Naturally, the Great Liao Kingdom was also aware of the necessity of controlling the flow of war horses into the Great Song Dynasty.

But the border between Song and Liao is too long. Although both sides set up dense forts on the border, and the Liao army in the border area strictly checked the entry and exit of horses, and found that the horse dealers were beheaded on the spot, high risk meant high profits, and they still could not cut off the smuggling of horse dealers who wanted to get rich overnight.

There are very enlightening cases about war horses.

On the one hand, the Song army desperately needed war horses to deal with the wanton invasion of the northern cavalry, but on the other hand, the actual practice prohibited the flow of war horses into the Great Song Dynasty in disguise.

The common practice of the Biansai Song army was to let all the horse dealers they intercepted go without fierce resistance, but the horses were forcibly confiscated.

The best of the confiscated horses were not used for horse breeds or cavalry warfare, but most of them became the pets of military attachés to honor local civil officials, or they were castrated and meek and flowed into Tokyo to sell them for high prices for profit, and became decorations for high-ranking families to show their status and power, or to gamble on horses for fun in the tile market.

In other words, the combat effectiveness of the army did not really benefit greatly from the confiscation of smuggled war horses. Otherwise, how could the Great Song Dynasty lack war horses to such an extent in the hundred years since its founding.

And the horse dealers wept.

Smuggling, under the strict control of the Liao army, no matter how powerful you are, you can't smuggle many good horses. Usually it is just three or five horses that pretend to be Liao people and ride on their own and are easy to dodge flexibly.

Who will look at this amount of smuggling, even if the profits are high, those who have the power or financial resources? Not to mention the huge risk of losing both people and money.

The smuggling horse dealers were basically brave ordinary border Song people, who pooled money and borrowed money to cross the border and finally got a few good horses, and tried their best to avoid the Liao army's inspection, but they were swallowed by the Song army. They're all right. The Song army let them go just to let them continue, but they lost all their money. They don't know how to pay their debts, how can they have the money to sell horses again?

Smuggling and selling horses is really a lucky job to be done. Like General Shi Duan Jingzhu knows the Liao Song Dynasty like this. Proficient in Khitan language, difficult to recognize as a Liao person, a team of natural horse thieves who are good at horses and skilled in equestrianism and combat effectiveness can do it. Zhao Yue received Duan Jingzhu and his gang back then, and those dozens of Western horses didn't know how hard it took Duan Jingzhu to get Cangzhou.

Over time, it became more and more difficult for the Great Song Dynasty to get war horses. The more I thought that the army had real cavalry, the more I couldn't get it.

But it's been much better in recent years. Spring has arrived for horse smugglers.

Because the wise Marquis Wencheng became the governor of Cangzhou, he strictly ordered the border army at the junction of Cangzhou and Mozhou not to detain the smuggled war horses without compensation, and treat the horse dealers well.

Of course, the good breeds of horses are forcibly purchased and charged, and the price given is not low.

Other war horses. The two sides negotiated, and if the horse dealers were willing to sell them, the border army would buy them, but if they were unwilling, they wanted to continue trafficking at all kinds of hardships set up by the government, powerful bandits, etc., in order to sell them at sky-high prices in places where there was a greater shortage of horses, so they let them be sold to the interior.

Anyway, it flowed into the Great Song Dynasty, and Zhao Gonglian did not force it in order to encourage horse dealers to smuggle.

As the saying goes, habits are hard to change. The generals of the border plug are accustomed to buying and selling without capital. How can it be easily changed? In order to implement this horse policy, Zhao Gonglian cut off a number of heads before it was implemented.

Now, he has gone to the front line of Shanzhou, and joined forces with the generals of the Divine Arrow General He Guan, Han Zong, Lei Yanxing and other generals of the Cangbei Army to forcibly implement this policy.

Naturally, there will be a lot of greedy border generals who are disobedient to the yang and the yin. Cause an attack on the intricate background power behind these generals.

But Zhao Gonglian's head is big enough, and he has the right to specially apply to the emperor for secret music, and there are eyeliners and cares inside and outside the palace. Sticking to the excuse of serving the country loyally and wanting to quickly establish a counterweight to the Western Army, the Northern Army foiled all kinds of conspiracies and tricks. He Guan and the others are now holding Zhao Gonglian's thick thighs. At the same time, the generals of the related households who only want to make money at the border, enjoy mixed qualifications, and do not want to endure hardships, train and take risks to fight are forced to apply for transfer one after another. You don't go. Just be honest and obedient, otherwise you won't blame Lao Tzu for fixing you to death.

It's too simple for the head of the border military and political government to kill whom.

Even if you are the deputy general in the local area who is second only to the general and the power of the supervising army, Lao Tzu asked you to patrol the border, right? Compliant with the procedure, right?

If you dare not listen, you are disobeying military orders.

Military orders are like mountains. Military law is ruthless. Lao Tzu beat you half to death, you have to be honest. If you dare to insult your boss and disturb the morale of the army when you are tortured, you deserve to be killed on the spot.

You bow your head and listen, and go to patrol the border, Lao Tzu can easily play you to death.

Zhao Gonglian said: The prison guards around you are all people who cooperate with you. After you take office, you can only put things in order, seize military power, and train a strong army. I'll take care of it.

In order to win the trust of these generals, he took the lead in reorganizing the army.

Reform will inevitably affect the inherent interests of some conservative forces, and there will naturally be many storms of resistance, and many of the troublemakers will have a solid background. But in the end, Zhao Gonglian didn't do anything.

He Guan and the others heard about it, and then secretly observed and tested the performance of the supervising army, and saw that the supervising army was actually cooperating with the side, and their hearts suddenly became much more steady.

Just get into trouble and don't worry about the consequences. This kind of good thing that can be willful without a strong background, these generals have been holding their breath in the Western Army for a long time, how can they not take the opportunity to have a big attack?

They have long been grinding out in the big quagmire of the Western Army, they are experts in governing the army, and they are all proficient in military and political methods, and they have no roots and no power to be arbitrarily manipulated and oppressed by others before, once they become the boss of one side, they will show the level of military governance, and they don't have to think about recruiting people to rectify them, as long as they use the hardships they have experienced personally or have seen to kill people with knives and other means, they can make those unruly and unwilling to bow their heads to death...

As a result, in just a few months, the border armies of Cangbei have been reorganized, and the momentum of strengthening the army has been initially revealed. And the fastest and most direct beneficiary is the smuggling of horse dealers.

After confirming the encouragement policy and integrity of the border army, the old horse dealers were in high spirits for a while, and they seized the time to desperately resell, and a group of people quickly broke out like the real estate of later generations. This group of people brought the participation of people who were poor enough to be red-eyed. Horse smuggling is rampant at an all-time high.

At this time, God seemed to see the horse dealer's hard work and adventurous spirit and great dedication, and finally developed sympathy and began to take care of it.

A large number of warships went upstream, destroying the Liao navy and waterway checkpoints, and used dense high-speed and high-frequency crossbows to kill the enemy troops on the shore, and went deep into the interior of Yanyun to load all the looted horses, materials, population, and other booty.

The king of the Southern Courtyard has suffered from pirate attacks and looting for a long time in recent years, but he has no way to control it, and now he sees that the pirates are so arrogant that he simply ignores the soldiers and horses of the powerful Great Liao Kingdom, and is furious.

The result of the rage was naturally a large army, and the heavy equipment of long-range attacks such as stone throwers, cyclone cannons, and gunpowder crossbows were moved to stop the pirates and warships. Although the pirates' long-range multi-shot strong crossbows were killed and destroyed piece by piece, the results of hard work were achieved again and again, and a large number of war horses, equipment, materials and soldiers were lost, but it finally showed that the strength of the king-level anger of the Great Liao Shangguo was not. (To be continued.) )