Take the farm down to earth

Chapter 172 War Horse Incubator

Shi Zhongkui himself is not short of horses, after all he is not short of money.

In his eyes, an ordinary horse with an ordinary fifty or hundreds of taels of silver is as easy as buying vegetables.

And the horse he is riding now is a Hequ horse with Kazakh blood that Xue Pan found for him.

In the middle of the Tang Dynasty, Huihe sold horses to the Tang Dynasty, reaching as many as [-] horses every year.

Therefore, most of the horse breeds in the northwest after Tang Dynasty have some blood relationship with Kazakh horses.

But the problem is that no matter what kind of horse comes to China, it cannot escape the fate of "introduction, hybridization, improvement, backcrossing, and disappearance".

Moreover, all war horses will basically be castrated.

In other words, the best batch of war horses are often unable to give birth to offspring.

Coupled with the lack of high-quality pastures, China has been known as the kingdom of heaven since ancient times, but it doesn't even have good horse breeds that can be sold.

The only Mongolian horse in the past is still famous for its low cost, easy breeding and strong resilience.

Shi Zhongkui thought for a while, and finally decided to get three or five Mongolian horses, Sanhe horses, and Kazakh horses to put in the space ranch, and try to see if he can breed new high-quality horses.

Even if it doesn't work, you can choose the best one from these stallions or newly bred horses and keep it in the pasture.

I don't believe that after three to five years of continuous absorption of spiritual energy, there will be no spiritual horse.

And he had already figured it out, when he returned to the Heavenly Court, he must get a few Pegasus cubs and put them in the space ranch.

He ordered someone to inform Yu Shun to go to the horse market to choose a stallion, but he didn't expect Yu Shun to run to the camp the next day.

"Master, a group of Hu merchants have come to the horse market to sell a Pegasus horse, but the asking price is a golden horse the size of a Pegasus horse."

The so-called Pegasus is actually a blood-sweat horse, or the Akhal Teke horse.

Moreover, because of the unsatisfactory carrying capacity, this kind of horse is actually not suitable as a mount for armor and heavy weapons, but the advantages of not being able to support a bloody horse are also outstanding.

Before the English thoroughbred horse appeared, the sweat horse was definitely the fastest horse breed.

At the same time, the stamina is not worse than that of Arabian horses, but they are taller and more beautiful.

It is also very resistant to heat and thirst.

Even in the high temperature of 50 degrees Celsius, you only need to drink water once a day, so it is especially suitable for long-distance travel.

There was a record of running 84 kilometers in 4300 days.

If it was replaced by other horses, it would have been useless long ago.

After Shi Zhongkui heard the news, he was like a big family in the capital, both wanting and thinking that the group of Hu merchants were crazy.

Adult horses generally weigh around [-] to [-] catties.

But if converted into gold with the same volume as a horse, with the density of gold, the weight would definitely exceed several tons.

Even more than ten tons.

Even if it is calculated at 5 tons, it is a full [-] catties.

A catty of twelve taels is 10 taels of gold, and then converted into a shape, it is 100 million taels.

Probably apart from what Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty did, no one would be willing to exchange a golden horse for a bloody horse.

After Shi Zhongkui thought about it for a while, he felt that Hu Shang was not a fool, and the reason for doing this was probably because he had other plans.

Sure enough, within a few days, it was secretly reported that the real purpose of the group of Hu merchants was to find the lost clan sisters.

After Shi Zhongkui heard it, he could only shake his head helplessly.

Finding people is harder than spending money.

Unwilling to give up, he can only have a crooked mind. The country with the most sweat and blood is Turkmenistan in the real world.

But Kazakhs also have sweat and blood, and maybe Kazakh horses have sweat and blood in their genes.

If he finds a few excellent Hequ horses by himself, then put that bloody sweat horse into the space ranch.

It only takes half an hour, long enough to conceive foals on several Hebend horses.

Soon Chin Maoshu took the order to find some Hu merchants, but Shi Zhongkui didn't expect that after Shi Zhongkui rode back to the capital early the next morning, he saw Xia Shouzhong waiting for him at the city gate.

"Duke Zhuangyuan, His Majesty feels that the burden on your shoulders is too heavy, and he is also worried about the unrest in your inner house, so Shi En recalled the 8 beauties bestowed on you by the Empress Empress, and instead bestowed on you the royal doctor as a show of favor."

Shi Zhongkui was stunned for a moment, and the court officials were dismissed from the fourth rank.

If you hang around for a few years, you can easily be promoted to a fourth-rank court councilor.

Once you become a doctor in the imperial court, it is logical to be promoted to a third-rank official like a minister.

Shi Zhongkui thought for a while, and there must be something he didn't know about.

With a sneer, "Eunuch Xia, this is not His Majesty's original intention, but your own nonsense, right?"

Xia Shouzhong smiled awkwardly, it was indeed difficult to deceive Shi Zhongkui with this reason, and it was normal for eunuchs like himself to take the blame for the emperor.

Then he said in a voice that only the two of them could hear, "Mr. Zhuangyuan, if the news is correct, the four orchids that the empress gave you should be the ones that group of Hu merchants are looking for."

Shi Zhongkui was overjoyed, then frowned and said, "The group of people are really just looking for clan sisters?"

Xia Shouzhong chuckled, "Anyway, our family doesn't believe this, and if the Hu people's translators that Xiuyiwei found didn't lie to our family, those Hu merchants originally said they were looking for a fiancee."

Shi Zhongkui still didn't believe this, and seeing Xia Shouzhong's expression, he didn't believe it either.

But if it's about looking for a princess or a saint, it's a bit too bloody.

Fortunately, Shi Zhongkui didn't care about princesses and saintesses, and he wanted to get rid of the four orchids a long time ago.

"Since Your Majesty likes it, the official, as a courtier, of course has to share His Majesty's worries." Shi Zhongkui said to Xia Shouzhong with a smile, "Go back and tell Your Majesty that the official will keep that bloody horse in his hands for a month or two.

In the New Year, he dedicated the bloody horse to the Imperial Horse Supervisor on the grounds that he was not good at domestication and hoped that Da Zhou could breed a good horse. "

"Good idea", Xia Shouzhong laughed after hearing that, sending it to the Imperial Horse Supervisor is actually no different from sending it to His Majesty.

But with the excuse of cultivating good horses for Great Zhou, no one has any reason to trouble His Majesty and Shi Zhongkui.

And even if the emperor got the bloody horse, he didn't have many opportunities to ride it.

More like Shi Zhongkui, he also has the idea of ​​improving the breed of Yumajian horses in his heart.

And Shi Zhongkui would give up that bloody horse. Apart from knowing that there is no shortage of bloody horses in the Western Regions, he also didn't want to be the target of public criticism.

In this case, it is better to take the horse into the space ranch according to the previous plan.

Taking advantage of the Space Ranch's daily weight gain of 30 jin for each animal, it only takes a month for a horse to grow up.

In other words, the speed of breeding horse breeds in the space ranch is 12 times that of the real world.

Maybe in the past two months of the new year, I have bred a horse breed stronger than sweat and blood.

Now that it is confirmed that the group of Hu merchants are looking for his four orchids, the matter is simple.

Not long after, rumors spread all over the capital that Shi Zhongkui had taken the bloody sweat horse.

Those who were looking for him for a while almost broke the threshold of the Shi family.

When he learned that Shi Zhongkui had returned to Changping Tuntian camp, a group of honorable children rode straight to the door to block him.

Shi Zhongkui didn't hide it, he generously asked people to pull out the bloody horse, and let the group of dudes watch.

Some people even wanted to get on the horse, and he agreed.

But as three dandies were thrown to the ground by the bloody horse one after another, everyone immediately mistakenly thought that this horse was still a fierce horse that had not been tamed.

Xue Pan took the opportunity to follow Shi Zhongkui's instructions, and poured fuel on the flames by saying a lot of bad things about the Hu merchants. Immediately, a dude who was thrown off his horse gathered a group of dudes to find trouble for the Hu merchants.

The group of barbarians didn't believe it at all at first. First, they almost got into a fight with a group of honorable children, and then they were surrounded by people from Wucheng Bingmasi.

As a last resort, he could only agree to send someone to ride the bloody horse himself to prove his innocence.

It's a pity that since Shi Zhongkui got the horse, of course it will be taken into the space ranch by him.

And as long as he is willing, that horse will be completely recovered by the ranch just like Chinchilla.

When Shi Zhongkui gave an order, he naturally didn't care whether the previous barbarians were his former masters.

Moreover, after absorbing the aura for a few days in the pasture, his physical fitness has also improved to a certain extent.

When being ridden by the former owner, it immediately became noisy.

In just a few minutes, the person on his back was lifted off.

"This is impossible."

Balati completely forgot about the pain in his body, got up with a frown, and limped back onto the sweaty horse again.

This time it took even less time for him to be thrown off his horse, and he was thrown twice, so how could he get up.

Xue Pan and a group of honorable children chatted slowly and muttered about returning the goods with mocking expressions.

For the Hu people, returning the goods meant that the four women who were taken back had to become Han maids, or even slaves, again.

This is the most unacceptable ending for them.

The final result was naturally as Shi Zhongkui had expected, all the men and horses stayed in the capital, and the matter would not be over until the Hu people brought two horses of sweat and blood from the Western Regions.

As for why there are two horses, of course it is the price of deception, and it is still two mares.

When the ruling and opposition parties of the Great Zhou heard that the Hu people had agreed to this condition, they immediately became excited.

Even if a group cannot be formed, a batch of improved horse breeds can be bred within a few years.

This time even the emperor and the Supreme Emperor were not in a hurry to get rid of the bloody horse that Shi Zhongkui had named 'Chasing the Wind'.

Of course, Shi Zhongkui was not in a hurry to get on his new mount.

Instead, he focused on the winter training of the field soldiers during the day, and at night, he paid attention to the three pregnant Hequ horses in the Space Ranch.

The gestation period of a horse is generally 40 to 44 weeks. The space ranch increases the weight of the species by 30 catties every day, so the growth rate should be 12 times that of the outside world.

In other words, the pregnancy period of a mare in space is probably less than one month.

But after he opened the ranch and decided to raise cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks in it, Shi Zhongkui discovered that the animals in the ranch had an extremely short pregnancy period.

Even a calf in the stomach of a cow can be born in only two to four days.

After carefully calculating the weight of the calf, it was quickly concluded that the weight gain of the calf can reach 30 catties per day after the cow is pregnant.

So the three Hequ horses gave birth to three foals in less than two days.

In just 10 days, there were 15 foals of different sizes and three mares in the ranch.

As for the cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks, all the space was occupied, and Shi Zhongkui directly slaughtered them.

The three fastest growing foals already weighed 300 jin.

And it looks a little unusual.

Not only is he active, but his endurance is also surprisingly good.

Even if their father chased the wind and ran non-stop in the space ranch, he could only run for about 8 or 9 minutes.

But those three mixed-breed horses could last for 5 or 6 minutes.

If he grows up a bit, maybe his endurance will surpass that of Chasing Wind.

The most important thing about a war horse is endurance.

If you can't win, turn around and run, and if you drag, you can drag your opponent to death.

When the enemy can't catch up, turn around and greet with a bow and arrow, and the enemy can be easily defeated.

This trick was also the biggest trump card for the Mongolian iron cavalry to cross the Eurasian continent.

The elite cavalry archer shoots a wave of arrows, runs around with the enemy, and takes advantage of the recovery ability of the Mongolian horse, which is stronger than other horse breeds.

When the opponent can't run anymore, the enemy basically becomes a lamb to be slaughtered.

After Shi Zhongkui discovered the super endurance of the mixed-breed horse, he quickly found Changping Digong and the mountain god.

Find a hidden valley and release the three half-breed horses that have grown up in the space ranch for a month and are basically grown up.

Afterwards, Zhuifeng and the three Hequ mares completely became breeding machines.

The only thing that restricts Shi Zhongkui from greatly expanding the number of horses is that the pasture space can only breed 20 animals.

Except for the three mares and Chasing Wind, there are only 16 left.

Equal to 6 days, the pasture will be filled with foals.

If the cycle is set to one month, there will be 24 days when nothing can be done.

But if the cycle is set to 6 days, the foal can only gain 240 catties of weight, which is almost equal to the size of a one-year-old horse.

If you have enough time and enough patience, you can put them in the outside world and raise them slowly, and they will become adults in two years.

And doing so equals 16 times 5, which equals 80 yearling mixed horses being bred every month.

There are nearly a thousand heads a year.

Thinking about this shit makes people excited, but it's a pity that within a few days Shi Zhongkui found that Zhuifeng was obviously a little depressed.

The three Hequ horses showed signs of aging.

Needless to say, Zhuifeng was almost exhausted, and the three mares were also using their lives to give birth to new breeds of horses.

As a last resort, Shi Zhongkui could only change the cycle to once every half a month.

That is, 32 mixed-breed horses with a weight of 450 catties per month.

But there is also a problem with this, that is, it is difficult to form combat power in a short period of time.

After all, compared with a 450-jin war horse and a 900-jin full-grown war horse, the difference is not that big.

Standing in the valley, Shi Zhongkui looked at the horse shed built by the mountain god, and after these two months of cultivation, the number reached 38, which were either adults, one and a half years old, or one year old mixed-breed horses.

He couldn't help thinking that since he had plenty of time in the future, he might as well just breed these 38 mixed-breed horses into adult war horses with outstanding combat capabilities.

In response to this winter, many people obviously died of starvation and freezing, and the prairie rangers who have to go south after the spring of next year.

After the decision was made, the three Hequ mares quickly got rid of the fate of the breeding machine, and were released by Shi Zhongkui to enjoy the rare peace in the camp with Zhuifeng.

16 one-and-a-half-year-old horses and four one-year-old horses began to develop in the space pasture.

At this time, it was Shi Zhongkui's first New Year after his marriage.

(End of this chapter)