Taiyuan City in the last few months can be said to have changed hands several times, first Li Yuanji stationed here, and then this guy was defeated and died, and was occupied by the Song King Kong, and soon, after hearing the news of the defeat of his younger brother, the "grief and indignation" Li Shimin led the army back to kill the Song King Kong, and recaptured Taiyuan City, and it was this time that Taiyuan City was attacked by the Tang army, and the first batch of scars were left on the city wall. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

And Li Shimin's butt in Taiyuan has not yet been hot, Dou Jiande and Li Mi, who got the news, are gone, and they can't let Li Shimin occupy such a large good place in vain, so the two of them are scheduled to send troops to the west at the same time, and attack Hedong and Tongguan in two ways, Li Shimin is lacking in skills, and the other party is menacing, he can only unwillingly let Taiyuan City out, but Dou Jiande has not had time to accept it, and this city has fallen into the hands of Liu Wuzhou again.

Dou Jiande was depressed when he heard the news, and immediately sent troops to surround Taiyuan City, Liu Wu saw this posture on Monday, and his heart was a little panicked, Dou Jiande symbolically saluted before the soldiers, and beat Liu Wuzhou, when the soldiers were about to attack the city wall, he suddenly withdrew his troops, and then sent someone to negotiate with Liu Wuzhou, who was frightened, where did Liu Wuzhou dare to mention any conditions, and directly gave up his hand, and let Taiyuan City out, and Taiyuan City then ushered in its new master - Dou Jiande, the king of Xia.

Taiyuan City was attacked twice before and after, except for the Tang army's attack on Song Jingang, which was a real attack with real swords and guns, Dou Jiande's one was just to scare Liu Wuzhou in the city.

However, the impact of the war on the situation in the city is obvious, all dynasties, most of the famous cities were destroyed in the war, many historians describe the peasant uprisings at the end of some dynasties as just wars, but that is, these peasant rebels, after each place, they began to burn and loot, the ancient siege of the city is a dangerous thing, in order to fiercen the morale of the soldiers, let them fight desperately, before the war, the generals of the attacking side will encourage the soldiers, and promise them that after the city is broken, the property in the city will be robbed at will, and the women will play casually, People kill casually, and there is often a slogan that the knife will not be sealed for three days after the city is broken, which is not to scare people, but it is true.

During the Three Kingdoms period, the Yellow Turban Army not only killed the gentry, killed officials, and killed landlords, but also slaughtered ordinary situations, and after the war came, people from all over the country would flock to the city, because the war had a huge impact on the villages in the wild, and there were always more materials in the middle of the city, and there were troops and city walls to protect them, so in the hearts of ordinary people, these places were safer.

And by the time the enemy army outside surrounded the city on all sides, they would not be able to escape, and after the city was broken, these people would be slaughtered by the rebels, which could be described as extremely miserable.

At the end of the Sui Dynasty, such as the Tang Army, the Sui Army, and the Dou Jiande Xia Army, which were strictly disciplined, the method they used to inspire their soldiers was not to kill people, but to reward them, and to reward them for their military exploits and promote their positions, and their soldiers were real soldiers, but similar to the armies of Liu Wuzhou, Xiao Miao, Du Fuwei and others, they were more like armies, but rather peasants with weapons, what inspired them was where to kill and grab, and there was no way to form an effective restraint on them, which would intensify their destructive power. Therefore, after Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang entered Taiyuan City one after another, the people and merchants in the city were no longer alive.

Dou Jiande took Taiyuan City less than half a month, at this time the city is still a mess, Dou Jiande is very good at buying the hearts of the people, he had negotiated with Liu Wuzhou before entering the city, promised to exchange a piece of land in Hebei for Taiyuan, but after entering the city, seeing that the people were angry, he immediately sent troops to take Liu Wuzhou, and his subordinates did a lot of evil during the occupation of the city, and all the bad generals were sentenced and beheaded in public.

After killing Liu Wuzhou, Dou Jiande selected more than 20,000 of the more than 30,000 troops under his command and incorporated them into his own troops, and the remaining more than 10,000 people were used to repair the damaged buildings in the city, repair the city walls and houses.

And he also took out a large amount of materials from the army to help the residents of the city through the current difficulties, and sent a large number of troops to patrol the city to maintain law and order, and appointed Liu Heimin's subordinate Su Dingfang as the commander of the patrol battalion, and let him be responsible for the safety of Taiyuan City!

After these measures were completed, the situation in the city really gradually stabilized, a large number of thieves and thieves saw that the situation was not good, after being caught and killed a group, the rest of them absconded or died down, the public security situation in the city was greatly improved, and at this time close to the spring harvest, Dou Jiande sent troops to assist the farmers to carry out the harvest, after the grain was harvested, the price of grain in Taiyuan City fell.

By the time Liu Zhi and Fang Tianxing entered the city, the situation in the city had returned to calm, although the population had not yet returned to the pre-war level, but in this period, this was already a good calculation.

Dou Jiande is a good person, sympathetic and loving the people, strict with himself, lenient with others, and rewards and punishments for his subordinates, he is a good commander and a good boss, but he has a very fatal flaw, that is, his ambition is not enough.

During the war, everyone competed for power and profit, and there was nothing wrong with you winning the hearts of the people, but people like Dou Jiande delayed the rhythm of the war in order to buy the hearts of the people, then the gains outweighed the losses.

He had already occupied the counties of Hebei, and at this time annexed most of the east of the river, it stands to reason that he has occupied two of the rich places in the world, a lot of territory, and enough population, after the spring harvest, he officially recruited troops and horses, expanded the armament war, and the next moment he should attack Luoyang in the south, or attack Guanzhong in the west.

But this guy said that Hebei has been war-torn for a long time, and the people are tired, so it is not appropriate to recruit troops and horses, and Hedong is newly determined, and the people's hearts are unstable, and recruiting troops and horses will cause panic among everyone, so there is no action.

This guy said one thing at a time, and he really had the feeling that Fan Zhongyan was worried about the world, but if you rub it like this, you can't be a hero, you can only be a foil.

Originally, he was still a little interested in Dou Jiande, but after seeing his measures, Liu Zhi lost his interest in contacting him.

However, he and Fang Tianxing still stayed in Taiyuan City for several days.

During this time, he focused on inspecting the horse market in Taiyuan City.

Taiyuan is located in the east of the river, close to the north, so many Turkic merchants will take the special products of the grassland to the south to do business with the Han people, among which the grassland is more common is all kinds of livestock, cattle, sheep, horses and these things are a lot of grasslands, take them to buy and have a market, wool and sheepskin can be sold to the Han people to make clothes, mutton can be sold to butchers, and cattle can be sold to farmers to cultivate, although this cow is not necessarily a buffalo, but the problem of farming is not very big, unlike the yak of Tibet, this thing is not good to raise at low altitudes, but it is not that it cannot be raised, Just can't plow the fields.

And the most popular of these three types of livestock are horses.

At this time, the cultivated cattle are scarce, the cattle are not easy to raise, the productivity is too low, a cow from pregnancy to birth to ten months, and so on after the birth of the calf has to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to take care of it, and it takes one to two years, at least one and a half years to be able to plow the field, so calculated, a qualified cattle needs nearly three years before and after, and the survival rate is worrying, so it is very expensive.

During the Sui and Tang dynasties, the richest Guanzhong region was not every household had a cultivated cow, often three or four households only had a cultivated cow, and these cattle would be registered by the government from birth, there was no beef to eat in ancient times, and it was a big crime to commit suicide by committing suicide to the cow, and the cattle were not well raised, and they were punished if they died, even after these cattle died of old age, they could not be slaughtered and eaten casually, and they must wait until the government sent someone to do the investigation and registration, and the government fined the money, and nodded to allow it, and the farmer could dispose of it. So similar to the arrogance of a person in the Water Margin, two catties of cooked beef, hehe, you just wait for the lawsuit!

The character of the horse is violent, there is no ploughing cattle docile, and the strength is not as big as the cattle, but their number is more than that of cattle, the army has a special horse farm, there are special people to raise horses, and the speed of horse formation is faster than that of cattle, and even if there are not many horses in the Central Plains, but the horses of the nomadic people outside the Saiwai are very numerous, so there are often Turkic merchants who bring a large number of horses down to the south to do business with the Han people.

There are two common types of horses in northern China, one is the Hequ horse and the other is the Mongolian horse.

Mongolian horses are called Mongolian horses because they are located in this area of the Mongolian steppe, while the Hequ horse, as the name suggests, is distributed in the area of this zigzag area of the Yellow River.

Both kinds of horses have their own advantages and disadvantages, the Mongolian horse is relatively smaller, slightly shorter, and lighter, this horse grows in the north, near the Siberian zone, where the temperature is low and the weather is cold, so the endurance of this horse is very good, and it is not afraid of the cold, but its explosive power is insufficient, and the weight is lighter, so most of the Mongolian cavalry in later generations are light cavalry, and it is rare to see heavy cavalry in full armor, because Mongolian horses do not move.

As for the Hequ horse, this kind of horse is larger and heavier than the Mongolian horse, its temperament is more docile, and the weight-bearing capacity is slightly stronger, but the endurance and cold tolerance are not as good as the Mongolian horse, because the meandering area is close to the Central Plains, so the Hequ horse has always been the main composition of the cavalry of the Central Plains Dynasty.

In the Han Dynasty, Zhang Qian sent an envoy to the Western Regions, once took a fancy to a kind of BMW in Dawan, this kind of BMW will flow out sweat like blood when running at high speed, so it is called sweat and blood BMW, and later the Han Dynasty introduced a batch of such BMWs from Dawan, but unfortunately, the number of horses introduced is not much, and most of them are castrated, obviously, Dawan does not want the powerful Han Dynasty to be able to expand the scale of this horse, because in that case, the Han Dynasty cavalry that gets excellent horses is too terrifying.

After the introduction of the Dawan horse, that is, the sweat and blood horse, because of the scarcity of numbers, it tried to cross with other horse breeds, so over time it gradually degraded and finally disappeared, this kind of horse is larger, much taller than the Mongolian horse, and the explosive power and endurance are very strong, the speed is much faster than the Mongolian horse, is the most ideal horse breed for heavy cavalry.

Since the rebellion within the Sui Dynasty, the Turks in the north have been ready to move, the previous invasion of the Central Plains, although they were defeated by Pei Ju and Qu Tutong with troops, but their strength loss is not a lot, and at this time after the spring harvest, the grassland is really when the war horses grow fat, after a winter of hard torture, the war horses and other livestock at this time are skinny, and they are not suitable for fighting, but the Turks will definitely not give up, so they will definitely explore the situation in the Central Plains during this period of time, Pave the way for combat operations in the second half of the year.

And in the horse market, the number of war horses can also reflect this.

After all, the tribes of the northern Turks are far away from the Central Plains, so many times these horse dealers do not dare to carry too many horses, especially in these years, there are rebel teams everywhere, and one is accidentally robbed on the road, which is really a loss to grandma's house.

So since the Central Plains turmoil, there are a lot fewer horse dealers who come to sell horses, and the most time is when Pei Ju led the Sui army to defeat the Turkic army, because a large number of war horses were captured, so there were bad and excellent horses in the market for a while, everyone knew that it was a war horse that the army could not digest, and it was used for money, so everyone was also willing to buy it, and the strong purchasing power quickly digested that batch of war horses.

At this time, there was no war in the north, and naturally there were no war horses entering the market, and most of the horses brought by the horse dealers were selected by various Turkic tribes to select war horses, and the dwarf chose generals, although there were a few who could be eye-catching, but the quality was worse after all, so there were not many people in the horse market.

Most of the remaining horses are bought back by the farmer as a ploughing horse, and the ploughing horse is also called a pulling horse, which can be used to plough the field and pull a cart, but these horses in the north are not very easy to feed, and there is no need to pull the horse, so it will generally die in a few years.

Therefore, the price of horses in the horse market is not high, the general price of horses is within the consistent, the consistent money of the Sui Dynasty is a thousand copper plates, a copper plate is almost equivalent to 2-3 yuan in later generations, and the consistent money is almost 2000-3000 yuan, compared to the purchase of a scooter or farm tool car in later generations, this price is undoubtedly very low.

Liu Zhi is not very good at picking horses, some people say that to look at the horse to see its teeth, the horse with bad teeth should not be fed, and if it is not vigorous, it will have no value, and some people say that to look at the horse to see its soles, the soles of the feet are too soft The horse can also not do things, even if there is a good pair of teeth, it is just to eat and not to do, and it is also useless.

Liu Zhi didn't know much about these, Fang Xingtian was a fledgling boy, of course he didn't know, the two of them were walking around the horse market, not like they were buying horses, but looking at the scale of the horse market and the number of horses in the horse market.

“1、2、3、4・・・・・”

Liu Zhi frowned and counted for a long time, and was caught by Fang Xingtian and said a word, so that he forgot where he counted, so he glared at him, and could only count from the beginning.

(To be continued.) )