"A good horse like a black horse can be bought for a hundred, an ordinary war horse is bought for 10,000 first, and a horse is also bought for 10,000 horses. Wei Yan likes integers, and 10,000 is better than 9,000 to remember.

Tian Chou smiled bitterly: "Let the lord be disappointed, your black horse is the king of horses, it is unique and unparalleled in the world, it is difficult to find a second horse, let alone find a hundred?" ”

"I mainly want to change some good horses for the generals in the army to ride, if there are no horses like black horses, I also want to find some famous horses that are better than ordinary war horses." Wei Yan saw that before he rode the black horse, most of the horses of the other generals were ordinary war horses, and he couldn't bear it, so he kept looking for an opportunity to buy horses and buy some good horses for his generals in the army.

"There are some war horses that are inferior to Wu Hu's horses, and a hundred are easy to find, but the price is on the high side, estimated to cost 200,000 yuan a piece." Tian Chou once purchased war horses for Liu Yu and his family, and knew the price of horses well.

"Money is not the problem, the key is that the horse is good." The funds that Wei Yan can now dispose of in his hands are the number one in Dahan, and the money is useless in his hands, and only when it is transformed into the combat effectiveness and striking ability of the army can the money be considered valuable.

Tian Chou said with a smile: "My lord, don't worry, our Tian family is a Soma family in Youzhou, and I don't know much about anything else, but when it comes to the art of Soma, I dare to call myself Bole, and there are dozens of Soma masters below me who can be called Bole." We will soon be divided into several routes from the grassland to buy war horses, our horse master is very responsible, will definitely find the best horses for the lord, but the lord should not compare the black horse with those horses, otherwise, there will be no good horses in the world. ”

"That's natural, I've been in the army for many years, and I know a lot about horses, I can see at a glance what is a good horse and what is a bad horse, I hope you go to buy horses this time, don't be fooled by those foreigners." Wei Yan said the word flickering casually.

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

Wei Yan hurriedly covered it up and said: "It's just to be deceived and deceived, this is our hometown dialect." ”

"Oh, I see. By the way, the lord, 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 10,000 horses are at least 100 million yuan, and all other channels have to make some money, so many horses in total, the lord has to pay at least 800 million yuan, I don't know if the lord has so much money to buy horses? ”

"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. ”

"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 lord wants to buy so many cattle, sheep and dogs, he needs 200 million yuan. ”

"With the horses, it will cost a billion dollars in total, so let's write a letter and issue a military order, and you go to Mr. Chengyan with the letter and the military order, and ask him to withdraw a billion dollars from the money bank to you." Wei Yan wrote a letter and issued a military order.

Tian Chou took the letter and the order, and did not leave immediately, and said with a smile: "Don't be so anxious, the lord is not only a way to buy war horses from the prairie at a great price on how to expand the cavalry and overwhelm the barbarians. ”

Wei Yan heard Tian Chou say this, and came to his senses: "Zitai, please speak, I am willing to listen." ”

"In addition to buying horses, there is another way, which is naturally to capture the enemy's cavalry and capture the enemy's horses. The lord valued only the horses of the foreign races that captured the steppe, but forgot that our enemies also had many horses there. Speaking of this, Tian Chou paused.

"Well, you go on." Wei Yan looked up at Tian Chou in surprise.

"Lord, I want to ask you, what do you think of our Beiping Tian family and Yuyang Tian family?" Before Tian Chou threw out his strategy, he wanted to know Wei Yan's opinion of their family, if Wei Yan had a positive opinion, Tian Chou would throw out the strategy, and if it was a negative opinion, Tian Chou would talk about the strategy.

"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." Wei Yan'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.

Tian Chou said proudly: "Lord, I am relieved to hear what you said. 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, recruited displaced people, reclaimed the border land, and educated the border people. Speaking of being deeply favored by the emperor, 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 Han Dynasty. The Yellow Turban in Runan was the most rampant before, why, it was not that the Yuan family was too tyrannical, but Taiwei Liu, with the assistance of my Tian family, recruited as many as one million displaced people from the Qingzhou area of Jizhou. ”

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

"Although the lord 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 lord is worried about their union and wants to slowly try to do so, and I agree with this. It's just that you should deal with those families first, I want to give some hints to the lord, it's not really a decent strategy.

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

"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 Wei Yan eradicated some of the opposing families, he found that those big families were like pieces of fat hanging in front of him, and if he killed these families, Wei Yan would not have to worry about money for a decade or two.

"In addition, the Xiliang cavalry, Tianshui, Anding, Wuwei and other places controlled by Ma Teng, Han Sui and others are all natural pastures and are rich in good horses, so they have two or three war horses to transfer to a knight, and if the lord frees up his hands to deal with them, he will definitely be able to get a lot of war horses." The more Tian Chou knew Wei Yan, the more confidence he had in Wei Yan.

"My lord, in addition to buying horses and capturing horses from the enemy, my lord can actually get more and better horses by raising horses carefully." Tian Chou said: "The lord can completely match a good horse like the black horse with other good horses, so that they can match the next generation better." ”

"Zitai, thanks to your reminder, otherwise I would have forgotten about this stubble." Wei Yan 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 dwarf horses in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the rest were high-headed horses.

Wei Yan said with a smile: "Zitai, the way of raising horses like Xianbei, Wuhuan, Xiongnu, and Qianghu is actually extensive breeding, in fact, it doesn't matter what, and it can't breed good war horses at all." ”

"My lord, 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 and let it develop well, which is the selection method of eugenics."

"Eugenics? Breeding? Tian Chou didn't expect Wei Yan to also study this point: "Please make it public." ”

"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, Wei Yan emphasized: "Livestock is a thing, people can't cultivate it without hard work, as long as they work hard to breed, they will be rewarded 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 that you also have experience in breeding good horses, I just had a vague feeling, I didn't expect that my lord already had a clear plan." Tian Chou said with a smile: "Then in the words of the lord, eugenics and selection method." ”

Wei Yan 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 synthesized, and they are the most practical cavalry horses.

After the construction of the ocean-going fleet is completed in the future, Wei Yan 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 authentic Mongolian horses from the local Ding Ling people.

Of course, the conditions are not allowed now, so we can only use ordinary Hequ horses and ordinary Xiongnu horses to breed each other.

Since the beginning of this year, Tian Chou under the instructions of Wei Yan, began to select the best of the best, and finally obtained the horse has most of the advantages of the Hequ horse and the Mongolian horse, the physique is rough and strong, the physique is higher, the average body height is about five zhang, cold resistance, strong endurance and adaptability, can endure hard work, strong pulling force, because it is bred in the Taihang Mountains of Bingzhou, it is called the Taihang horse, the bigger defect of this horse is that the impact speed is slow, and it is necessary to wait for the arrival of the Arabian horse to improve this defect.

Wei Yan also fulfilled his promise to his old friend Wu Hu Ma, and successively found several sturdy and beautiful horses for it to enjoy, of course, those horses are considered to be one in a thousand good horses, after the influence of the good genes of the Wu Hu Horse, although the foals born are not as good as their Lao Tzu Wu Ma, they are also thousands of horses.

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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 imperial court was corrupt, the horse administration was deserted, and most of the six border counties that raised horses for the imperial court were not under the rule of the imperial court.