Chapter 066 Discuss the big plan

Chen Tianyu didn't know what was the difficulty of buying a horse, and asked, "What is the difficulty of buying a horse?" The last time I went to the horse market, I saw that there were more horses, and as long as I had money, I could have as many as I wanted. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Xue Boyi said: "Chen Gongzi is a horse to see in the horse market in Jiankang City? ”

Chen Tianyu said: "Exactly! ”

Xue Boyi smiled: "That's right! The horse market in this Jiankang City is the concentration of almost all horse dealers within a radius of several hundred miles of Jiankang Mansion, which naturally gives people the feeling that there are many horses. It's just that even if all the horses in this horse market were bought, they would only be one hundred and eighty, and if they were to be used for marching and fighting, they would be very few, and if they were used in the battle array, they would be even more insignificant! ”

Chen Tianyu said: "Oh, you can only buy one hundred and eighty horses in the entire Jiankang Mansion, which is indeed very few." It's just that there are few horses in Jiankang Mansion, we can go to other places to buy them, is there anything hidden in this? ”

Xue Boyi was about to explain, Li Tianyou said with a smile: "Chen Gongzi doesn't know, since the beginning of the founding of our Great Song Dynasty, a large number of horse farms have been occupied by Tubo, Western Xia, and Liao, so there are very few places that can produce horses. And most of these two or three thousand have to be directly supplied to the imperial court, so it is indeed difficult for the people to buy a large number of horses. ”

Chen Tianyu suddenly said: "I see! The last time I heard Brother Li say that the Mongols were all cavalry and moved very fast, I thought about forming a cavalry unit, but I didn't expect that there would be such difficulties. It's just that those horse farms were occupied by Tubo, Western Xia, and Liao, and our Great Song Dynasty knocked down these places, wouldn't it be solved? ”

Li Tianyou said: "That's what I said, but this matter is simple to say, but it is really difficult to do. You think that our Great Song Dynasty has been at war with the Western Xia and Liao Kingdoms, and people naturally refuse to sell horses to you; If you lack horses, you won't be able to assemble a large number of cavalry troops, and you won't be able to take advantage of others, so it's not easy to knock down those horse farms, even if you hold the existing territory! Now that the Western Xia, Tubo, and Jin kingdoms have been wiped out by the Mongols, our Great Song Dynasty now doesn't even have a place to buy horses, even if a thousand horses are produced every year, as long as they can be used as war horses, they will be directly supplied to the imperial court, and basically will not fall to the people. ”

Chen Tianyu nodded and said, "In this way, this is a headache. ”

Xue Boyi said: "This matter is indeed difficult to do at the moment, but if we can gain a firm foothold in the north, this matter will not be difficult." ”

Chen Tianyu asked, "How do you say this?" ”

Xue Boyi said with a smile: "Although our Great Song Dynasty lacks horses, the northern Han people are not short of horses, but they don't dare and don't want to sell the horses in their hands to the Great Song Dynasty." As long as we have a firm foothold in the north, those Han people in the north will naturally not regard us as Song people, and when the time comes, we will trade with them, and a large number of horses will be at our fingertips! ”

Chen Tianyu scolded: "His grandmother's! They are all Han Chinese, but they are still unwilling to sell to our Great Song Dynasty, what is the reason! ”

Xue Boyi said with a smile: "Chen Gongzi don't be excited, although the northern Han people look the same as us, they have beaten their mother's womb, they are from the Jin country, and it is reasonable that they are unwilling to sell horses to our Great Song Dynasty." Now that the north is occupied by the Mongols, and the Mongols are fighting with our Great Song Dynasty again, they naturally issued a strict order not to sell horses to our Great Song Dynasty. ”

Chen Tianyu said indignantly: "Hmph! When we have a big power, we will insist on it, and if anyone doesn't give it, we will beat his grandmother, and then see who dares not to give it! After saying that, he saw the other four looking at each other, and couldn't help but ask, "Is there something wrong with what I said?" ”

Wang Huaizhong laughed and said, "There is nothing wrong with what Chen Gongzi said, just doing this, it's too much...... A little overbearing, right? If all the northern Han people are provoked, and several families join forces to fight us, I'm afraid it won't be easy to deal with. ”…,

Xue Boyi was stunned for a while, and then smiled: "What General Wang said makes sense!" But what Chen Gongzi said is not bad, but when our strength does not reach the point of ignoring the princes of the world, we still need to keep our eyes on the clouds, and we don't want to make more enemies. Therefore, we will spend more money in the early stage, and when the power is great, we can ...... When you can, it's not too late to ask for it from those big families. ”

When he said "when he can", Wang Huaizhong and Li Tianyou both felt a pang in their hearts, and they both thought: "This Xue Boyi is so ambitious, what else can 'that' be?" It's nothing more than a king! ”

Lei Zonghao was thrilled when he listened, and couldn't help but say, "Brother Xue said it well!" If there is really that day, looking at the world, who would dare not look at our faces! ”

Chen Tianyu saw him looking fluttering, and secretly laughed in his belly: "This Lei Zonghao is young and vigorous after all, I said a few words casually with Brother Xue, and he was excited like this." But he said: "Brother Xue is reasonable, let's do this about the horses." Is there anything else Brother Xue has to say next? ”

Xue Boyi said: "There is indeed one more thing. Since we have decided to develop in the north, we must solve these five logistical matters. At the moment, we have a small number of people, but the pressure is not great, if there are many people, only rely on the profits of Chen Gongzi to do business to maintain, I am afraid it is not enough! ”

Chen Tianyu said: "What Brother Xue said is indeed reasonable, if we pull up a team of 10,000 people, just the military salary, it will cost 20,000 taels of silver per month, if you add the expenses of food, clothing, housing, buying horses, and raising horses, I am afraid that there will be 50,000 taels per month, which is not enough." I don't know what Brother Xue's plan is? ”

Xue Boyi said with a smile: "When we go to the north to develop, we can't just focus on the military, this agriculture, industry, and commerce are also extremely important things. With the development of agriculture, the problem of grain can be solved, the problem of labor, clothing and housing can also be solved, and then the development of business, we can draw taxes from it, with this part of the source, plus Chen Gongzi's own business income, the problem of grass and horses is also solved. ”

When Chen Tianyu heard this, he suddenly realized: "Isn't this just governing a country?" Hehe, this Xue Boyi is just suitable to be a prime minister, big brother, suitable to be a general, as for himself, just make an emperor do a good job. was dreaming, but heard Wang Huaizhong say: "I think this method is a little inappropriate." He immediately woke up from his daydream and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Wang Huaizhong said: "If you go to the north, it is the territory of the Mongols. I heard that the Mongols levied and extorted violently, and we developed agriculture and commerce there, and it is estimated that in addition to the Mongols, there is not much left, so how can we extract taxes from it? ”

When Chen Tianyu heard it, it made sense, and looked at Xue Boyi again, thinking that since he had proposed this method, he must have also considered the problem raised by Wang Huaizhong, but he didn't know what tricks he had to solve it.