Chapter 839: BMW

Su Youcai didn't bother to pay attention to how they understood, and smiled at Zhang San: "The third brother is reliable." ”

Zhang San said with a smile: "This time I got thirty horses of the kind that the young master said, it was really an eye-opener." It was a small half of the boat that died in a bump, but fortunately, he recuperated for two months while Danliu was waiting for the wind, and now he is strong again, and there are eleven stallions and five mares left. ”

Su You's flesh hurt when he heard it, this horse is also sky-high over there, and half of it died at once, and the loss was great.

Seeing Su You's appearance of being a good man, Zhang San pulled Su You aside and whispered to Su You: "Young master, no one wants to sell these horses, I led a team to attack a tribe and robbed them!" It's a pity that this thing is really hard to bring, otherwise there could be more. ”

Su You's face looked better, patted Zhang San's shoulder, and said loudly: "It turned out to be picked up, it seems that there are so many treasures in the Great Food Country, they can all be picked up, what about horses?" ”

Zhang San said: "Scattering hooves on the shore is too precious, and it is better than anyone else." ”

Su You still felt sorry: "It's a pity, I was forced to take the sea route to transport stallions, my Da Song is so miserable." ”

Zhang San said with a smile: "But thanks to Pu Li, when we were looking for glue, we got another kind of Persian horse, which we thought was good, and we also got thirty horses, and spent a full thirty catties of gold." ”

It sounds so scary, but it's actually a pound of gold and a horse, and the Great Song Dynasty is now one or two gold and thirty yuan, and one pound is only forty-eight yuan, which is so cheap that it is crazy, and the difficult thing is the kung fu that is served.

Seeing Su You nodding again and again, Zhang San said: "This kind of horse is much easier to serve than the kind that the young master is looking for, it is resistant to rough feeding, and it is much more docile, and I only lost five horses along the way." ”

Su You found it incredible, and with his extremely limited knowledge of horses, he couldn't believe that there were better horses in the world than Arabian horses.

After a while, the horses returned, and a dozen men dressed in big food were in charge of grazing.

Pu Li greeted him in his hometown, and these people came over to salute Su You.

Su You couldn't pull out his eyes when he saw those horses.

It is recorded in the "Zhou Li": "A horse above eight feet is a dragon, a horse above seven feet is a horse, and six feet is a horse." ”

In today's "Xining Jinshi Catalogue", the scale of the Zhou Dynasty has been obtained, and Sima Guang and Liu Fengshi have determined that one foot of the Zhou Dynasty is 23 centimeters after research.

To change to the height of Ryoma, it needs to be more than 1.8 meters.

However, this data is not scientific, and now Song Ma is not calculated according to height, but according to body height, that is, from the ground to the highest position of the shoulder blade.

Because it is the legs and the body that determine the speed of the horse.

Five feet is the standard of good horses, five and a half feet, it is the top standard, and now there are only a few of them in Erlinbu and Wolf Crossing, all of which are extremely precious stallions.

Before Su You got a few five-and-a-half-foot-tall horses from Erlinbu, Qingtang, and Langzuo, the tallest horse in the Great Song Dynasty was a crested horse in the Imperial Qiji Courtyard, five feet and four inches.

Su You doesn't know anything about raising horses, he is proficient in pig raising.

Fortunately, I have watched a lot of Westerns in later generations, and I generally know what modern stables and horse farms are all about, and I also know the importance of trace elements, minerals, proteins and other things in concentrate feed.

Starting from the chicken and duck feed pig and fish feed in Kelong, and then teaching the method to the Second Forest Department, after exploring for so many years, coupled with the preparation process of dry material and green storage, the Second Forest Department has also explored a set of methods for the intensive breeding of horses in the Great Song Dynasty.

However, despite the technology, there is an extreme lack of good stallions, and so far the Wolf Crossing Horse Farm still relies on the few stallions such as Qilian Cong, Salu, Zizhao, Yebai, etc., which are not easy to get.

In the Great Song Dynasty, there was only one person who could be extravagant enough to use five pure white five-and-a-half-foot horses to pull a cart for himself, which was equivalent to a person driving five limited-edition Ferraris on the road at the same time in later generations, and that was Zhao Ji.

And this group of horses, each of them is more than five and a half feet.

The difference between the two kinds of horses is still very big, and Su You can recognize the one he wants at a glance, because that kind of horse has one of the most striking characteristics, and it is also the only characteristic that Su You knows - the root of the horse's tail is upturned.

"This is the Great Dragon-Eating Species!"

Zhang San smiled: "Young master has good eyesight." ”

Compared with another horse, the Arabian horse is indeed much more beautiful, mainly because the head is shorter, the neck is longer, the legs are thinner, and the whole is full of beauty and grace.

The other kind of horse, which looks more robust and rustic.

But the delicate ones are more sensitive and difficult to serve, and the rough ones are docile and not easy to excite.

In all fairness, both horses have made Su You more satisfied.

Zhang San continued: "In terms of products, we found Persian dates, as well as a bunch of various mustard greens, the kind of gum grass that the young master said was found in the Persian horse production area, and we also found a kind of oiled palm in Besli, and another kind of olive ...... that produced oil."

Su You asked, "Where did you find that...... The Great Stone Tomb is not? ”

Zhang San said with a smile: "The young master is really well-informed, there is a river there, the water is green and blue, and the local rivers are dry in the dry season, but this river is as usual." ”

"The residents there said the same thing as Lao Ai, we really found the big stone mausoleum you said near that river, it was really too big...... There are also various huge statues. ”

"The people there only grow wheat and eat meat, I heard that some people are seventy or eighty years old, and they haven't seen rain yet, as long as it rains, the place will be a disaster, young master, do you think it's funny?"

"Hahahaha......" Su You smiled very comfortably.

That's no problem, when Su You was collecting information from overseas countries in Hangzhou, according to what the merchants said, it was speculated that Besri was in Egypt, but he didn't know whether it was right or not, with such a big landmark as the pyramid, Su You knew that Zhang San's voyage had arrived in Africa.

Su You said with a smile: "When Shao Ziwen comes back, you and the third brother can co-write a copy of "The Chronicles of the Sea Kingdom", with wax engraved illustrations, as well as the longitude and latitude markers of various countries, it is so beautiful to think about......

Zhang San was very worried: "I hope they have already set off, if it is delayed for another two months, even if our schooner has the ability to cut the wind, I am afraid we will have to wait another year......

Saying this, Su You was also a little worried, but said: "Shao Ziwen is rare and stable among the younger generation, I believe he will not take risks blindly." ”

Over the next few days, the fleet was busy preparing.

The next voyage was a tailwind, and from here to Hangzhou, it would take a month for a normal sailboat and fifteen days for a schooner.

It's almost a straight line, and it's the last test for BMWs, and you really need to be prepared.

Su You was picking out interesting things for Shi Wei.

There are too many good things, the southern neighboring country, that is, the later Bengal generation, the pearl producing area, the pearls brought back by the fleet this time, like wheat, two thousand six hundred!

The ivory came from Africa, now called the hemp woodland, and Su You doesn't know where it is, but looking at the length and diameter of the teeth, it is obvious that it is an African elephant.

And it's a super big African elephant, and Su You is estimated to be the kind that is about to die of old age.

Come to think of it, if it is a fierce African male elephant, today's little black people are afraid that they will not be able to do it.

Zhang San said that their favorite was the shiny copper coin, brass was regarded as gold, white copper was regarded as silver, and Chinese characters were regarded by them as magical runes, which were considered to be things with magical power.

The kind-hearted Song people used a difficult sign language to make them understand that these things were not the same thing as gold and silver.

I can't help but stop people, it's good to take this bite, and it's really good to get foreign money.

There are also glass bead jewelry, which is also their favorite.

I don't know how big it is, and Zhang San didn't dare to continue along the coastline to the south anyway.

Lao Ai's hometown was still in turmoil, and the rulers of the Xiongnu blood did not seem to be very interested in Lao Ai's knowledge, they were interested in silk, tea, porcelain and spices.

It's amazing that their love for spices is even far greater than that of the Song people.

It can be said that except for not burning incense when walking, the rest of the incense is burned at almost all times.

Therefore, although they have a lot of spices, it does not prevent them from welcoming the spices that Zhang San brought with them.

Because Zhang San's spices are finished products that have been secretly crafted through complex recipes, each one is something that refreshes their three views.

It's a pity that I don't bring much, and what I really care about is porcelain.

Lao Ai exchanged the huge pilaf plate with their Bible written on it for books and astronomical instruments in a warehouse.