Yu Yunwen smiled slightly and said to Zhao Huan: "Actually, if Your Majesty doesn't tell me, I will take the initiative to propose it. The imperial guards have no horses, so they can only focus on defending and cannot attack. During the reign of Taizu, with the prestige of founding emperors, hundreds of thousands of powerful troops rushed north in hundreds of battles. Not to mention anything else, the lack of war horses is the biggest disadvantage."

He paused and said, "During the Xuanhe period, the Supreme Emperor had been using troops to Xixia. Since the time of Li Yuanhao, Xia was strong and Song was weak. Xia attacked Song defenders. Since His Majesty Renzong used Fan Zhongyan to seize the situation and cleaned up the situation. Although Xixia was still on the offensive, it was much tired. After decades of fighting between the two countries, Xia was no longer able to fight again. Although our Song Dynasty was also in trouble because of Xixia, the soldiers from more than 300,000 to 1.1 million. The court could not bear it, but it was much stronger than the small country of Xixia. By the time of Xuanhe period, Tong Guan led the troops and was always on the side.

The Xia army had no choice but to attack Xixia Fortress. When the Jin Kingdom first emerged, the imperial guards had already taken the best Xia people's troops to convene Hengshan area. If it were not for Liao's destruction of Jin and the rise of Jin and interrupting our offensive, it would be impossible to destroy Xixia. Now it seems that the Song and Jin countries have nothing to do, but because the Jin Kingdom is afraid of the Xia people, they have sent troops to retake the northern Song territory. The two countries appear to be harmonious, but in fact, conflicts have arisen and guard against each other. The Xia people arranged large troops in the Weifu Army of Heishan, and there were only a few troops on the Xia and Song border, which is a clear evidence."

Zhao Huan shook his head and smiled, and said to him: "This is one, and the second is that the Xia people can't afford to see us. The Song Dynasty is about to be destroyed, so how can there be any remaining energy to deal with the Western Xia!"

He ordered Yu Yunwen to drink tea. After the other party picked up the white glaze carved lotus patterned porcelain cup and placed it on his mouth, he took a few sips with his mouth. Zhao Huan said again: "Either the horse protection method or the horse protection method can really solve the problem. When the Tang Dynasty was at its peak, there were 600,000 horses under supervision, but what about the Song Dynasty? Only one or two thousand war horses produced a year, and the horse protection method can only harm the country and the people. I hope to trade with those Tubo people, and most of the war horses I received were bad horses. Many of them were not allowed to go to the battlefield at all. So I thought hard day and night that if I wanted to completely solve the Jin Dynasty, there were two ways. One was to gather ten or even twenty years of strength, use more than one million infantry and a small number of cavalry to fight against the Jin people. Using this method, drag and drain until the enemy was exhausted, and the national strength of the Song Dynasty was dragged and crossed the enemy."

Yu Yunwen frowned and said, "In this case, it is also a way to win, but the world will be in trouble for a long time."

Zhao Huan nodded and said, "That's right. The Jin Dynasty's first rise is not comparable to the Western Xia Dynasty. Hebei, Shandong, Beijing and other places are plains, and it is the place where the enemy's iron cavalry use troops. If we want to drag down the enemy, we must have the blood-stained battlefields of our Song Dynasty imperial guards and fill them with human lives. And we must have to train the imperial guards and heavy armor and strong crossbows, so that we can fight the enemy."

He had something to say. He could not tell the minister who had just been valued. Qin Shuan had already arrived in Fujian Road and Guangdong and Guangxi to inspect officials, observe local government affairs, and prepare for further reforms to the entire government affairs and financial system below.

Not to mention, in the Guanshan Heluo area, the mountains are bare and water conservancy is not repaired. However, the frequent wars are caused, the people have to work hard on the land and withstand heavy taxes from the country. On the other hand, they have to join the army, and those who are strong and brave have become imperial guards. The second is the wing army, and the second is the village soldiers, archers, strong men, etc., which are extremely burdened. Many of Zhao Huan's reforms, tax reduction and exemption, and the construction of water conservancy and city defense require a large amount of manpower. If the war is connected, the Jin Dynasty has insufficient national strength, and the Song Dynasty has to drag out internal injuries. In this way, even maintaining the normal state requires a lot of effort, let alone drastic reforms. The world has to seize the day. Zhao Huan does not care whether he is illusory in this life. As a Chinese child, no matter how his personal character is, how can he let go of it?

He frowned, and then said: "There is another way to equip elite cavalry with the national strength of the Song Dynasty, and coordinate with cavalry and institution. Just like in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, he used heavy infantry to rush forward, and the cavalry wings were roaming, and the crossbowmen were behind. In this way, he could defeat a large number of enemy soldiers with the same number of people, or even weaker and less force? Why? Because the weapons in the Song Dynasty were sharper, the armor was more sophisticated, and the crossbow arrows were shooting farther than the best archer of the enemy. In addition, the manpower and material resources were farther than the Jin people. If not twenty years, I would see the Song Dynasty imperial guards attacking Hebei within five years and force Yan Yun!"

Although Yu Yunwen knew the importance of establishing cavalry, he did not have the ambitions of Zhao Huan, nor was he as optimistic as Zhao Huan. Moreover, to establish cavalry, there must be a large amount of horse-raising land to establish horse supervision and animal farming. Whether it is the former or the latter, it is a lot of money. With the current financial income of the Song Dynasty, he had to resist the next attack of the Jin soldiers, and whether such huge military expenditure and horse-government expenses could be afforded, he would inevitably have a few questions in his heart.

But when he said this, he had already found out that the emperor's intention was obviously the same as himself, and he could not tolerate him being careless. He said carefully: "I have the same meaning as Your Majesty. If the Song Dynasty needs to build cavalry, and if a cavalry is built, he must obtain the Hetao area. In addition, there is no other good strategy. In this way, it is not necessary to fight again with the Western Xia. Although the Xia Kingdom is weak, there are still hundreds of thousands of soldiers. The Song Dynasty and the Jin Kingdom are fighting. I am not sure whether I have the strength to fight with the Xia people again."

"Your words are reasonable. At this time, it is just my king and his minister who are discussing the general trend of the world. You may not be able to do it suddenly, but you can just do it slowly.

Zhao Huan was well aware of history and knew that the Western Xia was far inferior to that of the past. His military was in ruins and his army had no combat power. If it weren't for the fact that this generation of Xia kings were good at knowing the skills of getting along with others and the Jin Dynasty was very unsatisfied in attacking Song, and if there was a check and balance, I was afraid that 100,000 elite Jin soldiers would have entered the Xia realm, the demise of Xia would have been decades ahead of schedule.

But at this moment, everything had not started yet, and he didn't want to give his ministers a too flirtatious impression, so he agreed casually to show that although he wanted to plot against Xixia, he would not be anxious to engage in it.

"Your Majesty is wise."

Yu Yunwen bowed and was about to say something again, but he saw an eunuch hurried in and whispering to Zhao Huan's ear. He knew it must be a secret, so he turned his head and pretended to appreciate the landscape calligraphy and paintings hanging on the walls of the pavilion.

"Okay! Yao Duan and Zhang Xian, I will live up to my expectations."

After hearing a few words, Zhao Huan was already applauding, and then asked the eunuch a few more questions, then waved his hand to ask him to retreat.

Seeing Yu Yunwen seemingly understood, Zhao Huan couldn't help laughing and said, "Just now, someone came to report to the Fifth Army in front of the Imperial Front. Yao Duan, the deputy general manager of his department and the former commander of the army, and Zhang Xian, led more than 10,000 troops. He first defeated the troops of the Jin general Wang Bolong in Yichuan, and then quickly returned to Chang'an. After knowing that the Jin soldiers were defeated, he turned halfway and went to invite the enemy's remaining soldiers and commanded more than 10,000 people. Ambush the enemy at Longkou. In one battle, he defeated the enemy, beheaded more than 10,000, and countless corpses were buried. Although the enemy cavalry arrived first and escaped the river, they also suffered the loss of their boss."

Although Yu Yunwen was not as happy as Zhao Huan, he was extremely excited. He stood up and congratulated the emperor: "Your Majesty, our army has never had such a great victory in the past two years of Jingkang!"

Zhao Huan couldn't help but nodded, "You can win a lot of things to defeat the enemy, but you have never had so many beheadings once. Fuping's battle cannot be compared!"

He stood up and said happily: "In this way, Hedong will fall into my hands, and the Taiyuan enemy cannot protect it. The general trend of the world has finally been settled. From now on, it will be only my imperial guards who compete with the enemy on the battlefield, rather than running around and defending the territory everywhere."

Before Yu Yunwen could answer, Zhang Jun and several prime ministers who had arrived after hearing the news had already come out of the door, but they heard Zhao Huan's words. After everyone was ordered to enter, they bowed to congratulate them together. They said, "Your Majesty is so powerful that you will have such a great victory. You should issue an edict to the whole world, so that all the subjects in the world will be able to know it, and the whole world will celebrate together."

"But, this matter will be done in the name of the Guanyuan."

Zhang Jun bowed to agree, with a smile on his face. Although this man was stubborn and quite ambition and talent, he was also a top minister around Zhao Huan when he was loyal and dared to take responsibility. He completed this transformation from King Kang's confidant minister. At this time, he was sincerely happy about the achievements in Zhao Huan's hands, but Zhao Huan was also deeply moved.

After answering correctly, Zhang Jun suddenly remembered something and asked the emperor: "Just now, I received a military report in the Pudong Courtyard, but I only mentioned Yao Duan's department. Zhang Jun's headquarters has more than 20,000 people, but I did not go to Yichuan to fight Wang Bolong. In the battle between Longmen, I did not mention Zhang Jun and Yang Cunzhong, but I don't know where they were?"

Speaking of this, Zhang Jun's face was already very unhappy. No matter what, as the Privy Councilor, he assisted the emperor in governing the imperial guards of the world. Zhang Jun was the general manager of the army and local governments. If he sent someone to submit the military newspaper, he would first give it to the emperor and then go to the Pudong Mansion. The Privy Councilor actually had to hear the detailed military information from the emperor. In any case, this was a very bad behavior of borrowing and escaping.

When Zhao Huan heard his question, he sneered and said, "Jiang Duan and Zhang Xian sent someone to present him. When asked about Zhang Jun, he only said that the troops were divided that day. Yao Duan's troops first defeated Wang Bolong, and then followed Zhang Jun to help Chang'an. When the news reached the army, Zhang Jun decided to come to Chang'an. Yao Duan asked for a fight. Zhang Jun silently ignored him and let them do it. If I had a good reputation, Zhang Jun's report on the military will arrive soon."

Speaking of this, everyone is already aware of it.

These days, Zhang Jun's troops have no news. In fact, it is not because they encounter a dangerous enemy situation, but because the deputy general manager is going to invite the enemy to escape. The chief general waits for the news. If they win, they will win, and if they lose, they can shirk responsibility. As the chief general, Zhang Jun is so incapable of taking responsibility and even intends to seize the credit of his subordinates. It is really unbearable.

Zhang Jun is very strong. After hearing this, he immediately said to Zhao Huan: "Since that's the case, it's better to entrust Yao Duan as the chief executive, remove Zhang Jun from his official position and let him go home to wait for punishment!"

Yu Yunwen is the new deputy envoy of the Privy Councilor, but now he shook his head and smiled: "I think it's not appropriate to be in the front of the formation, and chaos is awesome."

Zhang Jun glanced at him and said, "So what? I don't believe Yang Cunzhong and others, and I'm willing to make trouble with Zhang Jun."

He was a senior, and he pretended to teach his juniors a lesson. Yu Yunwen was not inconvenient to say anything anymore, so he had to smile and retreat and stop talking.

Zhao Huanyuan also wanted to take the opportunity to take down Zhang Jun, an incompetent person, but at this time he changed his mind and said with a smile: "Zhang Jun is too utilitarian, and I don't want to take this one of them. But this time it is a good thing. Yao Duan wins a lot and is famous all over the world. As the chief official of Yao Duan, wouldn't this man be jealous? I'm afraid that his boots will be broken, and let him go to Hedong and attack with Yao Duan with a camera. I think he will work hard."
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