Chapter 461 The Hu people's war horses also have spring
On the hill, when Fei Qian arrived, Yu Fuluo was sitting on the ground alone, gently tapping the table and humming an unknown ballad. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The Hu people seem to be born singers, perhaps the empty landscape of the prairie has developed their rich and expansive voices, and the same is true of Yu Fuluo's singing, although Fei Qian can't understand what the specific sentences are, but from that melodious, he can also feel the nostalgia of Yu Fuluo's hometown......
After singing the song, Fei Qian gently high-fived and praised, "Just because of good interest, I can also sing a good ballad, which is quite vast and vast." ”
Yu Fuluo stood up to greet him and said, "Feishang County has won the award, it is just the pastoral song of my hometown, and I will sing it at will...... Come, please take a seat......"
It seems that he has been staying with the sheep for too long, or he has eaten too much mutton, and he can always smell a strong smell of mutton about three meters to Fuluo's side.
Sheep in the Han Dynasty were basically not castrated.
In other words, in the Han Dynasty, the vast majority of animals were free, except for humans.
As early as the Xia and Shang periods, there has been the emergence of castration and animal husbandry, but on the contrary, the castration technology of the human body is at the forefront, human beings are the first animals to be castrated on a large scale, and they are the first animals to be strictly regulated by the entire castration steps and measures, and there is even a special castration room, called the "silkworm room......
Yu Fuluo would never have thought of thinking about castration while Fei Qian was sitting together, otherwise he would have held the meat cutting knife tightly in his hand.
Today's treat in Fuluo, of course, is still the old three, cheese, mutton, mare's milk wine......
The cheese is not purified and filtered, of course, as the leader of the tribe, the dignified single Yu, it will be relatively delicate, but it is also limited, the shape in front of you, although the color is not black, but it is estimated that there are some problems in that link, most of them are not carefully stored, resulting in a little dust, some gray, and sometimes a little sand.
Mutton, it's still old, full of mutton flavor. If in later generations it was sensitive to the smell of mutton, then in the Han Dynasty, it was basically impossible to eat large-scale animal meat. Beef is the best, but the cow is not something that can be eaten if you want to, and the rest, the sheep is extremely fat, the pig is extremely sassy, choose one of the two.
Of course, there are some chickens, ducks and fish, but that is not often seen, the main reason is that there is no large-scale breeding, all of them are sold by farmers, and once the large-scale chickens and ducks have a plague, it is also very terrible.
There are also fish, people in Yangzhou still like to eat raw fish, but because the fish is dehydrated and dies, and there is no means of transportation, so it is not easy to eat fish in the remote inland and mountainous areas.
"Shan Yu, it's going to settle down for a while...... Fei Qian said slowly, holding a knife and cutting the mutton. The meat on the lamb chops is fat and lean, chewy, and the taste is very fragrant after being grilled, especially the half-burnt fat that bursts out between the lips and teeth, which is simply mouth-watering.
Yu Fuluo was stunned when he heard this, his thick black eyebrows were basically about to stand up, he tilted his upper body, ignoring the sheepskin robe on his body and the greasy mutton on the plate, stared at Fei Qian tightly, and said in a deep voice: "What does Fei Shangjun mean by this, is he ready to break his promise?" ”
Originally, Yu Fuluo invited Fei Qian to a banquet in order to be able to finalize the specific steps and time, otherwise Yu Fuluo's heart was also hanging in mid-air, but before he could speak, he heard Fei Qian's words, if it weren't for the experience over the years that Yu Fuluo's character had calmed down a lot, I am afraid that he would have already lifted the table......
Fei Qian didn't panic, and said: "Spring is warm, everything grows, and it's season...... Did Shan Yu want to go to the Southern Royal Court without riding a horse? ”
Yu Fuluo's eyes widened, and then he blinked a few times before he reacted: "This ...... I didn't expect ...... Feishang County even ...... about this This ......" Yu Fuluo was also a little embarrassed for a while, and he didn't know how to evaluate Fei Qian.
After March, as the weather warms, horses are gradually entering the estrus period, this animal behavior will not be transferred because of human wishes, in May, large-scale reproduction will begin, this behavior will continue until July and August, and then will gradually enter the period of astrualness, the horses that are not much brain capacity will gradually recover some reason, know how to distinguish between friend and foe, will obey the master's orders.
Otherwise, as long as there is a mare in heat, all the stallions will go crazy, regardless of biting each other, they don't care if it's their own side or the enemy's, even if the bite is bloody and they don't care, in order to be able to cool it, well, cool it a few times......
Fei Qian nodded and didn't say anything.
After all, the Han and the Hu are not the same.
Because the Hu people belong to the nomadic people, the territory is vast, and there are few battles between each other under normal circumstances, even if there are generally people who want to fight for inheritance rights in Fuluo, or fight for grassland, but the Han people are different, from the Warring States period, it has become four seasons all year round, and disputes are continuous, from spring to summer, from summer to autumn, from autumn to winter......
In order to allow the horses to adapt to long battles and reduce the distress caused by seasonal problems, the horses are basically castrated.
Later, even the horses sold by the Hu people to the Han people were castrated first......
And the horses brought by Yu Fuluo to the south are mostly in a natural state, and only a few are castrated, and now that it is this season, even if it leaves for the royal court immediately, it is basically the season, and there is chaos between the horses, how can they fight?
Halfway through the charge, then turn in pairs and go into the side of the woods to cool off......
Ahem.
Yu Fuluo also remembered this matter, and he also scratched his head, he couldn't castrate all the horses now, this kind of behavior is like killing chickens and eggs in a ruined kettle, a hammer deal, in case it can't be done in the royal court, there will be no follow-up.
"Alas! How is this a good ......" Yu Fuluo was really anxious, and he didn't want to delay for a moment, but the difficulties in reality were also in front of him, without Fei Qian's cooperation, there was still no way to do it with his own strength, and Fei Qian obviously wouldn't catch up with his old book, and he would do his best to complete his wish to recover the royal court for him, they were all using each other, so they could only act together, and whoever left couldn't do it.
"It's not like you can't do anything now, just take a look......" Fei Qian stood up and pointed to the land around Pingyang that people had begun to cultivate, and instantly put on a look full of emotion on his face.
“…… These lands have been abandoned for a long time, but for the sake of Shan Yu's great cause, we have overcome many difficulties, just looking at the other side, the canal has to be re-excavated silt, repair the water, this project is very hard......"
“…… Although the land is newly cultivated, it can quickly produce grain, and it only takes half a year to start harvesting, which can provide us with more grain and grass reserves...... As you can see, the soil has to be turned, planted, and fertilized...... It's dirty, smelly, and it's very hard...... You can understand this alone, right? ”
Yu Fuluo was stunned, nodded, and suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart......