In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 55 Invincible in this world
However, the Southern Song Dynasty also paid attention to going out to play, especially in hot weather like now. Generally, few people go out to play during the day, and many girls still have the habit of taking a nap.

Yuan Mihai made an appointment with Zhao Yurui to go to the Guanwenyuan together for dinner, and they each traveled from their own residences to meet at the Guanwenyuan. They made an appointment at Youshi.

Yuan Mihai left the palace, Niu Bao came back from the outside, accompanied by Wei Liaoweng, they led six horses and returned to the palace.

Zhao Yurui had been talking about buying horses before, and they even consulted Mo Ze specifically. As a clan and living in the capital, it is allowed to buy a few horses.

Wei Liaoweng has a wealth of experience. After he first ascended the ranks, he was awarded Jiannan Xichuan Jiedu (now Chengdu), and then he was a Guozizheng, and then a doctor of martial arts. Official business, and then became the magistrate of Luzhou.

It can be said that Wei Liaoweng moved back and forth between the capital and the local government, his official position did not change much, and he did a lot of things.

He is only in his early forties now, and there are already many gray hairs on his temples, which can be seen from hard work.

After seeing Zhao Yurui, Wei Liaoweng immediately said: "Fortunately, I did not disgrace my life. The officials selected six good horses for the king of Yi, and spent money——520 eight horses."

"It's so expensive." Zhao and Rui snapped their tongues.

"It's not expensive, it's the best war horse I can buy so far." Wei Liaoweng said, "Western horse."

There was a shortage of horses in the Southern Song Dynasty, and even more war horses.

In fact, the Southern Song Dynasty inherited the horse administration of the Northern Song Dynasty, and also inherited the horse breeding technology of the Northern Song Dynasty. Therefore, the Southern Song Dynasty also prepared to raise horses by itself in the early Southern Song Dynasty.

But no matter how good the policy is, it depends on how well it is implemented. Given the various official malpractices in the Southern Song Dynasty, the affairs of horse administration were naturally messed up, and some horses that were barely raised were far from the standard of war horses. , Hearing the neighing of northern horses will be frightened.

Since they couldn't raise good horses, the Southern Song Dynasty could only notify the tea-horse exchange market to buy war horses. Judging from the conditions at the time, only the northwest direction could buy horses.

Historical Records: All war horses look up to the three sides of Qin, Sichuan, and Guangxi. It is also said: It is strange that Qin and Sichuan buy horses at one thousand and nine hundred years old.

That is to say, the Southern Song Dynasty bought more than 1 horses in the northwest every year, but only [-] to [-]% of them could really become war horses.

However, the northwest direction of the Southern Song Dynasty was successively under the control of Liao, Jin, Xixia, Jin, and Mongolia, so the control of buying horses was extremely strict. Fortunately, someone always found a way to make money, and finally someone found the place of "Jiangxi Shukou".

At that time, Xixia, Jin and Meng had weak control over this place, and many traders transported horses here for sale. These horses were tall and durable, and they were called "Xima" in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Wei Liaoweng brought Zhou and they visited the capital for a few days, and happened to meet a group of Western horses that had just been transported from Jiangxi.

Wei Liaoweng gritted his teeth, paid back the price, and bought six horses for more than 500 yuan.

At this time, Niu Bao posted up and whispered: "There are officials in the imperial court who are in charge of trading war horses in Shukou, Jiangxi. I didn’t sell it, but sold it all the way from Jiangxi to the capital, and there are more than a dozen horses left.”

Wei Liaoweng's face flushed even more, and he said angrily: "Corrupt officials are in power, trying to consume the country's silver."

Zhao Yurui could understand without their explanation.

He has seen a lot about this kind of thing in later generations.

Assuming that the imperial court gave [-] guan to the officials to buy [-] horses, the officials would definitely buy cheap ones first, and if the money was not used up, it would belong to the officials themselves.

All the officials below are like this. It is no wonder that the army of the Southern Song Dynasty can have combat effectiveness.

More importantly, at that time, the war horses of the Southern Song Dynasty were given priority to supplying the armies of the capital, while the frontier troops stationed at the border were ranked behind.

Of course Zhao Yurui knew about these disadvantages, but now he has no ability to change them.

He could only shake his head and said: "Zhou Lai, Niu Bao, you call Quan Yong, Chen Xiaodao, Shi Gou'er, Ji Hu'er, Quan Liu and you all have to start learning how to ride horses."

"It's King Yi."

Wei Liaoweng hesitated to speak, Zhao Yurui saw it keenly: "What do you want to say, Mr. Wei?"

"Does King Yi want them to learn to ride horses, or to learn to ride war horses?"

"Hehe, there's a word missing, what's the explanation?" Zhao Yurui laughed.

"If it's just riding a horse, it's very simple, even a lower official can teach it, and it's easy to learn."

"If you want to learn how to ride a war horse, you must find a general."

The difference of one word is the difference between heaven and earth.

Of course Zhao Yurui understood, he didn't even think about it: "Does Master Wei have any recommendations? The best--proficient in riding and archery, with a style like a Mongolian."

"This—" Wei Liaoweng looked at Zhao Yurui with a strange expression.

Now Mongolia is on the rise, but most Song people are still staring at the Kingdom of Jin. Wei Liaoweng stayed in the northwest and knew how powerful the Mongols are. At that time, Wei Liaoweng firmly opposed it.

He didn't take Zhao Yurui seriously at first, because like Li Huang, he felt displeased with Zhao Yurui's actions as King Yi.

But today Zhao Yurui suddenly said that he wanted to look like a Mongolian, and his expression moved slightly.

Wei Liaoweng hesitated: "There is one, but I have to wait for the officials to ask."

"How is his ability?" Zhao Yurui asked immediately.

"Excellent in both riding and shooting, martial arts are unparalleled." Wei Liaoweng said: "When I was a doctor of martial arts, I asked for help a lot, and I helped a lot."

After finishing speaking, as if afraid that Zhao Yurui would not be convinced, he replied: "Its strength is incomparable, and if you fight alone, you may be invincible in this world."

"Really?" Zhao Yurui stared at him with disbelief on his face. Apart from Yue Fei and Yang Zaixing in the novel, there seemed to be not many fierce people in Southern Song Dynasty, such as Yue Yun, right?
"How dare you lie to King Yi." Wei Liaoweng smiled wryly, "But this person has no ambition, so he is not famous."

The person Wei Liaoweng wants to recommend is Li Pingxia.

Li Pingxia's grandfather is Li Xianzhong, a native of Suide Army Qingjian (now Qingjian, Shaanxi), and a famous anti-gold general in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Li Xianzhong participated in the Longxing Northern Expedition. The early stage was quite good and Suzhou was recovered, but the conflict with Shao Hongyuan became more and more serious. Finally, when Li Xianzhong asked Shao Hongyuan to send troops to attack the Jin army, Shao deliberately stayed still. When the Song army retreated, the Northern Expedition also failed. .

In his later years, Li Xianzhong advocated the concept of longevity.

This is the welfare given to officials in the Southern Song Dynasty. The so-called ancestral salary official system, that is, to hang up a position and get a salary for nothing.

After Li Xianzhong's death, his son served as a general in front of the palace and died of illness eight years ago.

Li Pingxia was famous for his incomparable strength when he was young, but when he became an adult, his father had died of illness, and he became a low-level military officer by relying on his three-year martial arts training (Yin Buzi).

Cheng Xinlang was the seventh-ranked small envoy among the eighth and sixty ranks of military officials in the Southern Song Dynasty, and below that was Wupin Weiyong, which was equivalent to the lowest rank.

Yue Fei was also banned back then, and he worked his way up from Cheng Xinlang step by step.

(End of this chapter)