In the end, neither managed to convince the other and they went back to their rooms angrily.
Qi Haoran felt that this would be a rare opportunity in the next few years. They could use Hanzhong as a stronghold and recover all the other lost land. In that case, they could not delay the matter of the cavalrymen anymore. If not for the fact that he did not have the money to buy adult horses, he would not have wanted to buy foals and slowly raise them.
On the other hand, Fan Zijin was worried that there wasn't enough money. A foal cost about 20 taels of silver, and in each division there needed to be about 500 cavalrymen. It was a standard configuration for each person to have a horse each, plus another one for backup. Alright, even if the backup was 0.5 horse per person, they would still need 750 horses. According to the lowest price, it would cost 15,000 taels of silver, not to mention the subsequent fodder…
