Chapter 1179: The Man Who Sets the Horse
A basket of carrots lured back nine sweaty and bloody horses, this matter swept through Xianyang like a tornado, and soon spread throughout the land of Guanzhong with the business travel, and in more than a month, this matter will spread to Daqin and even the land of Siyi with the newspapers.
Two days later, Han Xin, who had been seeing the dragon all the time, didn't know where to run back to Qinghe Courtyard to inquire about it, and after learning that Chen Xu had given eight horses that were difficult to buy to Fusu and Meng Yun and others, he regretted falling and stumbling in his chest.
"How can you blame me, you don't come home all day, I almost forgot about you!" Chen Xupi said while drinking tea without smiling.
"Alas, I regret it, I shouldn't have followed a group of guys from the military department to inspect the Liyang Arsenal!" Han Xin regretted pulling his hair.
"Okay, okay, the yellow horse you are riding now is also a rare Hun horse, or the king sent me in the autumn last year, and this sweaty horse has a violent temperament, and it takes a lot of fine materials to feed on weekdays, raising a horse costs at least 50,000 yuan a year, and there is no other use except riding the wind, if you like it, go and discuss with Yu Ji first, and let her lend you the black horse to ride for a period of time in a few days......"
"Hehe, why didn't my brother say it earlier!" Before Chen Xu's words fell, Han Xin had already disappeared, and soon after, Yu Ji hurriedly came to Chen Xu with a pout, saying that Brother Xin had Chen Xu's consent and rode Wu Hu away.
"Don't worry, he'll send you back in a moment......"
Before Chen Xu finished his words, he saw a steward running in from outside to report: "Master Hou, the second master was just thrown into the ditch by the black horse at the door!" ”
"Did you fall or not?" Chen Xu stood up and asked eagerly.
"It seems...... No, the second master got up on his own! ”
"That's good, what about the black horse? Ran away? ”
"Well, Wu Xiao didn't run, he went to the vegetable garden to find carrots!" The steward replied with a strange face.
"Let's go, let's see!" Chen Xu walked out of the living room, Yu Ji followed him, and the two followed the steward to the courtyard when they saw Han Xin limping in.
"Brother, this black horse has a very violent temper, and I was thrown off as soon as I got on the horse!" Han Xin smiled bitterly and shook his head, rubbing his arms and calves and said.
"Furrizzy, you ran away before I finished speaking, this Dawan horse was originally a wild horse, wild and untamable and fierce, strangers usually can't get close, otherwise those Dawan merchants want to bet with me in such a big battle, if it weren't for the carrots, I wouldn't be able to win back any of these horses!" Chen Xu couldn't cry or laugh.
"Alas, forget it, this horse still needs to be raised for a while!"
Han Xin went back to the room to wash and change clothes dejectedly, Chen Xu took Yu Ji to the vegetable garden, and sure enough, he saw that Wu Xiao had found a piece of planted carrots and was eating Zhenghuan.
Horses love to eat carrots, this is what Chen Xu found in the winter of the year before last, in fact, not only horses, reunion and two giant pandas also like to eat carrots, so last year Chen Xu began to plant carrots on a large scale, not only in the greenhouse, but also in the vegetable garden specially opened up a few acres of land for sowing.
The carrot contains a variety of vitamins and a large amount of carotene, is a highly nutritious vegetable highly respected by later nutritionists, and in order to increase nutrition for several pregnant wives, carrots are also changed tricks to cook, carrot fried meat, carrot stewed chicken, carrot stewed pork ribs, cold carrot shredded, carrot juice to make steamed buns, carrot porridge, and this sweet vegetable has also been unanimously liked by everyone, Chen Xu will eat one raw if he has nothing to do.
The carrot itself is produced in Central Asia, which is exactly the location of Dawan Daxia, so it is inevitable for Dawan horses to eat wild carrots.
Along the way, the dining wind and the dew were hungry and far away from their homeland, but they didn't expect to be able to eat a bite of the taste of their hometown, for this group of Dawan horses, Chen Xu is simply their savior, a crisp carrot, directly destroyed the most stubborn and wild strong will in their hearts.
And now, Wu Hao found that the new owner's family had planted a large field of tender and delicious carrots, so he decided not to go, and honestly stayed down as a mount, of course, provided that the carrots were given.
A guy came running to put a saddle and stirrup on him, because he didn't give him a carrot, so he was thrown into the wheat field, but because he was in a good mood for the past two days, he didn't kick him.
"Master Hou, this Wu Xiao can't just eat carrots, right?" A middle-aged man in a cyan robe walked over and said with a little worry.
"No, Wu Hu is similar to a hungry ghost right now, the food has been out for too long, and he needs a good meal to relieve his hunger, it will definitely be good in a few days, he will be well fed on weekdays, put a few young mares sent from Donghu in the Western Regions and put it together, maybe next year he will get a few good horses with docile personalities, this Wu Qi has too strong temperament, I'm afraid Yu Ji can't control it!"
"Master Hou rest assured, I will definitely take care of Wu Hu carefully!" The middle-aged man hurriedly surrendered his hand.
This middle-aged man in a green shirt is named Wang Xun, a famous Soma celebrity in Xianyang, his ancestral home is Zhao, and he heard that his ancestor is also a powerful figure in the Soma world of the same era as Bole Jiufangyan, named Wang Liang.
In the "Lü's Spring and Autumn Period" compiled by Lü Buwei organized thousands of guests, the observation chapter lists in detail many celebrities in the Soma world during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and various genres are listed, but Zhao Zhiwang Liang, Qin Zhibole, and Jiufangyan are the most respected together, which shows that these people have real skills.
During this time, Chen Xu also took the time to make up for the knowledge of taming horses and raising horses, and by the way, he also learned about the more famous figures in the Xianyang horse world, and he had indeed heard of Wang Xun, and even Meng Yun and others highly respected him.
This Wang Xun claims to be the ancestor of Wang Liang, although no one knows whether it is boasting, but it is indeed very famous in the Xianyang horse world, all the good horses confirmed by his nodding are worth immediately doubled, so Wang Xun is the guest of all Xianyang horse merchants, I heard that it costs thousands of dollars to move once, and if it is not a real good horse, Wang Xun is not even too lazy to face, even if he sends an apprentice, it is a face.
The famous celebrities and lowly businessmen are still incomparable in today's Great Qin.
From the Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring States Period, the Chinese civilization flourished and flourished, and a hundred schools of thought were born, and the Soma school was one of them.
Nowadays, with the increasing prosperity of Daqin and Fusu, the population is also growing explosively, and at least 100,000 horses are introduced into the Central Plains every year from the Liangxi Regions of the Liao Dynasty and other places, these horses are free-range grazing in the grasslands outside the Guan, and even in order to get good horse breeds, they have to graze together with wild horses, and the Hu people never raise horses with equipment, they are naked, and when they reach adulthood, they will arrange the master of the horse to wield the sleeve pole to chase and capture, and this custom is still the case after thousands of years.
Thou art mighty and majestic, Thou art a man of a horse,
Galloping horses like the wind,
The endless wilderness wanders with you,
Your heart is as wide as the earth
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Every time he thinks of the galloping horses and herdsmen on the grassland outside the Guan, Chen Xu will come up with this divine comedy in his mind.
It is precisely because with the rise of Daqin that the market for horses is getting bigger and bigger, so Wang Xun's identities as Soma celebrities are becoming more and more popular.
Wang Xun has a prominent reputation, and is also interested in Dawan horses, two days ago and Jiufangkui, Yang Di and a group of celebrities in the Xianyang horse industry came to visit Chen Xu, inquiring about the details of Dawan horses at the same time, but also want to get Chen Xu's support, many people want to go to Dawan to see Western horses and even wild horses.
All the good horses in the world were originally unruly wild horses, and all the horses with docile habits that have been bred and crossed by countless generations of human beings are almost without exception very ordinary.
There is an unwritten tradition in the Soma world, that is, the real good horse can be found in the wild horse, and the real good horse also has a characteristic, that is, the temper is not good, generally not ridden, so it will be disliked, because all the people who use horses want their horses to be docile, eat less, run fast and be durable, so many good horses in the world, in fact, because of their bad temper, will be sold by their owners, and they will be turned upside down, which is why there is a saying that Maxima often has and Bole does not often have.
For a group of celebrities in the Xianyang horse world, Chen Xu was still quite enthusiastic, brought Wu Hu over for them to observe and discuss carefully, and told them that he was ready to write to the emperor to open a Tianshan ranch in the Western Regions, and was ready to introduce pure blood blood BMW, East Huma, Xiongnu horse and Yueshi Wusun and other good horses in the Western Regions for crossbreeding, and cultivated a new horse breed that is cold-tolerant, heat-resistant, hungry, thirst-resistant, enduror, long-lasting, and fast-paced, so as to provide better mounts for the army and the people of Daqin.
Chen Xu's words made a group of Soma celebrities excited, and they all said that once this plan was implemented, they would definitely join in and go to Donghu, Xiongnu, Western Regions and Dawan to help find the best horse breeds, and Wang Xun said on the spot that he was willing to stay in the Qinghe Marquis Mansion to help take care of this black horse, and find out the temperament of Dawan horse in advance.
For Wang Xun's request, Chen Xu couldn't ask for it, it is not easy to find a good groom at the moment, and for a sweaty BMW like Wu Hu, an ordinary good groom is not enough, it must be a top groom who is very, very familiar with horses, and Wang Xun is such a figure who is difficult to find in the world.
Chen Xu offered Wang Xun a salary of 2,000 yuan per month, which was dispensable for Wang Xun, but he was willing.
The Marquis of Qinghe is known as the imperial eater, and he conquered this group of fierce-tempered Dawan horses with only a basket of carrots, so these Soma celebrities also have a sense of sudden enlightenment in the eccentricity, and it seems that taming horses can have some more unconventional means and methods, such as giving some delicious food to their liking......