The Song Dynasty has been deliberate for 16 years, only to know that it is the Water Margin

Chapter 234
Zhao Tang went out to receive the order. It was Wang Qing who gave him armor, weapons and horses, and asked him to take people to the Hyogo Racecourse to report.

At present, Wang Qing has a lot of military supplies, basically they are robbing the forbidden army in various states and counties and Gyeonggi. Among them, weapons are the most abundant, many of which are brand new and have never been used.

The Hyogo and the horse farm are in the west of Luzhou City, the Hyogo is inside the city, and the horse farm is outside the city. Huaixi is the southern end of the Central Plains. If there is any place in the Central Plains that is suitable for raising horses, it is Luzhou.

Luzhou has a moderate temperature, abundant water and grass, and land suitable for horses to run. There has been a tradition of raising horses since ancient times.

When Cao Cao conquered Sun Quan, he not only built military facilities such as Jiaonutai and Hu Bingtang in Luzhou City, but also built a large number of horse farms outside and around the city for horse breeding.

There are many horse ponds outside Luzhou City, Fangma Beach, and horse farms, but it is a pity that since Zhezong's time, horses have no longer been raised.

It is really unbearable to raise a horse, and the cost of raising a horse is actually [-]% more than buying a horse from Xixia. I don't know where the extra money is spent.

Half a year before Emperor Zhezong's death, he sent someone to investigate the matter, but unfortunately he passed away before the investigation was clear. Emperor Daojun never asked about this matter after he succeeded to the throne, and since then it has been nothing.

Now that Wang Qing conquered Huaixi, he harvested countless horses, especially the horses of the imperial army, all of which were real war horses, which were bought from Tubo and Xixia with real money in the Song Dynasty.

Wang Qing didn't know much about horses, so he listened to Li Zhu's suggestion, and simply renovated the racecourse outside the city, drove most of the horses there, and used it as a place to store horses.

Zhao Tang brought Yao Pingzhong to the racecourse first, but he saw dozens of people standing in front of the temporary horse-handling gate.

After asking, I found out that the weapons and horses were not only given to ten generals, the second and third in each ring, and some small cottage leaders who came to seek refuge were also included. Although the small cottage leaders did not fight , but to bring people to vote, Wang Qing naturally has to express it.

These people are all from mountain bandits and pirates, how can they be disciplined, seeing that the door of the horse master has not been opened for a long time, they will get up annoyed, draw out their knives and shout: "King Huai asked to pick the horse, what does it mean not to open the door? Cooked horse meat in it and ate it?"

Zhao Tang was also a little puzzled, since Wang Qing had an order, he must have received it here, and he shouldn't dare to disobey it.

At this time, the little soldier inside said in a crying voice: "Grandfathers, wait a moment, there are too many horses, and there are still some who haven't come back from the racecourse. If you want to choose, you have to gather them together, otherwise one horse will be left. You can’t choose not to.”

Zhao Tang understood what was going on when he heard the words. Wang Qing's subordinates didn't have any talent for raising horses. Although Li Zhu had a good idea to renovate the horse farm here and manage it in a unified way, no one knew how to manage the horses, so he was in a hurry every day. Guessing that Wang Qing was in a hurry to give the order, he was not ready at all, so someone came to lead the horse.

But how could those bandits and pirates listen to this, and thought that the person in charge of the horse department deliberately delayed the time to benefit, or was hiding the good horses and wanted to use some bad horses to deal with them.

There was a hot-tempered one who knocked on the fence door with a knife and shouted: "Duke Huai asked to lead the horse, but you didn't open the door, I'm afraid I don't know what to die for!"

The soldiers inside didn't dare to answer, the wooden fence door was about to be smashed, and then a sweaty officer ran out from inside, he was the leader of the Masi.

With a tired face, the leader came to the wooden door and apologized: "I kept you waiting for a long time, I just gathered the horses, and I invite you to choose the horses."

He ordered to open the wooden gate, and a group of good men came in cursing. The leader of the boss didn't dare to answer, he smiled cautiously, and asked everyone's names in a murmur, and then led them through the boss's house. to the back.

Behind the Ma Si is a huge horse gallery, which connects several horse farms, and many soldiers are still busy working out of breath.

Looking at the appearance of these soldiers, Zhao Tun couldn't help but shook his head. Although he didn't personally raise horses in Longyou, he had seen how those Tibetans hired as teachers played with them. Like these soldiers in front of him, the horses were forced to press without drinking water. Head-like jerk.

"Everyone, please choose the horse." The leader of the horse manager complained incessantly. This is really not a good job. There is nothing to say. You have to spend money to change an errand, even if it is to manage the food and grass, you will not raise the horse.

The stables are wide and long, and at a glance, they look like they can't see the end. Many horses have just been driven back from the stables, and they haven't eaten enough grass. The horses are angry, and they neigh a lot. With a strong temper, he turned his body upside down and kicked the stone trough with his hind hoof, making a "bang bang" sound.

A bandit rejoiced when he saw this, and said loudly: "I am proud of this fierce one, just this one, just this one!"

When Xiao Bing saw it, he knew the horse. It was the most difficult thing to play with. He usually liked to bite and kick people. Now when he was losing his temper, he didn't dare to drag him. He couldn't help but look at the bandit.

The bandit was impatient, and stretched out his hand to pull the soldier aside, cursed "trash" and went in to lead the horse by himself.

Seeing this, the leader of the Masi hurriedly shouted: "Be careful, be careful!"

Seeing the bandit approaching, the horse in the corridor knew something was wrong, and jumped up and down, causing the horses next to it to dodge one after another. Finally, when the bandit approached, he fell down and kicked him. After passing the horseshoe, he stepped forward and was beaten violently.

Although his methods were crude, they worked, and the horse was beaten into submission in the end, limping and led out of the stable by the bandits.

Zhao Tong looked at the horse from the outside, and it was not bad. It looked like a horse in the imperial army, and it didn't look like an ordinary cavalry horse. At least it should be a mount for a military commander or something.

He continued to walk forward, although these horses were all war horses, he didn't care about them, and ordered Yao Pingzhong to choose them. Yao Pingzhong was from the Western Army and was familiar with war horses.

But Yao Pingzhong didn't agree with the left and right. Among these horses, the slightly better horses were selected away by Wang Qing's ministers and generals, and the rest were basically the same.

After a long while, many people had chosen their horses to lead away, only three or five were left, just like Zhao Tun, still walking forward and watching.

After a while, Yao Pingzhong's eyes suddenly lit up, and he pointed to a horse in the stable and said, "Master, that's it!"

Zhao Tang looked in the direction of his finger, and found that it was a yellow horse with long hair and thin skin, and its eyes protruded slightly. Although it had a big frame, it didn't look like a horse at all. Looking at a few people outside.

Although Zhao Tun didn't see what the horse was up to, he still nodded.

Yao Pingzhong pointed to the yellow horse in the corridor, and said to the soldiers behind him, "This is the one!"

"Choose this horse!" At this moment, someone suddenly spoke at the same time.

Yao Pingzhong was taken aback for a moment, but before he could continue speaking, the man glared at him and said, "Someone chose first!"

Yao Pingzhong immediately said angrily: "I spoke first!"

The man hummed: "Whoever heard you speak first, it must be someone who spoke first!"

Zhao Tang couldn't help frowning when he heard the words, and looked at the man.

I saw that he was a big man with an unruly face, and he went to the stable to lead the horse by himself while talking.

(End of this chapter)