Three or four million, raising a thousand knight families, can this be considered expensive?

How many big mansions worth three or four million are there in Kaifeng Fucheng? You can get thousands of armored horses by taking out one at will, this deal is now available, and you can't buy it for ten times in the first year of Jingkang! If you can really buy it, you will die of laughter if you spend ten times.

In history, the Xuanhe Northern Expedition spent tens of millions of dollars, if it was used to support the knight family, there would be almost 20,000 families, and three to forty thousand armored cavalry could be pulled out under the condition of extreme mobilization...... If Song Huizong wants to have such a force, why not hang the Khitan and Jurchen and abuse them casually?

Of course, it is not enough to raise a knight family just to spend money, you have to have land. How can a knight family have a place to raise horses, right? Therefore, it is necessary for a family to give a square kilometer - a knight family is a large family and a large herd of horses!

If you count according to the fact that a family has one positive and one reserve two knights, plus four to six knights and retinues. One square kilometer of land had to bear at least eight warriors (regular soldiers, retinues), four war horses, and eight auxiliary horses. That is, at least eight people, twelve horses. It also has to pay for the equipment of these eight warriors and twelve horses, and also has the ability to breed, raise young warriors, and maintain a herd. Not to mention that these "knight families" should be maintained permanently, but for decades, the combat effectiveness of three or four generations should still be maintained.

Therefore, the fiefdom standard of 1,500 acres given by Wu Haogu is very suitable, and it is really impossible to raise it if it is less......

In addition, if the state wants to replace this feudal cavalry with a hired cavalry, is there a place to hire it (where to hire it?). Even if you spend money, you won't save it. Just 2 regular soldiers and 6 auxiliary soldiers, the annual military salary is several hundred, and twelve horses are at least 2,000. If you add other equipment, such as horse guns, horse armor, cavalry armor, bows and arrows, crossbow machines, etc., without an investment of 3,000 yuan, it is impossible to equip 2 armored horses.

Moreover, the technique of fighting on horseback requires long-term training to master, and there is no way to learn it quickly. Therefore, once there is no class of manor heroes (knights and samurai), it is almost impossible for an agrarian country to raise strong cavalry.

Not only are there no horses, but there are no men who can gallop on horseback......

Although Ma Zheng can indeed provide a large number of war horses if he does it well, he cannot provide people on horseback. Mounted infantry is easy to train, but heavy cavalry and light cavalry are difficult to train. And without the class of manor heroes (knights and samurai), where can there be so many bureaucrats in the country who know how to raise horses? The imperial examination does not test animal husbandry!

Therefore, the corruption of the Song Dynasty's horse administration was inevitable, and the absence of strong cavalry was also certain, and the final reason was the gradual disappearance of the manor economy in the Tang Dynasty.

Of course, it's just fading away, not completely gone. Otherwise, even if you take out three or four million taels now, there will be no place to find someone......

"Xianggong, although three or four million yuan is not a small amount of money, but now that the Quartet is stable and the wind and rain are smooth, it is not difficult to take it out."

Wu Haogu saw that Han Zhongyan seemed a little reluctant, so he smiled and settled accounts with him, "And if these warriors in front of the Thousand Qi Palaces are raised, they will save a strong army for the country...... The imperial court kept the money in the treasury just to use it to recruit troops when it encountered a strong enemy in the future.

However, infantry is easy to recruit, but really useful cavalry needs to be cultivated. Now you can use three or four million to cultivate a thousand knights' homes, and in the future, if there is an emergency, two thousand iron horsemen can get it. If you don't raise it now, in the future, the imperial court will take out three or four million, will there be two thousand iron horses? ”

"Nature is impossible......"

Han Zhongyan stroked his beard, and he had already settled the account in his heart. Although his father is Han Qi, he grew up in an environment where the family has long been a strong party, and there are special customers who raise horses and sheep for his family.

"It's just a family of 1,500 acres of land, and 1,000 families get 1.5 million acres of land!" Han Zhongyan frowned, "There is money, but it is not easy to buy so much land. ”

"This matter is on the lower officials." Wu Haogu patted his chest and said, "There is no way for the lower officials in other places, but in Beicangzhou, which is close to Jiehe Shang City, the lower officials still have a way." ”

1.5 million mu of land is about 1,000 square kilometers, and the Great Song Dynasty has more than 2 million square kilometers of land, and 1,000 square kilometers can still be obtained.

In fact, there is no way to have more, not to mention anything else, that is, there is a lot of land in the hands of the herd priests. At its peak, there were 16 supervisors and more than 200,000 horses, and the average area of each horse was ridiculously large, with an average of more than 200 acres, and these horses alone covered an area of 40 million acres! 20,000 knights' homes can support ......

Although there is not so much land in the Herd Division now, there are still millions of acres, and if they are all canceled and distributed to knights, at least another 2,000 families can be raised. If you add the 1,000 families raised by Wu Haogu in Cangzhou, 3,000 knight families can still be maintained, and in case of emergency, these knight families can mobilize 5,000-6,000 armored horsemen.

"Oh?" Han Zhongyan asked, "What's the solution?" ”

"It's actually quite simple." Wu Haogu said with a smile, "Let Jiehe Commercial City pay more money and hire all the crops in Beicang Prefecture, and then the landlords in Beicang Prefecture will not be able to rent out the land, so they can only resell it." Let's pay a looser price, are we afraid that we won't be able to buy land? ”

Jiehe Commercial Market is a big construction site, and the population of Beicang Prefecture has always been small - it is too close to the Liao State, and it has been old and flooded in recent decades, and it is normal for the population to be small. Therefore, once Wuhaogu has developed the Jiehe Commercial Market, it will definitely cause customers in Cangzhou to flee. The landlord's land could not be rented, so naturally he had to sell it.

"However, you have to send a good official to Cangzhou to be the governor, so that you can cooperate with the lower officials, so that there will be no trouble." Wu Haogu made another request.

"Good officer?" Han Zhongyan asked, "Who do you want to go?" ”

"It turns out that Shi Guozhong, the county commander of Yanggu County, is not bad," Wu Haogu said with a smile, "He is a smart official, and he is now guarding the election, so it is better to let him go to Cangzhou." ”

"Good!" Han Zhongyan said with a smile, "Da Lang, the old man sees that you are also a smart official, so I will listen to you about this matter." ”

……

When Wu Haogu left Hanfu, it was already late at night, and he didn't leave with any "Jiujiu" and "Qianqian", only a yawning golden maid Olga.

"Olga," Takehoku said, riding on his horse and looking at the woman walking with him, "are you tired?" ”

"It's okay," Olga said with a bit of an unrestrained personality and little awareness of being a slave, "but I follow you from house to house all day long, and I don't have time to practice swordsmanship and pray to my Heavenly Father." ”

"Don't follow me tomorrow," Wu Haogu said with a smile, "Give you a day off." ”

Tomorrow, Wu Haogu is going to visit Xiao Baoxian, the envoy of the Liao State, and Olga, the golden haired beauty, is too dazzling. A golden retriever girl riding a horse with a sword, where does it not attract attention?

"Really? That's great. Olga laughed, "I can finally get some sleep." ”

"Well," Wu Haogu smiled and nodded, "I'm going to get some sleep too, or maybe we'll be together?" ”

"Together?" Olga was taken aback by Wu Haoko's proposal, "Oh my gosh, I didn't expect you to be so direct...... I guess you still treat me like a slave, don't you? ”

"Slaves?" Wu Haogu shook his head, "Olga, you are my Paladin...... In a few months, I will grant you a knight's manor, and hopefully your loyalty. ”

"Paladin?" Olga was stunned by the words that Wu Haogu spoke, "My master, do you know Paladin? ”

Paladin is not a car, but a transliteration of Charlemagne's Templar (paladin), and Wu Haogu made original drawings of medieval-themed games in later generations, so he knows this word.

"Of course I know, Charlemagne's samurai." Wu Haogu said, "When the time comes, I will also grant you the Valyrian sword." ”

Olga also said seriously: "At that time, Olga will be loyal to you until death!" ”

Wu Haogu smiled, "It's not okay to just die, let's have a few more sons and train them to become Paladin."

There will be a war in the future, and the survival of our civilization is at stake, and I will need many, many Paladin! ”

Olga's face turned red again when she heard this, and her heart was pounding......

……

"Official, why don't you sleep?"

"Lady ......"

This night, Ji Yi, who was sitting in front of the desk, looked at his new wife, who was not very beautiful, but full of talent and familiar with ancient and modern classics, and sighed softly.

"What's wrong? Is there a difficult problem to solve? ”

"Xiaoyu," Ji Yi nodded, "Someone wants me to accuse your grandfather of rebellion!" ”

"Rebellion?" When Zhang Xiaoyu heard this, he laughed, "Then did my grandfather rebel?" ”

"This ......" Ji Yi smiled bitterly, "No, he is a loyal minister, but the general trend of the world is reversed." ”

Zhang Dian did not rebel, it was Xiang Empress Dowager who rebelled! However, such a thing as rebellion is never based on real evidence, and the success of rebellion is never subject to sanctions.

"It doesn't matter if the general trend of the world is reversed, justice is in the hearts of the people." When Zhang Xiaoyu spoke, he pressed his slender palm on Ji Yi's shoulder.

Ji Yi sighed bitterly: "Is there really justice in the world?" ”

"How could it not be?" Zhang Xiaoyu said with a smile, "But justice must be fought for, officials believe in Mingzun, shouldn't they even know this?" ”

"Fight?" Ji Yi looked up at his wife, "Xiaoyu, tell me, will your grandfather give up justice and not fight for it?" ”

"How so?" Zhang Xiaoyu said, "That's my grandfather, who has been alone for seven years, is a very popular minister, and assisted the first emperor to subdue the Western Thief!" ”

Ji Yi's eyes suddenly lit up, "It turns out that he is still fighting!" Xiaoyu, I see...... He hasn't given up yet, he wants to make the last fight! ”