The official has done a certain part, in fact, it is almost no different from the emperor, especially those princely clans with their own fiefs, although there is a sharp sword hanging above their heads, but if they do not violate the crime of being like the heavenly rule, then the entire fief is almost completely in his own hands.

The king of Zhenyi really wanted the scenery of his father back then, with a bigger fief and more rights, but the treatment of the county king was obviously not comparable to the treatment of the prince.

Similarly, he is also very envious of everything Ye Qing has in the Northland now, no matter what, as long as he informs the imperial court, even if he is in a bad mood, he can completely ignore the attitude of the imperial court and do whatever he wants in the Northland.

Everything is superficial, behind the scenery in front of people, there is often a huge bitterness and bitterness, for these, ambitious careerists are often unwilling to face, even if they know that they would rather ignore these, after all, the temptation of power is far more than the bitterness behind them yearning.

In December of the third year of Chunxi, Liu Keshi returned to the Longcheng barracks from the Xia Kingdom, and Ye Qing at this time had been in Longcheng for a full month.

The Longcheng Barracks, which has been created by Liu Keshi for only a year, has become a huge military base at this time, and all the soldiers of Jingzhao Mansion and Hetao Three Roads come from here, plus the old armies of all roads, under the auspices of Ye Qing, after being reorganized and reorganized, so that the six routes army of Jingzhao Mansion Four Roads has reached 200,000 people in terms of numbers.

Wang Chong and Xie Lun, who were entrusted with important tasks by Liu Keshi, are indeed as Liu Keshi said, and they are simply the best candidates who are perfect and impeccable in the Longcheng Barracks.

In Ye Qing's words, these two people were born to be good seedlings in charge of the barracks, grain, grass, and weapons, but they were by no means suitable candidates to lead troops to the battlefield, or even not suitable at all.

Giants in thought and cowards in action, although the word cowards are sometimes biased, but after just more than a month of contact and school examinations, Ye Qing now knows very well that the best role of these two people is that they are just like the political workers of later generations, suitable for doing political work, suitable for brainwashing the soldiers who come to the Longcheng Barracks, so that they can have a firm heart of loyalty in their hearts.

However, if such theoretical powerhouses are allowed to lead their soldiers to war, then their weakness of superiority over paper and lack of actual combat will be infinitely magnified.

In short, in Ye Qing's opinion, the two of them in the Longcheng barracks are two dragons, and when they walk out of the Longcheng barracks to the battlefield, they will become two insects in an instant, no matter how strong the troops are given to them, they can give you the shortest possible time, completely defeated, and there are no bones left.

"After the spring of next year, we can build a town in Jishi. As for sending troops to help Li An'an seize the throne, the lower officials vaguely signaled to them, but it can be seen that both Li An'an and Hot Gongji are very cautious and unwilling to entangle with the lower officials on this issue, but they do not explicitly refuse. After listening to Ye Qing's evaluation of Wang Chong, Liu Keshi's face was somewhat embarrassed, in fact, he was also very aware of the weaknesses of Wang Chong and Xie Lun.

Just as he knew very well that he could only be a staff member under Ye Qing, he would never be able to become a military general like Li Heng and Tian Lin in this life, let alone a confidant like Zhong Silkworm and Mo Xiaobao, nor would he become a brave and resourceful person like Yu Yunwen and Xin Qiji.

His advantages are obvious, and his weaknesses are also obvious, the most direct embodiment is that he cultivated Wang Zhong and Xie Lun, which are almost a copy of his Liu Keshi, almost exactly the same as his Liu Keshi, a master of theory and practical combat.

"My lord, it seems that if we want to lead our troops into the summer in a bright and bright way, and not be suspected by them, this matter is not easy. Hot Gongji, Li An'an and others are not stupid people, but they are very wary of you. Liu Keshi glanced at Ye Qing, who didn't speak, and had no choice but to continue.

"The silver taels brought back will be handed over to Xie Lun, no matter whether we want to enter the summer next year, we should have enough horses, armor, and all kinds of weapons, Guanshan and Longcheng must be our rear heavyweights, plus next year, the stones will open the town, and the merchants who come and go to Xia and Song will naturally become part of our means of transporting grain and grass. The soldiers and horses have not moved, the grain and grass have gone first, and the cavalry now has a full 100,000 people, so that the army of 200,000 is gathered here, and it is a waste to do nothing but raise it. Ye Qing looked at the thick window paper in the room, thumping by the strong north wind outside, and moved his hands back and forth on the charcoal fire of the iron furnace.

"As for Hot Gongji and Li An'an's beware of me, this matter is normal. Since they are wary, then we will open the gap from Li Chunyou's side. Su Dao is the only military general that Li An'an can rely on, and the defeat of Gongguan Mountain with his back, coupled with the pain of losing his son, is now not as important as before in the eyes of Li An'an and Hot Gongji. Therefore, from now until the beginning of spring next year, or before the Mongols send troops to conquer Liao, we must find a way to make the relationship between Li Chunyou and Li An'an tense, so that they can smell the smell of danger at the same time, and at the same time, they have to secretly dispatch troops to guard against each other at all times, so that as long as Temujin starts a war with Liao, we can add another fire to the tension between the two forces of Xia State, and then Su Dao alone will inevitably be tired of coping, and Li An'an is not orthodox after all, Obviously, people's hearts will still be on Li Chunyou's side, and once a conflict breaks out at that time, they will inevitably ask us for help. Ye Qing said with a slight sigh.

"My lord, there is another thing that is not very optimistic...... I would like to consult with an adult. Liu Keshi looked a little cramped at this time, and even said a little nervously.

"Tell me about it." Ye Qing said lightly and quietly.

"My lord, Xia Guan has worked extremely hard for more than a year, but now our so-called 100,000 cavalry is just a number, if you really want to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, I'm afraid ...... Sixty or seventy thousand cavalry with combat effectiveness is already the limit. "Liu Keshi used to beg for merit, or to be able to get Ye Qing's appreciation and give him a greater place to display his talents, so he made a sloppy eye on the number of war horses and cavalry that Ye Qing valued most.

Yes, if the number of war horses is accurately counted, it has definitely reached as many as 100,000, but there are far from so many of them who can go to the battlefield, except for some underage, there are untamed, or they are so old that they can only transport some materials between Longcheng and Guanshan, and the rest are optimistically estimated, and there are less than seventy percent of the real war horses left.

After saying the truth, Liu Keshi, facing Ye Qing's smiling gaze, began to gradually ooze a layer of fine sweat on his forehead, and his back was also as sticky as a fire, extremely uncomfortable.

After a puff, Liu Keshi's knees weakened, and he knelt directly in front of Ye Qing, and said in fear: "My lord, Xia Guan knows that it is really a crime to deceive like this, but my lord, Xia Guan really wants to follow your adult to see the wider sky and land, so he will make this decision." My lord....... ”

The fear of Ye Qing, Liu Keshi is the fear in his bones, even from the initial acquaintance in Yangzhou to now, Ye Qing has never been angry with him Liu Keshi, but in Liu Keshi's heart, he has always been extremely afraid of Ye Qing.

"Get up and talk, and kneel on the ground to solve the problem." Ye Qing said lightly, and then after Liu Keshi stood up, he still said with an easy-going smile on his face: "If I don't come to the Longcheng Barracks, will you tell me the truth?" ”

"Yes." Liu Keshi said without hesitation: "In fact, when the lord sent the lower official to the Xia Kingdom, the lower official had already written the document and planned to hand it over to the adult and tell the adult the truth. But later I learned that the lord was going to come to the Longcheng barracks in person and ...... Because the lower official was extremely scared in his heart, he didn't dare to shake this matter out, but please rest assured that the lower official did not plan to hide it all the time, and the lower official hoped to make up for it with the help of the envoy to Xia Guo, so the lower official thought that the adult should not worry about the lower official. Moreover, Xia Guan also believes that as soon as the adults arrive in Longcheng, they will inevitably know that Xia Guan concealed the war horse for the first time. ”

"In that case...... Then don't plan to have a comfortable Yuan Day this year, before the beginning of spring, make up for the war horse. Ye Qing said after sighing slightly.

"Your Excellency......." Liu Keshi regretted it in his heart at the moment, if he still had a way to do it, then he would not hide it and not report it, it was precisely because he boasted of Haikou at the beginning that it would lead to the situation that he could not make up for now, and he had to count some "old, weak, sick and disabled" to make up the numbers.

"My lord, it's not that the lower officials are unwilling, but now...... The number of war horses that could be traded with the Mongols was extremely limited, and the Mongols were secretly preparing to conquer Liao and wanted to obtain war horses from them. And on the side of the people in the west, a war horse dared to ask for 30 yuan, and the Xia people paid compensation to the adults, and Xia Guan gritted his teeth and bought 25,000 yuan, but this has already cost 750,000 yuan, and Lord Li Heng also has to repair the key passes of Guanshan, so that, plus other uses such as conscription, Xia Guan bought a horse and it was so painful to cut meat, not only because it was too expensive, but because Xia Guan also had to take into account other aspects, there was really no other way. Liu Keshi poured bitter water at Ye Qing: "My lord, maybe you don't know, the reason why the lower officials don't approve of buying horses with money is because if we give the money to the Tibetan people and the Mongols, they have always had a tradition of selling and casting into soldiers, and those who have so much money are refined into weapons by them, which is even more unfavorable to us." ”

Liu Keshi naturally bought war horses with silk silk, but this also made Liu Keshi, who has always been like an iron rooster with a hair, gasp in distress, and every time he traded with the Tibetans, Mongolians, and even the Xia people, he had to feel distressed for several days to ease up.

A silk horse is only worth the same amount of money here, so a horse has to be thirty silks, and silk horses are expensive, so Liu Keshi also has to prepare the armor and clothes of the soldiers, etc., so look at a horse, and then look at the clothes on the soldiers, Liu Keshi will cry out in distress every time.

"I produce tea in the southeast nine roads of the Great Song Dynasty in 60 states and 242 counties, especially Fujian Road. Over the years, Shi Miyuan's hand has been firmly in control of all this in Fujian, especially after the Yangzhou Chamber of Commerce initially purchased and replaced a large amount of tea from Fujian Road, which aroused Shi Miyuan's vigilance, it became very difficult to want a tea and horse market. But...... Everything is changing now...... ”

"Really?" Liu Keshi's eyes widened instantly, and he looked at Ye Qing with surprise and asked.

Ye Qing nodded in confirmation, and then said: "But how we come to exchange with the Tibetan people, the Mongols, and the Xia people is a problem that we must be cautious about, if we still don't control the amount of tea as before, then it will still be unfavorable to us." So now is a great opportunity for you to take revenge. ”

Liu Keshi still looked at Ye Qing with bright eyes, nodded again and again: "Xiaguan understands, after Xiaguan has suffered several losses, he has long wanted to take revenge. The Tibetan people have always liked the tea of Fujian Road, I checked, and now most of the tea in the past two years has come from other roads, which is dispensable for the Tibetan people, so if there is a large amount of Fujian Road tea, the lower officials will be able to reduce the price of horses to him to the lowest, and strive to control the price of 100 catties to 150 catties under the premise of alleviating our use of war horses, how about it? ”

Tea and horse markets have long existed, since the Tang Dynasty, there is a precedent for exchanging tea for horses in the trade with the Tibetan people and other herdsmen, but at that time, whether it was the Tang Dynasty or the Song Dynasty, when the war horse resources were not very scarce, the price of tea would be relatively higher, and after the Song Dynasty crossed to the south, especially when the north did not recover a city and a place, the Song Dynasty and the Fan people often played the role of the unjust leader in the transaction of war horses.

At the beginning of the founding of the Song Dynasty, the trade of tea and horses in the market can still be maintained, and the price of a good war horse can be exchanged for a hundred catties of tea, and after the southern crossing, the Song court has completely become a big wrong, and several northern expeditions during the reign of the Emperor Taishang, because the demand for war horses has increased sharply, which has also made the Fan people and Xia people sit on the ground and raise the price, so that the price of a war horse has risen to a thousand catties of tea to be exchanged for a war horse at the highest time.

Now most of the northern land has been recovered, especially the Hetao Third Road has been recovered, even if it is only a year, but there is also a small part of the grassland in the hand, so that Jingzhao Mansion or Ye Qing can bargain calmly when dealing with the Tibetan people.

Therefore, Liu Keshi wants to reduce the price to between 100 catties and 150 catties, in fact, it is already difficult for him, after all, everyone knows very well that when the price rises, he is always careless, and when he wants to reduce the price of scarce resources, it is a few points more difficult than ascending to the sky.

What's more, the people have always been greedy, although they have a lot of war horses, but sometimes when trading with the Song court, which is stupid and has a lot of money, they often have the mentality of preferring to lack rather than excess, so that the Song court, which has no chips at all, can only obediently trade according to the price set by others.

So now, after Lin'an Jiawei, Qian and Yangzhou Chamber of Commerce are finally able to find more business opportunities and tea under the strict defense of the Fujian Chamber of Commerce, Yu Yeqing can exchange war horses with the Tibetan people through tea, which can not only ensure that the people's livelihood in the north is at the lowest standard of food and clothing, but also establish a good relationship with the Tibetan people through the trading methods of the tea and horse market, so that once they want to invade the summer, they will not make the Tibetan people wary of them.

The compensation that Ye Qing exchanged his life from the Xia people in the battle of Guanshan has played a great role in this year's time, although Ye Qing has not seen the gold and silver mountains at the time of the negotiation until now, and those huge amounts of wealth seem to have never existed, or as if the Xia people have never paid compensation.

But now, if you look at the six passes in Guanshan, look at the scale of the Longcheng Barracks, look at the bright and sharp weapons in the Ordnance Division, the herds of breeding ponies on the grasslands of Hetao Road, and the satisfaction of the disaster victims resettled around Jingzhao Mansion, as well as some of the foundations that Jingzhao Mansion only started to expand last year, it is enough to know what an important role the Xia people and Jin people paid to Ye Qing in the battle of Guanshan in this year.

Looting, plundering, and colonizing by war are often the fastest and most direct ways to get money, and this method is so invincible to use at any time.

Whether it was the power of this time, or the later era of sea power, it was like the world proved that there is no faster way to get rich quickly than to use war to plunder resources.

European colonialism, persecution of how many people's homes, even now, Europe is still a place that people yearn for, one by one museums, displaying a piece of exquisite historical relics from foreign lands, is still naked in the era of their barbaric power, the same way, the plundered wealth, is still for their country today to play a rich and powerful residual heat.

Therefore, before Ye Qing attacked the summer, he had already begun to breed involuntarily in his heart, the strength of the Mongols, don't harm your own people, it's best not to stop all the way to the west, don't have the slightest mercy to kill all the way, and ruthlessly crush it with the iron hooves of the East.

As for the territory of the east, Ye Qing would rather close the door between the east and the west at this time, if he can successfully invade the summer, and then move his gaze to the east or south, slowly looking in the direction of the ocean.