"Could it be that I have brought troops south just to have nothing to do in the city of Xijin Mansion?"

Yelu Yanxi was really depressed. The Son of Heaven of Da Liao led his troops to recruit in person! 100,000 heavenly soldiers came from the south, and it was terrifying to think about. Why didn't you fight, so you were in a dilemma? If this matter spreads to the grasslands and the old forests in the northeast, the diviners and the Jurchens will not be able to rise up!

"Your Majesty," Ma Renwang also looked embarrassed, "Now that the boundary river, the Juma River, is so big that it is impossible for the cavalry to wade across it." If it is forcibly crossed by boat, it is easy to be broken by the naval army of the Southern Dynasties. It is best to wait until the weather is cold and the Jiehe-Juma River freezes before stepping on the ice to the south. Cangzhou is a land of flat rivers, and His Majesty's 100,000 iron horsemen can go back and forth, even if they can't break through the Jiehe Jiancheng, they can also sweep the Cangzhou countryside. ”

"What's in the Cangzhou countryside?" Yelu Yanxi frowned.

I am the Emperor of Daliao! It's not the thief on Yanshan, now he has brought an army of 100,000 to rob, why do you have to rob a big city, right? How can you grab a handful in the countryside of Cangzhou and leave? Isn't this the same as the little thief on Yan Mountain?

Moreover, Cangzhou is notoriously poor, the Song people dug the Yellow River by themselves, and flooded Cangzhou several times, so among the Hebei states of the Song Kingdom, Cangzhou was the poorest. Although there is a Jiehe commercial market now, this commercial market has nothing to do with the countryside of Cangzhou, right?

Ma Renwang didn't seem to know that Yelu Yanxi loved face, so he replied one by one: "Your Majesty doesn't know, in recent years, the Cangzhou countryside of the Song Kingdom has become rich, and more than 3,000 knights' manors have been built, each with 1,500 acres of land, and most of them are also engaged in fixed herding, and they have also raised the famous boundary hippos. ”

The boundary hippopotamus is not only famous in the Great Song Dynasty, but also in the Liao Kingdom. After all, the Khitan horse is also a free-range grassland horse, and the later Mongolian horse is almost the same breed, most of them are relatively short, and less than 5% of the Khitan horses are taller and suitable as war horses. And the high-quality gelding horses flowing out of the Jiehe commercial market are usually four feet eight shoulder high, and they are considered to be of high quality in the Liao Kingdom. The Song Dynasty, which was supposed to lack good horses, was now able to export good horses to the Liao State, how can it not be surprising?

Ma Renwang continued: "According to investigation, the boundary hippopotamus is a cross between the Persian horse, the Tianzhu folded ear horse, and the Qingtang dragon stallion (the best of the Hequ horses). The management of horse breeds is very strict, and every stallion, herding horse and foal is registered in the Knight Academy of Yuntai Academy, and there is a 'household register'. And there is also a special stallion farm, which is responsible for improving the horse breed, and the best stallions are up to four feet nine at the shoulder! ”

A height of 4-foot-9 at the shoulders is nothing for the Persian horse, which is known for its tallness and thinness, and the Persian horse is the main source of genes for the Hippopotamus.

And because of the Battle of Anxi and the Memories of the West, the Jiehe Stud Farm now has a lot of high-quality Persian horses, Arabian horses, Andalusian horses and Shire horses, not only stallions, but also peons that can be used for breeding.

Therefore, the quality of the Hippopotamus will continue to improve in the foreseeable future!

However, for the Khitan people, who only have the advantage of the quantity of horses and have no quality advantage, it is also a very rare good horse.

"Four-foot-nine?"

"Really?"

"How could the Song people raise such good horses?"

"All have caught up with the Persian horses......"

"It must have been snatched from Persia!"

"It must have been robbed!"

"The Song people are so shameless!"

"What a robber......

Hearing that there was a good horse with a height of four feet nine at the shoulder, Yelu Yanxi's group of Khitan generals all gritted their teeth.

They don't have such good horses, but the Song people actually have them, can they not grab one? Moreover, these horses were originally stolen from Persia by the Song people, and they are all unrighteous horses! We have to get them all to Daliao.

"Ma Qing," Yelu Yanxi finally made up his mind, "Be sure to find out the location of the Jiehe Stud Farm!" When the weather is cold, I will personally lead a large army to fetch the Persian horses! ”

"Obey the order!"

The centaur bowed, but there was a wry smile in his heart.

Of course, he knew the location of the Jiehe Stud Farm, which was actually established with the help of his nephew Ma Zhi. The first few Persian stallions and Uighur horse breeders were all brought in with the help of Ma Zhi. The location of this horse farm was originally in the Hebei part of Jiehe Shang City, that is, on the land of Liao.

However, after Yelu Yanxi settled in Xijin Province, the stallion farm began to move to Tamna Island...... It is estimated that the Liao soldiers will not be able to go there, unless they are taken prisoner!

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Just when Ma Renwang had a headache because of dealing with Yelu Yanxi, Wu Haogu was also about to encounter trouble and people. At this time, he and Ji Yi had arrived at the Beijing Daimyo Mansion of the Great Song Dynasty, a Xiongcheng city in Hebei Province on the banks of the Yellow River, which had always been the ruling center of Hebei. Therefore, it is the natural station of the Hebei Road Transit Envoy and the Hebei East Road Transit Envoy (Hebei sometimes sets up two transit envoys), and it is also the residence of the Daimyo Fu Road Pacification Envoy.

If it weren't for Wu Haogu who regarded Jiehe Shang City as his old nest, most of his Hebei Xuanfu envoys should also be stationed in the Daimyo's Mansion.

Because the Hebei Xuanfu Department is not a permanent organization, and Hebei has four or five pacification envoys (counting the Shanghai Road Preparation and Construction Division, it is the fifth road), and at the same time, Hebei has experienced a hundred years of "tense peace", so that the authority of the Hebei capital transfer envoy or the Hebei east and west transfer envoys in national defense affairs has been rising, and he has become the de facto supreme commander of the riverside roads.

First of all, the Hebei transshipment envoy can be responsible for the deployment of waterways in Hebei - not by sea, but by relying on Hebei's rivers and forests for the construction of defense facilities.

Secondly, the Hebei transit envoy was responsible for repairing the city and building the wall, supervising the construction of utensils and clothing quilts - this power was granted by Song Renzong to Ouyang Xiu, the then Hebei transit envoy, and then it became a common practice.

Third, the Hebei transit envoy is responsible for supplying military rations and military reserves -- this is the main job of the Hebei transit envoy.

Fourth, Hebei transshipment envoys can participate in side decision-making! This power was not available to transit envoys elsewhere in the Song Dynasty. However, the Hebei transit envoy has the power to "inspect the generals along the border and listen to the border affairs". Due to the Song Dynasty's practice of civil and military affairs, the Hebei transit envoy who had this great power became the de facto supreme commander of the Hebei Five Roads.

Fifth, the Hebei transit envoy can also appease the envoy when the post of a border minister is vacant. There are four pacification envoys corresponding to Hebei or Hebei's east and west transport envoys (excluding the sea route commander), and there is often a vacancy, so there are many opportunities for Hebei transit envoys and Hebei's east-west transport envoys to appease the envoys. Over time, Hebei's transfer envoy was treated as a border commander.

In addition, the Hebei transit envoy also has the right to carry out transfer diplomacy with the Khitan - the sea route commander controlled by Wu Haogu also has the right to transfer diplomacy, but the diplomatic object must be an "overseas" country, and the Khitan is not included.

And Wu Haogu, the Hebei Xuanfu envoy, is very famous, but his real power is very small.

Because this position is not permanent, how many rights there are must be determined by the edict issued by Zhao Ji, and it has to be discounted on the basis of the edict.

After all, several pacification envoys and most of the state officials in Hebei were civil officials from the imperial examination, and it was very difficult for a military attache in Wuhaogu to order them. What's more, he has not yet exercised the power of the generals along the border, so he can only exercise military law on the battle array, and the civilian officials will not go to the battlefield, so they are not afraid of martial arts at all.

According to Zhao Ji's edict, Wu Haogu's authority is basically to organize and train the new army of six generals, rectify the border defense on the northern edge of the river, supervise the defense of the Khitan and the commander of the coastal road.

Now that the Khitan has not yet invaded the border and gone south, all the "superintendents resist" is just an option. Wu Haogu's actual authority is to organize and train the new army of the six generals and to rectify the border defense, and the military expenses of the new army of the six generals are also in the pocket of Ji Yi, the Hebei transit envoy. As for the authority to rectify border defense, it not only overlaps with the authority of the Hebei transit envoy, but also overlaps with the authority of the four border pacification envoys, namely Zhendingfu Road, Dingzhou Road, Gaoyangguan Road, and Damingfu Road.

Moreover, these four pacification envoys are all dignified civil officials, and they also serve as the dispatches of the Zhidaimyo Mansion, the Zhizhen Dingfu, the Zhiding Prefecture and the Zhihejian Mansion respectively. The power in Hebei is greater than that of Wu Haogu! They don't know how to use martial arts at all, and Gu is a military attaché.

Therefore, after Wu Haogu took office, there was no way to convene a meeting of the pacification envoys of Hebei Zhulu.

However, these ministers still have to give Ji Yi a little face, after all, the Hebei Metropolitan Transit Envoy has the food and salary of the four pacification roads (excluding the coastal roads), and he also has the right to inspect the localities.

Thanks to Ji Yi's blessing, Wu Haogu finally met the four appeased masters in the office that judged the affairs of the daimyo's government. They were Xu Jiang, the pacification envoy of the Daimyo Mansion and the Zhiming Mansion Road, Liang Zimei, the Zhidingzhou Affairs and the pacification envoy of the Dingzhou Road, the Zhihejian Prefecture and the pacification envoy of Gaoyangguan Road, Ye Zuqia, and the Zhizhen Dingfu Affairs and the Zhendingfu Road pacification envoy Wang Yang.

Hehe, none of them are easy to get along with!

Among them, Xu will be the champion of Jiayou year, who has been a scholar Zuocheng, a scholar in the middle of the book, and a subordinate servant, and an official Bai Tejin (the biggest questioner).

Liang Zimei is the prototype of Liang Zhongshu in "Water Margin", after the founding ministers Liang Tong and Liang Wendu, although he was born in Yinbu, he has been an official for 45 years, and has served in four dynasties, and he can be regarded as a veteran-level important minister.

Ye Zu Qia Xining's champion for three years, the confidant of Zeng Bu, a veteran of the New Party, and a cadre of the New Party, had a bad relationship with Su Shi, the mentor of Wu Haogu. Therefore, after the Second Su took power, he has been suppressed in the local area and is not allowed to enter the court.

And Wang Yang is Wang Anshi's nephew, the son of Wang Anli, who opposes the change. Because Wang Anli once rescued Su Shi, who was depressed because of the Wutai poetry case, Wang Yang has also become a figure who can eat between the old and new parties.

These four "great gods", not to mention Wu Haogu, the military attaché, even Ji Yi, a civil minister who was born on the right path of the imperial examination, are all transfer envoys, and they are all unable to command.

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