Liu Min heard Gongzijian say, "The Yellow Falcon people are not fools, they bought a horse for 40 taels of silver, and sold it to the Great Song Kingdom for 60 taels; Isn't the Great Song Kingdom in dire need of horses? Spending 60 taels of silver to buy a horse still feels very cheap", this sentence is like overturning a five-flavor bottle in my heart, bitter, sweet, sour, spicy, astringent, all kinds of tastes.

When Liu Min was a medical doctor in later generations, he participated in the topic discussion of "the Song Dynasty was poor and weak and was crushed by the surrounding ethnic minorities" on the Internet.

Netizens have their own theories, and Liu Min's opinion is that "the Song Dynasty was not poor and weak, but lacked horses".

One of the reasons for the lack of horses in the Song Dynasty was that the Hetao Plain and the Hexi Corridor, which were conducive to horse breeding, were all occupied by barbarians, and the water and soil in the Central Plains were not conducive to the growth of war horses; Wang Anshi implemented the law change to promote private horse breeding.

But the basis for changing the law is really bad, and a minister like Sima Guang can't forget to make trouble from it; The new law ended in failure.

The failure of Wang Anshi's reform reminded many people of the Qin Dynasty's Shang Yang reform, and the Shang Yang reform was successful; Half of the success should be attributed to Qin Xiaogong, who supported Shang Yang from beginning to end; At the cost of the pious nose of the emperor's brother and son.

Song Shenzong initially supported Wang Anshi's reform, but later under the opposition of the old school, he was unable to get hypochondriasis to make the reform fail.

A big reason why Song Shenzong suffered from hypochondria was that the shadow of his ancestor Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi was too heavy.

Zhao Guangyi usurped the throne by abnormal means, so that his descendants generally could not stand up; The seemingly tough Song Shenzong really laid a soft egg in the end and compromised with the old school.

The inglorious shadow of Zhao Guangyi not only accompanied Song Shenzong, but also the dead emperors Song Huizong and Song Qinzong also survived in the shadow of their ancestors until the Jurchens set foot on Bianliang City; Zhao Guangyi and his family were escorted to the Five Kingdoms City, and the shadow stammered with the death of the country before he had an explanation.

However, Zhao Gou, the ninth son of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, survived and established the Southern Song Dynasty, a partial regime; is a child emperor who looks at the eyes of the Jurchens and acts, and is not much different from Shi Jingjiao.

This is the sorrow of the nation! The injustices created by the conspiracies of the ancestors must be repaid by future generations one by one.

During the reign of King Kang Zhao Gou, he killed the anti-Jin hero Yue Fei and signed the humiliating "Shaoxing Peace Conference" with the Jin State; In the end, under pressure, he returned the throne to Zhao Tuan, the seventh grandson of Taizu's lineage, as Song Xiaozong.

This is the arrangement of God, and people are looking at the heavens and have a proper footnote here.

The lack of horses in the Northern Song Dynasty is a historical fact, and the formation of these facts is that the Northern Song Dynasty did not unify the whole of China.

Although Zhao Kuangyin quelled the rebellion of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, he nominally unified the whole country; However, the fact that the powerful ethnic minorities in the border frequently cause trouble shows that there is no reunification at all.

The Liao State was founded earlier than the Northern Song Dynasty, and the Khitans claimed that they were the orthodox dynasty of China; This can be seen from the fact that Western countries still call China Khitan.

Liu Min didn't want to go too far, so she just talked about Qingshichuan now.

Qingshichuan is located in the southwest of the country, but it is a treasure land for raising horses; But it has not attracted the attention of Zhao Guangyi, who is the emperor.

Zhao Guangyi did not pay attention to the construction as if it was a disease brought out of his bones, and his brother Song Taizu planned to move the capital to Luoyang and finally settle on Chang'an.

But Zhao Guangyi's boss was unhappy and mobilized the Central Plains Shi clan to try his best to block Zhao Kuangyin's plan to move the capital; The thousand-year-old national policy of Zhao Kuangyin was ruined.

Zhao Guangyi didn't want to squat in Bianliang City, and naturally he would not invest in Qingshichuan, a horse breeding base surrounded by many ethnic groups in Tubo, Dali, Qiang, Miao, and Yi; The concept of self-destruction existed throughout the rise and fall of the Great Song Dynasty.

The imperial court only knew how to ask for the Qingshichuan Horse Farm and was unwilling to invest, and Wei Baimao and these moths were the stalk; There are more problems than I think......

Liu Min pondered worriedly for a while, and felt that Qin Fengsheng's decision to kill Wei Baimao, Ma Duyan, and Wu Bulun was completely correct.

Then he walked up to Qin Feng and whispered: "Lord Jianzheng, it is better to behead Wei Baimao and the three of them sooner rather than later; It's best to do it tonight! ”

Qin Feng nodded to Liu Min quietly, and Liu Min walked up to Gongzijian and said, "Gongmu Wei, you still tell me how Wei Baimao and Li Jiqian bought and sold horses!" ”

Gongzi Jian promised and said, "Wei Baimao and Li Jiqian reached a preliminary agreement to sell them 1,000 horses!" ”

Liu Min was stunned, glanced at Gongzijian and said, "What does it mean to reach a preliminary agreement?" ”

Gongzijian glanced at Liu Min a few times and said: "The preliminary agreement is that the other party will pay a deposit for 1,000 horses first, and pay all the funds after the 1,000 horses are in hand!" ”

After a pause, he cleared his throat and said: "The other party paid a deposit according to 2 taels of silver for a horse, and Wei Baimao received a total of 2,000 taels of silver, all in his hands; The boy had an opinion, so he said that the price for the four girls was set by Supervisor Wei; The implication is to let Wei Baimao pay the four girls, I have no problem with this! ”

Liu Min listened to Gongzi Jianxu's chatter, and said in a deep voice: "Is Gong Muwei right in front of Wei Baimao when he sets the price with distant merchants?" ”

Gongzijian said bluntly: "The little people are in front of you!" We are talking about the price while eating and drinking! ”

"Is the location in the southeast and northwest taverns of Willow Lane Town?" Liu Min asked.

"yes!" Gongzijian replied: "It's really a restaurant in the southeast and northwest of Liuxiang Town!" ”

"Snow White is not wrong to say that!" Liu Min said solemnly, raised his voice and said, "Is the distant merchant Li Jiqian?" Where did Li Jiqian go after paying a deposit to Wei Baimao? ”

Gongzijian listened to Liu Min's detailed question, pressed his hand to his forehead and thought for a while: "Is the distant merchant Li Jiqian not mentioned on the wine table, but the person who is the distant merchant is not very old; He looked like he was seventeen or eighteen years old, wearing a blue head; But a few braids are out there! ”

"That guy is Li Jiqian!" Zhi Yuzhong couldn't wait to interject: "The Li Jiqian that Gongmu Wei and Snow White Girl talked about are the same!" ”

Zhi Yuzhong said with all his arms: "Little sister Minzi, let's not grind here; Hurry up and catch up with Li Jiqian! ”

Liu Min stared at Zhi Yuzhong and didn't say anything, and paused for a long time before saying to Gongzi: "Li Jiqian is from Pingxia City in the North, and he is a member of the party; wanted to rebel against the imperial court, and was chased all the way by General Zhe; lost in Skull Ditch, but he suddenly appeared in Liuxiang Town to trade horses with Wei Baimao; It's really Sima Zhao's heart, everyone knows it! ”

Qin Feng interjected, and Li Jiqian rushed to Qingshichuan from Pingxia City in the north to buy horses; Isn't this a reluctance to seek the near and far? ”。

Liu Min smiled and said, "Lord Jianzheng can't use his brain to think about why Li Jiqian bought a horse in Qingshichuan?" ”

"Li Jiqian wants to pull up a cavalry team in Songpan and Maozhou, so he buys horses so unscrupulously!" Zhang Jing said bluntly, looked at Liu Min and said, "Little sister Fairy, are you right......?"