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Probably to show the sincerity of the alliance, the Qing Dynasty traded these war horses at a relatively cheap price, only thirty taels per horse.

This price is similar to that of Chongzhen ten years ago.

It should be noted that with the collapse of the Ming Dynasty, grain prices skyrocketed, so did the prices of mules and horses, as well as war horses.

Although the increase is not as exaggerated as the price of grain, it still costs about fifty taels of silver per horse in the north.

The price will be lower if you buy more, but at most it can be as low as more than 40 taels.

If you want to buy a war horse for thirty taels a piece, you might as well grab it.

Of course, the above prices refer to ordinary war horses. For truly good horses, the price must be calculated separately.

In addition, the price of the horse itself is not high. What is high is the cost of raising the horse.

Normally, it would cost at least twenty taels of silver to raise a war horse for a year.

If you are reluctant to part with it, the war horse will become useless.

Dashun now occupies Shanxi, Gansu and most of Shaanxi, with grasslands to the north and the Western Regions to the west. There is no shortage of channels for purchasing war horses.

It is impossible to buy more than 3,000 war horses at a price of thirty taels of silver each.

"Well, there is no shortage of men in Dashun who can ride horses. With these horses, we have an extra cavalry of 3,000 people."

"There are many dangerous mountains and deep valleys in southern Shaanxi, but there are many plains in northern Shaanxi, not to mention the Guanzhong Plains, which are places where cavalry roam."

"If the Wei army dares to attack this year, they have guns, cannons, and three thousand more cavalry. They will definitely fight to the death!"

Li Zicheng sat on a pure black tall standing horse, holding a riding crop and speaking loudly, smiling and high-spirited.

behind him.

Li Yan, Niu Jinxing, Li Guo, Tian Jianxiu and other Dashun civil and military officials were also mostly smiling.

In the process of Li Zicheng's rise, the cavalry played a very important role.

Encircled and suppressed by the Ming army in their early years, they repeatedly relied on the high mobility of their backbone troops riding mules and horses to break out of the encirclement and make surprise attacks on other places.

Later, after successively defeating the Ming army and having more cavalry under his command, Li Zicheng even developed the rather overbearing infantry-cavalry combination tactic of "Three Walls".

Let the Ming army be invincible.

Therefore, even though Li Zicheng and others were defeated successively by the Qing and Yi armies and realized the importance of guns and other firearms, it was still difficult to change their love and emphasis on cavalry.

When everyone is happy.

Li Yan said, "If all the money was given in this transaction, we would indeed have gained some advantage. But some of the war horses were exchanged for grain, so in the end we lost money."

Nowadays, food prices in the north are generally very high.

Even if the drought in the three northwest provinces was not severe last year, it is still difficult to change the situation.

Who allowed the war between the Ming Army and the Peasant Army to almost cripple the three northwest provinces in the past ten years?
Without the people, even if God gives us some good looks, it will be difficult to grow much food.

Seeing that many fields were deserted and uncultivated this year, the generals in Dashun, who started out in the grass, vaguely regretted that they had killed too many people and saved too few.

Unfortunately, there is no regret medicine in this world.

Li Zicheng felt heartbroken when he thought of the batch of grain that was traded.

The Qing Dynasty was short of food, but Dashun was also short of food.

During non-war times, the soldiers in the ordinary army did not have enough to eat.

Li Yan also suggested that he disarm and streamline his troops due to lack of food.

How is that possible?

He estimated that the Yi army might send troops to the northwest at any time to attack Dashun. He wished he could recruit more troops, but how could it be reduced?
This made him have some doubts about Li Yan.

It is believed that Li Yan has bad intentions and may even be guilty of corruption.

Now he was happy, but when he heard that Li Yan mentioned the food shortage again, which disturbed everyone's interest, Li Zicheng couldn't help but look unhappy.

He lowered his face and said: "The first time the two parties trade, there must be some sincerity. If we trade next time, we will try to reduce the share of grain, or just use gold and silver."

Li Yan said, "That's exactly what it should be."

Is that how it should be?

It's like you, Li Yan, are teaching me how to do things.

You, Li Yan, are a military advisor, not an imperial advisor or a state advisor.

Li Zicheng snorted in his heart, and his expression became even colder.

He lost interest in reviewing the war horses and simply drove back to the palace. Niu Jinxing's son Niu Quan is very sensible.

Seeing that he had few concubines, twenty-four beauties were selected for him after the autumn harvest to enrich his harem.

Among them, the four who best suited his aesthetics were named concubines.

A beautiful woman who looked a bit like a young lady from a wealthy family he had met when shepherding sheep as a boy was directly named a concubine.

He has no heirs yet.

This is a very serious problem for Dashun.

Therefore, since the war with the Yi army ended last spring, he has been working hard in the harem, but so far he has received nothing.

As far as he knew, there seemed to be rumors among the government, the public, and even the military that he was sterile.

Some even say he is inhumane.

This made him angry, but there was nothing he could do about it.

Li Guo could only be asked to secretly help find a good doctor to see if there was something wrong with his body.

As a result, he visited more than a dozen doctors, but none could find anything wrong with him.

Or maybe you saw it and didn’t dare to say anything?
Anyway, everyone told him to pay attention to taking care of his body and work hard, and he would be rewarded.

If he were not afraid that the rumors would spread further, he would have wanted to kill these doctors in anger.

Having said that, these doctors are not completely useless.

The medicine prescribed by two of them improved his mood a lot and did not hinder his health. Therefore, after the autumn harvest last year, he spent more time working in the harem.

On the contrary, Gao Xiuying criticized this and advised him to pay more attention to national affairs and not indulge in women.

Let him perfunctorily pass.

He felt that Gao Xiuying just couldn't stand the increasing number of beauties around him and was jealous.

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Shenyang.

Today's Shengjing of the Qing Dynasty.

In the Chongzheng Hall of the Imperial Palace.

The six-year-old little emperor Fulin sat on the dragon throne, pretending to be serious.

There are two Taishi chairs on the left and right sides below.

Prince Li, Daishan, Prince Rui, Dorgon, Prince Su, Hauge, and Prince Zheng, Jierharang, all sat with golden swords.

Especially Hauge, who is on the right side, leaning slightly sideways, with his arms resting on the armrest.

The posture is wanton and the expression is uninhibited.

Because the loudest speaker in the Qing Dynasty today is neither Fulin, the young emperor, nor Daishan, the oldest among the four assistant kings, but Hao Ge.

Before Huang Taiji's death last year, he arranged for Dorgon to go to North Korea to collect grain and Hauge to quell the rebellious Mongolian tribes.

Although Dorgon's task of collecting grain was successfully completed, he even "recruited" an additional 10,000 Korean young men and returned them to supplement each banner as Aha.

But compared to the fact that he suppressed the rebellions of three Mongolian tribes and captured tens of thousands of cattle, sheep and horses, Dorgon's achievements were nothing.

Not to mention, last year, he took advantage of the winter to lead his troops deep into the old forest and captured hundreds of Sauron and other wild Jurchens to enrich the Eight Banners Manchuria.

Therefore, in the Qing Dynasty, he has the most and strongest troops, and he has done the most credit, and he naturally speaks loudly.

"This time I traded more than 3,000 war horses with Li Zicheng and only got a little grain and gold and silver. He was too cheap."

"In my opinion, this type of transaction must never be done again in the future!"

The alliance and transactions with Shunjun were facilitated and presided over by Dorgon.

Hearing Hauge's denial of the matter, he couldn't help but frown and said, "They may have taken advantage of the deal with Shunjun, but we definitely did not suffer a loss."

"Now we cannot enter the customs and plunder like we did in previous years, and the goods that Shanxi merchants can trade have also been greatly reduced."

"There are many war horses. If we don't trade with the shun army, will we keep them and waste money and food in vain?"

Hauge looked at Dorgon and raised his voice, "Why are there so many war horses? Isn't it easy to pick out more than 3,000 people who can ride a horse out of hundreds of thousands of Eight Banners soldiers?"

Dorgon also raised his voice and said: "How much more strength can three thousand more cavalry increase the strength of our Qing Dynasty?"

"Previously, our army was defeated by the Yi army in the pass, not because there were few cavalry, but because the guns and artillery were inferior to the people, and the equipment was not enough!" (End of this chapter)