Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 1681 Development of Mythical Beast Mounts
The breeding of celestial horses is of great significance to their Great Zhou Dynasty.

Although their Great Zhou already had two types of flying cavalry, the Wyvern Riders and the Giant Eagle Riders, long ago.

However, while the former's advantage lies in its agility and the latter in its speed, both types of flying cavalry share the same weakness: poor endurance and limited carrying capacity.

Whether they are pterosaur riders or giant eagle riders, if they bring another person with them, they basically lose all their speed, not to mention their agility and speed. They can't even fly for long periods of time.

For this reason, the equipment of both the Pterodactyl Riders and the Giant Eagle Riders is primarily lightweight.

In contrast, the Pegasus Knights were quite different.

Pegasus possesses outstanding endurance and carrying capacity. A Pegasus, even with one rider already on board, can still fly with ease and its condition will not be significantly affected when carrying another person.

Even the Pegasus Knights were dressed in full sets of metal armor, making them veritable heavy armored cavalry in the air!

Putting everything else aside, as long as there are enough Pegasus Knights to escort them, the Royal Mage Corps of their Great Zhou will be able to flexibly take to the skies and easily enter various battlefields.

"There are two stallions and thirty-seven mares in total. Let them get used to the environment here first. I plan to try breeding them next month, or at the latest, a month and a half later."

While showing Zhou Xu the Pegasus that had been delivered, Ma Guotao explained his upcoming breeding plans.

Horses are typically bred in the spring and summer because a mare's gestation period is about eleven months. Breeding in the spring and summer ensures that the foal will be born around the same time next year, when the warmer weather will improve the foal's survival rate.

When it comes to horse breeding, Zhou Xu basically just needs to listen, since he knows very well that Ma Guotao is much more professional than him.

During this time, Yarvit's mount 'Flying Snow' undoubtedly recognized him. It flapped its wings, jumped over the fence, and landed in front of him to greet him.

As an extraordinary being, it naturally understands that Zhou Xu is now half its master.

After briefly greeting Feixue, Zhou Xu watched her return to the herd, a sense of curiosity rising within him.

"Won't these flying horses be difficult to manage?"

As things stand, the existence of the fence is meaningless for Pegasus.

"I also had a headache about this problem at first, but I later found that these Pegasus horses have been tamed by the female warrior tribe for many years and basically do not run away. At the same time, Flying Snow is like the horse king in the Pegasus herd. It is an extraordinary creature with high intelligence and it also helps to restrain the herd."

When talking about Tianma, Ma Guotao seemed quite excited.

He was already very excited about being able to breed exotic warhorses after being summoned, but who would have thought that he would also have the opportunity to breed celestial horses!
Or rather, who could have imagined that there really were winged pegasus in this world?! In his original world, he had never even dreamed of such a thing.

Once the topic came up, Ma Guotao, who had started talking, couldn't stop.

However, Zhou Xu didn't mind learning more about the subsequent work at the grassland horse farm.

After all, while he doesn't need to be a complete professional in these jobs, he can't be completely ignorant either; he still needs to have some basic understanding of them.

After seeing the Pegasus, Ma Guotao took Zhou Xu to see the exotic warhorses in the horse farm.

Compared to the newly arrived Pegasus, after years of breeding, the exotic warhorses bred by the Great Zhou Dynasty at the grassland horse farm have reached a complete scale, with their numbers steadily increasing every year.

At the same time, there is no longer a need to use ordinary warhorses for breeding. Instead, exotic warhorses are bred with each other, and more than 90% of the offspring are exotic warhorses.

"No, this can produce ordinary warhorses?"

"After all, in the early days, they were bred with ordinary warhorses, so the bloodline wasn't that pure. Of course, this is already a very rare situation. Over the years, this has only happened a few times." Ma Guotao waved his hand dismissively.

"After a few more generations of optimization, the probability of giving birth to an ordinary warhorse will be so low as to be negligible."

For this era, warhorses were still important mobile units in the field, not to mention the exotic warhorses of the Great Zhou Dynasty, which were incomparable to ordinary warhorses in every aspect.

Under this premise, the grassland horse farm, which is in charge of Ma Guotao, is no longer responsible for breeding ordinary warhorses.

Of course, the Great Zhou Dynasty did not give up on the breeding of ordinary warhorses.

They specifically set up a foreign trade horse farm on the side.

Just like the name of the horse farm, the warhorses bred at this farm are specifically for foreign trade and sold to other countries.

The Saint Laurent Empire, the Smith Kingdom, and even the Warrior Women were all important clients of theirs. Every year, the Great Zhou Dynasty could earn a considerable amount of money through the export trade of warhorses.

Unfortunately, they have now swallowed up most of these customers, leaving only the Smith Kingdom as the sole survivor.

This directly led to a significant decrease in the export volume of ordinary warhorses from their Great Zhou Dynasty compared to previous years.

However, Zhou Xu did not intend to stop the breeding of ordinary warhorses directly.

At this stage, their Great Zhou Dynasty has not yet reached the point where all regular cavalry are equipped with exotic beast warhorses; the vast majority of ordinary cavalry still use ordinary warhorses.

In addition, horses can also be used for other jobs, which makes their value very stable at present.

To some extent, it can also be traded as a hard currency on the international stage.

After confirming the work at the grassland horse farm, Zhou Xu took a steam train back home.

On a new day, a document was delivered to Zhou Xu...

"Your Majesty, this is a report from the mountain region. The dwarfs' boar farms have been relocated."

Zhou Xu took the document and quickly flipped through it.

As mentioned before, there are many exotic beast mounts within their Great Zhou, including the wild boar used by the Wild Boar Riders, which is also an exotic beast.

However, Ma Guotao clearly didn't have much experience in raising wild boars. Under this premise, the dwarves of Copperforge were doing quite well raising them themselves, so at this stage, the raising and breeding of wild boars was still the responsibility of the original dwarf breeders.

Wild boars primarily live in mountainous areas, and they were previously raised in the mountains behind Copperforge.

However, as a crucial transit point connecting the New North District and the Saint Laurent region, Copperfort will definitely be a key area for future development.

This made it very inconvenient to have a wild boar farm in the middle, which gave Zhou Xu the idea of ​​moving the wild boar farm to another location.

The mountainous region is a good place; aside from the difficulty of development, it is rich in natural resources.

Moving the dwarfs' wild boar farms to the mountainous region would provide the boars with a larger and better environment, while also attracting dwarf laborers to the mountains.

Compared to human labor, dwarves are clearly better at developing in the mountains, which can be considered a win-win situation.

(End of this chapter)