Three years ago, when Xiao Ruxun was in Myanmar, he bought 10,000 war horses through Arab merchants, but now he has lost almost the same amount.

Not only because of climate factors, but also combat factors, most of the war horses used in the army have become seized Mongolian horses, and only less than two thousand Arab horses are still serving in the army as a storefront.

Although the Arabian horses have strong explosive power and speed, the desert varieties are not resistant to cold and humidity. The continuous losses of the march north make Xiao Ruxun feel very distressed.

But at that time, Xiao Ruxun had no good choice. He had no way to get war horses from Mongolia. The most convenient thing he got when he was in Myanmar was the Arab horse. The war horses he had spent a lot of money to only lasted for half a year of battle, which was really unpaid.

In the future, if you want to attack the grassland, there is no doubt that Mongolian horses still need. Although Mongolian horses have many disadvantages, their advantages of being cold-resistant and crude-fed are something that Xiao Ruxun cannot refuse.

Conservatively estimated that Xiao Ruxun needs at least 300,000 war horses. What is the concept of 300,000 Arab horses?

At present, it is probably the concept of financial collapse.

Mongolian horses are short and have poor explosive power, but they are better at coarse care, cold resistance, good physical fitness, and not prone to illness. They are necessary conditions for large-scale popularization. This alone is better than Arab war horses.

So Xiao Ruxun gave up the preparation for large-scale purchase of war horses from Arabia and instead raised and reserved existing Mongolian horses that were inherited from the Ming army.

The Shandan Military Horse Farm established by Huo Qubing is a good horse farm, and Liaodong is also a good horse farm. The grasslands north of Datong can also be used for grazing. Xiao Ruxun plans to build three suitable military horse farms in these three places to cultivate military horses and train powerful cavalry.

After making such a decision, Xiao Ruxun began to discuss this matter with his ministers.

"Before the great success of the horse government, the nine sides need to continue to maintain it. All the officials can do some discussions. In addition, I decided to restart the policy of encouraging private horse raising. If private households have horse raising, taxes will be reduced according to a certain proportion and exempted from the rank of a vocational service, so as to encourage private horse raising."

Xiao Ruxun expressed his request, and the ministers looked at each other and realized that Xiao Ruxun still had the idea of ​​attacking the grassland in his heart.

Zhao Shiqing, who is in charge of the Ministry of Revenue, tentatively said: "Your Majesty, a year ago, Your Majesty led his army to attack the Northern Barbarians and killed 300,000 Northern Barbarians. The Northern Barbarians are already scared. At this time, the Northern Barbarians dare not continue to move south. Can the strategy of encouraging the people to raise horses be slow?"

"Slow?"

Xiao Ruxun frowned: "This weather is getting colder from south to north. It is colder here, and the colder it goes north, and the colder it goes north, and the place where the Beilu lives is colder than us. Once they encounter heavy snow disasters, they dare to attack us no matter how scared they are.

I can kill 300,000 Northern Husbands in a few years. The longer the time, the weaker the deterrence effect. If we do not take this opportunity to rebuild the horse government and train war horses and cavalry, once the Northern Husbands attack again, we will be exhausted again!

In my opinion, the Nine Borders' strategy is the only one that must be abolished. The reason why it is retained now is helpless. Once other matters are handled, the Nine Borders' abolition is necessary, and raising horses is also necessary, and the Northern Expedition is even more necessary! Sitting on the sidelines' death is not the national policy of the Qin Dynasty!"

Xiao Ruxun's tone was strong, and Zhao Shiqing was so scared that she fell to her knees and accused him of guilt.

This strategy was immediately passed, and the Cabinet and the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of War jointly discussed a countermeasure, and then gave it to Xiao Ruxun for review, and Ma Zheng immediately became a national policy.

Subsequently, Wang Xijue and Liu Huangshang, who was in charge of the Ministry of War, took on the task and said that they would discuss a countermeasure as quickly as possible.

Next was the candidate for the governor of Liaodong. Under Xiao Ruxun's threat, Li Chengliang and Li Rusong surrendered and agreed to move the Li family out of Liaodong. The Li family lived in the capital, and the family of his subordinates and their relatives were not allowed to leave Northern Zhili, in exchange for the three generations of Li family and continued appointments.

After Li left, the candidate for the governor of Liaodong was very urgent. Xiao Ruxun needed a cadre who could stabilize the situation in Liaodong to lay the foundation for his plan to show his strength in Liaodong, so this candidate was very necessary.

In short, he is a cadre who is willing to do things and dares to obey the command.

At this time, someone recommended Li Sancai.

Xiao Ruxun frowned and thought for a while before she remembered her in-laws in the original history.

Before Xiao Ruxun could express his opinion, Li Tingji raised his objections.

"Li Sancai has talent, but he is not down-to-earth. He wants to develop Liaodong and let him do it. Liaodong will mess with him. Your Majesty, the old minister does not recommend Li Sancai. This person is always greedy, not to mention that he is still the Minister of Dali Temple."

Xiao Ruxun nodded.

"Then he doesn't need him. I don't like people who don't steadfastly like small moves. The situation in Liaodong is related to the overall situation, and people who make small moves are unreliable."

Xiao Ruxun's words broke Li Sancai's political career into the abyss. Zhou Yao silently wrote down this name and prepared to check him. Since Xiao Ruxun doesn't like it, he will take it down.

"Then, the old minister recommends Liang Menglong."

Wang Xijue suddenly spoke.

"Liang Menglong?"

Xiao Ruxun thought the name sounded a little familiar.

"Yes, Liang Menglong, who had many political achievements in the early years of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, was capable. He was impeached and dismissed from office in the eleventh year of Wanli, and has been staying at home."

Xiao Ruxun understood.

When the party members of Zhang Juzheng were liquidated, Liang Menglong was dismissed. Obviously, Liang Menglong was a cadre during Zhang Juzheng's reform period and was later liquidated.

"Liang Menglong has been at home for more than ten years and is no longer familiar with government affairs. He is also old. Can he still come out to be an official?"

Cai Guozhen expressed objection.

"How do you know if you don't ask?"

Wang Xijue glanced at Cai Guozhen, then said to Xiao Ruxun: "Your Majesty, Liang Menglong's family lives in Zhending, and is very close to the capital. Is Your Majesty willing to recruit him?"

Xiao Ruxun hesitated for a moment.

"He is an old minister of the previous dynasty, and he is willing to use it for me?"

Wang Xijue said, "The old minister is willing to write a letter to advise him in person."

"Then try it!"

Xiao Ruxun nodded and asked Wang Xijue to try to recruit Liang Menglong. Zhending was already under the control of his army, Liang Menglong had no choice but to run away. He should have known about the Qin Dynasty's decisive world, and he didn't know what he thought about this matter.

But he was a survivor of Zhang Juzheng's period, and it was not easy for him to survive until now.

There must be a backup candidate.

In fact, Xiao Ruxun is quite fond of Yuan Huang, but at this time, he knew that Yuan Huang would not agree. He would definitely be willing to let him go out to build roads. He probably wouldn't be willing to let him be an administrative official. So, what reliable candidates are there?

The officials promoted by their subordinates are still young and do not have enough experience to make Xiao Ruxun believe that they can support the administration of a province, so they can only be promoted from old ministers and then arrange some people to study and practice.

During this period, Xiao Ruxun continued to replace a group of young officials who had made great contributions to land reform from Xie He to the capital, and then sent new people continuously. These young officials who made great contributions in land reform can already be competent for the heads of a township. Xiao Ruxun decided to use them first in Liaodong and Beizhili.

Where his troops can be directly controlled.

Liaodong is undoubtedly the first to use, because the situation here is the most complicated, but also the cleanest. If you keep the fire going, everything can start from scratch.

Starting from Liaodong, the first-level administrative units of township were laid out.

I hope that a group of capable ministers and officials can be trained as soon as possible, so that such a group of people will have a great effect on his subsequent plans.

As for reliable backup candidates...
Chapter completed!