There are as many as 80,000 war horses purchased ready-made, and Sanniang gives priority to the two cavalry of dragoons and hussars, and trains more cavalry. Historically, the Song army against the northern nomads, in fact, the victory rate is not low, but they can only be defeated, and the lack of cavalry can not completely catch up with the enemy and annihilate, so if the Shandong Road wants to completely defeat the Jurchen Jin State, in addition to the backbone of the infantry army and firearms, cavalry is also needed to protect the grain route and pursue the enemy.

The heavy dragoon is a heavy cavalry developed on the basis of Huyanzhuo's chain armor horse, and Sanniang ordered Tang Long to transform the armor, strengthening the armor defense of the **** and the head, making this heavy cavalry look more like the cuirassiers of the West in later generations. Dragoons are mainly used to impact the enemy formation, although the Jurchen Jin State is mainly cavalry, but his military system also has infantry and crossbow soldiers, and it is not as perverted as the Mongol army that appeared in a few years later, they are all cavalry troops, so the role of heavy dragoons is still very obvious, not to mention that the future enemy of Shandong Road is not necessarily only the Jurchen Jin State, as well as the potential enemy of the Song State that is mainly based on the infantry army.

The hussars are lightly armed cavalry, the armor is light, the cavalry pays more attention to riding and shooting, slashing and horsemanship, the tactics of the hussars pay attention to coming and going like the wind, the hussars are more than the dragoons, there are always 30,000 people on horseback, and it is a luxury that one person is equipped with two horses, so that the hussars are stronger and farther.

The land armament is neat, and the maritime armament is also very important, although Sanniang is not as perverted as Great Britain, and has spent a hundred years planting oak trees to build ships, but she knows how to improve the defense capability of warships. Through the experience of Sanniang's later generations, the shipbuilding department brought the shipbuilding technology to the extreme, and covered the warship with a layer of iron armor by wrapping it above the waterline. In addition, the technology of the water barrier has been developed, which has greatly improved the survival rate of naval warships on the Shandong Road.

As a result, the sea vessels at the Shandong Road Shipyard are getting bigger and bigger, and Sanniang proposed to add the concept of soft sails and spinnakers, which have been improved to make Chinese sea vessels using traditional hard sails have stronger maneuverability at sea.

By September of the fifth year of Xuanhe, there were no less than 30 large building ships of about 1,500 materials under the command of Li Jun on Shandong Road, which was equivalent to 800 to 1,000 tons of warships converted in tonnage in later generations, and there were hundreds of other medium-sized and small warships. There were also more than 500 warships under the command of Nguyen Thi Sanxiong, and the two sides together became almost the strongest naval force in the Far East.

When Sanniang was sitting in Shandong, building high walls, accumulating grain, strengthening military equipment, training soldiers and horses, and showing off the East China Sea, Jin and Liao, Song and Fang La were still fighting viciously. After the Liao Emperor Yelu Yanxi went to Xijing, due to great disappointment, many Liao generals defected to the king of Northern Liao and Jin. In October of the fifth year of Xuanhe, Yelu Yanxi borrowed Western Xia soldiers and horses, and gathered a total of 100,000 military horses from the west of Liao, went out of Jiashan, and went south to Wuzhou, trying to fight a decisive battle with Wanyan Zonghan. It was a battle, Wanyan Zonghan defeated the Liaoxia coalition army with 30,000 Jurchen soldiers and horses, and captured the Liao Emperor Yelu Yanxi.

Jiangnan and the Song army fought for two years, although the Song army was repeatedly defeated, but it was helpless to withdraw the army because of the loss of important strongholds in the periphery of the whole country, or the lack of food and grass for the troops. By November of the fifth year of Xuanhe, Fang La was left with only Hangzhou and Qingxi Gangyuandong and other lands still fighting with the Song army.

But it was said that Sanniang raised the fetus for ten months, but there was no movement in childbirth, and after the sixth year of Xuanhe in the Great Song Dynasty, there was still no movement, but many doctors saw it, and even An Daoquan personally inspected it and said that the fetus was normal. Everyone thought it was strange, could this really be a fairy fetus, and it really took three years to conceive before giving birth? This time it can make Sanniang anxious, and it will take three years to hold a big belly? Isn't that going to kill her? But the boy refused to come out, so he had to give up.

Ten months passed in a hurry, October of the sixth year of Xuanhe of the Great Song Dynasty, it was the golden autumn October, Shandong Road and outside were full of joy, this year was a bumper harvest, the government treasury was full, and the government purchased grain according to the price of protected grain, and the peasants had more money and surplus grain. As a result, the Jeju Town Guard Mansion hoarded enough grain for more than 100,000 soldiers and horses on Shandong Road for several years, and many prefectures and counties could not pile up that much grain, and built a lot of warehouses to stack grain.

There has just been a bumper harvest here, and in the town, Sanniang looked at the number of grains reported from all over the country, and it was mixed. The joy is that the troubled times are coming, it is the food in the hand, the heart is not panicked, but the worry is that last year I harvested a lot of grain, not used up, all into old grain, this year there is food, I don't know how to deal with the old grain. It's not that the old grain can't be eaten, even if people can't eat so much, they can also supply the animal husbandry department, and use the old grain to raise war horses or cattle and sheep, but it is always a pity to give good grain to livestock.

When he was reading the official document, Wang Jin, the head of the Jinjiao Sect, came to report with a happy face: "Sanniang, there is a Jiangnan deputy envoy Zong Ze who came to ask for a meeting, I talked with Zong Ze a few words, it turned out that he came to buy food this time. Sanniang sighed, and suddenly overjoyed, the first few **** got the secret report of Jinyi Wei, and said that Zong Ze came to Shandong Road in the north, and I don't know what the intention is, at this moment I listened to Wang Jin's words, Sanniang suddenly rejoiced.

Thinking about it, the land south of the Yangtze River has experienced two years of repeated tug-of-war between the Song army and Fang La, the war is poisonous, the population is lost, the agriculture is wasted, and the grain is sharply reduced, and the grain north of the river is only enough for the Song Dynasty, and most of the grain of the Tong Guan army in the south of the Yangtze River is procured nearby, and the grain in the south of the Yangtze River has decreased sharply, and the Song army began to lack food. Zong Ze came to Shandong Road to purchase grain this time, which is reasonable.

At that moment, Sanniang hurriedly ordered Wang Jin to introduce Zong Ze, and she had a big belly, so she could only sit and wait. When he was young, Wang Jin led Zong Ze in, and Sanniang was about to get up to greet him, Zong Ze hurriedly said: "Hu Xuanfu makes the body inconvenient, there is no need to work, the old man came uninvited, and he was a villain." ”

Sanniang still got up with the help of Yulian and bowed her hand and said with a smile: "Elder Zong's words are serious, please sit down and speak." The two sides sat down, Zong Ze sat on the left first, Wang Jin sat down, and Sanniang also sat on herself.

Zong Ze said with a smile: "Hu Xuanfu is pregnant with Liujia and still works hard for government affairs, and the soldiers and civilians of Shandong Road are blessed." Sanniang smiled and said: "The boss is too famous, I just do my duty." I don't know why the old man came. ”

Zong Ze sighed and said: "Just because Tong Shumi Jiangnan used troops to recruit Fang La, I didn't think that Fang La, a thief, was difficult to deal with, and the counties in Jiangnan repeatedly fought and saw, and the farming affairs withered, and the harvest was poor this year, and the grain was difficult to support." I heard that Shandong Road had a bumper harvest for two consecutive years, so I came to purchase grain for military needs. ”

Shandong Road opened the town, the town should be in the town of the town of the power of the wealth, except for the annual according to the old practice to hand over a batch of money and grain as tribute, the rest of the money and grain Song Court can not touch, is the money and grain of Shandong Road Song Court can not be dispatched.

Sanniang smiled when she heard this: "It's naturally possible to purchase food, I don't know how Lord Zongze wants to do it?" Zong Ze said: "Then please ask Hu Xuanfu to allow us and other people to collect grain, and the grain will be purchased at the parity price." If you want to come to Shandong Road for two years of harvest, Xuanfu is also afraid that the folk valley will hurt the peasants. Sanniang said with a smile: "Except for the grain for their own use, the rest of the grain has been purchased by the government. ”

Zong Ze sighed, Wang Jin explained in a low voice, Zong Ze understood, and sighed at the moment: "Xuanfu is really bold, in a bumper year, he can still ensure the harvest of farmers, which is really commendable." But it is unknown whether the Xuanfu envoy is willing to sell the grain in the treasury? ”

Sanniang smiled: "I want it." "I was worried that there was no place to settle the old grain, and the two hit it off, and the two agreed that Shandong Road would give one million stone of grain to the Jiangnan Song Army, and the price of each stone would always be five hundred yuan, but Zong Ze, an honest man, didn't know that Sanniang sold him Chen grain, and after buying one million stone of old grain, Shandong Road got 1.5 million yuan.

After talking with Zong Ze, Sanniang generously said that she could give Zong Ze some more grain, that is, the grain lost on the way to Jiangnan along the way was counted as Shandong Road, and there was no need to consume it within one million stones. Hearing that Zong Ze was overjoyed, he thanked him again and again, and after talking about the details, Zong Ze resigned.

Then Sanniang instructed Zhu Wu and Wang Jin to handle the matter, and after acting for official business, Sanniang turned to the back hall, only to see An Daoquan had been waiting here for a long time. It turned out that Sanniang had been pregnant for more than 18 months, but there were no signs of childbirth, so An Daoquan came to diagnose the pulse every day, but he was afraid that Sanniang would suddenly give birth, so he was caught off guard. There are also four stable women in the hall, ready at any time, but this child just hasn't moved.

An Daoquan saw Sanniang turn around, still with the usual expression, and frowned: "The lord takes care of his body, and he must not overwork." Sanniang smiled: "I am also a healer, and I know my body." ”

Saying that, An Daoquan checked Sanniang's pulse, and after looking at the pulse, An Daoquan listened to Sanniang's big belly for a while with the stethoscope made by Sanniang. The production of this stethoscope is not cumbersome, that is, it is made of an iron tool in the shape of a small bell, covered with light silk sand to filter noise, and the two headsets are connected by sheep intestines, and the headsets are sewn from cowhide, and the sound of heartbeats can also be heard.

After listening, An Daoquan sighed and said: "This fetal heart rate and fetal movement are as usual, but there is no sign of childbirth. ”

Yulian on the side interjected and smiled: "The official is a god fetus, maybe it really has to be like what I said in my dream, and it will take three years to give birth." Sanniang said with a bitter face: "Don't scare me, you have to hold your stomach for three years, isn't that pregnant with Nezha?" ”

The two had also heard some jokes spread by the gods, and they laughed together at the moment, Sanniang glared at the two, gritted her teeth and said: "This bear child, if he doesn't come out again, I will prescribe some inducing medicine to eat, and see if he can't come out!" ”

An Daoquan hurriedly said: "No, the so-called melon is ripe, the fetus will give birth when it matures, if the lord takes oxytocic medicine, I am afraid that it will hurt the child and himself." Yulian also persuaded her, and Sanniang put out her anger. (To be continued.) )