With 2,500 war horses plus more than 200 horses ridden by Jiaziying itself, the amount of food and grass consumed by these nearly 3,000 war horses in one day is staggering. As long as the war horses are kept in Yunzheng's hands for one more day, more food will be consumed.
Paying for one day's worth of food and grass may not be a problem for a short period of time, but problems may arise over time.
Yun Zheng suddenly discovered that he could not find a suitable horse herding land in Jingzhao Mansion. The Longshou Plain, which was rich in water and grass in the past, had turned into a wasteland. The most terrible thing was that there was no grass growing in this wasteland and there were sheep everywhere.
A group of them gnawed cleanly the young grass that had just grown. Standing on the tall Longshou Plain, they looked around and saw that the mountains and rivers around Jingzhao Mansion had almost turned into cow mountains.
Naturally, the better the place to raise horses, the farther north you go. However, Longyou and Qingtang have long since ceased to belong to the Song Dynasty, and the Hetao Plain, with its rich water and grass, has also been tightly embraced by the Dangxiang people.
There are also hilly areas in the south, but do you expect the war horses raised in the south to fight in the cold north? Yun Zheng looked through the map and sadly found that in the large Jingzhao Mansion, he could not find a place that was most suitable for grazing.
There were horse herding supervisors in the Song Dynasty, but now people are very smart and put war horses in people's homes to raise, and they call this policy horse administration! The war horses raised by farmers are only suitable for pulling carts!
After carefully studying the Ma Zheng of the Song Dynasty, Yun Zheng roared loudly in the simple military camp.
Cavalry has always been a specialty of the north. Now there is no so-called north in the Song Dynasty. Where can we find cavalry? Not all people who ride horses are called cavalry. This requires being exposed to it since childhood. Growing up with war horses and integrating with each other,
By cooperating with each other, people and horses can finally form one body, and then form a rolling iron flow of cavalry.
His brain was running rapidly, trying to recall the terrain of Guanzhong in later generations, and wanted to find a place where war horses could be placed. He originally wanted to ask the people in the horse herding supervisor of Jingzhao Prefecture, but after that, they said that raising horses is extremely simple.
You only need to join farmers. Farmers also like to raise horses because they don't have to pay taxes. The most important thing is that they can have a big livestock at home.
In desperation, Yun Zheng finally chose Taiping Valley in Hu County. This place was relatively suitable for war horses to survive. At least it was a vast area with sparsely populated areas and luxuriant water and grass. He sent the war horses to farmers' homes to be raised in captivity. Yun Zheng thought it would be better to pull them out and kill them.
Eat meat.
Yun Zheng stood at the mountain pass of Taiping Valley, his face extremely gloomy. When he got here, he heard from the hunters that there were swarms of drought leeches here. The most important thing is that there is something called nettles in the grass here. After being touched by humans and animals, the skin will become...
It will fester... These things should not be in the racecourse...
The pasture in Qingtang is full of pasture, and there are no leeches. The pasture in Hetao is also full of pasture, and there is no such thing as nettles. Raising war horses is actually a very delicate job. They have been tamed long ago.
Wild horses have such strong survivability and have been domesticated for many years. They naturally need the care of herdsmen...
Yun Zheng rode around the Jingzhao Mansion for ten days. When Fu Bi saw Yun Zheng, he was shocked. The handsome young man disappeared half a month ago, and he became exhausted and dusty.
"Ming Gong, I was wrong. I shouldn't have brought the war horses back from Xixia. When I got here, I realized that there was no suitable place for them to gallop in the Song Dynasty. The pastures were not allowed to cross the Yellow River. But look at how many places there are north of the Yellow River.
Can you let me herd thousands of war horses?" Yun Zheng weakly hugged his fists to Fu Bi and continued to think hard.
Fu Bi saw that Yun Zheng was very depressed, so he asked the monkey what was going on. When the monkey told Fu Bi the cause and effect of the matter, Fu Bi sat there silently.
He thought that raising war horses only requires finding a place with long grass. How could he know that there are so many things to pay attention to, such as being broad, flat, with sufficient sunshine, leeward, and away from crowds. Aren't all the war horses of the Song Dynasty raised in farmers' homes?
Yun Zheng moved his mouth with difficulty and said: "Jiaziying has been riding on horseback for almost a year, but when we competed with the Xixia cavalry in Xixia, one cavalry can easily deal with the four of us and kill all four of us.
He seems to be able to take down a war horse with ease. Riding a horse seems to require training from an early age, rather than waiting until adulthood.
If you look carefully, you will find that the legs of the Xixia and Qingtang people are bow-legged. This is a physical deformity caused by riding on horseback all year round. The same is true for the legs of the Khitan people, but the new-born Khitan people seem to have bow-legged legs.
There are fewer and fewer, and they are more like us people from the Song Dynasty.
I thought I brought the best things to the Song Dynasty, but now it seems that I just found a batch of disposable riding tools. When I talked about the cavalry with Zhong E in Huanzhou, I was full of confidence.
I told him that in five years, we will be able to form a cavalry team of 10,000 people. It turns out that all this is just a wishful dream of mine."
Fu Bi stood up and walked a few steps: "Song people are not good at raising horses, we all think so, but we think that we are smarter than the Khitans, Xixia people, and Qingtang people. We always think that they can do it. We
We are too arrogant to be able to do better than them. Just raising horses will make us far behind the barbarians in the north.
Over the years, for some reason, the climate on the grasslands has become colder and colder, and their living conditions have become increasingly difficult, which is why they always move closer to the south."
It is an ironclad fact that the Shileye people moved south in large numbers. This wandering nation had a sense of danger that ordinary people did not have. In the second year of Qingli, when Fu Bi served as the magistrate of Quanzhou, he discovered that there were a large number of Shileye people.
Merchants from Leye flocked into the south. In order to prevent them, Fu Bi personally investigated the reasons for their migration south. Finally, he learned from the elders of the Leye people that in the far north, winter was becoming more and more difficult, not only for them.
The barbarians on the grasslands were also migrating south. They were just the furthest group. In order to understand Yunzheng, Fu Bi told Yunzheng some of his experiences.
"People who give you joy? Are there many?" Yun Zheng seemed to have thought of something and asked quickly.
"They are all wandering businessmen. There are quite a few of them, at least in Jingzhao Mansion. Two months ago, the elders of the Shileye people visited me and hoped to allow them to buy property in the Song Dynasty. They also asked to settle down in Liquan.
, that’s where the Qianling Mausoleum of the former Tang Dynasty was located.
What a joke. In the second year of Jingyou's reign, His Majesty issued a decree that foreigners were not allowed to buy property in the Song Dynasty and could only rent. How could I agree? Now they think that if they join forces, I will give in. Why don't they offer the seeds of golden cauliflower?
, Broccoli is just a vegetable, do they still think that the Song Dynasty was in the pre-Tang Dynasty, and a spinach can benefit their entire family."
After listening to Fu Bi's words, Yun Zheng finally knew why he was interested in the Jews, the Shileye people. He had told students about the origin of alfalfa in Longdong before, and also extended the story to the Jews. He was attracted by a group of people.
Yatou Pianzi was besieged, thinking it was nonsense. Liang Weiwei even quoted scriptures to refute Yun Zheng, saying that alfalfa had entered China as early as the Han Dynasty. What does it have to do with the Jews? The allusion that golden lily is alfalfa was also what Yun Zheng got from that quarrel.
Known.
The reason why there is no historical record is probably because it was a scam. The Shileye people who had just fled from the Uighurs to Longdong were treated well by the local people, and they gave away a large amount of alfalfa seeds they brought to the local people.
, telling them it was a treasure. As a result, after planting it, the local people found that it was useless except for feeding pigs. They cursed the people of Shileye as liars, and the people of Shileye were also very angry. These people actually used alfalfa to feed the world's most famous people.
The dirty animals originally planned to buy their alfalfa and sell it to the army as fodder for the army, but they ended up unhappy.
Alfalfa grows in the ground for thirty years. It is a dream to dig its roots. The roots of that thing can go deep thirty meters, which is unique. So these alfalfas successfully invaded people's fields, no matter what.
Fire, flooding, and uprooting couldn't stop it, so many places in Longdong were covered with this thing.
Liquan local chronicles record that this thing invaded all the way to Guanzhong and almost covered Qianling.
Yun Zheng asked Fu Bi with extreme caution: "In the Ming Dynasty, do you know about the Qianling Mausoleum covered with golden cauliflower?"
Fu Bi pondered for a moment, shook his head playfully and said, "That's absolutely not the case!"
Yun Zheng didn't give up, he cupped his hands and said: "Bi Zhi suddenly remembered that a place has been neglected. Bei Zhi is very anxious. Please allow Bei Zhi to go to Liquan and his party."
Just as Fu Bi nodded in agreement, he saw Yun Zheng has already jumped out of the military tent, jumped on his horse, and without even having time to greet his guards, he hit the horse and ran all the way eastward.
Fu Bi shook his head and said to himself: "You arrogant boy, you really think you know everything. The grassland of Liquan in Qian County is no more than 300,000 acres, and you can't finish it with thousands of war horses. However,
If you want to graze cattle in that pasture, you must first get rid of the troublesome tombkeeper, otherwise you will never have peace. Huang Chao and Zhu Wen have not succeeded, so it depends on your methods.
Golden cauliflower! My breakfast is fresh golden cauliflower! As long as people in Guanzhong think of golden cauliflower, they will think of Liquan. Even smart boys can be confused sometimes. If it weren’t for the sake of serving the country, thousands of war horses
You can eat all your money and return your private property. Hehe, you are not too stupid after all. The invasion of Qianling by golden cauliflower has only happened in the past few years. Although that thing invades fertile land, it is good horse feed. A migrant household is here.
Show off in front of others, hehe."
Yun Zheng's big green horse ran very proudly. This was the first time in a long time that he let go. The wind whistled past Yun Zheng's ears. He suddenly remembered something and suddenly reined in the big horse.
The reins of the green horse, all my attention was focused on the golden cauliflower just now. Fu Bi's expression was very wrong. He had no reason to talk such nonsense to himself, and what he said about golden cauliflower, the horse inspector
It is impossible for people to be so ignorant that they cannot even find a suitable place for grazing.
After thinking about it, Yun Zheng smiled, shook his head and sighed, this is what is called a show of force, right? (To be continued)