Shaking the large amount of silver tickets of 200,000 taels in his hand, Qin Feng laughed happily: "Wu Jian is really kind, he wants to use this little money to stimulate me, let me make persistent efforts and continue to march, not bad, I will do what he wants." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"200,000 is not a small amount of money for us." A slightly sour voice came from beside him, and the one sitting on Qin Feng's side turned out to be Li Zhi, the supreme commander of the Qin army.

Li Zhi came after the Taiping army defeated Chen Ci's army of 20,000 with 8,000 men.

Chen Ci's army is not a fish belly, Chen Ci himself is a battlefield general, in Kaiping County and the Qin army for three years, basically did not suffer any losses, although the Qin army because of financial problems, has always been not durable, if you can't fight quickly, basically will not fight. But Chen Ci's ability in the past few years is still recognized by the Qin generals, and the most obvious thing is that he did not give the Qin people any obvious loopholes to drill.

But such an army, in the field, was defeated by the Taiping Army neatly, and more importantly, one of the battalions participating in the battle was the first time to set foot on the battlefield, and the two commanders were all new generals, rookies who had never fought before.

Li Zhi was very curious, so he came over to take a look. Of course, because although the Chen Jialuo Division of the Taiping Army was marching towards the Zhongping Army, the route of the march was close to Kaiping County, and it was obviously against the Qin people.

Of course, the reason is high-sounding, and Qin Feng was still very surprised by Li Zhi's visit, because he didn't guess the true meaning of Li Zhi's arrival, and really thought it was because of Chen Jialuo's problem.

However, no matter what, Li Zhi's visit made Qin Feng still put a lot of peace of mind, at least it can show that the Qin people are still sincere in reaching an alliance with the Taiping Army.

Of course, Li Zhi's arrival also let Qin Feng know the role of the Chu people in this transaction. This made Qin Feng a little unhappy, but now it was a little powerless to let him come up with this price code. Shayang County, Taiping City's income is indeed very good, but in addition to maintaining normal operation, it also has to supply tens of thousands of troops, and now it is subsidizing Changyang County, and the financial resources are stretched.

If you don't know the price of firewood and rice, you have become the head of a huge family, seven things to open the door, oil smoke, sauce, vinegar and tea, so it doesn't cost money?

Therefore, Qin Feng still pretended to be deaf and dumb in front of Cheng Wuben, but he didn't know. And Cheng Wuben also knows that the important thing is that everyone can get the desired result.

Hearing Li Zhi's words, Qin Feng made a move that surprised everyone, and he stuffed this large silver ticket of 200,000 yuan directly to Li Zhi: "Li Dashuai is too modest, this money can be regarded as a gift from the boy to Li Shuai." ”

200,000 yuan is indeed not a lot of money for the Taiping army, but it is not dispensable, at least you can give a month's salary to the army that Qin Feng now has, and it was given to Li Zhi for nothing, which is inevitably too big. Everyone in the tent gasped, and it was only Cheng Wuben who really gave a thumbs up secretly.

Li Zhi was not polite at all, took the silver ticket, and stuffed it directly into his arms: "General Qin's kindness, I accepted it." On behalf of the 100,000 Qin soldiers, thank you General Qin, they can eat a few more meals of meat, hahaha! ”

Li Zhi smiled really happily, the poverty of the border army of the Qin State is world-famous. In fact, it is not only the weak national strength of the Qin State, but also the domestic political struggle, for these, Li Zhi is a little powerless, even though the emperor trusts him, but when it comes to these issues, he can only avoid them and carefully maintain the balance between the two sides.

In the past two years, because the border army has made repeated gains, the Deng clan, which controls the border army of the Qin State, has risen sharply in the country, which has the meaning of overshadowing the Bian family, and the emperor naturally wants to balance it. For the emperor of Qin, there is no ambition to dominate the world, Qin's national strength determines that they can defend themselves at most, and their repeated actions on the border are just to improve the domestic situation and make wild money by the way.

This is also the real reason why Wu Jian dared to give Kaiping County and Yongping County to the Qin people in exchange for the support of the Qin people, the Qin people would not endanger the rule of the Wu family in the Yue Kingdom, but Luo Yishui, Qin Feng and others were all dangerous people who wanted to lift his throne.

"The combat effectiveness of the Taiping Army really showed me." After Li Zhi, who had received the gift, sat down again, he smiled even more happily, his eyes were almost drowned by the folds on his face, this was not completely false, the kind of equipment of the miners' battalion, the kind of indomitable momentum, did give him a great shock. The Qin army also has this kind of momentum, the key is that he has no money to play with this kind of army armed to the teeth, and he can't afford to play it.

Heavy armor is not just a one-time investment, the continuous follow-up is the big head, every time you fight, the loss must be replaced, the cost of this, wages, etc., is a very terrifying expense. And for an army that fights with such a heavy load, the food on weekdays must be the best, otherwise the body is weak, how can you fight with such heavy weapons and armor? Qin Feng has completely copied the equipment of the death battalion back then.

I calculated in my heart, if it was the foot soldiers of the border army of the Qin State who fought with this army, I was afraid that the losing side would only account for eighty percent, and only by dispatching the most precious cavalry to take guerrilla warfare, and use the way of peeling onions to peel off the layers for him to have a chance of winning. But even so, the losses of the cavalry were by no means small.

In addition to the miners' battalion, the rock battalion of Zhang Xiaomei is even more solemn, with a degree of advance and retreat, Zhang Xiaomei is the number one general under Qin Feng, and there is no vanity under his reputation, just a few glances, Li Zhi can roughly know what the other party's combat effectiveness is.

Qin Feng smiled, he had fought with the Qin army for many years, and he knew the combat effectiveness of both sides, and he didn't have an intuitive understanding of the combat effectiveness of this Qin army, but he was clear with Deng Pu's army. Deng Zhong is Deng Pu's father, and I am afraid that he is only better.

"Li Dashuai, Qin Guo is not poor enough to do this, right? Can't afford to eat meat for a few meals? He smiled at him.

Li Zhi sighed: "If you have the chance, General Qin can go to Qin State to take a look, Great Qin lives in the west, and most of the territory is covered with yellow sand, and the income is pitiful." ”

Qin Feng nodded: "If you have a chance, you must go to Yongdu to have a look, I heard that Yongdu's style is self-contained, rough and heroic, I have long wanted to go and appreciate it." It is our honor to cooperate with Li Dashuai this time, Li Dashuai, if I am interested in taking our cooperation one step further, what do you think? ”

"One step deeper?" Li Zhi frowned, "What kind of cooperation method?" ”

"In the military, I believe that after this time, we will be more intimate, but in business, we are still poor." Qin Feng said with a smile.

"I also know about the things that your business division sells, but how many people in Daqin can afford to use them? In the palace and the Bian family, I have seen it. Li Zhi smiled and shook his head.

"If you can't afford it, you can sell it to us!" Qin Feng spread his hands and said.

"What can we Daqin sell to you?" Li Zhi laughed.

"Horses!" Qin Feng restrained his smile, "The wasteland horse in your country is a good guy for cavalry combat, don't look big, but the endurance and gravity are second to none, if your country can open a horse market with us, we can import grain, wool iron and other products to your country, mutual benefit, exchange of what does Li Shuai think?" ”

"Horses!" Li Zhi was slightly shocked in his heart, Qin Feng's wasteland horse, indeed as Qin Feng said, is a major specialty, although Qin is rich in this kind of horse, but it is not famous for cavalry, because it is too expensive to raise a cavalry, under the command of Deng Zhong, there is only a cavalry of 20,000 people led by Deng Su, and under the command of Deng Pu, there are less than 5,000 such cavalry, and the cost of raising a cavalry is enough for him to raise a hundred ordinary infantrymen.

But because of the various advantages of this horse, Qin Feng has extremely strict control over the export of wasteland horses, and if this wasteland horse is sold without the approval of the imperial court, more than five are enough to be beheaded.

Qin Feng does not have cavalry, which can be his biggest weakness, without cavalry, he lacks the ability to run long distances, and lacks the ability to be flexible and mobile.

But Qin Feng is also a potential opponent in the future, and his own combat effectiveness is already very strong, if he is allowed to build a strong cavalry, it may become a nightmare for the Qin State in the future.

However, the trading conditions proposed by Qin Feng are difficult to refuse, and the grain is lacking in the Qin State. Mao Tie, Qin State is extremely scarce, there is no large-scale iron ore in the country, several existing iron ore products produced by iron products, the quality is outrageously poor. This is not a problem of domestic craftsmen, but of the ore itself.

If a large amount of gross iron and refined iron can be imported into the Qin State, it will also have a qualitative improvement for the Qin State's army. The steel produced by Taiping Iron Mine has now made a name for itself.

Li Zhi was indeed very hesitant, and thought for a while before saying: "This matter is too big, it's not for me to have the final say, but I can return your proposal to Your Majesty, whether it can be done or not depends on Your Majesty's intentions!" ”

"As long as Li Shuai agrees, this matter will become eighty percent!" Qin Feng laughed, "This is beneficial for both of us. I need cavalry, you need food and iron. ”

"That being said, there are some things that are not such a simple transaction, I hope General Qin can understand." Li Zhi shook his head and said. "Of course, personally, I'm more inclined to this kind of transaction."

"Okay, then I'm looking forward to your good news, Li Dashuai, let's get back to the topic, next, I need you to play a big show with us." (To be continued.) )