Invincible special police swept the three kingdoms

Chapter 267
When Zhao Lei walked out of the post house, the street was already crowded with people. Zhao Lei did not expect that there were almost few people on the street when he first entered the city, but now the people on the street in front of the post house are already It seems a bit crowded.

"Look, that great general has come out." After Zhao Lei came out, the people on the street were immediately disturbed.

Zhao Lei, who was watching, also smiled helplessly, and immediately asked the soldier who had just passed on: "Where is that horse merchant?"

The soldier pointed, and Zhao Lei looked in the direction of the soldier's finger. At the place where the crowd was densest, a middle-aged man was sitting on the ground, looking at Zhao Lei with a smile on his face.

So Zhao Lei walked in the direction the soldiers pointed, and the people who were crowded around the horse dealer consciously dispersed to both sides.

Seeing Zhao Lei walking towards him, the horse dealer also stood up, bowed towards Zhao Lei and said, "Cao Min pays homage to the General."

Zhao Lei bowed his hands and said: "There is no need to be too polite. You are the horse dealer who came to see me earlier? What do you want to do with this general?"

The horse dealer immediately smiled and said, "Caomin is a horse dealer, so it's only natural that he's here to sell horses when he's looking for an adult."

"Sell horses?" Zhao Lei asked strangely, "But you didn't even bring a single horse. What kind of horse are you selling?"

The horse dealer said with a smile: "The general is joking, how can I bring so many horses to this street? Horses are violent things, and it is difficult to control their emotions. If they are brought to the street rashly, they will hurt It will be bad for the people on the street.”

Zhao Lei nodded, feeling that the horse merchant was right.

"Then this boss is going to take my lord to your racecourse?" Zhang Han asked from the side.

The horse merchant bowed his hands to Zhang Han again, and said: "My lord is right. The general is a soldier who trains troops, so the demand for horses is self-evident. So the villain came to the station so late on purpose. It’s just to make this deal with the adults.”

Seeing that the horse merchant was very standardized in terms of etiquette, Zhang Han couldn't help but sigh, this kind of merchant is indeed very good at life.

"Excuse me, sir, can you come to Xicheng Racecourse to see the villain's horses tomorrow?" The horse merchant said again at this time.

"Tomorrow?" Zhao Lei hesitated.

"Your Excellency, don't you have time tomorrow? Can it be done the day after tomorrow?" Ma Shang said.

"Tomorrow I will leave this port with the army." Zhao Lei said, with some rejection in his words.

Hearing Zhao Lei's refusal, the businessman continued to smile and said, "My lord, every batch of horses here are top-quality Xiliang warhorses. If your lord can own these Xiliang warhorses, you will be able to train a capable team." cavalry troops."

"War horse from Xiliang?" Zhao Lei immediately became interested when he heard this sentence.

Seeing Zhao Lei with glowing eyes, the businessman smiled again.

"How is it? General, can you come to the racecourse tomorrow to see the villain's horses?" The horse dealer continued to strike while the iron was hot.

"Man? What do you think?" Zhao Lei said.

"Then go! Anyway, we are not in a hurry to cross the river. If we can really buy a high-quality Xiliang horse, it will be of great benefit to us." Zhang Han whispered in Zhao Lei's ear.

Seeing Zhao Lei and Zhang Han whispering there, the businessman also waited patiently, waiting for Zhao Lei's decision.

"Alright then, I'll go to your racecourse tomorrow." At this time, Zhao Lei said to the horse dealer.

"Okay! The villain will take his leave first, so as not to disturb the general's rest." Ma Shang said.

"By the way, what's your name, boss?" Zhao Lei asked.

"The villain's name is Su Shuang." Su Shuang said.

Looking at the back of Su Shuang who was gradually leaving, Zhao Lei muttered to himself, "Why is the name Su Shuang so familiar?"

After returning to the post house, Zhao Lei suddenly remembered the name in his mind.

"Su Shuang, Zhang Shiping. They were horse traders during the Three Kingdoms period. Liu Bei's first pot of gold was funded by those two people." Zhao Lei said to Zhang Han.

Zhang Han closed the door cautiously, and said: "Since Su Shuang appeared, then Zhang Shiping must be with him too. Tomorrow we have to take a good look at this racecourse. After all, this is a big horse dealer in the Three Kingdoms." , if we can win him over, we won't have to worry about running out of war horses in the Yangzhou area in the future."

Zhao Lei nodded in agreement.

The next day, Zhao Lei, Zhang Han, Jia Xu, Zhao Yun, and Zhang Liao brought dozens of soldiers from the Shi Barracks to a horse farm in the west city of Anfengjin.

"I didn't expect such a small town to hide such a large-scale horse farm." Zhao Lei looked at the galloping army horses on the horse farm and sighed.

The horse farm here is a rectangle, and a piece of green lawn comes into view.In the racecourse, there are about hundreds of war horses, black, white, brown, and red. The horses of each color are running, as if drawing a unique landscape, which is unique under the highlight of the green lawn.

"It's really strange!" Jia Xu exclaimed when he saw the racecourse.

"What happened to Mr. Jia?" Zhao Lei asked with some doubts about Jia Xu's exclamation.

Jia Xu said with a smile: "My lord, my subordinates are from Liangzhou. As far as I know, there have been only two places in the Central Plains that are rich in war horses since ancient times. One of them is in Yinping, Yizhou, and the other is in Yongliang. Longxi. In those two places, due to the natural fodder, they are more suitable for raising war horses. And around these two cities, there are also large and small horse farms. But here is the south, how can there be horse farms?"

"The two racecourses mentioned by Mr. Jia seem to be very close to the Qiang people!" Zhao Lei said.

Jia Xu laughed and said, "My lord is right. What do the Qiang people use as a weapon in battle? It is their cavalry. Because of the natural horse breeding environment there, countless high-quality war horses can be bred. And the Qiang people are different from the Xiongnu in terms of customs. It’s very close, every year the King of the Huns will give the King of Qiang a batch of hard-earned horses, coupled with the horse farm in Longxi, this led to the rise of the Qiang cavalry.”

Zhang Han said at this time: "According to Mr. Jia, this horse is a sharp weapon in war. Not only in battle, you need a good horse as a mount, and when you need some scouts or spies to deliver news in Yangzhou, if you have a good horse Horses can shorten the time."

"Mr. Jia in front is right. But the bloody BMW that the Hun King gave to the Qiang people is not a real sweaty BMW." At this moment, a voice reached the ears of Zhao Lei and the others.

"It is true that Longxi and Yinping rely on the natural environment for raising horses, and they have become common important horse supply places for the Han and Qiang people. That's why there are so many turmoil in Liangzhou every year. But the Khan of the Huns mentioned by Mr. Jia earlier The bloody BMW is not a real purebred. In fact, the sweaty BMW comes from Dawan in the Western Regions. The sweaty BMW has another common name called "Dawan Horse". The sweat of a real sweaty BMW will be like blood. It’s red, but the blood-sweat horses given to the Qiang by the Xiongnu are crosses between the horses of the Huns and the blood-sweat horses,” said the man.

"Mister is so proficient in horses, how dare you ask him his name?" Zhao Lei said at this time.

"The general, the grassroots Zhang Shiping, and Su Shuang who the general met yesterday are all horse traders," Zhang Shiping said.

"Sure enough, the two of them are together." Zhao Lei thought to himself.

"Mr. Zhang, why did you and Mr. Su open a horse farm in a small town like Anfengjin? I think the border of Yangzhou is already in the south of the Central Plains, so it is not suitable for raising war horses?" Zhang Han asked.

Zhang Shiping bowed to Zhang Han, and said with a smile: "My lord, ideally, the south is not very suitable for raising war horses. But I found that the environment in Yangzhou is different from Yizhou and Jingzhou, which are also in the south. War horses are more suitable for the environment here. , and most of these war horses were transported from Longxi, the war horses in Longxi are strong and not very demanding on the surrounding environment. So as long as those horses are given high-quality fodder, war horses can also be raised in the south."

"That is to say, Anfengjin City and even the whole of Yangzhou can raise war horses?" Zhao Lei said excitedly.

"That's right, my lord. I think the Yangzhou area is flat, with lush water and grass, green grass in summer, and golden yellow in winter. It is an ideal place for horses to breed and grow. The bred horses are well-proportioned, strong and strong, vigorous and tough. Rough feeding, good adaptability, excellent speed and stamina, it is a good horse for carrying, riding and pulling." Zhang Shiping said.

"The war horses you raise at this racecourse are bloody BMWs?" Zhao Lei asked.

Zhang Shiping smiled in embarrassment, and said: "Generally, the Huns don't want to give us Han people a sweaty blood BMW. So the horses in my racecourse are all ordinary Xiliang war horses. But even if it is a Xiliang war horse, its speed and Its strength will not be inferior to that of a sweat-blooded horse."

"That's right. Although this Xiliang warhorse is not as good as a bloody BMW, it is still much better than these horses in the Central Plains! Alright! Mr. Zhang, I want all the horses here!" Zhao Lei blurted out.

(End of this chapter)