Chapter 16 Grooms and Horse Breeding

Zheng Long is not playing with Zheng Yaojie, speaking of which, the only person Zheng Long feels sorry for is Zheng Yaojie. He is an upright brother of his compatriots, and under the change of the title deed, the change of time and space traces, and the memory of the magic change, he actually thinks that his mother is a woman from that kind of yard, and he Zheng Yaojie is a concubine who is lower than an ordinary concubine.

As a result, they regard themselves as inferior.

It's no wonder that other people see him that way. It can be seen that the key revisions are indeed very powerful.

Therefore, it is all his own business to have the owner of the title deed of more than 5,600 acres of fertile land nearby.

Although, he does not lack ability and money, and even has unlimited mines, when it is possible to compensate, he still has to compensate the eldest brother.

Although, in my own opinion, almost all relatives and friends in this late Ming Dynasty era were given away for free by downloading games. It's just that I really have a clear conscience? Isn't he using Zheng Long's body?

Therefore, Zheng Long made a decision.

After five days of training, Zheng Long asked Nicole Jasmine to train for a day, patted Zheng Yaojie on the shoulder, and said, "Don't be depressed." I have money, you go and give you what you like, Xiaoice redeem yourself. ”

Zheng Yaojie hung his head and said: "The stage name is Xiaoice, and his real name is Xue Susu, who is a beautiful woman with a national color and fragrance, and the price is very low, it turns out that it is because of the evil disease of flower willow." It's just that the ransom fee is surprisingly high. Second brother, don't entertain me anymore. ”

Zheng Long said: "What am I kidding? I don't have the time to make fun of others. I have prepared 1,000 taels of gold, worth 15,000 taels of silver, and I can't tell what Xiaoice Xiaoxue Susu is, that is, Li Xiangjun, who is famous all over the world today, if you want to comb her, isn't it just a night capital of 1,000 taels of gold? ”

Zheng Yaojie grabbed Zheng Long's arm, his expression was suddenly excited, and even danced with a little eyebrows, and said, "Is this true? ”

Zheng Long said: "You wait, I'll come over when I close the gold on the other side." ”

Zheng Long pretended to get the opposite side, and took out a large cowhide bag for gold bars, which naturally contained a thousand taels of gold. One thousand taels of gold is 37.5 kilograms of gold, and there are two hundred yellow croakers of five taels.

Zheng Long rode a dragon-blood horse, and Zheng Yaojie rode a donkey next to him. There was also a groom leading the horse in front of the two.

The groom was recently recruited, and now, with the completion of the new town, more than ten days have passed, and some homeless people have come to ask for food. Zheng Long chose one of them to be honest and honest, and hired a group of people to do some low-level jobs, such as cleaning the streets of the town, eradicating dogs, cows and horse droppings, sweeping garbage, burning dead leaves,......, and even building flowers and trees in the public green belt, all of which were hired for one or two dollars of silver.

One or two dollars is enough to buy six buckets of rice, and in a year, it is seven stones and two buckets, which is enough to feed two people.

Those who are homeless are basically so poor that they fight ghosts, and even so poor that "those who see cry and those who hear are sad", basically wandering around, finding a way to make a living, they eat and hang their lives, and if they can't find a job, they starve to death. The ditch is dead and the ditch is buried, and the road is dead and the cards are inserted.

Now, although Zheng Long's salary is low, it is better to be stable, as long as he works hard, he has no problem supporting himself. If the wife works, it is no problem for the family to raise two children.

Therefore, as soon as Zheng Long recruited, he suddenly broke his head, and the person at the scene turned over on his back, you squeeze me, I squeeze you, and the big guys squeezed others together, so it was so noisy for a long time, Zheng Long was impatient, called the soldiers, and waved the stick to let them learn to line up and talk about order.

Now, nearly four hundred displaced people have been recruited.

As a result, the whole town was much more comfortable, at least, there were far fewer ragged beggars on the streets, and most of the newly recruited low-level workers wore their best, latest, or perhaps the most recently bought outfit before their home broke, and went out into the streets to serve the townspeople.

Like a groom, Zheng Long hired fifty of them. Although they don't have much knowledge of raising horses, and they don't even have many people who have served large animals, there are people in Zhengjia Village who raise donkeys and mules all year round, like the Zhou family, and there are not a few people who raise cattle.

So, you teach me, I help you, help each other, and learn the knowledge of horse breeding.

Zheng Long is not like Ming Taizu, who sent the horses down according to the household and strictly ordered them to be raised.

It is because of this policy that many families have died, so they have come up with a cunning way to deal with it.

According to the history of the Ming Dynasty, in the twenty-third year of Hongwu (1390), the number of soldiers and horses in the country was counted, with 1,204,923 officers and soldiers, and only 45,080 horses. Basically, they relied on 45,000 horses for the transportation of communications and military supplies, and from time to time they had to rely on horses to receive officials. It can be seen that the horsepower was strong at that time.

It's just that the regulations of the Ming Dynasty are not good. The number of households to be forced into service is 138 households with a high-class horse, 118 households with a medium-class horse, and 98 households with a low-class horse.

On the surface, it is very fair, and the horse chews more and better, so more people are allocated to raise it, and the inferior horse has less expenses, and less is allocated to other people.

But in the early Ming Dynasty, most of the horses were more than 1.55 meters tall at the shoulders, and the most majestic ones were about 1.7 meters and weighed 6 or 700 kilograms. Not to mention that sports training is good, but walking, how much does it consume? Horses, three meals a day, how many fine materials to chew, not mixed with soybean distiller's lees, can not maintain their majestic body at all. Even in an emergency, there are those who drink ale wine, wine, and egg whites for military horses to replenish their physical strength.

The bad horse is different, take it out, tie it to the head of the village, just in the meadow at the head of the village, the bad horse can eat for a few days without being hungry. Moreover, the so-called inferior horses are only 1.4 meters tall at the shoulders, and the tallest and most relatively majestic ones are only 1.5 meters, and they weigh 300 to 400 kilograms, and they can live by eating anything.

Then, the comparison is obvious, the cost of raising a horse is about four to six times that of raising a bad horse, and the number of households allocated to bear the burden of horses is only forty percent more, then, whoever raises a horse is Shabi!

Since, raising horses for the emperor will end up ruining the family, then there is no way, let's think of it, so the gelding horses, specializing in breeding inferior horses.

In this way, it is bred from generation to generation and eliminated in reverse, so that in the entire land of China, Mongolian horses with a height of more than one meter and five or five shoulders are common outside the Saiwai, and the good horses that originally came from the meandering area in the Guanai area are basically one meter four.

Sensei said that the majestic man struggled to carry it, and the sprint speed was surprisingly slow, and the only advantage was that it was good to feed and have good stamina.

The Ancient Tea Horse Road in the southwest uses ponies that have been eliminated in a more reverse.

Every time he saw the Chinese cavalry riding a horse like a big donkey on movies and television, his feet were about to hang to the ground, and he was rushing and killing wherever he was, Zheng Long felt that he had no momentum.

Not to mention the Arabian thoroughbreds, the Akhal-Teke horses, that is, the sweaty horses that blow the gods, are the medium-sized quartes of the United States, which are ten times stronger than the inland Hequ horses and the inland Mongolian horses after the reverse elimination.

Poor thing.

This kind of unpleasant thing must not happen under his own rule, not only to make the dragon-blooded horse the first horse in the world, but also to let the dragon-blooded horse multiply from generation to generation and add glory to China.