This cannot be said.

So Wang Ju just vaguely said a general trend.

"You have become Zhang Zai as your teacher. You should hear that Xue Zhuanyun Commander is in charge of Ma Zheng?" Cheng Kan sighed slightly. He had warned Zhang Zai at the beginning, but Zhang Zai was an honest man. He had never played with this boy's mind, but he soon regarded him as a treasure.

Wang Ju nodded.

"Mr. Ouyang wanted to set up a horse prison in the two states of Lanshi, but horses were also native and could not place Xifan horses in Hedong for breeding. Therefore, I wanted to buy horses and horses in Xixia. At the same time, Hedong also bought horses and horses from the Khitan. Then the horse prison in the two states could have horses raised."

Wang Ju also knows a little about this history.

Fan Xiang died, and Xue Xiang replaced Fan Xiang as the Shaanxi Transportation Commissioner. He was a very good financial management official and his financial management ability ranked among the top ten in the Song Dynasty.

For transportation in Shaanxi, one is military expenditure, the other is salt, and the other is horse.

The Song Dynasty set up many pastoral prisons in Hebei, Kaifeng and Shaanxi, which are places for raising horses. The largest pastoral prison in Shaanxi is Shayuan between the Wei River and the Beiluo River, and Tongzhou area in northern Huazhou. It is not small in area, eighty miles from east to west and thirty miles from north to south. This was once an important horse breeding place in the Han and Tang Dynasties.

I have a good idea, but the times are different. Just like Dafeichuan, is it still a good pasture with swamps? The pastures of the past have now become places where ponds and sand are dried up, and the environment is deteriorating frequently with drought and flood.

Moreover, there were shortages of horses in the Song Dynasty, so the horses were born in a mess, including Sichuan horses, Xixia horses, Khitan horses, Tubo horses, Uighur horses, and even Dali horses and Guangnan horses. Can these horses be raised in all parts of the country and the north?

Officials either greedy or inaction, or even withhold feed, deliberately raise horses to death, and use dead horses to make profits. Horse meat, horse skin, horse tail, and horse mane can be sold for money.

The wealthy families kept invading the farming area, and the area of ​​pastoral supervision decreased day by day.

Therefore, when Xue Xiang went down to investigate, he was stunned and immediately wrote a letter to raise horses in the Shayuan, occupying a thousand hectares of land, with an annual cost of 40 million yuan, and only 300 horses. After using such a large area of ​​land, it would cost more than 100 yuan to get a horse.

In the book, the court was shocked, and Xue Xiang offered another strategy and rented the idle land to the people. For them, the government would get some rent than if the wealthy families invaded the farm. Then, let the merchants in Qinzhou come to the capital, give him travel expenses and capital, then buy horses at the border, and then set up a field for the Deshun army in Weizhou and Deshun to collect horses, and provide salt transfers.

The strategy is profitable, but the actual cost of the court will not be much. If merchants want to make profits, they must insist on salt removal and salt removal vendors to various parts of Shaanxi to expand the sales of salt removal and to counteract the impact of the green salt in the Western Xia. It is not in the southwest, and the court does not lack salt, but how to sell salt. Therefore, the court obtained a large number of war horses with very little cost.

Second, the horses of the Western Rong were harvested into the West without losing their local nature, which means they would not be disobeyed by the land and water, causing a large number of war horses to die. Third, there were many wastelands in Qin and Wei, and they could be developed into pastures without invading fertile land.

This was a good suggestion, so Zhao Zhen issued an edict to specifically take charge of the herds and horse buying business, and still cooperate with Yuanzhou, Weizhou, and Deshun troops to set up horse buying farms. The Shayuan Supervisor and Fengxiang Prefecture Pastoral Land were appointed as officials of the envoys and herds office, and ordered Xue Xiang to recommend it to hear that.

Xue Xiang wrote another letter, originally there were nine horse farms in the northwest, but Zhenzong said that even if they bought horses from the foreign countries, they would also recruit foreign troops to handle the situation of the enemy. It should not be easy. Therefore, only Qinzhou was the only one in the nine horse farms, most of which were Han Shangs. The court paid about fifty or sixty thousand yuan to get a horse from them. However, in order to make a profit, the horses sold to the government were all sick, with low shape and weak bones, and a plaque and a small size of less than four feet and two inches. Therefore, the court asked the court to allow the salt removal to recruit foreign merchants so that the court could obtain good horses.

The court approved again.

So Wang Anshi and Cai Jing both acted ruthlessly against the merchants. It is true that what they did was inauthentic at some point. For example, this horse, such as mixing sand, stone, and mud into military rations.

It was a good thing.

But there were too many people. At that time, Ouyang Xiu was transferred from Kaifeng Prefecture to serve as a herd envoy. When this hole was opened, he felt his face was dull. He would forgive his sins. So he also wrote a letter to the Tang Dynasty's pasture land, from the west to the Pingliang Tianshui of Jincheng, Longyou, and the outside to the Hequ wilderness. Inside, there were Qi, You, Jing, Ning, and Yin, and Xia, and the east to Loufan. Now it was invaded by the foreign boundary and fell into the invasion of the ten thousand, and could not be obtained again. However, there were many deserts between the east of the river, among the stones, and on the side of the Fen River,

The grassland is also wide, and the water and grass are the most suitable for herding. This is the Tang Loufuku supervision site. If you refer to it, the old land of Yuanchi and Tianchi are still popular. In previous years, I have been on missions to go to the east of Weisheng and Liaozhou to pacify the army. The land is mostly idle and empty. The water and grass along the Hedong road are very good, and the terrain is high and cold, so it must be suitable for horse nature. In addition, the wasteland between the west of Beijing and the west of Ru is also wide. Please go to Hedong and the west of Beijing Transportation Department to send officials to review the rules. If you can establish a supervisor, the Hebei supervisors can be abolished and dismissed.

Ouyang Xiu's suggestion is a little better. Although he was not good at it, he was hindsighted.

But the other person became funny, Song Song Qi.

He had also served as a group herder before. Xue Xiang poked the black hole out, and his face was also dug up, so he wrote a memorial.

I have served as a herd envoy before. I once said that as long as the prisoners buy 50,000 or 60,000 horses, they can get 50,000 or 60,000 horses a year. In less than five years, they can get 250,000 horses, and two-tenths of the loss of death, and 200,000 horses. They can also choose half of the horses to be pack horses, and they can also get 100,000 war horses. They can gallop with the barbarians.

It turns out that this is not raising horses, but raising sows. Old sows may not have the ability to reproduce...

However, even Wang Ju did not agree with Xue Xiang's suggestion.

After thinking for a while, he said, "Mr. Cheng, with the intention of a boy, Mr. Xue's move may not be appropriate."

"oh."

"Mr. Cheng and Mr. Xue still raise horses, but what is the goal of raising horses? It is to build a powerful cavalry. Why can't raise horses be good? It is because the tyrant merchants seek profit, collude with officials, and sell inferior horses to the court. The clerks are greedy for ink and deduct the cost of raising horses in greedy, resulting in poor horses being poor or even death. They also occupy a large amount of fertile land. Even if they are moved to Weizhou, these disadvantages cannot be changed. It is better to just hand over these horses directly to the army."

"The court will always be short of horses."

"Our dynasty loses Hetao and Hehuang in Lingzhou, and is destined to be short of horses." Wang Ju said decisively.

In fact, by the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, even if the Song Dynasty occupied Hehuang, it did not really organize a powerful cavalry. It was Ma Zheng who left the foundation and sought the end.

"The same is true for Mr. Ouyang's advice. If you are interested in hedging horses in Hedong, it is better to leave them to the people for breeding. Raise them for profit. The court will save a lot of redundant expenses, and the people will try every means to raise good horses for profit."

Wang Juzhen thought that in order to cooperate with Ouyang Xiu, Cheng Kan left the horse buying club.

Seeing Wang Ju leave, Mrs. Cheng said, "Official, why don't you tell the truth? This guy is smart and weird, maybe he will come up with a better solution."

"What does he know?" Cheng Kan said.

"However, he said two things but made the officials think deeply."

Cheng Kan opened his mouth, but he was speechless.

This horse buying club is part of Cheng Kan’s major plan.

The area of ​​Xixia is not small, but its products are barren, mostly deserts and Gobi Deserts. Therefore, many materials such as cloth, tea, copper and iron and even food must be suppressed by the Song Dynasty. Once interrupted, it will immediately cause a crisis. For example, in the Qingli and Song Dynasty, the thick silk that was not worth a fortune in the Song Dynasty soared to more than eight cents of money to the Xixia region.

After Wuzang Epang invaded Quye River, the Song Dynasty interrupted Hecheng City. Especially after Xue Xiang was in charge of the transfer of Shaanxi, he attacked the circulation of green salt, and prices in Xixia began to rise again.

The people of Xixia are suffering, and the people in Hengshan are even more suffering.

There is still a period of history when Li Jiqian gained power. The earliest support of some tribes in Yin Xiayu who had damaged their interests in the mountainous areas, including supporting Li Jiqian and marrying his daughter to Li Jiqian's Yeli tribe. The large Song army came and fled to the Nanhetao Desert, retreated again, dragging the Song army to the point where he got the Yin Xia area.

This Qiang people are Hengshan Qiang.

However, as Yeli Yuqi was killed, the Hengshan Qiang became a low status in Xixia.

With a sense of loss and poverty, many Hengshan Qiang became dissatisfied with the Western Xia.

Therefore, the Hengshan tribe wrote a secret letter to Cheng Kan on the outline, willing to lead his troops, even join some tribes, join the Song Dynasty, and cooperate with the Song army inside and outside to seize Lingxia and build an immortal foundation for all eternity.

Cheng Kan was very happy to receive the secret letter, and the fool knew that if the operation was done properly, it would be a great opportunity to make achievements.

Zhu Huan's buying horses also made Cheng Kan have an idea.

The other side of Hengshan was poor, lacking clothes and food. Using some of the food could lure the tribes of Hengshan to sell private horses to the Song Dynasty.

But the Song Dynasty continued to ban trade between the two countries, so what would happen to the Xixia side?

As long as Xixia bans it, more tribes will become dissatisfied.

Big things can be accomplished!

But Cheng Kan now has to face three choices.

The first choice is to support Qingnihuai's materials and weapons, so that Qingnihuai's troops can send troops to Lingxia. That will not be taken seriously, but it will cause some heavy damage to Xixia and even cause greater divisions in Hengshan tribes.

The second option is to take in, let Qingnihuaifang take his troops to escape to the Song Dynasty. This is easy, right on the border. If possible, Qingnihuaifang can bring tens of thousands of people to the Song Dynasty. The Hengshan Qiang is powerful and someone needs to escape to the Song Dynasty. Where can there be any Hengshan Qiang? Even if the Qiang people who stayed, the Western Xia had a stronger sense of defense and could create more operational space.

The third is radical idea. If Qingnihuai cooperates and decisively sends troops to Hengshan, it is impossible to occupy the entire Hengshan, but if it can occupy one-third, with this one-third condescending momentum, it will pose a serious threat to Lingxia. How much initiative will the Song Dynasty take then?

The opportunity came, but Cheng Kan had no choice.

In fact, Cheng Kan missed the biggest opportunity.
Chapter completed!