Three Kingdoms in a box

Chapter 110 War horses are too expensive

Yan Liang was moved and nodded fiercely to Zhang Jiao and said, "What Brother Zhang said is absolutely true, but can you give me some time? I will reply tomorrow!"

Zhang Jiao knew very well that a tough melon is not sweet, so he smiled and said: "Of course, it's never too late for you to give me an answer!"

After that, Zhang Jiao stood up, checked Yan Liang's mother's pulse, and told her to cover herself with a quilt at night. The high fever had subsided and her body was slowly getting better.

After listening to Zhang Jiao's words, Yan Liang was deeply moved and said that no matter what, he would give Zhang Jiao a satisfactory answer tomorrow!

Zhang Jiao heard this and said, "In this case, I will wait for the good news from my brother."

The next day, Yan Liang's mother woke up from her sleep, feeling lighter than ever before. However, the old lady's expression was a little ugly, and she found Yan Liang.

Yan Liang also saw the old lady, who usually held her head high, but could not help but lower it now.

The old lady looked at Yan Liang with a reproachful look on her face, but she did let out a long sigh: "Hey..."

Upon seeing this, Yan Liang quickly knelt on the ground, looked at the old lady and said, "Mother, son..."

Yan Liang couldn't say a word, and Yan Liang didn't know what to say. You said he was wrong, but how could he be wrong? But you said he was right, but the old mother was very unhappy. At this time, she could only kneel down. On the ground!
The old mother looked at Yan Liang, pondered for a long time, and sighed: "That's it, this is God's will. Son, I won't stop you from doing what you want to do. The only thing is, take care of yourself and don't regret it." Can!"

The old mother knows her son's character well. Due to his natural supernatural power, his son has been invincible in the entire county since he was a child, so he has developed an arrogant character. However, he himself is a pure and filial person, and he is also quite loyal. , as long as it is something he believes in, he will never regret it!
So the old mother would like to advise him again not to regret it afterwards!
When Yan Liang heard this, he knelt on the ground and said, "Mom, I've already thought about it."

"That's good."

Yan Liang's mother responded, and then she heard someone shouting outside: "Is Coach Yan Liang at home?"

Yan's mother immediately asked Yan Liang to get up.

"Yes, what's the matter?"

After hearing this, Yan Liang saw a man wearing a white chef's uniform and sleeves standing outside the door. The man was carrying a food box and came to the door. When he saw Yan Liang, he said: "Teacher Yan Liang, I'm from the university. The wise master ordered us to come and bring food to the old lady!"

Yan Liang heard this and said, "Oh, I'm so lucky."

After saying that, Yan Liang took the food box over, went inside the house, opened the food box, and Yan Liang saw two bowls of porridge in the food box. One bowl of corn porridge was the same as usual, but the bottom one was a bowl with a thin texture. The white porridge with meat looks very tempting.

Yan Liang looked at the two bowls of porridge, and Yan's mother also looked at the two bowls of porridge. After looking at it for a while, Yan's mother sighed: "This horn really knows how to be a good person!"

Two bowls of porridge actually wanted Yan's mother to make a choice. Choosing corn porridge meant that she was still unwilling to seek refuge in Xiagouhe Village, and the second choice was that she was willing to seek refuge in Xiagouhe Village.

Yan's mother sat on the bed and said, "Son, bring me the meat porridge. Mom is hungry..."

……

After morning, Yan Liang found Zhang Jiaoyan and said that he was willing to stay, join Taiping Tao, and become a follower of Xianzun to repay Xianzun for his great kindness in saving his mother.

Zhang Jiao was very happy. He opened a small stove for Yan Liang and called Li Yu.

He took Yan Liang to a place, bowed in the air, and said that Yan Liang wanted to join Taiping Taoism and was willing to become a follower of Xian Zun.

Yan Liang paid homage.

Li Yu was very happy and soon received an application from Yan Liang as a follower.

Congratulations to the host for gaining the kneeling respect of SSR-level character Yan Liang. May I ask if the host accepts Yan Liang as a follower?
Li Yu approved Yan Liang's application immediately after receiving it.

SSR golden legendary generals, what is there to hesitate about? Get it!
Li Yu directly took Yan Liang into his pocket.

After Li Yu's confirmation, Yan Liang officially joined, Taiping Road luxury family bucket!
"Yan Liang!"

When Li Yu's voice came from Yan Liang's heart, Yan Liang was completely confused. After a while of adapting, he dared to believe that it was the Immortal Lord talking to him. An expression of disbelief appeared on Yan Liang's face. Could this be the legendary Thousand Miles Sound Transmission?

Yan Liang was very excited. Li Yu chatted with Yan Liang for a few words, and Yan Liang's level of loyalty skyrocketed!

A god who can talk to him at any time is much more real than the clay sculptures in those temples. Yan Liang also has a new understanding of the development of Xiagouhe Village. After all, there is an immortal behind this place. If he wants to develop, he must It's very easy.

In this way, Yan Liang has now officially become the coach of Xiagouhe Village. However, Li Yu thought that it would be a waste to put Yan Liang in Xiagouhe Village. After all, Yan Liang is an SSR and has a free permanent perspective. Li Yu does not want to waste it. .

The temple was built in only half a month, and a statue of the god was built for Li Yu out of clay. Li Yu thought it didn't look like it, so she asked someone to 3D print a five-centimeter-high statue for herself.

This is for the little man, a tall statue five meters high!
At the same time, after Li Yu improved the temple, he planted a rice seedling in a field behind the temple.

When this rice seedling was planted, the entire Xiagouhe village was immediately alarmed, because the rice seedling was really too tall, taller than all the big trees in their country.

When the villagers asked what kind of fairy it was, the answer turned out to be a seedling. At that moment, everyone couldn't help but marvel. There were such tall seedlings in the world. It was indeed a product of the fairy world!
The entire Xiagouhe Village is booming. After these days, a total of 500 people have been recruited to Xiagouhe Village, the victims of the disaster. Among them, the young and middle-aged people have been assigned to the construction work of the temple. Now the temple is completed.

They thought that Xiagouhe Village would no longer want them. Unexpectedly, Zhang Jiao did not drive them away. Instead, he allowed them to pay homage to the Immortal Lord and accepted them as Immortal Lord believers.They are very willing to become believers of the Immortal Lord. After all, they live in Xiagouhe Village, and the word Immortal Lord is full of ears. Moreover, they are even lucky enough to see the Immortal Lord bestow favors on several times, especially when they see the Immortal Lord with their own eyes. I personally planted that fairy seedling more than ten meters high!Who doesn’t want to become a follower of Immortal Lord!

So when Zhang Jiao announced that he could accept them as believers, everyone was excited. In this way, Li Yu accepted another wave of believers and gained more than 400 civilization points!

Looking at the inflated civilization points, Li Yu was very satisfied.

At the same time, Taiping Road has also begun the next stage of selecting Taoist guards. In the past few days, the entire Xiagouhe Village has been selecting Taoist soldiers.

After a series of very strict selections, the Security Army successfully changed from the First Platoon of the Security Army to the First Company of the Security Army, with the number reaching more than 150 people.

In the military camp at this time!
"prick!"

"kill!"

"Stab again!"

"kill!"

This happened in the military camp deep in the mountains of Xiagouhe Village. The sound of killing was so loud that the wolves, insects, tigers and leopards nearby all hid and did not dare to get close. This area has become the territory of these two-legged apes!

In the military camp, the security forces were training in neat lines, and the person in charge of supervising the training was Li Dagou. Li Dagou was also a veteran. At this time, he was directing the soldiers to practice the spear formation!
After Yan Liang's guidance, everyone discovered that it is best for soldiers to use the spear formation to get started, and some of the advanced martial arts taught by Yan Liang can only be learned by those who have spent enough time killing enemies and know how to adapt to the situation.

When new recruits go to the battlefield, their whole heads are stiff, so they cannot learn the real way of fighting in battle formations. The spear formation is the simplest. It only requires training soldiers to fight mechanically, so new recruits must practice spears!
The soldiers were basking in the sun, and no one complained. No matter how miserable they were, could they still suffer from not having enough to eat?

Under the sunlight, the bright spear reflected bursts of light, making people dizzy. Looking at the spear with a cold glow, no one would doubt how terrifying this spear was!
But in such a place of high-intensity training, there were two people sipping tea in front of a stone table in the corner of the military camp. One of them was elegant and friendly, the other was brave, and they had a sense of self-reliance and authority.

These two people were none other than Zhang Jiao, the two top executives of Taiping Dao, and Yan Liang, who was in charge of military affairs.

The two of them looked at the soldiers who were practicing with their guns in the barracks, and Zhang Jiao said: "Brother Yan Liang, this training method is really powerful. It has only been a few days, but these victims have already taken shape!"

Yan Liang laughed when he heard this and said: "If you talk about this matter, no one dares to take credit. This is all the credit of the Immortal Lord. The training method provided by the Immortal Lord is rare in the world, especially the military posture and the goose step. I thought It's a useless showmanship, but it's unimaginable that in just a few days, we can ban the soldiers' training orders. This is really the best way to train soldiers!"

Zhang Jiao heard this and said, "Haha, what Brother Yan Liang said is that the method taught by the Immortal Lord is too powerful for us."

After that, Zhang Jiao drank a cup of tea and said: "By the way, the second batch of security troops recruited in the next few days will arrive soon. By then, our first company of the security troops will become the first battalion of the security troops."

Yan Liang heard the words and said: "No problem, we use the veterans as the skeleton and the recruits as the flesh and blood. The old will lead the new. As long as there is more than a month of training time, our security forces will be able to go to the battlefield and kill the enemy."

After hearing this, Zhang Jiao said: "That's very good!"

Thinking about it, Yan Liang said to Zhang Jiao: "By the way, Great Master, I happen to have something to discuss with you. I have taken a look these days and there are horses idle in our Taiping Road. I thought, although we have a security army, But the mobility is not high, so it will be a disadvantage on the battlefield. I wonder if we can form a cavalry. A certain family has learned how to train cavalry. If there are enough horses, I can train a cavalry. As a motivating force for our security forces!"

cavalry!

Hearing Yan Liang's words, Zhang Jiao's face changed slightly. After all, raising cavalry these days is just like throwing away money. Although Zhang Jiao is very rich, especially after seizing the Qian family in Xiagouhe Village and Heilong Village, Zhang Jiao had so much money in his hands. He can also have hundreds of thousands of money, but if he wants to form a cavalry, he is still a little stretched!
But Yan Liang is right. In this era, cavalry is the main force in wars. Sometimes five or six hundred cavalry can determine the outcome of a battlefield. Therefore, if you want the security army to have combat effectiveness, cavalry cannot be missing!
Thinking of this, Zhang Jue thought about it and said: "Currently, we only have six horses in the army. Isn't it too little to form a cavalry?"

Yan Liang heard this and said: "Great Master, I have seen it, but of the six horses in our army, only three can actually be used as war horses, and the other three cannot."

"Oh, what else?"

Yan Liang said: "Great virtuous master, raising cavalry is too expensive. A certain family just had a whim. Just say it casually, great virtuous master, don't take it to heart!"

After hearing this, Zhang Jiao said: "Hey, it's not a sudden idea, let me tell you!"

Yan Liang thought for a while and said: "Okay, since the wise master wants to hear it, I will tell you that this cavalry is very difficult to train, and the most difficult one is the war horse. The war horse is not the bad horse that we usually grind, and the bad horse can be They can't go to the battlefield, you see they look the same as war horses."

"But the bad horse's running ability is very poor, and it will tire after running for a while. Think about it, the two sides are fighting, chasing each other, and in the end, halfway through the run, the horse under our legs can't run anymore, doesn't it mean that we have lost the chance of fighting?"

"And the poor running ability is not the most important thing. The most intolerable thing is that the bad horse is timid by nature. If you are fighting with the enemy on the battlefield, and the enemy shouts, the bad horse behind us is frightened. If you panic, turn around and run away, with your back turned to the enemy. The enemy will see the opportunity and rush forward, and they can chop off your head with one knife!"

"So if you want to form a cavalry, you must have war horses, but war horses are controlled by the imperial court. Of course, the imperial court's control is not as strict as before. Many horse dealers from Youzhou have also begun to sell horses, but now the control of horses The prices are very expensive, the most common war horse probably costs [-] yuan!"

Fifty thousand dollars!
Hearing this number, Zhang Jiao's eyes widened. He felt that the hundreds of thousands of dollars in his hand were enough, but he didn't expect that it was only the price of a few war horses!
How terrifying!

In fact, it is understandable. After all, the price of a good horse in this era is inestimable. You must know that Lu Bu stabbed Ding Yuan to death because of a red rabbit. The price of a red rabbit is the price of a foster father!
Moreover, this adoptive father was not an ordinary person. He was appointed governor of Bingzhou at that time, which was equivalent to exchanging a horse for the life of a high-ranking official!
This shows how valuable horses are in this era!

Li Yu also heard the conversation between Zhang Jiao and Yan Liang, and was surprised in his heart. This war horse is really expensive. Regardless of second thoughts, even a good horse is not cheap nowadays. The Hong Kong Jockey Club, how much does a horse cost? Ten million is normal, so good horses were very expensive in that era.

Li Yu was thinking about it, when Yan Liang continued: "And after buying the horse, the maintenance price is also very high. What this good horse eats is not grass, but fine food. There must be bean cakes and the like in it, otherwise the horse will If you buy it back, you won’t have enough food, you won’t have enough strength, and you won’t be able to go to the battlefield!”

"So, the cost of raising a cavalry is unimaginable! I just said it casually, don't take it seriously!"

(End of this chapter)