However, provoking Liaojin will affect his strategic planning, so Zhang San considered whether to help Liaoguo fight Jinguo when Liaoguo is not good, so that it can not only contain the development of Jinguo, but also train troops is currently the best solution.

But the purchase and training of horses is a rather long process, Zhang San also wants to improve the horse breed, Zhang San also knows that there are Arabian horses in West Asia, sweat and blood horses in Central Asia, and heavy horses in the European continent, but the distance is too far, just like Arabian horses, Zhang San has sent people to buy them.

However, the road is far away, the shipping is inconvenient, a boat can transport a hundred horses to the sky, plus the loss on the way, it is estimated that there will be 60 horses left in the Ryukyus, fortunately, Zhang San uses new navigation technology, and does not have to worry about the interception of countries along the way, otherwise the situation will become worse.

Zhang San now has less than 30 ships that can be put into ocean trade, and only two or three horses can be put into horse trafficking, and there are at most two round-trips a year, so it is estimated that 200 horses may be transported in a year.

Maybe the situation will improve next year with the increase in ships, Zhang San also wants all the ships to transport horses, but Zhang San still has to make money to raise the army, just like Fang La thought, Zhang San's army is piled up with money.

Zhang San not only has cavalry to raise, but also has 200,000 navy and 150,000 army.

Although Zhang San does not know any advanced economic knowledge, he still knows that after Japan developed Iwami Ginshan, there was a lot of gold and silver in his hands, and as a result, the people did not live a rich life.

What it brings is inflation and rising prices, so no matter how much gold and silver are dug up, no matter how much money is made, if it can't be spent, it will be in vain if things can't be shipped back, and spending money in the country will only exploit their own people in disguise.

The Ryukyus are an island country, and all materials have to be transported by ships, and the speed at which money is spent depends on how much ship capacity you can put in, so all aspects need ships, and they are all indispensable, and this contradiction can only be solved by building more ships.

Moreover, Zhang San also had to penetrate a large number of ships to buy horses from the Liao State, the Jurchen tribe and the Mongolian region, and these horses had to be transported back one by one, and the transportation system said that the development of Ryukyu was the general trend, and it was powerless to change it in a short time.

Moreover, Zhang Sanzheng plans to modernize the army, and the modernized army is an army model that consumes horses, just an ordinary army gun that needs two horses to tow, and an ammunition cart also needs a horse.

In order to ensure the continuity of the march, one or two horses must be replaced, so that five horses are needed to serve in a cannon march, and one battalion with two guns is not much, right? The regimental level should be equipped with an artillery unit, and there are not many artillery pieces with ten, right?

Such a regiment has more than 100 horses just pulling artillery, and the logistics must be equipped with a large amount of animal power if it wants to keep up with the marching speed of the army, and after calculation, all the logistics can keep up with the speed of the new infantry army, and to ensure a month's supply, it is necessary to allocate at least 500 horses to each regiment.

In addition, the horses of the reconnaissance unit and the cavalry company add up to 1,000 horses, and a regiment has 1,000 horses, so a hundred regiments and 500,000 army troops need to be equipped with more than 100,000 horses.

Zhang San also has an independent artillery unit, a large user of horses, and various transportation tasks, and the goods on the dock can't all rely on people to pull the carts, right? Horse-drawn carts, ox carts, donkey carts, mule carts, in short, still need livestock for transportation.

Zhang San wants to set up a cavalry unit that can fight against the northern peoples, so the number of cavalry must be 100,000, right? How about playing? can only be defended in the city like the Great Song Dynasty.

And buying a horse is not something you can buy if you have money, Western Xia and Liao strictly ordered that horses should not be sold across the border in order to restrict the development of cavalry in the Great Song Dynasty, and Ryukyu is now taking advantage of the lax sea ban in Liao, in case Liao gets nervous that day, then the sea may have to go around further north.

Although Liaojin is not the main enemy in the next stage, since Zhang San has supported the Jurchens, he naturally has to prevent the tail from falling out, and now after four years of hard work, Zhang San has bought nearly 20,000 horses, and recently increased the purchase of horses.

But only one or two thousand horses can be obtained in a year, and after this horse is divided, it may only be enough to establish one or two cavalry regiments, and by the time of the Shandong Campaign, Ryukyu will accumulate ten cavalry regiments at most, more than 30,000 cavalry.

Zhang San sometimes thinks that in fact, if he trains 300,000 firearms to transform the army, he should also be able to beat the Great Song Dynasty, after all, Yuan Shikai once had 100,000 modern troops to overthrow the whole country, and the resistance forces are not.

Thinking about the fact that the Eight-Nation Coalition Army was only 20,000 people back then, and it went straight to the background, wasn't there no way for the Qing Dynasty's million-dollar army? Therefore, theoretically, it is still very easy for a powerful firearms army to eliminate the Great Song regime.

But if you can't solve the border troubles in the north, what's the point of laying down the entire Great Song Dynasty? An army of 300,000 is enough to dominate the Great Song Dynasty, but can Zhang San rely on an army of 300,000 to rule the Great Song Dynasty?

Really defeated the Great Song Dynasty, should the Liao defense line be guarded? No matter what, you have to send 70,000 or 80,000 troops, do you want to guard against it? Isn't it necessary to send 30,000 or 40,000 troops, and garrison troops in strategic places in various big cities? The bandits are going to be exterminated, right?

Therefore, instead of quickly destroying the Great Song Dynasty and plunging the Central Plains into chaos, it is better to start solving the northern problem step by step, this is Zhang San's strategy, after occupying Shandong, the target will become the Liao State and the Jin State, in order to gain an advantage in the future war, so it is necessary to start arranging it now.

And arranging to deal with the war cavalry in the north is a hurdle that cannot be bypassed, so in this case, Zhang San received news from Yan Qing, this is a big thing, Zhang San feels that Yan Qing's idea is very feasible, but the risk is also very great.

Therefore, Zhang San decided to convene a strategic meeting, and then organize the General Staff to conduct a deduction to see how effective it was, so Zhang San issued a convening order and held the first strategic meeting since the establishment of the Ryukyus.

Present at the meeting were Xu Guanzhong, chief of the General Staff, Wen Huanzhang, prime minister, Le He, director of the Logistics Department, Ling Zhen, director of the Equipment Department, Gongsun Sheng, director of the Conscription and Military Affairs Department, Gan Xingtai, commander of the Navy, Yang Tai, commander of the Praetorian Guard Corps, and Zhao Yunlong, commander of the Cavalry Regiment.

Because this is a strategic meeting of the army, except for Prime Minister Wen Huanzhang, everyone else is the relevant person in charge of the army, and everyone discusses the feasibility of the matter together, as well as whether various departments can do relevant work.

Most of these people are also in Tamsui City, and it is convenient to gather, Zhang San gave the order in the morning, and these people rushed to the palace in the afternoon, and now the palace is still in its infancy, and the most in the palace are the guards.