Song Kai saw Tang Yi's serious look, and said with a wry smile: "Then what do you want to do in the exam?" ”

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"Day!" Song Kai took a sip. "You're not really going to fight for a champion to come back, are you?"

This time Tang Yi raised his head, "Do you think I'm joking?" ”

Song Kai shook his head, "It's not like ......"

But he couldn't help but continue: "It's almost there." With your level, it's hard to pass the test, so what's the competition with those animals? ”

Tang Yi ignored him, lowered his head and continued to read.

Why can't you compete?

Grandmother!! It's all two shoulders and one head, why did Su Zizhan say that everyone should take the top prize, Zhang Zihou said that it was reasonable to take the top prize, and Lao Tzu said that he wanted to take the top prize, as if he was going to be a ghost.

I want to show you the test, and if you don't pass the test, it will scare you into a cold sweat.

When Song Kai saw his style, he knew that it was useless to say anything.

"Day! I'm leaving. ”

"Not staying any longer?"

"Still a fart!" Song Kai said hatefully. "Go back to reading!"

"What if you really become the champion, but Lao Tzu doesn't even mix with the same jinshi, but how can it be good?"

Tang Yi raised his head and looked at Song Kai's departing back, and couldn't help but smile......

If Song Kai can be admitted to the Jinshi, it is estimated that he can wake up with a smile in his dreams, right?

......

Tang Yi read the book and saw the afternoon, and felt a little weak, so he remembered that he forgot to eat lunch.

stretched his waist and couldn't help but smile bitterly, when the young master is used to this, without Xiao Qiaoge and Jun Xinzhuo, life can't take care of himself.

I got up and went to the dining house to pick up two meat steamed buns casually, stuffed them into my mouth, and walked down the academy mountain road to the back mountain.

Yang Huaiyu has indeed been looking for him for several days, so he just took advantage of this time to relax.

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Hades Camp.

To be precise, it should be called the Hades Army, but the veterans are still used to calling it the Hades Battalion.

The Hades battalion is now a full cavalry configuration, full of 5,000 troops, and there is not a single empty salary.

For this reason, Tang Yi has made a lot of money.

It is said that the Hades camp belongs to the forbidden army sequence and should be raised by the imperial court. However, even if the imperial court used the highest standard heavy cavalry system to support the Hades battalion, it could not afford to support this army that was smashed with money.

As I said before, the Hades camp is not cheap from head to toe. According to the current price level of the Great Song Dynasty, ten yuan can buy a "luxurious" military uniform, from weapons to scale armor.

And a set of military uniforms in the Hades camp is ten times that of the normal, a set of plate armor plus swords, guns, and steel crossbows costs a full 100 guan, and 5,000 people are 500,000 guan.

In addition, the food of the Hades camp is better than that of the ordinary forbidden army, and the military salary is higher than that of the forbidden army, and raising a soldier is a one-time expenditure except for equipment, and the annual cost is no less than fifty yuan.

Plus these 250,000 ......

Of course, this is still the cost before the Hades battalion was not converted into cavalry.

......

Since the Hades camp has horses, how can the cost be doubled?

Tang Yi had heard before that the cost of raising a horse in the army was more expensive than raising a soldier, but he had only heard about it, but he had no concept in his heart.

Now he knows where it is......

The first is that the price of war horses is extremely high. There was no place to raise horses in the Great Song Dynasty, and they only relied on imports, and the price of each war horse exceeded 100 yuan.

This is okay, because Tang Yi's batch of war horses came at the price of cabbage, and the comparison with normal channels is negligible.

However, the cost of raising it is too much.

I didn't count it before, but now that I really have more than 5,000 "big-bellied men", Tang Yi knows that these beasts are too to eat.

According to the standard of scientific horse breeding in later generations, the general feeding standard is that the horse should consume about 2.5% of its own body weight of feed every day.

This contains 2% forage, 0.5% concentrate (grains, bean cakes, etc.), about 50 grams of salt and the same amount of bone meal.

Intensive horses will increase the proportion of concentrate appropriately, about 1%.

And the ancient people were not stupid, after years of experience, the most reasonable breeding method is similar to the modern one. It's just that because it is not as balanced as the feed of later generations, the proportion of concentrate will be a little higher.

And the war horse, which is going to the battlefield, is the fatal joint that determines life and death, and it is even more afraid to be sloppy, of course, it is to eat better and more. Those first-class war horses used for heavy riding even had to be fed eggs every day, and they were raised with all concentrate during wartime.

So, let's do the math:

The war horses of the Great Song Dynasty were generally introduced from the Great Liao, and the breed was the Three Hippopotamus. That is, the Mongolian horse, with a body height of about one meter and three meters, weighs about 600 pounds.

The horses used in the camp of Hades came from the Hetao, not the Three Hippos, but they were better than the Three Hippopotamus breeds, and they were Hippo horses. This horse is taller than the three hippos, with a body height of one meter four to one meter five, and weighs about 700 pounds.

According to the above intensive breeding standards, a Hequ horse of Hades Nutrition has to dry up ten catties of forage, 1% of the concentrate (that is, 7 catties of grain), and one or two salts a day.

Forage can not be counted, the price of a bunch of grass in the Great Song Dynasty is only 10 Wen, which is not valuable.

Just grain and salt.

How much food does a big living person eat in a day? How much salt?

For ordinary forbidden soldiers, the annual salary is only 100 buckets, that is, about 1,200 catties.

War horses can eat 200 buckets of grain and 20 catties of salt just by eating them a year.

The actual consumption of concentrate is much higher than the figure of later generations, reaching 300.

Moreover, this is still usual, if there is a war, it will have to be doubled!

......

It is no wonder that the Great Song Dynasty has an annual income of nearly 40 million in taxes and nearly 100 million yuan at the peak, but it is still so poor that seventy percent of the tax revenue has added to the hole of raising soldiers.

Only one Hades camp made Tang Yi completely understand a truth:

Raising soldiers is really not something that ordinary people can afford.

When he came to the Hades camp, Tang Yi stuffed the last piece of meat steamed bun into his mouth.

"Where's your general?"

The soldiers guarding the door recognized Tang Yi and replied respectfully: "I have seen Tang Gongzi, the general is practicing in the school field." ”

Tang Yi nodded, put his hands behind his back, and paced towards the school grounds.

Seeing Yang Huaiyu sitting on the martial arts stage from a distance, and it happened that all the battalion generals were also there, Tang Yi went straight to the past.

......

Seeing that it was Tang Yi coming, before Yang Huaiyu could speak, Cao Jue had already spoken.

"It's really a rare guest, you didn't come after so many days, and you came here by yourself today?"

Li He greeted him, "It's just right to come, the whole army is training together today, and Da Lang will help the staff officers and staff officers to see if there are any shortcomings." ”

Tang Yi's eyes lit up, "That's a coincidence, what about the Black Cavalry Battalion?" Show it to me. ”

Yang Huaiyu glanced at him, "It's not time for the black rider to come out yet, just wait!" ”

Tang Yi had no choice but to sit down with everyone and watch the soldiers on the field line up to practice.

......

Tang Yi, the cavalry off the field, didn't care too much, although these cavalry were already mavericks in the Great Song Dynasty Horse Army, because whether it was equipment, horses, or soldiers, they were the top in the Great Song Dynasty.

However, even so, Tang Yi didn't care too much, because the real bull fork hadn't come out yet!

Finally.

Suddenly, Tang Yi only heard a rumbling sound from far and near like a muffled drum, which shook the martial arts platform and trembled.

Tang Yi couldn't help but stand up.

"It's coming!"

......

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Ps: The name of the Hequ horse is only in modern times, and it was not called so in the Great Song Dynasty, but I am too lazy to explain the name and source, don't take it seriously.