In the northern suburbs of Xiyang City, Lakeside Manor, Yu Wenwen walked on a mound, listening to the sound of reading aloud next door, and looked at the house under construction in front of him from time to time, this is his future 'lakeside villa', and the manor is a formal courtyard in addition to the mansion in the city.

He also has a 'courtyard' in Bahe City, but it is only a foothold for a temporary lunch break, and most of its functions are used as a purchasing point, and there are people who are stationed in charge of purchasing all kinds of aquatic products.

In order to train soldiers to fight, in order to display his ambitions in Bazhou, Yu Wenwen's attention was not on enjoyment, and he was not in the mood to get any land.

The rest of the courtyard is good to say, the 'villa' in it has to be stepped up to build, Yu Wenwen's wife and side room are like caged birds, trapped in the city mansion for more than a year, and it is time for a few courtyards to come out to change their mood.

"Lord Lang, it's ready." A one-armed man said respectfully, Yuwen Wen nodded when he heard this, and walked towards another courtyard, the one-armed man and Zhang Yu followed behind him.

The guard guarding the gate of the small courtyard is also a disabled person, his right calf has been broken and replaced with a wooden stick, but his spirit is very good, and he does not look decadent at all.

"How, move to this courtyard to live, everyone is still used to it, right?" Yu Wenwen asked, the man smiled and said that the old and young in the family were reluctant to leave, the scenery of the lake in the courtyard was good, and the two little Langjun in the house would be happy.

Yuwen Wen patted him on the shoulder, walked through the courtyard gate and walked inside, a low roar sounded immediately, and he saw more than a dozen rusty red figures, constantly trying to break free from the chains, and the people holding the chains could barely pull these things.

"Be honest, be honest!" One person scolded loudly, those figures listened to the sound of a much more honest voice, Yuwen Wen slowly stepped forward, looked at the fierce dogs, and asked interestingly:

"Tian Wuwei, these are all a male and a female pairing?"

"Envoys, they are all right, and a few of them are pregnant with cubs, so they are so fierce." Tian Yilong replied, and then added: "Just call Tian's name, don't be so polite." ”

"Then how can it be done, the young sect leader is now Wuwei Sima, although it is a loose rank of two lives, he is not a civilian anymore." Yuwenwen said with a smile that Tian Yilong fought with the army many times last year, and led his clansmen and township soldiers to make many contributions, so he was awarded the second life of the loose rank by Daxingtai to prepare for entering the military establishment.

Yuwenwen asked what breed these dogs were, and Tian Yilong said that they were brought from Shudi, and the locals called this dog a bamboo dog, which was the most suitable for home care or hunting.

"Shu doesn't matter." Yu Wenwen doesn't know much about Sichuan dogs, but Tian Yilong, a local hunting expert, said that it is basically no problem.

"Do you know how to raise it?" He asked, and the few people holding the dogs nodded, saying that after staying in Tian's Dock Fort for several months, these dogs had already recognized them, and they would be able to breed with peace of mind when they got used to this new place.

"Watch closely, don't hurt anyone, there are children in the courtyard, there must be no accidents."

"Yes, Lord Lang."

Yu Wenwen looked carefully at these rusty red hounds, which were different from the common earth dogs, that is, the Chinese pastoral dogs, these dogs looked at the front with an inverted trapezoidal head and face, and some wrinkles on their faces; The ears are erect and triangular; The eyelids are thick, the eye sockets are protruding, the eyes are a little sharp, and the face is evil.

The nose is black and shiny, the mouth shape is somewhat like a bamboo tube, the lips are black and the teeth are white and sharp, and the tongue has some spotted black lines; The anterior chest is broad, the forelimbs are stout, and the shoulders to the lower legs are like inverted vases; The hind limbs are slightly elongated, and the overall curve is like a curved bow.

Of course, the main feature is that the coat color is rusty red or dark brown, and the weight is at least more than fifty pounds, which looks very powerful, and Yuwen Wen wants this kind of difference.

When he was in Chang'an, he was naturally indispensable to fly eagles and lackeys with others, and the children of the nobles had never played anything, so he had seen a lot of hunting dogs, but after coming to Anzhou, he didn't have the heart to hunt, and he was even more busy fighting in Bazhou, and the fashionable leisure activity of hunting had nothing to do with him.

Of course, he didn't want to eat dog meat, but attracted by a group of hunting dogs raised by Tian Yilong, and at that moment he felt that he had to have a line in the future, and the big wolf dog didn't have to think about it, and the rusty red hound was just right.

A group of Kaiguang office staff dressed in uniforms, leading grinning hounds, walked down the street menacingly, shouting 'on an errand, give way quickly', and then immediately let the dog bite when they saw that the suspect was about to run

Of course, it's just a matter of thinking about it, Yu Wenwen mainly plans to use it to see the family care home, because this courtyard is a 'lake-view holiday villa' for the family, and safety is the first priority, especially to prevent those with bad intentions.

If you are really free on weekdays, you can take it out to hunt, which can be regarded as cultivating your sentiments and a way to interact with your subordinates.

He explained some precautions, asked the servants to lead the more than ten 'couples' to settle in the new home, and then led Tian Yilong to visit the unfinished manor.

"Since it is a hunting dog produced in Shudi, how did Tian Langjun get it?" Yu Wenwen asked.

"Don't you like hunting, and I want to overpower others, it just so happens that the merchants in Shu recommend this kind of hunting dog, so I bought a few and raised them, and it turned out to be really good, and I bought a lot of them back to breed." Tian Yilong explained.

"I heard that these dogs can fight wild boars? Do I need special training? Yu Wenwen asked again.

"Of course you need training, but it won't be too difficult, if you don't dislike it, you can instruct the servants in the house how to train."

"Let you come over all day, Sect Chief Tian is afraid that he will have an opinion, right?" Yuwenwen said with a smile.

"Hey, now my father revolves around his grandson all day long, where is there an air traffic control."

Yuwenwen smiled, since Tian Yilong had a son, his father Tian Zongguang's focus was on his grandson, Tian Yilong, who likes to hunt and dances with guns and sticks all day long, is unrestrained, plus he fights with the army from time to time, and he is completely a Jiaolong who breaks free from the iron rope and enters the river.

"There's a question, of course." He suddenly stopped and said, seeing Tian Yilong's attentive appearance, he asked lightly: "Can you train a hound to bite people, such as catching thieves or something?" ”

"That's okay, it's just" Tian Yilong hesitated for a moment after speaking, and then added: "If you bite people often, I'm afraid it's not good." ”

"Could it be that you like to eat human flesh?"

"It's not, it's just that if you bite someone, you'll be a lot more rebellious, and if you don't train it, it's easy to hurt people when hunting."

There are some questions, the people who can answer them have probably experienced it, Yuwenwen will not recklessly break the casserole and ask to the end, just understand it in his heart, so if he gets the answer he wants, it will be enough.

He didn't want to take his men to the streets, rob the people on the street, and be a bully who let the dog bite and oppress the people, but it is useful for the hound to be able to follow the command and chase people to surround it, especially in pursuit.

The children of the nobles of Chang'an hunted, and one of the most popular hunting dogs was the famous fine dog, which was the prototype of the roaring dog of the Erlang God in later mythology, but there was no place to get a serious dog on the side of the Yangtze River, and the appearance of the earth dog was too simple, so Yuwenwen tried to find a way to get a suitable hunting dog.

Tian Yilong has more than this kind of hunting dog, there is another hunting dog that is also bought from Shu and raised by himself, but the coat color does not look as popular as the bamboo dog.

After careful training, these bamboo dogs not only hunt, but also track and chase people, Yuwen Wen asked the servants to learn how to raise dogs first, and then those who lurk in Xiyang City, faster than rats and faster than rabbits, will not be far from the end of the world.

Walking around the manor, Tian Yilong said goodbye and left, just out of the yard not far away, a group of birds flew overhead, he looked up and saw that there were gray and white, all flying towards a small building in the manor.

"Seems to be a pigeon? However, I am not interested in eagles, and I am better at training eagles than dogs," Tian Yilong muttered to himself......

On a small two-story building, Yuwen Wen was talking to several people, all of whom were disabled, and they were surrounded by cages, each with a cooing pigeon.

This is a pigeon that Yuwen Wen has saved for two years, although a large flock of pigeons decorates this lakeside manor with a good scenery, but the purpose of his pigeon raising is to pass on the news in the first place.

The timeliness of information is more important than anything else.

Pigeons have the habit of returning home, so humans take advantage of this, so there are carrier pigeons, which are familiar to later generations as 'flying pigeon biography'. But in this era, and now the pigeon biography cannot be said to be absent, but it has not yet been popularized, and the pigeon is at a turning point in its fate.

As early as a thousand years ago, there were pigeons on Zhou Tianzi's recipes, when most of the pigeons were wild birds, and the main purpose was to eat, and then they were slowly trained into domestic pigeons, and became ornamental birds in the Wei and Jin dynasties.

Then slowly some people took advantage of its homing characteristics to try to use pigeons to transmit messages, and in the Sui and Tang dynasties, some people began to consciously train pigeons to pass letters, and now Yuwenwen has become a 'forerunner'.

There is no ready-made experience to learn, he can only slowly grope for it, and he can't even tell the difference between the pigeon breeds, relying on the constant 'burning money' attempts.

The smell in the pigeon loft was a bit 'distinctive', and Yu Wenwen stayed for a while before turning out, walking in the open space to breathe in the fresh air.

"Envoy, this is a pigeon that came back from Anlu, please take a look at the note on it." A one-eyed dragon said, Yu Wenwen took the note he handed over, looked at it, and nodded with satisfaction:

"Well done, are the pigeons getting used to their new home?"

"I'm used to it, and I flew back to the mansion last month, but now I'm used to it."

"Take your time, breeding doesn't happen overnight." Yu Wenwen said, "In the future, you can slowly expand the distance, you can go to Jiangling, and Xiangyang, and then to Suicheng." ”

It took more than a year to have this bit of a family, first to collect pigeons, then to be able to feed, then to be able to breed smoothly, and now to try purposeful breeding.

These disabled people were all soldiers of the New Army back then, who were disabled and quit the army after being wounded in previous battles, and they all had broken hands or feet or were blind in one eye.

Even people with other disabilities are like this, they are old comrades-in-arms of the soldiers of the Hulin Army, of course, Yuwenwen is not a waste use, but they are arranged to have suitable jobs, and raising pigeons is one of them.

Raising pigeons is completely self-made, Yuwenwen does not know how to raise pigeons, these people naturally do not know how to raise, first of all, they have worked hard to buy pigeons, and they have been groping for a long time and do not know how many people have died, and some are not coming back as soon as they go out, and they don't know whether they slipped away or were eaten.

The bred pigeons may not be suitable, and they have to be constantly released for homing training, and they are confused about how to train them.

Slowly find out the habits of the pigeons, know the correct feeding method, after tossing for a long time, finally feel the doorway, the breeding pigeon physique has also begun to stabilize, and the suitable release time on weekdays has also been summed up.

The distance the pigeons travel to the nest for training has gradually increased, from 5 miles to 10 miles to 50 miles, and now the pigeons can return to the nest safely from hundreds of miles away.

Yuwenwen took office in Bazhou, the pigeon loft is in the mansion, not to mention the dense pigeon droppings, mainly because there are many people in the city, and ordinary people at this time do not know much about using pigeons to send news, but people with a heart will sooner or later notice the clues.

Not to mention that the pigeons flying around in the city are not safe, and it is easy to be taken down by people and brought back to cook and add vegetables, so Yu Wenwen took the land and moved the pigeon loft outside the city, of course, in order to cover up the truth of raising a large number of pigeons, he specially let the wind out and said that he 'likes to eat pigeon meat'.

And those disabled soldiers who worked in the mansion, together with their families, moved to the manor to become tenant farmers, cultivating the land under Yu Wenwen's name, and handing over part of the harvest to themselves, and also accumulating popularity for the huge manor.

"Master Lang, it is a lot more convenient to put the pigeon loft outside the city, but in case you receive an urgent report at night, how can the small one enter the city?" Someone asked, the curfew in Xiyang City has always been strictly enforced, although it is not impossible to deal with special things, it is always a lot of trouble.

"It's a problem that the gates can't be opened at night, but there's always a solution, isn't it?" Yu Wenwen didn't care, he had thought about this problem and had a way to deal with it.

Suddenly, a person trotted out of the pigeon loft, holding a thin reed pipe in his hand, he respectfully handed the reed pipe to Yuwen Wen and reported: "Lord Lang, it's news from Yiyang County." ”

"Yiyang County? Doesn't look like there's a training program today? Yu Wenwen asked, pulling out a note from the reed tube.

"According to the plan, the pigeons should be released early tomorrow morning, and the same is true for Qizhou and Yizhou." The one-eyed dragon replied.

"Yiyang County!" Yu Wenwen looked at the note and frowned, and then stretched out, "It's really sleepy and meets the pillow!" (To be continued.) )