"Your Majesty, do you really want to buy twenty or thirty thousand war horses?" Sun Chuanting said to Zhu Youxiao with some embarrassment: "If you buy so much at once, the price is estimated to be not cheap." ”

"As long as the price does not exceed 100 taels, we are all acceptable." Zhu Youxiao said very calmly, and Sun Chuanting said: "What about military expenses? ”

"Didn't the budget also throw out 8 million as a reserve for military spending? Use the money to top it first. In addition, the provinces that export salt to Beizhili can also increase their budgets by tens of millions of yuan this year, and these silver dollars can be used as military spending. Zhu Youxiao said.

"The military expenditure of 18 million yuan is enough to raise another 30,000 cavalry. It's just that the cost is too high. Sun Chuanting still had a painful face.

If the price is not less than 100 taels to buy, then it is estimated that the formation of these 30,000 cavalry will cost at least 4 million yuan, which also includes the cost of forming cavalry.

Zhu Youxiao also had some pain, but the Ming army had no cavalry, and it was still not safe to deal with wild boar skin.

"Aiqing! Let's do the math. As long as we have 30,000 cavalry, plus the current 10,000 cavalry in Liaodong and the 3,000 cavalry of the Tengxiang Cavalry Division, we will have 43,000 cavalry. With this force, our counterattack on Liaodong will be secure. When the time comes, we will be able to grab back a large amount of land, and most importantly, there are not many Han people in Liaodong now, and we can establish a new system. When the time comes, you only need to operate casually, and you will be able to gain strong national power. Zhu Youxiao said.

"But what if it ......" Sun Chuanting hurriedly stopped his mouth, he wanted to say, what if it failed? Zhu Youxiao couldn't hear it. "It doesn't matter if it fails. We use a steady stream of troops. Consumption is energy consumption and death to build slaves. Hasn't the High Command already decided to establish a royal military academy? In just two years, we will be able to train a large number of officers at all levels, and as long as these officers are still around, our army will be in a steady stream. ”

Sun Chuanting was completely convinced, because he saw the emperor's determination.

After nearly two years of 'lying on the salary and tasting the guts', Zhu Youxiao finally has some capital in his hands, and can he still sit back and watch the Tunguska wild boar skin wreak havoc in the Northeast?

With the national strength of the Ming Dynasty, as long as the court has money. And then there is a decent army, which can kill the skin of the Tunguska boar at will. What made Zhu Youxiao unbearable the most was that the resources of the Ming Dynasty were too few at this time.

In fact, it is not a small number of resources, but a large population. In addition, the gap between the rich and the poor is large, and a large amount of resources are controlled by the powerful, businessmen, and landlords.

If you can snatch Liaodong back, you will be able to obtain a 'massive' amount of resources.

Zhu Youxiao decided to prepare for the war, and Sun Chuanting could only carry it out to the end.

War horses, buy, buy, buy!

During the Ming Dynasty, China's external environment was much better than the aggressiveness of the Song Dynasty. The reason why the Song Dynasty was surrounded by wolves. It was mainly caused by the minority policy of the Tang Dynasty, which fattened those ethnic minorities. They are greedy and barbaric.

Most of the nomads around the Ming Dynasty were already living in peace, and they rarely thought about the Central Plains anymore. This is mainly because the Mongols swept across Asia and Europe and slaughtered many ethnic groups. The Mongols of the Yuan Dynasty came into contact with Han culture in China, and their barbaric habits decreased a lot, and when the Mongols were driven back to the steppe, they didn't even know how to herd at first, but of course they did it later.

Another is the development of firearms.

Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, used artillery and cavalry tactics to defeat the Mongols, giving the agrarian civilization the upper hand in a head-to-head battle with the nomads. Coupled with the Ming Dynasty's 'high wall' policy, the Mongols, who lacked the ability to attack the city, could only look at the wall and sigh completely.

So, everyone is living in peace!

Since there were not so many military conflicts, the military literacy of the Ming Dynasty and the Mongols was constantly regressing.

If it had not been for the budding of capitalism within the Ming Dynasty, it began to dig into the corners of the country frantically, leading to the outbreak of peasant uprisings. and the compromising nature of capitalism, it is simply impossible for the Manchus to take advantage of it.

In this environment where everyone lives with peace of mind, the Tunguska wild boar skin ran all the way from the wild Tunguska to the Ming Dynasty, with the savage nature, absorbed the culture of the Ming Dynasty, and Li Chengliang raised his own respect, so that such a group of vicious bandit gangs appeared.

To put it bluntly, it's all internal man-made disasters.

The outbreak of so many man-made disasters actually exposed that the social atmosphere of the Ming Dynasty had been completely corrupted at this time. People don't believe in the law of etiquette and become selfish.

After some reforms, the class contradictions have been initially alleviated. At this time, it was time for Zhu Youxiao to draw his hand to deal with the wild boar skin.

In addition to the fact that the wild boar skin in Liaodong is not dealt with, the relationship between Mongolia, Yarkand, Tibet and the Ming Dynasty is still relatively relaxed, and the purchase of war horses is obviously not a problem, but the difference between high and low prices.

With Zhu Youxiao's investment regardless of the blood cost, the decision to buy the war horse was implemented.

The high command immediately sent envoys to negotiate directly with the Mongol nobles, the Yarkand Khanate, and the Tibetan lamas.

Daming is now the world's place of food and clothing, Mongolian nobles, Yarkand Khanate, Tibetan lamas, what do you want to enjoy? As long as the conditions are set out and the material satisfaction is given, the Ming Dynasty only needs a war horse.

How much silk and satin does a war horse cost, how many iron pots, tea, spices, or how many fine specialties from all over the Ming Dynasty?

Anyway, the envoy of the Ming Dynasty brought a large number of things that could be used for enjoyment, to put it bluntly, it was a luxury, and sent a little sample to the nobles of the turtle country, and then used these things as trading items to discuss the purchase of war horses with them.

This time, Zhu Youxiao sent an envoy, but it quickly achieved results. Mongolia's Lin Dan Khan was an 'ally' with the Ming Dynasty before, saying that it was an ally, but in fact it was more like the Ming Dynasty paying money to hire the Mongols to fight.

In the defeat of Quang Ninh in history, the governor Wang Huazhen dared to attack the wild boar skin, in fact, he firmly believed that the Mongols' so-called '400,000 army' would support the Ming army, and it turned out to be a war like a 'schoolboy fancy tower crossing'. Two elementary school students emboldened each other, but they were killed by the opposite side. After the defeat of Guangning, the Ming Dynasty also spent millions of taels of silver in order to appease the losses of the Mongols.

After Zhu Youxiao crossed, the defeat of Quang Ninh did not happen. Because Zhu Youxiao sent Sun Chengzong to Liaodong, the defeat of Guangning was no longer possible.

The Mongols and the Ming Dynasty, because of the common enemy of wild boar skin, the current relationship is still good. At a deeper level, the Mongols actually coveted the silver of the Ming Dynasty.

The Mongols were short of money, this is obvious. The Ming Dynasty once offered a reward of 4,000 taels of silver, and pulled the Mongols into the battlefield of Liaodong, although the troops were not many, but the Mongols and wild boar skins gradually became hostile. (To be continued......)

PS: The third shift, five minutes late...... I'm sorry!