Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 1680 Breeding Group

On this side, Zhou Xu successfully completed the inspection of the latest batch of weapons and equipment of their Great Zhou. During this process, one of his personal guards seemed to have received some news and hurriedly ran over to report a situation to him.

After listening to the report, Zhou Xu also showed a hint of surprise on his face.

"Another order? This time it's for a batch of matchlock guns? Three thousand in total?"

After annexing the Saint Laurent Empire and the Warrior Women Clan, the Kingdom of Smith has now become the only customer of their Great Zhou Dynasty in the foreign trade field on this continent.

Since last winter, the Smith Kingdom has been quite active in the arms and weapons business.

Prior to this, we had already purchased two batches of artillery from them.

Now they want to purchase three thousand matchlock guns, making quite a big fuss, which surprised Zhou Xu.

After all, he had previously given Fisher a large number of matchlock guns as a thank-you gift.

Logically speaking, it should be more than enough.

But from Fisher's order, he felt that the other party was about to do something big.

The Ministry of Foreign Trade clearly had the same suspicion, which is why they sent the news to Zhou Xu as quickly as possible.

Having learned the situation, Zhou Xu also seemed to be deep in thought.

He didn't think Fisher would have any reckless ideas. Generally speaking, the guy was quite sensible and not stupid at all.

On this continent today, given the size of the Smith Kingdom, if they were to wage war against their Great Zhou, it would be like an ant trying to shake a tree.

Under these circumstances, the other side was willing to invest a lot of resources and risk affecting its internal development in order to purchase weapons on a large scale, which made Zhou Xu have some suspicions.

"Have the Ministry of Foreign Trade sell flintlock rifles to them."

The production line for matchlock guns had already been shut down, and with the replacement of a new batch of weapons, the production line for flintlock guns will also be continuously reduced starting this year.

From now on, adding flintlock rifles to the Ministry of Foreign Trade's commodity list and selling them to Fisher, while disposing of old products, would also be a good thing to recover some resources for future development.

While making arrangements for this matter, Zhou Xu also left the Grassland Military Region.

However, he did not intend to go directly to the train station to return to Blackmoon City, but instead made a detour to a horse farm that was also located in the grassland region.

"Ma Guotao greets Your Majesty!"

In some ways, Ma Guotao can be considered the luckiest among the chosen ones within the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Since being summoned by Zhou Xu, thanks to his professional skills as a horse farm owner, he has been doing what he loves, and he is in a good mood every day, and he is getting younger and younger.

Knowing Zhou Xu's purpose in coming, Ma Guotao led the way, heading towards the fenced-off grassland.

Before even getting close, Zhou Xu could already see those pure white celestial horses with wings on their backs!

The female warrior race has an elite force, the Pegasus Knights, which are directly under the royal family!

Within the Pegasus Knights Order, every Pegasus Knight is an elite among elites. Coupled with Pegasus, which serve as mounts for other beasts and also possess the ability to fly, the Pegasus Knights Order's combat capabilities are virtually unquestionable, making them strategically valuable.

The only drawback is probably its scale.

As is well known, horses typically give birth only once a year, and only one offspring per litter; twins are extremely rare. While the Pegasus raised by the female warrior tribe are exotic beasts, their breeding practices are similar to those of regular horses.

If we had to pinpoint a difference, it would be that the mythical beasts naturally have longer lifespans, stronger physical attributes, and recover better after giving birth.

Theoretically speaking, with sufficient professional breeding capabilities and the added advantage of the unique characteristics of exotic warhorses, it should be possible to achieve large-scale production over a longer period of time.

However, the female warrior race is clearly not very professional in terms of breeding.

In addition to the losses from earlier wars, the Pegasus Knights under Jarvit's command now number less than a hundred riders.

Therefore, after confirming the marriage, Zhou Xu, upon learning of the situation, directly proposed to transfer the breeding work of the Heavenly Horses to their Great Zhou's grassland horse farm.

Jarvitt agreed to this with exceptionally quick reluctance.

After all, the Great Zhou's success in breeding exotic beast mounts is almost universally acknowledged.

However, she also had one request: that the Pegasus bred in the future should be given priority to the Pegasus Knights of her female warrior race. Zhou Xu said that there was no problem with that.

Under these circumstances, the breeding kits provided by the Pegasus breeders from the female warrior tribe were even more meager than Ma Guotao had initially anticipated.

There were only eleven celestial horses in total, which can be fully summarized by the words "old, weak, sick, and disabled".

There's nothing wrong with Pegasus soldiers who are too old or injured in battle to continue serving, retiring to breed.

But the problem is that the ratio is wrong too. Six stallions and five mares. Even if the breeding group practices monogamy, there is still one stallion who is still single.

Ma Guotao rolled his eyes at the sight.

Take their own horse farm as an example. Normal horse breeding involves pairing a stallion with excellent bloodlines with ten or even twenty mares.

Exotic stallions have a stronger breeding ability; with proper planning, they could be paired with thirty or forty mares without any problem.

This configuration combination can be considered a breeding group.

In comparison, what kind of nonsense is the female warrior tribe doing? He now understands why the female warrior tribe's Pegasus can't reproduce; it's just too unprofessional.

Realizing this, Ma Guotao hurriedly applied to Zhou Xu, hoping to dedicate all the existing Tianma horses to breeding.

With such a small number, what's the point? Let's first ensure the breeding work proceeds smoothly and reaches a certain scale before worrying about anything else.

Of course, he didn't really want it all.

According to the information currently available, Yarvit's Pegasus is the strongest among this batch of Pegasus, a transcendent creature at the Hundred Refinement Realm level, and also a stallion. In Ma Guotao's opinion, using it as a stud is the best option.

After all, the fact that it can evolve into a superhuman creature already demonstrates the excellence of its genes.

Under this premise, for the remaining Pegasus horses currently in service, he will take one or two more stallions to pair with them, depending on the situation, and the rest will all be mares.

The remaining stallions can all be used by the Pegasus Knights for their daily training.

At the time, Ma Guotao expressed his displeasure, and Zhou Xu also reported the situation to Järvit. Järvit did not dwell on it and readily agreed.

As for the other Pegasus Knights, seeing that their queen had handed over her mount, what else could they say?
The next batch of Pegasus horses was delivered just a week ago, which is why Zhou Xu saw the scale before him.

(End of this chapter)