The economy of the Liao State was not as good as that of the Song State, but the Liao State had a vast territory, and horse farms abounded; The Song State suffered from the land of horse breeding, and the army's war horses were stretched.

The three places that produced good horses in the land of China, Hexi, Beidi, and Hetao were not in the territory of the Song Dynasty, and the Song State could only establish a strong cavalry on paper.

Later, Wang Anshi reformed the horse administration, but the Northern Song Dynasty had fewer and fewer horses; If Wang Anshi's reform of Ma Zheng can be summed up in a classic word; That is, from the large-scale state-owned breeding of collectivized groups to the small-scale breeding of scattered farmers.

In the fashionable phrase of the twenty-first century, it is the privatization of state-owned enterprises.

Encouraging households to raise horses is not Wang Anshi's idea alone, as early as the Zhenzong period, Cao Bin's son Cao Wei tried to raise horses to make up for the lack of official horse herding.

Later, Wang Dan, Ding Du, Song Qi, Ye Qingchen, Li Zhongshi and others all proposed to Emperor Renzong that they should abolish horse herding and supervise the raising of horses to the people, and reforming horse administration was a top priority; It can also be regarded as echoing the long-standing call for imperial reform.

According to the official statistics of Xining Eight Years, the cost of raising horses for farmers is 12.6 yuan per horse.

This data is not only very different from Ye Qingchen's proposal that the horse herding supervisor costs 500 taels per horse, but also saves nearly half of the money compared with the 25 taels that the imperial court purchased from the ethnic minorities in the northwest.

As for the quality of private farmers raising horses, oranges are oranges born in Huainan, and oranges are born in Huaibei; Whether the cavalry of the Song army can be guaranteed to gallop on the battlefield is not the most important; Because the quality of the horses produced by the horse herding supervisor is also low, and the survival rate of the horses raised by farmers is definitely far better than that of state-owned horses; The money saved by raising horses by the people was enough for the imperial court to wave money to buy horses from the ethnic minority brothers in the northwest.

During the new law of Song Shenzong, the Great Song Dynasty increased the trading volume of horses with brothers of ethnic minorities in the northwest, and established a tea and horse trading system of exchanging tea for horses.

The Song Dynasty set up horse farms in Yuan, Wei, and Deshun armies - and later changed to Xi, He, Min, Tongyuanjun, Ninghezhai, and Yongning Zhai to buy horses, and the number of horses purchased in the northwest every year was maintained at about 20,000; The annual consumption of tea is 20,000 packs, which greatly supports the frequent military activities of the Song court.

There is also a huge economic account that has not been counted, that is, the Song court leased all the fertile land originally occupied by the state-owned horse herding supervisors to the peasants; These vast fertile fields have become a new economic income for the state; In the third year of Yuanfeng (1080) alone, the rent money for the abolition of prison was 1.6 million.

As for the inevitable drawbacks of the new law, such as the persecution and exploitation of horse farmers by lower-level officials in the name of this, they seem insignificant in the face of the huge economic account; The Horse Protection Law basically achieved the two basic purposes of Wang Anshi's financial management and strengthening the army.

After the death of Emperor Shenzong, the old party made a comeback, and the first thing to abolish the new law was the Baoma Law; Words: The inconvenience of the new law is anxious to protect the horse, and Wang Anshi's former death party constitution Chun shouted "protect the armor and protect the horse, if you don't stop for a day, you will be harmed for a day." The fate of the Poma Law and other new laws can be imagined.

Under the counterattack of the old party, the Song court began to set up horse husbandry supervisors in Luoyang, Shanzhen, Yuanwu, Qishui, Dongping, Anyang and other places, and after this toss; The ills of the original nationalized pastoral supervisors can only be exacerbated.

After that, the Northern Song Dynasty court was repeated between the old and new national policies; Song Zhezong also set up various horse herding supervisors in Shaoshu for three years to implement the law of land herding horses, and the result of such repeated repetitions was that both state-owned and private horse breeding were unreliable.

After Song Huizong Zhao Ji became the emperor, he gave a data on horse herding supervisors and horses in various places, which turned out to be a pitiful 1,800 horses; Among them, Hebei West Road accounts for 1,400 horses, and the number of other roads is very small; A dignified Hedong Road is only 9 horses.

In the Huizong era, horsepower recovered to a certain extent, but the dispute between the old and the new was still fierce; In the fourth year of Daguan, the Song court dismissed the Tian Mu Ma Law, and the second year of Zhenghe was restored again; In the second year of Xuanhe, it was again struck; Most of the 90,000 horses of the local pastoral supervisors were given to Tong Guan's Northwest Army, and the pastures were no longer leased to the peasants; Most of them were converted into various high-end villas and resorts for the amusement of the emperor and local officials.

By the time the Jin people invaded, the entire wealthy Great Song Empire really had no horses; The Jin army approached Kaifeng, and the Song court included all the horses inside and outside Beijing, plus the horses of the cavalry army in Beijing, which was less than 20,000; All of them were handed over to the army led by the eunuch Liang Fangping to go to the Yellow River to block the Jin, but they were still defeated.

Zheng Shuang, who is the real culprit in all this, naturally knows it, and Zhenzong won the Liao State in Ma Zheng.

Once the Liao Army's Tielin Army attacked, the Song Dynasty had almost no army to stop it; If the Tielin army of the Liao State was to open up a second battlefield, it would be a desirable means to defeat a strong enemy.

Zheng Shuang thought about it: It sounds a bit cruel and inhumane to test the drug poison with Khitan tartar, but war is human? Is it good?

Zheng Shuang came from later generations, the bullying country called Mi and his little European brothers launched the x Lac and x Biya wars, and there is no accurate number of how many people died in the two countries; But it is an indisputable fact that it has become a haven for international drug traffickers.

During the Wuhu Rebellion in China, more than 20 million Han people died in the Central Plains; The main body of the tribes such as the Zhongqi, Baixiong, Dingling, Tiefu, Lushuihu, Xianbei, and Jiudashihu are all blonde and blue-eyed Caucasians.

These barbarian Hu tribes from the wild domain still retain their primitive cannibalistic beasts, among which the three tribes of the Qian, the white Xiongnu, and the Xianbei are the most vicious.

In 304 AD, Murong Xianbei plundered the Central Plains and robbed countless wealth; He also kidnapped tens of thousands of Han girls, and raped them all the way back to the school. Lewd; At the same time, these Han girls were slaughtered and cooked as military food.

When he walked to Yishui, Hebei, there were only 8,000 girls left, and Murong Xianbei couldn't eat them for a while and didn't want to let them go; So he threw all the 8,000 girls into Yi Shui and drowned, and Yi Shui cut off the flow for it.

Historical records record that the Qiang army never carried grain and grass when marching and fighting, and specially captured Han women as military food, called "two-legged sheep"; It means sex slaves and livestock that walk on two feet and drive like sheep; For soldiers to rape at night. Lewd, during the day they are slaughtered and cooked.

Under the rule of the Zhao regime established by the Qian, the Han nation, which had established the Xiongqin and Shenghan dynasties, was on the verge of extinction; When Ran Min destroyed Zhao, there were only about 4 million Han people left in the Central Plains, and after Ran Min liberated Yedu, the number of Han women who were captured and plundered reached 200,000.

The Anshi Rebellion took place from 755 to 763 A.D. and lasted for 8 years, and this protracted rebellion war launched by the Hu people An Lushan and Shi Siming led to the collapse of the Tang Dynasty Building; Tens of millions of people died.

In order to recapture the country, the Tang royal family begged the Xiongnu and Hui to help recover Luoyang, and promised to loot it arbitrarily for three days, making Luoyang a ruin.

The rebellion, which lasted for eight years, left the Yellow River valley depressed and deprived of people. The population of China has plummeted from 9 million to 2 million, and three-quarters of the people have died tragically in the chaos.

In 755 AD, the country had a population of 52.92 million; By 760, the country's population was only 16.99 million, with a loss rate of 68%.

The war itself is inhumane, and the Yelu clan of the Liao State and the Xiao clan of the descendants tried to repeat the mistakes of the Wuhu Rebellion in China and the thieves of An Lushan and Shi Siming; Using the Central Plains as the pasture of the nomads, this kind of war to destroy other races is the greatest inhumanity.

It seems to be the best choice to adopt the means of countering violence with violence to block the water and come to Tutun......

Zheng Shuang was saying to Xue Jin'er: "Sister Jin'er, from now on, you will have one more grandmother and an aunt; That's a good thing......"

Xue Jin'er heard Zheng Shuang say this, and her eyes were so angry that her eyes were worried; She had heard from her grandfather's mouth that the two women, Yao Shi Tai and Xian'er Girl, were of unknown origin. Narrow. stared at Yu Xian'er and gave a serious warning, especially because she had an argument with Yu Xian'er; If what Zheng Shuang said is true, then the dispute between Xue Jin'er and Yu Xian'er is the dispute between aunt and nephew; Yu Xian'er and Xue Jin'er are the same age, why should they be Xue Jin'er's aunt?

Xue Jin'er couldn't hold it back and was about to have a seizure, but Zheng Shuang covered her mouth and dragged her aside and said fiercely: "My little aunt, why are you so unruly; As soon as the ditch is picked, the cannon will be fired......"

Xue Jin'er grabbed the back of Zheng Shuang's hand with her fingers and said angrily: "Xian'er and Jin'er are the same age, why should you be my aunt!" ”

Zheng Shuang was stunned for a moment, and quickly reacted: "That's not grandpa's momentary joy, holding a cannon to sweep the melons that grow; Grandpa's seed, Sister Jin, how can you do it if you don't call someone else's aunt......"

Xue Jin'er suddenly became excited when she heard Zheng Shuang say this, hugged Zheng Shuang and kissed her on the lips and grinned: "This is better, Jin'er will call Xian'er aunt; Jin'er called Xian'er her aunt, and she dared to beat her up to see if this disciple dared to beat her......"

Zheng Shuang and Xue Jin'er were chattering together, but they saw Zhang Lang striding over and said, "Brother Zheng, Zhang Shiyong is waiting in the jungle in front; Say something important to report ......"