"Lord Zhao, did I hear correctly? You want to form a 1,000-man heavy cavalry. The money that would cost is a bottomless pit!"
"I heard from Lord Pei that Dayin had previously planned to build a heavy cavalry unit to deal with the increasingly rampant Northern Di Tartars. When the Ministry of War calculated the costs, the Ministry of Revenue was terrified!"
"Soldiers, horses, weapons, armor, pay, training, maintenance, attrition, and one soldier requires three auxiliary soldiers!"
"The cost of one thousand heavily armored cavalrymen would cost at least the entire year's tax revenue of the three southeastern prefectures of Dayin. And that's just the initial cost; even greater costs will be required later."
"What kind of strength does our Xiaowei Mansion have? Your Excellency, you are trying to do something that only a country can do! Not to mention whether doing so will shock the court and make His Majesty wary, the cost alone is unbelievable!"
Huang Chang was immediately shocked and expressed his views and opinions.
It is true that the Pinglu Commandery is the front line against the Tartars. Facing two hundred thousand Tartar cavalry, if there were really a thousand heavily armored cavalry, the Tartars would definitely not dare to cross the Daqing Mountains again.
But, is this realistic?
"Sir Huang, I'm certainly aware of the impact of forming a heavy cavalry unit. We don't need it, but we absolutely must have it! As for the court's fears, let them be! Once we have it, those in the court will only grumble about our opinions in private and won't dare to speak publicly."
Zhao Muyun chuckled.
Dayin is now facing internal and external troubles, and Li Jingang is enough to deal with them. How can they care about the development of armaments by the generals at the border?
The fact that Zhao Muyun could help Yang Dingguo recapture Xiazhou was enough to cover up a lot of things.
"Of course, this matter is carried out in secret! Lord Huang, I told you this because you are my personal advisor!" Zhao Muyun looked at Huang Chang with a half-smile.
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