A month later, it was opened.

A letter sent from Qinzhou Express was like a mountain falling on the surface of a calm lake, stirring up a thousand waves.

Sun Yue spent a month meeting with almost every party member with real power, and talked about a terrible figure of 210,000, which was paid off in two years, which directly scared the Manchu civil and military forces.

Of course, the excerpt was written in the name of Zhao Guangmei, and all the credit was pushed to Zhao Guangmei, but as long as the Manchu Dynasty was more than six years old, he could understand what was going on.

If you build a cavalry army according to the ratio of one person and three horses, this is equivalent to 70,000 cavalry troops, you must know that the Great Song Dynasty forbidden army at this time is about 150,000 people, and according to the concept of the new army, these 150,000 people are likely to only get fewer and fewer.

That is to say, if all the 200,000 horses are given to the forbidden army, the combat effectiveness of the forbidden army of the imperial court will not be doubled, let alone by 30%, and there will be no need to be so passive when fighting with the Khitan in the future.

But the problem is that these horses did not fall from the sky in vain, but need to be replaced with cement, and even cement alone is not enough, and even the Great Song Dynasty directly needs to send a construction team to help them repair roads and repair the city, cement is also a rare thing in the Great Song Dynasty, and even until now the city that has really been built with cement is only Luoyang Kaifeng and Fu Yanqing's Xiongzhou.

Of course, when Sun Yue talked about it, he talked about it as the son of the Sun family, that is, as a businessman, but such a big business, no matter what era it is, it will definitely not be really a commercial activity, so for the two options of agreement and disagreement, the court quarreled again, and even quarreled very much.

For this reason, Zhao Kuangyin couldn't help but have a headache, this Sun Yue, how can he always make things? Letting him go to Qinzhou was to prepare for the destruction of Shu, so how could he compete with the party in a daze.

"Second brother, what do you think?"

"Back to the official's house, the courtiers think that this matter is not okay."

"Oh? Explain why. ”

"First, the ministers think that this is a move by the enemy, and the party has a good relationship with our Great Song Dynasty now, but this is because their strength is weak, and they need a lot of salt, tea, cloth and other materials to trade with the Great Song Dynasty, so I can mobilize them, according to this excerpt, use cement to build a strong city for their party items, vigorously develop commerce and trade and even open up the Hexi Corridor, how can the strength of this party item not only increase tenfold? Do they still need the Great Song? In case I turn my face in the future, these fortified cities made of cement will be my nightmare of the Great Song Dynasty! ”

Before Zhao Guangyi's words were finished, someone shouted directly and mercilessly: "The second king's words are wrong!" ”

Everyone turned around and found that the person who spoke was the palace marshal Han Chongyun, only to see him stand out proudly and agree: "Second king, the last general has the courage to ask you, who is the real enemy of my Great Song Dynasty?" Is it a party item? Is it Tibet? Or is it the Southern Tang Dynasty Houshu? No, the eternal enemy of the Great Song Dynasty is the Khitan! Have you fought with the Khitans, and do you know what it means to come and go like the wind?

To put it mildly, if you put down a battle to the death and do not retreat, the 50,000 troops in front of the palace of the last general are enough to fight at least 150,000 Khitan iron cavalry, and the so-called 300,000 Khitan control strings are like chickens and dogs in my eyes! But why does this Khitan make our Da Song uncomfortable like a knife, the special mother is because we don't have horses! People can't beat me, people turn around and run, what can I do?

Of course, we also have an iron cavalry army, and there are more than 30,000 or nearly 40,000 people, but compared with the Khitan, it is called cavalry infantry, and when you get to the place, you have to dismount first, and then fight, infantry on horseback! Because the quality of our horses is not good, we can't charge at all, and the other is that we don't have enough numbers, do you know how many horses there are in more than 30,000 soldiers? Only 40,000 horses! On average, a soldier doesn't even have two horses, do you know how many horses the Khitan is? Four horses! Some even have five or six horses! Such a cavalry, how to fight!

You give me these 200,000 horses, I promise to be able to beat the Khitan all over the ground to find teeth, as for the Dang Xiang Jiancheng, please rest assured that the official family and the two kings can rest assured, if the Dang Xiang is really an enemy of the Song Dynasty one day, a city of the same size as Xiazhou will be confident that it will be broken within ten days. ”

Zhao Guangyi said without backing down: "If there are horses, there will be cavalry?" Don't horses have to eat grass? How many years does a war horse live in service? Three years? Five years? When these horses are injured and old and can't fight, what do you ride? Raising cavalry is not a one-shot deal, the party's city can be used for thirty years, fifty years, and one hundred years, what about horses? In less than ten years, none of these 200,000 horses will be usable, and when the time comes, what will you exchange with them! ”

Speaking of economic issues, Han Chongyun couldn't say anything, so he had to stiffen his neck and say: "Anyway, I have to ask for this horse, and I have to ask for it in the army." Then, he stood back and ignored Zhao Guangyi.

However, Han Chongyun couldn't say it, it didn't mean that others couldn't say it, so he saw Zhao Pu stand up and say: "The official family, the two kings, the minister can make a statement on behalf of the Privy Council, 200,000 war horses have no grass to eat, and the minister will give them the beans that people eat, even if they smash the pot and sell iron, even if the soldiers themselves don't eat it, they will never starve these precious war horses." ”

"Let's talk about the issue of continuity, Sun Yue's excerpt is very clear and clear, the party is only the first step, the next step is to go through the Hexi Corridor with them, as long as the Hexi Corridor is opened, the top war horses from the Western Regions will be endless, and my Great Song Dynasty can even restore the majesty of the Han and Tang Dynasties."

Zhao Guangyi sneered: "Hexi Corridor? There is no thing about the eight characters, that Sun Yue is young and frivolous, how can Zhao Shumi think so beautifully, how many difficulties are there, how many are uncertain, what if which threshold cannot be crossed? ”

Zhao Pu said with a smile: "If you really can't come out, it's actually nothing, it's difficult to build so many cities in Wuzhou, it's not exactly a military city, it's a shopping mall, they live on the grassland to drink wind and eat snow, all they need is tea, cloth, iron and other necessities, but if you live in the city, you need more, you can't sell cement, you can't sell firewood, rice, oil and salt, as long as the trade is endless, this horse will not be extinct, as for the dirty in the future, I also agree with General Han's meaning, the second king, you haven't fought a war, this party has built a city, In fact, it is much easier to fight than if they don't build a city, official, you are the first god general of my Great Song Dynasty, if you want to come to this reason, you must understand it better than anyone else. ”

Zhao Kuangyin couldn't help nodding when he heard this: "Second brother, it's true, there is no need to think about it on the party side, militarily they just built a Great Wall and came out to make it no different from paper for me to come to the Great Song Dynasty, just consider other aspects of this matter." ”

Hearing this, Zhao Guangyi's face couldn't help but darken a little more. Zhao Kuangyin's words are equivalent to defining this matter, and there is no point in him arguing anymore.

However, his face was dark, not because he lost this quarrel, but because this quarrel exposed his biggest weakness: he had never fought.