"Come on, come on, let's drink and drink." Fan Zuo wanted to continue to persuade, but Xunzi raised his glass and said, Fan Zuo had no choice but to give up, Xunzi still had to give him face.
This is a famous person all over the world, and few people don't know about him.
In this era, fame can really be eaten. With the word "Xunzi", you will be treated politely wherever you go, even the monarch will receive you personally.
Except for a very few weirdos, no one would choose to offend celebrities. Even if they despise certain celebrities in their hearts, they would never show it.
Otherwise, these celebrities will not only scold you, but also record the incident and leave it to future generations to scold you, nailing you to the pillar of shame.
Even a monarch cannot afford to offend these pen-holders.
"This must be Xunzi from Jixia Academy. I would like to propose a toast to you, sir." King Wei raised his glass and said.
"I am Xunzi, but I am Xunzi from Handan College." Xunzi picked up the wine glass, made a gesture of inviting him, and drank it down in one gulp.
"Haha." King Wei smiled awkwardly. He didn't mean to mock Xunzi just now, it was just a habit. After all, Handan Academy was only established less than a year ago, and Xunzi had been staying at Jixia Academy for so many years.
"Your Majesty, I, the State of Wei, have not yet congratulated the State of Zhao for defeating the Huns." Seeing this, Lord Longyang said, in order to alleviate the embarrassment of King Wei.
"Yes, yes, I congratulate the State of Zhao for defeating the Xiongnu and wiping out the foreign enemies in the north." King Wei said loudly.
Due to the restriction of news dissemination, although all the countries in the Central Plains knew that Zhao had defeated the Huns, they did not know that dozens of large and small armies, including the Huns, had been completely destroyed, and the grasslands had been set up as counties by Zhao and divided into pastures.
, began to plant grass and graze.
They thought that Zhao State only defeated the Xiongnu army, and at most the Xiongnu army was defeated miserably.
"We are all happy together. After several months, Zhao Kuo mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops and spent countless money to finally defeat the Xiongnu. It can be considered that we have lived up to the sacrifices of the soldiers." Zhao Kuo raised his glass and said.
"Zhao must have gained a lot of war horses from this battle. I wonder if you can sell some to Wei?" Zhang Yan asked.
When Jin Bi, Mang Mao and other generals heard this, their eyes lit up and they looked at Zhao Kuo eagerly.
It should be said that Wei State is not particularly short of war horses, otherwise it would not be able to pull out so many chariots.
It may be a bit exaggerated to claim that each one has tens of thousands of chariots, but it is really not difficult to pull out thousands of chariots.
However, Wei State did not have many horses that could form cavalry.
After all, chariots are pulled by multiple war horses, so they are more fault-tolerant and can be used as long as they are not too bad. However, cavalry cannot be used. You can't ride two horses at the same time.
Moreover, although horses are fast, they have poor endurance. In order to ensure combat effectiveness, at least one person must have two horses, or even one person must have three horses.
Qin wanted to train its own cavalry and no longer sold war horses. Zhao had blocked all war horses from the north, and the Central Plains countries wanted to train cavalry.
Now the price of war horses has increased several times, and demand exceeds supply. Even the price of horses has increased a lot.
In fact, the State of Qin is also struggling. You can definitely make a lot of money by selling horses now, but money and food are definitely not as important as cavalry. If the cavalry is well trained, other people's money and food will be my money and food. If the cavalry is not well trained, my money and food will be other people's money and food.
If you don't sell it, this big piece of cake will definitely be swallowed up by Zhao Guo, and Qin Guo doesn't want Zhao Guo to get so many benefits.
Unfortunately, there is no way to get the best of both worlds. Unless Qin can sell off its war horses in large quantities and completely drive down the price, it will cause another problem. After Han, Wei and other countries have trained their cavalry, they will probably use it to defeat them.
Even if he is not used to attack him, it will be significantly more difficult for Qin to attack the two countries.
In the end, the Qin State still did not sell the war horses, but even so, the Qin State made a lot of money by selling the horses, which relieved the domestic pressure.
This is the benefit of monopoly. If Wei State still occupied Hexi and Zhao State had not blocked Yan State's southward path, the current situation would never have been possible.
Zhao Kuo did not speak, but glanced at Lu Zhonglian. Lu Zhonglian asked: "I wonder how many war horses Wei plans to buy?"
At the same time, secretly activate the talent of spring breeze.
"How much can Zhao Guo sell?" Zhang Yan asked. He didn't know what was going on, but he suddenly felt that Lu Zhonglian was very pleasing to his eye.
Lu Zhonglian was stunned for a moment and didn't know how to answer. What do you think of Zhao's current horses? I can't say a lot, I can only say a lot. Rongdi alone has millions of horses, even if we exclude those who died in battles.
, there are hundreds of thousands of stallions, young horses, and draft horses that have died of illness. Now raising horses has become a difficult problem for Zhao State.
There are also large herds of wild horses on the grassland, ranging from dozens of small ones to tens of thousands of large ones, and all of them are high-quality horses that can be used as war horses after being captured. The rhinoceros horses have been naturally eliminated.
And because of the aura of heaven and earth, many of these wild horses have internal energy, and there are even extraordinary war horses. On the other hand, the proportion of artificially bred war horses with internal energy is much smaller than that of wild horses, and no extraordinary war horse has been found so far.
If the State of Zhao sent people to capture these wild horses on a large scale, at least hundreds of thousands of them could be captured, but this was a one-time effort, and there would not be so many after the capture.
But if we only arrest 30,000 to 50,000 people every year, we can continue to arrest them.
In addition, Zhao can also buy war horses from Yan at a low price and earn the price difference. Yan has been blocked by Zhao, so there is no other way but to sell them to Zhao.
In addition, Zhao Guo can also steal war horses from Donghu.
In short, Lu Zhonglian does not know how many horses Zhao has.
However, Zhang Yan did not ask how many horses Zhao had, but how many horses Zhao could sell. Lu Zhonglian thought about Wei's financial resources, the degree of threat to Zhao, and at the same time, he had to ensure that he had the power to counter Qin's cavalry.
After a moment, Lu Zhonglian stretched out a palm, and all five fingers on the palm stood up.
"Five thousand? It's a bit less." Zhang Yan shook his head. This is only enough to train two or three thousand cavalry. It is still useful in small-scale wars, but it will not even make a splash in large-scale battles.
"Fifty thousand." Lu Zhonglian said.
"Ding Dong!" The kuaizi in King Wei's hand fell onto the tripod. Fan Zuo tilted the wine glass in his hand and did not even notice that the wine spilled into his arms. Jin Bi and others froze on the spot, motionless.
"We, the Wei State, don't want rogue horses." Zhang Yan said with a straight face.
"All of them are war horses over six feet five," Lu Zhonglian said.
"Is this true?" Jin Bi said excitedly. He did not ask Lu Zhonglian, but looked at Zhao Kuo.
"Lu Qing has full authority to make the decision on this matter. You don't need to ask me anymore." Zhao Kuo said with a smile, then picked up the wine glass and took a sip. The taste was far different from the wine of my country, Zhao.
"We in Wei...can't afford so many war horses." After a while, Zhang Yan sighed deeply and shook his head helplessly.
In the past, the price of war horses and cattle was about the same, around four to five thousand, but now it has almost risen to twenty thousand. Even if Zhao offered Wei cheaper, Wei could not afford it.
