Pieces of snowflakes slowly descended by the wind, the gloomy firmament did not have the sunset of dusk, and the thick clouds were densely piled together, gloomy as if pressing on people's hearts. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The snowflakes that fell on the earth were quietly and flat, like a carpet made of goose feathers. There is no snow in sight as far as the eye can see, and the earth has been buried in white......

The cold wind that blew across the sky, still like the endless snowflakes, did not think of taking a break, and blew wildly and wildly......

There were a few dark shadows on the snowfield, moving quickly, and four tall horses galloped in the wind. Unlike the low and stout Mongolian horses commonly used in North Korea, the horse is slender and much taller than ordinary horses, which is a typical Western horse, and in North Korea, Western horses were originally only used in the Incheon Special Zone to pull horse-drawn carriages, but since October this year, thousands of Western horses in the Special Administrative Region have been assigned to the Horse Administration Division under the various police stations to improve Korean horses.

This is in accordance with the "Ten-Year Plan for Horse Improvement" implemented by American horse breeding experts, according to which eight horse administration districts have been established in Hachido, North Korea, which are directly under the police department of the local affairs department, and the horse administration bureau of the police department is directly responsible for the guidance and supervision of horse production business and the supervision of horse improvement in the area. Each county police station has set up a horse administration department, and the horse administration department stallion in each region is equipped with 1,500 stallions of the Fuchu breed that have been eliminated by the special zone, and the female horses are mated free of charge for private breeding. At the same time, a stallion ranch was set up in North Korea to carry out the domestic production of state-owned stallions.

And this pasture located in the north is the pasture of the Ma Political Bureau of the Ministry of Police, and when it is near, it is a young man covered with wind and snow. Shout. The four mounts stopped at once.

The young man in the lead was dressed in a police uniform covered with snowflakes. On this winter day, he wore only a scarf around his neck, and let the cold wind stir his clothes, but he did not feel the cold, as if he were not in the snow.

"This Pyongyang horse farm is inevitably too small, including the woodland on the mountain, a total of more than 300,000 acres!"

Raising the horsewhip in his hand, Cui Buqing said with a smile:

"Li Qi. After crossing the Yalu River, there are only 100 million acres of pastures in the Kanto region, and if you can domesticate military horses there, I dare to say that within ten years, you will definitely achieve something! ”

The officer sitting on a maroon horse on the left said with a smile:

"It's a pity, that place is the territory of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, how can they allow us to open a horse farm there?"

"Hey, that's really no way, North Korea is narrow. It's dozens of acres of mountainous land, and it's still the adults who have won it with great difficulty. If this horse politics is not carried out, I am afraid that the new army will still have to use Yanmar! ”

Before learning to breed horses in the past, Cui Buqing did not know what the difference between Chinese horses and European horses was, except for the size, there seemed to be nothing worth paying attention to, but the comparative test conducted by American horse breeders in the horse farm made him and his classmates well aware of the shortcomings of Mongolian horses that have been in China for thousands of years.

"Although the domestic Mongolian horse is resistant to rough feeding, can survive under difficult and harsh conditions, but compared with the European horse is small, weak, it is difficult to be competent for hard heavy workload, especially can not tow artillery, in the Krupp camp artillery for example, even the artillery car Yanma only needs four times, and the Mongolian horse six times is still difficult, even used as a cavalry, also insufficient, according to our measurement average, Mongolian horses and European military horses are 22 centimeters in body height, weight difference of 70 kilograms, European and American military horses run at a speed of 27.8 kilometers per hour, The Mongolian horse only travels at 19.8 km/h......"

Cui Buqing's words were not finished, but Song Yunqin laughed and said:

"Then tell me, how do you think this Mongolian horse should be improved?"

"I have considered that the new army needs to build a Western-style cavalry unit, so that the horses should be similar in size and appearance to the Anglo-Arabic race; However, because of the lack of Ili horses, we should use Mongolian horses that are abundant in Kanto and Korea, and then mate with British thoroughbred stallions to cross their offspring to produce new types of military horses similar to the Anglo-Arab breed...... In fact, it is the breeding method of the Don hippopotamus. ”

Although he has just graduated, Cui Buqing in the veterinary class has a lot of research on horse breeding, and he has learned from American horse breeding experts, and he has his views on the improvement of military horses. In the improvement of Mongolian horses, Cui Buqing chose to learn from the Russian Don hippopotamus, which is an excellent horse breed through the improvement and breeding of Mongolian horses.

"Don hippos? Didn't Professor Foritt think that the Donhippo had many shortcomings in terms of body structure, such as restricted and unnatural movements......"

Song Yunqin frowned slightly, in the improvement of military horses, the government is more to listen to Professor Fleet's advice, after all, horse breeding in China is a blank, as for the improvement of horse breeds, although it exists in the history books, but as for how to improve it, there is no way to know.

"According to Professor Follett's opinion, this military horse does not have thirty years, and it cannot be bred at all, not to mention that the Don hippopotamus is a hard-working horse and easy to raise, it has some problems, but few horses can work effectively in such a difficult environment, that is, the greatest advantage of the Mongolian horse that is retained, so that it can be more appropriate for civil conservation......"

The folk conservation in Cui Buqing's mouth is actually the task of the horse administration at all levels, through the way of providing free breeding of stallions, mixed breeds to improve the horses of the Korean people, so as to obtain a large number of mixed breeds for the army to purchase or levy in the future, and correspondingly, the folk stallion castration method will be promoted to avoid blood mixing. However, because it takes time to establish and train the castration technician training system, it is limited to castration for the time being.

"And I personally think that the future cavalry of the Korean legion needs more military horses than physique, and from the perspective of productivity and practicality, more requirements for the production of medium-sized horses, and the Don hippopotamus is a medium-sized horse that can be pulled and ridden, and the Don hippopotamus has a large number of Mongolian horse bloodlines in the maternal line, which is also the problem we are facing, of course, the most important thing is that you have also seen in the breeding farm, compared to the Anglo, purebred and other Western horses, the Don hippopotamus can eat very little, can often feed on hay, and other horses, But it can't be done, so, in comparison, the Don River breeding road is more suitable for China, rather than blindly pursuing the physique and form of Western military horses! ”

"What's right for you is the best!"

Song Yunqin, who was riding on a maroon Arabian horse, summed up for his friend on the side, Ma Zheng looked at it indifferently, but in fact, it was related to the lifeblood of a country, especially for the army, a town of new army alone needs thousands of military horses, and it will be doubled in wartime, and the quality of military horses even directly determines the victory of the war.

The army not only needs cavalry, but also military horses to pull cannons and chariots. Even the private sector needs a large number of horses for transportation and farming. It is for this reason that the Unified Prison Office has drawn up a "Ten-Year Plan" aimed at improving horses for the entire Korean Peninsula, and the only regret is that North Korea is too small.

"There are only 150,000 private horses, and no more than 50,000 mares, according to this rate of improvement......"

After sighing, Cui Buqing pointed to the north with a horsewhip in his hand, and said with a smile:

"If I am the Lord of the Commander, I will directly cross the Yalu River and bring the land of the Kanto into the Governor's Office, no, it should be the Governor's Palace, at that time, if the big Kanto horses are only millions, after a few years of improvement, how can the new army in the palace have the worry of insufficient military horses!"

The shortage of military horses has been a situation faced by the new army stationed in the DPRK since its establishment -- it has even failed in the exercise because it did not have enough military horses to transport supplies, and the Mongolian horse-drawn carts, which have limited pulling strength, have encountered problems in towing artillery in rainy and snowy weather.

"That's why the government will ask us to breed horses suitable for chariots and cannons as soon as possible."

Seeing Song Yunqin mention the task he accepted at the last meeting of the Ma Political Bureau, Cui Buqing laughed.

"Whether my medium-sized horse of the Don River can succeed or not depends on this opportunity, and I will take this opportunity to correct our previous thinking, as for the introduction of heavy horses...... Hmph, I dare say, success is unlikely! ”

Because of this, Song Yunqin, who would put forward another idea, nodded and said:

"Heavy horses are nothing more than beautiful to look at, which is not suitable for China's agriculture or the army, consumes a lot of forage, and has low economic benefits. The introduction of heavy horses is not suitable for China. The shortcomings of the local horses, mainly Mongolian horses, are small in size and poor work ability, so we should first use light horses to increase the physical strength of local horses, and then use heavy horses to increase the pulling force of local horses."

When Song Yunqin was talking, Cui Buqing nodded from time to time, this is the answer that the two of them discussed for a few days on the way back, in fact, it is based on local mares, select a pull or medium breed to cross with it, and then cross it with imported compact heavy pull horses, and finally produce hybrid offspring, that is, the second generation for crosscross fixation, so as to obtain a compact heavy pull horse with slightly less pulling strength, but its food is far inferior to that of compact heavy pull horses.

"Two generations...... Even if it's two generations, it will take at least six or seven years! ”

Suddenly Cui Buqing sighed, the eyebrows flashed a little worried, and the bottom of his heart also gave birth to dissatisfaction with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, from more than half a century ago the country was opened to the West, so far he has no desire to forge ahead and improve, if not, how can many work and affairs in the house now be carried out from scratch, this Manchu Qing, what has the founding of the country done for decades? What happened?

A country like this that does not want to make progress...... You have to be defeated!

(Cui Buqing is the founder of modern horse breeding in China, but unfortunately it all started too late.) By the time he started breeding horses, he had already reached the era of motorization, but even so, he still bred Tieling heavy horses. Moreover, the so-called Mongolian horse has never been a good military horse, at least in modern times, Mongolian horses are completely unsuitable for military use, whether it is before the founding of the People's Republic of China or after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the army cavalry with horses first pushed the three hippos, and again the Ili horse, as for the Mongolian horse is limited to the border cavalry company (there is the convenience of local requisition), and whether it is the three hippos or the Ili horse have the blood of Western horse breeds, especially the three hippos. (To be continued.) )