The little emperor personally inspected it, which not only made the chief officer of the new training camp nervous, but also Zhao Mengjin and the others were nervous. Under normal circumstances, after the recruits enter the battalion, they will be organized into a temporary division, with the chief officer concurrently serving as the division commander, and the commander of several training teams under its jurisdiction concurrently serving as the regimental commander, and so on to establish its establishment system, but it will only sink to the capital.

The head of the training team is the head of the training team, and is responsible for organizing basic training and management. The positions of the detachment's team leader and group commander are held by the cadets of martial arts or the backbone of the advance officers who are trained in rotation from various departments. In this way, the organizational training ability of these reserve officers can be trained, and these people can pass on their training and combat experience to the recruits, so that the recruits can adapt to the rhythm of the regular army as soon as possible after being assigned to various units.

It is precisely because of this configuration that most of these junior officers are from nearby garrisons, and they are also the Shuibu armies in charge of Zhao Mengjin and others. Once something goes wrong with these people, it will inevitably make the little emperor think of the situation in the army, and according to his temper, it is often not these students and officers who are unlucky, but the relevant chiefs and recommenders of various departments. Thinking that their fate was pinched in the hands of these low-level officers at this moment, can they not make their palms sweat?

Zhao Hao's examination school started from the head, and then the team and the team leader. He asked very detailed questions, from the essentials of the movement to the work and rest system and the daily management of the company, not only the people who accepted the examination were always red-faced, but even the 'bystanders' were also trembling. They knew that the little emperor was the first person in the army and was very familiar with the system in the army, but they didn't expect that he could be so familiar with it that he could do it without thinking about it, which made them extremely embarrassed by the generals who were in the army every day.

After the examination of officers and recruits, at first I was worried that the little emperor would have problems, but in fact, the scope of the little emperor's examination was completely within the training syllabus formulated by the military department. But this still makes them take it lightly, which has its own problems of training progress, as well as the recruits' mastery of the rules, which can be said to be to the point, and the performance of the recruits can also reflect the overall situation of the entire training camp.

The whole random examination lasted more than an hour, but everyone felt like they were sitting on pins and needles, and their hearts were even more uneasy, and the little emperor did not say a word afterwards. Then he went through the whole process step by step, and lunch was also eaten with the officers and soldiers in the big room without exception, looking at the meal on the table that was much more sumptuous than yesterday, he just smiled, but everyone was excited, realized that it was self-defeating, and actually forgot that the little emperor had been lurking here for a day yesterday, and he had already figured out the bottom number.

After lunch, Zhao Yu summoned the commanders of the new training camp to talk to the officers above the commander, and everyone was ready to face the storm, but the result was unexpected. The little emperor did not get angry, but pointed out their problems one by one, especially in order to deal with the inspection of fraud, thinking that these things seemed small, but they had a very bad impact and would bring about a bad atmosphere in the army.

Later, Zhao Hao criticized the problem of regional discrimination in the camp, and demanded that they break away from the past hillmanism and sectarianism and establish an overall view of the national interest. While strengthening military training, we must not relax our ideological education, especially the sense of honor and pride of military personnel. In addition, he warned the generals that the current peace was only temporary, that the decisive battle with Meng Yuan was inevitable, and that they must not relax their vigilance.

At the end of the inspection, Zhao Yu did not stay for long, and all the officers and men of the new training camp lined up on the wharf to see each other off. Watching the emperor walk past the queue, Wu Hong and Ou Bo couldn't help but light up, and looking at the emperor who was smiling at them, he couldn't help but straighten his waist and widen his eyes. And the gang leader Liu Datong was surprised, couldn't help touching the consistent banknote in the bag, yesterday when cleaning up the kitchen case, he found the consistent money, asked for a long time and no one claimed, at this moment suddenly woke up, it turned out that the rumors in the army were true......

Zhao Hao's fleet set sail again, but this time it did not enter the sea from Taihu Lake, but turned into the Yangtze River and went down the river to Chongming Prefecture, where he wanted to see the horse farm. The importance of war horses goes without saying much in ancient times, and as the direction of war turned to Jiangbei, the need for war horses became more and more urgent. But the lack of horses in the south of the Yangtze River is already an old problem, and the current Song army has formed twelve cavalry brigades, with a strength of only more than 30,000, which is rare in all dynasties.

The main reason for this situation is the lack of horses, and the scale can be reached thanks to the capture in the battle to recover Jiangnan, with the formation of the chariot army and the baggage army, the contradiction of the lack of horses is becoming more and more prominent, Zhao Yu knows that if this situation is not changed, it will cause great difficulties to the Northern Expedition in the future. Therefore, while collecting horses through various channels, he also established a horse farm to breed horses, while Chongming State Horse Farm is a stallion farm.

In Zhao Yu's previous life, whenever he saw foreign military parades or equestrian performances on TV, he was often attracted by those vigorous knights and tall horses. Because it is rare to see such a tall horse in China. Even when I go to Inner Mongolia and other places with large grasslands, the horses I see are often relatively short, and some of them are about the size of donkeys.

Coincidentally, during the Anti-Japanese War, the "Oriental horses" ridden by the Japanese army were also known for being tall and strong, although they were not tall, but the horses they rode were generally very tall, and "wearing flowers to wear big red flowers, riding horses to ride Oriental horses", it reflected the excellence and preciousness of the war horses used by the Japanese army at that time. These circumstances have also led to a lot of contempt for domestic horse breeds, as well as doubts about the strength of ancient Chinese cavalry. After all, the quality of the war horses is not good enough, and the combat effectiveness of the cavalry will be greatly reduced.

However, Zhao Hao, who knew something about ancient Chinese military affairs, knew that there was no shortage of heavy cavalry in ancient China. If there is no tall and fine war horse, there is naturally no way to talk about armor and cavalry. So, was there a high-headed horse in ancient China? Zhao Yu has reached this era, and he wants to solve this mystery from both the perspective of reality and the questions of his previous life.

Before solving this mystery, Zhao Hao first figured out two important concepts about the physical indicators of horses, that is, "shoulder height" and "palm". In general, animals such as horses measure their height at the shoulder, which refers to the distance from the shoulder blades to the feet of the horse. The palm is a concept of length, traditionally often measured in the unit of the palm to measure the height of the horse, and the palm is about how much, in fact, there is no clear scale, because the size of each person's palm is different, which leads to the blurring of the concept, he thought that it was about ten centimeters, but it also caused the height of the horse to be difficult to explain.

The Chinese have a long history of using horses, and horses have been used for riding as early as the Shang Dynasty. But Zhao Yu feels that in his heart, China's native horse breeds are not good. In the pre-Qin period, most of the Mongolian horses were smaller. Judging from the image of horses embodied in the Qin Terracotta Warriors, the horses in China at this time had long ears, small hooves, short mane, thin tails, and low shoulder height.

According to the record of the "Zhou Li": "Eight feet or more is a dragon, more than seven feet is a horse, and more than six feet is a horse." "After conversion, it can be seen that the average number of local horses in China in the pre-Qin period was about 138 centimeters, which was about 14 palms. In the Han Dynasty, horses with fourteen palms on their shoulders were forbidden to leave the customs, which can also be used as an example.

However, we all know that in Central Asia around the Western Regions, there are excellent riding horse breeds, especially the Dawan horse, known as the "sweat and blood horse", which has a common ancestor with the Nissa horse used by the famous Parthian heavy cavalry, and is also one of the best horse breeds in the world at that time, with an average shoulder height of about 15 palms.

The famous conqueror Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty attacked the Xiongnu in the north, opened up the Western Regions, and introduced the "Wusun Tianma" and "Sweat and Blood Horse" from the Western Regions, which greatly improved the horse breed in the Central Plains. Compared with the sculptures of horses in the Qin Dynasty, the sculptures of war horses in the Han Dynasty have shorter ears, cracked mouths, enlarged hooves, wider chests, and significantly higher shoulder heights.

Since then, all dynasties, the Central Plains Dynasty has attached great importance to the breeding of horses, and they clearly realized that "since ancient times, there are countries in the world, and they must focus on horse politics, so they ask the rich of the monarch, and they must count the horses." "For emperors and generals, having a tall horse is a symbol of status and ability, and it can also gain a great advantage on the battlefield. Coincidentally, after the Mongol expedition into Central Asia, it also began to quickly eliminate Mongolian horses and use good horses in Central Asia.

So how did the situation that China's native horses, which were significantly shorter than Europe and even Japan in the last century, happen? First of all, modern Europe and Japan have not been around since ancient times. These tall horses were gradually bred by hand after about the 17th century. For example, the British thoroughbreds, which are now world-class, have been bred since the mid-17th century. Most of the "Oriental horses" used by the Japanese army during the Anti-Japanese War were actually imported from Western countries, especially France.

In the long Middle Ages in Europe, owning several war horses was the standard for knights, and the more war horses, the better, the more noble knightly status. When marching, fighting, and even hunting, the knights had different mounts. The performance of horses in knightly jousting is more decisive than the winner, which is related to the ransom of prize money and equipment, so knights always choose the best horses to participate in jousting, which also contributed to the prosperity of horse breeding in European history.

Although the warriors of the Middle East fought to the death with their European counterparts, they had a lot of common language in selecting and breeding horses, and the horses used by the Middle Eastern tycoons to play polo and hunt even needed to be imported from India and other places. Medieval Europe and the Middle East were typical feudal lordship systems, a lord with hundreds of knights could make a king close, and a guard officer who could command hundreds of Ghulam's cavalry could also decide the fate of the sultan, so they were also willing to swing their mounts.

In addition, it should be said that the concepts of the so-called cold-blooded horses, hot-blooded horses, and warm-blooded horses are also modern products. Among them, cold-blooded horses have a docile temperament and strong body, so they are generally used for labor, and some are even used as meat breeding, especially the Adennass horse produced in northern France, which is a typical cold-blooded horse, strong, hard-working, docile, but the body is relatively sluggish. Of course, after the eighteenth century, with the development of human breeding technology, cold-blooded horses suitable for riding appeared, such as the Persh horse.

Hot-blooded horses, on the other hand, are generally considered to be the "thousand-mile horses" that are extremely fast and have a violent temperament, so they are more difficult to control. Because of the speed of the hot-blooded horse, it is mainly used as a riding horse. The famous Arabian horse is a typical hot-blooded horse. The famous British thoroughbred horse of modern times is also a horse of this kind.

As the name suggests, warm-blooded horses are generally crossed and bred by hot-blooded and cold-blooded horses. Warmblood horses tend to have both a relatively strong physique and a flexible and graceful body, and can take on some light agricultural work as well as a very tame riding horse. In many modern equestrian competitions, many riders ride warmbloods.

Secondly, while European horse breeds have entered artificial scientific breeding, Chinese horse breeds have been degraded. Especially after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, in order to prevent the Han rebellion, the Manchu rulers who started with cavalry had a deep understanding of the importance of horses, and strictly forbade Han civilians to raise horses. In addition to this, horses from the Mongolian steppes were strictly forbidden to enter the interior. As a result, horses in the interior began to deteriorate.

After the end of the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, due to years of war and political turmoil, it was impossible to systematically breed horses, so the horse breed was further degraded. By the time of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the average height of Chinese horses had dropped by as much as five centimeters. During the Anti-Japanese War, in order to establish cavalry, the New Fourth Army collected qualified horses everywhere, but even the regiment commander Peng Xuefeng could only hand over his horses to the cavalry regiment for use, which illustrated the difficulty of finding good horses at that time. In this case, it naturally highlights the tallness of the artificially bred European horse breeds of the Japanese invasion of China.

What Zhao Yu learned was that there was no shortage of good horses in this era, but it was also a fact that there was a shortage of horses in the Song Dynasty, and the poor quality of horses was also due to many reasons. First of all, after the loss of the sixteen states of Yanyun, the Song Dynasty lost the land of horse grazing, and could only rely on the introduction of horses through trade from Guangxi and Yunnan, and the horse breeds there were even shorter, which exacerbated the degradation of horse breeds; Moreover, even if you can buy horses from the nomads when you have a good relationship with them, they are all inferior horses after selection, and most of them have been gelding, and it is difficult to improve the horse breed in the hinterland.

The most important thing is the embargo caused by the war, which blocked the channels for the Song Dynasty to obtain war horses, and in the case of the lack of horses, it was impossible to improve it, and even implemented the horse policy of private horse breeding in order to solve the shortage of horses, which further led to the degradation of horse breeds, and the result of no war horses was that it was difficult to gain an advantage in the war......