"Come on, come on, drink and drink." Fan Zuo wanted to continue to persuade, Xunzi raised his glass and said, Fan Zuo had no choice but to give up, Xunzi still had to give him face.
This is a famous person all over the world, and few people don’t know about him.
In this era, fame can really be eaten. With the word "Xunzi", you will be treated politely wherever you go, even the monarch will receive you personally.
Except for a very few weirdos, no one would choose to offend celebrities. Even if they despised certain celebrities in their hearts, they would never show it.
Otherwise, these celebrities will not only scold you, but also record the incident and leave it to future generations to scold you together, nailing you to the pillar of shame.
Even a monarch cannot afford to offend these pen-holders.
"This must be Xunzi from Jixia Academy. I would like to propose a toast to you." King Wei raised his glass and said.
"I am Xunzi, but I am Xunzi from Handan College." Xunzi picked up the wine glass, made a gesture of inviting him, and drank it down in one gulp.
"Haha." King Wei smiled awkwardly. He didn't mean to mock Xunzi just now, it was just a habit. After all, Handan College was only established less than a year ago, and Xunzi has been staying at Jixia Academy for so many years.
"Your Majesty, I, the State of Wei, have not yet congratulated the State of Zhao for defeating the Huns." Lord Longyang saw this and said in order to ease the embarrassment of King Wei.
"Yes, yes, I congratulate the State of Zhao for defeating the Huns and wiping out the foreign enemies in the north." King Wei said loudly.
Due to the restriction of news dissemination, although all the countries in the Central Plains knew that Zhao had defeated the Huns, they did not know that dozens of large and small armies, including the Huns, had been completely destroyed. The grasslands had been set up as counties by Zhao and divided into pastures. , began to plant grass and graze.
They thought that Zhao had only defeated the Xiongnu army, and at most the Xiongnu were defeated miserably.
"We are all happy together. After several months, Zhao Kuo mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops and spent countless money, we finally defeated the Xiongnu. It can be considered that we have lived up to the sacrifices of the soldiers." Zhao Kuo said with a toast.
"Zhao must have gained a lot of war horses from this battle. I wonder if you can sell some to Wei?" Zhang Yan asked.
When Jin Bi, Mang Mao and other generals heard this, their eyes lit up and they looked at Zhao Kuo eagerly.
It should be said that Wei State is not particularly short of war horses, otherwise it would not be able to pull out so many chariots.
It may be a bit exaggerated to claim that each one has thousands of chariots, but it is really not difficult to pull out thousands of chariots.
However, Wei State did not have many horses that could form cavalry.
After all, chariots are pulled by multiple horses at the same time, so they are more tolerant and can be used as long as they are not too bad. However, cavalry cannot be used. You can't ride two horses at the same time.
Moreover, although horses are fast, they have poor endurance. In order to ensure combat effectiveness, at least one person must have two horses, or even one person must have three horses.
The State of Qin wanted to train its own cavalry and no longer sold war horses. The State of Zhao blocked all war horses from the north, and the countries in the Central Plains wanted to train their cavalry.
Now the price of war horses has increased several times, and demand exceeds supply. Even the price of horses has increased a lot.
In fact, the State of Qin is also struggling. Now you can definitely make a lot of money by selling horses, but money and food are definitely not as important as cavalry. Once the cavalry is trained, other people's money and food are my money and food. If the cavalry is not well trained, my money and food will be other people's money and food.
Don't sell it, this big piece of cake will definitely be swallowed by Zhao State, and Qin State doesn't want Zhao State to get so many benefits.
Unfortunately, there is no best-of-both-worlds solution. Unless Qin can sell off its war horses in large quantities and completely drive down the price, it will cause another problem. After Han, Wei and other countries have trained their cavalry, 80% of them will use it to defeat them.
Even if you don't have to fight him, it will be significantly more difficult for Qin to attack the two countries.
In the end, the Qin State still did not sell the war horses, but even so, the Qin State made a lot of money by selling the horses, which relieved the domestic pressure.
This is the benefit of monopoly. If Wei State still occupies Hexi and Zhao State does not block Yan State's path to the south, the current situation will never be possible.
Zhao Kuo did not speak, but glanced at Lu Zhonglian. Lu Zhonglian asked: "I wonder how many war horses Wei plans to buy?"
At the same time, secretly activate the talent of spring breeze.
"How much can Zhao Guo sell?" Zhang Yan asked. He didn't know what was going on, but he suddenly felt that Lu Zhonglian was very pleasing to his eye.
Lu Zhonglian was stunned for a moment and didn't know how to answer. What do you think of Zhao's current horses? I can't say a lot, I can only say a lot. Rong Di alone has millions of horses, even if we exclude those who died in battles. , there are hundreds of thousands of stallions, young horses, and draft horses that have died of illness. Now raising horses has become a problem for Zhao.
There are also large herds of wild horses on the grassland, ranging from dozens of small ones to tens of thousands of large ones, and all of them are high-quality horses that can be used as war horses after being captured. The horse horses have been naturally eliminated.
And because of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, many of these wild horses have inner energy, and there are even war horses in the extraordinary realm. On the other hand, the proportion of artificially bred war horses with internal energy is much smaller than that of wild horses. Currently, no Transcendent realm war horse has been found.
If Zhao Guo sent people to capture these wild horses on a large scale, at least hundreds of thousands of them could be captured, but this was a one-time effort, and there would not be so many after the capture.
But if we only arrest 30,000 to 50,000 people every year, we can continue to arrest them.
In addition, Zhao State can also buy war horses from Yan State cheaply and earn the price difference. Yan State has been blocked by Zhao State, and there is no other way except selling them to Zhao State.
In addition, Zhao Guo can also steal war horses from Donghu.
In short, Lu Zhonglian doesn't know how many horses Zhao has.
However, Zhang Yan did not ask how many horses Zhao had, but how many horses Zhao could sell. Lu Zhonglian thought about Wei's financial resources, the degree of threat to Zhao, and at the same time, he had to ensure that he had the power to counter Qin's cavalry.
After a moment, Lu Zhonglian stretched out a palm, and all five fingers on the palm stood up.
"Five thousand? It's a bit less." Zhang Yan shook his head. This is only enough to train two or three thousand cavalry. It is still useful in small-scale wars. It will not even make a splash in large-scale battles.
"Fifty thousand." Lu Zhonglian said.
"Ding Dong!" The kuaizi in King Wei's hand fell onto the tripod. Fan Zuo tilted the wine glass in his hand and did not even notice that the wine spilled into his arms. Jin Bi and others froze on the spot, motionless.
"We, the Kingdom of Wei, don't want rogue horses." Zhang Yan said with a straight face.
"All of them are war horses over six feet five." Lu Zhonglian said.
"Is this true?" Jin Bi said excitedly. He did not ask Lu Zhonglian, but looked at Zhao Kuo.
"Lu Qing can make the final decision on this matter. You don't need to ask me anymore." Zhao Kuo said with a smile, then picked up the wine glass and took a sip. The taste was far different from the wine of my country, Zhao.
"We in Wei...can't afford so many war horses." After a while, Zhang Yan sighed deeply and shook his head helplessly.
In the past, the price of war horses and cattle was about the same, around four to five thousand, but now it has almost risen to 20,000. Even if Zhao gave Wei a cheaper price, Wei could not afford it.
