On the occasion of rebirth Zhou Sui

Chapter 446
Even Gao Jiong chose to stand by and watch Yang Yong's sons' treason case, so naturally no one would uphold justice for them.

In the end, these royal nobles who were called pigs and dogs by their grandmother Dugu Jialuo and grandfather Yun Dingxing were forced to drink the poisonous wine sent by their uncle Yang Guang amidst resentment, unwillingness and fear.

And Yun Dingxing, who falsely accused his grandson, was appointed as he wished, and was worshiped by Yang Guang as the prime minister of the Shaofu.

As for Gao Jiong, the relationship with Yang Guang was eased because of this.

Yang Su stayed out of this turmoil. After resigning from Yang Guang, he left his family in Daxing as hostages and rushed to Jingzhou alone.

The tree wants to be quiet but the wind keeps blowing. Cui Che intends to stop the flag and drums and take time to rectify the internal affairs, but Yang Guang is unwilling to sit still and try to counterattack the Central Plains.

It's just that the news hasn't reached Jinyang yet, and Cui Che doesn't know about it yet.

Fortunately, Cui Che was handling government affairs in Jinyang Palace during the day, and at the same time having an affair with the Queen Mother at night, he did not forget to select strong soldiers from the soldiers of the Sanhe area to supplement the soldiers. Except for Cui Qiji's 20 Xuzhou elites, the soldiers of the Eastern Sui Dynasty The scale has returned to [-].

There is also bad news. With Cui Che's repeated long-distance raids, the number of war horses and horses used for transportation has suffered a serious loss.

Today, among the soldiers of the Eastern Sui Dynasty, only the 5000 cavalrymen of the Zhangqian Xiaojie Army, the Yinan Khitan Zhi, and the Boling Cavalry can maintain the configuration of one man and three horses.

Most of the remaining cavalry pawns are one person with two horses, or even a single horse, and they can no longer undertake the task of long-distance raids.

Cui Che did not think that the cavalry would not be of much use in the south after seizing the Kanto, and slack off horse administration.

He knew that without a powerful cavalry, it was impossible to deter the grassland tribes.

East Turkic, Kumoxi, Khitan, the reason why these barbarians fear Cui Che, who was only the governor of Youzhou at the beginning, is not because he exploited the horses of various ethnic groups in Monan through coercion and lure, and through various transactions, thus forming a group. Support 8 Yandi Jingqi.

The [-] cavalrymen can rush long distances at any time, heading straight to Huanglong, and none of the various ethnic groups in Monan care about their own weight.

Therefore, for Cui Che, maintaining deterrence against the grassland tribes is a higher priority than building a navy.

It is precisely because of the need to invest funds in breeding horses that Cui Che can only postpone the establishment of the navy until the autumn harvest this year. After the autumn tax is put into the treasury, he will allocate funds to build ships and form the navy.

Raising horses is a technical job, and it must be presided over by professionals, but Cui Che really managed to find such a person.

Because the army of the Eastern Sui Dynasty was divided into war soldiers and government soldiers, the treatment between the two was very different. At the end of last year, Wei Chirong, a proud native of Shuozhou Shanyang (now Shuozhou, Shanxi), left his hometown with a group of friends. Go to Daizhou to join the army.

Daizhou has [-] soldiers under Mai Tiezhang's command, and Yu Chirong wants to join Mai Tiezhang's command.

Mai Tiezhang, as Cui Che's general, wanted to meet him, which was naturally extremely difficult for ordinary people, but fortunately, Yu Chirong had quite a background.

His grandfather, Yuchi Benzhen, was the champion general of the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Duke of Yuyang County.

His grandfather, Yuchi Mengdu, was the governor of Jeju in the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

His father, Yu Chijia, also served as the general of Yitong in the Sui Dynasty.

The Yuchi family came to meet with them as a representative of the noble family in the north, so Mai Tiezhang naturally couldn't avoid it.

And Yuchirong's burly and majestic figure also attracted Mai Tiezhang's attention, and he asked his subordinates to compete with Yuchirong.

Although Yu Chirong was young, only in his early twenties, no one could match him no matter on foot or on horseback.

Seeing that Yu Chirong is a rare and fierce general, Mai Tiezhang immediately took him under his command.

It's just that the power to appoint, remove and promote generals belongs to the Chinese and foreign governments. Mai Tiezhang liked Yu Chirong's talent, so he wrote to Cui Che, hoping to find a general for Yu Chirong.

The partial general is under the general and the second general, and can lead a thousand cavalry or two thousand infantry.

It can be seen that Mai Tiezhang attaches great importance to Yu Chirong.

After Cui Che received the letter, he did not follow Mai Tiezhang's request to appoint Yu Chirong as the general of Daizhou, but recruited Yuchirong to come to Jinyang to serve as the second general in the front of the account.

The sub-general is one level higher than the partial general, let alone serving the army before the account.

Everyone thought it was Cui Che's love for Wu and Wu, and it was because it was recommended by Mai Tiezhang that Yu Chirong was entrusted with important use, even Mai Tiezhang himself thought so.

But in fact, Yuchi Rong is famous in the world with words. When Cui Che saw the letter from Mai Tiezhang, the words Yuchi Jingde were impressively written, so there was no hesitation at all.

Yuchi Jingde's real name was Yuchi Rong, while Yuchi Gong was a surname bestowed by the Tang Dynasty.

Yuchi Jingde, who was 22 years old at the time, came to Jinyang with full of longing for the future.

In the first year of Zhenyuan (AD 606), on the twelfth day of the first lunar month, Yuchi Jingde, who was 22 years old at the time, came to Jinyang with his fellow villager Zhang Wansui and others, full of longing for the future.

When Cui Che heard the news, he ordered them to be led into Jinyang Palace, and met Yuchi Jingde and others in Xiangguo Mansion.

It's just that what Yuchi Jingde and his party expected was unexpected, Cui Che didn't test their martial arts, but asked:
"Among you, is there anyone who is good at raising horses?"

When everyone heard the words, they all looked at Zhang Wansui, Zhang Wansui stood up and replied:

"Reporting to Xiangguo, Zhang Longsui, the little man, has sold horses for generations in his family. When it comes to raising horses, he has quite a lot of experience."

In fact, among this group of people, Cui Che was most delighted to have won Zhang Wansui.

In the original time and space, Zhang Wansui followed Yuchi Jingde to the Tang Dynasty, and Li Shimin took Zhang Wansui in charge of horse affairs.

Zhang Wansui has been in charge of horse herding for 24 years.

At the beginning of taking over, there were only 76 military horses, but with his efforts, by the time of Emperor Gaozong of Tang Dynasty, [-] military horses had been bred, which was not counting the number of horses in military towns, post stations, and idle stables.

With Zhang Wansui's removal from office, the horse administration of the Tang Dynasty also declined. It was not until Tang Xuanzong reactivated Zhang Wansui's grandson and restored Zhang Wansui's old order that the number of military horses returned to more than 40.

How could Cui Che ignore such a great talent in raising horses? The famous generals in the early Tang Dynasty were able to destroy the country everywhere and spread their prestige in foreign lands, among which the contribution of Zhang Wansui was indispensable.

That's why when he met Yuchi Jingde and his party, he couldn't wait to ask who could raise horses, and waited for Zhang Wansui to recommend himself.

Of course, Cui Che couldn't entrust Zhang Wansui with a heavy responsibility based on a single word. For this reason, Cui Che asked Zhang Wansui a lot about raising horses.

Cui Che himself didn't know much about raising horses, but that didn't prevent him from pretending to understand, nodding his head and smiling from time to time, as if what Zhang Wansui said was in line with his own wishes.

After Zhang Wansui passed the so-called assessment, Cui Che immediately acted like the emperor, and worshiped Zhang Wansui as the servant Shaoqing, who was in charge of horse affairs.

(End of this chapter)