"Aifei, hahaha!"

Zhou Qian was excited, and hugged Emperor Jing's concubine and turned around.

Emperor Jing's concubine exclaimed in surprise, so frightened that Su Peiyuan next to her quickly turned around, covered her face, and couldn't bear to look at her.

I really didn't expect that His Majesty, who has never been close to women, would live the life of an old husband and wife like a young husband and wife in his old age.

Emperor Jing didn't expect that the scene she had dreamed of in her dream when she was young would come true at this time.

After exclaiming, she realized that Your Majesty should have some great joy to be so strange, she didn't say anything more, and let Her Majesty hold her around a few times, until Your Majesty's footsteps slowed down, she said softly: "Your Majesty, the concubine is a little scared, can you let the concubine come down?" ”

"Good, good."

It just so happened that Zhou Qian was also tired.

It's just that in front of his own woman, he always has to hold his face, so he didn't put people down.

At this time, Emperor Jing's concubine said this, and he went down the steps.

But after putting the person down, he suddenly picked him up horizontally, hugged him until he sat down in front of the chaise longituna, moved the person to his legs, wrapped his arms around him, and whispered the twists and turns presented by Qin Shangshu.

"Does a horseshoe really work like this?"

Emperor Jing's concubine is a tiger girl, so she naturally knows that those horses are deeply damaged by the horse's hooves, and they are originally good horses, but in the end they can only be trapped in the stables, or breed, or reduced to horse meat.

Now that he learned about the horseshoe, he couldn't help but rejoice and said: "Your Majesty, those old horses who were injured on the battlefield but can still move, nailed the horseshoe, can they still pull goods for use, even if they pull less than when they were young and strong, at least they can have a way to live." ”

The military horses were eliminated, and because they could not be reused, the end was extremely miserable.

But if it can be used, and then collect the surplus horses from the people, between a release and a levy, those horse dealers can make an extra amount of money, although the power of the old horse is not enough, but it can also reduce the cost of transportation when pulling some light and small objects or short distances.

The most important thing is that in this way, it has become very easy to recruit military horses in the civilian population during wartime.

"Concubine Ai's suggestion is good, I will ask the Ministry of War to draft a specific process tomorrow, as long as this horseshoe is in the hands of the Ministry of Industry, those horse dealers also have to remember my love, I don't compete with them for profit, they also have to plan for me, and mutual benefit and reciprocity with the people is the way to development!"

Zhou Qian excitedly rubbed Emperor Jing's somewhat rough hands and blurted out.

"When the winter hunting is after the tenth day of October, how about Concubine Ai and I go to the hunting grounds in the northern suburbs together?"

"Can a concubine ride an old horse with a horseshoe? The concubine is old, and in this palace, she has not ridden a horse for decades, and she is worried that she will be thrown off because of her equestrian rustiness. ”

Emperor Jing's words made Zhou Qian's heart not taste.

He couldn't help but think of Emperor An's concubine.

Emperor An likes all kinds of strange objects, and when he has spare time, he will send someone to search for and send them to Emperor An.

But Emperor Jing Guifei has been guarding this deep palace alone for decades, he should have known what she liked most when she was born in Jiangmen, and what if she brought one more person for winter hunting every year?

Unfortunately.

It's just that he only now saw how good Emperor Jing was doing.

"We don't ride old horses, I'll ride with you, I'll teach you if you're unfamiliar, if you don't teach well this year, there will be next year, and you will accompany me to winter hunting in the northern suburbs in the future."

"A gentleman's word cannot be changed."

Emperor Jing Guifei stretched out her palm.

Zhou Qian rarely saw that she was greedy, but not for enjoyment, just to go to the hunting ground to run a horse, crying and laughing, raised his palm, and struck her three times, which was to make a vow.

Emperor Jing was just curious about what was going on outside, which made His Majesty laugh all the time.

Now that she learned that it was a court affair, and she had a chance to go to the hunting grounds in the northern suburbs to follow the king, she yawned.

"The concubine is sleepy, Your Majesty slowly conceived the use of the horseshoe, and the concubine slept first."

"I'm not very proficient in this fresh thing, Su Peiyuan, you send the Ministry of Engineering to send the horseshoe to Ning Aiqing, so that he can be happy, maybe he can come up with some other uses besides being happy."

Zhou Qian is not sleepy.

But he still wants to deal with tomorrow morning with all his might.

The advent of the horseshoe made him think about it for a long time, but due to financial and material reasons, a plan that could not be implemented was finally able to be started.

You can imagine what kind of obstruction there will be.

But this matter is in the right place and the right place, and the advantage is on his side, if he misses it, I am afraid that he will not have a chance in the next life, and he will take this opportunity to expand the cavalry.

Raising cavalry, a soldier and a horse for a year is not a cost, just to maintain daily forage and manpower, it costs more than 50 taels, excellent horses and excellent cavalry even cost 100 taels of silver.

Now the Daxing cavalry claims to have 5,000 people, but in fact, the old and old are dead, and only two or three thousand are left.

Many of them were still local garrisons, and they could only cross thousands of miles, and could not make more longer treks.

When the battle really started, he mobilized his troops to temporarily serve as cavalry, as he had done in the past when he put down the rebellion on the sides.

But if it is against the Beidi cavalry who has been planning for a long time, and the wolf warrior on the snowfield, there is no chance of victory.

He wanted to expand his army of 2,000 elite cavalry.

That's 200,000 a year.

Plus a fine war horse, and it costs two hundred taels of silver, and two thousand horses are four hundred thousand taels.

So much money was put into it, and the horseshoe extended the life of the horse, which had to be preserved for at least ten years.

Spending so much money, just to deal with a possible sudden war, the household department did not agree to bear the brunt.

Fortunately.

The 20 million taels of silver income from the Ministry of Industry can be taken out of his private treasury.

But when I think of the subsidies for increasing troops, as well as winter winter clothing, and the strengthening of military supplies, all aspects have to be spent on money.

Zhou Qian called Su Peiyuan, who had just walked out of the door, back.

"When you send the horseshoe to Ning Aiqing, you ask him again, is there any other use for that glass besides the glass window?"

Regardless of whether Ning Aiqing has a way or not, Zhou Qian has no way to increase the budget for radiators anyway.

It can't go to the battlefield bare-chested in warm clothes and with a full stomach to go to the battlefield with bare hands.

Plus there's the consumption of horseshoes.

Even if there is more surplus in Daxing Iron Mine, he has to save some.

Radiators can't consume too much iron at once, but there are too many stones to make glaze, and there is no place to put them.

"If Ning Aiqing can come up with other uses, I will reward him with another raw material mine of colored glass."

“……”

Su Peiyuan hurriedly lowered his head, so as not to let His Majesty notice that his face was strange at this time.

But he really couldn't control the power of slander in his heart.

Your Majesty.

You're a mule envoy for Emperor Naning.

It's not enough for a glass window to earn 20 million taels overnight, and you have to lure Ning Huangshang to think of another way to make money.

There is one in the Ning family in the glazed mine, and it is enough to replace the Ning Mansion and the future Prime Minister's Mansion with glazed windows when they are idle, and another one, isn't that just the icing on the cake?

Su Peiyuan felt that His Majesty might as well give something else to show more sincerity.