Three years ago, when Xiao Ruxun was in Burma, he bought 10,000 war horses through Arab merchants, but now he has lost almost everything.

Not only because of climatic factors, but also because of combat factors, most of the war horses used in the army have become captured Mongolian horses, and only less than 2,000 Arab horses are still in service in the army to serve as a façade.

Although the Arabian horse is relatively explosive and fast, the desert breed is not cold or humid tolerant, and the continuous loss of the march to the north makes Xiao Ruxun very distressed.

It's just that Xiao Ruxun didn't have a good choice at that time, he had no way to get a war horse from Mongolia, and the most convenient thing to get when he was in Myanmar was the Arab horse, and the war horse that he spent a lot of money to get only lasted half a year of fighting, which was really not worth it.

If you want to attack the grassland in the future, there is no doubt that Mongolian horses are still needed, although Mongolian horses have many disadvantages, but the advantages of cold resistance and poor breeding are what Xiao Ruxun cannot refuse.

It is conservatively estimated that Xiao Ruxun needs at least 300,000 war horses, what is the concept of 300,000 Arabian horses?

At the moment, it is probably the concept of fiscal collapse.

Mongolian horses are short and not very explosive, but they are better than extensive breeding, hardy, good physical fitness, and not easy to get sick, which is a necessary condition for large-scale popularization, and this alone is better than the Arabian war horse.

Therefore, Xiao Ruxun gave up the preparation for the large-scale purchase of war horses from Arabia, and instead raised and stockpiled the existing Mongolian horses that were now inherited from the Ming army.

The Shandan Military Horse Farm established by Huo Quzhi is a good place to raise horses, and Liaodong is also a good place to raise horses, and the grasslands north of Datong can also be used for grazing, Xiao Ruxun plans to establish three suitable military horse farms in these three places to train military horses and train strong cavalry.

After making such a decision, Xiao Ruxun began to discuss this matter with his ministers.

"Before the completion of the Ma Zheng, the nine sides still need to be maintained, you ministers can do some discussions, in addition, I decided to restart the policy of encouraging private horse breeding, private households have horse breeders, according to a certain proportion of reduced taxes, exempt from military service, in order to encourage private horse breeding."

Xiao Ruxun said his request, and the ministers looked at each other and realized that Xiao Ruxun still had the idea of the Northern Expedition to the grassland in his heart.

Zhao Shiqing, who was in charge of the household department, said tentatively: "Back to Your Majesty, a year ago, Your Majesty led the army to the north to attack the northern captives, killing 300,000 northern captives, and the northern captives have lost their courage. ”

"Slowly?"

Xiao Ruxun frowned: "This weather is getting colder and colder from south to north, we are cold here, the further north we go, the colder it will be, the place where the northern captives live is colder than us, once they encounter a heavy snowstorm, under the premise that there is no way to live, they dare to attack us no matter how frightened they are."

I kill 300,000 Beiyu can deter Beiyu in a few years, the longer the time, the weaker the deterrent effect, if we don't take this opportunity to rebuild Ma Zheng and cultivate war horses and cavalry, once the Beiyu attack again, we will be exhausted again!

In my opinion, the nine-sided policy is a subordinate policy, which must be abolished, and the reason why it is retained now is that there is no choice but to do it, once other things are dealt with, the nine-sided deposition is necessary, horse breeding is also necessary, and the Northern Expedition is even more necessary! Sitting back and waiting is not Daqin's national policy! ”

Xiao Ruxun's tone was strong, and Zhao Shiqing was so frightened that he fell to his knees to confess.

This strategy was immediately adopted, and the cabinet and the Ministry of Household War were instructed to discuss a countermeasure together, and then it was submitted to Xiao Ruxun for review, and Ma Zheng immediately became a national policy.

Subsequently, Wang Xijue and Liu Huangsheng, who was in charge of the military department, took over the task and said that they would study a countermeasure as soon as possible.

Under the threat of Xiao Ruxun, Li Chengliang and Li Rusong, father and son, gave in and promised to move the Li family out of Liaodong.

After Li left, the candidate for the governor of Liaodong was very urgent, and Xiao Ruxun needed a cadre who could stabilize the situation in Liaodong to lay the foundation for his plan to show his strength in Liaodong, so this candidate was very necessary.

In short, he is a cadre who is willing to do things and dare to do things and listen to commands.

At this time, someone recommended Li Sancai.

Xiao Ruxun frowned, thought for a while, and then remembered his in-laws in this original history.

Li Tingji did not wait for Xiao Ruxun to express his position, and raised objections.

"Li Sancai is talented, but he is not down-to-earth, he wants to develop Liaodong, let him get it, Liaodong will mess up for him, Your Majesty, the old minister does not recommend Li Sancai, this person is known to be greedy, not to mention that he is still serving as Dali Siqing."

Xiao Ruxun nodded.

"Then don't use him, I don't like people who don't like to make small moves unrealistically, the situation in Liaodong is related to the overall situation, and people who make small moves can't be trusted."

Xiao Ruxun knocked Li Sancai's political career into the abyss with a word, Zhou Yao silently wrote down the name, and prepared to check him, since Xiao Ruxun didn't like it, then take it.

"Then, the old minister recommends Liang Menglong."

Wang Xijue suddenly spoke.

"Liang Menglong?"

Xiao Ruxun felt that this name was a little familiar.

"Yes, Liang Menglong, in the early years of Wanli in the former Ming Dynasty, he had many political achievements, he was capable, he was impeached and removed from office in the eleventh year of Wanli, and he is still at home."

Xiao Ruxun understood.

When Zhang Juzheng's henchmen were liquidated, Liang Menglong was deposed, apparently, Liang Menglong was a cadre during Zhang Juzheng's reform period, and was later liquidated.

"Liang Menglong has been at home for more than ten years, he is no longer familiar with government affairs, and he is also old, can he still come out to be an official?"

Cai Guozhen objected.

"How do you know without asking?"

Wang Xijue glanced at Cai Guozhen, and then said to Xiao Ruxun: "Your Majesty, Liang Menglong's family lives in Zhending, and it is very close to the Beijing Division, is Your Majesty willing to recruit him?" ”

Xiao Ruxun hesitated.

"He is an old minister of the former dynasty, and he is willing to use it for me?"

Wang Xijue opened his mouth and said: "The old minister is willing to write a letter to advise him personally. ”

"Then try it!"

Xiao Ruxun nodded, and asked Wang Xijue to try to recruit Liang Menglong, he must have been under the control of his army Liang Menglong didn't have to run, and he should have known about the affairs of the Great Qin Dingding World, and he didn't know what he thought about this matter.

But he is a survivor of the Zhang Juzheng period, and it is not easy to survive until now.

There has to be a spare.

In fact, Xiao Ruxun is quite fond of Yuan Huang, but at this time, he knows that Yuan Huang will not agree, he must be willing to let him go out to build roads, and he is probably unwilling to let him be an administrative official, so what reliable candidates are there?

The officials personally promoted by his subordinates are still young, and they don't have enough experience to make Xiao Ruxun believe that they can support the administration of a province, so they can only be promoted from the old ministers, and then arrange some people to accompany them to learn and experience.

During this time, Xiao Ruxun continued to replace a group of young officials who had made great contributions to the land reform from Xie He's side to Beijing, and then sent a steady stream of new people over, and these young officials who had made great contributions to the land reform were already qualified to be the head of a township, Xiao Ruxun decided to use them in Liaodong and Beizhili first.

Where his forces can be directly controlled.

And Liaodong is undoubtedly the first to be used, because the situation here is the most complicated, but it is also the cleanest, and everything can start from scratch as soon as the fire goes down.

Starting from Liaodong, the township-level administrative units were laid down.

It is hoped that a group of capable officials can be trained as soon as possible, and such a group of people will have a great effect on his future plans.

As for reliable standbys......

Xiao Ruxun glanced at the ministers in front of him and saw Ye Xianggao.