If he had known that Zhao Guo would be able to put his father's Chu Ci into the academy for the world to study, Qu would have given Zhao Guo money in turn, and it would be more important to promote his father's reputation than anything else.

"Can't the Qu clan even look down on five thousand war horses?" Zhao Kuo said with a smile.

"Five thousand war horses!" Qu Wei stood up suddenly and looked at Zhao Kuo in disbelief.

"Not bad." Zhao Kuo nodded.

The Jing clan and the Zhao clan supported the Xiang clan to suppress the Qu clan, and the Zhao state naturally wanted to support the Qu clan against the Xiang clan, and the Chu state, where four or even five forces pulled each other, was obviously more beneficial to the Zhao state than the united Chu state.

The military side of Chu was mainly controlled by the Jing and Xiang clans, while the Zhao and Qu clans mainly controlled the political aspect, and over the years, the Qu clan's sphere of influence has been shrinking.

With 5,000 horses, Qu could tear a hole in the army.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." He bowed solemnly.

"The widow also wants to thank Qu on behalf of the students of Zhao Guo." Zhao Guo said with a smile.

These words can neither govern the country nor strengthen the army, and they seem to be useless at all, but they contain the most lacking thing in this era - patriotism.

Before Confucianism was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, the vast majority of scholars did not have the consciousness of patriotism, and there was no place to stay here, and Lao Tzu would leave when he saw that you were unhappy, and he would go to your old opponent's job to disgust you.

Only the people of the clan will desperately defend their families and the country, and even give their lives. But whether the purpose is to keep the country or his clan is difficult to say.

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Although Handan College has set up so many disciplines, it has not integrated patriotic thoughts, others are not aware of it, Zhao Kuo is aware, but he doesn't know how to start.

This thing is not just shouting, but can convince people and let people know why patriotism requires subtle change.

Qu Yuan's words made Zhao Kuo see hope in this regard.

The only drawback is that Qu Yuan is from Chu, not Zhao, otherwise Zhao Kuo would immediately order a temple to be built for Qu Yuan to worship and promote Qu Yuan's patriotism.

But now we can only rely on Qu Yuan to contrast the mediocrity of the Chu State and stimulate everyone's patriotic consciousness.

The effect is a lot worse, but there is no way, at least before the unification, it is impossible to hype up the humanistic deeds of the Chu State.

Although Chu and Zhao are allies, they are also enemy countries, and hyping up the people of Chu will only make people yearn for Chu.

Zhao Kuo worked hard to cultivate talents, but not for them to contribute to the Chu State.

"The king is serious, it's me who should thank the king." Qu Wei leaned over and said, after so many years, someone finally justified his father's name.

"Okay, let's get down to business, how many war horses does Chu plan to buy?" Zhao Kuo is colorful.

"Eighty thousand." He also straightened up and sat upright.

When passing through Wei, he had already heard that Zhao had sold 50,000 war horses to Wei, and after arriving in Handan, he met envoys from Korea and Qi. This shows that Zhao is not short of war horses.

If you can sell it to Wei for 50,000, you can sell it to Chu for 80,000.

Qu Shu had never been to the Hetao and the grassland, and he didn't know how big these places were and how many war horses he could raise, but he knew that the Zhao State was definitely not as simple as recovering the Hetao, and he couldn't get so many war horses in the peak period of the Zhao State before.

"Can Chu State come up with so much money?" Zhao Kuo was a little surprised, the war horses of Wei are nearly 20,000 yuan each, Chu will not be cheaper than Wei, it will only be more expensive, it is possible to do more than 20,000, 80,000 war horses is more than 1.6 billion.

The state of Chu was not a later great unified empire, and even if it was a great unified empire, it would be difficult for it to come up with so much money at one time.

And raising horses later, training costs more money.

Chu is not like Zhao Guodaijun, Yanmen and other places, the sons of good families have been riding horses and archery since they were children, and they can become cavalry when they are recruited, even if they are not as good as elite cavalry, they will not be too bad.

Everything in the Chu State had to start from scratch, and the soldiers couldn't even ride horses, and the cost could be imagined.

"My Chu State can exchange it for Hangou." Qu Wei said with a smile, he already knew about Wei Guo's exchange of the chasm for war horses.

"No." Zhao Kuo immediately refused.

Can that thing compare to the chasm? If it is the era when Suhu is ripe and the world is full, the gap can still be juxtaposed with the chasm, and if it continues to pass north-south, like the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the chasm can be left far behind.

But how can the current gap be compared to the chasm.

In order to go north to cut Qi, Fucha opened a ditch in the lower reaches of Huaishui and Jiangshui to connect the Central Plains and Jiangnan, and then Fucha was killed by Gou Jian not long after.

The target of the Yue State was not the Chu State in the west, but the Qi State in the north, so Hangou was quite prosperous at that time.

After the destruction of the Yue by the Chu State, the Hangou was completely deserted, and the center of gravity of the Chu State has always been in the Yingdu and the Central Plains, and has never been placed in the land of Wuyue.

And the chasm is one of the best golden waterways in the Central Plains, and even so, only 50,000 war horses have been exchanged.

Chu State's exchange of 80,000 war horses for Hangou is purely an empty glove white wolf.

Qu Wei smiled, he didn't expect this thing to come to fruition, just to test it, but he didn't expect Zhao Kuo to refuse so simply, without giving face at all.

"What does the king mean?" Qu Zhi asked.

"The price of war horses in Chu should have exceeded 20,000." Zhao Kuo said with a smile.

"Twenty-two thousand." To tell the truth, the price of the war horse of the Chu State was originally higher than that of the Central Plains, but it was the first time that it was so outrageously high.

"I, Zhao State, can sell 60,000 war horses to Chu State, and the price of each horse is 20,000. Only 90 percent of the grain transaction is required, and there is no limit to the type of grain, rice, corn, wheat, sorghum, barley, or dried fish. Ninety-five percent was paid for other transactions in silk, medicinal herbs, copper, iron, and leather. If you pay with coins, you need ten out of ten. Zhao Kuo said.

"Yes." Qu Zhi thought for a moment and nodded.

It's a little more expensive, but everyone else has this thing, and the Chu State can't do without it, and if it doesn't have it, it can only be beaten.

Although there is a gap with the initial goal of 80,000, but with the 5,000 war horses given to him by Zhao State, a total of 65,000 war horses, which is not too much difference with 80,000, it is enough for Chu State.

"Do you need stirrups, horses' hooves, saddles, or whatever? I have supporting ones in Zhao State, and I can sell them to Chu State cheaply. "Zhao Kuo is like a conscientious salesman, promoting his own products.

"This ...... There is no need to do it, my Chu State can build it. Qu Zhi shook his head.

In order to buy this batch of war horses, the king of Chu had already offended his nobles, and promised to share some with them after buying them, so he raised so much money, how could he have extra money to buy stirrups or something.

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