Thinking of this, Sun Quan couldn't help but feel a little suspicious:

"Then Zhu Zifan, isn't he being deceived?"

The so-called clever words make Feng Langjun charming.

Over the years, even the Wei Kingdom has spread rumors that this person, known as "Xiao Wenhe", is truly ruthless and cunning, and is a very troublesome figure in the northern Central Plains.

Given Zhu Zifan's temperament of being generous and giving away money, could it be that the other party saw that he always underestimated money, so he exaggerated the cost of the armored cavalry?

The school affairs office led by Lu Yi was a mad dog raised by Emperor Wu. He was extremely loyal and would bite whomever Emperor Wu asked him to bite.

However, even if it is a dog, it still has judgment.

Over the past few years, the school affairs office has had a good relationship with the Xinghan Association.

In addition, when the school affairs office encountered a crisis earlier, Xinghan would help and it was able to get through it safely.

Since Qin Bo returned from his first mission to the Han Dynasty, the school affairs office has received many benefits from the Xinghan Hui.

And Feng Junhou was the leader of the Xinghan Society.

In the absence of conclusive evidence, Lu Yi rarely said something fair:

"As His Majesty said, General Zhu is a man who is both civil and military. When it comes to leading an army in battle, that is indeed reassuring."

"But raising an army and leading it are not the same thing. General Zhu has a philanthropic temperament and has no control over spending money, so he may not know what the amount of money and food means."

"So I had to carefully consider what was said in the letter and send someone to send it back to Your Majesty."

The school affairs office has been able to alleviate many of Emperor Wu's pressing needs by continuously amassing money over the years.

As he learned more about Wu's treasury, Lu Yi also understood more and more that such a large country of Wu was actually in such an embarrassing situation.

In order to support the court officials and the army, in addition to the taxes that the major families in Wudi paid to the court every year.

Your Majesty has to find other ways to raise more money and food from various major families every year.

There is no fixed quota for how much you pay or how little you pay, it all depends on the mood of each big family.

Upon careful consideration, I discovered that a considerable portion of the money and food in the treasury was actually controlled by the Wu family.

Only then did Lu Yi fully understand why His Majesty was so afraid of the powerful families in Wu.

Originally, when King Huan entered Jiangdong, his Majesty's family formed a bloody feud with the powerful families of Jiangdong.

In addition, the aristocratic families in Wudi originally had their own clan soldiers, and many of their children held important positions in the army of the court, and controlled a considerable part of the source of money and food for the treasury.

Anyone else would be afraid.

This also explains why the school affairs office can immediately turn the crisis around as long as it can find financial resources for His Majesty.

Whether Feng Junhou deliberately deceived Zhu Ju was not important to Lu Yi. Anyway, the school affairs office could not get involved in military affairs.

But the path of Xing Han Hui must not be discontinued, at least for now, it cannot be discontinued.

Otherwise, the school affairs office, which has no use value to His Majesty, will soon be torn into pieces by the officials in the court who have long held grudges.

Sun Quan naturally didn't know what Lu Yi was thinking, but he did think that Lu Yi's words made some sense.

He nodded immediately and asked:

"Then according to what you see, what should we do?"

An imperceptible smile appeared on the corner of Lu Yi's mouth:

"Your Majesty, it is actually not difficult to confirm the money and food consumed by the armored cavalry. I have come up with a way."

"Oh? Come quickly!"

When Sun Quan heard this, he quickly said:

"Only the Han Kingdom has armored cavalry in the world. If they insist on setting this price, we may not have any good ideas. I was worried, but I didn't expect you to have something to do?"

Lu Yi agreed and then suggested:

"Why don't your Majesty send someone who is good at arithmetic to Han in the name of contacting General Zhu?"

"Externally, it can be said that more people are sent to assist General Zhu, but secretly, the things needed by the armored cavalry can be dismantled one by one, and then the money and food needed by each department can be calculated."

"For example, how much does it cost to make a war horse, how much does it cost to build armor, are there any special features of the weapons, etc."

"As long as it is something that I, Da Wu, can build myself, it can be calculated at Da Wu's price."

"As for those parts that only the Han Kingdom can provide, can I ask if I can teach Da Wu? Or see if I can make it cheaper..."

"Calculated in this way, the money and food consumed by a cavalry army, even if it cannot be significantly reduced, is definitely less than that provided by the Han Dynasty for an entire cavalry army."

Sun Quan was overjoyed when he heard this: "Good!"

Zhu Zifan only said in the letter that the Han Dynasty needed money and food to raise three thousand armored cavalry, but he did not expect that those were the Han people's opinions.

If the armor and the like were all made by Da Wu himself, it would definitely be much cheaper.

There is a big iron mine over there in Wuchang!

A few years ago, before the capital was moved, he had forged tens of thousands of swords there.

But Sun Quan thought of another question:

"I'm afraid that the Han Dynasty is only willing to sell iron armor and is not willing to teach us how to make it."

Lu Yi smiled slightly:

"Your Majesty, I remember that it has been nearly two years since the Han Dynasty sent people here to learn how to operate ships, but Your Majesty has never taught them how to build warships, right?"

Sun Quan suddenly woke up:

"Wonderful! The method of making iron armor is replaced by the method of making warships. How wonderful!"

As he spoke, he said with some smugness:

"If the Han Dynasty must sell us its armor, we can also sell our warships to them!"

He took two steps back and forth, looked at Lu Yi again, and said with approval:

"How did you come up with this method? It's really good."

Lu Yi said modestly:

"The school affairs office has been dealing with the Han Dynasty for a long time. The Xinghan Society used to use arithmetic to calculate the price of goods. Although I am stupid, I also know a little about his methods."

"Okay, okay!" Sun Quan said with a smile, "This time I go to Han to calculate the money and food consumed by the armored cavalry, how about I leave it to your school affairs office?"
Chapter completed!