Chapter 983 Conversation

Zhou Xu's thoughts flowed smoothly. He quickly wrote the reward for the southern border troops and signaled the messenger to take it to the southern border.

"Has General Jie arrived?"

"Yes, I'm already waiting in the side hall."

Zhou Xu nodded, then stood up and walked towards the side hall.

Before entering, Zhou Xu saw Li Liancheng sitting on a chair with his legs crossed, holding a snack in his hand and putting it into his mouth. He really didn't feel any pressure at all.

However, when he saw Zhou Xu coming in, Xie Liancheng immediately became serious, stood up, saluted, and went through the formalities.

"This humble general, Jie Liancheng, pays respect to His Majesty!"

"No need to be polite, General."

After signaling Jie Liancheng to skip the formality, Zhou Xu turned around and gave Silk an instruction.

"Silk, go and guard the door. The general and I have something to discuss."

"yes!"

As soon as Silk left and the door to the side hall was closed, Jie Liancheng suddenly disappeared.

"Fuck, Hongxu, you can do this. Let me take Aju and Qihu over to develop Black Moon City!"

"Okay, I'll arrange a team to go to Xianyang to pick them up and give them a house in the city."

With just one word from Zhou Xu, the house was arranged for him, so it was no problem at all.

It's not only because of their brotherhood, but also because of Jie Liancheng's contribution to their Great Zhou.

The body-building boxing developed by Jie Liancheng alone is enough for Zhou Xu to keep giving him houses.

After quickly talking about his wife and children's move, Xie Liancheng did not hesitate to talk directly about business with Zhou Xu.

"Tell me, how do we deal with Lord Ma's matter?"

"In fact, I have already written everything I want to say in the letter. You know the Xianzhen Camp. It is my trump card unit. Among all the troops in our Great Zhou, the requirements for the soldiers in the Xianzhen Camp are the highest. Each one is the best of the best. My requirement for them is to be an all-round heavy armored unit!"

Zhou Xu did not hide anything from Jie Liancheng and spoke directly to him.

"Thanks to their high-intensity training, the soldiers of the Xianzhen Camp have no problem with their physical fitness, but the quality of their war horses is not good enough."

"As a mount for a heavily armored troop, the existing war horses have too poor stamina. This not only limits the speed of the charge, but also means that the Piercing Cavalry can only hit once in many situations."

"Regarding this issue, I have discussed it with the person in charge of training war horses in our Great Zhou..."

As he spoke, Zhou Xu briefly recounted to Jie Liancheng the content of his discussion with Ma Guotao.

"So now our idea is to either eliminate the heavy armored cavalry and completely transform the Xianzhen Camp into a heavy armored infantry unit, and no longer use it as a cavalry force."

"Or we can solve the problem of war horses. We can use that drop of supernatural creature's blood essence to breed a war horse of exotic beast level or even supernatural level. Then we can use that war horse for breeding. Through continuous breeding, we can solve the war horse problem of the Xianzhen Camp."

Having said this, Zhou Xu paused.

“Even if it’s only at the level of an exotic beast, once this kind of warhorse is bred and reproduced in large numbers, not only the Xianzhen Camp, but all the cavalry units of our Great Zhou Army will be comprehensively upgraded!”

"Apart from the high cost, the only shortcoming of heavy cavalry is mobility."

"Old Jie, think about it, once we have exotic beast-level war horses, the shortcoming of mobility will be made up. Then how strong will our Great Zhou heavy armored cavalry's dominance on the cold weapon battlefield be?"

When Zhou Xu talked about this topic, he unconsciously became a little excited.

"It's not just the battlefield of cold weapons. Even in the era of firearms, the heavily armored cavalry equipped with exotic warhorses can still suppress firearms such as matchlock rifles and flintlock rifles!"

Xie Liancheng was naturally no stranger to the cold weapon battlefield. Without the mobility shortcoming of the heavy armored cavalry, it was easy to imagine how strong the suppressive power would be.

Even if they did not form heavy cavalry and used exotic warhorses to form normal light cavalry, they could also bring more terrifying advance speed and charge capabilities to the cavalry! In the long run, this was related to the improvement of their entire Great Zhou military strength.

"If you eat that drop of blood, you will die if you fail?"

Zhou Xu had already mentioned this matter in the letter, but Xie Liancheng couldn't help but confirm it again.

"For now, that's right."

Zhou Xu nodded directly in reply, but he did not forget to add another sentence at the end.

"This time, I came here just to let Lord Ma give it a try and see if he dares to take that drop of blood."

Zhou Xu gave a brief explanation regarding this matter.

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"Blood is the essence of life of extraordinary creatures, and it also contains the breath of extraordinary creatures. Over at the horse farm, let alone ordinary war horses, even the Ferghana horses like the Horse King would want to run away just by smelling that smell."

"This also gave me a rough conclusion, that is, a warhorse that doesn't dare to take the initiative to eat the essence and blood has no chance of success."

"So if Lord Horse doesn't want to eat it, then forget it."

After all, Lord Ma had saved Jie Liancheng's life on the battlefield, and Zhou Xu knew how much his brother liked Lord Ma. In the event that there was a high probability that there would be no hope, Zhou Xu had no intention of gambling with Lord Ma's life.

"Of course, if the Horse King is willing to eat and succeeds, then the Horse King will definitely stay at the horse farm for the next few years."

"We have to wait until we successfully breed a new breed of warhorse and ensure that the new breed of warhorse has reached a certain scale and can be bred stably internally before we can consider changing it to regular breeding at the horse farm."

Xie Liancheng could understand Zhou Xu's words and was mentally prepared.

After all, once Lord Horse successfully digests the essence and blood and becomes a strange beast or a supernatural creature, its breeding value in the Great Zhou will completely crush the value it can show as a war horse on the battlefield.

Under such circumstances, they would never allow Lord Ma to make any mistakes.

Just like the first Arabian horse Zhou Xu got, he never used it on the battlefield from beginning to end.

After quickly finishing the business and confirming the matter with Jie Liancheng, Zhou Xu didn't plan to delay any further.

"Let's go to the grassland horse farm together tomorrow morning. Before that..."

As he was talking, Zhou Xu called Silk in and confirmed the number of documents delivered in the afternoon.

"I'm afraid I can't accompany you this afternoon. I have some work to finish before leaving. I'll ask someone to take you around the city."

Xie Liancheng also expressed his understanding of this.

Although Zhou Xu now has Huo Qubing and Li Bowen as his right-hand men, assisting him in handling daily government affairs on weekdays, it also allows him to leave the palace appropriately to do other things.

But before you go, you must arrange and do what needs to be arranged and done, instead of suddenly disappearing.

(End of this chapter)