Nakamoto Sakurako didn't receive Taro's message, vaguely felt wrong, and at noon, there was still no news back, at this time, Nakamoto Sakurako couldn't hold her breath, and then sent three ways to listen to the news, and personally flew the pigeon to the dark point, asking Taro's whereabouts.

Just when Nakamoto Sakurako was anxious because she couldn't contact Taro, Ling Xia still discussed the gains and losses of this battle with everyone from the council room, and told the casualty data in the battle, as well as the losses of chariots, war horses, and other weapons, and then Ling Xia was silent.

Hearing the casualty data, everyone fell into silence, and at this time, Xia Ning'er said in a deep voice: "Heavy compensation for the families of those soldiers who died in battle, in addition to the normal pension, I personally increased the pension tenfold, those people died for me, and I support their families." ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, there is one thing I still don't understand, please help me explain?" When the words fell, Ling Xia looked at everyone with a puzzled expression: "Why can't our 60,000 cavalry defeat the enemy's 30,000 cavalry?" ”

"Alas......" Everyone sighed, and after a moment of silence, Niu Kaishan sighed: "It's not a secret, it's the first time for us to fight with the cavalry of the island country, and the opposing cavalry is trained from the battlefield at a glance, and those people have been baptized by blood and fire."

The opponent's armored iron horses, iron horse formations, cavalry horseback cavalry shooting, short spear throwing and throwing, two-handed waist swords, dismounting to clear traps, foot cavalry to open the way, dodging spearmen, these are all dazzling to see, those methods are all summed up in the enemy's actual combat.

On the other hand, our cavalry are all improvised patchwork, and they have no actual combat experience at all, and they all had to be used as messengers in the past, but the cavalrymen's theoretical knowledge knows a little, but when they really want to go to the battlefield, they can't exert the power that cavalry should have. ”

"This time the matter has passed for the time being, but it will be difficult to say in the future, the island country has been fully invaded, and sooner or later it will meet us on the battlefield, we have paid such an expensive tuition, if we don't learn from the enemy, wouldn't it be too wasteful." Ling Xia glanced at everyone: "

We have more than 40,000 war horses here, and this time we have captured more than 50,000 excellent war horses, plus more than 100,000 war horses. ”

I thought that this proposal would be responded to by everyone, but when Ling Xia finished speaking, the commanders of the general army around him all showed a trace of embarrassment, and in doubt, Ling Xia asked the reason, only then did he know that it was a matter of funding.

The equipment ration of the provincial war guards has always been borne by the military department, and the military salaries of soldiers and generals are borne by the household department, and the rank and promotion of military generals are jointly responsible for the military department and the official department.

But when the first emperor died and the seven kings seized the heir, all this changed, the seven princes were divided into three factions, Xia Yuanxiao, who was in charge of the military department, attached to the prince, and the prince informed the world that all the equipment rations of the military department were only issued to the territories under his command, and the war guards in the rest of the territories were left to fend for themselves.

As in the case of the prince's faction, Xia Yuanran, who was in charge of the household department, belonged to the second prince, so the second prince also issued an order that all the financial reserves of the household department would only replenish the territorial forces under his name, and the officials and soldiers in other territories would be ignored.

Although the crown prince and the second prince emptied the arsenal and financial reserves of the imperial court, the imperial court faction did not show weakness, and the four princes used the reserve jade coins of the national treasury, and the imperial court issued a holy decree, all the territories belonging to the imperial court, all funds were allocated normally, and the rest were punished as rebellion.

To put it bluntly, the three forces only replenish the funds and weapons and equipment in their own camps, and they don't bother to pay attention to the territory to which the other camps belong.

Therefore, Ling Xia's Ziyanjiang and Xia Ning'er's Liulijiang were excluded by the tripartite forces, and they cut off the funds and weapons replenishment of the two territories, not only that, but the three camps listed the territories under the names of Ling Xia and the two as hostile forces in terms of military deployment.

Before the relief of the victims, the prevention and control of floods, has spent the reserve funds of the two territories, starting last month, Liulijiang has begun to default on the soldiers' salaries, without the support of the Ministry of War, the soldiers can only turn over last year's cotton clothes to keep out the cold.

Not only is the life of the war guards sad, but the yamen, officials and servants at all levels in Liulijiang are also unable to pay their salaries, and if it continues, there will be a large-scale strike in less than two months.

Liulijiang is mixed with this kind of share, not to mention Ziyanjiang, an earthquake shook Ziyanjiang to pieces, it is already a miracle to be able to rebuild the disaster area, and it is impossible to have extra funds, in this context, they can't afford to raise a cavalry corps at all.

After listening to the situation in front of him, Ling Xia fell into deep thought, at this time, the world fell apart, all forces were supporting their own forces, there was an invasion of island countries outside, and there were seven kings competing for succession, if there was not enough self-protection force, Ziyanjiang and Liulijiang would be annexed by other forces sooner or later.

Thinking of this, Ling Xia decided to take out a hole card, before Tianxiaozi gave him a treasure map, on which was a huge gold mine, when Ling Xia secretly used his mobile phone to take a picture of the treasure map, now it is time to dig that gold mine.

As long as there is that gold mine as a fund, the strength of Zi Yanjiang and Liuli Jiang will grow rapidly, but before digging the gold mine, they must have enough self-protection power, and after making up his mind, Ling Xia secretly made a decision.

On the same day, Ling Xia first had a secret conversation with Xia Ning'er, and then, Ling Xia called the shopkeeper in front of him, and asked him as soon as they met: "How much money do we have in our division?" Hearing this, Yang Lucai told Ling Xia that there were only more than 30,000 gold coins left in the division's warehouse.

Let the shopkeeper take out all the gold coins, and then, Ling Xia returned to Dingyi Province, he called the governor of the ten provinces to the yamen of the governor's mansion, after meeting, Ling Xia looked at everyone with a smile: "I want to buy some supplies, but there is no channel, so I want to ask a few of you to help purchase." ”

"Buying supplies?" Stunned, Liu Xian asked tentatively, "What materials?" Is there a lot of goods? Who pays for it? Cash or Slip? ”

Ling Xia replied with a smile: "There are a lot of goods, mainly food, cotton clothes, fabrics, medicines and other disaster relief necessities, I buy things, the cost is naturally out of me, I have no habit of arrears, therefore, some goods are settled in cash." ”

"Hehe------ that's really a coincidence, we happen to have some channels where we can buy those items you need, as long as the horse master has enough money, those things will be as much as you want." Liu Xian said with a smile.

"Really?" After hearing this, Liu Xia showed a malicious smile.