Chapter 402 wants to gather the world's famous horses 3

"I wonder if the Arabs are hitting Spain now?"

Li Yu tilted his head and thought.

At present, it is more difficult to obtain heavy horse breeds in Central and Western Europe, not to mention the long distance, which is at this time in the great era of turf competition among the Germanic barbarians after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Although it has been almost two hundred years since the fall of the Western Roman Empire. The Pope in Rome had not yet completely freed himself from the control of Eastern Rome to draw the Germanic barbarians into the cause of Christianity.

Li Yu raised his contemplative head, and his eager eyes fixed on Tiberius, who was sipping hot tea.

Tiberius shuddered, and every time His Highness looked at him eagerly, he knew that there was another difficult task that would be handed over to him. Oh, I haven't let His Highness down too much to punish him yet.

"Tiberius, do you know the Andalusian horse?"

Li Yu looked expectant.

Tiberius combed through all the information about the horse breed in his mind, and made sure that there was no kind of horse called the Andalusian horse that His Highness said, so he shook his head: "I don't know." ”

Li Yu was very disappointed, impossible, Andalussima is the world's three oldest horse breeds, native to Spain, although the Roman Empire has lost Spain for hundreds of years, but you Tiberius is from Constantinople, how can you not hear of Andalusian horses?

His Highness remembered that there was a horse called the Bobu Horse, which was born in North Africa and was known for its strength, stamina, speed, and quick reactions, and could reach 4.8 feet tall. I wonder if this is the kind of horse Your Highness is talking about? ”

"It's not."

Li Yu waved his hand annoyedly.

Tiberius had to continue to think about what kind of good horse breeds there were in the West. But a question came to my mind, I don't even know the so-called Andalusian horse, how did His Highness know about it?

"What good horses are there in Spain?"

Li Yu asked hopefully again.

"Your Highness, there are Spanish horses......

Then Tiberius was stunned and asked tentatively, "The Andalusian horse that Your Highness just mentioned can't be a Spanish horse, right?" ”

"I just heard nonsense from the West, saying that Andalusia is an extremely good breed of horse that he has ever seen, and it is produced in Spain, and it must be the Spanish horse you are talking about."

Li Yushun's mouth is a nonsense.

"The Spanish horse is indeed an excellent breed of horse, but unfortunately Spain is occupied by the Visigoths, and it is rare to see this kind of horse in Rome and the Scriptures."

Tiberius sighed.

Li Yu was extremely depressed in his heart, isn't it called Andalusian Ma? Why is it called the Spanish horse now?

As everyone knows, the name Andalusia comes from the Arabic language, which is the local name for the area occupied by the Arabs in southern Spain, which means the land of the Vandals, and since then it has the name Andalusia, and the Spanish horse is also called the Andalusian horse over time.

Since the Andalusian horse did exist, although it was now called the Spanish horse, Li Yu had the ambition to win. Looking at Tiberius, he instructed word by word: "In the future, you can maintain the profit level of the Wanquan Merchant Bank not lower than last year." In the future, there is no need to buy sweaty horses, Persian horses, Yanqi horses and Western Turkic horses, these four types of horses can buy three or four hundred horses a year, and more funds will be used to buy Arabian horses. ”

"In addition......" Li Yu paused and said, "you have organized a caravan as far as Spain and Constantinople this year, and in addition to trafficking goods, you have purchased Spanish horses and Bobu horses from North Africa that you have said. If possible, you can continue further west into Gaul and Great Britain to find the best local breeds. ”

Tiberius looked at Li Yu dumbfounded, this, this is the rhythm that he wants to give Li Yu all the good horse breeds in the West. It is only tens of thousands of miles away, passing through dozens of countries large and small along the way, and places where horse bandits and barbarians often haunt. How to ensure that the caravan will not be robbed for tens of thousands of miles is a problem, and it is necessary to buy good horses to drive back, even if the purchased horses can reach Chang'an safely?

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Tiberius was so confused by the task ordered by Li Yu that he didn't know how he got out of the Yan Mansion and returned home.

Father Titus sat at Tiberius' house early, and when he saw his friend returning, he looked sad and asked angrily, "That vampire Yan Wang punished you for not making an annual profit of 800,000 yuan, or did he tell you to do something difficult to accomplish?" ”

Tiberius sat on the top of the collapse and sighed: "I was not punished, but he asked me to form a caravan as far as Rome and Spain to do business, and to buy Bobu horses and Spanish horses from North Africa to transport back to Chang'an." If possible, I will go to Gaul and Great Britain to find a good horse......"

"Hahaha......" Father Titus laughed, "tens of thousands of miles away, and frequent battles along the way, not to mention driving the purchased good horses to the east, even whether the caravan can reach Constantinople safely. ”

It was a period of great expansion after the consolidation of the power of the Umayyad dynasty of the Arab Empire, which arose in the Arabian Peninsula. The northern route of the eastern route army was directed at the riverine states of Central Asia, and the southern route was advanced into the Indus Valley. The arrival of the Western Route army under the city of Constantinople made the Eastern Roman Empire feel an unprecedented danger of destruction.

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After Tiberius left, Xin'er was puzzled: "Why did the king of Xun order Tiberius to go to the far west to buy good horses?" The road is far away, isn't Xun Jun worried about losing all his money? Besides, the Qinghai Cheng of the Tang Dynasty, the thousands of sweaty horses in the hands of Xun Jun, the Persian horses, and the Arab horses are all tall and mighty, handsome and extraordinary horse breeds, and Xun Jun is still not satisfied? ”

If the Oriental horse can be as tall and strong as the European horse, and can breed a giant like the Shire horse, Li Yu will of course feel satisfied, who will spend a lot of money to buy a horse tens of thousands of miles away?

However, the horse breeds in the East could not meet Li Yu's requirements for breeding heavy horses, and those heavy horse breeds lived in Central and Western Europe.

The famous British thoroughbreds, German Hanoverian horses, Russian Don hippos, etc., which are not crossbred from European native horse breeds and Arabian horses or sweat horses, are all more than 1.6 meters tall. After the establishment of the new Z country, the new horse breeds bred by crossing the local horse breed with the Arabian horse, the sweat horse or the Don hippopotamus and other horse breeds are generally about 1.5 meters tall, or even only more than 1.4 meters. More native horse breeds in the East Asian continent are around 1.1 to 1.4 in height, and their own conditions are too poor to breed heavy horses with tall shoulders and strong strength.

Li Yu could only shake his head at Xin'er and said: "Whether it is a Persian horse, a sweaty horse or an Arab horse, it has not yet met the expectations in my heart. My idea is to bring together the world's best horses to breed a new breed of horses that is better than the existing ones, and a giant that has never been seen before......"