that of the Yi people, there has never been a shortage of beauties in the royal palace in the past dynasties.

These women naturally became the first playthings selected by the male masters in the palace. And among these women, there are not a few who have children. At present, the entire Guilin County Palace, not counting the five suits, is already regarded as the same clan of the side branches. Within three uniforms alone, there are nearly 100 people who have gone up to the lieutenant of Fengguo and down to the court to ask for the title of Lang.

If you add five suits, there are as many as five or six hundred people living on the annual money of the palace and fifteen stone of grain to support the money and grain. As for the male hosts of various provinces, they were born with others outside, and I don't know how many illegitimate children there are at the moment, and they are not counted.

The current Guilin County Palace, not an ordinary leafy mansion. And if there are more children and grandchildren, there will be just as many rights and wrongs. Even this prince himself can't figure it out, aren't his ancestors really tired? Although with the financial resources of the Guilin County Palace, let alone supporting so many wives and concubines, even if it is twice as much, it is not a problem. But there are many wives and concubines in this family, so how peaceful will it be there?

Nowadays, although the houses are still maintained together because of interests, there are not a few people who have germinated different aspirations. is his own uncles of more than 30 people, and there are not a few who are dissatisfied with their father's concubine and not the eldest son, and inherit the throne. Although at present, the father has suppressed these dissatisfaction with the method of division and disintegration, coupled with the vigorous and resolute thunder method.

But once the news of the alliance with Northern Liao spreads, who can guarantee that those ambitious uncles will not take advantage of the topic to play and take the opportunity to force the palace to usurp the throne? If there is a disturbance within yourself, it can only be the imperial court that takes advantage. Although hundreds of years have passed since the last words of the ancestors, no one knows whether they are true or false. But Shizi believes that when the time comes, with chicken feathers as arrows, there will definitely be a lot of people who are honest.

For the imperial court, the prince didn't care very much. What worries him the most is whether there will be people in the Guilin County Palace? When he was looking at the Ancestral Chronicles, he remembered the sentence most clearly: the easiest place for a fortress to be breached was on the inside and not on the outside. Once the army is raised, there are internal disorders, and it is not only the court itself that is worried about internal and external troubles.

And for the son of the world, who is still clear about today's general trend, he does not think of his father's words in his heart. In his opinion, now that the court officials are corrupt, the clan is prey and the people are angry, and the whole world is angry and resentful. The imperial court is in revenue, and now it is not as good as a year. Leaving the Guilin County Palace, thirty percent of the annual tax silver, even the military salary was released.

At present, the rivers and mountains in the Qi room are like sitting on a pile of dry firewood. As long as one spark can ignite a raging fire and devour the rivers and mountains of Qi Chamber. Compared with the Qi clan, the kings of Guilin have always been known for being virtuous and close to the people, and the people's reputation is not comparable to the imperial court. The prince believes that as long as the palace of Guilin County ascends to the heights, the people of the world will inevitably rise up in response.

Under these circumstances, it would be unwise to form an alliance with Northern Liao. Not only may it not be able to borrow strength, but it may become a public enemy of the world. The most important thing is that who can guarantee that after defeating the imperial court, the tiger-wolf Northern Liao will really fulfill the agreement and honestly withdraw from the Central Plains? To form an alliance with that kind of tiger and wolf state is tantamount to seeking skin with tigers.

But these words, although the prince said that he understood clearly. But he has lived under his father's authority for a long time, but he can only hold it in his heart, and he never dares to say it, not even on the surface. He was too clear about his father's character. He knew that in his father's heart, not only the world could become his pawns.

and his own wives and concubines, and so are their own children. His own sister-in-law of the same mother, even if she threatened to commit suicide, was it useless, and in the end, she was forced to marry the Yuehou of Dali? And he was able to stand out from his father's many sons and finally obtain the status of the son of this world, just because he has an advantage that others do not have, that is, obedience.