Kou Ji rolled his eyes and said, "You think it's so easy to raise heavy armor to ride?" From the creation to the completion of the Tiger Army, it cost tens of millions of yuan, and hundreds of thousands of yuan had to be spent every year to replace battle armor, horses, and distribute food and wages.

In the event of a big war, the money for the replacement of horses and the distribution of pensions is a large amount.

Raising a heavy armor is like raising 100,000 soldiers and horses.

Heavy armor is also a militaristic weapon, and it will not be used easily.

Most of the time, they will not be on the battlefield.

The other soldiers who fought on the battlefield did not complain about them? ”

Yang Wenguang disagreed, "If we have three heavy armors, it will be enough to suppress the eastern, northern, and western sides of my Great Song Dynasty." Enough to bring decades of peace to my Great Song. ”

Kou Ji glanced at Yang Wenguang and said, "I didn't want to let the Great Song Dynasty gain peace for decades. ”

Yang Wenguang glared at Kou Ji in astonishment.

But all loyal ministers and good generals, the one who doesn't want the world to be peaceful.

Why didn't it work when you got to Koji?

Kou Ji seemed to see Yang Wenguang's doubts, and said lightly: "I just need to let the people be at peace and let the people be rich." There is no peace for the soldiers and horses, and there is no peace on the four sides.

Our enemies are getting stronger, and we have to keep getting stronger.

Blindly thinking about the peace of the world, the swords and soldiers are in the warehouse, and the horses are put in Nanshan, and sooner or later they will be beaten by others. ”

Yang Wenguang subconsciously frowned.

Kou Ji continued: "The world is not static, and our enemies are not static. So we can't just think all day long, and if we defeat all the enemies, we don't have to do anything.

If you really think like that, sooner or later the imperial court will be defeated.

Because our enemies have fallen, but new ones are rising up.

In the world, I am not the only one in the Song family.

As long as there are other countries besides the Great Song Dynasty, we will never have the idea of putting swords and soldiers into the warehouse and putting the horses in Nanshan. ”

When Yang Wenguang heard this, his brows furrowed even tighter.

Kou Ji sighed and said: "The world is peaceful, the swords and soldiers are in the warehouse, and the horses are put in Nanshan, that is what the ministers said to the people, and the people can naturally work and farm with peace of mind."

But as a military minister, you can't keep it in your heart.

It should not be regarded as a wise saying. ”

Yang Wenguang heard Kou Ji's words, and his head was chaotic.

Kou Ji's words contradicted the education he had received since he was a child, as well as the ideas of many people in the Great Song Dynasty.

However, he couldn't come up with anything to refute Kou Ji's words.

Because looking through the history books, countless examples have proved that Kou Ji's words are right.

But let him overturn the cognition that had been formed in his mind at once, and accept Kou Ji's statement, he was a little resistant.

Kou Ji glanced at Yang Wenguang, who was caught in the quagmire of collision of ideas, and continued: "Do you think it is more advantageous to use the heavy armor captured from the Western Xia soldiers and horses for your own use.

But I think it's more advantageous to hand over the captured heavy armor to the Yuanshan Ministry.

If my Great Song has three heavy armors, it can indeed make the three sides fall into peace for a short time.

But sooner or later, war will come.

After the enemy sees the strength of our heavy armor, he will also fire us and build up heavy armor.

He even came up with many ways to restrain heavy armor, or built many soldiers and horses that could restrain heavy armor.

When the enemy cracks the heavy armor, what do we do to resist the enemy?

You see that the Heavy Cavalry is now mighty on the battlefield, can you be sure that the Heavy Cavalry will be able to do so on the battlefield until the end of the day?

If you don't say anything far away, you will say what is near.

In the battle of Yumen Pass, Zhu Neng still restrained the iron harrier in Li Yuanhao's hand and annihilated most of it even though he paid a great price.

What does this mean, it shows that the heavy armor is not invincible on the battlefield.

So we can't put all our hopes on heavy armor riding, you know?

I already have a heavy armor in the Great Song Dynasty, and I still have a batch of heavy armor in my hand that can equip three thousand heavy armor riders.

In other words, the heavy armor of my Great Song Dynasty has one on the bright side and another in the secret.

With two heavy armoured horses, we have a way to restrain the heavy armoured horses that appear in the hands of the enemy.

So we don't need to build any more heavy armor rides.

You have seen the power of artillery and muskets.

As long as we build more artillery, we can easily restrain the heavy cavalry.

At that time, the position of the heavy armored cavalry on the battlefield will become very embarrassing.

So we now have to focus on artillery and muskets, not heavy armor.

If we pile all our money on the heavy armor cavalry, when the artillery can be built in batches, all the money spent on the heavy armor will be in vain.

We handed over the heavy armor to the Yuanshan Division, and the benefits we obtained were far greater than building another heavy armor cavalry ourselves.

First of all, we can borrow heavy armor and exchange a large amount of money from Motosanbu for the manufacture of artillery and muskets.

Secondly, the Yuanshan Department got the heavy armor, and it had the strength to compete with Qingtang.

Don't look at Qingtang who is obedient to me now, but Qingtang is also a white-eyed wolf who can't be raised.

They don't have the strength to compete with my Great Song now, so they listen to my Great Song in everything, but once they have the strength or the opportunity to bite my Great Song, they will definitely not let me go of the Great Song.

If we support Yuanshan with heavy armor, it is equivalent to burying a nail in the back of Qingtang.

A situation of mutual containment has been formed.

Qingtang wants to plot against my Great Song Dynasty, and Yuanshanbu can take the opportunity to give Qingtang a painful blow.

If my Great Song Dynasty wants to start a war with Western Xia and Liao again, I don't need to be afraid that Qingtang will give us some moths behind our backs. ”

Kou Ji talked a lot to Yang Wenguang in his heart.

In addition to dispelling Yang Wenguang's doubts about selling the heavy armor to Yuanshanbu, he also intends to cultivate Yang Wenguang's overall view.

War is not an upright wrestling.

Checking and balancing each other and leveraging strength to fight is also part of the war.

A general who can only wrestle with others openly can only be a general at best.

But if you wrestle with the enemy at the same time, you can also intrigue with the enemy, and win the battle, then you are a commander.

If he can crush the enemy in terms of grasping the overall situation and arranging the strategy, he will be a great commander.

Kou Ji is still very optimistic about Yang Wenguang, so he hopes that Yang Wenguang can become a qualified commander.

Among the new generation of generals, relying only on Chong Shiheng and Di Qing to support the scene is still a little too thin.

Cao, Pan, Gao, Shi and several others, in the new generation, there are many generals, but there are no handsome talents.

If Kou Ji remembers correctly, after the death of Zhi Weizhong, the successor of the Zhi family is a mallet.

It is the only mallet among the generations of heroes and martyrs of the Fold family.

After that mallet succeeds to the throne, the Ori family will enter a short period of slump.

So after the succession of that mallet, the folding family has some hope.

Kou Ji had the intention to compete with the Liao State in the strong period for the sixteen states of Yanyun, so he had to find a way to enrich the strength of the Great Song military.

After listening to Kou Ji's words, Yang Wenguang was a little confused, a little headache, and a little unwilling to speak.

Kou Ji didn't continue to talk to him much.

He left Yang Wenguang alone in the room to digest what he said, and walked out of the room by himself.

A few days after that.

Yang Wenguang was nestled in the room and didn't go out much.

Kou Ji, as an angel of the Great Song Dynasty, has seen many people.

Its purpose is to leave a lot of traces of the Great Song Dynasty in the Yuanshan Department, so that those small tribes attached to the Yuanshan Department are familiar with the interaction with the Great Song Dynasty and the identity of the suzerainty of the Great Song Dynasty.

On a sunny day.

Song, Yuanshan, Qingtang, the three parties, at the invitation of Zhang Yuan, entered the main hall of the palace of the Yuanshan Department.

It is said to be a royal palace, but it is not actually a royal palace.

It's a larger aristocratic mansion.

The royal court of the Huangtou Hui Hui, at the southern end of the territory of the Huangtou Hui, has been occupied by Qingtang.

Therefore, it is impossible for Zhang Yuan to live in the palace of Huangtou Huifu.

There was no royal palace in the city of Chaitan.

Therefore, Zhang Yuan could only use a large aristocratic mansion as a royal palace.

After Kou Ji took the people to sit down in the palace, he saw that they were all acquaintances.

Qingtang Fang, the one who was sent to conclude an alliance with the Yuanshan Department was An Ziluo.

Naturally, Motoyama personally came forward.

The three people sitting at the table are all very familiar, so there is no need to say so many polite words.

An Ziluo sighed at the rise of the Yuanshan Division, he stared at Yuanshan and sighed: "I vaguely remember that when I first met the leader of Yuanshan, the leader of Yuanshan had just gained a foothold in Danshan City.

In a blink of an eye, the leader of Yuanshan became the lord of a state in the Western Regions.

Even when my clan Zampu saw you, he was treated with courtesy. ”

Zhang Yuan heard An Ziluo's words, and said very politely: "General An said that I am laughing, my Yuanshan can have today, thanks to the gift of the Heavenly Empire." ”

When An Ziluo heard this, he said to Kou Ji with some sourness: "The Heavenly Empire, the Yuanshan Department, is really good." ”

Can it be bad?

With a wave of his hand, he helped Yuanshan take a foothold in the land of Sanzhou.

Let the Wonsan Department leap from a small horse thief force to a state power.

Kou Ji heard the sourness in An Ziluo's tone, and smiled indifferently: "My Great Song never treats me badly, and I am an ally who sincerely contributes to my Great Song." ”

An Ziluo said with a smile: "The Heavenly Empire can take the land west of the river, and my Qingtang has also made a lot of efforts. ”

Kou Ji nodded with a smile and said, "Qingtang's contribution to my Great Song, my Great Song will naturally not forget." I have already written to the official family, and I believe that the official family will send the reward to your ministry in the near future. ”

An Ziluo groaned: "I don't know what the reward is? ”

Kou Ji smiled and said: "What the official family will reward Qingtang, only the official family knows, how dare I go beyond it as a minister." ”

When An Ziluo heard Kou Ji's words, his expression was a little uncertain.

The gold and silver goods rewarded by the Great Song Dynasty, or titles and the like, are dispensable for Qingtang.

Kou Ji knew what Qingtang wanted, so he smiled and said, "In the document I gave to the official family, there are words that state that your ministry urgently needs craftsmen. I believe that the official family will give me some words and send some craftsmen into your ministry. ”

An Ziluo raised his eyebrows and smiled with satisfaction.

An Ziluo laughed and said: "I heard that Shangbang, in the two battles of Yumen Pass and Yangguan, annihilated a lot of iron harriers and captured a lot of iron harriers' armor, I don't know ......."

When Kou Ji heard this, he pretended to be stunned, and then said with a smile: "If you like those armors, why didn't you say it earlier?" Previously, I met with your Ministry of Zanpu in Xiliangcheng, and your Ministry of Zanpu didn't mention it, I thought that your department didn't look down on those remnants, so I sold it to Yuanshan Department at a low price. ”

When An Ziluo heard this, the smile on his face narrowed slightly.

I was a little disappointed, but not too disappointed.

Because when he came, Jiao Luo told him that when he was in Xiliang City, Kou Ji did not mention those heavy armors to Jiao Luo.

Then the final belonging of those heavy armors is likely to become the armor of a soldier and horse in the Great Song Dynasty, or it will appear in the Yuanshan Department.

Now Koji has sold the heavy armor to Motoyamabu, which is expected by Kakugara.

Kakuro expected that Kou Ji would sell the heavy armor to Motoyamabu.

But what he didn't expect was that Koji actually wanted to sell to him in the first place.

There is such a flaw, it's not that Jiao Guluo is not thoughtful enough.

It's that Jiao Guluo doesn't know the relationship between Kou Ji and Zhang Yuan.

He didn't know that after Kou Ji got the heavy armor of the Iron Harrier, he didn't think about the Yuanshan Department at all, because he had prepared a batch of better ones for the Yuanshan Division.

That's because of that.

As a result, Jiaoluo was in Xiliang City, and did not take the initiative to mention the heavy armor of the Iron Harrier to Kou Ji.

It also indirectly caused Kakuro to mistakenly release his kindness to Yuanshanbu, so that Kou Ji could see his inner thoughts clearly, change his attention, and sell the heavy armor of the Iron Harrier to Yuanshanbu.

This is the case with the confrontation between countries.

Often a wrong judgment will pay a lot of money.

After An Ziluo learned that Kou Ji had sold the heavy armor to Yuanshanbu, he didn't say anything more.

The three of them sat down at the table and discussed with each other the terms of the covenant concluded between Qingtang and Motoyamabu.

After the discussion is over.

and the instruments of the Covenant were exchanged.

Sacrifice to the heavens and gods.

Let the heavens and the gods bear witness to the covenant concluded between the two Ministries.

Subsequently, Kou Ji and An Ziluo had a tour in Chaidan City, and An Ziluo asked about Kou Ji's return date, and privately revealed to Kou Ji that Jiao Jiluo had prepared a generous gift for Kou Ji, and when Kou Ji returned to the court, it would be delivered to him.

For this, Koji expressed his gratitude.

A few more days passed.

Under the witness of An Ziluo and Kou Ji, Zhang Yuan, under the congratulations of the leaders of the small tribes, officially became the lord of the Yuanshan Tribe, and officially declared his right to rule over the land of the three states under his jurisdiction and all the subjects living in the land of the three states.

Since then, the Yuanshan Department has officially become one of the many major forces in the Western Regions.

After witnessing Zhang Yuan becoming the lord of the Yuanshan Division, An Ziluo left the Yuanshan Division.

Kou Ji stayed in the Wonsan Department for many more days.

It was not until the guards entered Chaidan City with the armor of the Iron Harrier that he left the Yuanshan Department with Yang Wenguang, as well as the soldiers and horses of the Great Song Dynasty, the envoys of the Yuanshan Ministry, and a large number of gold, silver, jewelry, cattle, sheep, and horses.

When Kou Ji came, he rode in a hurry, and when he returned, the team was very large.

After he entered Shazhou, the news that he had brought back a large number of gold, silver and jewelry from Yuanshan was blown out like a gust of wind.

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