Yun Xi stretched out his chopsticks, picked up a piece of meat and put it in his mouth, swallowed it and smiled at Princess Ningguo: "Auntie, the craft has not been abandoned for so many years, it is still so delicious." ”

Princess Ning Guo also ate a mouthful of food and said with a smile: "I learned it from your grandmother when I was a child. Later, although your grandfather became the emperor, he was still fighting at the beginning, and your grandmother admired simple music and still sometimes cooked herself, and I followed. It wasn't until the eighth year of Hongwu that the northwest and Bashu were pacified, and your grandfather set the palace system again, so he didn't let your grandmother cook. But my habits as a child have been formed, and I can't change them when I get married. ”

"This is very good, if all the clans can be the same as my aunt, my Ming dynasty is enough to be difficult for eternity." Yun Xi said.

At the beginning of the year, Shunchang was appointed by his nephew as the commander of the avant-garde of the government army, and the nephew let him experience and experience, and after a few years, he was promoted to commander. So he's very busy now, and his nephew didn't bring him over. ”

"My nephew was going to bring Jingfu here, but just yesterday Jingfu suddenly fell ill and didn't bring it." Yun Xi said. Shunchang and Jingfu are the sons of the two of them.

"What's wrong with Gyeongbok?" Princess Ning asked with some panic.

"It's nothing, I drank flower wine the night before, and I got cold in the middle of the night." Yun Xi smiled.

Princess Ning Guo first breathed a sigh of relief, and then said with horizontal eyebrows: "Little rabbit cub, you dare to drink flower wine, see that I don't teach him a lesson when I go back." ”

He added: "Didn't you check the banks of the Qinhuai River last year, how can Jingfu still go?" ”

"Auntie, the inventory does not mean that all the Qinglou Chu Pavilions will be closed. This line of work is not without the prohibition of the previous generation, but it has been repeatedly banned, and the nephew can only be allowed to exist, 5 from time to time let the police to check, and the civil and military officials who are in office are not allowed to go. Gyeongbok is still white, so he can go naturally. Yun Xi said.

"Then send an errand to Jingfu, no one cares about him at home in the province. Jingfu's daughter-in-law is too, no matter what he does. Princess Ning Guo said.

"There's no hurry. I think that although Jingfu is more romantic, he is still good at studying, so it is better to let him take the imperial examination. Let him study in Guozijian first. Yun Xi said.

"That's okay, it's okay to send him to study in the country, just don't wander at home." Princess Ning Guo said. Mei Yin also agreed. Yun Xi smiled and agreed.

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Early the next morning, accompanied by Mei Yin, Yun Xi first went to the yamen of Taifu Temple to check the account books of the horses and listen to the report, sat down slightly, said a few words to the officials of Taifu Temple, and went to the horse farm to inspect.

There is a saying that people are boundless. In fact, not only people, but also animals or plants are boundless.

Yun Xi once led an army of 300,000 to quell the rebellion, and he also inspected the army when he traveled and returned, but it was all inspected by him in turns, and he did not see hundreds of thousands of people piled together.

So today, when Yunxi stood on a soil slope two or three zhang high, looking at the total number of more than 100,000, it seemed that the herd of cattle and horses extending from the bottom of the soil slope to the horizon was slightly distracted.

"Your Majesty, there are now more than 80,000 horses and more than 30,000 cattle in the Taifu Temple in Chuzhou, totaling nearly 120,000 cattle and horses, except for some newborn ponies and sick cows and horses, the rest are here." Mei Yin said.

Yun Xi looked at it for a while, and suddenly asked, "The grass that these cows and horses eat is all artificially planted, right?" ”

Mei Yin was stunned for a moment, she didn't expect Yun Xi to ask this question first, but immediately replied: "That's true." The first emperor moved the people here to other places and turned it into a ranch for raising horses. ”

"But the area is still too small, and it can only supply thousands of horses to graze on the grassland, and if you want to feed tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of cattle and horses, you can only grow pasture by hand."

"Can't the ranch be enlarged?" Yoon-hee asked.

"Your Majesty, all the places around this pasture where grass can be planted and suitable for raising horses have been turned into pastures, and there is no expansion of the land. At present, there is almost no arable land in the west of Chuzhou City, and farmers are planting pasture grass to earn money from Taifu Temple. Mei Yin said.

"The number of horses and cattle raised on this pasture does not have to increase. You also know that Jeju Island has opened pastures and raised more than 40,000 horses. In the future, the horses added by the imperial court were raised on the islands, and the pastures on the mainland did not need to be expanded. Yun Xi said.

Naturally, Mae Yin knew that the pastures on Jeju Island were getting bigger and bigger, and that she could feed the larger and larger herds with the natural grass she could use, but she just needed to prepare forage in advance in the fall. So he said, "Yes, Your Majesty." ”

"Is there a good horse here? The kind of horse that is very majestic and looks likeable? Yun Xi walked down the dirt slope, gently pulled the reins of his white horse, and asked. The white horse seemed to understand his words, and snorted fiercely. Yun Xi smiled and gently stroked Hakuba's neck. The white horse snorted slightly, as if to forgive him for his actions.

Mei Yin thought that she understood Yun Xi's thoughts, and thought that he was really a young man who liked good horses, so he whispered a few words to his subordinates. After a while, several men who looked very shabby, but were very energetic, came with some horses.

Mei Yin pointed to these horses and said to Yun Xi: "Your Majesty, these horses are the best horses in Chuzhou Ranch now. Originally, there were a few good horses, but when Wei Guogong passed through Chuzhou ten days ago, he took a thousand horses from Chuzhou Ranch with His Majesty's edict and took three good horses away. ”

Yun Xi looked at the seven horses in front of him, some red and some black, but they were all tall and mighty, much taller than ordinary Mongolian horses. Yun Xi pointed to two of the horses with impure hair and said, "These two don't need to be used, and the remaining five horses will be taken away." ”

After a pause, he asked again: "The three horses that Xu Huizu took away are pure coats?" ”

"Two of them are pure and one is variegated, but they are all horses." Mei Yin replied.

"Xu Huizu is stealing money from me!" Yun Xi muttered in a low voice.

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Yun Xi ordered the horses to be led. The horses that Mei Yin dared to recommend to Yun Xi were extremely tame, and they didn't make trouble. Yun Xi's white horse snorted, showing disdain.

After Yun Xi inspected the stables and the forage prepared for the horses in the middle of the night, he said to Mei Yin and the Shaoqing of the Taifu Temple: "We must pay attention to the breeding of horses, and the older horses must be castrated immediately, and they must not be allowed to have the opportunity to breed; When servicing horses, use horses of the same age, do not let old horses match young horses, and do not match male and female horses. ......" He told a lot about scientific breeding, and finally said: "Listen to the horse breeder in everything, and don't let the layman lead the insider." ”

Mei Yin and Shaoqing promised.

Yun Xi summoned some of the most outstanding horse breeders in the ranch, praised them in person, and rewarded him with the official title of Cong Jiupin.

It wasn't until it was already dark that Yun Xi, who had eaten two meals of roast cows, left the ranch.