War horses are important strategic materials, and the Central Plains Dynasty wants to forge ahead and keep its territory, but it can't do without war horses.

The Han and Tang dynasties had a large number of war horses, and even the Song Dynasty had a lot of horses, sometimes there were 200,000 horses, but there was no good horse breeding ground, and the war horses needed to gallop, not in captivity, so there were not many qualified horses, and the enemies that the Song Dynasty had to face were far more difficult to deal with than those in the Han and Tang dynasties, so they have been at a disadvantage.

During the Han and Tang dynasties, the Central Plains Dynasty mastered iron-making technology, and the cavalry wore iron armor to shoot iron arrows, while the productivity of the northern nomadic tribes was extremely low, and the arrows were mostly made of bones, and the gap in equipment was too far, and the ability to resist natural disasters was also weak, and a storm could destroy a tribe.

By the time of the Song Dynasty, the enemy they faced was already the state, not the tribe, the Song Dynasty would smelt iron, and the Liaojin, Xia and Yuan would also, they also had a large number of craftsmen, a large number of workshops to make weapons, they had evolved from backward tribes to a state, with high productivity, both the good warfare of the nomadic fishing and hunting people, and the technology of the farming people, which was difficult to deal with.

The Ming Dynasty now faced a situation similar to that of the Song, and his opponents were not backward tribes, but countries that had mastered Han skills and controlled large tracts of arable land.

In the face of such an opponent, what you have to do is to further improve your own technical advantages, and at the same time, you must also learn the enemy's strengths, so war horses are indispensable.

The Ministry of War proposed an additional 1.5 million taels of silver per year, and although it was reduced at the request of the ministries, in the end the additional 800,000 taels were maintained for the purchase of stallions and the breeding of war horses.

800,000 taels can raise 30,000 elite soldiers, but when used with horses, you can probably raise 5,000 or 6,000 horses.

This cost is much higher than the cost of raising 6,000 war horses in the Northern Song Dynasty and 500,000 yuan a year.

The Ming Dynasty was not as rich as the Song Dynasty, and it was financially unbearable, so it could only focus on breeding and breeding, reduce purchases, and wait until the imperial court broke the blockade in the north and obtained a better source of horse grazing land and horses, and then came to buy cheap war horses.

In this way, many recent decisions of the Ming Dynasty can be linked, and they are not a single existence, and it is inevitable that the center of gravity of the imperial court will shift from fighting against the Qing army to the southwest.

After the matter of the war horse was finalized, Chen Bangyan cleared his throat and continued: "Now to state the third article, about the re-establishment of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, the transfer of generals as scheduled, the breaking down of the barriers between various factions, and avoiding the formation of feudal towns, do you have any objections? ”

In any dynasty, the army obeys the orders of the central government, and the foundation of the dynasty can be solid.

Since the Han Dynasty, the demise of any dynasty has something to do with the loss of control of the army.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the powerful and powerful stood side by side, in essence, they were all warlords, and since then, from the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, all the dynasties have been subverted, basically they are powerful ministers, warlords control the army, and the army is not obeying the orders of the dynasty.

For example, the Sima family, Song Qi and Liang Chen were all usurped, and the end of the Sui Dynasty was ostensibly due to the dissatisfaction of the people, but in fact, Emperor Yang was too anxious to suppress the military nobles of Guanlong, causing them to betray them.

This problem was not solved until Song Taizu released the military power with a cup of wine and unified the military with literature, but it also brought some side effects and went to the other extreme, and China's martial spirit has been curbed since then.

The current situation of the Ming Dynasty's army is actually equal to the three major feudal towns, and if it continues to develop, it will inevitably hinder the imperial court from strengthening the centralization of power, and China has been a unified power since ancient times, and in order to maintain a huge territory, there must be a strong central government, otherwise it will be a scattered sand and endless internal strife.

Wang Yan has long wanted to do something against the army, including his subordinate Wuzhong Army, and each general has long controlled the same army, which is the most taboo thing for those in power, and Wang Yan is no exception.

People's hearts are the most complex and the most impermanent, and if the various departments of the Five Loyal Army can put him on the throne of Prince Regent, then the generals under him may also be pushed up by their subordinates, replacing him, and then being replaced by their subordinates, this is a cycle, and it is also the source of the chaos in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.

This is not something that he can solve when he becomes an emperor, he is not right, how to go up, the people below can see it, and it is inevitable that some people will follow suit.

In addition to killing the heroes, he can only control the army, and this is a big question, will the heroes honestly let you kill, especially at present, the Ming Dynasty army is already full of factions, is it possible that all emperors can have the ability of Song Taizu, and the subordinate generals will not be captured, this is not necessarily.

Looking at history, in fact, there are certain laws to be found, from which we can see and read people's hearts.

Qin, Jin, Sui, these short-lived dynasties, can end the troubled times, because the world has been fighting for a long time, and people are determined, and why they perished quickly, it may be that there are still many people who are unwilling, unconvinced, ambitious, it is a rebound, and they have to toss it, and when the people of the world are completely tired, they can really settle down for a while.

Before the Song Dynasty, the world was plagued by martial artists for so long, and it was at that time that the rise of foreign races, and the world's dislike for martial artists had reached the limit, so Song Dazu restricted martial artists to succeed, because there was a strong foundation of public opinion and social factors, and it was not really a sentence that could make all martial artists hand over power.

With the suppression of the warriors in the Song and Ming dynasties, the status of the generals has been reduced to the bottom, and now, when the world is in turmoil, the position of the generals will inevitably rebound.

If according to the laws of history, by the end of the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the status of the warriors will reach its peak, and it will also usher in a new chaos.

It can't be too late to control the army, nor too early, Wang Yan thought twice, if he didn't control it as soon as possible, not to mention what the Wuzhong Army under his command would become, King Lu, Jin Shenghuan, and Zheng Chenggong would definitely become big warlords.

This large-scale transfer of the Ming army, Wang Yan's transfer of Wang Deren to Sichuan, and the transfer of Sun Shoufa to Nanyang, is a signal, this is the territory of the Chu Party.

There was an unspoken rule before the Ming army, except for the newly occupied areas such as Jiangnan and Huainan, Huguang, Liangguang and other places were the traditional sphere of influence of the Chu party, and the troops of the Tang faction and the Zhejiang faction could not be stationed, and the troops of the Chu party could not enter Jiangxi, Fujian and Zhejiang.

This mobilization of Wang Yan to allow the troops supporting the Tang faction to enter the territory of the Chu Party also means that the next time the army of the Chu Party can also enter Jiangxi and Fujian.

After Chen Bangyan finished speaking, everyone in the hall began to discuss, but no one on the field objected.

"Bang" The crisp sound of the two cloud boards sounded, and Tang Wang attracted everyone's attention, "This proposal, the Lone King opposes." At present, it is the time of the big war, and the change of generals at this time is easy to create a situation in which the soldiers do not know the generals and the generals do not know the soldiers, which affects the combat strength of the army, and it is not advisable! ”

After he finished speaking, King Lu also said in a deep voice with a calm face: "Lone is also against this proposal. Shenjing has not been restored, is it too anxious to reform the army now. Moreover, this bill is related to the army, and I believe that it cannot be decided by us alone, but must refer to the opinions of the generals. If you don't ask the generals, what if they are dissatisfied and there is a mutiny? ”

The civilian clique was willing to restrict the army, which made most of the ministers of the Tang and Lu factions support this bill, and King Lu could only pull the army in and see how Wang Yan talked to his subordinates.

On the side, Wang Yan had already been mentally prepared, knowing that there must be great resistance to this matter, and he also expected that Tang Lu would object, he listened to King Lu's words, his face couldn't help but sink, King Lu not only disagreed, but also threatened in his words, implying that if he changed rashly, he might instigate the army to mutiny.