Chapter 461: The Hu people’s horses also have spring
On the hilltop, when Fei Qian arrived, Yu Fuluo was sitting on the floor alone, tapping the table gently while humming an unknown song.
Hu people seem to be born singers. Perhaps the open landscape of the prairie has cultivated their rich and broad voices, and the same is true for Yu Fuluo's singing. Although Fei Qian cannot understand the specific sentences and words, he can understand from the melodiousness. You can feel to some extent Yu Fulo's nostalgia for his hometown...
After singing the song, Fei Qian gave him a gentle high-five and praised, "Chan Yu was in such good spirits that he also sang a good ballad, which has a rather vast and vast meaning."
Yu Fuluo stood up to greet him and said: "Fei Shangjun has given me a prize. It's just a pastoral song from my hometown. You can sing it as you like... Come, please take a seat..."
It seems that he stayed with the sheep for too long or ate too much mutton. About three meters away from Yu Fulo, he could always smell a strong smell of mutton.
Sheep in the Han Dynasty were basically not castrated.
In other words, in the Han Dynasty, most animals were free, except humans.
As early as the Xia and Shang Dynasties, castrated livestock had already appeared, but the castration technology of the human body was at the forefront. Humans were the first animals to be castrated on a large scale, and the first to have the entire castration procedures and measures strictly regulated. There is even a special castration room for animals, called the "silkworm room"...
Yu Fuluo would never have thought that Fei Qian was thinking about castration when they were sitting together, otherwise he would have held the meat-cutting knife tightly in his hand.
Today, Yu Fuluo is treating guests, and of course it’s still three dishes, cheese, mutton, kumiss...
The cheese has not been purified or filtered. Of course, as the leader of the tribe, the dignified Chanyu will be relatively refined to some extent, but it is also limited. Although the color of the lump in front of you is not black, it is estimated that it is There were some problems in one step, probably because the storage was not careful, which resulted in a little dust, a bit of gray, and sometimes a little bit of sand.
Mutton, it still tastes the same, full of mutton flavor. If people are sensitive to the smell of mutton in later generations, then by the Han Dynasty, large-scale livestock meat will basically be inaccessible. Beef is the best, but you can’t eat cows if you want to. Yes, for the rest, the sheep is extremely rotten, the pig is extremely coquettish, choose one of the two.
Of course there are some chickens, ducks and fish, but they are not often seen. The main reason is that there is no large-scale breeding, and all are sold by farmers. Moreover, once large-scale chickens and ducks get infected, it will be very scary.
Fish is also available, and people in the Yangzhou area also like to eat raw fish. However, because fish will die after dehydration, and there is no means of transportation, it is not easy to eat fish in remote inland and mountainous areas.
"Chanyu, we need to settle down for a while..." Fei Qian said slowly, holding a knife and cutting the mutton. The meat on the mutton chops is alternately fat and thin, chewy, and tastes very good after being grilled. The aroma, especially the half-burnt fat that bursts out between the lips and teeth, is simply mouth-watering.
Yu Fuluo was stunned when he heard this, his thick black eyebrows almost stood up, he tilted his upper body, not caring that the sheepskin robe on his body was rubbing against the greasy mutton on the plate, and stared at Fei Qian closely. , said in a deep voice: "What does Fei Shangjun mean by these words? Are you planning to go back on your word?"
Originally, the purpose of Yu Fulo's banquet with Fei Qian was to finalize the specific steps and time. Otherwise, Yu Fulo's heart would be hanging in the air. However, before he could speak, he heard Fei Qian's words. If it weren't for these years of experience that Yu Fuluo's character had become much calmer, he might have already flipped the table...
Fei Qian didn't panic at all, and said: "Spring is coming, the sun is warm, everything is growing, it's the season...Does Shanyu want to go to the South King's Court without riding a horse?"
Yu Fuluo's eyes widened, and then he blinked a few times before he realized: "This... I didn't expect... Feishang County would also be concerned about this... this..." Yu Fuluo was also a little embarrassed for a moment, not knowing what to do. How to evaluate Feiqian would be better.
After March, as the weather gets warmer, horses gradually enter the estrus period. This kind of animal behavior will not be transferred due to human will. In May, large-scale breeding behavior will begin. , this behavior will continue until July and August, and then it will gradually enter the anestrus period. Only then will the horse's brain capacity, which is not very large, gradually regain some sense, know how to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy, and then obey the owner's orders. .
Otherwise, as long as a mare is in heat, all the stallions will go crazy and bite each other regardless of whether it is their own or the enemy's. They will not care even if the skin is torn and the flesh is dripping with blood. Just feel good for a while, well, feel good for several times...
Fei Qian nodded and said nothing.
After all, Han people and Hu people are not the same.
Because the Hu people are nomadic and have a vast territory, they generally rarely fight with each other. Even if they do, they usually want to compete for inheritance rights like Yu Fulo, or compete for pasture. However, the Han people are different. Since the Warring States Period, there have been constant disputes all year round, from spring to summer, from summer to autumn, and from autumn to winter...
In order to allow war horses to adapt to long-term battles and reduce the distress caused by seasonal problems, horses are basically castrated.
Later, even the horses sold by the Hu people to the Han people were castrated first...
Most of the horses that Yu Fuluo brought south are in a natural state, and only a small number of them are gelded. Now that the season has come, even if they set off to the royal court immediately, it is basically the season, and there is chaos among the horses. How else to fight?
Halfway through the charge, they then turned in pairs and went to the small woods aside to have some fun...
Ahem.
Yu Fuluo just remembered this matter and was scratching his head. He couldn't castrate all the horses now. This kind of behavior is like killing the chicken to get the eggs. It's a one-shot deal. If you don't get the royal court, there will be no follow-up.
"Alas! What should we do..." Yu Fuluo was really anxious and didn't want to delay for a moment, but the real difficulties were also in front of him. Without Fei Qian's cooperation, he still couldn't do it with his own strength. It was obvious that Fei Qian would not take advantage of his old friend, and would try his best to fulfill his wish to regain the royal court. They were just using each other, so they could only act together, and no one could leave the other.
"It's not that everything can't be done now. Please look at Shanyu..." Fei Qian stood up and pointed to the land around Pingyang that people had begun to cultivate. He instantly put on a look of emotion on his face. .
"...These lands have been abandoned for a long time, but for Shanyu's great cause, we have overcome many difficulties. Shanyu looks over there. The ditch needs to be excavated again and the water can be restored. This project is very difficult... …”
"...Although the land has just been plowed, it can produce food very quickly. It only takes half a year to start harvesting, which can provide us with more food reserves... Shan Yu, you can also see that all this soil needs to be harvested." Plowing, planting, fertilizing...it's dirty, smelly, and exposed to wind and sun, it's very hard...Can this Shanyu understand?"
Yu Fuluo was stunned for a moment and nodded. Suddenly, a not-so-good premonition surged in his heart...
"Zilong, let's go south together..."
"Okay, my lord."
"Zilong, let's go to war together..."
"Okay, my lord."
"Zilong, let's escape together..."
"Okay, my lord."
"Zilong, let's go to Soochow to get married together..."
"...Okay, lord..."
Later, Ma Chao came...
Liu Bei has always disliked Ma Chao his whole life...
