No matter how difficult the road ahead is, you have to go on with your teeth!

Because Wu Haogu knew what the consequences of his inaction were?

The consequence will be that the brilliant civilization in front of us will fall into darkness and be destroyed, thus losing the ability to evolve itself in the future for hundreds of years, and falling into regression, closure and conservatism.

To do something, you must first have the power to protect yourself.

When encountering the Liangshan bandits in Daze Township, he told Wu Haogu that the Song Dynasty is not as peaceful and peaceful as Kaifeng Prefecture in the present day. If he does not have the power to protect himself, Wu Haogu, as a rich man, would have to be worried when he leaves Kaifeng Prefecture, and what other big things he has to do?

Moreover, if the future great cause of saving the country fails, Wu Haogu will have to escape before the city of Kaifeng is broken and the north falls. Therefore, he must have a certain amount of force to protect himself and his family and friends.

At the same time, the force he had raised could not be too large. Although the Song Dynasty did not completely ban the force of the people, it still had some control. For example, in "Water Margin", it was a dream to raise thousands of soldiers or horses in any kind of village or market.

With the official status and wealth that Wu Haogu may have in the future, raising one or two hundred strong men is probably the upper limit. If there are more, there will be a backend that is as hard as steel plates that others find it difficult to pick out wrong names.

Since the number of thugs who can be kept is limited, then we must take the elite military route.

Each must be a good player in a hundred ways, preferably just like Lin Chong and Lu Qian. At the same time, he must be more loyal and reliable than the two of them.

As Ma Zhi said, it is best to buy poor children to educate them from childhood, and to hire the best coaches to strictly train them. The coaches who train them cannot be in the same group, otherwise they will not know who they have raised!

Moreover, it seems necessary to learn from the strengths of many families. Only Han martial artists should be the Gulam warriors in the West, the Bud Warriors on the grassland, the Jurchen warriors in the forest, and the Dangxiang Tubo warriors. These people have to compete with each other to force them to show their true abilities.

It would be better if their abilities could be summed up and turned into a standard textbook for training soldiers...

"Official Bai," Wu Haogu thought of the key points before he asked Bai Siwen with a smile, "I don't want to buy a very low-level war slave. I just want to hire a few coaches. It's okay to be older, but my kung fu still has to be on my body. In addition... it's best if I don't believe in religion."

"Don't believe in religion?" Bai Siwen of course knew what "teaching" Wu Haogu refers to. However, he was not angry, and did not jump up and scold Wu Haogu for offending the sacred beliefs, nor did he want to beat Wu Haogu up... but thought about it very seriously.

"In addition to military officers, if you want female slaves, you are not religious." Bai Siwen smiled, "But Gulam warriors should believe in religion as usual. Of course, they are not as rigorous as they were in the early years. Even those who believe in religion are very shallow."

In fact, according to the teachings, it is not allowed for MSL to sell MSL as slaves, so there should not be any Gulam slave warriors - if they believe in religion, they should not be slaves, and if they are slave warriors, they should not be religious!

However, with the growth and prosperity of the Arab Empire, the originally brave and warlike Arab knights also began to decay and were unable to bear the mission of defending the empire. So from the Abbasid Dynasty of the Arab Empire, the Caliph began to raise slave guards to protect himself. This was the origin of the Gulam army.

By the 9th century AD, the Saman dynasty established by the Persian-Tajiks began to institutionalize, systematic and perfect slave soldiers, thus creating the Gulam military system. That is, the feudal lords or merchants paid for the purchased young slaves and conducted strict military training, while instilling certain religious ideas, and cultivating them into excellent warriors.

In fact, this system can also be regarded as the origin of modern military academies! Its essence is funded by the state and cultivates military talents through systematic and standardized methods.

Before this system emerged, the training and training of military talents was mainly handled by nobles, knights, warriors or aristocratic families, and the cost was naturally paid out of their own pockets.

The efforts of these aristocratic families collect returns through monopoly on the regime and land - in short, no one does a loss-making transaction!

However, starting from the Song Dynasty, civil society and civil servant politics emerged in China. Under civil servant politics, the warrior class lost the possibility of monopolizing the regime and land, and civil society made the cost of cultivating military talents relatively high.

On the one hand, the training cost is high, and on the other hand, the returns are relatively low, which naturally inhibits the family's enthusiasm for cultivating military talents.

And the country cannot bear the cost of training, so military talents naturally appear rare and the combat effectiveness of the army is no guarantee.

In the Song Dynasty, where military talents were already scarce, it was worried that the army would be second, and it had a military system of multiple management and decentralization at all levels, which left most of the Northern Song Dynasty's army in a state of neither talent nor anyone could be responsible.

"Okay, just be a little shallow, find two for me." Wu Haogu laughed. He was worried that Bai Siwen would be furious in front of him and beat him up... He didn't know if Ma Zhi dared to protect him? It seems okay now, Bai Siwen is still more reasonable.

Bai Siwen asked again: "Would you like that female slave?"

The older Guram is easy to find, and not every Guram fighter can climb to a high position when he is young and middle-aged.

But these old Gurams are no longer slaves. Even if they cannot win power for themselves, they can still win freedom and a little wealth.

So Bai Siwen could only "invite" them to China for Wu Haogu, instead of selling them to China. Therefore, this transaction would not make much money.

"Female slave?" Wu Haogu took a breath, "No.

But... can you get me a few big-food stallions to come to China? As for the price, it is easy to discuss."

Big-food stallions are Arab stallions. Military talents need to find ways to cultivate them, so naturally they need to try to improve the horse breeding.

"Big Eat Horse?" A surprise flashed across Bai Siwen's face.

A big horse is a treasure that can open the lion's mouth!

"It's not easy, it's not easy!" Bai Siwen's face flashed, and all that was left was distress. "In addition to the military officer, you want veteran Gulam, it's easy to invite this... It's just taking some time, and you can always invite a few.

But the horse... do you know that this horse is seasick?"

Is horses seasick? Wu Haogu turned his head and looked at Ma Zhi. He understood horses.

Ma Zhi nodded and said, "Not only is the horses very seasick, but they are also unacceptable to the soil and water. Horses growing in hot and dry places will be difficult to feed when they arrive in cold and wet places."

"Yes, yes..." Bai Siwen nodded repeatedly and said with a frown, "It's not easy, it's not easy..."

Wu Haogu laughed, "It's not easy, there's a way, right? Tell me, how much deposit is required?"

Bai Siwen also laughed, then stretched out a finger: "One thousand pieces, one thousand pieces will be given to another thousand pieces when the goods arrive."

"Okay!" Wu Haogu nodded, "I didn't bring so much money today. I'll ask someone to deliver it to the store after a while."

"Wait," Bai Siwen waved his hand, "There is still a condition."

"Tell me."

Bai Siwen said: "Ma and people can only be sent to Quanzhou... You have to send someone to Quanzhou to pick it up."

"Only to Quanzhou? Why?"

Bai Siwen said: "Because the big-food horses produced in Tianzhu have lived in Quanzhou, there is no guarantee that they will be in the north."

"Okay!" Wu Haogu asked, "When will you get the horse and the man?"

Bai Siwen thought about it, "Two years, at least two years."

"Okay," said Wu Haogu, "When the goods arrived, the trustee took it to the Wu Family Calligraphy and Painting Chai on Panlou Street, Kaifeng Prefecture."
Chapter completed!