I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

Chapter 303 Lack of horses?Find Marquis Chang'an!

"Hundred stallions..."

"Three thousand mares..."

After absent-mindedly 'inspecting' the Shaofu Army Workshop in Shanglinyuan, and then saying goodbye to Liu She outside the workshop group, and returning to Chang'an in a chariot, these two numbers have been in Liu Sheng's mind, unwilling to let go.

- a hundred stallions;
—Three thousand mares.

And all have to be thoroughbred, adult or sub-adult horses.

Although he doesn't know much about horses and horse politics, no matter how you say it, Liu Sheng is still not a second-generation dude who can say "why not eat minced meat".

In fact, in today's Han Dynasty, even the playboys who fight cocks and run dogs all day are mostly familiar with matters related to horses.

According to Liu Sheng's current general understanding, the horses used to form the cavalry and equip the cavalry are generally mares.

This is because compared with the violent stallion, the mare has a relatively gentle temper and is better to control;
At the same time, mares will not, at least not likely, be in heat like stallions. They are fighting, and they still have the mind to fight with the mares around them and charge with them, or with the horses around them. The stallions fight to see who has the right to mate.

This means that in the breeding of horses, especially in the mode of the central government, such as Taipu Mazheng, who personally exits and directly controls, and raises war horses in a large-scale and systematic manner for strategic purposes, the meaning of the existence of "stallions" is basically the same as that of "stallions". Stallion' equated.

At the beginning of the establishment of the horse farm, with a small group of thoroughbred stallions, and a sufficient number of thoroughbred mares—more than ten times the number of stallions, plus a suitable site, you can officially start raising horses;
When the thousands of fine-bred mares are "divided" by dozens of fine-bred stallions, and give birth to foals the following year, they need to start screening.

——First of all, among the male horses, the outstanding ones with the potential of "stallions" are selected, and they are kept in the garden to raise them to adulthood, and finally, they are added to the ranks of "sowers";

As for the remaining ordinary stallions who have no potential, can neither be 'seed' stallions nor be domesticated as war horses, they will be directly eliminated from the ranks of 'preparation war horses'.

In the next few years, these "Prussian men" among horses will be perfunctorily raised by Ma Yuan until they reach adulthood, and finally sent to post wars or local government offices in various places according to the specific needs of the court, and become public transportation tools.

As for the mares, they also need to be screened.

Showing good genetic performance, enjoy the same treatment as potential 'quasi-stallions', continue to be carefully served until adulthood, and join the 'breeding army';
Poor horses with slightly inferior genetic performance—that is, those that can neither become war horses nor become "war horse mothers" will be sent directly to the inland areas, where they will be handed over to the post war and the government to raise the next generation of public transportation.

The screening work is over, and the first reincarnation comes to an end;
The second and third reincarnations are likely to be exactly the same as the first reincarnation—the same stallions and mares that continue to breed offspring repeatedly;

By the time of the fourth reincarnation, the stallions and mares produced in the first reincarnation will become adults, and the herd of horses will grow for the first time;
In each subsequent reincarnation, the horse herd will grow slowly, until more than ten or twenty years later, it will become like the former Yanmen Garden-hundreds of stallions, thousands of mares, and more than 20 qualified horses for slaughter every year. Mature horse court.

After understanding the horse breeding model of this era and Chinese farming civilization, it is not difficult to understand Liu She's sentence "only need a hundred stallions and three thousand mares, and you can directly build a horse farm" up.

Liu She's meaning is very straightforward: Since the model of Yanmenyuan takes too long and the investment is not too low, it is better to skip the middle stage of "population growth";
Right from the very beginning, a sufficiently strong population was artificially established, and the next generation from this population began to produce war horses directly.

That is to say, after this group of horses gave birth to offspring, the qualified mares that were screened out were no longer used to breed the next generation, but were directly cultivated into war horses.

The benefits of doing this are obvious: skipping the long period of population growth can greatly reduce the time interval between the establishment of a horse farm and the start of slaughtering horses.

As for the disadvantages, or difficulties, it is also clear at a glance...

"Hundred stallions;"

"Three thousand mares..."

"——Since they are to be used to breed war horses, these mares must naturally be at least to the extent that they can be bred into war horses."

"And such a horse, even regardless of the channel, the price..."

Thinking like this, Liu Sheng only slightly turned his troubled face, and looked out of the car window aimlessly.

In today's Han Dynasty, horses are even more scarce than gold.

There is no need to say anything else: in the two cities of Chang'an, whenever there is a horse that looks good and has the strength to carry a grown man, it will inevitably attract the surrounding pedestrians to watch;

If one can see an extraordinary horse at a glance, then it will attract the attention of most of Chang'an Duke Xungui in a very short period of time.

As for the price, it is outrageous to staggering.

——Liu Sheng clearly remembers: About three years ago, when the fourth brother Liu Yu was about 15 years old, his mother Mrs. Cheng's mother's relatives presented Liu Yu with a batch of horses in order to win the fourth son of the emperor love, pull in the friendship between each other;

And that sub-adult mare, which is not so outstanding, may not be able to become a war horse even in the army, and has a high probability of being used only as a trust horse, is worth as much as [-] gold!
Even in the process of rushing to buy this 'good horse', the relatives of the Cheng family had an enmity with a certain [-]-household Xiao Gong Hou, and at the same time accepted the favor of another Xiao Gong Hou.

——Enmity is due to the fact that both sides are determined to win, but they refuse to give in to each other;
I owe favors because he withdrew from the 'bidding' ranks and 'give up' the right to buy that steed...

"In this way, the horses that meet Liu She's requirements are at least an average price of sixty or seventy gold per horse?"

"At least according to the current market price, it should be about the same..."

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"A hundred stallions can cost ten thousand gold;"

"Three thousand mares, even if each horse is 15 gold, it is [-] gold."

"Even if the money comes from the Shaofu, where the horse comes from is still a big problem;"

"What's more, the [-] to [-] gold will be spent to get [-] stallions and [-] mares, which can only build a horse farm."

"If you want to build a few more places, you have to spend several more '16 gold'..."

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"Hoo~~~~~..."

"It's hard..."

Thinking of the end, Liu Sheng let out a long breath of sorrowful air;
After thinking for a long time in secret, he still couldn't think of a way, so he cast his eyes casually in front of his eyes.

——In front of Liu Sheng, the tenth son of the emperor and the king of Jiaoxi, Liu Zhi, was bowing his head in deep thought with a dignified expression;
At the rear of the carriage not far from the sides of the two brothers, Ling Xiaque, who belonged to the Taiwomen in the carriage, adjusted her sitting posture full of unease, ready to respond to Liu Sheng at any time.

It's a pity: Liu Sheng's playful eyes only stayed on Xia Que for a moment, and then moved out of the car window again.

Because Liu Sheng knew that even if he didn't ask, not even a single word of the conversation that happened between Xia Que and Liu Zhi in the dormitory earlier would not be heard by him for any reason... ····
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"horse?"

"Isn't it enough to find the Marquis of Chang'an?"

After returning to Chang'an City by car, Liu Sheng and his party went straight to Changle Palace where Empress Dowager Dou was located without stopping.

Seeing the two grandchildren coming, Empress Dowager Dou also smiled, and even questioned little Liu Zhi, which didn't make Empress Dou feel impatient at all.

In a gentle voice, he gave Xiao Liu the answer of "the prince did not lie to you", and asked someone to take Xiao Liu to the library in the back hall, so that he could see the past record with his own eyes. The eyes of Queen Mother Dou just fell on On Liu Sheng's body, his face immediately became more kind.

However, after Liu Sheng proposed today's trip, what he saw and heard in Shanglin Garden, the conversation with the Shaofu Liu She, and the sorrow that arose in his heart afterwards, the solution given by Queen Mother Dou made Liu Sheng quite dumbfounded. .

"Marquis of Chang'an?"

"The emperor's grandmother said that the descendants of Lu Wan, the former king of Yan, are now in the grassland, Lu Tazhi, who is the king of Donghu for the Huns?"

"This Mrs. Lu, can really help my Han family in such a matter?"

Seeing Liu Sheng's attitude of seeing hell, Empress Dowager Dou only chuckled and shook her head;
But the astonishment on Liu Sheng's face, with the head slowly shaking from side to side of Empress Dowager Dou, took on a hint of disbelief.

- What are you kidding?
That's Mrs. Lu!
The descendant of Lu Wan, the king of Yan, is now the king of Donghu Lu of the Xiongnu!

Regardless of the status of the East Hulu King in today's Xiongnu, the deep meaning implied by the word "East Hulu King" alone is enough to make people feel stunned.

Donghu was the former overlord of the grassland.

Once upon a time, the entire grassland was shrouded in the brutality of the Donghu people;

The entire grassland is also ruled by the brutal Donghu people.

Before and after Qin unified China, Donghu, the overlord of the grassland, ushered in a new challenger.

It's just that this challenger is not the Huns who rule the grassland today, but the Yuezhi people who have been driven to the Western Regions by the Huns and even started to migrate to Central Asia on a large scale.

——The Donghu is the overlord, and the Yuezhi is the upstart. The struggle between the two is naturally intensified, and it is more and more inclined to "new nobles replace the old hegemony", that is, the Yuezhi replaces Donghu and becomes the new ruler of the grassland.

It's just that in the process of Donghu getting weaker and Yueshi getting stronger and stronger, the Chinese civilization flapped its wings a little bit, which completely changed the civilization process of the grassland nomads.

In the 37th year of Qin Shihuang, the first emperor Yingzheng died in the sand dunes;
In the same year, Qin Zhongche ordered Zhao Gao and Prime Minister Li Si to tamper with the first emperor's last edict, and put his son Huhai on the throne, and forced to kill his son Fusu and general Meng Tian successively.

In the next year, the first year of the second Hu Hai, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang revolted in Daze, and the whole world came together;

Relying on the power of the ancestral dragon, the first emperor Yingzheng suppressed the world until the moment he closed his eyes, and the flames of war suddenly ignited.

Like the vast majority of peasant uprisings in human history: the Chen Sheng Wu Guang uprising did not achieve ultimate success.

Just half a year after the Daze Township Uprising, Chen Sheng (Chen She), the ruler of the Zhang Chu regime, died under Qin Ge of Zhang Han, the Shaofu of Qin.

Starting from Xianyang and defeating Chen Sheng with ease, Zhang Han led his troops to the east and was invincible all the way.

But in the end, at the end of the Qin Dynasty, Zhang Han, the Shaofu of the Qin Dynasty who almost helped the building to collapse, met Xiang Yu, the overlord who was dying in Julu...

The overlord broke the boat, Qin Shaofu was desperate, and finally surrendered;
But what the Overlord buried in the Battle of Julu was not only the last capable minister of the Great Qin Dynasty: Shaofu Zhanghan, but also the last trump card of the Yingzheng Zongshe: the Northern Great Wall Army.

That is, in later generations of film and television dramas, the great Qin iron cavalry who was misrepresented as the "Mengjiajun".

In order to save the Yingqin Sheji that was about to collapse, Huhai II no longer cared about the entrustment that the First Emperor had mentioned several times before his death, "No matter what, the Northern Great Wall Corps must not be withdrawn";

At the order of the Second Emperor, the 20 Qin Great Wall Corps abandoned most of their belongings and went south to suppress the rebellion with light clothes. In the end, all of them were buried in Julu.

And when the Qin Great Wall Legion was busy going south, the weapons, supplies, food and supplies left behind on the front line of the Qin Great Wall were all cheaper. At that time, they were still unknown on the grasslands.

The leader of this tribe is called Tau Touman;
He has a son named Mao Dun, who is a proton in Donghu Royal Court...
"Slaughtering his father, killing his father, Man Chanyu, and establishing himself as the Hun Shanyu;"

"Only two years later, the Xiongnu defeated Donghu, the overlord of the grassland. The head of Donghu king was made into a wine vessel, and it is still hanging in the Xiongnu Shanyuting..."

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"The only two surviving tribes of the Eastern Hu people were driven to the far west by the Huns, and the tribes were named after the mountains where they were exiled, namely: Xianbei and Wuheng;"

"And the word 'Donghu' was given to Lu Wan, the former king of Yan, who defected from the Han Dynasty and joined the barbarians..."

Recalling the past events that the old prime minister Shen Tujia told him many years ago, Liu Sheng's doubts only intensified;
Of course Liu Sheng knew: In the past few years, Donghu King Lu Tazhi, or "Changan Hou Lu Tazhi", played well between the Han and the Hungarian sides, played double-faced spies, and stepped on two boats. And the two sides are friendly, and the two sides will not offend.

But in Liu Sheng's cognition, this is just Lu Ta's mercenary, wanting to leave a way out for the future.

——Neither of them will be offended, and one day in the future, when the Han and Hungarian sides decide the winner, the Lu family will always have a way to fully devote himself to the winning side.

If the Xiongnu wins, the Lu family will be the king of Donghulu who will never change to the Xiongnu and Shan Yuting until death;

If the Han family wins, then the Lu family will bear the humiliation and bear the burden of humiliation, the loyal minister and righteous man who has been "lurking for many years" outside the Great Wall, and the dog and horse of Emperor Taizu Gao's most loyal minister.

just war horses...
"Horses, especially thoroughbred horses, have always been strictly guarded by the Huns, and they are not willing to put any of them on the Great Wall?"

"During the time of the first emperor, the Xiongnu Shanyu Lao Shangji porridge sent a mission, and the gifts to the first emperor were basically two or three castrated stallions;

"For this matter, find Marquis Chang'an..."

"Can it be done???"

(End of this chapter)