Tidying up the barracks and leaving it to Knight Eric, Tsepeš was confident that he would not slack off.

Ten minutes later, the first batch of supplies arrived, leaving two subordinate officers to be in charge of handover, and Tsepes led the people out of the city defense barracks.

Exiting the city from the south gate, less than 300 meters from the city gate, is a huge field surrounded by a wooden fence.

Here, there is the horse farm of the Basarab family, which is bred with dozens of excellent stallions.

The quality of the mount represents the level of status, which is still the case hundreds of years later, let alone in the Middle Ages, when aristocracy was rampant.

Bobu, Arabian, Taquema, Andalusian ...... Every breed of horse on the horse farm has a lot of value.

If you calculate the price, a pack horse can sell for ten gold coins, and a horse can sell for twenty gold coins.

A qualified war horse starts with fifty gold coins. And an excellent breed of horse costs several times more than an ordinary war horse.

Based on this calculation, the total value of the horses in the Basarab family horse farm is nearly 20,000 ducats.

Of course, horses are equivalent to face, and no big family will easily sell the breed horses in the horse farm.

The bred horses were either distributed to family members, or given as gifts to foreign nobles or vassals, in short, they could not be economically valued.

Bringing people into the horse farm, Tsepes came here for two purposes.

First of all, Zaltya is training here, which he has approved.

Came to the racecourse and communicated with the first batch of grassroots officers to consolidate their lofty position in their hearts.

Secondly, he wanted to give full play to the value of the racecourse and transform it into a professional racecourse.

Horse racing has always been a sport that the aristocracy is keen on, and various horse races are not uncommon.

But in this era, horse racing is still far from professional.

It wasn't until two hundred years later that the UK began to host professional races, and later the British Jockey Club, made billions of pounds in profits every year.

If, with the addition of the related gambling industry, the revenue should be at least tenfold magnified.

With such a huge profit cake, Cepes does not want to let go, and must get a big piece from it.

Vladice's engagement ceremony gave him a good opportunity, and the newly unveiled cream cake would become a bait to attract the aristocracy.

Everything was planned, and the next thing to do was to get all the preparations done before Vladys got engaged.

Combing through his thoughts, Cepes led his entourage through a large meadow that had just sprouted.

"Listen to me, infantry against cavalry, take the lead in attacking horses.

Seeing that there is no such position, just poke it in, and you can pierce the horse's heart. ”

Far away, you can hear Zartya's voice.

At his side, there was a pure white Andalusian horse, without a single stray hair.

Zartya held a branch and pointed to the right rib of the white horse, and the breed horse worth more than 300 gold coins became a teaching prop.

I don't know which bastard it is, at this time the interface said:

"Sir, are you looking for a horse to practice your hands and lay a good foundation for future actual combat."

"Shut up!"

Zartya glared at the bastard who spoke, but for a different reason than most people thought.

"War horses don't stand still and wait for you to kill, let alone enemies right away.

If you really want to practice, I'll fight you on a horse, and either you stab the horse to death, or I'll hack you to death.

How about it, want to try it? ”

The bastard boy who had a bad idea shook his head again and again, he just said it casually, but he didn't want to lose his life because of it.

Listening to the conversation inside, Cepes smiled slightly, and then walked around the two wooden walls and appeared in the large open space of Zaltya's teaching.

Zaltya is right when he says that practice is the only criterion for testing truth.

However, training and teaching are equally important, and only when you are well prepared can you be more likely to survive in actual combat. ”

Tsepes's voice sounded, and the crowd had been reviewed, and knowing Tsepes's voice, they immediately turned around and knelt down on one knee in salute.

Without a hurry to get everyone up, Cepes continued:

"I need you, and I will pass on all the knowledge I have learned from Zartya to your future soldiers."

"Yes! Grand Duke! ”

"Be a good trainer!"

The crowd remained on one knee and made loud reassurances, as did Arthur, who was in the crowd.

In fact, since he was a child, he has followed the knights of his family and learned about combat, and his knowledge is far beyond that of the civilian-born soldiers around him.

But in order to integrate into the collective and fulfill Tepes's instructions, he was very serious and kept pace with the rest of the soldiers.

Inadvertently, smiling at Arthur, Tsepes waved his hand and said:

"Everyone, get up, you continue to train, and the day after tomorrow, the training location will be changed to the city defense barracks.

There will be some mercenaries stationed there, and you can discuss combat skills with each other and even practice against each other. ”

Without interfering with the training, after the face-to-face shot, Cepes left the training ground and began to plan the racecourse.

Returning to the lawn he had just crossed, he instructed the subordinate officers beside him:

"Here, an oval runway is enclosed with low fences with large spacing.

The width of the runway is initially set at 30 meters, and the circumference is not less than 1,600 meters. ”

"Here, build a grandstand, two-thirds of the open area, and the remaining one-third will be built into luxury boxes."

"Over there, the same elliptical runway is enclosed, but the grass and pebbles are cleared and arranged into a flat dirt floor."

……

Grass races, clay races, spectator seats, aristocratic boxes, Cepes made plans one by one.

The subordinate officer in charge of the renovation on the side, based on Cepes's account, quickly drew two brief drawings.

Looking at the drawings, Tsepes nodded with satisfaction and said:

"The painting is good, so it will be built according to this specification, and it will be built before April 1."

"Your Excellency, the construction period is too short, and it is impossible to complete such a large amount of work on time."

The subordinate officer was full of hesitation, and finally said it, otherwise the consequences would be more serious than rebuttal in person.

"Doesn't a month be enough for all wooden structures and simple splicing of wooden planks?" Tsepes asked.

"Wooden structures can be easily damaged during the rainy season, are you sure?"

The subordinate officials in charge don't want to be settled by the autumn queen, so even if they offend Cepesh, they must tell the disadvantages in advance.

"Do what I say and keep costs as low as possible."

Tsepes started a racecourse in order to make money, and it was impossible for him to invest a large amount of money until he made a profit.

When he gets the first pot of gold and determines that the racecourse is a more profitable business, he will consider increasing investment.

When the time comes, his racecourse will open to Hungary, to the Kingdom of Poland, to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

To plunder the wealth of these countries by legal means, or by less than legal means.

Of course, in order to ensure the normal operation of the business, he will look for business partners in these countries.

The high degree of autonomy of the lords provided convenience precisely for this.