Tang Shunzhi has been frugal all his life, but this time he made an exception, the most comfortable four-wheeled carriage was padded with five layers of leather mattresses, lying on it like a cotton bale. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

After the carriage has been renovated, it is spacious and bright, and it can put down a delicate small table, fruits, snacks, wine, and delicacies, not many of them, so as to be meticulous and meticulous, and the appearance should be good, and the taste should be wonderful.

Not to mention anything else, just the horses pulling the cart outside are more than a head taller than ordinary horses, covered in black capillaries, shining, long manes, braided, walking, shaking at will, handsome and cool, pedestrians on the road look at it, all stretch their necks, tilt their heads, staring, even if they disappear from sight, they are reluctant to turn their heads.

It's really a god horse, it's too domineering.

Not to mention outsiders, even Tang Shunzhi looked at it with emotion, and then shook his head.

"Luxury, too extravagant, such a good horse, it should go to the battlefield, how can it be used to pull a cart."

Tang Yi smiled, "This is what you don't understand, if it's really a war horse, I don't dare to let them pull the car for you, in case you lose your temper, don't lift the car." ”

"What's so important?" Tang Shunzhi is a pedantic, but he doesn't know much about horses, who makes the Ming lack of horses, there are a lot of thousands of people in the south, there are no horses, they can only ride mules, that thing pulls goods and loads, but it can't run, and it can't reproduce, it's very bad.

"At present, the horses of the small station are divided into two roads, one is a war horse, and the other is a horse."

"Does it make a difference?"

"Of course, war horses require flexibility and agility, strong explosiveness, fast speed, strong sprint ability, at present, the Arabian horse with the Mongolian horse, the first batch of breeding is full, there are nearly a thousand miles, and the Friesian horse is the father, the Mongolian horse is the mother, and the heavy war horse ......is cultivated."

Tang Yi's work in the small station has achieved initial results, according to his deployment, the war horse is mainly the Arabian horse as the paternal parent, and the heavy war horse is selected as the Friesian horse as the paternal parent.

The tall Friesian, enough to bear the heavy armor, from knights to war horses, wrapped into impenetrable iron cans, no need to fight, just a charge, the earth shakes the mountains, the heavenly river is discharged, how many Mongolian donkeys, can only look at the wind and run away, hard and hard, is to take a tricycle, to hit a big truck full of sand and gravel, what will be the result, with your toes to know what will happen.

Just looking forward to that scene makes my blood boil.

Great tomorrow is unstoppable!

Relatively speaking, the progress of pulling horses is much slower, mainly because of the lack of big enough guys, Xi Muyun has been making war horses all over the world, he can buy them, he can buy them, if he can't buy them, he will rob them, and if he can't get them, he will cheat, in short, he will do whatever it takes to get the best horses.

In fact, whether it is a war horse or a horse, almost all of them are carefully selected and crossed according to the characteristics of each country after a period of time. What we need to do now is to collect as many famous horses as possible and get more excellent genes. Wu Kai said in the letter that he is like a cook, constantly blending the five flavors to make dishes that are full of color, flavor and taste, and meet the needs.

"The horses that pulled the cart for us were all defective products that had been eliminated, and they reacted slowly, so they were not suitable for war horses, so they could only pull the cart. According to Wu Kai's estimates, within ten years, the horse farm will be able to raise more than 200,000 war horses, and 50,000 horses can be drawn out in one battle, which is enough to equip 20,000 cavalry and 20,000 people! ”

Tang Yi smiled proudly: "These cavalry are all real professional killing machines, and they are completely different from the so-called string control of the people, the difference between the two, just like the Hanlin of the Hanlin Academy and the prisoners of the Guozijian, they are all scholars, but they are not enough." ”

Tang Shunzhi's face changed suddenly, and he looked at the horse pulling the cart again, what a divine horse, so tall and strong, he had never seen such a good horse in his life, and he was actually eliminated. He really couldn't accept it.

After thinking about it, Tang Shunzhi had to be stunned by the apprentice's foresight.

Ten years later, if the Ming Dynasty really has tens of thousands, well-equipped, invincible cavalry, what are you afraid of the northern captivity, reappear in the Han and Tang dynasties, the majesty of the country, the day is not far away.

Thinking of this, Tang Shunzhi's calm heart was fluctuating and surging.

"Alas, I can't see that day, let Yuanqing go to my grave and talk to me about it, I can't see Daming reigning in the world again in this life, it's a pity, a pity!"

Tang Shunzhi was not an ordinary person in the end, and he quickly calmed down.

Relying on the stallions from overseas to restrain the biggest shortcomings of the Ming army, it was finally quickly filled, and the Ming army became stronger, just around the corner, but it was far from enough to become strong by force.

"Yes, since the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, the Chinese nobles, the descendants of Yan and Huang, have overcome obstacles for thousands of years, expanded their territory, laid a huge foundation, and their territory is thousands of miles, and their people are billions of trillions. Rich in the world, prosperous in national strength, the best in the four countries. As long as we don't mess with ourselves, don't pull each other's backs, and have endless infighting, no one will be our opponent. In other words, the only one who can defeat us is ourselves! The Han and Tang dynasties did not have strong cavalry, but as a result, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty both flourished and declined, and it can be seen that it is not enough to have strong soldiers! ”

Tang Yi can't agree with the teacher's words anymore, he just wants not to mess up, not to fight, not to pull his hind legs, it's just too difficult.

It's not just as simple as limiting imperial power, any kind of power, beyond the limit, will bring terrible consequences, no, Suzhou City is staging a good show......

Lao Ge apologized, accepted five scapegoats, and prepared to write to the court, announcing that the world was peaceful and the general trend had been decided. But before Ge Shouli could write a book, several chambers of commerce in Suzhou and more than a dozen weavers came to the door together.

They first gave Ge Shouli a high hat, and said a lot of good things, Ge Shouli was experienced and knew that they would come when they had nothing to do, so they simply let them say it clearly.

The businessmen made two demands.

First, Wu Cheng went to Suzhou and acted perversely, not only destroying the academy, but also bullying various merchants, extortion, framing everyone for secretly hiding demon books, demanding that each family pay money, and arrest them if they don't give money......

They snorted and cried, begging Ge Shouli to deal with it impartially and make up for the loss to the big guys.

Lao Ge thought about it a little, and felt that something was wrong, Eunuch Wu had not been in Suzhou for a long time, so he went to the academy directly, where did he have the time to blackmail the families, and it was clear that he was here to take advantage.

Ge Shouli finally sank his face, he wanted to have a seizure, but the overall situation was important, he only said that he would investigate, and if there was really something blackmailed, it would be returned to everyone.

These merchants refused to give up, and they made a second request, because of the eunuch rebellion, the city of Suzhou was affected, and the workshops could not work, so they could not pay silk to the weaving bureau this year, and asked for exemption.

When this request was made, Ge Shouli was furious on the spot!

When Tang Yi was in the southeast, he formulated a set of strict rules, all merchants who obtained export qualifications must pay silk to the weaving bureau according to the proportion and supply it to the palace for consumption.

The large silk households in Suzhou have to pay 200,000 horses of silk every year, of which 150,000 horses are directly supplied to the palace, and the other 50,000 horses are sold by the Weaving Bureau in exchange for silver, and then raw silk is purchased, and then the senior weavers of the Weaving Bureau are used to weave the precious special silk used by the royal family.

This provision is equivalent to setting a threshold for exporters, and those who do not have enough financial resources to pay silk will be excluded, and the direct benefit is to avoid vicious competition among silk merchants, improve profits, increase the income of the city, and the weaving bureau also saves the trouble of competing with the people.

It was originally a good thing for the three parties to benefit, but when Tang Yi and Huang Jin were in the southeast, they cooperated tacitly and implemented it very well. But after they left, the good scripture fell to a bunch of crooked-mouthed monks, and they changed their tune all of a sudden.

First of all, the Weaving Bureau was not satisfied with the amount of 200,000 horses, and it continued to increase, and by the 44th year of Jiajing, it had increased to 450,000 horses, more than doubled, and the devil knows whose pockets it was.

As for the City Shipping Division, due to lax management, merchants who did not pay silk could also export, and even the general clans of the Xu family simply bypassed the Municipal Shipping Division and smuggled it.

This time, the merchants who are handing over silk are gone, our burden is getting heavier and heavier, and the benefits have been taken away by others, which is really too deceitful, but whether it is the Weaving Bureau or the big clans in the southeast, they can't afford to offend, this fire is pressed in the chest, can't get out, can't go down.

This time, the Wu eunuch destroyed the forbidden academy, aroused public resentment, and the major silk merchants took the opportunity to get involved, and they gathered a large group of forces under the banner of opposing the eunuch party, and took the opportunity to force Ge Shouli to the palace, demanding the abolition of the silk handover.

Although Ge Shouli couldn't figure out the key inside, the old man was not stupid, 200,000 pieces of silk, nearly 3 million taels of silver, not to mention that he didn't dare to agree, even the cabinet didn't have the courage to nod. If this is exempted, the people in the palace will not make a fuss!

Ge Shouli refused on the spot, brushed his sleeves and left, and did not agree to either of the two conditions.

The old man forgot that some things, as long as the first step is given, will be seen through, and the rest of the things will not be easy to do.

Sure enough, on the same day, there were all kinds of rumors circulating in Suzhou City, all saying that Ge Shouli was a lackey of the eunuch party, and that releasing people was to deceive the big guys, and that he wanted to capture the old people, and all over the country were mobilizing troops to prepare for a bloody bath in Suzhou. Some people jumped out and said that they had seen thousands of soldiers with their own eyes and were rushing to Suzhou.

When the people were skeptical, an article attracted everyone's attention.

"The ancients said that the world was endowed, and Jiangnan lived in the nineteenth. Looking at it today, the east and west of Zhejiang live in the south of the Yangtze River 19, and the five prefectures of Su, Song, Chang, Jia and Hu live in the two Zhejiang 19. In Kao Hongwu, the total number of summer taxes and autumn grains in the world is more than 29.43 million, and the number of Zhejiang political departments is more than 2.752 million! Suzhou Mansion is more than 2,890,000! Suzhou a place of land, the weight of the field, actually above Zhejiang, in recent years and the collection of silk tax silver, the total discount, the people of Suzhou, the annual burden of 10 million taels, knock the bone and suck the marrow, exhaust the fishing, the weight of exploitation, no more than this! There are many people in the imperial court! (To be continued.) )