"That's natural, I've been in the army for more than ten years, and I know a lot about horses, I can see at a glance what a good horse is, what is a bad horse, I hope your people go to buy horses this time, don't be fooled by those foreigners." Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info" Jin Liang said the word flickering smoothly.

"Flickering? What does this word mean? Tian Chou was puzzled.

"It's to be deceived and deceived, this is our hometown dialect." Jin Liang hurriedly covered up.

"Oh, I see. By the way, the general, these good horses may add up to 20 million yuan, and now the ordinary war horses on the grassland are at least 50,000 yuan, the 10,000 war horses are at least 500 million yuan, the horses are at least 10,000 yuan, and the 10,000 horses are at least 100 million yuan, and all other channels have to make some money, so many horses in total, the general will have to pay at least 800 million yuan, I don't know if the general has so much money to buy horses? Tian Chou saw that the decoration of Jin Liang's mansion was very simple and simple, and thought that Jin Liang's family background was not rich.

"Do you count the price of the cows, sheep, and dogs? For the first time, about 10,000 ploughing cattle, 10,000 cows, 10,000 sheep, and 1,000 hounds were purchased. Jin Liang did not directly answer Tian Chou's question.

"Now it costs at least 6,000 yuan for a ploughing ox, and 60 million yuan for 10,000 ploughing oxen. The kind of cows that produce milk need to come in from the Western Regions, and one will cost at least 10,000 yuan, and 10,000 heads will cost 100 million yuan. A sheep is about 500 yuan, and 10,000 sheep is about 5 million yuan. A hound is about 2,000 dollars, and a thousand is about 2,000,000 dollars. In this way, if the general wants to buy so many cattle, sheep and dogs, he needs 200 million yuan. ”

"Add the horses, and that's a billion dollars in total. So be it. I write a letter. A military order is issued, and you take the letter and the military order to the newly built Central Bank in Xiangyang to find your father-in-law, Mr. Tang Long, and ask him to withdraw one billion dollars from the bank. Jin Liang brushed down the letter and issued a military order.

Tian Chou took the letter and the order, and did not leave immediately, and said with a smile: "General, don't be so anxious, for how to expand the cavalry to overwhelm the barbarians, there is not only one way to spend a lot of money to buy war horses from the prairie. ”

"Zitai. Tell me, I'm willing to listen. Jin Liang heard Tian Chou say this, and came to the spirit.

"In addition to buying horses, there is another way, which is, of course, to capture the enemy's cavalry and capture the enemy's horses. The general valued only the horses of the captive steppes, forgetting that our enemies also had a lot of horses there. Speaking of this, Tian Chou paused.

"Well, you go on." Jin Liang looked up at Tian Chou in surprise.

"General, I would like to ask you. Since you have agreed to cooperate with the Julu Tian family, what do you think of our Beiping Tian family and Yuyang Tian family? "Before Tian Chou threw out his plan. I want to know what Jin Liang thinks of their family, if Jin Liang has a positive opinion, Tian Chou will throw out the strategy, if it is a negative opinion, Tian Chou will deal with the strategy and tell it.

"In a word, Aiwu and Wu, I have great admiration for you and Tian Yu, so I don't have any ill will towards your family, only a good impression, but you probably know my origin, I have always hoped that a family like you, who is deeply favored by the emperor, can make more contributions to the Han, and don't be like many families, plucking a hair to benefit the world but not willing to pull it." Jin Liang's words were very sincere, because he knew that it was useless to lie and pretend to be forced in front of a wise man like Tian Chou, and he would be seen through at a glance.

"General, I am relieved to hear you say this.

You probably don't know much about our Yuyang Tian family and Beiping Tian family, our ancestors moved from the Julu Tian family to Youzhou, that is, with the Julu Tian family who are bent on seeking personal interests regardless of the safety of other people, and were squeezed out by those people, our ancestors went to Youzhou, recruited displaced people, reclaimed the border land, and educated the border people.

Speaking of being deeply favored by the emperor, I think that a family like the Runan Yuan family is deeply favored by the emperor, but our Tian family is definitely above his Runan Yuan family in terms of contribution to the people of the Han Dynasty. The Yellow Turban is the most rampant in Runan now, why, it's not that the Yuan family is too tyrannical, and Taiwei Liu, with the assistance of my Tian family, recruited as many as one million displaced people from the Qingzhou area of Jizhou. Tian Chou said proudly.

Jin Liang nodded heavily, and then asked: "If all the families in the world are like your Tian family, the world will be too peaceful, and so many people will not starve to death." Zitai, you and I have expressed our respective attitudes, can you say the big plan in your heart? ”

"Although the general tried his best to hide your dislike for those big families, I can see from your past words and deeds that you hate those big families who are not benevolent to the rich, but the general is worried that they will unite and wants to slowly try to do so, and I agree with this. It's just that you should deal with those families first, and I want to give the general some hints, but it's not really a decent strategy.

Among those big families, especially in the counties near the border and Taihang, there are many big families who collude with foreign clans and Taihang bandits, and they have hundreds or even thousands of cavalry in their families. "Tian Chou hates those families who collude with foreign races, but his Beiping Tian family is only a medium family, and there is nothing to be done about those families, Youzhou Mu Liu Yu is a kind gentleman, and he has never liked to use force, Tian Chou can only hope for Jin Liang.

"I said that those alien races plundered Youzhou and Jizhou came and went freely, it turned out that there was an internal response in those big families, and I would definitely eradicate these bastard families, but this can't be rushed, and I have to figure it out slowly." Since Jin Liang eradicated Li Cheng and the other five families, he found that those big families were like pieces of fat hanging in front of him, and if these families were killed, Jin Liang would not have to worry about money for a decade or two.

"The other is Dong Zhuo's Xiliang cavalry, Dong Zhuo's original control of Tianshui Anding and other places are natural pastures, rich in good horses, so his 100,000 Xiliang cavalry actually brought 200,000 war horses, a knight has two war horses to transfer, if the general really raises troops to fight Dong, don't forget to capture their war horses." The more Tian Chou understood Jin Liang. The greater the confidence in Jin Liang.

Tian Chou suddenly remembered something again. Busy said: "Beiping Taishou Gongsun Zan is the general's senior brother. The general can also buy some good horses from Gongsun Chan first, but only in the last few years, and the situation will gradually change in the future. To tell you the truth, listen to the general, although Gongsun Zhan is the general's senior brother, he is blindly killing, brutal and unkind, and the general is generous and benevolent, and the two of you will definitely be incompatible in the future. There will definitely be a battle, although Gongsun Zhan's white horse righteousness is invincible, but it is rigid and easy to break, and sooner or later it will be defeated, in my opinion, the 30,000 war horses under his command are waiting for the general to get them. ”

Jin Liang listened to Tian Chou talk about Gongsun Zhan, and admired Tian Chou's foresight very much, but with his identity, it was impossible for him to express any opinions, just smiled and said nothing.

Tian Chou saw Jin Liang smiling and was silent. It was already known that Jin Liang acquiesced in these reminders he offered.

Tian Chou said: "General, except for buying horses and capturing horses from the enemy. In fact, the general can also obtain more and better horses by carefully raising horses. The general can match a good horse like the Red Rabbit Horse with other good horses, so that they can be matched with a better next generation. ”

"Zitai, thanks to your reminder, otherwise I would have forgotten about this stubble." Jin Liang vaguely remembered that the military horse farms of later generations adopted the method of eugenics and breeding, and it took more than 20 years to eliminate the donkey-like ponies in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the rest were high-headed horses.

Jin Liang smiled: "Zitai, like you, I have lived in the border for a long time, and I know the habits of those foreigners. I found that the way of raising horses like Xianbei, Wuhuan, Xiongnu, and Qianghu is actually extensive breeding, in fact, it is not a matter of three things, and it is impossible to breed good war horses at all. ”

"General, you are so right. In fact, no matter what kind of livestock, it is a good match with a good one, and generally a better match can be made, at least at the original level, if the good and the bad are matched together, it will only gradually become mediocre. Tian Chou's eyes widened: "Cultivation? It's a very new word, I wonder what it means? ”

"Cultivation, as the name suggests, is to cultivate it well so that it can develop well, and the cultivation method I am talking about is the selection and breeding method of eugenics."

"Eugenics? Breeding? Tian Chou didn't expect Jin Liang to also study this point: "Please show the general." ”

"Haha, it is to strictly control the fertility of horses, select the best batch from so many horses, mate with each other, use the next generation of stallions born to breed other mares, and the little stallions born are castrated except for the particularly good ones to be kept as stallions, and the mares are selected from the good horses to continue to stay and breed, so as to establish a core horse herd, and all the war horses will be matched from the core horse herd in the future, so that after three or four generations, the best horses can be matched. Of course, the particularly excellent good horse Baoju also has to make up for the core group and strengthen the advantages of the core group. Once the most perfect breed has been bred, no more crossbreeding, and it is necessary to start maintaining the pure and good bloodlines of the nucleus herd, while the newly bred nucleus of horses is newly organized and does not pollute the original good pedigree of the nucleus. ”

Speaking of this, Jin Liang emphasized: "Livestock is a thing, people can't cultivate it without hard work, as long as they work hard to breed, they will return to you." "Take the famous Mongolian horse, for example, compared with the Don Hippo bred later in Russia, it is far behind, and its endurance, size, and weight are not as good as much.

"I didn't expect the general that you also have experience in breeding good horses, I just had a vague feeling, I didn't expect the general to have a clear plan." Tian Chou said with a smile: "Then in the words of the general, eugenics and breeding methods." ”

Jin Liang has a good mixed-breed war horse in his mind, which is the Don hippopotamus ridden by the Russian Cossack cavalry in later generations, which is based on the mixed bloodlines of Mongolian horses and Arabian horses, and the Don hippopotamus thus bred is hard-working, easy to raise, and can live in the frozen arid steppe of the Don River, with a good temper, strong adaptability, strong body shape, tall, endurance and long-lasting adaptability, very strong, quick response, loyal to the owner, and the advantages of Mongolian horses and Arabian horses are integrated, and they are the most practical cavalry horses.

After the construction of the ocean-going fleet is completed in the future, Jin Liang will send people to the Persian Gulf to buy Arabian horses, and then send a fleet to go ashore from Kuye Island, bypass the Xianbei people, and go deep into the extreme north of the Xianbei steppe to buy Mongolian horses from the local Ding Ling people.

Of course, the conditions do not allow it now, so we can only use ordinary Hequ horses and ordinary Mongolian horses to breed each other.

From this year, under the instructions of Lu Bu, Tian Chou began to select the best of the best, and finally obtained horses that had most of the advantages of Hequ horses and Mongolian horses, with rough and sturdy physiques and high physiques. The average body height is about five zhang. Cold. Strong endurance and adaptability, can endure hard work, strong pulling force, because it is bred in the Taihang Mountains, it is called Taihang horse, the bigger defect of this horse is the slower impact speed, and this defect can be improved only when the Arabian horse arrives.

Jin Liang also fulfilled his promise to his old friend Chitu Horse, and found several sturdy and beautiful white horses for him one after another. Let it enjoy, of course, those white horses are one in a thousand good horses, after the influence of the good genes of the red rabbit horse, although the foal born is not as good as their Lao Tzu red rabbit horse, they are also thousands of horses, Jin Liang gave the children of the red rabbit horse to the following children as mounts.

The edict of the Son of Heaven has been issued for seven days, and only more than 180 of the 240 family heads in Jingzhou have come, and more than 60 have not come.

Three days later. If those families didn't come to the Xiangyang court to meet the Son of Heaven, they didn't come to attend the banquet held by the Son of Heaven. The Xiangyang court blacklisted those families for the crimes of contempt for the court, no royal family, and great disrespect, and Guo Jia's dark department began to collect evidence of other crimes of those families.

First secret, when the evidence is conclusive, the central army on Jin Liang's side is ready, and then raids those family Wu Forts and treats them according to the treatment of Li Cheng and other five families.

Before the banquet of the Son of Heaven began, Sima Hui, Hu Zhao, Xu Shu, Shi Tao of Yingchuan, Cai Yong of Chen Liu, and other talents who were willing to come to Xiangyang were on the way.

When the Western Han Dynasty was founded, it was always threatened by the Xiongnu in the north, and from Gaozu of the Han Dynasty to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he was always in the great prosperity of Ma Zheng.

During the reign of Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, Prime Minister Xiao He made nine chapters of the Han law, created the law of the stable, and formulated the law on horse breeding. After Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty ascended the throne, he once restricted the development of horses because of the cost of raising horses and food. Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty accepted his suggestion and ordered the use of the method of exemption from military service to promote the cultivation of horses by the people, which was known as the "Horse Restoration Order" in history, and the trend of raising horses among the people was revived. Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty set up 36 horse farms in the six counties of the border area and raised more than 300,000 war horses on the basis of the Qinbian County Horse Garden. With so many war horses, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was able to raise the cavalry, break the cavalry with cavalry, and break the Hun cavalry under the command of the famous generals Wei Qing and Huo Quai. How could it be that at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the court was chaotic, the horse government was deserted, and most of the six border counties that raised horses for the court were not under the rule of the imperial court.

Jin Liang's great prosperity of Ma Zheng is not just a benchmark for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he also has a higher benchmark, Tang Taizong Li Shimin. In the Tang Dynasty, there were many supervisors and pastors in the border areas, which belonged to the management of the imperial servants, and more than 5,000 supervisors and horses were the upper supervisors, 3,000 were the middle supervisors, and the following were the lower supervisors. During the 40 years from Tang Zhenguan to Lin De, more than 700,000 official horses were raised, 8 squares and 48 prisons were placed, and more than 1,000 hectares of land were occupied.

Jin Liang's motive for greatly promoting Ma Zheng and developing cavalry was to speed up the process of war, unify the Han Dynasty as soon as possible, and then unify the Eurasian continent, at least the land part of Asia, and second, to confront and defeat those nomads who had been riding on the neck of the Han nation and in recent years.

After some discussion, Jin Liang and Han Hao, the general of the Diannong Zhonglang, and Cheng Tianchou, the servant of the Taifu, decided to plant pasture grass in all the places in Jingzhou that are not convenient for reclamation or that are prone to soil erosion after reclamation, and enclose them as pastures.

Obviously, the enclosed pastures are small pastures, each of which covers no more than 1,000 acres and has between 500 and 2,000 horses. But this is also a helpless thing, unless Jin Liang unifies Henan, there are enough strong troops, in order to gradually establish a large pasture that can graze more than 10,000 war horses inside and outside Yanmen Pass, and now he only controls part of Jingzhou, and can only start a small pasture.

In this way, there are about 100 pastures in Jingzhou, all at the foot of the mountain, by the river and other places, about 100,000 war horses can be raised, in fact, by the end of this year, the war horses purchased and captured from various channels, only 30,000 war horses can be cultivated, including 20,000 war horses in active service. On the basis of these 30,000 war horses, the annual natural breeding of these horses is 50 percent, the survival rate is about 60 percent, and the annual natural increase in the horse population is about 30 percent, so that in one year there will be 40,000 horses, and in five years there will be 100,000 horses.

During this period, General Jin Liang extorted Dong Zhuo's 5,000 war horses, crusaded against rival families all over Jingzhou and got about 20,000 war horses, crusaded against Dong Zhuo and got about 30,000 war horses, crusaded against Gongsun Zan and got more than 30,000 war horses, and defeated Xianbei and other foreign invasions to get more than 20,000 war horses, which add up to 130,000, counting the breeding of these war horses, it is estimated that there will be 200,000.

If you count the war consumption and natural death consumed one-third of the war horses, five years later, Lu Bu's central army will have at least 200,000 war horses, because cavalry is more difficult to train, if Jin Liang trains 100,000 cavalry, then basically each cavalry can have two war horses, change one after another, and run at least four or five hundred miles in one night, such a mobile force can sweep most forces. In order to prevent hostile forces from snatching horses, these pastures were close to the barracks, and there was a nearby Tuntian Wu Fort to take care of each other.

As for those cattle, sheep, and dogs, they were also kept in pastures at the beginning, and the selection method of eugenics and breeding was also adopted, so as to strive for better and better breeds of cultivated cattle, dairy cows, goats, and hunting dogs. (To be continued.) )