Yunxi stretched out his chopsticks, picked up a piece of meat and put it in his mouth. After swallowing it, he smiled at Princess Ningguo and said, "Auntie, your skills have not been neglected after so many years. It's still so delicious."
Princess Ningguo also ate the food and said with a smile: "I learned it from your grandma when I was a child. Later, although your grandfather became the emperor, he was still fighting at the beginning. Your grandma admired simple music and still sometimes cooked by herself. I followed suit. All the time.
In the eighth year of Hongwu's reign, the Northwest and Bashu lands were pacified, and your grandfather established the palace system, so your grandma was not allowed to cook. But my habits had been formed when I was a child, and I couldn't change them even after I got married."
"This is very good. If all the clans can be like my aunt, my Ming Dynasty will be able to survive forever." Yunxi said.
"Shunchang was appointed by his nephew as the avant-garde commander of the government army at the beginning of the year. The nephew let him practice and practice, and after a few years he was promoted to the commander. So he is very busy now, so the nephew did not take him
come over."
"My nephew planned to bring Jingfu here, but just yesterday Jingfu suddenly fell ill, so he didn't bring him," Yunxi said. Shunchang and Jingfu are their sons.
"What happened to Jingfu?" Princess Ningguo asked in a panic.
"It's nothing. I drank flower wine the night before and caught a cold in the middle of the night." Yunhe said with a smile.
Princess Ning Guo first breathed a sigh of relief, and then raised her eyebrows and said, "You little brat, how dare you drink flower wine? Do you think I won't teach him a lesson when I get back?"
Then he said: "Didn't we conduct an inventory of the Qinhuai River last year? How could Jingfu still go there?"
"Auntie, the investigation does not mean that all brothels and brothels have been closed down. This business has not been banned by previous generations, but it has been banned repeatedly, so my nephew can only allow it to exist, and let the police check it from time to time.
After an investigation, civil and military officials on duty are not allowed to go. Jingfu is still white, so of course he can go." Yunxi said.
"Then send an errand to Jingfu, so that he can be saved at home and no one will care about his wanton behavior. The same goes for Jingfu's wife, who will leave him alone," said Princess Ningguo.
"It's not urgent. I think that although Jingfu is more romantic, he can still study well. It's better to let him take the imperial examination. Let him study in the Imperial College first." Yunxi said.
"That's fine, it's fine to send him to the Imperial College to study, as long as he doesn't wander around at home." Princess Ningguo said. Mei Yin also agreed. Yunxi agreed with a smile.
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Early the next morning, Yunxi, accompanied by Mei Yin, first went to the Taipus Temple Yamen to check the horse's account book and listen to the report. He sat for a while, said a few words to the officials of Taipus Temple, and then went to the racecourse to inspect.
There is a saying that once a person exceeds ten thousand, there is no limit. In fact, not only people, but also any animal or plant has no limit once it exceeds ten thousand.
Yunxi once led an army of 300,000 to suppress a rebellion, and he also reviewed the troops when traveling and returning. However, he reviewed the troops in garrison units in turn, and he had never seen hundreds of thousands of people gathered together.
So today, when Yunxi stood on a slope two to three feet high, looking at the herds of cattle and horses that totaled more than 100,000 and seemed to stretch from the bottom of the slope to the horizon, he felt slightly in a trance.
"Your Majesty, there are currently more than 80,000 horses and more than 30,000 cows in Taipu Temple in Chuzhou, for a total of nearly 120,000 cows and horses. Except for some newborn calves and sick cows and horses, the rest are here.
Yes." Mei Yin said.
Yunxi looked at it for a while and suddenly asked: "Is the grass that these cattle and horses eat grown artificially?"
Mei Yin was stunned, not expecting that Yun Xi would ask this question first, but immediately replied: "That's true. The late emperor moved the people here to another place and turned it into a pasture for raising horses."
"But the area is still too small. If placed on the grassland, it can only provide grazing for thousands of horses. If we want to feed tens of thousands or even 100,000 cows and horses, we can only cultivate pasture artificially."
"Can't the pasture be expanded?" Yunxi asked.
"Your Majesty, all the places around this pasture that can be used to grow pasture and raise horses have been turned into pastures, and there is no way to expand them. There is almost no arable land in the west of Chuzhou City. Farmers are growing pasture to earn money from Taipu Temple.
." Mei Yin said.
"There is no need to increase the number of horses and cattle raised on this pasture. You also know that Jeju Island opened a pasture and raised more than 40,000 horses. In the future, all horses added by the imperial court will be raised on the island, and there is no need to expand the size of the pastures on the mainland.
Already." Yunxi said.
Mei Yin naturally knew that the pastures in Jeju Island were getting bigger and bigger, and that the naturally growing grass could support the increasingly larger herd of horses. It was just that fodder needed to be prepared in advance in autumn. So he said: "Yes, Your Majesty."
"Are there any good horses here now? The kind of horses that are very majestic and majestic and look like people?" Yunxi walked down the slope, gently pulled up the reins of his white horse, and asked. The white horse seemed to be
After understanding what he said, he snorted hard. Yunxi smiled and gently stroked the white horse's neck. The white horse snorted lightly again, seeming to have forgiven his behavior.
Mei Yin thought he understood what Yun Xi was thinking. He thought that he was indeed a young man who liked good horses, so he softly gave some instructions to his subordinates. After a while, several people who looked very shabby but very energetic took the lead.
Came over with some horses.
Mei Yin pointed to these horses and said to Yunxi: "Your Majesty, these horses are the best horses in Chuzhou Ranch now. There were still a few good horses, but when Wei Guogong passed by Chuzhou ten days ago, he took your Majesty's
The imperial edict transferred a thousand horses from the Chuzhou Ranch and took away three good horses."
Yunxi looked at the seven horses in front of him, some were red and some were black, but they were all tall and mighty, much taller than the ordinary Mongolian horses. Yunxi pointed to two of the horses with impure coats and said: "These two horses
There’s no need for that, I’ll take the other five horses with me.”
After a pause, he asked again: "Are the three horses that Xu Huizu took away pure-colored?"
"Two are pure-colored and one is part-colored, but they are both thousand-mile horses." Mei Yin replied.
"Xu Huizu is stealing money from me!" Yunxi muttered in a low voice.
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Yunxi ordered people to lead the horses. The horses that Mei Yin dared to recommend to Yunxi were all very tame and did not cause trouble. Yunxi's white horse snorted and expressed disdain.
After that, Yunxi inspected the stables and the fodder prepared for Ma Xi in the middle of the night, and said to Mei Yin and the young ministers of Taipu Temple: "We must pay attention to the breeding of horses. Old horses must be castrated immediately, and they must not be allowed to have sex anymore."
Opportunities for breeding; when using horses, use horses of similar age, do not match old horses with young horses, let alone male and female horses..." He gave many instructions about scientific breeding, and finally said: "Everything is too much.
Listen to the horse breeders and don’t let the layman lead the expert.”
Mei Yin and Shaoqing agreed.
Yunxi also summoned some of the most outstanding horse breeders on the ranch, praised them in person, and rewarded them with the official title of Ninth Grade.
It wasn't until it got dark and Yunxi had eaten two meals of roasted cow that he left the ranch.