Kou Ji rolled his eyes and said: "Do you think it's so easy to raise a heavy armor? The Tiger Army has spent tens of millions of dollars from creation to completion, and hundreds of thousands of them are spent on replacing armor every year. , Horses, and allotment.
If there is a big battle, the money for replacing horses and giving out pensions is a big number.
Raising a heavy armour is like raising a hundred thousand soldiers and horses.
Heavy armor is also a weapon of the military, and it will not be easily used.
Most of the time, they will not appear on the battlefield.
Other soldiers fighting on the battlefield have no complaints against them? "
Yang Wenguang couldn't agree, "If we had three heavy armours, it would be enough to hold the east, north, and west sides of the Song Dynasty. It would be enough to bring peace to the Song Dynasty for decades."
Kou Ji glanced at Yang Wenguang and said, "I never thought of letting Da Song have decades of peace."
Yang Wenguang stared at Kou Ji in amazement.
As long as the loyal minister and good general, the one who does not want peace in the world.
Why doesn't it work when I get to Kou Ji
Kou Ji seemed to see Yang Wenguang's doubts, and said lightly: "I only need to make the people peaceful and make them prosperous. Soldiers and horses cannot be peaceful, nor can the four sides be peaceful.
Our enemies are constantly getting stronger, and we have to keep getting stronger.
Blindly thinking about the peace of the world, the swordsmen are in the treasury, and the horses are released in Nanshan, sooner or later they will be severely beaten by others. "
Yang Wenguang frowned subconsciously.
Kou Ji continued: "The world is not static, and our enemies are not static. So we can't think all day, if we defeat all enemies, we can do nothing.
If you really think that way, the court will be defeated sooner or later.
Because although our enemies have fallen, new enemies are constantly standing up.
I am not the only one in the world.
As long as there are other countries besides the Great Song Dynasty, we will never have the idea of arranging swordsmen into the treasury and letting Nanshan go. "
Yang Wenguang frowned even more when he heard the words.
Kou Ji sighed and said: "The world is peaceful, the swordsmen are in the treasury, and the horses are placed in Nanshan. That is what the civil servants told the people. After the people listened, they would naturally work and farm with peace of mind.
But as a military minister, you can't keep it in mind.
It can not be regarded as the most reasonable saying. "
When Yang Wenguang heard Kou Ji's words, his head was noisy.
Kou Ji's words are contrary to the education he received since childhood and the ideas of many people in the Song Dynasty.
Unfortunately, he couldn't say anything to refute Kou Ji's words.
Because reading through history books, countless examples have proved that Kou Ji's words are correct.
But let him suddenly overthrow the cognition that had formed in his mind, accepting Kou Ji's statement, he was somewhat resisted.
Kou Ji glanced at Yang Wenguang, who was caught in the quagmire of the collision of ideas, and continued: "You think it is more beneficial to use the heavy armor seized 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 the Yuanshan Department.
If I, Da Song, have three heavy armors, I can indeed plunge the three sides into peace for a short time.
But sooner or later, war will come.
After the enemy sees the strength of our heavy armor, they will also fire us and build heavy armor.
Even think of many ways to restrain heavy armor, or build many soldiers and horses that can restrain heavy armor.
When the enemy breaks the heavy armor, what shall we do to resist the enemy
You saw that the heavy armored knights are now on the battlefield. Can you be sure that the heavy armored knights can continue to dominate the battlefield to the last wish
If you don't talk far away, just talk nearer.
In the battle of Yumen Pass, Zhu Neng still restrained the Iron Harrier in Li Yuanhao's hands and wiped out more than half of it despite paying a great price.
What does this show is that heavy armor is not invincible on the battlefield.
So we can’t put all our hopes on the heavy armor, understand
My Da Song already has a heavy armor, and I still have a batch of heavy armor that can be equipped with three thousand heavy armor.
In other words, my Da Song's heavy armor has one on the bright side and another on the dark side.
With two heavy armored knights, we have a way to restrain the heavy armored knights that appear in the hands of the enemy.
So we don’t need to build more heavy armor.
You have seen the power of artillery and musket.
As long as we build more artillery, we can easily restrain the heavy armor.
At that time, the position of the heavy cavalry on the battlefield will become very embarrassing.
So what we should focus on now is artillery and muskets, not heavy armored cavalry.
If we pile all the money on the heavy armored riders and wait until the artillery can be built in batches, the money spent on the heavy armored riders will be wasted.
We handed over the heavy armor to the Yuanshan Department, and the benefits we gained were far greater than we built another heavy armored horse ourselves.
First of all, we can use heavy armor to exchange a large amount of money from Yuanshan Department for the manufacture of artillery and muskets.
Secondly, the Yuanshan Tribe received heavy armor and had the power to contend with Qingtang.
Don't look at Qingtang being obedient to my Song Dynasty, but Qingtang is also an unfamiliar white-eyed wolf.
They don't have the power to compete with my Da Song now, so everything is up to me, but once they have the power, or have the opportunity to bite my Da Song, they will definitely not let me go.
We support the Yuanshan Tribe with heavy armor, which is equivalent to burying a nail behind Qingtang.
Formed a situation of mutual restraint.
If Qingtang wanted to plot a misconduct against me, the Yuanshan Tribe could take the opportunity to give Qingtang a painful blow.
If my Song Dynasty wants to start a war with Xixia and Liao again, I don't need to be afraid that Qingtang will give us some moths behind it. "
Kou Ji talked a lot about Yang Wenguang.
In addition to dispelling Yang Wenguang's doubts about selling his heavy armor to Yuanshan Department, he also intends to cultivate Yang Wenguang's overall view.
War is not a fair fight.
Checking and balancing each other and leveraging strength to fight against each other is also part of the war.
A general who can only wrestle with others openly can only be a general at best.
But if while wrestling with the enemy, you can also intrigue 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 are a great commander in command.
Kou Ji is still very optimistic about Yang Wenguang, so he hopes Yang Wenguang can become a qualified commander.
Among the new generation of generals, relying only on Chong Shiheng and Di Qing to support the scene is still a bit too thin.
Cao, Pan, Gao, Shi, etc., among the new generation, there are many generals, but there are no handsome talents.
If Kou Ji remembers correctly, after Zhe Weizhong's death, Zhe's successor was a club.
It is the only cudgel among the heroes of the Zhe family.
After that club succeeded, the Zhe family would enter a short period of low.
So after the succession of the club, the Zhe family was somewhat unreliable.
Kou Ji had the intention to compete with the 16 states of Yanyun in the tyrannical period of Liao, so he must find a way to enrich the military power of the Song Dynasty.
After listening to Kou Ji's words, Yang Wenguang was a little confused, some had a headache, and some did not want to speak.
Kou Ji did not continue to talk to him too much.
He left Yang Wenguang alone in the room to digest what he said, and stepped out of the room by himself.
A few days later.
Yang Wenguang stayed in the room and didn't go out much.
Kou Ji met many people as the Angel of Song Dynasty.
The purpose is to leave a lot of traces of the Song Dynasty in the Yuanshan Tribe, so that the small tribes attached to the Yuanshan Tribe will be familiar with the relationship with the Song Dynasty and the identity of the sovereign state of the Song Dynasty.
In a sunny day.
Song, Yuanshan, Qingtang, the trio of people, at the invitation of Zhang Yuan, entered the main hall of the palace of Yuanshan.
Said it is a royal palace, but in fact it is not a royal palace.
It is a larger aristocratic mansion.
The royal court of Huangtouhuihe, at the southern end of the Huangtouhuihe territory, has been occupied by Qingtang.
Therefore, it is impossible for Zhang Yuan to live in the palace of Huangtouhuihe.
There is no royal palace in Chaidan City.
Therefore, Zhang Yuan could only use a large aristocratic mansion as a royal palace.
After Kou Ji took the people to sit down in the palace, he glanced so hard that they were all acquaintances.
Qingtang, the one sent to conclude an alliance with Yuanshan was An Ziluo.
Naturally, the Wonsan Department was personally presented by Wonsan.
The three people sitting on the table are all very familiar, so there is no need to say so many polite words.
An Ziluo was embarrassed about Yuanshan's rise. He stared at Yuanshan and said with emotion: "Vaguely remember that when he first met the Yuanshan leader, Yuanshan had just established his footing in Danshan City.
In a blink of an eye, the leader of Yuanshan became the leader of the Western Regions.
Even if my clan Zanpu met you, he was treated with courtesy. "
Zhang Yuan heard An Ziluo's words and said very politely: "General An was joking. I, Yuanshan, can have today because of the gift of the heavenly kingdom."
When An Ziluo heard this, he said to Kou Ji with a bit of sorrow: "The Heavenly Kingdom is really good for the Yuanshan Tribe."
Could it be bad
With a wave of his hand, the Yuanshan Department won a foothold in the Three States.
Let Yuanshan Department from a small horse thief power to a state power.
Kou Ji heard the sourness in An Ziluo's tone and smiled indifferently: "I never treat my Song dynasty, and sincerely help my ally."
An Ziluo smiled and said: "The Heavenly Dynasty can take the Hexi Land, and I have done a lot in Qingtang."
Kou Ji smiled and nodded and said: "Qingtang's contribution to my Song Dynasty will naturally not be forgotten by Song Dynasty. I have already written a letter to the official, and I believe that the official will send the reward to your ministry in the near future."
An Ziluo pondered: "I don't know what the reward is?"
Kou Jishi laughed and said: "What the officials will reward Qingtang, only the officials know, how can I dare to go beyond as a minister.
When An Ziluo heard Ko Ji's words, his expression was a little unclear.
The gold and silver goods rewarded by the Song Dynasty, or the titles of titles, were dispensable for Qingtang.
Kou Ji knew what Qingtang wanted, so he smiled and said: "In the document I gave to the official, there are words that clarify that your ministry urgently needs craftsmen. I believe the official will give me a bit of advice and send some craftsmen into Guizhou. unit."
An Ziluo raised his brows and smiled with satisfaction.
An Ziluo smiled and said: "I heard that Shangbang wiped out many iron harriers and seized a lot of iron harriers in the Yumen Pass and Yangguan battles. I don't know..."
Hearing this, Kou Ji pretended to be taken aback, and then said dumbfounded: "If your ministry likes those armors, why didn't you tell me earlier? I met with your ministry Zanpu in Xiliang City before, and your ministry Zampu didn't mention it. The ministry didn’t like those remnants, so he sold it to Yuanshan at a low price."
An Ziluo's smile narrowed slightly when he heard the words.
I was a little disappointed in my heart, but not too disappointed.
Because when he came, Jiao Si Luo told him that when he was in Xiliang City, Kou Ji had not mentioned the heavy armor to Jiao Si Luo.
Then the final ownership of those heavy armors is likely to become the armor of a soldier and horse of the Song Dynasty, or it may appear in the Yuanshan Department.
Now Kou Ji sold the heavy armor to Yuanshan Department, as Jiao Si Luo expected.
Jiao Si Luo expected that Kou Ji would sell the heavy armor to the Yuanshan Department.
But he didn't expect that Kou Ji actually wanted to sell it to him at first.
This omission is not because Jiao Si Luo was not thoughtful enough.
But Jiao Si Luo didn't know the relationship between Kou Ji and Zhang Yuan.
He didn't know that after Kou Ji got the Iron Harrier's heavy armor, he never thought about Yuanshan Bu, because he had prepared a batch of better ones for Yuan Shan Bu.
It is because of this.
As a result, Jiao Si Luo was in Xiliang City and did not take the initiative to mention the iron Harrier's heavy armor to Kou Ji.
It also indirectly caused Jiao Si Luo to erroneously release goodwill to Yuan Shan Bu, allowing Kou Ji to see his inner thoughts clearly, changed his attention, and sold Iron Harrier's heavy armor to Yuan Shan Bu.
This is the case with the confrontation between countries.
Often a wrong judgment will cost a lot.
An Ziluo didn't say anything after learning that Kou Ji had sold the heavy armor to Yuanshan Department.
The three people sat at the table and discussed the terms of the covenant between Qingtang and Yuanshan.
After the discussion is over.
The covenant documents were exchanged.
Sacrifice to heaven and god.
Let the heavens and the gods witness the covenant between the two.
Afterwards, Kou Ji and An Ziluo played in the city of Chaidan. An Ziluo asked Kou Ji’s return date, and privately revealed to Kou Ji that Kou Ji Luo prepared a gift for Kou Ji and waited until Kou Ji returned. When the time comes, it will be delivered to him.
For this, Kou Ji expressed his gratitude.
A few more days passed.
Under the testimony of Anziluo and Kou Ji, Zhang Yuan officially became the head of the Yuanshan tribe with the congratulations of the heads of the tribes, and officially announced that he had a right to the land of the three states under his jurisdiction and his residence in the three states. The rule of all subjects above the land.
Since then, the Yuanshan Tribe has officially become one of the great forces in the Western Regions.
After witnessing Zhang Yuan becoming the master of the Yuanshan tribe, An Ziluo left the Yuanshan tribe.
Kou Ji stayed in Yuanshan for many more days.
It was not until the guards of the horse patrol entered Chaidan City with the armor of the iron Harrier that he took Yang Wenguang, the soldiers and horses of the Song Dynasty, the messengers of the Yuanshan Ministry, large quantities of gold and silver jewelry, cattle, sheep, and horses, and left. To the Yuanshan Department.
When Kou Ji came, he rode in a hurry, and when he returned, the team was very large.
After he entered Shazhou, he brought back a large number of news of gold and silver jewelry from Yuanshan, and it blew out like a gust of wind.