Since the founding of the country, the Great Song Dynasty has lost the land of horse grazing in the Han and Tang dynasties, so it has to set up pastoral supervisors in the interior to raise war horses. Chunzejian is the one closest to Kaifeng, only forty miles away from Kaifeng.

But Da Song Ma Zheng is also a joke. For example, this Chunze Prison, as far as Li Buqi knows, throws in millions of horses every year, and can produce 100 war horses, which is already thankful. At that time, the market price of the war horse was only 30 to 50 yuan, and such a tragic input-output ratio can only say that this Chunze Prison is completely a money-loser.

After nailing the horseshoe, Li Buqi knew how failed Ma Zheng in the Song Dynasty. Before the crossing, he also laughed at Wang Anshi for letting him implement the "Horse Protection Law" - let the people raise horses and only raise horses, Wang Anshi didn't know how to do it at all - but now Li Buqi understands that Wang Anshi knows too well that the horse politics of the Song Dynasty are rotten, so he can only completely give up the original horse politics, and he doesn't even dare to save it.

It is precisely because they saw that the establishment of a pastoral superintendent to raise horses was a completely bottomless pit, so many ministers wrote to demand that the pastoral superintendent be abolished - it is better not to have horses, at least to save some money. According to past experience, there is a high probability that Chunze Jian will be abolished, and the vacated land will be bought. However, Chunzejian's land has been used for grazing for many years, and it is considered wasteland, and the price must be cheap, and not many people are willing to ask for it, so as long as the emperor wants it, there is a chance that he can get it.

It took about an hour for Li Buqi and Zhang Yonghe to agree on some details, and Li Buqi also made a brief development plan, which made Zhang Yonghe's eyes look at little stars. However, Li Buqi insisted that Chunze Supervisor have to listen to him for everything related to business, Li Buqi did not dare to call the shots, so he went back to Da Nei to ask Zhao Zhen.

What a big place! And it turned out to be a shepherd! That's great.

When he went home, Lian Guangzhi, who had returned from Ji'er Lane satisfied, appeared in the yard, and Li Buqi immediately called him into his house: "Since you know a lot of people in the Shaanxi army, can you get a stallion?" By the way, how many more masters of horse breeding and horse taming? ”

Lian Guangzhi said: "This matter is not difficult, the people on the edge of the border actually have good horses, and I also know a few people who are good at raising horses." It's just that what are you going to stall for? Do you want to raise horses? But where can you keep horses? ”

Li Buqi said: "There is naturally a place, you only need to bring me horses and people when you arrive." ”

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Facts have proved that the court is very disgusted with the financial black hole of Chunzejian who only sees input but does not see output, and the emperor took this matter out of the situation after receiving another request to abolish Chunzejian's notebook and Zhang Dexiang, Yan Shu and the two discussed, and the deacons did not object. It was only when the emperor proposed that Chunzejian's land should be covered by his own family, and the rulers objected on the grounds that the emperor could not compete with the people for profit.

However, when the emperor said that Li Buqi wanted a piece of land to experiment with what he had obtained from overseas, so he wanted to set up a testing ground on the original land of Chunzejian, and that this land would be paid at the market price, the rulers immediately compromised.

Chunze Prison is more than 40 miles away from Kaifeng, which is a day's journey. Li Buqi, if he stays there, it is better than being in Kaifeng City all day long. However, the deacons tacitly proposed that the test site was royal, not state, and the emperor could not use public and private servants to make civil officials. Therefore, Li Buqi must be transferred to a military attaché, and must not work for the royal family as a civilian official, the ancestral system is like this, and it cannot be violated.

As a result, the emperor agreed to let Li Buqi give up his civil status after a little bargaining, so that both parties were happy, and the matter of Chunze Prison becoming a royal testing ground was decided. And Li Buqi will raise the royal test ground as a Hanlin.

The emperor and the ruler came to an agreement, and things were easy. A few days later, someone put forward a motion to abolish the Chunze Prison at the court meeting, and the Zai Zhi expressed his support, and the emperor nodded and ordered the horses in the pastoral prison to be transferred and the land to be sold by the Third Division. Before the third division moved, Zhang Yonghe went to the third division and said that all the land was bought by the royal family.

The three divisions are directly responsible to the emperor, and the emperor wants this land and buys it with money, can you say that the three divisions can disagree? So the land of Chunzejian fell into the hands of the emperor. And Li Buqi had already taken people to Chunze Prison, and spent three days planning the land and marking it in some places.

Then Li Buqi continued to concentrate on preparing for the exam, except for asking Lian Guangzhi to write a letter to Shaanxi and ask him to help find a few people who were good at raising horses, and his plan was naturally completed.

It's good to have your back to the royal family. Zhang Yonghe transferred the two commanded van armies to prepare materials, level the land, and build barracks, workshops, pigsties, and livestock sheds as soon as the weather warmed up. In addition to preparing seedlings of flowers and trees for the royal testing ground, the officials who raised Yujin Garden and Jinmingchi also had to collect seeds of grass cotton and alfalfa. Zhao Zhen sent the eunuchs who were stationed on the edge of the border to take on horses and other errands, and were responsible for collecting stallions and donkeys for Li Buqi.

The first command box army that asked Li Buqi to train also began to select personnel, but Li Buqi would never interfere in the primary selection of personnel. If you want to say what the Great Song Emperor is most afraid of, it probably has to be said that he is afraid that the officers will rebel with the soldiers. This can't be helped, there is an example of Song Taizu's yellow robe. Li Buqi's personal selection of personnel would only make the emperor suspicious, so Li Buqi only made a request, and it was Zhang Yonghe's business where to choose people.

But Li Buqi could not train 500 people by himself, and he had to have assistants. Therefore, he told Zhang Yong that he would first find the heads and generals of the thirty box army for training, and when the soldiers arrived, these people could be Li Buqi's assistants.

"It's easy." Zhang Yonghe thinks it's very simple.

But Li Buqi advised: "You find a few more." I'm going to choose from them. ”

Zhang Yonghe said with a smile: "I know you are picky, I will get you sixty people." ”

The external saying is that he wants to organize a commanded box army to protect the royal test ground, and Zhang Yonghe pulled sixty big men to the school yard of the Bow and Arrow Academy. Li Buqi and the newly selected follower Tao Lin wore soldiers' uniforms, gave each of them a white cloth with a number written in ink, pinned a needle to their backs, and asked them to stand in line.

Everyone knows that the famous Li Buqi is in charge of this new formation army, and they all know that Li Buqi has a reputation for fighting righteousness and squandering money, and these people all want to mix with Li Buqi's men, so they all want to grab the top position so that Li Buqi can take a fancy to him at a glance. As Li Buqi expected, there was a phenomenon of pushing and scolding, and it took 60 people a long time to line up, and the team also stood crookedly.

When the team finally stood up, Li Buqi directly dragged out the person who was pushing and scolding just now and told them that they could leave. What Li Buqi needed was a well-disciplined team, and he would never allow officers to be bandits or ruffians.

Of course, Li Buqi does not deny that there may be Li Yunlong-like characters among the first wave of people who were brushed off, but he doesn't need this kind of person now.

Then he dragged out a few more people with wandering eyes, thieves and thieves, and the rest of the people finally stood neatly when Li Buqi ordered to stand in line again. This time it was much faster, and Li Buqi was very satisfied.

There were exactly forty-eight people left, and Li Buqi randomly divided these people into eight groups, and asked each group to find a way to get everyone to climb to the wall of the Bow and Arrow Courtyard without a ladder to see which group could climb fast.

When these people tried to climb the wall, Li Buqi watched from the side, and those who didn't want to contribute, or didn't want to cooperate with others, or were too stupid, were eliminated eleven more.

Zhang Yonghe opened his eyes: "Li Zhizhao, your method of picking people is really peculiar." What is this method, tell me? ”

Li Buqi said: "Such a high wall can only be climbed by everyone if everyone works together. What is most needed in the military formation is unity, and those who cannot work together with everyone will drag others to death in the military formation. ”

"Oh? Li Buqi really has a heart. Zhao Zhen was very pleased to hear Zhang Yonghe's report - Li Buqi has so many wonderful methods for selecting people, he must be able to train a strong army, right?

Thinking so, he thought of inserting a few people into this army. In the emperor's mind, relatives are the most reliable, and Li Buqi and the Zhao family are not related, so a few relatives should be arranged to learn Li Buqi's ability to train soldiers, so that the Great Song Dynasty will be stable.