Liu Che rode the Emperor's chariot and arrived here.
In the pasture, thousands of well-bred foals are roaming in this paradise of their beauty.
These foals are the descendants of Wusun horses and sweat-blooded horses.
It is also the most critical link in Liu Che’s plan to cultivate excellent Chinese war horses.
It has been almost four years since Liu Che secretly smuggled Wusun's fine horses and Dawan's bloody horses from the Wusun and the Huns.
Four years is enough time for these horses to produce a third generation of offspring.
"What's the condition of these foals?" Liu Che called Chu Qiang, the pastoral supervisor of Shanglinyuan who was responsible for all the work of this ranch, to his side to ask.
"Your Majesty, everything goes well..." Chu Qiang lowered his head and replied: "In recent years, I have invited people from all over the world who are good at herding horses. After the Battle of Mayi, I also received the assistance of many Xiongnu people who are good at herding horses. Now, we have initially selected them.
Dozens of good horses have been produced that can be regarded as female breeding stock..."
With that said, Chu Qiang presented a thick album to Liu Che: "This is the archive of these original books!"
Liu Che nodded, took it, and started reading.
Compared with the management of war horses in the Han Dynasty, the management of well-bred horses in this royal pasture is more strict.
Not only the height, weight, health records and physical characteristics of these horses are registered and recorded, but also their age.
Their paternal and maternal origins and records will also be registered.
Moreover, every horse has its own name.
There are popular names like Wanliqing and Shunfengju, and there are also more humane names like 'Heidalang' and 'Yinerlang'.
As for the horses now presented to Liu Che, their portraits were painted, and their changes from birth to the present were also marked and recorded.
The physical data of these foals will be measured every ten days (ten days) and recorded.
The ultimate goal is to select the strongest and best stamina horses as samples from the sire and dam lines.
Then use them as the source to reproduce and produce the next generation of good horses.
In this way, after several generations, a new and excellent horse was born that fit the needs of the Han family.
Liu Che's goal is to develop a super war horse that will weigh more than a thousand kilograms as an adult, be more than seven feet tall, and can carry cuirassiers in high-intensity charges.
It's not difficult, it really just takes time and patience.
In fact, for humans, as long as they master the method and have the need, they can shape the appearance of the animals they want as they wish.
The evidence is evidenced by the wide variety of dogs and cats in later generations.
It's just that in today's era, humans don't know yet what to do, and people don't realize that they can choose the pets, poultry, and livestock they want.
But Liu Che knew.
Natural selection, survival of the fittest.
This is the basis of Darwin's theory of evolution.
But in front of human beings, this foundation was directly shaken.
In later generations, because humans liked docile and cute pets, dogs and cats abandoned their hunting nature and turned to the avenue of being cute.
After all, if you can eat well, sleep well, and be cared for by humans just by being cute, then do you still need sharp claws and sharp skills?
Dogs and cats don’t need those useless things!
Similarly, because humans want to eat meat, cattle and pigs have been domesticated and entered the evil path of speed competition to grow meat.
Those species that did not grow meat fast enough or whose meat was not tasty were all eliminated and disappeared.
This is the impact of human choices on living things.
In fact, this trend can also be seen now.
For example, dogs in China generally guard homes and homes, so these clever dogs become more vigilant and alert, while cats and cats are good at catching mice.
In the Xiongnu, dogs are excellent shepherd dogs and hunting dogs.
The hounds domesticated by the Wuheng people can find their way home even if they are hundreds of miles apart.
As for livestock such as horses, cattle, and sheep, they evolve very slowly because there is too little human intervention.
Because people don't know that they can actually decide the development direction of their own livestock.
As a time traveler, Liu Che naturally cannot tolerate such a situation.
Therefore, after he recruited Chu Qiang, he was already planning to breed various outstanding livestock belonging to China.
For example, in this Shanglinyuan pasture, in addition to the selection and breeding program for excellent war horses, there is also a draft horse breeding program, a cattle breeding program, and even a crazy beef cattle program.
Liu Che even asked Chu Qiang to find a group of pig-raising experts and start a pig breeding plan.
However, these are long-term investments and projects that will only see benefits in the future.
It takes at least four, five or even more generations of screening to select the ideal variety, and then after several or even more than ten generations of stabilization and persistence, the variety can flourish and flourish.
At present, it can only be said that there is a beginning of hope.
However, the fruits of these plans do not have to wait until the future.
At least, these breeding programs provide many sources of excellent stallions for war horses in other Han family ranches. The defective products that are eliminated in competitions can be enough to become excellent stallions in those ranches.
After inspecting the pasture, Liu Che was very satisfied.
"You must continue to work hard..." Before leaving, Liu Che called Chu Qiang and several of Chu Qiang's right-hand assistants to his side and said: "Breed the best war horse in the world for me as soon as possible!"
"When the time comes, I will reward you with the title of Marquis!"
After Chu Qiang and others heard this, they were all excited and worshiped one after another: "No, I dare not to die for your majesty!"
Even if the Han family has merit, they will not be granted the title of marquis.
And this meritorious service, in many cases, is just military merit.
However, it is not only the military function that makes a prince!
For example, the brothers of princes and princes are basically guaranteed to be granted the title of prince.
In addition, important members of the maternal relatives’ families are bound to become marquises!
In addition, if you create particularly great achievements in a certain profession, you can also make an exception and be granted a title.
For example, back then, Wuhou Yang became ill and was ordered to the city of Chang'an.
On the day Chang'an City was built, Yang Chengji was granted the title of Wuhou.
Therefore, Wu Hou became the first person in the Han family who was not a military meritorious but a lieutenant.
In the past few decades, in addition to Yang Chengji, there are also Tenghou Lu Gengshi, who was awarded the title of Lieutenant Marquis because he was very good at farming. There is also Bolinghou, Wei Si, who is good at all kinds of work, and assisted the late Prime Minister Beiping Wenhou Zhang Cang to formulate the Han family's Hundred Works System.
and workmanship standards, so he was granted the title of Marquis.
These three examples have always been the role models and goals for Han family workers and miscellaneous workers.
Now, after hearing the emperor's personal promise to become a marquis, everyone from Chu Qiang down was naturally excited and secretly vowed to work hard.
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Leaving the ranch and on the way back to Weiyang Palace, Liu Che finally received the report from Anton.
When he opened it, Liu Che suddenly smiled: "Tian Shanyu?! Not bad, not bad!" (To be continued.)
