Two or three days later, Zhao Hongxuan, the king of Huan, who was about to go to Hedong to join his brother, received a letter from Luo Ying, a staff member of the eldest prince. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

After a cursory look at the letter, Zhao Hongxuan pursed his lips and said coldly: "King Yong actually sent Zhang Qigong to lobby the eldest brother and want to join hands with the eldest brother? It's really brazen! ”

In his opinion, the eldest brother, that is, Zhao Hongli, the former prince of the East Palace, and his position as the crown prince were clearly framed by King Yong's treacherous design, but today is good, this King Yong actually dared to go to the palace of the eldest prince with a cheeky face to propose to join hands with each other, if Zhao Hongxuan was there that day, he would inevitably spray that Zhang Qigong's face.

Compared with Zhao Hongxuan's sneer and ridicule, Zhou Yu's state of mind is extremely calm, maybe he feels a little dark - with the acquiescence of King Yong, Zhang Qigong expelled him from King Yong's staff, but now it seems that the master and servant are not doing well, which makes Zhou Yu's heart secretly happy.

If he hadn't defected to Zhao Hongxuan, the king of Huan, I believe he would probably say triumphantly at this moment: Look, without me Zhou Yu, you really can't play!

However, since he has defected to Zhao Hongxuan, the king of Huan, it seems that this kind of thing is not easy to say casually.

Therefore, after touching his chin, Zhou Yu chuckled and said: "On that day, King Yong and King Xiang sent Chen Tang and Liu Jie to Qiguan respectively, and I knew that King Yong and King Xiang had parted ways...... Most likely, King Yong was suffering from the situation of His Royal Highness the eldest prince of the year, and was suppressed by King Yong and King Qing together. ”

When he said this, Zhou Yu was still a little dark in his heart.

I think that at the beginning, although King Yong's wisdom and knowledge of people picked out him Zhou Yu from the ranking after that year, but he Zhou Yu did not live up to the trust of King Yong, and the former prince of the East Palace, Zhao Hongli, and his staff Luo Ying could not find the north, but how did King Yong treat the meritorious people in the end?

Zhou Yu never believed that Zhang Qigong would seize his position next to King Yong, and this matter itself would not have the acquiescence of King Yong.

"Well deserved!" Huan Wang Zhao Hongxuan gloated and scolded.

Zhou Yu hummed in agreement.

On the same day, Zhao Hong summoned Zong Wei Gong Liangyi, who had been appointed as the "Right City Lieutenant of Qi County", left him with 5,000 soldiers, and told him to garrison in the border city of Qi County.

Subsequently, Zhao Hongxuan personally visited Zhao Hongjiang, the king of Yan, Shaohu, the general, and Wei Mu, the general of the Southern Yan, bid farewell to the three of them, and set off for Hedong.

Because of his heart tightened on something, Zhao Hongxuan couldn't wait to return to Hedong slowly with the infantry, so he asked Zhang Biao, the chief of Zongwei, to lead the army, and he himself took Zongwei Li Meng and more than 200 cavalry to Anyi quickly.

These two hundred cavalry were gathered by Zhao Hongxuan in the past few days, after all, now he and Zhao Hongjiang, the king of Yan, are in control of the border city of Qixian County, and it is really not a difficult thing to choose some qualified war horses from the tens of thousands of cattle and horses in the mutual market.

Therefore, after greeting Zhao Hongjiang, the king of Yan, he got about two hundred horses and formed a cavalry team.

It's a pity that at present, he can only make a small fuss to form a cavalry team of more than 200 people to play, if the number is too much, he can't afford to raise it, after all, the war horse, that is to feed soybeans and other concentrate feed, which is a huge expense.

Zhao Hongxuan had privately calculated that the cost of domesticating a horse was enough for him to pay for the salaries of five infantry of the Northern First Army, and the worst thing was that this was only the cost of domesticating a batch of qualified war horses, not including the cost of training cavalry.

Although the so-called near the water is the first to get the moon, Zhao Hongxuan, as Zhao Hongrun's younger brother, of course, has a channel to get a few sets of full-body heavy armor from his brother, but after hearing about the cost of these cavalry heavy armor, Zhao Hongxuan's face was as frightened as dirt.

As far as he knew, the cost of a merchant horse riding was converted to maintain the expenses of a full fifty of his first sergeants in the north.

If you add the daily maintenance of the cavalry heavy armor, this expense is even more unbearable for Zhao Hongxuan.

At this time, Zhao Hongxuan was relieved, and it was not for nothing that Shangshui Youma rode heavily on the battlefield in northern Xinjiang to hang up the Korean cavalry and fight—his brother Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su, smashed an incomparably powerful cavalry army with money.

But Zhao Hongxuan is not the only one who is discouraged by the sky-high price of cavalry heavy armor, in fact, it is not only Zhao Hongxuan who is enthusiastic about the Shangshui Horse Cavalry, but also Zhao Hongjiang, the king of Yan, also wants to build one, not more, as long as five hundred horsemen are enough.

But after learning about the cost, Zhao Hongjiang, the king of Yan, was also frightened and retreated, because to form a heavy cavalry with a number of five hundred horsemen, all the expenses added together were enough for him to pull up another Shanyang army of twenty or thirty thousand people.

At this time, Zhao Hongjiang, the king of Yan, also understood why Zhao Hongrun still owed millions of huge sums of money to the household department despite having a lot of money-making channels under his hands, the reason was that the Eighth Emperor's investment in military expenses was really regardless of the cost.

And after learning this, whether it was Zhao Hongjiang, the king of Yan, or Zhao Hongxuan, the king of Huan, they were embarrassed to ask Zhao Hongrun to support some cavalry heavy armor, but they had secretly made a decision, and when they got enough money from the border city of Qi County, they were bound to buy some cavalry heavy armor from the Smelting Bureau to create a small-scale heavy cavalry.

As for before that, let's mix it with the Wugang chariot first, the relatively expensive cavalry heavy armor, the Wugang chariot is simply a conscience, so that even the Han people are brazen to steal the division, and even, Zhao Hongjiang and Zhao Hongxuan also heard that the Han army is also ready to use their Wei Wugang chariot to deal with the Linhu cavalry in the west - it is too brazen!

In mid-October, Zhao Hongxuan, the king of Huan, took Zhou Yu, a military adviser, and more than 200 cavalry of the escort team, and returned to Anyi, Hedong, that is, the garrison base camp of his northern army.

After returning to Anyi, Zhao Hongxuan first walked around the barracks, then handed over the affairs in the barracks to Zongwei Li Meng, and took Zhou Yu and the escort horse straight to Fenyin.

At the same time, Zhao Hongrun was recruiting displaced people in Fenyin.

Although the year before and last year, due to frequent battles in the western part of Hedong County, many local civilians fled to Fenyin, Puban and other cities, but many civilians still fled to Jieshan. In addition, many fled eastward to the central part of Hedong County, and even fled south across the river to Sanchuan County.

Therefore, the first thing Zhao Hongrun had to do after coming to Fenyin was to recruit displaced people and increase the ethnic population of Fenyin.

Because only when Fenyin's population is large, he has enough labor force to do the next thing, for example, to reclaim land and build river embankments.

But it's a pity that even if Zhao Hongrun tried his best to make the list of Anmin, the population of Fenyin still did not increase much, so that Zhao Hongrun was helpless and was considering changing Fenyin's Mintun model to Juntun.

After all, Fenyin, as a defensive base to stabilize Hexi and go out to the Hetao in the future, must be self-sufficient, and it can't let Wei bear the huge food and salary expenses in China, right?

You must know that the Linhu of Hetao are not nomads different from the Sanchuan tribes, and once they start a war, it is almost impossible to achieve victory in the short term, so only by making Fenyin self-sufficient will it not drag down the domestic economy of Wei.

And just when Zhao Hongrun, Kou Zheng and his two classmates were discussing the pros and cons of Mintun and Juntun, suddenly a black crow came to report, saying that Zhao Hongxuan, the king of Huan, had entered Fenyin County with more than 200 horses.

"Xiao Xuan is here?"

Zhao Hongrun was overjoyed when he heard this, and threw the initial plan to Kou Zheng, letting the latter continue to improve, and he himself took someone to meet him.

In today's Fenyin County, the city defense has long been taken over by the five thousand Yanling troops under Yan Mo, and these Yanling army soldiers naturally also recognize Zhao Hongxuan, the king of Huan, so they put the latter in, so that Zhao Hongrun wanted to go out of the city to greet his younger brother in person, but the two sides met halfway through the county.

"Yo, all the cavalry?"

When he met Zhao Hongxuan, Zhao Hongrun smiled and joked with his younger brother.

"Hey, hey." Zhao Hongxuan smiled.

Although the so-called cavalry team of his Northern First Army currently has only more than 200 people, this can be regarded as a start, right? Looking at the fact that there are so many armies in his Wei country, how many of them have cavalry corps? Even if it's just a cavalry with an empty shelf.

Zhao Hongxuan thought like this: first try to train the escort cavalry into qualified cavalry, and when the time is ripe, use these escort cavalry as the backbone to expand a cavalry, anyway, now there is a border city in Qi County, even if the Koreans are shoddy, he and Zhao Hongjiang, the king of Yan, can still get some excellent war horses.

The only thing worth worrying about is the cost of domesticating war horses, Zhao Hongxuan is not as wealthy as his brother Zhao Hongrun, and he formed a 5,000-person Shangshui Horse Cavalry without making a sound, and became famous in this Northern Xinjiang Campaign, so that even South Korea is currently resounding with the prestige of "Shangshui Horse Wei Cavalry".

After a few words of greeting, Zhao Hongrun invited his younger brother Zhao Hongxuan to the county government in Fenyin, and instructed the servants in the county government to prepare wine and food to entertain his younger brother.

The two brothers drank happily for a few rounds, and then, Zhao Hongxuan remembered Luo Ying's entrustment in the letter.

So, he asked his brother Zhao Hongrun: "Brother, you came to Fenyin, didn't you make any big moves?" ”

For Zhao Hongxuan, who is the same as his younger brother, Zhao Hongrun naturally will not hide it, so he told Zhao Hongxuan about the strategic intention in his heart, only to hear Zhao Hongxuan and Zhou Yu stunned.

It turned out that when the Wei State was salivating and staring at the land west of the river, a certain His Royal Highness King Su was actually already considering a large area of land in the Hetao area, and the reason was that there were millions of cattle, sheep and horses grazing in Linhu there.

"Hundreds, millions of ......"

Even Zhao Hongxuan, who was a descendant of the Zhao royal family of Wei Guoji, was also moved by this astronomical figure, and swallowed his saliva involuntarily.

Millions of cattle, sheep and horses, what an attractive profit!

I remember that a few days ago, Zhao Hongxuan was still overjoyed that he had obtained more than 200 qualified war horses from the "Wei Han Mutual Market", but now he knew that his vision had always been inferior to his brother.

"Brother, when you go out to Lin Hu on the other day, remember to bring your younger brother's Northern First Army." Zhao Hongxuan said with swallowing saliva.

Zhao Hongrun laughed when he heard this, reached out and patted Zhao Hongxuan's shoulder, and said with a smile: "Practice well." ”

His meaning is self-evident: you are my own brother, how can I leave you if it is good?

got his brother's assurance, Zhao Hongxuan was secretly happy.

However, when he thought of Luo Ying's entrustment, he still put away the joy in his heart for the time being, and cautiously probed: "Brother, that is to say, do you want Pusaka and Fenyin?" ”

“……”

Zhao Hongrun was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and glanced at his younger brother who was obviously a little weak-hearted.