After coming out of the military mansion, Wei Gao grabbed Gao Yue and asked him to go to his house to drink and catch up.

Gao Yue did not shirk, readily agreed, and went to Wei Gao's house as a guest, Wei Gao's wife Zhang Yuxiao heard that he was coming, and hurriedly went out to greet him.

Wei Gao really developed in Fengxiang, after he was driven out of the house by his father-in-law Zhang Yanxian, he was very depressed, and when he was penniless, he was fortunate to get Gao Yue's help. Now after taking refuge in Zhu Zhu, Wei Gao's talent and learning are instantly revealed, and he is also soaring under Zhu Zhu's appreciation, and now he also carries the constitutional title of serving the imperial history in the palace, serving as the judge of Longzhou Yingtian, his second brother Wei Huang and cousin Wei Yi are also patrols here, and the brothers are the same qi, and Gao Yue is just a scarlet silverfish given by the Holy Lord.

"Now Wei San (Wei Gaoxing's third) can receive fifty yuan in the Fengxiang Military Mansion, living in the front and back triple mansions, and the insiders can serve the splendid hairpins, gold and silver, all relying on Yi Song's timely rain!" During the banquet, Wei Gao recounted the past, couldn't help but feel a lot of feelings, full of gratitude to Gao Yue, and then asked his wife to come out and pour wine for Gao Yue in person.

"Sister-in-law's health?" Gao Yue picked up the wine cup and hurriedly thanked Zhang Yuxiao.

Yu Xiao hurriedly asked Yun Shao about the situation again, Gao Yue laughed, and made a gesture to his abdomen, indicating that he was about to give birth at this time.

As soon as he said this, Yu Xiao immediately laughed, and hurriedly said How is this good, Gao Saburo, you must want a boy, but my husband and wife wish that Yun Shao's sister gave birth to a girl.

Because Wei Gao's wife was born before, it was a boy, and he directly used the word Xingshi (that is, replacing the name with the table word), called Wei Xingli.

"If it's a boy, you can be a brother." Then Gao Yue asked Wei Gao to give his child a name.

Wei Gao sighed and said that now the mountains and rivers are broken, and the Hulu is rampant, and the great cause of Zhongxing in my Tang Dynasty not only needs you and me to shoulder it, but also needs the next generation of children to work hard. Good followers of people's aspirations, good at telling people's affairs", I hope that after the efforts of the second or third generations of children, the people of the world can see a peaceful and prosperous world again.

Therefore, Wei Gao named his in-laws' son "Jing", hoping that when the child becomes an adult, he can finally fulfill his father's ambitions.

"Well, I hope that our heirs can see the life of the sea and the day when all nations will come to court!" Gao Yue was also full of heroism, and immediately drank three glasses of wine with Wei Gao.

Then the two talked about specific affairs, Yu Xiao went to the inner room with Xingli in his arms, Wei Gao and Gao Yue sat behind the double-sided screen, lit incense to sober up, and then secretly discussed the matter of buying horses.

Wei Gao's opinion was that it was not possible to follow Zhu Zhu's idea to buy back the horse.

"Before my Tang Dynasty, I bought horses from Waifu such as the Turks, adhering to the principle of 'pricing and rewarding, and being generous', and when a horse opened the sky, it actually took forty horses to practice silk cloth. Now Hui Hui relied on assisting me to quell the rebellion, and every year he had to drive a large number of horses to the market, and sold them in a fixed amount, and the treasury was overwhelmed every year. ”

The meaning of Wei Gao's words is to point out the disadvantages of the "horse market" in the name of the Tang Dynasty government, the Tang Dynasty and the Celestial Dynasty have similar unified regimes, and they like to regard themselves as "Shangguo", and the surrounding countries have a "tributary" nature in doing business. The price soared to 40 horses, which can be regarded as a national policy of the Tang government to spend more money to win over Fanhu.

However, the Tang Dynasty bought three or four thousand horses every year for horse breeding or forbidden army riding, although the money was not spent, but it was of great significance for national defense, and it had to be lost.

After the Anshi Rebellion, the Hui replaced the Turks as the only "horse market" object of the Tang government. Every year, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty gave 20,000 pieces of silk to the governor of Lingzhou, which was specially used to reward the Hui. But Hui Hui was not satisfied, and also demanded that Tang must buy it 6,000 horses every year, which can be regarded as a "mandatory base", in addition, the price of each horse is also relatively fixed, not affected by market fluctuations, that is, 40 to 50 silk cloth (money and other things, Hui Hui does not accept).

But the problem is that the Tang Dynasty was in its heyday during the Kaiyuan Tianbao period, Henan, Hebei, Jianghuai, and the southeast all produced a large number of silk cloth as a currency, and the price of a silk cloth at that time was only about 200 to 400 yuan, and if the highest number was taken, a Turkic tributary horse was worth 40 silk cloth, which was about 16 yuan; But the period of Suzong and Daizong is different, the whole north has been devastated by the war, the household registration is not one of ten, the silk cloth can only rely on the Jianghuai, the southeast import, coupled with the chaos of the currency system, the price of silk cloth soared to almost four runs, so a Hui horse is actually equivalent to one hundred and sixty or even two hundred yuan, which is more than ten times that of the Kaitian years.

This is also an important reason why the Tang Dynasty had hundreds of thousands of war horses in its heyday, and now there are only two or three thousand war horses in a border town.

Hui sent 6,000 horses forcibly every year, and the imperial court had to buy them with tears (due to financial difficulties during the Su Dynasty, even the minister was asked to pay money to recharge the price of the horses), and the average annual consumption was two or three hundred thousand silk cloths. After the implementation of the two tax laws, Emperor Li Shi's large surplus treasury used about 300,000 horses of silk cloth a year, so the so-called price of Hui horses constituted a heavy expense for the Tang Dynasty government. After buying a horse, the imperial court had no money (the money was used to buy horses) to build a horse herding prison, and they didn't dare to give it to Fang Zhen for shepherding...... Ma Zheng, which was originally running well in the Tang Dynasty, has been paralyzed so far.

Not only that, but the Hu merchants who followed back to the country were extremely cunning, after they got the silk cloth that they sold horses at a high price, when they passed through the Beisai Luoma Mutual Market on the way back, they used these silk cloths to buy horses from the party and even the Tang military town at a low price in the market, and then sold them to the Tang emperor at a high price when they changed hands the following year, which not only made huge profits, but also destroyed the Tang army's horse politics and weakened the Tang army's war readiness.

If the emperor of the Tang Dynasty could not take out the silk cloth, or could not pay off the debts, the Hui cavalry would rob the people and animals in Saibei and Hedong in a grand manner, and called it "scraping the city gate" and "Soma value".

So at this point, Wei Gao and Gao Yue were very angry, and agreed that if this system was not changed, the Tang Army would never be strong.

Because the horses that Hui gave to the Tang Dynasty were worth nearly 200 yuan a year, the price of horses in the three towns of Heshuo (i.e., Lulong, Chengde, and Weibo, of which Lulong was also called Fanyang and Youzhou) was also surprisingly high, and each horse also cost 100 yuan, so Zhu Zhu said that the face of the horse dealer in my "Zhu Lang", you two buy horses from Lu Long, and it can be reduced to 50 yuan each.

If you run 10,000 pieces, you can only buy 200 horses.

So Gao Yue quietly echoed Wei Gao and said, "It's better to take this 10,000 yuan and get it in another way." ”