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Chapter 223: Prairie and Hero Lord Ask for a Monthly Pass)

"Nianhan, do you want to invite the emperor to come south?" Wanyan Zongwang frowned slightly when he heard this.

"Yes!" Wanyan Zonghan also frowned, "It's different from the past... The Song State has produced a wise king, so we have to let the emperor work harder and lead the emperor to personally fight!"

His words were very loud, but in fact they were not feeling sorry for Emperor Wu Qimai. When Wu Qimai was the emperor, it was said that because he wanted to eat and drink well, he used the money in the treasury. He was caught by Wanyan Zonghan, Bo Jilie, and was beaten by the butt... The emperor was beaten by his ministers! This is also very rare in Chinese history, right?

Although there are many high-sounding reasons for this matter, the root of the Jurchen military nobles is Aguda, the founding leader, who seems to want to limit the imperial power!

In the original history, the Jurchen imperial power was indeed restricted until Wanyan Liang seized power... It is precisely for this reason that the Great Jin Emperor lacked the presence of the Song and Jin war before Wanyan Liang's southern expedition.

But this time, due to Zhao Kai's rise and Zhao Huan's treacherous dwelling, Wanyan Zonghan knew that he could no longer throw the Great Jin Emperor in the distant Huining Mansion. Because it was not Wanyan Wuqi who bought this great god to command, it would be difficult for the two armies of the North and South of the Great Jin Kingdom to coordinate, let alone the coordination between the Jin and Xia teams.

The five armies have hundreds of thousands of people. Although it is impossible to cooperate closely, they cannot be without any coordination - at least the time for sending troops must be coordinated, right? It doesn’t matter if there are a few days or ten days apart, but not by three to five months, so that Zhao Kai’s army can defeat all the five armies!

In addition, the emperor can decide whether to beat Xixia at any time when he is in charge of Yanjing!

Because Xixia did not have the ambition to divide the Song Dynasty with the Great Jin Dynasty, they only wanted to order annual monies and then sever a few prefectures in the Song Dynasty... Faced with the pressure of the millions of Jin and Xia coalition forces, Zhao Kai was very likely to use his land and wealth to win over Xixia and keep them neutral.

In this way, Zhao Kai can concentrate his efforts between Hedong and Hebei to defend against the attack of the Jin Kingdom.

"But the emperor is in charge of Huining, just to shock the grassland!" Wanyan Zongwang seemed a little worried.

"Prairie?" Wanyan Zonghan asked, "Is it Dashi or Hebuli?"

"It's Hebule!" Wanyan Zongwang frowned and said, "Yelu Dashi is the west of the grassland, and the defeated general under our command is not too great. However, Hebule of the Mengwu tribe is ambitious. Recently, he also convened the leaders of the Mengwu tribes on the grassland to hold a meeting, asking everyone to recommend him to call him Khan... It's August now, and the meeting may have been held, and Hebule is probably the Khan. You can't ignore this matter! When the Khitans ruled the north in the past, the tribes on the grassland caused a lot of trouble!"

This Hebule surname Borjijin is Genghis Khan's great-grandfather!

Before the collapse of the Great Liao Dynasty, the Hebule and other leaders of the Mengwu tribe surrendered to the Great Liao and were vassals of the Liao lord. After the collapse of the Liao Kingdom, the various Mongolian tribes also took the opportunity to rise up and escape from the rule of the Liao Kingdom. However, they did not surrender to the Jin Kingdom, but instead became an independent tribal alliance.

If the Great Jin Kingdom could not subdue the Mengwu tribe and incorporate it into the Dajin's own vassal system, the Mengwu tribe would continue to annex the grassland tribes and eventually grow stronger, posing a huge threat to the Great Jin.

"This matter is in a hurry..." Wanyan Zonghan said, "The tribes on the grassland are all vague and difficult to find traces. We can only slowly plan them. Let's deal with the Song Dynasty first!"

Wanyan Zongbi also supported Zong Han's opinion at this time, and smiled and said to Zong Wang: "Second brother, let's first come south and then north! As long as you can defeat Song State and gain the wealth of Song State, are you afraid that you will not be able to deal with the Mengwu people?"

Seeing that his brother said so, Wanyan Zongwang had to let go and said to his son Wanyan Qi: "Wanyan Qi, you and Nianhan, your fourth uncle will go there..." He said to Wanyan Zonghan again, "Nianhan, I didn't agree with occupying too much Central Plains land... This will involve our strength and will not help pacify the grassland. Once the grassland has a hero, our Jurchens will be in trouble!

But now that we have fallen into the Central Plains, we cannot admit defeat easily, otherwise we will lose prestige and lose people's hearts. We can only have a big fight with Zhao Kai!"

Wanyan Zongwang raised his head and looked at the bright moon in the sky, "You go quickly and get along quickly, I will take good care of you. Next autumn, let's fight again!"

......

The sky is vast and the wilderness is vast.

On the grassland, it is now a withered and yellow late autumn season. Looking up from a distance, you can only see endless desolation and desolation... No, there is also a huge yellow castle, right at the end of your eyes, looking lifeless. The whole world is filled with the atmosphere of the northwest and outside the border.

But here is Kaifeng Prefecture!

Yes, this is the Kaifeng Prefecture of the Song Dynasty, which has occupied the throne of the world's highest housing prices, for at least one hundred decades!

But this is not in Kaifeng Prefecture City, but in the suburbs outside the city... Even the suburbs are very expensive! Before the Xuanhe crisis, every inch of land in Kaifeng Prefecture City was worth every inch of land, and at least every inch of land outside Kaifeng Prefecture City was worth every inch of land!

If you can build a manor outside Kaifeng Prefecture City, you are either rich or noble! Zhao Kai, who now has an annual salary of 6 million yuan (that is probably the world's number one), had a large manor outside Kaifeng Prefecture City back then... Before his soul was "sublimated", he often spent happy time with the heads of the Kaifeng Prefecture's courtesans in that mansion.

It’s still very interesting to recall now!

Unfortunately, things are changing now... No, things are changing, people are losing, and even the soul is flying?

Zhao Kai, who was riding a Qingtang dragon horse, gently lifted the reins, stopped the BMW under his crotch, then stood up on the kickstand and looked around.

There were twenty-four female squads wearing chain armor and strong figures immediately came over, forming a circle, and circled Zhao Kai in the center. Only the female squads with veils on their faces were all pinching their horn bows in their hands, looking around with vigilance, as if they wanted to find an assassin from the dead grass more than half a person tall, and then shoot with an arrow... These young ladies are so fierce!

On the outer side, there are hundreds of Yulin cavalry and imperial cavalry, all in a group of double cavalry, one with a carriage and one with a bow and arrow, and after dispersing, they control a large area of ​​grassland. Each of them looks quite strong, loyal guardian of their emperor.

Beside Zhao Kai, there were several senior officials wearing scarlet official uniforms, who also strangled the horse and came to the Song Dynasty's official house.

One of the black-faced men began to talk, "Official family, this grassland is really great, with a radius of hundreds of miles, at least three million acres of grassland... It's still weeds now. When the grass seeds are sprinkled next spring, it will be dark green in summer. If the bean cakes are enough, it can raise 100,000 horses, or even 150,000 horses! Who said there is no place to raise horses in the Central Plains? Isn't that?"

Is this human word?

Is this grassland? This is Kaifeng Prefecture!

The person who said this was Ma Wang, the horse head that Tong Guan found for Zhao Kai from the Moutuogang Horse Farm... During the period when Zhao Kai was rising, although Ma Wang's presence was not as good as that of Han Shizhong, Huang Wuji, Yue Fei, Xiang Ke, and Li Xiaozhong, he was an indispensable figure.

Because until now, Zhao Kai's army still has cavalry as its main attack and combat power - this is also the characteristic of the Song army, which was said to be "no horses" in the past!

Although there is a shortage of horses... the fighting style is still based on cavalry as the main force of attack!

Otherwise, how can we attack? We can't let a group of crossbowmen who are not equipped with long-handled weapons attack the enemy's cavalry? This is impossible! Or set up an iron barrel formation and then hope that the enemy's cavalry will come into being foolishly? Unfortunately, the cavalry powers that are neighbors in the Song Dynasty are not so stupid...

Although Zhao Kai has been working hard to enhance the attack power of the infantry, this kind of thing will not be effective in a while... So the cavalry is still Zhao Kai's main attack power of the Song army.

In the past two years, Ma Wang has been responsible for providing horses to Zhao Kai's increasingly large cavalry!

This responsibility is really heavy and heavy! Ma Wang led a group of old brothers from Mou Tuogang to successfully carry this heavy burden.

At least so far, everyone has horse soldiers under Zhao Kai’s command!

Ma Wang and his ordinary Ma Yi brothers were also promoted to such a position. Now Ma Wang's title has been promoted to the Central Doctor, his official position has been promoted to the Rampant Doctor, and he has also been added to Yaojun... A Ma Yi was promoted from a lieutenant to this position in less than two years, which is truly unique.

However, no matter how high Ma Wang's official position is, it is impossible to turn the horse out of thin air!

With the full implementation of the government system and the increasing scale of cavalry, the supply of horses has become very tight.

Although Zhao Kai's Song Dynasty controlled Shaanxi and also mastered the path to Qingtang Grassland, he could obtain the supply of good horses.

But buying other people's horses is not as reliable as raising horses by yourself... And there are two routes to raise horses. One is to encourage nobles and soldiers to raise horses in their own farms; the other is to establish an official horse farm.

Zhao Kai actually has several official horse farms, but they are not large in scale - where can I find a big grassland in the Central Plains? Although there are several hillside grasslands around Luoyang, the area is not large. Adding one piece can only raise up to 20,000 to 30,000 horses.

And just when Zhao Kai was worried about not having a horse farm, the answer to this question was found in Kaifeng Prefecture!

Kaifeng Prefecture is the most suitable grassland horse farm today!

Not only has the area of ​​more than 100 miles around Kaifeng Prefecture become a weedland, but also large open spaces have appeared inside the huge Kaifeng Prefecture city, which is enough to keep hundreds of thousands of horses in a short period of time. If the enemy suddenly attacks, the castle of Kaifeng Prefecture will be enough to become a refuge for horses.

Thinking of this, Zhao Kai could only sigh: "I didn't expect that Kaifeng Prefecture, which was once prosperous and prosperous, has now become a grassland... Well, the horse farm of the Qunmusi Department is located in Kaifeng Prefecture!
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