Chaos of the Three Kingdoms Summons

Chapter 923 Concubine Yu's Gaze

"Shaoyu, [-] horses have been brought in today, and we can continue to form cavalry!" Reluctant to talk about whether to send troops, Yuji changed the topic to other places.

Sure enough, after hearing Yu Ji's words, everyone's attention was attracted.They had a total of 1 cavalry before. Although they rode with one man and two cavalry, the number of horses was only more than [-], and this was all the accumulation of their Xiang clan over the years plus the first battle on the grassland.

What's more, some were lost during the war.And it was surprising that Yu Ji could get so many war horses at once without making any noise.

"It's just that these horses are all Yunnan horses, and there is still a gap between them and the war horses of Bingliangyou!" Yu Ji said a little embarrassedly.She can only do this for the time being, and she is really powerless to fight the war horses in the three places.

In the era of cold weapons, the role that cavalry can play is too great.If you fight to the north, facing those northern princes, if you don't have cavalry, it will be too bad to fight.

And if you fight in the south, although the southern water system is criss-crossed and the cavalry cannot fully display their strength, you can also gain a very large advantage if you have a cavalry.

However, if you are in the south, the source of the war horses is also a problem after all.

Therefore, Yu Ji has been trying to find a way to solve this matter.But during the Battle of the Grassland, Wu Sangui's appearance stimulated Yu Ji's aura and made him think of the source of a war horse.

Wu Sangui, this guy was granted the title of Pingxi King in the Qing Dynasty and guarded Yunnan.It was also the word Yunnan that made Yuji think that it was not impossible to find war horses in the south.

Dian horse is a kind of horse from Yunnan. It is a dwarf horse. Although this horse lacks explosive power, it is stable and has long endurance.

As early as the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, Dian horses have been listed in history books. "Huayang Guozhi Nanzhong Zhi" said: "The elders have rumored that there is a god horse in Dianchi Lake, or Jiaoyan, that is, a horse that gives birth to a horse, commonly known as 'Dianchi Lake. Horse, travel five hundred miles a day."

"Marco Polo's Travel Notes" states: "Yunnan and Guangxi high-land healthy horses are small and healthy, and they are sold in India. However, you should know that people take two or three tendons from them so that they cannot hit their riders with their tails."

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, "Nanzhong Magazine" also stated: "The horses in central Yunnan are small and have strong hooves. They go up high mountains and walk on dangerous trails. They don't know how to sweat even though they are tens of miles away, so they grow in valleys."

Mr. Jin Yong also mentioned this horse in the section "Wild horses flying across the sky" in "The Deer and Ding Ji".In this section, it is mentioned that Wei Xiaobao, the governor of Yunnan Zhang Yong, his deputy Wang Jinbao, and the commander-in-chief Zhao Liangdong discussed in Wu Yingxiong's mansion which is better between Yunnan horses and other horses.

Although the Dian horses were mostly used as an important means of transportation for carrying goods at this time, they were seldom used as war horses, but in the absence of other sources of war horses, they could only make do with this first.After all, something is better than nothing!

Given the geographical location of the Xiang clan, although it is not easy to obtain war horses in the north, it is still feasible to obtain a batch of Yunnan horses.

Nanzhong, where Nanman is located, includes later generations of Yunnan Province, southwestern Sichuan Province, most of Guizhou Province, and northeastern Myanmar. Nanzhong has the Yunnan horse that Yu Ji wanted.Moreover, Nanzhong and Jiaozhou are connected by mountains and rivers, and the current Jiaozhou is in the hands of the Xiang family.

Not long after the Grassland War ended, Concubine Yu had planned to make contact with the Nanmans in Nanzhong.What's more, they can get more than just horses when they come into contact with them. The land of the Southern Barbarians is also rich in furs and mineral resources.

However, although a small number of Nanman people advocate Han culture, most of them are quite conservative, unwilling to have too much contact with Han people, and have a hostile attitude towards Han people.Therefore, at the beginning, Yu Ji's contact effect was not ideal.

However, after the Nanman invaded Yizhou, this situation began to gradually change.

Although the battle between Nanman and Yizhou Liu Che took advantage of it in the early stage, it was miserable in the later stage.Therefore, after Yu Ji knew the news, she ordered someone to contact her again, and exchanged the weapons and armor of the Central Plains for the furs, minerals and the main target of the Yunnan horses of the Nanman.

Although the Nanban had some hardcore diehards, they could not prevent Duan Siping, Mu Wang, Yong Qiang and others from trading with the Xiang clan to help the war when the war was unfavorable.

Therefore, Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty made slow progress in pacifying the Nanman in one fell swoop. Apart from the harsh living environment of the Nanman and the fact that the Han people were not suitable for fighting here, a small part was also due to the Xiang clan.

It can be said that Yu Ji's move can be said to kill two birds with one stone. While getting what she wanted, it also caused trouble for Liu Che.

In fact, Yu Ji is the same type of person as Li Xiang. Although she is not cheating like Li Xiang, she is constantly diverging her thinking and looking for every possibility to increase her strength.

Don't look at Yu Ji's goal is to put the Dian horses now, but she has never given up on developing the source of war horses in the north.Although it was impossible to go on land, she tried on the water, more precisely, on the sea.

The waterway in Jingzhou thought of going all the way north to the sea and then reaching the north, and it would inevitably be noticed by Zhu Yuanzhang, who was in Yangzhou at this time.But Jiaozhou is different. Starting from Jiaozhou, although there is still a risk of being discovered, this risk has been greatly reduced.

However, although it is possible to enter the sea from Jiaozhou, in this era, it is not so easy to manufacture sea-going ships that can sail long distances. In addition, Yu Ji had received limited support before.

Therefore, although the actions on the sea route are in progress, there is still some time before they can achieve results.

Moreover, for Yu Ji, this is not the only thing that Jiaozhou can use.

Jiaozhou includes most of what is now Guangdong Province, most of Guangxi, and northern Vietnam.Among them, Guangdong is located on the southern coast, with fertile land, which is very suitable for farming and has the benefits of fish and salt.

Moreover, Guangdong can also connect with Southeast Asia and even further distant South Asia, West Asia, and East Africa by sea.Guangxi's natural and geographical conditions may be slightly inferior to Guangdong's in terms of arable land and fish and salt benefits, but Guangxi's advantage is that it is a land with natural dangers and resources may be slightly more.

Therefore, Yu Ji understands the value of this piece of land better than others, and understands the benefits that will be obtained after this piece of land is developed, instead of keeping all eyes on Jingzhou like other members of the Xiang family.

If Jiaozhou is developed and utilized well, the strength of their Xiang clan is enough to achieve a sufficient growth in a short period of time.

In addition, in recent years, another action of Yu Ji is Zhancheng rice, and it has been successful.Although potatoes have spread all over the Han Dynasty, it is impossible to live on one crop alone, and it is impossible to eat only one kind of thing, and Champa rice has come into Yuji's sight.

Not only that, Champa rice has a huge advantage over potatoes, that is, it is not afraid of being stolen by others.Because, if rice is to be planted, the place must be considered.Even if this thing was leaked out, many princes would not be able to grow it, especially those powerful northern princes.

(End of this chapter)