Ma is a very convenient help, with Han Qi's guarantee, they have already believed it, but more or less, some wonder, why Han Qi is so confident, and suddenly expanded such a large scale.

200,000, this is something that I couldn't think of before, before, during the negotiations, Han Qi once said that if the personnel are enough, the number can be increased by 10 times.

This amount, they don't even dare to think about it, let alone 10 times, even if it is two or three times, it is enough to satisfy them, such a scarce resource as horses, even if they attack Western Xia to gain benefits, it is impossible to obtain a large number of good horses.

The highest grade before was only twenty or thirty thousand, maybe some people had the luxury of expecting it, maybe what Han Qi said was true, it was 100,000, because Han Qi did not give an accurate number, it was just a possibility, if they really used sheep to offset it, they had nothing to do.

Compared with 100,000 horses, 100,000 sheep is also a good deal, but compared with the influence of horses, it is too far behind, and it is not too much in heaven and on earth.

Of course, in terms of universality, the extensiveness of sheep is far greater than that of cattle and horses, although the Northern Song Dynasty lacked pastures and did not have sufficient grazing conditions, but the consumption of sheep has always been a considerable amount.

Take the more frugal court of Renzong as an example, there is an archaeological data that can show that Renzong consumed a total of 440,000 catties of mutton in one year. ，

That is to say, the palace alone consumes about 100 catties of sheep a year, more than 10,000, and when it is extended to the entire Northern Song Dynasty, the transaction volume may be in millions, or even millions.

But horses, at best, are only a few tenths of the sheep, and that's the difference.

Now, when the chamber of commerce has a clear intention, it even transfers funds to Xi'an and operates through the bank.

Although he did not sign up here with Han Qi, the intention of participating was very obvious, and Han Qi added another strength on the original basis, directly expanding the scale of the Cattle and Horse Conference by 30 times, directly increasing the number of cattle and horses from the original total of 60,000 to more than 500,000, and at the same time, positioning the number of horses at 200,000.

This is not 200,000 sheep, nor 200,000 cattle, but 200,000 horses, and other commodities are actively ignored by these merchants, what is more important than horses.

If there are 200,000 horses, even if the military participates, even if there are nobles making trouble, these unfavorable factors are all taken into account, even if they can only win 1 percent, it means 20,000 horses, which is already a large number.

These merchants didn't know that 200,000 horses were a real deal, and perhaps, there would be some nobles and officials who would come to hear about it, but when the total amount expanded to a certain extent, the amount needed by these officials and nobles was basically negligible.

Of course, Han Qi will not explain too much about these feelings of the businessman, if he really said that there will be at least 4 million horses in the future, which will flow into the market one after another, it would be really stupid.

Don't look at the huge role of horses, but when the supply reaches a certain level, the price will definitely fall.

Things in the world are so wonderful, a year or two ago, he even suffered a defeat in the battle of Shuichuan, if at that time, Han Qi had a 10,000-person heavy cavalry in his hands, not only would he not be defeated, but he would turn defeat into victory, how much he was looking forward to using huge funds to pile up a powerful cavalry.

But today, a few years later, he was worried about the horses, it was really a sweet trouble, and he never thought that one day, he would have a headache because there were too many horses.

will agree to these chambers of commerce, the reason why the military does not get involved, because the number of horses is too large 5 million, even if the military pulls 1 million from the middle, there can be 4 million left, these are all horses to flow into the market.

As a high-ranking member of the military, the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, with the Northern Song Dynasty military he knew, it was already very terrible to be able to leave 200,000 as military horses.

This is not a joke, but it is the result of a real investigation.

The reason why there is a shortage of horses in the Northern Song Dynasty is that on the one hand, a large amount of land for horse breeding has been lost, and there is not enough grassland to support large-scale horse breeding, leaving only a small number of places in the northwest and the territory where horses can be raised, but on the other hand, the consumption of horses is too great.

With the ability of the secret battlefield of the Northern Song Dynasty, coupled with the pervasive ability of some merchants, he got one or two hundred thousand horses, and they were horses above the standard.

These horses, coupled with the superiority of the Northern Song Dynasty in weapons, it is not impossible to make a heavy cavalry force that is not weaker than that of the Liao State and the Western Xia, at least, an experimental force of 5,000 horses is possible.

But the reason why it was not carried out is that the consumption is too large, in the Northern Song Dynasty, under the daily situation, raising horses can be replaced by grass, but if you want to ensure that you raise a horse, almost every day, is eating, constantly eating, continuous eating. In this way, the consumption of the horse can be supported.

But in the Northern Song Dynasty, there is no such huge pasture, there is no way to support the horse to eat often, usually this is okay, how can you go to the battlefield, the Northern Song Dynasty can not be like the nomads, let the horse, where you run, you can eat, then as long as you go to the battlefield, you need to feed the horse food, and even in some key battles, you must also feed soybeans, which are enough to get on the horsepower and not lose fat.

This kind of consumption is not ordinary, it is 12 times the consumption of ordinary soldiers, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is strong enough, chasing the death and chasing the north, and completely driving out the Huns at once, but the result, the two emperors of Wenjing, it took 70 years, accumulated huge wealth, and was squandered by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and the Western Han Dynasty was also quickly weakened after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty reached its peak.

200,000, or the number given by Han Qi now, this is because, in just one year, the Northern Song Dynasty has undergone tremendous changes, and the largest amount of iron has been reduced to a very low level at once, saving a lot of money, plus the Xiang army, and even the Western Xia, the normal financial expenditure of the Northern Song Dynasty will be reduced by tens of millions, so that funds can be withdrawn to support 200,000 horses.

In the Northern Song Dynasty before that, maybe 20,000 is already a very big number. In terms of rations, 200,000 horses are equivalent to the consumption of 2.4 million troops, which is too terrible to bear.

Since the Privy Council can't keep enough horses, then all the remaining horses have to be put on the market, which requires them to find their own traders, in case these horses, because of the huge number of them, start to fall off a cliff, it will be a big loss.

Han Qi has enough confidence that this cliff-like decline will not fall into the cost, and in the end, it is impossible to reduce it to the level of a very low price like that of Liao, which will also greatly reduce the income this time, even if these horses are for nothing, they have been exchanged for silk worth 8,000 yuan, which has increased more than ten times, but under the premise of having more, who doesn't want more.

200,000 is just a starting point, similar auctions may be held in various parts of the Northern Song Dynasty in the next time, but 1 million is still an insurmountable number, what should I do next?

Perhaps, it is necessary to consider that in Lingzhou and the northwest, with the protection of the Lingzhou front line and the fortress, these local grasslands can be comprehensively developed, even if it is impossible to accommodate them perfectly, but it is acceptable.

The area of the northwest is very huge, you must know that except for Lingzhou, which is close to the Hetao Plain next to the Yellow River, most of the rest of the land is in the middle of the Yellow River.

Even if the Northern Song Dynasty reclaimed the northwest land, it had enough time and relied on the hard work of the peasants to reclaim a certain amount of land, but unfortunately, the output of these lands was limited, and only some small crop output.

Now these lands are converted into grasslands, which is not much of a problem, and they themselves are more suitable for the ecological climate of the grassland.

Of course, under the premise of not having much water resources, he and Lingzhou, which are close to the Yellow River, cannot be compared, but there are more than dozens of state capitals, which are enough to accommodate these livestock, so that they can be sold slowly, turning a one-time transaction into a long-term business.

In the middle, the benefits are different, but it is the best solution, selling about 5 million livestock, about 20 million, to 30 million yuan, can ensure the construction of the northwest army, the central government's income, and at the same time take into account the development of Lingzhou, which is a good solution in Han Qi's view.

Lingzhou is also more suitable for grazing, with such a large number of livestock as the basis, according to the average growth of livestock, this business can be made into a relatively long-term business, which is also acceptable.

As long as it is successfully done, some herdsmen and captives, suitable for grazing, are entangled together, and it should be able to ensure that this group of livestock will not die on a large scale, and will successfully reproduce in the northwest and become a real support in the northwest.

Han Qi didn't want to sell all of them at once, but a simple 5 million horses, according to the average sales of 100 guan, is as high as 500 million guan, which is a huge amount of money that no one, even the center of the Northern Song Dynasty, can come up with.

When Han Qi had a headache for these sweet troubles, Han Qi didn't know that Zhao Xin was already helping him find a way to use these horses, and it was a solution to the problem once and for all.

Zhao Xin is not a method that Han Qi thought of specifically, it can be regarded as a kind of incidental help, the solution to these large quantities of horses is to pull a train, which is a method that is enough to consume more than 2 million good horses, and Zhao Xin is precisely the only super-rich person in the entire Northern Song Dynasty and even the whole world who can pay all the funds of 2 million good horses at one time.