my wonderful zoo

Chapter 138

Under natural conditions, ponies are weaned at the age of 1, and their teeth are long and mature when they are 4 or 5 years old. Horses mostly mate in the spring, and their gestation period is about 11 months/340 days, and they can give birth to more than 20 years.

From now on, Chen Xun only needs to release foals that are over one year old to ensure that the mares in the zoo can breed normally.

It only takes three or four years for this kind of breeding to continue. From then on, Chen Jiajun can obtain at least [-] excellent war horses that have been strengthened by the zoo every year.

This is a level that no force can achieve in reality.

"How did you steal it?" Wang Yuan asked in doubt.

Chen Xun realized that this news was indeed too fantastical and beyond the scope of ordinary people's understanding.

"I have my own way. Let's go back to Xuzhou immediately." Chen Xun did not explain, and could not explain.

"Yes!" Wang Yuan hid his doubts and stood up to command the fleet.

The fleet went down the river at a very fast speed. There is a poem that goes like this: "A thousand miles of rivers return in a day." The Yellow River water flow is not faster than that of the Yangtze River, but it only takes more than a day to get from Kaifeng to Xuzhou.

On November [-], the fleet arrived in Xuzhou.

"Sun Zheng! Come with me to the training ground." After getting off the ship, Chen Xun immediately said to Sun Zheng who came to pick up the ship.

Before setting off from Kaifeng, carrier pigeons were sent to Xuzhou, so they knew that Chen Xun would be back today.

With Sun Zheng leading the way, the two quickly headed to the temporary training ground located in the south of Xuzhou City.

When bypassing Xuzhou City, Chen Xun could see many local people in Xuzhou carrying a lot of food on their shoulders, walking in the same direction as the two of them.

"This is?" Chen Xun asked.

"We have set up a market outside Daying, where we can buy various food materials at a higher price than the market price, and deliver the goods while paying for them. This is why people in Kaifeng City and the surrounding areas choose to come here to sell the food they have accumulated in the store." Sun said. Zheng introduced.

"Isn't there a disaster here?" Chen Xun asked.

"It was a disaster, but only a small part of the food was washed away or submerged, and many people died. Generally speaking, the food stored in the market is greater than the needs of the people." Sun Zheng explained.

Chen Xun did not continue to ask, then why were so many disaster-stricken people starving to death?
Because in this era, there is no strong government like that of later generations.

If the government fails to provide disaster relief in time, ordinary people affected by the disaster will have no choice but to scatter and become refugees, begging for a living along the way.

There are very few rich people who help the world and save the people.

In this world, from ancient times to the present, only behaviors that are very rare and expected by the public will be widely circulated.

Among them is the "good rich man".

As for government relief, didn’t you see that Kaifeng was being besieged by Jin soldiers?
Too busy to take care of themselves, the Clay Bodhisattva cannot save himself when crossing the river. This is what the current Song Dynasty government is talking about.

"Does Xuzhou not care?" Chen Xun asked. For large-scale private transactions like this, the government would usually get involved and collect a large amount of tax money.

"I want to care, but we chopped off the protruding claws." Sun Zheng replied easily, but Chen Xun could hear that during the contest between the two sides, there were many dead people in Xuzhou, otherwise the two would not be able to go so smoothly now. passing around the city.

Both of them were riding horses, and they were very fast. They soon arrived at the Chen Jiajun camp in the south of Xuzhou City.

Lai Qingyun stood at the door waiting for Chen Xun, probably guessing that Chen Xun would come here directly after getting off the boat. "Captain, congratulations on your triumphant return!" Lai Qingyun congratulated: "We have prepared good wine and food for you to wash away the dust."

A day later, Pei Ren in Kaifeng had detected the major changes in the Jin Army's camp and sent the news back.Lai Qingyun and Sun Zheng, who are the top leaders of Chen Jiajun, already know what earth-shattering thing Chen Xun has done.

"Hahahaha! Congratulations are indeed worth it. We will eat the welcome banquet in the evening. It is just after noon. Take me to watch the training of the Musketeer Battalion." Although it has been a day, Chen Xun is still in a good mood.

This crazy action is the most exciting action since Chen Xun's reincarnation.

The sense of accomplishment is so strong.

"Commander, please follow me." Lai Qingyun led the way.

The three of them entered the camp and headed south. During this period, Chen Xun saw many people wearing ordinary clothes busy in the camp.

"Who are these people?" Chen Xun asked.

"They are all victims of the disaster near Xuzhou. We recruited them to work for relief." Lai Qingyun introduced: "The people who entered the camp are all young and strong. There are also young and strong families living temporarily in the east, south and west of Daying. Currently, the total number of refugees in the refugee camp has exceeded [-], and the number of refugees is increasing by thousands every day."

"Yes, the rate of new additions continues to rise. Currently, with Xuzhou as the boundary, many victims in the upper reaches of the Yellow River have heard that Xuzhou is recruiting and providing relief to the victims, so all the victims who heard about it are rushing here, even People in the lower reaches are also rushing here if they hear about it." Sun Zheng added.

"Where do we get so much money and food? Besides, summer is about to begin, the water in the Yellow River will inevitably surge, and the lower reaches of the Huaihe River will inevitably be hit by disasters again. We can't just gather them together and ignore them," Chen Xun asked.

After the Yellow River entered the Huaihe River, it caused great harm. Floods occurred almost every year, making the people in the lower reaches of the Huaihe River miserable.

Chen Xun's original intention of going north this time was only to collect some young laborers and women to transport back to Guangzhou to increase the population of the military government. He did not intend to take over all the victims caused by the diversion of the Yellow River.

You must know that the number of people affected by the disaster must exceed tens of millions. Even if the general government is emptied, it is impossible to support them.

"The two of us have discussed it, and we actually don't have to go back to Guangzhou." The two looked at each other, and Sun Zheng spoke.

Chen Xun suddenly realized that the behavior of the two people might be to "force him into danger."

"Why?"

"We only have 5000 people going north this time. As of today, we can be said to be making trouble outside Xuzhou City, but the soldiers and forbidden troops in Xuzhou City don't even dare to let go." Sun Zheng replied.

"Yes, before the officials sent by Xuzhou wanted to set up a tax field in the market outside Daying, only one of them was killed by us and went back to report the letter, but the Xuzhou side recognized it with a pinch of their noses, and dared not send anyone out to talk to us. Theory." Lai Qingyun continued.

"Not to mention sending troops out to ask for an explanation." Sun Zheng added.

"So you think we can have a big fight?" Chen Xun asked.

"Yes." The three of them are all smart people. Although they didn't say it clearly, they all understood each other's meaning.

Sun Zheng and Lai Qingyun have been setting up camps and purchasing grain and grass in Xuzhou in the past few days, under the banner of King Qin's army, but they did not rush to Kaifeng. This is obviously abnormal.

But Xuzhou was so weak that he didn't even dare to send troops to drive them away.

This kind of weakness gave the two people information, allowing them to judge that the Songting Prefecture in Henan and Hebei were all such softies.

(End of this chapter)