Arriving at Song Zheng's study, Lie Beitao said: "To be honest, I have some properties in my family, one of which is related to Brother Mao Zhengdao."

"I heard from Brother Mao that your Excellency has some thoughts on fighting beasts and riding horses?"

Song Zheng secretly cursed Mao Zhengdao for his big mouth. How could he talk to others about this kind of thing? Lie Beitao saw his concerns and said with a smile: "Don't worry, sir. Our Lie family is in the business of beast riding in the capital."

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The Dark Tiger Insect Beast and the Armored Dragon Rhinoceros were both raised by our Lie family for the imperial court."

Song Zheng was surprised: "The secret of taming and breeding beast riders has always been in the hands of the imperial court."

"This is still the case in name." Lie Beitao said: "But the imperial court... Your Excellency also knows what is going on. It appoints treacherous ministers and squeezes out the virtuous. More than a hundred years ago, the imperial court's animal control supervisor no longer had any monks who could raise and breed animals.

Ride.

Since then, almost all beast riding has been managed by several aristocratic families in the capital. The court gives money and we are responsible for breeding and raising."

Song Zheng nodded, he might not know these things if he wasn't in the capital.

"How many Yuan Yu does your beast ride?"

Upon hearing his intention, Lie Beitao immediately became interested: "The Dark Tiger Insect Beast costs three million yuan in jade. If you want to complete the armor and equipment, you can add another one million yuan."

Song Zheng asked: "Is this armor just animal armor, or does it include human armor?"

"It's all included." Liebeitao said, "This is a very favorable price."

Song Zheng nodded: "Where's the armored dragon and rhinoceros?"

"An armored dragon and rhinoceros costs 4.5 million each, and all of them cost 6 million."

So expensive! This was Song Zheng's first thought, and he couldn't help but frown. Even if it was a Dark Tiger Insect Beast, one knight would cost four million, and one thousand people would be four billion! He planned to use all the monsters in the world to

The number of thousand and five hundred is all equipped as fighting beasts and repairs, that is six billion.

If you want a more powerful armored dragon rhinoceros, you will need to add another three billion.

Lie Beitao observed his words and asked, "Sir, do you want to form a team of beast-fighting and cavalry warriors?"

There were many dignitaries doing this in the capital. Although it was against etiquette, the rules of the court had already been corrupted and no one cared about them.

It was very majestic to enter and exit the private troops with fighting beasts and cavalry. He heard that Song Zheng was extravagant and domineering in Jiangnan, so he thought this was his plan.

Song Zheng hesitated: "The price is too high..."

No wonder the emperor did not cultivate military equipment. It indeed cost a lot of money. In the eyes of the emperor, it was better to stay and have fun with the money.

Lie Beitao said: "Can you let me take a look at the team that your Excellency is preparing to equip? Because of my family connections, I know a lot about fighting beasts and riding. I can give you suggestions on which kind of beast is suitable for you based on your soldiers."

Song Zheng nodded: "That's fine, please come with me."

He was a little unsure, so it would be best to have professional advice now. When Song Zheng went out, he ordered: "Let Shi Zhonghe and the others get ready."

When they returned to the school grounds again, Shi Zhonghe had already lined up with five hundred human monsters from the Taoyuan Secret Realm.

Lie Beitao was surprised: "Five hundred people? Sir, you want all the equipment?"

Before Song Zheng could answer, another team came over, followed by a third, a fourth, and a fifth. Each team had 500 people, totaling 1,500.

In the past few days, the demon clans from the five secret realms have arrived one after another. Song Zheng was anxious to go north, but there were some things he was not ready for, so he could only suppress his inner anxiety for the time being.

Song Zheng nodded and replied: "Yes."

Lie Beitao was speechless for a while, and finally swallowed hard, bowed and apologized: "My subordinate has lost his composure, please don't blame me."

His little heart was still beating wildly. Fifteen hundred fighting beasts were repairing horses! This was a huge business. The imperial court had not expanded its armaments in recent years. If he succeeded, it would be the biggest business for the Lie family in the past hundred years.

An order!

He and Mao Zhengdao were both the second generation ancestors of aristocratic families in the capital, but his Lie family was not as good as the Mao family, and Mao Zhengdao's temperament had always looked down on him. And he felt that Mao Zhengdao was a loser, not as diligent and progressive as himself.

This time Xiao Zhen gave him this job. He had heard from Mao Zhengdao that Song Zheng was interested in forming a fighting beast cavalry. However, the two of them didn't get along well, and Mao Zhengdao just mentioned it to him without elaborating.

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He took advantage of the opportunity of an errand to come and take a look, thinking that it would be good to sell ten or twenty heads. After all, there were not many people in a personal army.

I didn't expect Song Zheng's appetite to be so big...

He secretly looked at Mr. Song and said in his heart: The rumors in the capital that there are many local tycoons in the south of the Yangtze River are true.

But he didn't know that Song Zheng was worried about where to get these billions of jade. With the gains from handling many cases in the past, plus various secret "filial piety" in the past few months, his net worth was indeed several billions.

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But these are mainly his high-level spiritual treasures.

After deducting these spiritual treasures, the real amount that can be used is about 300 million. Of course he would not be willing to use the spiritual treasures to exchange them with the Lie family.

The imperial court collected a total of two billion yuan in jade "war gifts" from the ten states in Jiangnan and Lingnan, but these were collected from ordinary people, and the aristocratic families only paid a symbolic amount.

In today's Hongwu Dynasty, wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few people. The wealth of any medieval family is more than three billion.

Fifteen hundred human monsters have arrived. Song Zheng raised his hand to Lie Beitao: "Please."

Lie Beitao walked down and took a closer look, and was even more surprised. Unlike being shocked by Jiangnan's financial resources just now, this time he saw a team with extremely amazing talent and strength.

A total of 1,500 people, with an average level of ten rivers! This level has exceeded the most elite beast-fighting and riding troops of the Hongwu Celestial Dynasty.

But what is really amazing is that almost every one of these people has the qualifications of a minor genius, without exception.

In some small aristocratic families, any one of them would be carefully cultivated as the next generation of cavalry figures. But in Master Song's case, they are just soldiers, and they may become beast riders in the future.

He couldn't help but look back at Song Zheng: Where did they find so many elites?

As for what Song Zheng wanted to do with such a powerful beast-fighting warrior, and whether he had a disobedient heart, Lie Beitao would not worry about it.

In the general environment on the east bank of the Ling River, the loyalty of the monks to their family and sect is far greater than that of the country.

If he succeeds in this big business, his status in the family will be extremely stable, and he will definitely be the next generation head of the family.

After he looked at it seriously, he exclaimed: "Sir... this fighting beast is so good at riding a horse that it can roam across the east bank of the Ling River. It can easily defeat the human and demon tribes. It will definitely be invincible in the world."

Song Zheng just smiled faintly and didn't take it seriously. Lie Beitao said this, firstly because he wanted to sell the riding beast, and secondly, because he had never seen the Hundred Wars King's Cavalry.

When it comes to cavalry alone, even Song Zheng has to admit that Lord Tiansha's Hundred Battles King Cavalry is the strongest cavalry in the world.

Lie Beitao hesitated for a moment and said tentatively: "Do you have the ambition to be the best soldier in the world?"

Song Zheng heard the underlying meaning: Are you willing to spend more money to make it better?

He asked: "Please elaborate."

Lie Beitao said in a low voice: "I have a new riding beast at home. It is extremely powerful, even better than the Sword Beetle Earth Dragon. Even the Iron-armed Griffin from the First Battalion of the Forbidden Army's Beast Fighting Cavalry is slightly inferior to it."

Song Zheng's eyelids twitched and he couldn't help but glance at Lie Beitao.

What does the Lie family want to do? Deliberately create a riding beast that can defeat the first battalion of fighting beasts.

Lie Beitao quickly explained: "My lord, please don't misunderstand, this is purely because...well, I will explain it to you in detail."

Lie Beitao's uncle was a geek who devoted his whole life to training beasts. He delayed his practice because of his study of riding beasts, and died at the age of more than two hundred years.

His son, Liebeitao's cousin, inherited his father's hobby and was even more addicted than his father. Although Liebeitao's grandfather, the previous head of the family, had given his seat to Liebeitao's father,

But at home he still kept his word.

The old man loves his eldest grandson and obeys his cousin's advice. My cousin wants to study the breeding of riding animals, so let him do the hard work. Need money? Anyway, our Lie family is not short of money, so give it to him.

This was a hardship for Lie Beitao's father. As the head of the family, he knew that firewood, rice, oil and salt were expensive. Over the years, his cousin's research on beast riding was in deficit by one billion!

Although it is said that due to the obsession of two generations of father and son, the Lie family had the capital to obtain the supply of beasts for the Forbidden Army's fighting beasts, and they did make a lot of money, but it would be best to make up for the shortfall.

My cousin did not waste it in vain. He developed a new insect beast thirty years ago: the Celestial Silkworm Thunder Tiger, and continued to breed and raise it. Now, it costs the Lie family hundreds of millions to maintain these two thousand Celestial Silkworm Thunder Tigers every year.

Ten Thousand Yuan Jade.

But this kind of riding beast is perfect. It can fight on land, fly, and even dive underwater! It also has three opportunities to "transform" and improve in its lifetime, and the strongest can reach the level of a seventh-level wild beast.

But it’s too expensive. One end costs seven million yuan in jade! The Forbidden Army doesn’t want it, and they haven’t sold one yet. My cousin rides it every day, roaring and galloping, and finds it extremely enjoyable.

Lie Beitao also made it clear: "Your Majesty has many elite soldiers and generals, and 1,500 riding beasts. Except for the Celestial Silkworm, Thunder Tiger, and others... there are only 600 Dark Tigers, Insect Beasts, and only 500 Armored Dragons and Rhinoceros."

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"It's too expensive." Song Zheng said: "You should not be the only ones doing the beast riding business in the capital. If you can't get it together, I can find someone else."

Lie Beitao was a little anxious: "Sir, give me some time and I will discuss it with my family."

"good."

Lie Beitao hurried back, and Song Zheng also secretly figured out how to raise such a large sum of money. He called Shi Zhonghe: "When you go home, you must invite Uncle Yanling, and tell me that I have

I need to share my important skills and experience with him."

"Yes." Shi Zhonghe went out happily, and Heidou came in angrily: "Sir, you are partial. Why should you give Uncle Yanling such a good job to you and not me?"
Chapter completed!