Su Jindao: "What does the emperor think is the advantage of my Great Song army compared with the army of the Liao and Xia people? ”

Zhao Zhen smiled: "It's been examined, isn't it obvious?" My Great Song soldiers are better than them in everything, whether it is armor or weapons, they are all superior to them. ”

Su Jin smiled: "Then why do we have so hard to beat them?" ”

Zhao Zhen said: "This is also a clear thing, we don't have good war horses, and the horses from the south are not tolerant of bitter cold, and there are not many of them, so we suffer a lot in the field." ”

Su Jindao: "The emperor sees it very clearly, this point should be the consensus of the Great Song Dynasty, and the Liao people and Xia people are unwilling to do war horse business with my Great Song Dynasty, and they also understand this." ”

Zhao Zhen said: "That's nature, that's also the capital they dare to provoke." What do you say these things do? ”

Su Jin smiled mysteriously and said, "Because it is possible for the minister to get a good horse for the Great Song Dynasty......"

Zhao Zhen was startled, reached out and grabbed Su Jin's wrist and said, "Really? Can you convince the Xia people to sell us war horses? ”

Su Jin whispered softly about the agreement of Yeli Dulan, and the more Zhao Zhen listened, the more frightened he became, and his face was uncertain: "You mean, the Xia people Yeli tribe is actually willing to betray Li Yuanhao?" ”

Su Jin shook his head and said: "It's not a betrayal, they want to protect themselves, Yeli Yuqi and Yeli Wangrong are the two mountains of the tribe at night, and for a long time, they have commanded more than 100,000 male soldiers of the Yeli tribe, which has become Li Yuanhao's henchmen; On the front line of Weizhou this time, Li Yuanhao designed to kill the two Yeli brothers and blamed me on the Great Song Dynasty, but I found out; The Yeli queen is the sister of the two Yeli brothers, the Yeli tribe is strong and she can gain a foothold, and now the Yeli tribe is backing on the mountain, and the Wuzang tribe is taking advantage of the situation, Li Yuanhao will of course not buy Yeli Dulan's account again, and the favorite concubine Wuzang is about to replace it, so in order to protect herself, Yeli Dulan can only cooperate with me. ”

Zhao Zhen nodded and said: "That's true, I understand Li Yuanhao's mood, and I also understand the battle in the harem." ”

Su Jin didn't dare to answer, and continued: "The minister thinks that if we exchange grain and other things for the war horses of the Yeli tribe, and Yeli Dulan uses grain, cloth and other things to control the internal materials; In that case, Li Yuanhao would not be able to turn against the Yeli tribe; In particular, my Great Song refused to open trade with the Western Thieves, and Li Yuanhao had to swallow his anger even if he knew that the Yeli tribe was secretly communicating with us; And we have successfully created contradictions within the party, and we can get the war horse we want, why not do it? ”

Zhao Zhen's heart was beating wildly, this was a plan to kill two birds with one stone, no wonder Su Jin just now tried his best to block the border and terminate the two sides to open a transaction in the main hall just now, it turned out that he not only wanted to trap the party members, but also thought about this matter.

"But with our food supply, will the thieves go to war again? You just said that this is raising tigers. ”

Su Jin said: "This is a double-edged sword, the emperor needs to measure which is beneficial to my Great Song Dynasty, my Great Song Dynasty has a lot of food, but more food can not improve the combat power of my Great Song army, the cavalry has become a scale, that is the fundamental to completely eliminate the covetousness of the Western thieves, when the time comes, it can be fought and peaceful, and the initiative will be in the hands of my Great Song Dynasty; In addition, if the emperor is too worried, we can control the amount of grain and war horse trade; The minister plans to open up a horse farm south of Longshan and east of Lanzhou, and select good breeds of war horses to breed, and one day, we can use our own war horses without relying on trading with the Xia people. ”

Zhao Zhen patted his thigh and said: "Good way, the war horse can give birth, the northwest climate is suitable for raising horses, and the rice of my Great Song Dynasty can rarely be grown in the territory of the party, this is a clever plan." ”

Su Jin said: "So the emperor agrees?" ”

Zhao Zhen said: "I'm just worried that there will be opposition to this matter, after all, this is doing business with the West Thief, and it will definitely cause gossip." ”

Su Jin said with a smile: "This matter is done in the name of the minister, it is kept secret, except for the emperor and me, no one will tell me, the emperor only needs to urge the three divisions to allocate more food and cloth and other things to me." ”

Zhao Zhen squinted at Su Jin and said, "Are you a fool when Yan Sansi?" He is very shrewd, how many people in the northwest, how much food to eat, how much clothes to wear, that is all carefully calculated to the extreme, are you the third envoy for nothing? ”

Su Jin scratched his head and said, "Then what should I do?" ”

Zhao Zhen thought for a while and said: "You can only rely on yourself to figure out a way, maybe you can buy grain in the south and secretly transport it to the northwest, as long as you don't show it; If someone reports you for hoarding food, I will turn a blind eye at most, and that's all I can do. ”

Su Jin scratched his head and said: "This is feasible, but I don't have so much money, the emperor has to give me some, otherwise I will take what to collect food." ”

Zhao Zhen chirped: "You still dare to ask for money? Do you think I don't know how many millions of dollars you made when you were in Yangzhou Luzhou? It was in Weizhou that Li Zhihe's property was also looted by you for hundreds of thousands, and if I don't say it, it doesn't mean that I don't know. ”

Su Jin said embarrassedly: "The emperor is Shengming, but I have spent a lot of this money on the affairs of the imperial court, not to mention anything else, this time I spent a lot of money to pay the military salary in the northwest, and I didn't put it all in my pocket." You touched your conscience and said, how much did I advance for the imperial court when Huitong Yinzhuang opened? The imperial court has not entered my silver village now, and if it goes on like this, my silver village will close down. ”

Zhao Zhen smiled and gave Su Jin a burst and said: "Come and cry poor with me, I don't have any money, the money is in the hands of your uncle, you can ask for it yourself." ”

Su Jin said: "I'm only coming to the northwest for military salaries, at most plus a little reconstruction money, how can I have a few dollars?" This mess in the Northwest costs money everywhere, how can it be enough? If he asked for a large amount of money and silver for no reason, wouldn't it make Yan Sansi suspicious? ”

Zhao Zhen spread his hands and said: "I can't help you, at most, I will save money and squeeze out five or six hundred thousand yuan from the palace expenses for you, this can be regarded as benevolence and righteousness." ”

Su Jin scolded in his stomach, but he was helpless, since this matter could not be made public, and he couldn't get money from Zhao Zhen, he could only figure out his own way, but he couldn't be so cheap Zhao Zhen, it was not okay to sit back and enjoy it, he couldn't be busy with his own work.

Su Jin said: "Your Majesty, I will find a way to do this by myself, but the minister asks the emperor to promise me one thing." ”

Zhao Zhen said: "You say." ”

Su Jin said: "It's okay for the minister to be self-reliant, but the minister wants to do some profitable business in the northwest, you know it in your heart, don't listen to others chewing the root of your tongue when the time comes." ”

Zhao Zhen said: "As long as it is not harmful to the society of the country, I will not interfere with you; Not only that, but I also lighten your burden, and I immediately draft a decree that you can collect the tax on labor for three years on the Northwest Fourth Road, and how much you will be allowed to withhold for your own use, so that you can settle the people. ”

Su Jin was overjoyed and thanked him repeatedly, although this move is useless this year, but after the next year, he can collect a little tax and grain, which can alleviate the situation.

The monarch and the minister talked about other things again, Zhao Zhen yawned, every morning the dynasty was sleepy, and he had to sleep in the morning, and Su Jin quit the palace with interest.

As soon as he got out of the palace gate, a large group of people hula came forward to block Su Jin, Su Jin was startled, and saw that all the officials he knew, Ouyang Xiu, Fu Bi, Yang Cha, etc., as well as more than a dozen officials who were friends with his former colleagues.

Ouyang Xiu tugged at Su Jin's sleeve and said, "I can catch you, I didn't say anything, treat me to a treat." ”

Su Jin was puzzled and said, "What kind of guest?" ”

Ouyang Xiu pointed at Su Jin's nose and said, "Yohe, pretending to be stupid, right?" has been promoted to become rich and prosperous, and now that he is red and purple, he looks down on us people, right? This is really called 'the daughter-in-law marries into the room, and the matchmaker throws it over the wall', who begged me to help you be a matchmaker? ”

Fu Bi also coaxed: "That's it, I can't spare you today, Brother Su, you can spend some money, I have already set the best box in Fanlou today, brother, no matter what, you can't escape this meal." ”

Everyone coaxed, Su Jin wanted to go home to accompany Mrs. Wang Yan Biyun and others, but he couldn't get out, besides, these are all dead friends, and they should be happy together if they haven't been together for a long time; So he smiled and said: "What should I do, I was going to invite you to a banquet tonight, but you are so anxious, then we will go to Fan Tower." ”

When he ordered Xiao Zhu'er to go back and inform his family, he was surrounded by everyone and went to the most luxurious Fan Tower in Bianliang.

In the afternoon of the same day, a number of good words came out in the Fan Lou of Bianliang City, it is said that Su Jin, the champion of the current department, made it for the official feeling in the northwest, the singers of the song shop Qinglou in Bianliang City have already enshrined the poems of Zhuangyuanlang as holy things, and every time the finale masterpiece is Su Zhuangyuan's previous several lyrics, now the new words are out, and the styles are very different, naturally they have copied the music and sang, and it was unparalleled for a while.

The words say:

Drunk to pick up the lamp to look at the sword, dreaming back to blow the horn company camp.

Eight hundred miles under the command, fifty strings turned over the outside sound.

Autumn soldiers on the battlefield.

The horse-made Lu was fast, and the bow was like a thunderbolt.

But the king of the world, won the name before and after his death.

Cook wine to comfort your life!