On the occasion of rebirth Zhou Sui

Chapter 446 Eastern Sui Dynasty Mazheng

Even Gao Jiong chose to stand by and watch the rebellion of Yang Yong and others, so naturally no one would seek justice for them.

In the end, these royal nobles, who were called piggies by their grandmother Dugu Jialuo and grandfather Yun Dingxing, were forced to drink the poisonous wine sent by their uncle Yang Guang out of resentment, unwillingness and fear.

Yun Dingxing, who falsely accused his grandson, was appointed as he wished and was worshiped as Shaofu Cheng by Yang Guang.

As for Gao Jiong, he also eased his relationship with Yang Guang.

Yang Su stayed out of this turmoil. After he resigned from Yang Guang, he left his family members in Daxing as hostages and rushed to Jingzhou alone.

The tree wants to be quiet but the wind is not stopping. Cui Che is determined to stop the war and take time to rectify the internal affairs. However, Yang Guang is unwilling to sit back and wait for death and tries to counterattack the Central Plains.

However, the news has not yet reached Jinyang, and Cui Che does not know about it yet.

Fortunately, Cui Che was handling government affairs in Jinyang Palace during the day and having an affair with the Queen Mother at night. At the same time, he also did not forget to select strong men from the Sanhe area to supplement the soldiers. In addition to the 30,000 Xuzhou elites under Cui Qiji's command, the soldiers of the Eastern Sui Dynasty were also included.

The scale has returned to 200,000.

There is also bad news. With Cui Che's many long-distance raids, the number of war horses and traveling horses has been severely damaged. It has long lost its original size of 85,000 elite cavalry and three horses per capita of the Yan army.

Nowadays, among the soldiers of the Eastern Sui Dynasty, only the 25,000 cavalrymen who serve in front of the tent, the Silver Saddle Khitan Zhi, and the Boling Cavalry can maintain the configuration of one man and three horses.

Most of the remaining cavalry are one person and two horses, or even one person riding a walking horse. They can no longer bear the task of running long distances.

Cui Che did not think that the cavalry would be of much use in the south after seizing Guandong and slack off in horse administration.

He knew that without a strong cavalry, he could not deter the grassland tribes.

The reason why these barbarians, such as the Eastern Turks, Kumoxi, and Khitans, were so afraid of Cui Che, who was just the general manager of Youzhou, was because he exploited the horses of various tribes in Monan through coercion and inducement, and through various transactions, thus forming a group.

A force of 80,000 Yan goblin cavalry.

Eighty thousand cavalry can march long distances at any time to attack Huanglong, and every tribe in Monan will not consider their own weight.

Therefore, for Cui Che, maintaining a deterrent to the grassland tribes was a higher priority than forming a navy army.

It was precisely because of the need to invest funds in breeding horses that Cui Che could only postpone the establishment of a navy army until this autumn harvest. After the autumn taxes were put into the treasury, he would allocate funds to build ships and form a navy army.

Raising horses is a technical job that must be managed by professionals, but Cui Che really found such a person.

Since the army of the Eastern Sui Dynasty was divided into war soldiers and government soldiers, the treatment between the two was very different. At the end of last year, the proud and arrogant Wei Chirong from Shanyang, Shuozhou (today's Shuozhou, Shanxi) left his hometown with a group of friends.

Go to Daizhou to join the army.

There were ten thousand soldiers under Mai Tiezhang in Daizhou, and Yu Chirong wanted to join Mai Tiezhang's command.

As a general under Cui Che, it would be extremely difficult for an ordinary person to meet Mai Tiezhang, but fortunately, Yu Chirong had quite a background.

His grandfather Yuchi Benzhen was the champion general of the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Duke of Yuyang County.

His grandfather Yuchi Mengdu was the governor of Jizhou in the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

His father, Yuchijia, also served as General Yitong in the Sui Dynasty.

The Yuchi family, as a wealthy family from Daibei, came to meet each other, so naturally Mai Tiezhang could not avoid it.

Yuchirong's burly and majestic figure also attracted Mai Tiezhang's attention, and he asked his subordinates to compete with Yuchirong.

Although Yu Chirong is young, only in his early twenties, no one can be his opponent whether fighting on foot or on horseback.

Mai Tiezhang saw that Yu Chirong was a rare and fierce general, so he immediately took him under his command.

However, the power of appointing, dismissing, and promoting generals belongs to the Chinese and Foreign Governments. Mai Tiezhang liked Yuchirong's talents, so he wrote to Cui Che, hoping to find a general for Yuchirong.

The partial general is located under the general or sub-general, and can lead a thousand cavalry or two thousand infantry.

It can be seen that Mai Tiezhang valued Yu Chirong.

After Cui Che received the letter, he did not follow Mai Tiezhang's request and appoint Yuchi Rong as the general of Daizhou. Instead, he recruited Yuchirong to come to Jinyang to serve the army in front of the tent and serve as the sub-general.

The inferior general is one level higher than the partial general, let alone serving the army in front of the tent.

Everyone thought that this was Cui Che's love for Wujiwu, and it was precisely because of Mai Tiezhang's recommendation that Yu Chirong was entrusted with important tasks. Even Mai Tiezhang himself felt this way.

But in fact, Yuchi Rong was famous for his words. When Cui Che saw the four words Yuchi Jingde written on Mai Tiezhang's letter, he didn't hesitate at all.

Yuchi Jingde's real name was Yuchirong, and as for Yuchigong, it was the surname given to him by the Tang Dynasty.

Yuchi Jingde, who was 22 years old at the time, came to Jinyang with full of longing for the future.

In the first year of Zhenyuan (AD 606), on the twelfth day of the first lunar month, 22-year-old Yuchi Jingde came to Jinyang with his fellow countryman Zhang Wansui and others with full vision for the future.

Cui Che learned the news and ordered people to introduce them to Jinyang Palace and met with Yuchi Jingde and others at the Prime Minister's Mansion.

However, contrary to what Yuchi Jingde and his party expected, Cui Che did not test their martial arts skills, but asked:

"Is there anyone among you who is good at raising horses?"

After everyone heard this, they all looked at Zhang Wansui. Zhang Wansui stood up and replied:

"Reporting to the Prime Minister, long live Zhang, a humble citizen. His family has been selling horses for generations. He has quite a lot of experience in raising horses."

In fact, among this group of people, Cui Che was most happy to win Zhang Wansui.

In the original time and space, Zhang Wansui followed Yuchi Jingde to surrender to the Tang Dynasty, and Li Shimin took charge of Ma Zheng with Zhang Wansui.

Zhang Wansui has been in charge of overseeing horse breeding for 24 years.

When he took over, there were only 3,000 military horses, but with his efforts, by the time of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, 760,000 military horses were bred, not counting the number of horses in military towns, inns, and idle stables.

With Zhang Wansui's dismissal, the Tang Dynasty's horse administration also declined. It was not until Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty re-enabled Zhang Wansui's grandson and restored Zhang Wansui's old orders that the number of military horses returned to more than 400,000.

How could Cui Che ignore such a great talent in raising horses? The famous generals in the early Tang Dynasty were able to destroy countries everywhere and gain power in foreign lands, and Zhang Wansui's contribution was indispensable among them.

That's why when he met Yuchi Jingde and his party, he couldn't wait to ask who could raise horses, and waited for Zhang Wansui to recommend himself.

Of course, Cui Che couldn't entrust Zhang Wansui with important tasks just based on his words. For this reason, Cui Che specifically asked Zhang Wansui a lot about his knowledge of horse breeding.

Cui Che himself didn't know much about raising horses, but that didn't stop him from pretending to understand. He would nod and smile from time to time, as if what Zhang Wansui said was in line with his own wishes.

After Zhang Wansui passed the so-called examination, Cui Che immediately petitioned the emperor to appoint Zhang Wansui as his imperial servant and Shaoqing, in charge of horse administration.

(End of chapter)