Kou Ji rolled his eyes and said: "Do you think it is so easy to raise heavy armored cavalry? From the creation to the completion of the Tiger Army, it cost tens of millions of guan, and hundreds of thousands of guan are spent every year to replace the armor.

, horses, and distribution of food and wages.

If there is a war, just replacing horses and paying out pensions will be a huge amount of money.

Raising a heavy armor is like raising a hundred thousand soldiers and horses.

Heavy armor is a weapon of the military and will not be used easily.

Most of the time, they won't appear on the battlefield.

Don’t the other soldiers who are fighting on the battlefield have any complaints against them?”

Yang Wenguang disagreed, "If we had three heavy armies, it would be enough to suppress the east, north, and west sides of our Song Dynasty. It would be enough to bring peace to our Song Dynasty for decades."

Kou Ji glanced at Yang Wenguang and said, "I never thought about letting the Song Dynasty gain decades of peace."

Yang Wenguang stared at Kou Ji in astonishment.

As long as there are loyal ministers and good generals, those who do not want peace in the world.

Why can't it work when we get to Kou Ji?

Kou Ji seemed to see Yang Wenguang's doubts and said calmly: "I just need to make the people peaceful and prosperous. If the soldiers and horses cannot be peaceful, neither can the surrounding areas.

Our enemies are constantly getting stronger, and we must keep getting stronger as well.

If you blindly think about peace in the world, weapons in storage, and horses released in Nanshan, sooner or later you will be beaten up by others."

Yang Wenguang frowned subconsciously.

Kou Ji continued: "The world is not static, and neither are our enemies. So we can't think all day long that after defeating all the enemies, we don't have to do anything.

If you really think that way, the imperial court will be defeated sooner or later.

Because although our enemies have fallen, new enemies are constantly rising.

I, the Song family, are not alone in the world.

As long as there are other countries besides the Song Dynasty, we will never have the idea of ​​​​hoarding weapons and letting horses go to Nanshan."

When Yang Wenguang heard this, his brows furrowed even more.

Kou Ji sighed and said: "The world is at peace, the weapons are stored in the treasury, and the horses are released in the Nanshan Mountains. This is what the civil servants told the people. After the people heard it, they can naturally work and cultivate the land with peace of mind.

But as a military minister, you can't keep it in your heart.

Let alone regard it as a wise saying.”

When Yang Wenguang heard Kou Ji's words, his head was in a state of confusion.

Kou Ji's words were contrary to the education he had received since childhood, as well as the thoughts of many people in the Song Dynasty.

Unfortunately, he couldn't come up with anything to refute Kou Ji's words.

Because reading through history books, countless examples prove that Kou Ji's words are right.

But if he was asked to overturn the cognition that had been formed in his mind and accept Kou Ji's statement, he was somewhat resistant.

Kou Ji glanced at Yang Wenguang, who was trapped in a quagmire of ideological collision, and continued: "You think it would be more beneficial to use the heavy armor captured from the Xixia soldiers and horses for your own use.

But I think it would be more beneficial to hand over the captured heavy armor to Yuan Shanbu.

If our Song Dynasty had three heavy armors, it would indeed bring peace to the three sides for a short period of time.

But war will come sooner or later.

After the enemy sees the power of our heavy armor, they will also fire us and build heavy armor.

He even came up with many ways to restrain heavy armor, or built many soldiers and horses that can restrain heavy armor.

When the enemy breaks through the heavy armor, what can we do to resist the enemy?

You have seen that heavy armored cavalry are showing off their power on the battlefield. Are you sure that heavy armored cavalry can continue to show off their power on the battlefield forever?

Don’t talk about the far ones, but talk about the near ones.

In the battle of Yumen Pass, Zhu Neng, despite paying a huge price, still restrained the iron kite in Li Yuanhao's hand and wiped out more than half of it.

What does this mean? It means that heavy armored cavalry are not invincible on the battlefield.

So we can't put all our hopes on heavy armored cavalry, understand?

Our Song Dynasty already has a heavy armor, and I also have a batch of heavy armor that can equip three thousand heavy armored cavalry.

In other words, I, the Song Dynasty, have one heavy armor in the open and another in the dark.

With two heavy armored cavalry, we have a way to restrain the heavy armored cavalry that appears in the enemy's hands.

So we don't need to build more heavy armored cavalry.

You have seen the power of artillery and muskets.

As long as we build more artillery, we can easily defeat the heavy armored cavalry.

At that time, the position of heavy armored cavalry on the battlefield will become very embarrassing.

So what we need to focus on now is artillery and muskets, not heavy armored cavalry.

If we pile all the money on the heavy armored cavalry, when the artillery can be produced in batches, all the money spent on the heavy armored cavalry will be in vain.

The benefits we gain from handing over the heavy armor to the Yuanshan tribe are far greater than building another heavy armor cavalry ourselves.

First of all, we can use heavy armor to exchange a large amount of money from the Yuanshan tribe for the manufacture of artillery and muskets.

Secondly, the Yuanshan tribe obtained heavy armor and had the power to compete with Qingtang.

Don't look at how Qingtang is so obedient to me now, but Qingtang is also an unfamiliar white-eyed wolf.

They don't have the power to compete with me, Da Song, now, so they listen to me, Da Song, in everything. But once they have the power, or have the opportunity to bite me, Da Song, they will definitely not let me go, Da Song.

When we use heavy armor to support the Yuanshan tribe, it is equivalent to planting a nail in Qingtang's back.

A situation of mutual restraint was formed.

If Qingtang wants to plot something against us, the Song Dynasty, the Yuanshan tribe can take the opportunity to give Qingtang a painful blow.

If the Song Dynasty wants to start a war with Xixia and Liao Kingdom again, there is no need to be afraid that Qingtang will cause trouble for us behind our backs."

Kou Jitu told Yang Wenguang a lot sincerely.

In addition to dispelling Yang Wenguang's doubts about selling the heavy armor to Yuan Shanbe, he also wanted to cultivate Yang Wenguang's overall perspective.

War is not an open and honest struggle.

Checking and balancing each other and leveraging strength are also part of war.

A general who only knows how to compete with others can only be a general at best.

But if you can also scheming with the enemy while wrestling with him, and win the battle, then you are a commander-in-chief.

If you can crush the enemy in terms of grasping the overall situation and strategic layout, then you will be a great commander.

Kou Ji is still very optimistic about Yang Wenguang, so he hopes that Yang Wenguang can become a qualified commander.

Among the new generation of generals, relying solely on Zhong Shiheng and Di Qing to support the situation is still a little too weak.

Cao, Pan, Gao, Shi, etc., among the new generation, there are many generals, but no handsome ones.

If Kou Ji remembers correctly, after the death of Zhe Weizhong, the successor of the Zhe family was a stick.

He is the only stick hammer among the many generations of heroes and loyal warriors in the Zhe family.

After that stick takes over, the Zhejia family will enter a short period of trough.

Therefore, after that Bangchui succeeded, the Zhe family had little hope.

Kou Ji was determined to compete with the tyrannical Liao Kingdom for the sixteen states of Yanyun, so he had to find a way to strengthen the Song Dynasty's military.

After listening to Kou Ji's words, Yang Wenguang felt a little confused, had a headache, and didn't want to speak.

Kou Ji didn't continue to tell him much.

He left Yang Wenguang alone in the room to digest what he said, and stepped out of the room.

The next few days.

Yang Wenguang stayed in his room and rarely went out.

Kou Ji met many people as an angel of the Song Dynasty.

The purpose was to leave many traces of the Song Dynasty in the Yuanshan tribe, so that the small tribes attached to the Yuanshan tribe would be familiar with interacting with the Song Dynasty and the identity of the sovereign state of the Song Dynasty.

On a sunny day.

At the invitation of Zhang Yuan, people from the Song Dynasty, Yuanshan, and Qingtang entered the main hall of the palace of the Yuanshan tribe.

Although it is said to be a royal palace, it is not actually a royal palace.

It's just a larger noble mansion.

The royal court of Huangtou Uihe, at the southern end of Huangtou Uihe's territory, has been occupied by Qingtang.

Therefore, it is impossible for Zhang Yuan to live in the palace of Huangtou Huihe.
To be continued...