Daqin: I was overheard by Zulong

Chapter 202 The Prince Is Too Partial
[If I remember correctly, the Yelang Kingdom borders South Vietnam. Although the mountains are high and the roads are far away, the hinterland is full of plains, which are rich in two crops of rice, which mature in summer and autumn. 】

[So now if you want to find food, Yelang Kingdom is the best choice, and it is close to Shu County, so it happens to be solved on the spot. 】

Hearing Zhao Yi's words, Ying Zheng's eyes widened. Yelang Kingdom actually has two rice crops, both in summer and autumn?

What are you waiting for? It's a crime to conceive a jade. Yingzheng feels that he has lost such a good thing for not taking it for himself. If he had known that Yelang had such a good thing, he would have taken Yelang directly when he conquered Shu. Lang Guo was destroyed.

But it's not too late to know now, it just so happens that Daqin is short of food, so everything is incidental.

"Your Majesty, now we can only transport grain from Jiangnan and Lingnan, and the people of the three counties can't wait!" Feng Quji was still thinking of a suitable idea for Yingzheng.

But because Ying Zheng heard Zhao Yi's heartfelt feelings, he didn't care about Feng Quji's words at all.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty..." Seeing that Ying Zheng was in a daze, Feng Quji couldn't help but raise his voice, and finally woke Ying Zheng up.

"Huh?" Ying Zheng finally came to his senses, and looked at Feng Quji, "What did Prime Minister Right just say?"

At this time, Feng Quji thought that Ying Zheng was worried about the disaster victims in the three counties, so he didn't care too much, so he told Ying Zheng the point he had just stated.

"Last year, Jiangnan and Lingnan suffered from floods, and there was not enough food. Moreover, even if there was food, the distance was long and the transportation was inconvenient. When the food from there arrived, it would be a month later. That's not right. !” Ying Zheng directly refused.

"Then what should I do now?" The officials immediately tied their hands, this is not good, and that is not good, what should the victims do?

"Open the Xianyang granary and ship it directly to Hanzhong County for relief!" Ying Zheng said suddenly.

"Your Majesty, the Xianyang granary is the national treasury. This relief will definitely empty the Xianyang granary. This is inappropriate!" Li Si, Feng Quji and others heard this and immediately dissuaded them.

"At most one month, I will replenish the national treasury. There is no need to say anything to the left and the right, just do as I say." Ying Zheng waved his hand, his tone was very firm and unquestionable.

Seeing that Ying Zheng was so determined, the officials couldn't think of a better way for a while, so they could only bow down and promise, and Zhao Yi who was on the side was amazed.

[Hehe, where did the old man get his courage?In one month, make up the Xianyang granary, just kidding! 】

[Hundreds of thousands of disaster victims have to use at least hundreds of thousands of loads of food, and the granary in Xianyang is almost emptied. Once there is a new disaster in spring and summer, I am afraid that people in the entire city of Xianyang will be hungry. Isn’t the old stuff gone? Remember the consequences of that time? 】

[Could it be that the old guy already has some evil idea?Impossible. At this time, all the old guy's thoughts are on the border. How could he know how to solve the crisis at hand? Could it be that he is demolishing the east wall to make up for the west wall? 】

Hearing Zhao Yi's slander, Ying Zheng was angry and annoyed, but he remained calm until he retreated from the court, leaving Yang Duanhe and Qiang Li behind.

"Your Majesty, do you have something important to keep me two?" Qiang Yan knew what Ying Zheng was thinking, and immediately leaned forward and asked.

"You two, during this expedition to the Qiang land, you have achieved military exploits, but don't you feel that you deserve these military exploits?"

Ying Zheng's words suddenly made Qiang Yu and Yang Duanhe's expressions look particularly ugly.

"Your Majesty, I feel guilty, but there is nothing we can do about it. That boy Zhao Tuo is really awesome."

"Yeah, even if we try our best to chase him, we can only follow his ass to pick up his head!"

"And your Majesty, you don't know that the Modao Army is equipped with cavalry this time, and we only have two legs, how can we catch up with them!"

"What? The Modao army is equipped with cavalry? Who equipped them, why don't I know?" Ying Zheng suddenly became curious.

"Your Majesty, you don't know." Qiang Li was full of resentment when he mentioned this, "Li Xin promised to give the crown prince a batch of war horses when they attacked the Yuezhi and Xiongnu allied forces, so now the Modao soldiers have a war horse!"

"So they are infantry, but in fact they are cavalry, and their horses are equipped with horseshoes and saddles. With these two things, even if we have horses, we will be able to catch up with them!"

"Horseshoe? Saddle? What is that?" The curiosity on Ying Zheng's face became more intense.

"Your Majesty, it's something like this." Yang Duanhe actually carried the drawings of horseshoes and saddles with him. Obviously, the Great Qin General was very concerned about these two things, and at the same time he did not forget to sue Zhao Yi.

"Your Majesty, it's not that I said bad things about the prince. The prince is too partial. He only equips the Modao army with horses, horseshoes and saddles, but our northern army has nothing."

"Their horses have Le saddles and horseshoes, which are really like people growing on horses. The horses are like wearing shoes, let alone how fast they run, and their horseshoe damage rate is almost zero!"

"What?" Ying Zheng gasped when he heard Yang Duanhe's introduction.

Ying Zheng is not a fool. He has also commanded cavalry in combat and knows very well what the cavalry's weaknesses are.

The cavalry at this time, to put it bluntly, are more infantry riding on horses. People can only sit firmly on the horses by holding the horses between their legs, and the horseshoes of the horses have high requirements for the road surface. Well, this war horse is basically useless.

But Yang Duanhe actually said that the horses that Zhao Yi equipped for the Modao Army, with the saddle and horseshoes, can allow the Modao Army to fight easily on horseback, and the damage rate of the horses and horseshoes is extremely low. Can Yingzheng not be surprised.

"This prince, why do you always use something good in secret? Why don't you know how to share it? Since the horseshoe and saddle are so good, you have to make them quickly and promote the use of the whole army!"

Hearing what Ying Zheng said, Qiang Yu shook his head, "Your Majesty, we also know this truth, but we have no blueprints now, but we can't make it!"

"Yes!" Yang Duanhe echoed: "Look, Your Majesty, the places marked on the blueprint all use special steel. We don't have the ability to get so much steel, so we will I can only ask the prince to do something."

"Fortunately, His Royal Highness has agreed to equip us with horseshoes and saddles."

"Oh?" Ying Zheng looked surprised. He didn't expect Qiang Li and Yang Duanhe to convince the prince, which surprised him a little.

But what Yingzheng didn't know was that the reason why Qiang Li and Yang Duanhe persuaded Zhao Yi was that they exchanged their gains.

That is to say, all their private seizures on the battlefield had to be handed over to Zhao Yi. Qiang Li and Yang Duanhe had to pay a lot of money, so Zhao Yi reluctantly agreed to give them [-] sets of cavalry equipment.

(End of this chapter)