The Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, in our Chinese history, before the Great Song, were the great dynasties.
The most important reason for the invincibility of the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty, "Li Shimin", who has the title of emperor, is that his cavalry is strong enough, especially the "Xuanjia Jingqi" that Li Shimin relies on most, whether it is against the Sui Dynasty. The heavy-armored cavalry was still fighting against the cavalry of ethnic minorities such as Turks, Tubo, and Huihe.
However, after the Mid-Tang Dynasty, the Central Plains cavalry gradually weakened. When the Anshi Rebellion was settled, they even had to rely on the recruitment of ethnic minority cavalry to fight. This weakness continued from the late Tang Dynasty to the entire Song Dynasty, so that the Great Song and the Qidan (Liao) cavalry had several times. In the confrontation, the Da Song army, which was dominated by infantry, was passively beaten for a long time.
During the Great Song Dynasty, there was a shortage of salt everywhere, and it even caused a miserable situation that "salt is more expensive than life".
As mentioned in the previous article, after Wu Da presented the salt-making method to the court, Tong Guan, the Northwest Supervisor, used a large amount of refined salt in exchange for a large number of horses from all parts of the northwest, which greatly boosted the morale of the Song army.
However, for the army, horses are luxury goods and even consumables, and they have always been in short supply.
And because the Liao Dynasty occupied the sixteen states of Yanyun, the Song Dynasty not only lost the natural barrier to the north, but always had to beware of the Liao State's army going south. Therefore, Emperor Song Huizong, the Emperor of Song Dynasty, joined the northern Jin Kingdom (Jurchen) this year. Clan) reached an agreement to join forces against the Liao State. The Song army, fed up with the insults of the Liao State cavalry, naturally attached great importance to the war horses, and the war was about to begin. This is the situation where the Ministry of War and the Ministry of War are torn apart today.
"A bunch of idiots, give me ten thousand sticks, how can I help you solve this problem..."
As soon as Wu Da said this, the court was silent for an instant, and they all turned their heads to look at Wu Da who was peeping, with a dull expression.
"Who is spying on court secrets, come, take it!"
Wu Da had wanted to slap himself, but he was too owed. At this moment, he heard that the ministers wanted to ask someone to take him down, he pondered for a moment, and he jumped out and called out the wrongdoing:
"Cao Min Wu Zhi, came here on an order to meet your Majesty..."
Song Huizong raised his brows on the dragon chair, "Stop!"
The imperial army who had just broken in retreated and quickly retreated.
Wu Da quietly wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. The imperial army was not a joke. It was a big crime to trespass at the court. They really dare to kill.
The one who smelled it was Wuhan University, and the hundred officials in the court couldn't help but look at Wu University a few more times, frowning slightly.
Song Huizong smiled playfully, "Are you Wu Zhi?"
The Wuhan University was very straightforward, paying respects, "Cao Min Wu Zhi, see your majesty, long live my emperor!"
This set of moves, Wu University did so smoothly, without any hesitation.
Now that you have crossed the Song Dynasty, don’t mention that the man has gold under his knees. There is no need to pay such a big salute to meet other officials. But to meet the emperor, it must be a big salute. This is an iron rule. Let Wu Da can't eat and walk around.
The emperor hadn't spoken yet, and the Yushi Supervisor on the side could not sit still, and snorted coldly:
"Boldly Wu Zhi, trespassing into the court is a big crime, you can be convicted!?"
"Before I waited to participate in your 16th big crime, you can be guilty!?"
Wu Da's heart was a little bitter. When he was wondering whether it was appropriate to distinguish a few sentences, Song Huizong spoke:
"I ordered Wu Zhi to see him. What's the crime? Okay, let's leave the rest alone, Wu Zhi, you just said that you have a way to solve my current predicament in Song Dynasty. What does this mean?"
Wu Da raised his head slightly, just about to speak, Song Huizong said again: "Plain yourself, get up and talk back."
The Baiguan in the courtroom was slightly stunned. Your Majesty seemed to be very caring about Wu Zhi, and he treated him so kindly.
Wu Da sighed slightly, thanked the emperor Longen, got up, and quickly glanced at Song Huizong on the dragon chair.
Song Huizong wore a crimson robe with a crown that was open to the sky, and the bead curtain hanging down was exactly flush with his eyes, and he couldn't see the specific face at all.
However, Wuhan University was keenly aware that his peeping seemed to have been noticed by His Majesty, and there was a wistful smile on his face.
Wu Da was shocked, and quickly lowered his head and asked the minister on the side:
"Dare to ask you sir, why the war horses of the Ministry of War are so degraded so quickly?"
The minister headed across from the Wuhan University snorted coldly and said lightly:
"The old man and others are civil officials, you asked the wrong person!"
Wu Da made a big red face and quickly turned around.
In the ancient court meeting, the civil officer stood on the right and the military officer stood on the left. The Wuhan University did a little gaffe just now, and actually forgot about it.
However, the military attache did not seem to have a good opinion of Wuhan University, and sneered relentlessly:
"Yellow-mouthed children, even if they don't even know the reason, they dare to believe that they are scornful, they should fight!"
This is the typical grandma doesn't hurt, and the uncle doesn't love it. It seems that I didn't read the almanac when I went out today.
The Wuhan University wanted to slap these bastards to death, but the reality is that he really didn't dare to do it. He was light and young. In front of these real court officials, the Wuhan University could only pretend to be grandsons.
It doesn't matter, grandpa is from the grandchildren's generation. When we become a grandpa one day, hum, kill you old turtles and grandchildren!
Wu Dachang took a breath, stopped showing off mystery, and said bluntly:
"As expected by the kid, the most important reason for the horses being consumed so fast, apart from the damages, is that the horses' hoofs are badly worn, and the horses have been used for life, right?"
Then Wu would snorted from his nostrils, which was considered tacit.
Too bully, to give the face unwanted things, Wu Da is in anger, I can't wait for the Japanese dog to calm down!
"We all know that walking barefoot will hurt your feet, so we invented shoes. I believe you all understand this simple truth. If this is the case, why can't we wear shoes for war horses?"
Wear shoes for horses? This statement is really ridiculous. As soon as this statement came out, there was an uproar in the court.
Those generals even had their hair upside down, angered in expression:
"Zhuzi! How dare to tease me, what a dare!?"
There is a saying that it is good, if you can't bear it, you don't need to bear it anymore!
Wu Da has been retreating since entering the palace, but these idiots with brains dared to make an inch, and Wu Da could no longer bear it.
Wu Da no longer pretended to be cautious, hugged his arms, sneered, and directly sneered:
"In recent years, I have been fighting on the border of the Song Dynasty for years. If the generals stationed at the border gates are like you, with developed limbs and simple minds, I really worry about your majesty. Maybe if you don’t pay attention, you wake up after sleeping and you will find that the enemy has been killed. The gate of the palace is here!"
"Since you don’t believe in the kid so much, why don’t we make a bet? If the kid can use ten thousand to solve the crisis of my great Song Dynasty horse, you have been officials for many years, and if you want to have a rich family background, you will give the kid another ten thousand. How is it?"
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