Chapter XVIII: Mawarima and Sharma
Captain Zhang Depei touched the horse's neck in surprise and felt that its neck was strong and powerful. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Ma De said in a blunt Song dialect: "Captain Zhang...... This horse is a tengerine horse, I heard that it is a marvari horse, but unfortunately it is a little smaller than the Andalusian horse and the shire horse......"
Captain Zhang Depei saw that the horse's head was delicate and elegant, the distance between the eyes was relatively wide, the mouth and nose were straight, the mouth was thin and firm, the horse's face was long and flat, and the forehead was wide and bright.
It has large, distinctive eyes that are spread widely, radiating a light of wisdom and revealing a calm disposition.
Captain Zhang Depei said happily: "It doesn't matter what kind of horse it is, I only care about its quantity, but it's a pity that there are too few......"
"Our great and merciful lord says there will be more," said Mader...... This was brought back from Tianzhu by the Hui merchant on his own initiative, and I heard that he got a huge return! ”
Captain Zhang Depei nodded silently, this is the owner of his own island doing things with interests.
No one is not rewarded for their efforts, and no one is not punished for doing evil......
This Mawarima was indeed an unexpected joy, and even the owner of Zhang Guoan Island did not expect it.
The Mawari horse is an elegant, medium-height, strong horse, and the records of its bravery and loyalty date back a long way.
It is known for its sturdy hooves and ability to trek long distances, and its hometown is in an area known as "Malani", which is part of the Balmer district of the Mawari region.
The Mavarima is brave and good at fighting, it can follow its master to expand its territory, it is loyal, and it is especially hard-working, second only to the Tatar horse.
It is the offspring of a cross between Arabian and Turkmen horses, and it is a breed of horse that can survive well in arid and barren terrain, and it is also a good horse that can withstand severe cold and heat, can gallop long distances, and has strong iron hooves.
As soon as the owner of Zhang Guoan saw this kind of horse, he happily almost hugged the returning merchant who took the initiative to send it!
This is beyond my imagination...... What do you really want, others can take the initiative to send it to the door!
The cost of transporting horses by sea can be no small...... Ordinary maritime merchants don't bother to traffic this, but they can't completely deny it, isn't this someone sent to the door!
However, when the owner of Zhang Guoan heard the request made by the Hui merchants. He understood, this guy is asking for a lot of money...... He did it entirely for his own benefit.
Of course, Zhang Guoan, the owner of the island, can't disagree, and wants others to think about the island for free and on the initiative, which is basically impossible.
The returning merchant offered to have the right of first refusal and not to wait in line.
The owner of Zhang Guoan had to honestly agree to his request, these horses were too useful to him, not only for the formation of cavalry, but also for the need to breed and improve new breeds of horses.
The returning merchant bought all his sulfur dyes at once...... And he himself had to pay compensation for affecting the contract with others.
In fact, the high-end goods produced on the island, such as sulfur dyes and glass, and the lack of low-end products, could not meet the commercial requirements of the plane.
Maritime merchants are also racking their brains to deal with the most profitable commodities on the convective island...... At that time, spices had been reduced to a second-class cargo, and it was not the first demand of Liuqiu Island, on the contrary, it was even more difficult to find spices on Liuqiu Island.
The merchants had a shrewd eye, and they discovered that the island needed human and animal power, and although they had iron objects of great power that emitted black or white smoke, the owners of the island were crazy about buying people and livestock...... Moreover, they do not take into account the inferiority or nobility of the human race!
That's easy, and so there are people who sell horses, and people who sell people.
The former made Zhang Guoan's owner happy, and he tried his best to give a higher return; The latter made him helpless, only to accept, and then tell those people that they would definitely be free people in the future.
Wang Defa has no way to solve this situation, he said: "Forget it, don't care, even if it is a passive migrant population." ”
So where is the key question?
They can only be blamed for their advanced productivity.
The two men share the idea that as long as they produce more goods, then this situation will continue forever, which is inexplicable.
Or there is a solution, which is to solve the traffic problem to get here.
Wang Defa said: "The common people of the Great Song Dynasty do not have a hukou and are allowed to move freely, so it is better to extend our shipping routes to their interior, and not just stare at a few coastal cities, and make a land-sea combined transport to bring some of the people out of the interior...... Thinking about it makes people sigh, hundreds of millions of people. ”
Zhang Guoan, the owner of the island, understood at the time that he was adding work to himself again.
As long as the industrial mouth develops, his agricultural mouth can keep up, and the commercial development will naturally be driven, and as many people can be settled, but the social structure is more complicated, and everyone can find their own place and increase their sense of identity with this society.
Zhang Guoan, the owner of the island, said: "Fa boy, don't be tired of yourself...... Everything in this plane is calculated in years, and we can only reach the point of months, and in front of them are terrifying existences. ”
This is true, those maritime merchants often say that when they go out to do business, within a few months, Liuqiu Island will change its appearance, if it weren't for seeing those people working, they really thought that Zhang Island Master had made a magic circle.
Wang Defa replied: "I'm really not tired at all, I'm more than 20 years younger, and I can't finish my energy...... In the past, when I was young, my brain was a pot of paste, but now, my mind is clear and energetic, and this is the best time in life. ”
Wang Defa is fully committed to industrial development, which has a strong impetus for other industries in Liuqiu.
This is also manifested in the military, of course...... Zhang Guo'an left two horses, Wari horses, to be crossbred and the rest of the horses were sent to the Shandong Peninsula, where the environment was better than that of Liuqiu Island.
Wang Defa easily matched the new horses with the standard equipment of the cavalry and sent them all together.
Both of them knew the battle plan of the Shandong Peninsula, evaluated it, and thought that they could have more than seventy percent of the possibility of success, the people's army, in terms of identity, was equivalent to the box soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty, but it seemed to be more combat-powerful, but in the same way, when they selected some from the box soldiers, they improved their weapons and equipment, especially their previous big victory, which gave them a lot of self-confidence, this is not the original small-scale harassment war!
The judgment of the two of them was accurate.
The entire Shandong Peninsula was permeated with a belief that the Great War would be won, and even the common people who had temporarily migrated here thought that they could win.
In the horse farm, Captain Zhang Depei briskly put on the Masili horse, and he immediately felt that the people he had ridden before should be called donkeys.
He couldn't help but praise and said, "This is really a tall horse!" ”
Ma De smiled and said, "Captain Zhang, there is a horse used to pull carts on the island of England, which can be so tall!" ”
He gestured with his hand on his head, and Zhang Depei was startled: "My god...... That's an elephant! ”
Mader didn't lie to him, it was a shire horse, two meters high at the shoulders and weighing a ton was the norm, but it was a walking horse and was not good at running.
Captain Zhang Depei immediately didn't care about it again, he lifted the reins of the horse and said, "How about that?" My owner will definitely buy the ......" (To be continued.) )