Chapter 120: Raising Horses
Feng Shanyue came to Shangde Palace and asked the attendant at the door to help inform her. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info waited for a while before Mr. Xiao came out and led her in.
As soon as she entered the hall, Feng Shanyue felt that the atmosphere was a little different. Usually the lord of the country smiles when he sees her, but today he is a little serious. After she had saluted, the lord of the kingdom stopped speaking, but pinched his brow vigorously, as if he was distressed. Manager Xiao, who was standing next to him, looked at him with some concern.
"Father, what's wrong with you, is there something bothering you?"
The lord of the country sighed, "Yashi, my father knows that you have suffered a lot with your mother among the people, so after you enter the palace, I will try my best to meet your requirements." However, there are some things that are better to be a little more restrained. ”
"What is the matter, what does the father refer to?" Feng Shanyue looked dazed, she really didn't know what trick she had to be caught by Yayue, so she gave her the opportunity to sue herself again in front of the lord of the country.
The lord frowned, "Although my father allows you to go out of the palace to learn from the high priest, you also have to keep your identity, and you can't associate with people outside the palace at will!"
"People outside the palace, father, my daughter has been practicing martial arts with her master every day in the Wuzhen Pavilion during this time, and then she comes back to endorse the book, how can she have time to interact with people outside the palace?"
"You still don't admit it!" the lord of the kingdom sank his face, "Yayue came to tell me, saying that today you brought two big bags of things from outside the palace, and someone sent you two big bags of things in the afternoon. Did you say there was such a thing?"
Feng Shanyue nodded, "My daughter did bring two bags of things from outside the palace into the palace today, but they were just white ashes. As for the two bags of things that came in the afternoon, they were just two bags of straw. I specially asked the Imperial Guards to carefully inspect and make sure that there was no entrainment before bringing them into the palace. ”
"White ash and straw, what do you want these two things for?"
"My daughter heard that white ash water can be used to kill insects on trees, and it happened that there was a tree in Chunhui Palace that had insects, so she wanted to try it. As for straw, my daughter wants to try making things out of straw. This is the reason that Feng Shanyue thought of on the way here, hoping to get through the trick.
"Make up something, make up something?"
"That's right. The daughter has been in the people for a long time, and knows that the common people just use straw to build houses or make fires for cooking. However, straw is actually a very strong thing, and if you can use it to make something useful, such as baskets, boxes, mats, etc., and then teach it to the people, will it improve the lives of the people?"
The Lord's face improved significantly, "Why did you suddenly remember to do this?"
"The daughter is blessed to be taken into the palace by her father and made a princess with fine clothes and food. But the people who helped me, I never forget, and I always want to do my best to do something for them. Straw was originally a ubiquitous thing in the people, and if it can be used better, it will also be beneficial to the people. Father, you said yes, right?"
The lord of the country nodded, although this daughter who grew up in the people is a little lacking in rules, but she is very kind-hearted and knows how to care about the people, this is exactly the vision and mind that a princess should have, no wonder the high priest said that she has a noble life and has the fate of the lord of the harem!
"This matter is wrong with the daughter, sending things from outside the palace to the palace, you should ask your father first. ”
"Okay, it's good to know it's wrong! Go back!" the lord waved his hand and let Feng Shanyue go back to the palace.
Feng Shanyue took two steps, and when she turned around, she saw that the lord of the country began to pinch her brows in annoyance again, so she stopped and turned around, "Father, if you have any worries, you might as well talk to your daughter." Even if your daughter can't give you ideas, at least she can give you relief. ”
The lord of the kingdom moved in his heart, Yashi is not an ordinary princess, she has been studying with the high priest during this time, maybe she can have a good opinion, it doesn't hurt to listen to it.
"That's right, this year, the Quchi country sent an envoy to sell us only a thousand horses. I'm worried about this, and if I don't have enough horses, I'll have to add chariots. But it takes a lot of money to build a chariot. In the past few years of drought, all the money from the state treasury has been used for disaster relief, and with the expenditure of the border army, there is simply no money left to build new chariots. But if you don't build chariots, once a battle breaks out, the border army will not be able to support it, and the battle will definitely be lost. That's why I'm worried!"
"Father, as far as my daughter knows, cavalry is more flexible in combat than clumsy chariots, isn't it? ”
"Raising horses?" the lord shook his head, "Do you think my father didn't think so? Father once bought a lot of horses from Quchi Country and prepared to breed them himself. But it all failed, and the money to breed horses was more than buying horses, so I gave up on the idea. ”
"In this case, there are two possibilities, either there is a problem with the horse that is bought, which is not conducive to breeding, or there is a problem with the breeding method, so the breeding is not successful. ”
"How could it be?" the lord shook his head, "Xu Dayin bought all good horses, and he also invited a horse breeder from Quchi Country to help breed them, so there will be no two possibilities as you said." ”
"My daughter heard that King Yiyang once built a horse farm and bred horses, so why can't the people you appointed, Father?"
"Although King Yiyang bred horses, most of them died, which proves that the breeding was unsuccessful!"
"In fact, those horses did not die young, but were secretly sent to the wealthy families of the Five Cities who rebelled with King Yiyang. That's why those wealthy families are willing to follow him with all their hearts, and they also have the strength to confront the local government!"
The lord of the kingdom was astonished, he did not know about it. Every time he talked about raising horses, King Yiyang put on a desperate expression, saying that the horses he had bred in his horse farm had died again. I didn't expect him to do this kind of thing behind his back.
"Damn! It seems that someone is deliberately playing tricks to deceive the lord of the country!" The lord's face turned gloomy again, and his fists were clenched tightly.
"Father, this is not the time to be angry. In fact, my daughter also has a small horse farm on the border, which has dozens of good horses bought from Ma Fang Guo and is breeding horses. Today the man in charge of the horse farm sent me a letter saying that more than a dozen mares were pregnant with foals, and it seemed that there was hope. ”
"Oh, you also have a horse farm?" the lord of the country was completely impressed with his daughter this time, "how can you have the money to build a horse farm?"
"The mother left a lot of the money that the father gave to the mother, and another merchant also invested some money, so she built this horse farm. ”
"However, the cost of raising horses is too high, and the treasury cannot support it now!"
It's not easy to do things without money, Feng Shanyue lowered her head, thought for a while, and then raised her head and said, "Father, I have a way! Let's build a racecourse!"