Liu Fan is already very merciful in doing this, if the evidence of the Yanmen Wu clan is confirmed, it is a big crime to wipe out the three clans.

Clan punishment is a cool law, Liu Fan resisted in his heart.

"How should the general deal with the aftermath and explain to the imperial court?" Xun You looked at them and said.

Xia Pei is also a military attache with a rank of 2,000 stones, guarding the border of one side, and the imperial court personally ordered.

Although Xia Pei is innocent of death, this matter will definitely be attacked.

"I am a hussar general, and I have a scepter. Killing a lieutenant who committed rebellion is just a trivial matter. The evidence of Yanmen Wu's crime is conclusive, and it is a major crime of rebellion. I will personally write to His Majesty and ask for credit for the soldiers who defeated the Hu people. Liu Fan said confidently.

"Your Majesty trusts the general, but there are many traitors and villains around Your Majesty. The general's battle will definitely make those people jealous, if they use the hand of His Majesty to transfer the general back to Luoyang, what should the general do? Xun Yu asked cautiously.

Xun You didn't dare to guess what Liu Fan was thinking at will. But he also knows that if he wants to gain a firm foothold in this troubled world, he must support his own troops.

When his wings are full, go south to King Qin and be the Duke of Zhou? Do Guangwu?

"Will be outside, the king's order will not be affected! I went north to Saihu, only a small victory, did not drive the Hu people to the desert, and never stopped. Liu Fan said categorically.

In any case, he could not return to Luoyang. Returning to Luoyang will not necessarily be killed, but it will definitely lose a great opportunity.

"As long as the general raises 100,000 fine horses, the general trend of the world is in the general's thoughts." Xun You said excitedly.

Liu Fan didn't respond to anything, just nodded slightly.

A Yanmen County can't raise 100,000 elite horsemen, unless it can take the Hetao area.

Five days later, Jia Xu and Zhao Yun came to Mayi.

In the past few days, Liu Fan has not returned to the county to govern the Yin Pavilion City, and has been staying in Mayi City to temporarily manage the affairs of the county. With the assistance of Xun You, all the accumulated government affairs were handled.

Mayi is a large county in Yanmen, and it is the top priority. And Liu Fan will use it to the advantage. Liu Fan then enlisted Liu Yu as the commander of Ma Yi and was in charge of Yanmen's government affairs.

Liu Fan ordered Huang Zhong to lead 5,000 ranger swordsmen, and selected 3,000 soldiers who could ride from among the soldiers of Bingzhou, and divided 8,000 horses.

Liu Fan originally wanted to train another 10,000 cavalry, but thought of a long-term plan, so he gave up.

He had a selection of the best stallions, followed by the best mares. A horse farm was built on the side of the ancient Great Wall in the west of Mayi.

This time, a lot of sturdy stallions were plundered from the Tuoba Xianbei Division, which was most suitable for mating and breeding.

In order to maintain good genes, 1,500 stallions and mares were selected from those good horses that had not been castrated, and the horses were of the highest quality.

Horse castration was invented by nomads and has been around for a long time. Many horses are castrated from childhood.

Warhorses are castrated with many benefits and are especially easy to tame. And with a lot of energy, there will be no lack of energy due to too much long-distance running.

One of the biggest benefits is not to be attracted to the opposite sex, the "beautiful horse plan" is the tragedy of not being castrated, after castration, the war horse will not be spring on the battlefield because of the opposite sex horse.

The first to use the "beautiful horse plan" was Li Mu of the Warring States Period.

At that time, Li Mu was a famous general of Zhao State, guarding Yanmen Pass (Guyanmen Pass), and saw that the Huns had 100 good horses and were driven to the river to bathe due to the heat. Li Mu frowned, and ordered the release of more than 100 mares in the army, tied under the shade of the tree across the river. The mare neighed.

When the Huns heard the sound of the mares, they all galloped across the river. The guards drove them all into the city. Seeing this, the Xiongnu generals were furious and led their crowds to rush over, but were shot and killed by the archers who had been ambushed by Li Mu in advance and were defeated.

Li Mu's method was also imitated by Li Guangbi in later generations, especially when horses encountered mare on the battlefield in the spring season, they couldn't walk at all.

So, castration, is the best way to solve this situation.

A foal grows from birth to look like a normal horse after two years. But temperament, stamina, work ability, etc., are still in the pony stage. If you want to become a war horse, you must go through another two years or so of growth.

After the unification of the world in the early Western Han Dynasty, the people cultivated and recuperated, and at that time, there were less than 100,000 horses of good and bad quality in the northern royal horse farm.

After the prosperity of the cultural scene, the number of horses in the Royal Horse Farm reached 1.2 million. Therefore, Wei Huo has a steady supply of excellent war horses. Every major battle was a run that lasted for dozens of days, and tens of thousands of horses were lost.

In a long-term battle with the Hu people, horses were equivalent to the weapons of cavalry. Cavalry has no horses, just as infantry has no spears.

The people of the state were fierce and brave, and there were many brave soldiers, and not a single one of the nearly 10,000 garrison soldiers was eliminated, and all of them were distributed to various armies to enrich the military strength.

So far, Liu Fan has 24,000 horsemen and pawns.

Guan Yu commanded three thousand five hundred iron horsemen from Yinshan.

Huang Zhong commanded 8,000 cavalry.

Xu Huang commanded 11,000 infantry.

Gao Shun commanded 1,000 infantry.

Wang Yue's command made five hundred.

For a county, this is a very large number of troops, but Liu Fan's assets can still maintain this kind of strength for the time being.

The Wushi warehouse has hundreds of thousands of stones of grain, which can provide food for the whole army for more than a year.

The treasures of gold and silver obtained from the Ushi are innumerable.

Wushi has several iron mines in the north of Yixian County and east of Mayi. Liu Fan naturally took over those iron ores.

As a person of later generations, Liu Fan knew that iron ore abounded in Yanmen, Taiyuan and other counties.

Wuyou usually enslaved tenant farmers to open iron mines and fry iron ore for him, and after Liu Fan destroyed Wuyou, he distributed all Wuyou's fields to them and gave them wages.

The people were grateful to Dade and called the hussar general the god of salvation.

From having nothing and having to do heavy labor, to being able to have good land and get paid for labor, it is really a judgment.

In ordinary times, when they were working, the people would be whipped by evil slaves, and it was not for nothing that they were beaten to death and exhausted. Because their hukou no longer belongs to the government, but to Haoqiang. Even if the government knew about it, Haoqiang just paid some fines and prevaricated with reasons.

Liu Fan not only did not send soldiers to supervise them, but set up a "work department" in each iron ore field, but if a citizen was injured in the work, the work department would be punished.

Wushiwu Fort was named Iron City by Liu Fan. It's still a place to store grain.

Liu Fan also appointed Shen Tugang as Jin Cao, in charge of smelting, weapons, agricultural tools and other casting. Stationed in Mayi Iron City.

He also recruited Yanmen blacksmiths and a large number of blacksmith apprentices to help Shentu Steel forge armor and weapons.

In order to increase the efficiency of work, the quality of work, as well as military secrecy.

Liu Fan divided the recruited blacksmiths and blacksmith apprentices into sections to make various parts of the armor, and finally Shen Tugang unified the dispatch.

Each weapon, each set of armor, has the name of the craftsman on it, and the date it was made.

After the weapons and armor are made, they are recorded one by one in the master book.

If a soldier's armor or weapons are not of the same quality on the battlefield, the craftsman who cast the weapon will be held accountable.

This puts an end to shoddy workmanship and allows craftsmen to strive for perfection in every weapon they cast.

(End of chapter)