In the days without stirrups, people had to ride directly on the horse's back, simply by grasping the reins or mane and clamping the horse's belly with their legs so that they would not fall off while the horse was galloping.

This method is very unreliable, it is easy to get tired after riding a horse for a long time, and it is difficult to effectively use a bow and arrow on the back of a running horse, and in close combat, the rider cannot use a sword and spear at will, and the slash or assassination misses, and the collision of the blades of both sides will make the rider slide off the horse at any time, which is extremely difficult to train, difficult to form in scale, and not high in combat effectiveness.

Of course, these are for the farming tribe that has not been in contact with horses, the nomadic tribe people learn to ride horses from an early age, play on horseback, and are very familiar with the control of horses, if the people of the farming tribe can contact the horse for a long time, the ability to control the horse will not be worse than the nomadic tribe.

But what the dragon tribe lacks is time, and the dragon tribe needs to train a group of people to learn to control horses in the shortest time possible.

A set of four harnesses, including a saddle, stirrups, a chew, and a bridle, will undoubtedly allow the dragon tribesmen to quickly learn to control horses, and even better than the nomadic tribesmen.

In fact, there is another piece of horse harness, a horseshoe, and the more familiar name is the horseshoe.

The horse's hooves are in contact with the ground, and they will fall off quickly due to the friction of the ground and the corrosion of the water.

In ancient China, when the horseshoe appeared, iron was directly used, so the horsehoe is also called the horseshoe, and the use of the horseshoe not only protects the horse's hooves, but also makes the horse's hooves more firmly grasp the ground, which is very beneficial to riding and driving.

The dragon tribe has not yet smelted iron, and copper is used instead for the time being, but compared to the other four horse harnesses, the horseshoe can be suspended, after all, the tribesmen are only trained to control the horse, and it is okay not to nail the horse.

At the same time, it should be noted that the dragon tribe's horse harness must not be leaked to the nomadic tribe, once the nomadic tribe also has the horse harness, it will definitely greatly increase the strength of the nomadic tribe, which is not a good thing for the dragon tribe.

Su Yan even considered building a city on the grassland in the future, relying on the city to build a large pasture and domesticate cattle and horses for the dragon tribe on a large scale.

Back on the harness.

With the harness, the tribesmen learned to drive the horse much faster, this is just to ride a horse, and then they have to learn to drive a carriage.

Horse-drawn carts, horses and carts, compared to ox carts, horse-drawn carriages are faster, and there is not much difference in the goods pulled by the two.

Although the dragon tribe's cities are built in the riverside area, and people and goods can be transported back and forth by boat, but in the future, the dragon tribe's cities will not always be built by the river, and the role of horses and carriages will be prominent.

In addition, the dragon tribe usually transports impurity salt and copper ore from the salt pan area and the copper mining area to the city side, and they have been using wheelbarrows before, which will soon be replaced by more convenient horse-drawn carts.

A little bit of a problem is the road, these roads are not much of a problem with wheelbarrows, and two-wheeled carriages can also be passed, but if the roads are smoothed out well, the speed of carriages can be improved, and if the roads are smoothed to a certain extent, even four-wheeled carriages can be taken out in the future.

The last one is that in winter when the river is frozen and impassable for boats, it is also possible to take out the wagon, and even make a sled, which is more convenient than a cart in the snow.

This shows the importance of horses to the dragon tribe, the dragon tribe needs to get more horses, and the first tribesmen who learn to ride horses will be able to "graduate" next spring, which can be regarded as a rough skill in horse driving.

In addition to these things, another focus that Su Yan focused on was the wheat that had just appeared in the Dragon Tribe.

The wheat obtained from the leopard tribe was planted, and the planting time was a little late, and the harvest time was later than that of other crops, and the average yield per mu was not even comparable to soybeans.

Today, the yield of crops in the Long tribe has exceeded 120 catties per mu of millet, and the yield per mu of soybeans is close to 110 catties, while the average yield per mu of wheat in the first batch of dozens of mu that has just been planted and harvested is only more than 90 catties.

The low yield per mu of wheat and the late planting time are a problem, and the selection of seeds is the second problem, and the yield per mu of wheat will continue to increase with the optimization of seeds in the future.

After the wheat is harvested, Su Yan can't wait to taste the taste of pasta, crushing the wheat grains with a mill, and then sifting off the wheat husks to get a yellowish flour.

Su Yan did it himself, did not make steamed buns, and made a little trouble for the dough to ferment, so he made mille-feuille cakes directly, which were yellow on the outside and soft on the inside, and the melale-feuille cake with a fragrant taste was welcomed by Su Yan's family.

The Dragon Tribe does not harvest much wheat, so it is impossible for all the people to taste the pasta, so for the time being, the high-level people of the Dragon Tribe can only enjoy it a few times, and wait for the large-scale planting of wheat next year to let all the people of the Dragon Tribe taste the deliciousness of the pasta.

Of course, Su Yan did not forget that wheat is an important part of winemaking, in addition to the wheat planted as seeds, but also to leave a small part of wheat to make wine, the main material for winemaking is corn, wheat is only used to make koji, the amount is not much.

It is expected that the dragon tribe will plant thousands of acres of wheat next year, and in the last foreign trade of this year, the dragon tribe exchanged a batch of wheat from the leopard tribe and the Yan tribe respectively, and there are enough seeds for planting.

There are a lot of things going on in the dragon tribe this year, and there will be no less things next year.

Continued foreign trade, the construction of a sixth city, a new shipyard, the establishment of a new three ministries of commerce, slaves, and servants, the expansion of wheat cultivation, and so on.

Foreign trade alone has a lot of priorities, try to reach out to more tribes to trade, get population, cattle and horses, and a new priority for this year.

The tribes that the dragon tribe trades with are mainly divided into two types based on the benefits obtained by the dragon tribe, one is that it can bring a lot of benefits to the dragon tribe, and the other is that it cannot bring a lot of benefits to the dragon tribe.

For example, the Aoki tribe, the Aoki tribe is fighting abroad, the dragon tribe can obtain a large number of people from the Aoki tribe, and the Aoki tribe can bring a lot of benefits to the dragon tribe.

Another example is nomadic tribes such as the Pegasus tribe, the dragon tribe can obtain cattle and horses from the nomadic tribe, and these nomadic tribes can also bring a lot of benefits to the dragon tribe.

However, tribes such as big-eared monkeys and horned deer, these tribes trade very little with the dragon tribe, and each transaction is only to exchange some animal skins for a small number of copper weapons, which can bring very little benefit to the dragon tribe.

Since they can't bring much benefit to the Dragon Tribe, they only have one last role left, their tribe itself has a very great value, Su Yan's goal is to choose tribes to try to let these tribes join the Dragon Tribe, so as to directly increase the population of the Dragon Tribe.