Jeju Island was not famous for raising horses in ancient times, but after the Yuan Dynasty conquered the Goryeo Peninsula at that time, in order to ensure the demand for military horses, the entire Jeju Island was directly turned into a super-large horse farm.

In fact, it was not only Jeju, but in the area ruled by the Yuan Dynasty at that time, there were more than a dozen super-large horse farms that were government-run alone, and there were even more small and medium-sized horse farms.

The fundamental reason for this is that the Yuan Dynasty was fundamentally a military power regime that relied on high-pressure military deterrence to maintain its rule, so the demand for military horses was very huge.

In order to ensure the demand for military horses, this also made the Yuan Dynasty attach great importance to horse politics, so it did not hesitate to set up horse farms in many places with abundant water and grass, and in this process, I don't know how many people lost their land and reduced grain production on a large scale.

But it has to be said that the number of horses owned during the Yuan Dynasty was huge, even at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the horse administration was lax, but the horse stock in the entire Chinese region was still very large.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there was basically no shortage of horses in all kinds of rebel armies, especially Zhu Yuanzhang's army, people did not rely on infantry to overturn the Yuan army, but relied on cavalry to beat the Yuan army, and the fundamental reason was that the Jiangnan region at that time, and even the vast central and southern regions of China, had a large number of horses, and the quality of the horses was not bad.

Luzhou Horse Farm, which was the largest Yuan Dynasty official horse farm in the Central Plains at that time, he obtained a large number of war horses here, and then conquered Shandong, captured the Yidu Horse Farm, plus other messy small and medium-sized horse farms, and the people at that time also kept a large number of horses.

It was only then that the army under Zhu Yuanzhang had a large number of horses and armed a large-scale cavalry, thus killing the Yuan Dynasty.

By the time of the Ming Dynasty, although it also attached equal importance to horse politics, it was not able to be as crazy as the Mongols, daring to directly circle the most fertile land as a pasture to raise horses, so in the future, the horses were getting fewer and fewer, and the quality was getting lower and lower.

After the rise of the Tang Dynasty, in fact, there were no large-scale horse farms in the entire Central Plains, only some small and medium-sized horse farms, and the Tang Army wanted to develop cavalry, and even military transportation was seriously lacking in horses.

In order to develop cavalry and meet the needs of logistics and transportation, the Tang Dynasty opened several government-run horse farms many years ago, but the scale was relatively small, some of them were concentrated in Guizhou and some of Yunnan, mainly cultivating southwest horses.

The other part is concentrated in southern Anhui.

In the eighth year of Xuanping, after the complete unification of the domestic region, the scale of the government-run racecourse has been rapidly expanded, and at present, the whole country is combined, there are more than 50 government-run racecourses, but most of them are small and medium-sized racecourses, and only a few are large-scale racecourses, respectively, the Northwest Daying Racecourse, which is the first in the land of China, and it is also the most prestigious government-run racecourse, in addition to the Yidu Racecourse in Shandong Province, the Liaohetao Racecourse in Liaodong Province, the Jeju Racecourse, and the Dali Racecourse in Yunnan Province are also relatively large.

Except for the Yidu Racecourse, the rest of the above-mentioned horse farms are basically in relatively remote places!

There are many reasons why they go to a relatively remote area, and even run to an island like Jeju Island to run a government-run horse farm.

First of all, the restrictions are relatively large, now the population of the empire is large, the demand for food is very huge, and the empire is not the Yuan Dynasty regime, it is impossible to say that regardless of the life and death of ordinary peasants, directly forcibly occupy their land and assign it to the official horse farm, as for the paid expropriation, how much does it cost.

Therefore, most of the government-run horse farms in the local area, especially in the hinterland of the Central Plains, are actually grazing on the official fields, and there is basically no encroachment on the people's land, and the scale of the horse farms run in this way is naturally not as large as there.

Therefore, the relatively large horse farms are basically close to the border area, inaccessible, and there is no problem of more people and less land, and only Yidu Horse Farm is a special case. The other Damaying Racecourse in the Northwest and Yunnan Racecourse, the Liaohetao Racecourse in Liaodong and the Jeju Racecourse are all in remote places, and there is no Qinguang where horses occupy people's land.

And one of the Liaohe Horse Farm, although the geographical location is also very good, but this place is actually occupied by the Chahar tribe and even the tribe of Duoyan Sanwei, when the Tang Army entered Liaodong, they were also cleaned up, Chahar and other tribes in order to avoid falling into the Tang Empire and Altan Khan's two-headed attack, and finally chose to reach a secret agreement with the empire.

They ceded part of the Liaohetao region and sold large quantities of horses to the Tang Empire in exchange for the Empire to stop military strikes against them and to allow the export of musketeers, swords, plates, and other weapons.

In this way, the empire also obtained a part of the Liaohetao area, although it was not said that the entire Liaohetao area was taken over, but it was also obtained an area that was extremely suitable for grazing, and then a large horse farm was set up here, called the Liaohetao Horse Farm.

Eventually, it was here that the empire stationed an entire infantry division and cavalry division, to maintain a deterrent to the Chahar tribe, and also to protect the Liaohetao pastures just behind it.

It can be seen from this that this place is not safe at present, and it will be invaded by Chahar and other tribes at any time, so although this place is large, the empire is also stationed with heavy troops, and even began to build a dense fortress defense line, but in general, it is still not very appropriate, and the army is just grazing some ordinary horses here, and the number is not too much.

The empire's horses were bred in the Northeast region, mainly at Jeju horse farms.

Although Jeju Island is an island, its geographical conditions and climate are very suitable for raising horses, otherwise the Yuan Dynasty would not have chosen to open a large horse farm in this place.

Secondly, there are not many indigenous people in this place, and when the Goryeo Peninsula was just conquered, the officials of the empire naturally did not consider the feelings of the local natives, and a direct forced immigration came, which emptied the indigenous people of the entire island, making this place a complete horse farm.

Except for the staff of the horse farm, there are no other irrelevant people, let alone indigenous people.

This situation is almost impossible to appear in the Central Plains, because it is impossible for the empire to ignore the life and death of the peasants, and use a large area of fertile land to raise horses.