However, the best horses are allowed to be used for personal riding, but not as private horses, so if someone spends a lot of money to buy a fine horse, there will be a huge market demand, and if there is a demand, there will be an industrial chain.

Qing Xijun's 2,000 high-grade war horses were armed in the name of medium horses through smuggling. Bailiyan knew it well and did not interfere openly.

First of all, these powerful men of their own armed forces had the privilege to do so, and the law did not deny them the privilege of supporting troops, but only allowed the formation of weak troops other than heavy infantry, heavy cavalry, and strong bows and crossbows, and at the same time limited their numbers and financial resources to prevent them from expanding unbridledly.

Secondly, the economy of Xianguo is highly developed, and the rapid expansion of Bailiyan capital widens the gap at the same time, although the capital gap of other marginal magnates is widening year by year, it is also growing, and compared with foreign magnates, Xianguo casually takes out a doctor, as long as it is not defeated, its wealth can be worth the secretary of another country, and the wealth of a feudal monarch is basically the gold and silver strength of half a county abroad.

With so much money, if there is no source, it is obviously not possible, and raising war horses can not only satisfy their desire to support the army and self-respect, but at the same time, horses are livestock that need to spend a lot of money to raise, and the old and weak need to be eliminated regularly every year, and the resulting costs are quite amazing.

Moreover, after the implementation of the Xian army's stipend system, if the nobles at all levels wanted to support private soldiers, they also needed to use money to support people, otherwise the treatment would be unfair, and who would be willing to sell their lives.

Therefore, the more private soldiers you have, the better equipped you are, and the more money you need to consume, which will eventually be a bottomless pit.

Third, the times are developing, technology is advancing, guns and artillery will eventually replace most of the existing arms, and the modern education and talent system is the core force for building a new-style army. No matter how many traditional soldiers are raised, without advanced tactics and without a solid talent base, even if there are 2,000 war elephants, they will be completely vulnerable in the face of systematic war forces.

In the final analysis, it is the domestic national defense force that the powerful use of money to raise soldiers, and the warlords are not terrible, but what is terrible is that the strength and political strength of the warlords are not constrained.

The ultimate goal of the reform of the military system of the Xianjun Army is to eliminate the many existing powerful forces, to control the scattered sand situation in which the army is self-reliant and divide the internal military system, so as to integrate the military dispatch system and military decrees, and use the army to deter small local warlords and force them not to act rashly.

In peacetime, the aristocracy was raised, and in wartime, the Wehrmacht was the backbone, and the nobles were used as cannon fodder, coercing the warlords to contribute money and troops, using them and weakening them at the same time, so as to complete the reshuffling of the domestic political pattern and make it unified.

Therefore, most of the time it is possible to raise elite private soldiers, because in any case, the size of private soldiers is limited, and it is impossible to equip them with artillery, grenades, explosives or even rifles. The generational difference in tactical concepts and weapons is not enough to make any waves in private soldiers.

But it is not permissible not to be satisfied with raising private soldiers and secretly continue to accumulate strength, especially horses.

At the moment, people are easy to get, but good horses are hard to find. The four eastern counties controlled by the aristocratic forces still have great power, and it is easy to gather more than 100,000 strong men in a short period of time, and a large number of elite horses will become a means of transportation for the powerful to buy time.

In addition, the capital city of Qiling is surrounded by the four eastern counties, and the main cavalry of the Xian army will not be able to withdraw from the border to the capital soon, which is what Bailiyan is most worried about.

There were so many good horses in the royal city, and they guarded the Lingling to the Yongxing River. Yongxing, Ruitian, Wuping, Xuanyun and other Xian armies are not equipped with cavalry, if something happens in Chenling, the king will emerge a cavalry, will curb the assembly of infantry troops in various places in a short time, even if there are only two or three thousand elite cavalry, with the assistance of other powerful private soldiers, it is an extremely dangerous military deployment.

At this moment, so many good horses were seized, and the stakes were not known to others, Bai Liyan's heart was clear in the water, and someone was raising elite horses half-hidden at the feet of the Son of Heaven for future deployment.

"Sure enough, they are all good horses, General Liao Ping, how many high-class horses have been seized today?"

"Lord Qiqi, a total of more than 420 horses taller than one person were seized, including horses for business travel, as well as private horses."

"Why haven't so many good horses been inspected before?"

"Back to the Hou Ye, there are many people who ride one or two good horses to and from the business trip, and there are many powerful and wealthy people in the king's family, and there are many people who raise three or two good horses in each family. In addition, it is not easy to distinguish between a good horse and a military horse, so it is quite difficult to enforce the law. And if you deduct the wrong horse, you will attract the powerful to ask for the horse, which is really not very good. ”

After the rise of Yongxing Biomedicine, veterinary medicine has been greatly developed, and the screening of horses has scientific quantitative indicators.

The selection of military horses not only requires physical compliance, but also relevant standards for the horse's sprint, running endurance, and long-distance endurance. The horses that met the requirements were allocated to the army, and the rest were again divided into three, six, nine and other and sold to the market.

It is true that Liao Ping said that it is difficult to distinguish between high-class horses and military horses, but the focus is still on the word "powerful".

The height of the high-quality horses purchased by the powerful should not exceed the height of one person, and the height of the high-quality military horses of the Xian army is generally above one person.

A horse's height is usually measured at the lowest point of its back, not at the height of its head when it looks up.

Affected by the climate and region, the local horses in the Central Plains have a back height of only one and a half meters, and the best can be five and a half feet, and this height is only less than one meter six, and most of them are only between one meter four and five to one meter five. Ponies are less than one meter two.

At the same time, affected by the current atmospheric density, the higher the atmospheric density, the larger the size of the organism, such as the density of the atmosphere in the age of dinosaurs is more than 1.5 times that of the modern era, and the size of its organisms is extremely huge, and the body shape of modern species is inferior to that of the dinosaurs except for a few.

In addition, the density of the atmosphere in ancient times was higher than that of modern times, and the height and physical fitness of people were generally amazing, and the relative degradation of physical fitness and height of modern people was not entirely the result of technological and material progress, and atmospheric factors had a great impact.

The atmosphere is much denser today than it was 4,000 years later, and not only do people grow taller, but horses are also much taller.

Central Plains horses and Jin Xue Di Ma mixed horses, the back height is generally higher than 1.7 meters, the current Central Plains adult men cut extreme cases, most adult men are more than 1.65 meters tall, more than 30 percent of adult men are as tall as 1.75 meters, 1.81 meters 9 are 1.12 meters tall, and Bailiyan himself is more than 1.8 meters tall.

Therefore, the height of a person should be 1.75 meters, which is 5 feet 8 at the moment.

Mixed breeds with horseback above this height are considered high-quality military horses, and those below this height are classified as superior or inferior military horses. And the vast majority of Central Plains horses without mixed breeds can only serve as middle-class and lower-class horses.

In addition, there is a significant difference in body appearance between the superior and inferior mixed breeds and the superior Central Plains horses, even if they are of similar height.

Jin Xuedi's horse hair is long and thick, the face is long and narrow, the four branches are slender, the Central Plains horse hair is sparse and short, the face is like an olive and the four branches are evenly proportioned and fat, and the mixed breed horse compromises the second, the hair is long, the face is narrow and long, and the four branches are symmetrical, it is still very easy to identify.

Others, such as purebred Jinxuedi horses, Qianli Horses, and Qianli Yue, are almost hard to find in the Central Plains, and ordinary people cannot obtain them, and they can be recognized at a glance as heterogeneous horses.

What really prompted Liao Ping not to dare to make a big move was the power of the powerful in the royal family's city.

Liao Ping is the son of the core of the Yanxiao family, and the Marquis recommended by Lu Hou to be placed in the Wang's family, of course, it is impossible to be purely the Sima of the city government, and it is the main purpose to facilitate the Yanxiao to get involved in the economic market of the Wang's family to obtain benefits, and public security is only an incidental administration, which Bailiyan knows well.

In addition, the Luhou Salt Owl is the largest force in the Xian Country, and indeed no one dares not to buy the account of the Luhou. Therefore, for a long time, as long as Wang Yu did not commit a matter of principle, he did not ask Luhou and Xuanting how to run this place, Liao Ping and Qiu Ruipu usually turned a blind eye and got by, but it was insignificant.

Now that there is a matter of military horses, it is Bailiyan's turn to be at hand, if he is left alone, he will connive at the powerful to privately store war horses in the name of riding horses, and in the future, he only needs to call with one call, and three or two war horses in each family do not seem to be much, and when they are used, they will be a large army.

"General Liao Ping, all horses are temporarily seized today, and the owners of the horses are all enthroned to find out the origin, and not a single horse is allowed to be let go without the permission of the marquis.

In addition, from tomorrow, only horses will be allowed to enter and leave the city. If any suspicious high-class horse is found in the city, no matter whose it is, the register will be detained first. Outside the city, except for the racecourse, all horses that meet the conditions will also be seized and registered. ”

"The last will obey."

……

"Lord Qiu."

"The lower official is here."

"Strengthen the guard of the four gates tomorrow and cooperate with General Liao to detain the horses."

"Xia Guan understands, but there is one thing that Si Nong should be cautious about."

"What?"

"Among the seized horses, there are many horses of foreign merchants, this matter is not handled properly, and the king's family is so close to the tomb, in case the merchants gang up to make trouble in the capital, the king may not be easy to explain."

"These merchants are here to do business, not to sell horses, high-grade war horses are prohibited military assets, and they should be detained in the country for customs clearance in their own country and must not flow out, and now they enter our country with the caravan, this matter is different, this Hou is detaining their war horses, not the goods that are detained, unless they are weak-hearted.

You don't need to worry, this matter is on your own, and you can do it. ”

Merchants returning goods by land to carry goods on pack horses had to consider whether the horses were economical, and a balance between endurance and pack strength had to be struck.

Except for the purebred horses of Jin Xuedi, the load of the middle and upper class military horses of the Central Plains horse and the mixed breed horse is actually not much more than that of the best pack horse, but the endurance speed of the military horse is stronger, so the consumption of forage and rations is very amazing.

If you use forage for the sake of economy and time, a horse will not eat grass for less than 12 hours a day, so it is necessary to add concentrate to reduce the time the horse eats by increasing the amount of food to eat.

This is especially true for war horses, which not only take time to graze, but also take longer for horses to grow fat. Feeding horses with more grain is an effective measure to save horse fat and shorten the feeding time.

Merchants need to travel long distances, it is impossible to waste more time for feeding horses, and pack horses are the most economical horse breed, less feed and a lot of pack goods, walk farther, and even use donkeys to sell goods, donkeys have less feed than pack horses, although walking is slightly slower, but pack goods are not less than pack horses, so donkeys are also very cost-effective.