"My lord, why did you buy a war horse from Murong Xianbei? Liu Yuan, the virtuous king of the left of the Xiongnu, was in the army of the king of Runan, wouldn't it be more convenient to buy some war horses from him? Moreover, you and he are both working under the king of Runan, and it will be cheaper for the sake of your colleagues."

Yao Yu shook his head: "This matter has to be done in secret, how can Liu Yuan know about it. It's not good if the news leaks. In short, the best choice is Murong Xianbei, followed by Tuoba Xianbei. Finally, it's the section of Xianbei. Others, don't think about it. How's that, is there a problem?"

Man Kuang frowned highly: "It's not a big problem, the main thing is that I'm worried that it will be delayed for a long time. After all, Youzhou is not close to Runan. And there is a lot of chaos along the way, I'm afraid you can't wait."

"That's fine, just send it in two months."

When he said this, Yao Yu was still pondering in his heart.

Two months, it should be able to catch up with Liu Yuan's incident.

Now that it is winter, Liu Yuan can't wait, and he can't wait for the cold to break away from King Runan. Anyway, he'll have to wait until the weather warms up before he does it.

Well, after deducting the two months of buying war horses, you should give yourself the time to train cavalry.

Thinking of this, Yao Yu nodded: "That's it, it's just two months. Without further ado, you go right now. Chen Zhong, go and call Shen Cheng over."

Chen Zhong agreed, turned around and left.

After a while, Shen Cheng returned and learned that he was going to Youzhou with Man Kuang, he was stunned, pointed to his nose and pointed at Man Kuang: "My lord, you let me go to Youzhou with him?" What should we do if we fight on the way?"

"If you start fighting, I'll clean you up when you come back. This time I will go out, and you will be the master, and you will be the auxiliary."

Shen Cheng sighed, "I still have to listen to him?"

"Why do you have an opinion?"

Seeing Yao Yu raising his eyebrows and looking unhappy, Shen Cheng was stunned, shrunk his neck and said, "No, no."

"Then hurry up and get ready to go."

With a frown in his eyes, Shen Cheng turned around and left.

After about half an hour, the two of them were fully prepared, rode on two good horses that had been easily gathered from the county, and said goodbye at the city gate.

When they were about to part, Yao Yu took Man Kuang's hand and said, "Pay attention to safety on the road, go early and return early, I will wait for you to come back."

To be honest, Yao Yu and Man Kuang don't have much personal friendship.

He did this completely politely.

But Man Kuang was a little moved, for so many years, except for Tao Ji, no one has ever cared about himself like Yao Yu. Even if it's just lip service.

In this way, Man Kuang patted his chest and made a promise before whipping away.

Yao Yu was at the gate of the city, and he watched the two of them go away before returning to the county seat.

The matter of the war horse has now begun to be dealt with, and the next step is the archer.

The archers are easy to make, and it is enough to find a craftsman from the bow shop in the city to make a standard bow.

Anyway, at present, it is only for the purpose of establishing a long-range strike means in the army, in order to cope with the great changes that are coming.

Time is tight, otherwise Yao Yu will directly make a repeater.

If this thing is really made, it will be a dimensionality reduction blow to people at this time.

It's a bit far.

Within two days of sending Man Kuang away, Yao Yu spent a lot of money, and all the archers from the two counties of Xiyang were invited to the county to increase their horsepower and start making bows and arrows.

Not only that, but he even sent people to Runan County to invite an archer to drive him.

In just half a month, the price of timber near the county has skyrocketed.

And the silver money stored in Yao Yu's hand was also like flowing water.

In addition, the recruitment of soldiers in the two counties has been full of 10,000 people, and the daily supply of food and meat is almost impoverished for Yao Yu.

More than 30 million silver coins, I haven't seen the war horse's hair, and it's already more than half of it.

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On this day, Yao Yu frowned at the yamen, frowning.

Sitting next to him was the schedule that was almost good, and he came to the yamen to do things.

The two of them looked at the accounts of these days, and sighed one after another: "Lord, if we continue like this, the money in our hands will be enough for a month at most. It's not going to work at all. Why don't you stop making armor?"

While Man Kuang purchased war horses and Yao Yu prepared bow and arrow equipment, the class schedule also began to supervise the production of armor.

In Yao Yu's words, he wants to make every 10,000 people wear armor, and he must achieve a 100% armor rate.

It's easier said than done, 100% armor rate, that's all money.

Not to mention anything else, just the material for making armor will cost 200,000 catties of pig iron.

Not to mention the need to prepare special armor for the cavalry.

This pile of piles one by one, Yao Yu's money is really not enough to see.

It is for this reason that the squad proposed to stop the manufacture of armor first, mainly to settle the cavalry and archers.

Before the proposal of the class table was exported, Yao Yu rejected it: "No, armor is very important for soldiers. Not inferior to cavalry and archers. You can't stop."

"But my lord, if we continue like this, we don't have enough money."

"I'll figure out how to make money, in short, none of these can be stopped. I really can't do it, I'll go find those families to make a mistake."

The class table smiled bitterly: "The families of the two counties of Xiyang have been killed by you, and the waste is wasted, and the remaining families are still there for you to squeeze the excess oil and water." They now say that they are families, and they live no different life than ordinary people."

Yao Yu snorted: "Can't put it, no matter how you say it's a family."

"Your Excellency, have you forgotten? You have given all the land to the refugees."

Yao Yu patted his head: "Look at my memory, tsk, forget this."

The class watch was silent for a long time, and for a long time, he suddenly said, "Why don't we find the people to borrow it first?" Give it to them when you have the money?"

"No, I'm also an official, how can I borrow money from the people. This one doesn't work, think about something else."

The class table said that it would be a moment and a half, where to think.

Seeing that the two of them were silent, they came to the yamen with the help of the class table, and Ban Zhi, who was sitting quietly listening to the conversation between the two of them at this time, suddenly said timidly: "I still have some jewelry, which can also be exchanged for a few thousand dollars, why don't you use it for you first?"

Hearing this, Yao Yu turned around and happened to be looking at Ban Zhi's eyes.

The latter was thin-skinned and instantly blushed.

"Girl, the idea is very good, but your money is not enough for me to make half a set of armor."

Ban Zhi's face turned even redder, and he lowered his head with a sigh: "Then, then I didn't say it."

Seeing her shy appearance, Yao Yu and the class table both smiled.

For a while, the dull atmosphere was eased.

"My lord, let's have something to eat to warm up. Think about it slowly."

At this time, Chen Zhong walked in from outside with a hot meal.

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