In Yongzhou City, Liu Dexiu greeted Li Er.

Liu Dexiu made a gesture of invitation: "The general will enter the mansion first, and I will prepare a reception banquet." The grain and other materials that the general wants have received the official letter from the imperial court, and it will only be more and will not be less than a catty, this year the grain areas of the east and west roads of Guangnan have a bumper harvest, and the price purchased by the imperial court this time is higher than the market price here, so there is a lot of grain. ”

Li Er didn't rush to ask, but after entering the mansion, he ordered the servants who were about to serve the food to retreat, and then said: "I am not a person from the same road as you, you are Han Jiefu's doorman, I heard that the level is still very high, if you return to Lin'an, your position is before Yang Dafa, maybe before Su Shidan?" ”

Liu Dexiu did not avoid this question, and replied: "I returned to Lin'an, it should be Dali Temple and supervise the imperial history, because I have meritorious service in the southwest, and the power left behind helped the Wu family in the first few months. ”

is not an outsider, and Liu Dexiu has nothing to hide.

Li Er nodded: "I have a life and death document with your Shaojun, and I am not an outsider to you." Who hit you, what is going on with Ziqi country. ”

Liu Dexiu knows how much that at present, if the Han Mansion does not care about the lord Han Yanxuan and the young monarch Han Jiang. Just talking about the strength of the father and son, Han Jiang is still higher in the court, and Liuzheng and Jing Bo are both Han Jiang's people. There are no officials above the fourth rank under Han Yanxuan, and Han Yanxuan was still a fifth-grade official a few months ago.

Liu Dexiu sighed: "The general knows that there are many small countries in the southwest, and they are indeed countries. A hundred years ago, the 37 tribes of Wuman established a country, named Ziqi Kingdom. They claim to be Samodu, and in our Chinese language, they are Zijun, so they are written as Ziqiguo. In addition to this self-defeating country, there are also many smaller countries. ”

Li Er really didn't understand anything about the southwest, so he nodded and listened silently.

Liu Dexiu continued: "Originally, it was just a small tribe, but it became a tribal alliance, and then it secretly became a vassal state of the Duan family in Dali, between eastern Yunnan and western Qianxi, and it could earn about 200,000 yuan by selling horses every year, and it slowly grew stronger, and its power has become bigger and bigger over the years." ”

Li Er understood, so he asked, "They beat you?" ”

"Yes, but it can't be helped. The imperial court ordered a ban on mountains and rivers, and the general should have heard that it was necessary to cut off contact with the southwest barbarians, and when Zhao Ruyu was an official in the southwest, he was also subject to the barbarians. There are two barbarian countries, and Ziqi and Luodian monopolize the trade of Guangma, and Ziqi accounts for three-quarters. ”

Li Er asked: "Is it the price, or is there a conflict in quantity?" ”

Liu Dexiu shook his head: "The imperial court won't buy it this year." ”

"Why?" Li Er didn't know why the imperial court didn't buy horses this year.

Liu Dexiu was also confused by this question: "The general really doesn't know, the new alliance of the Jin and Song Dynasties, I heard that the Jin Kingdom gives the imperial court 10,000 war horses a year, and the Guangma has 30 outlines every Chinese New Year's Eve, and 50 horses per program. In the Song and Jin Covenant, there are 200 horses, and in my opinion, the 10,000 horses of the Imperial Court and the Jin Kingdom are not wanted, let alone these 1,500 horses. ”

Li Er laughed: "These days at sea, I don't know." ”

Liu Dexiu is indeed talented, and when he analyzed Li Er, Li Er immediately understood.

Liu Dexiu said: "When a general leads a soldier, he must know that a military horse is almost twenty times. However, all the places in the imperial court today are much warmer, and they are smaller than our Great Song Dynasty before. The land needed to feed a horse can feed at least forty people if it grows grain. ”

"Yes."

"Also, horses need to be kept free-range, and if they are kept in captivity like pigs and sheep, horses are basically useless. Civilian use is still unusable, let alone a military horse. ”

"Yes, I understand that." Li Er understands how much effort the Yu family has put into 30,000 cavalry.

This is already the limit.

Today, there is indeed no suitable place for raising horses in the Great Song Dynasty.

Liu Dexiu pointed to his forehead: "The general doesn't need to mention this matter again." ”

Li Er laughed: "Come on." ”

Two pro-soldiers immediately entered.

Li Er instructed: "Someone has beaten our Governor Liu, you bring all the people and go and fight back." Then he circled the people for me, and I will see. ”

Liu Dexiu wanted to persuade him, but Li Er said: "You don't understand, why Ben will look down on Han Jiefu but can become friends with his son in life and death, you just look at it." ”

Hearing this, Liu Dexiu no longer persuaded him.

But the truth was shocking, Li Er's face was lost after only half an hour.

Li Er's personal soldiers didn't even fight each other in the past.

Although the other party didn't take advantage of it, it really didn't fight.

Li Er didn't eat any dust-washing banquets, and went in person.

Forty people against forty people, Li Er's side was put down by half, and the other party fell by twenty-two, if you count the battle record, you will win, but Li Er's personal soldiers are all veterans of a hundred battles, and according to Li Er's orders, they want to bring people over, then this is a loss.

Both sides are calling people, ready to fight again.

Li Er arrived.

Seeing that there were big names in the Song people, there was also a person from the Qi Kingdom.

Seeing Li Er, Yi Song Li hugged his fists: "My name is Ma Mi Mo, and my Chinese name is Mo Ama." ”

Liu Dexiu explained to Li Er on the side: "The father-son name of a person from Qiguo is usually the last word of the father's name, which is the first word of the son's name, and most of them are named after four characters. Many people have Chinese names, with Han surnames Yang, Mao, Ma, Mu, Mo, Meng, Bai, Xiong, and Liu being the majority. ”

Li Er also clenched his fists: "Li Er." ”

Mo Ama pointed at Liu Dexiu behind Li Er: "I hit him, his people can't." You can do it, and you have defeated my men. ”

Liu Dexiu is a civil official, and the ten guards around him can't beat the two people around Li Er.

Li Er asked: "Your people, very capable of fighting?" ”

Mo Ama didn't answer, he was about to fight with Li Er's people again.

Liu Dexiu said on the side: "The man from the country of Qiqi is still dying in battle and dying of evil disease. ”

Interesting.

Li Er took a few steps forward, and Mo Arma also greeted him, he would not do anything with Li Er, the age gap was there, Mo Arma was in his early thirties, and Li Er was already a sixty-year-old man.

The two stood facing each other and Li Er spoke: "I have a friend who is only seventeen this year. ”

Mo Ama asked, "He's very good at fighting?" ”

Li Er shook his head: "If you compete, he can't beat you." But he can overcome you, including your self-defeating kingdom. Want to know why? ”

"Why?" Mo Ama is very curious, he can't beat himself but can defeat himself, what is the reason.

Li Er asked: "I heard that you can get 200,000 yuan a year for selling Yunnan horses?" ”

"Yes!" Moama gave an affirmative answer.

Li Er asked again: "Do you want to earn 2 million a year?" ”

Mo Ama's face changed, they were able to change from a tribal alliance to a tribal alliance, and then from a tribal alliance to a self-qi country, which was stronger than many small countries, relying on a business that could get 200,000 yuan of profits from the Great Song Dynasty every year.