Gao Yue's request to set up the location of the horse fang is actually very meaningful, Wei Gao of Huangyang is his son and daughter's in-laws, and he is also Zhu Jun's Yingtian judge in Longzhou, and he is also his ally in the military government. The other two, one is located in Purun, of course, to take care of the emperor's Shence army system, and the one located under Changwu City is to consider Li Huaiguang's emotions.

In this way, the Four Horse Workshop actually takes care of the interests of all parties in a balanced manner.

But why did Gao Yue engage in a "horse workshop" instead of a "pastoral supervisor"?

Nonsense, Mafang is a place to accept forbidden horses, and the effect that I want Gao Yue is, of course, that the emperor's forbidden horses are sent to me to raise, not that I send horses to the emperor.

Therefore, Gao Yue mentioned the key issue in the song, now the imperial court spends a lot of money every year to buy horses, but the results are very little, the crux is not "no horses", but poor management, the emperor's palace garden, the employment is mostly rice and wheat, fruit trees, not good horse breeders, and the land of Guanzhong Jinggi is densely populated, most of the land has been turned into farmland, and is not conducive to breeding war horses, the habit of war horses is to eat more feed, drink more water, but also eat salt, but also to let the green disease drive, now locked in the capital of the flying dragon stable, If you can't get any stretch, you will infect each other as soon as there is a disease, and you will die six or seven times a year, and the four places I said, "Qishan (Fengxiang) near Dian, Lingtai Zemao, Changwu Soil Sweet, Huangyang Evening Cold, all have the beauty of abundant soil and grass, and there is no risk of Ma Duo and narrow land......"

As for the politics of the horse farm, Gao Yue suggested that the "fangtian" and "fangchang" should be separated, and now that the western land is vast and sparsely populated, the land with rich water and grass should be selected as the "fangchang" -- for example, in my Lingtai County, you can use the military tuntian to exchange land with the people -- and the 200 hectares of tuntian fields that are well irrigated and have been cultivated by the barren land will be given to 300 Lingtai people to concentrate on farming, and their Hudou rice will not be harvested, as long as the people can reclaim an additional 120 hectares of good land for "Fangtian". If the field is interplanted, then at least nine buckets of corn can be harvested per mu, and the field can collect a total of 11,000 stone per year.

Horses can be "stopped and released in the wild" after April 10 every year (that is, they do not need to be tied to the horses, but they are grazed in the field and graze freely), so that they can go to the enclosed "farm" to gallop at will, as for the return to the stable on October 10, in fact, it only takes half a year for horses to eat millet.

Half a year is calculated according to one hundred and eighty days, each horse needs to eat a bucket of corn a day, a total of eighteen stone for half a year, if you consider it prudent, you can "feed two and keep one" (keep one-third of the corn as a reserve), then a total of 27 stone.

Then the fields and farms of my Lingtai are enough to shepherd 400 forbidden horses.

In addition, if there are "tired, old, sick, barren, and unapologetic" forbidden horses in the Flying Dragon Stable in the Forbidden Garden in the capital, they can also be sent to the horse workshop, and I will let the sisters and party members who are close to them treat them well, and they can also play a role in turning waste into treasure.

In this way, the court and the local government benefit each other, why not?

However, Gao Yue also specifically mentioned that in addition to a bucket of corn every day, six spoons of salt are needed to raise horses, and if 400 forbidden horses are raised, the Duzhi Division is also asked to allocate an appropriate amount of "horse salt" every year.

At the end of the song, Gao Yue said that the significance of setting up a horse workshop is very important, and it is enough to make "the field is clear, the army is well prepared, and there are horses like this, why worry about Rong?" ”

After reading it, the emperor was very interested, so he asked Bai Zhizhen, who specialized in managing the Shence Army, and asked him what he thought about this matter.

Bai Zhizhen was eager to send out part of the forbidden horses, because the burden of this thing was too heavy, and he skillfully calculated the account for the emperor, saying that if he did not reform the horse administration, the new horses sent back every year and the original old horses would be confined in the flying dragon stable, overlapping, and it would cost a lot of food sent from all over the country every year, plus the price of money and feet. And now the death rate of horses in the palace is amazing, the emperor must know that every dead horse is equivalent to smashing one hundred and sixty yuan into the water in vain, and you can't hear a sound!

According to Bai Zhizhen's calculations, His Majesty can first let out 2,000 forbidden horses, including 400 in Huangyang and Lingtai, and 600 in Changwu and Purun, each of which is fed, released in the wild, and treated in the nearest horse workshop every year, which can save 20 guan money, which can reduce the cost of about 40,000 guan of the Sixth Army of the Northern Ya and Shence Army every year - plus two or three thousand horses that originally died every year, if four horse workshops are set up, then at least 2,000 fewer horses can be killed, and the price of the horses is converted, and the loss of 300,000 guan can be avoided.

Hearing this, the emperor nodded and said that he would do what Gao Yue said.

Then he said to Bai Zhizhen, I have absorbed the lessons of the Su Dynasty and will no longer serve as a lieutenant official, and this "Inner Flying Dragon Idle Stable" will be appointed to Qing, and you will settle the matter of rebuilding the horse workshop with Gao Yue.

Bai Zhizhen was flattered, he is now the envoy of the camp, the envoy of the soldiers and horses, the envoy of the recruiting army, and now with the addition of the idle stable, it can be said that the city defense, the recruitment of the forbidden army and the forbidden horses of the entire capital are under his control, he is really a high authority, under one person!

So Bai Zhizhen was grateful, saying that he would definitely manage the Shence Army and the idle stables outside the battle, and he would never live up to His Majesty's trust.

He is not good at raising forbidden horses, but Bai Zhizhen is very good at sending forbidden horses out: he is vigorous and resolute, and quickly selected two thousand forbidden horses from the flying dragon stable, first marked with the word "fly", indicating that this horse is made by my flying dragon, and then in batches, each marked with the words "Qi", "Long", "Jing", and "Sui", respectively, sent special personnel to Fengxiang Purun, Longzhou Huangyang, Jingzhou Lingtai (Yuanzhou Xing) and Wucheng, the governor of Pizhou.

Before the four hundred forbidden horses came to Yuanzhou, a major incident happened in the sister's light and snow.

Gao Yue gave Ming Huaiyi 5,000 pieces of cloth before, and asked him and his brothers Ming Jingyi and Ming Weiyi to buy horses.

Ming Huaiyi and the two brothers went to Shizhou to buy again, and indeed bought another 400 horses, but when they came back, in order to avoid danger, the three brothers of the sister and the light brother went back to Jingzhou, among which Ming Huaiyi and Ming Jingyi took the Suining Road, Li Huaiguang was not embarrassed, and 300 horses and a group of horse merchants arrived safely and smoothly in Baili New Town.

But the hundred horses driven by Ming Weiyi suffered a disaster, he took the Suizhou and Gyeongju roads, and was robbed in Dachangyuan, the northern border of Gyeongju and Jingzhou, and all the horses were robbed, Ming Weiyi was clever and ran away, but seven horsemen were killed, and three horse merchants in the team were captured.

The younger brother Ming Weiyi rode a horse, was hit by two arrows, and ran back to the camp with blood flowing all over his body.

Ming Huaiyi shouted angrily in the Baizi tent, who did it!

Ming Weiyi gritted his teeth, crouched under the tent, and said to his brother that the enemy was not prepared to hide their evil deeds, and four of our fallen people were immediately shot and killed, and the other three were injured and fell from their horses.

Then the object of Ming Weiyi's report was: "Gyeongju's Pheasant Qiang ......"

After finishing speaking, Ming Weiyi immediately fainted.