Chapter 354: Selling Horses

"Come, come, drink, drink." Fan Zuo still wanted to continue to persuade, Xunzi raised his glass and said, Fan Zuo had no choice but to give up, Xunzi's face still had to be given.

This is a famous person all over the world, and there are few people who don't know it.

The fame of this era is really something to eat, and with the word 'Xunzi', you will be courteous wherever you go, and even the monarch will receive it in person.

Except for a very small number of strange people, no one will choose to offend celebrities, even if they despise some celebrities in their hearts, they will never show it.

Otherwise, these celebrities will not only scold back, but also record this incident and leave it for future generations to scold together, and nail you to the pillar of shame completely.

Even monarchs can't afford to mess with these pen-wielding people.

"This should be Xunzi of the Jixia School Palace, Mr. Widow Jing has a cup." King Wei raised his glass and said.

"The old man is Xunzi, but Xunzi from Handan Academy." Xunzi picked up the wine glass, made a gesture of please, and then drank it all.

"Huh." King Wei smiled a little embarrassedly, he didn't mean to mock Xunzi just now, he was just used to it, after all, Handan Academy had only been built for less than a year, and Xunzi had been staying in Jixia School Palace for so many years.

"King, my Wei State has not congratulated Zhao State on defeating the Xiongnu." Seeing this, Long Yangjun opened his mouth in order to alleviate the embarrassment of King Wei.

"Yes, yes, the widow congratulates Zhao on defeating the Xiongnu and sweeping away the foreign enemies in the north." King Wei said loudly.

Due to the restrictions of news dissemination, although all the countries in the Central Plains knew that Zhao had defeated the Xiongnu, they did not know that dozens of Rongdi, large and small, including the Xiongnu, had been completely wiped out, and the grassland had been set up as a county by Zhao, divided into grasslands, and began to plant grass and graze.

They thought that Zhao had only defeated the Xiongnu army, and at most the Xiongnu had suffered a miserab.

"Rejoicing and rejoicing, after several months, my Zhao State mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops, and spent countless sums of money, and finally swept away the Huns, which can be regarded as living up to the efforts of the soldiers." Zhao Kuo raised his glass and said.

"Zhao must have gained a lot of war horses in this battle, I wonder if you can sell some to my Wei State?" Zhang Min asked.

When Jin Cong, Mang Mao and the others heard this, their eyes lit up, and they looked at Zhao Kuo eagerly.

To say that Wei is not particularly short of war horses, otherwise it would not be able to pull out so many chariots.

It may be an exaggeration to claim ten thousand vehicles one by one, but it is not difficult to pull out thousands of chariots.

However, there were not many war horses in the Wei State that could form cavalry.

After all, the chariot is pulled by multiple war horses together, which is more forgiving, as long as it is not too bad, it can be used, but the cavalry is not good, you can't ride two horses at the same time.

And although the horse is fast, but the endurance is poor, in order to ensure combat effectiveness, at least one person and two horses, or even one person and three horses.

The Qin State itself wanted to train cavalry and no longer sell war horses, and the Zhao State blocked all war horses from the north, and the Central Plains countries wanted to train cavalry.

Now the price of war horses has increased several times, and the supply is still in short supply, and even the price of bringing horses has increased a lot.

In fact, Qin Guo is also entangled, now selling horses can definitely make a lot of money, but money and food are definitely not as important as cavalry, cavalry is trained, and other people's money and food are my money and food. The cavalry is not well trained, and my money and food are other people's money and food.

If you don't sell it, this big cake will inevitably be swallowed by Zhao Guo, and Qin Guo doesn't want Zhao Guo to get so many benefits.

It's a pity that there is no way to get the best of both worlds, unless the Qin State can sell a large number of war horses and completely suppress the price, but it will cause another problem, after Han Wei and other countries train the cavalry, eighty percent will be used to fight him.

Even if it is not used to fight him, the difficulty of the Qin State attacking the two countries will be greatly increased.

In the end, the Qin State still did not sell the war horses, but even so, the Qin State also made a lot of money by selling the horses, which relieved the pressure at home.

This is the benefit of monopoly, if Wei still occupies Hexi, and Zhao does not cut off the road to the south of Yan, it will definitely not be able to form the current situation.

Zhao Kuo didn't speak, but glanced at Lu Zhonglian, and Lu Zhonglian opened his mouth and asked, "I don't know how many war horses Wei plans to buy?" ”

At the same time, secretly open the talent like a spring breeze.

"How much can Zhao Guo sell?" Zhang Min asked, not knowing what was going on, he suddenly felt that Lu Zhonglian was very pleasing to the eye.

Lu Zhonglian was stunned for a moment, he didn't know how to answer, how to say the current horses of Zhao State, I can't say a lot, I can only say a lot, Rong Di alone has a million war horses, even if you remove the ones who died in battle, those who died of illness, stallions, young horses, and horses, there are hundreds of thousands of them, and now raising horses has become a problem for Zhao State.

There are also large-scale wild horses on the grassland, dozens of small ones, tens of thousands of large ones, and all of them are excellent horses, which can be used as war horses when caught, and the horses have been naturally eliminated.

And because of the aura of heaven and earth, many of these wild horses have internal qi, and there are even war horses in the transcendent realm. On the other hand, the proportion of captive-bred war horses with internal qi is far smaller than that of wild horses, and not a single transcendent war horse has been found so far.

If Zhao Guo sent people to capture these wild horses, he would be able to catch at least hundreds of thousands, but this was a one-time event, and there would not be so many after he was caught.

However, if only 30,000 or 50,000 are caught every year, it can be caught forever.

In addition, Zhao Guo can also buy war horses from Yan State cheaply and earn the difference, Yan Guo has been blocked by Zhao State, and there is no other way except to sell them to Zhao State.

In addition, Zhao Guo can also snatch war horses from Donghu.

In short, Lu Zhonglian didn't know how many horses Zhao Guo had.

However, Zhang Ming did not ask how many horses Zhao Guo had, but asked how many Zhao Guo could sell, Lu Zhonglian thought about the financial resources of Wei State, the degree of threat to Zhao State, and at the same time to ensure that it had the strength to resist the cavalry of Qin State.

After a while, Lu Zhonglian stretched out a palm, and all five fingers on the palm stood up.

"Five thousand? It's a little less. Zhang Yang shook his head, this is only enough to train two or three thousand cavalry, and it is still a little useful in a small-scale war, and a large-scale battle can't even make a splash.

"Fifty thousand." Lu Zhonglian said.

"Clank!" The fast son in King Wei's hand fell to the tripod, and the wine glass in Fan Zuo's hand was tilted, and he didn't even notice that the wine was spilled in his arms. Jin Contempt and the others froze in place, motionless.

"I don't want a horse, Wei Guo." Zhang Min said with a face.

"All of them are war horses over six feet five." Lu Zhonglian said.

"Is that true?" Jin said excitedly, not asking Lu Zhonglian, but looking at Zhao Kuo.

"Lu Qing can make full decisions about this matter, and you don't have to ask the widow anymore." Zhao Kuo said with a smile, then picked up the wine glass and took a sip, the taste was far from my Zhao Guo's wine.

"I'm Wei Guo...... Can't afford so many war horses. After a while, Zhang Yang sighed deeply and shook his head helplessly.

In the past, the price of war horses and ploughing cattle was about the same, about four or five thousand, but now it is about to rise to twenty thousand, even if Zhao gives Wei a cheaper, Wei cannot afford it.