The deserters from the forts were taken to the guerrilla camps one after another to be trained by the instructors.

As for those Tartars, they were left in Datong Mansion and handed over to Li Hua for personal training.

Wang Zezhi specially confessed that Wang Sanlang must not know about the existence of these tartars.

Wang Sanlang hates Tartar, and if he knows about it, I'm afraid something will happen.

At present, the north of Datong Mansion needs to be rebuilt, and the military camp outside the city also needs to be built.

These constructions require the purchase of a large amount of wood and stone, but fortunately, there are many merchants in the city of Datong Prefecture, and these things are not difficult to buy.

After instructing these things, Wang Zezhi began to think about other things.

The excerpt he wrote to Song Tongyin, the governor of Shanxi, has not been replied to yet, this is because it takes time for Song Tongyin to send the excerpt to Chen Qiyu, and it also takes time for Chen Qiyu to return it to Song Tongyin, and Wang Zezhi will not receive a reply from the excerpt in a short time.

Since this was the case, he began to talk about another thing.

Buy a horse.

The reason why Li Zicheng and the peasant army were able to rush east and west, dragging to death one team after another to exterminate his officers and soldiers, was because he had many horses and ran fast.

Therefore, Wang Zezhi wondered if he could also form a cavalry.

When Wang Xian returned from Mongolia, he told Wang Zezhi some inside stories about Tatar horse sales.

When Tatar horses are born, they do a test of leaving the foal at the bottom of the mountain and tying the mare to the top of the mountain.

If the foal can leap up from the bottom of the hill to the mare, it is a good horse to keep for yourself.

If the foal jumps halfway up the mountain and walks up to find the mare, it's a meat pony, and it's killing and eating meat.

If the foal is too cowardly to jump up, sell it to Daming.

The king first went to the city of naturalization and paid twice the price, and then bought the good horse back in the hands of the Tartars.

The Ming and Tatar markets each other, and the horses exchanged for are basically the worst and worst horses, and the Ming is the one who loses in the transaction.

The Ming Dynasty was willing to engage in a "mutual market" with the Tatars in order to stabilize the Tatars.

But from the four years of Longqing, "I answered the tribute", the Tatars came to sell horses every year, and the Ming Dynasty used money to buy them every year for peace, and the horses were not used to buy them back, because the people in the court knew that these horses were not good, so they were sent to the horse farm to raise.

That is to say, the Ming Dynasty raised the horses of the county officials, the horse officials, the horse dealers, the Taifu Temple doctors, the horse inspectors, and even the Taifu Temple, the military officials, and the powerful families in the capital, the war horses they bought from the Mongols were useless, and if you want to have good war horses, you have to go to Mongolia to buy.

However, Wang Xian had already led people out of the fortress to sell coal.

Wang Ze didn't know where to get a horse for a while.

"My lord, the Niu family in Pingding Prefecture, the cowherd asks to see you."

"Oh? Hurry up and please. Wang Zezhi remembered that this guy was in the livestock business, and there was a big family behind him, maybe they were also in the war horse business.

"Congratulations, congratulations."

The cowherd carried two large boxes of gifts and came to Wang Zezhi's tent to congratulate him.

"You're pretty well informed."

"My lord, Miao, businessmen, there will still be some news from the south to the north." The Cowherd handed the gift to the guard, arched his hand, and stood under Wang Ze.

The words that the Cowherd said made Wang Zezhi's mind flash, but he forgot it in the blink of an eye.

"You are the one who has nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, say, what is the matter with me?"

Wang Zezhi looked at the cowherd and didn't talk nonsense, and asked straight to the point. The picture is broadcast all over the world

"Hey, hey... Just waiting for your words. The Cowherd looked left and right.

"It's all my henchmen here, don't worry."

"War horses." The Cowherd bent down and bowed his head, leaned in front of Wang Zezhi and whispered.

Wang Zezhi stood up with a sigh and commanded loudly.

"Come on, serve the food, hahaha..."

It's really dozing off, and someone comes to deliver pillows.

Wang Zezhi was overjoyed and pulled the cowherd to drink and eat.

"You take your seat." The cowherd bent down and stretched out his hand, asking Wang Zezhi to sit on the main seat, and waited for Wang Zezhi to sit down before he sat down.

"Sit and sit, Brother Niu has come all the way, the journey is tiring, come, I will toast you."

"." The Cowherd drank it all, turned the cup upside down, and signaled him to drink it all, and Wang Zezhi did the same, drinking it all.

"Brother Niu's war horse, where did it come from?" Wang Zezhi asked urgently.

"The people and herdsmen, the tea horses, and the city horses know, right?"

According to the situation of the households, the high-quality war horses are handed over to the breeders, and the foals are paid on time. At the same time, half of the land rent of horse-raising households will be reduced.

Minmu was first practiced in Yingtian Liufu, Chuhe and Erzhou during the Hongwu period.

In the twelfth year of Yongle, the Huma Law was reformed, and at the same time as it was implemented in the South Zhili region, it began to be implemented in the North Zhili area, and Xuande was implemented in Jinan, Yanzhou, and Dongchang in four years, and it was promoted to Zhangde, Weihui, and Kaifeng in the eleventh year of orthodoxy.

In the fourteenth year of orthodoxy, after the Mongol Warat Department also invaded first, the Ming Dynasty adjusted the stallions originally placed in the Gyeonggi area to Yongping Province and other places, and there were fourteen provinces in the north to undertake the people's herding and military horses, and Datong Mansion was also among them.

For the management of herdsmen, the main ones are:

Horse breeders, at the age of 15, will become a horse until the age of 60.

During the Hongwu period, "eleven households in the south of the Yangtze River and five households in the north of the Yangtze River raised one horse and recovered it." ”

During the Yongle period, the northern five dings raised a horse.

Fengyang, Luzhou, Yangzhou, Chuzhou, and Hezhou in the south, five dings raise a horse; Yingtian, Taiping, Zhenjiang, ten Ding raise a horse. Huai and Xu Chu raised horses, and also took Ding as the rate.

Horse pack specifications. A group of ten horses in the north, two males and eight females. A group of 5 horses in the south, 1 male and 4 female.

Herd management. A group of horses is managed by one person at the head of the group, and one person is managed by the leader of the five groups.

Number of stallions. In the sixth year of Hongzhi, it was determined that the total number of stallions under the jurisdiction of the two capitals was 25,000 stallions and 100,000 mares.

Levy on foals. Yongle began in the twelfth year, and a horse was recruited at the age of one. In the first year of Hongxi, it was changed to a two-year-old levy and a horse, and half of the grass grain was exempted. At the beginning of Chenghua, it was changed to three years to levy a horse. Chenghua for six years, and two years for a horse system. In addition, Jingtai stipulates that stallions that are 18 years old and mare who are more than 20 years old are exempt from being counted as foals.

Superintendent of the annual examination. "The first year of the year to June is reported to be a colt, from July to October is a foal, and in November and February a heavy foal is reported." "At the end of the year, Ma Zheng will be examined, and the state and county officials will be ruled by law." "At the age of three, he was branded with one person, and he chose his good and his bad." "If the stallion dies, the breeding is not counted, and the compensation is compensated."

Tea horses are a system in which the tea and horse divisions are responsible for trading horses with tea with the nomadic tribes in the northwest.

In Hongwuzhong, tea and horse divisions were set up in Sichuan and Shaanxi, and horses were traded with the nomadic tribes in the northwest.

First adopt the gold medal system, "listen to the Western Pana Ma Yi tea, and give gold medal letter to prevent fraud." Every three years of age, the courtiers are summoned to all kinds of transactions".

Originally, under this system, the war horses that came back from the tea and horse trade were all good horses.

City horses, that is, the system of buying horses from border towns or from foreigners or from the people for military purposes.

The city horse law began in the Yongle period and was still implemented until the early years of Wanli.

First in Liaodong, and then in Datong, Xuanfu and the northwest border towns opened horse markets, trading horses with the northern nomadic tribes. "Its price, Liaodong to rice cloth silk, Xuan, Da, Shanxi to silver. If there is a tribute horse outside the city, it will be given in banknotes. ”