"Your Majesty, according to the report of a customs order at the border pass, they caught a man who bought war horses in the Turks half a month ago, he bought war horses from the Turks, and then planned to come to the Central Plains to sell them and make a profit. And we felt like there was something wrong with him, so we took it off. Li Shimin's chamberlain said.

Li Shimin shook his head and said, "Is it not long before this kind of trivial matter is handed over to their respective yamen?" Why do you still have to come to me to report, isn't it just some smuggling of war horses, so what's so strange about this? ”

"Your Majesty, first of all, the Turks are our enemies, and two years ago they besieged Chang'an. And the fact that he was able to go out to the Turks without being regarded as an enemy shows that he has a very good way, and maybe he has colluded with the Turks. On the other hand, he was able to get very high-quality war horses, so we suspect that he was in collusion with the Turks! The chamberlain said.

"Good horses, how many can there be? How is it compared to my six horses? Li Shimin asked.

The chamberlain immediately said: "Compared with the emperor's six horses, of course, there are many inferiors, but they are also mounts that can generally become high-ranking generals." ”

"Oh? Interesting! Li Shimin said.

Li Shimin knew that his six horses were not comparable to any war horse. Li Shimin's six horses, but priceless horses, each of them is a priceless treasure, Li Shimin himself cherished it, and even let them be buried in his mausoleum after death. These war horses fought the world with him and were his important assistants. And now, although these war horses are not as good as the six horses, they are all similar to the war horses of high-level generals, which really surprised Li Shimin. You must know that although the Turks are nomads, they do not mean that they are stupid and have no brains, they know that their advantage over the Han is cavalry. Once the Han Chinese have cavalry, then they will definitely not have an advantage. As a result, when the Turks and Han people traded, they would not take out the best quality war horses to trade, at most they would be some relatively inferior war horses. And because of the war horses, the Central Plains cavalry was much worse than the Turks. However, the Central Plains does not produce high-quality war horses. Therefore, high-quality war horses are priceless and marketable.

Now I heard that someone bought and sold this war horse that could be used as a general, and this was worth the old nose money. Li Shimin has to be tempted, after all, the more such war horses, the more generals will naturally be equipped with high-level war horses. And even if it is sent to the horse ranch of Taifu Temple, then it can be used as a seed. Horses come and breed those new horses. This kind of high-quality war horses used by generals, even if they are Turkic, are rare species, but they can actually be sold to merchants in the Central Plains.

"How many of these horses does the merchant have?" Li Shimin asked casually.

"Eight hundred!" The chamberlain replied.

Li Shimin's mouth was very wide open, because he was really scared. Because there are actually 800 war horses of such generals, which is so many at one time. Normally, it would have been great to be able to get a dozen horses at a time, but now you can get eight hundred horses at a time. That's really surprising. Being able to get eight hundred top-level war horses at one time can show that this guy definitely has a very strong relationship in the Turks, and I am afraid that he even has a channel to buy high-quality war horses.

"Your Majesty, if there really is such a channel, then I am afraid it will be very beneficial to my Tang cavalry!" The chamberlain said.

The chamberlains around Li Shimin are not stupid people, and he immediately realized that this channel is helpful to Datang. Although Datang now has its own pasture, there are too few truly high-quality war horses. High-quality war horses can be used as a breed. Horses are bred for other war horses, changing the genetics of war horses, and cultivating high-quality next-generation war horses. But there is no shortage of pastures in Datang now. There is no shortage of talents for horse herding, but there are too few high-quality war horses. Because of the lack of high-quality war horses, the entire horse ranch of Taifu Temple has fallen into a situation where there are many low-end war horses, but high-end war horses are very scarce.

Li Shimin is too much of a low-end war horse for Taifu Temple. And the serious lack of high-end war horses is worried. Because the low-end war horses have mixed bloodlines and a short service life, they often only serve for two or three years before they are retired. If you want to change this situation, you can only introduce high-end war horses to breed. Change the quality of the horse breed. But the Turks are definitely not stupid, they will not give high-quality war horses to the Tang Dynasty. Because they know that once Datang has high-quality war horses, it will be able to breed more high-quality war horses. In this way, their cavalry superiority was lost.

So in the past, although Datang was able to smuggle some high-quality war horses, there have never been so many. Eight hundred horses at a time can become thousands of war horses in a few years, and the benefits of this are obvious. is enough to make Li Shimin tempted.

Even, if you can master this channel to obtain high-quality war horses, then you can continuously obtain high-quality war horses, which is what makes Li Shimin really red-eyed. Li Shimin, the emperor, is jealous of such a good thing, especially how did this channel for obtaining high-quality war horses come about. This channel is too precious, even if Datang gets it, it can greatly increase Datang's national strength.

"Did the horse dealer send it to Chang'an?" Li Shimin asked.

The chamberlain immediately said: "The border pass intercepted this batch of war horses, and immediately sent the horse dealers, because they also knew the importance of this matter, so they also took the initiative to send the horse dealers to let the ministers in the court ask in person." ”

Hearing this, Li Shimin still understood the generals at the border pass, because they all knew the role of cavalry. As long as you are a general on the battlefield, there is no one who does not know the role of cavalry, especially the role of high-quality war horses for cavalry. With such an excellent war horse, those generals at the border pass may have already begun to estimate how to divide it.

Li Shimin doesn't have to think about it, I'm afraid that now the generals of the Tang Dynasty know the news, that is, 800 general-level war horses, and those generals are probably beginning to wonder if they can get one. Especially those middle-level generals, who are not up or down, hope to be able to take advantage of this time to change a "car" for themselves, after all, as a general, there is no one who doesn't like good horses.

"Well, call the horse dealer, and I'll ask him for myself where these good horses came from. If Datang can master this channel, of course it will be better. After all, no one would dislike good horses. (To be continued......)