"Your Majesty, Mrs. Zhang is here." The chamberlain respectfully reported.

"Let him in!" Wang Luo said without raising his head.

Soon, the chamberlain walked in with an officer.

Zhang Pu bowed to Wang Luo and said, "Your Majesty!" ”

"Sit!" Wang Luo put down the bamboo slip and rubbed his nose and said.

"Your Majesty is so hard-working is the fault of your subordinates." Zhang Pu said sincerely: "Although Your Majesty's state affairs are important, your body is even more important." ”

"I'll pay attention." Wang Luo nodded, and then asked, "How many war horses are there in the country now?" ”

"Your Majesty, there are 32,000 war horses in Yanzhao Racecourse, 15,000 horses in Qidi Racecourse, 40,000 in Qindi Racecourse, and about 20,000 horses in other places. The last time the hussar general went north to conquer the Huns, he transferred 100,000 war horses, and there was only these in the horse farm for the time being. Zhang Pu said after a quick calculation.

War horses belong to important strategic materials, and at the same time they are very delicate, and after a big battle, the damage is very large. So 100,000 horses seems like a lot, but it can only sustain a few high-intensity battles.

In addition to these war horses, the horse farm also has a large number of horses that are not suitable for war horses. These horses would be sold to the common people, and since the establishment of the gallop road, the number of private carriages has increased.

"How are the war horses of the Huns compared to the war horses?" Wang Luo asked again.

Zhang Pu said: "The war horses are inferior to the Huns. ”

"Is it really just a chip?" Wang Luo asked.

Zhang Pu instantly broke out in a cold sweat, and hurriedly said: "It's the difference between the high-grade war horses, and the difference between the middle and low-grade war horses is even worse." ”

"Is there a solution?"

"War horses can be imported from the Huns, and horse farm horses can be bred, and the good breeds can be selected to improve my big dry horses. At the same time, we select people who are good at raising horses, but "

"Just what?" Wang Luo asked.

"It's just Your Majesty, high-grade war horses still need to be trained in a suitable environment, otherwise war horses will still degenerate." Zhang Pu said.

Wang Luo also knows this. The environment in which the war horses are located also has a great impact on them, just like when the Huai State opened up horse farms in Huaibei and Jiangnan, and bought good horses from the north at a high price, but these horses became inferior horses after two generations of breeding.

"Do you know where I am suitable for raising horses?" Wang Luo asked.

"Your Majesty, the minister once went to the north to inspect and found that the land of the Hetao is rich in water and grass, which is suitable for raising horses." Zhang Pudao.

"Hetao!" Wang Luo nodded slightly.

The land of Hetao is still in the hands of the Huns, this land is very close to Daqian, where the water and grass are abundant, and the climate is also good. It's just that it's not easy to seize the land of the Loop.

Over the years, Wang Luo has increased the collection of information on the Huns, and after learning about the Huns, Wang Luo found that the Huns were not as powerful as he imagined.

According to the secret guards, the Huns lived in a very difficult situation, they did not produce cloth, kept warm with furs, and often slept with cattle and sheep in winter to keep warm.

As for eating beef and mutton and drinking cow and goat milk every day, this can only be enjoyed by the upper-class Xiongnu nobles. The bottom of the Huns was even more difficult than the land of Zhuxia.

More importantly, the Xiongnu were much more affected by natural disasters than Zhuxia.

Although there are many cattle and sheep on the grassland, in the cold winter, a white plague can freeze countless cattle and sheep to death. The people of Zhuxia can store grain and rely on it to survive natural disasters, but the people of the steppe cannot store large quantities of grain.

Beef and mutton cannot be stored for long periods of time, and there is a lack of salt in the grasslands, which makes it impossible to marinate food in large quantities. A snowstorm froze countless cattle and sheep to death, and the Huns were about to starve.

It is also because of the environment of this bitter cold land that the surviving Huns are very strong and have strong combat effectiveness.

With these weaknesses, if you want to defeat the Xiongnu Empire, you have to go to him to consume, the Huns' heritage cannot be compared with Zhuxia, as long as you defeat the Huns a few times, and if you are lucky, you will have a few heavy snowfalls, and the Huns will suffer heavy casualties.

There are not many other Heavenly Mandate artifacts in the Wang family, but there are too many celestial artifacts, as long as they are willing to pay the price, the Wang clan can collapse the Xiongnu Empire with just a few Heavenly Mandate artifacts. Let it splinter into tribes again.

However, the cost of using the Mandate of Heaven artifact is too high, and the benefits obtained are too small.

Every time you use the Mandate of Heaven artifact, you have to pay at least five thousand points of luck, and you also have a corresponding lifespan. If it is really a fight with the Huns, the Wang family will also be greatly damaged.

As the patriarch of the Wang clan, although Wang Luo didn't know the value of luck, he could feel that every time he used the Heavenly Mandate Artifact, he was consuming the family heritage.

The Hu people of the grassland are endless, and now if these grassland Hu people are killed, in a few decades, there will be a new Hu people who will make a comeback. Does it mean that every time the Hu people come, do they have to use the family heritage? It's impossible.

If the family heritage is exhausted, it won't be long before the Wang family will perish.

How can we solve the threat of nomads to the Central Plains once and for all? Wang Luo couldn't find an answer.

It's not that he didn't think about sending troops to the grassland, ploughing the court and sweeping the caves, killing all the grassland Hu people, and then building a city on the grassland. But it can't be done. The grassland cannot be cultivated, and the Central Plains is needed for blood transfusion every year, and the national strength is strong and strong, but the national strength will shrink immediately.

This is nothing more than a drink to quench your thirst.

"Inform the caravan and let the caravan go north to the Hetao to trade with the Huns, remember that weapons are not allowed, other salt, sugar, cloth, wine can be sold, silk, wine, spices and the like are unlimited, in exchange for some good horses to come back."

"Your Majesty, the minister found that the grassland eats more meat and milk, and the winter is long, and he likes to use tea to relieve his greasy, so Your Majesty might as well put tea in it." The dark guard next to him said.

Wang Luo nodded and said, "Okay, I'll leave it to you, remember to write down every inch of land in the Hetao and draw it into a map." ”

"Whoa!" With that, the dark guard gave up and left.

Although I haven't figured out how to deal with the Huns yet, I need to be prepared for the work in advance.

Wang Luo was going to collect the topography of the Hetao while using all kinds of wine, gorgeous silk, delicious food, and sugar to corrupt those Xiongnu nobles and indulge in enjoyment.

The Great Qian Dynasty did not study too much of all kinds of enjoyment, and Wang Luo sent a caravan to send these enjoyment things to the grassland. How quickly the nobles degenerated, Wang Luo couldn't be clearer.

For those nobles who have never seen much of the world on the grassland, once they have enjoyed this, it will be difficult to abandon them.

To be able to defeat a warrior is not necessarily a stronger warrior, but a comfortable and comfortable environment, mellow wine, delicious food, and gorgeous clothes. These are all excellent things that wear down the will and corrode the body

People are greedy for enjoyment, and in such a way that there are not many people who can restrain their behavior. Knives and guns can be dodged as weapons on the surface, how many people can dodge these beauties enjoying food and wine?

(End of chapter)