Influenced by the climate of the Xiaoice River. The climate in the Far North is unusually cold, with only a few warm hours per year, making it difficult for nomadic herders to survive. Therefore, most of the Mongol and Jurchen tribes in the far north moved to the north of the Great Wall, which is the main reason why the nomads went south again.

The weak tribes did not dare to confront the Ming Dynasty, so they could only move south in the name of belonging to the Ming Dynasty, such as the Mongolian Duoyan Sanbu. Those who were stronger moved south by force to seize the territory of the Ming Dynasty, which was the objective reason for the Jurchens to move south to capture Shenyang.

Deng Haonan's question about Hai Lanzhu's range of activities in the far north was based on new strategic considerations. Although the Liaodong Governor's Office allowed Mao Wenlong to develop in Gaizhouwei, and established a military buffer zone headed by Mao Wenlong between the Liaodong Governor's Office and Huang Taiji from a certain distance, but in this way, the road for the Liaodong Governor's Office to attack Huang Taiji from northeast Liao was also blocked by Mao Wenlong's department. It can be said that there are gains and losses.

If the Liaodong Governor's Mansion confronted Huang Taiji, it would have an advantage in weapons and equipment, and the only drawback was poor action, which was reflected in the lack of strict war horses.

Up to now, the Second Cavalry Division of the Liaodong Governor's Mansion has not completed its formation, although the source of troops has been in place, and after three months of training, the recruits have become privates, but there are no high-quality war horses for the cavalry. The current Second Cavalry Division is only trained with ordinary mules and horses, which is obviously greatly reduced.

The lack of horses did not only affect the army cavalry. The 1st Army Mounted Artillery Corps also lacked horses to carry artillery and ammunition. And the establishment of cavalry artillery is the military level, the need for war horses as high as 40,000, now the use of the Ming Dynasty self-produced mules and horses, the horsepower is enough, but rapid maneuvering is difficult.

In this era without automobiles, the transportation of firearms is based on horsepower, which puts enormous logistical pressure on countries that use firearms as the main weapon of war.

With Deng Haonan's occupation of Taiwan and the Ryukyus, the space for maritime expansion in the Far East was sharply reduced, and the prestige of the navy made the army jealous.

In this way, the biggest problem in the expansion of the army is the problem of land supply. Unlike the navy, the navy expands easily because the ease of sea transportation makes it less logistically stressful. But the logistical pressure on land transportation is enormous, so the War Department urgently needs to solve this problem.

The problem will naturally be reflected on Deng Haonan's desk, so Deng Haonan needs to solve this bottleneck.

Originally, this bottleneck should have been solved a long time ago, and Deng Haonan's last trip to the Mongolian desert was for this. But in the end, it was messed up, and it was the fulfillment of Huang Taiji.

A few days ago, Secretary of War Liu Hu proposed a plan to build a horse farm, and Deng Haonan thought it was feasible. Now Deng Haonan has five imperial horses, the wind was deceived from Zhu Youxiao, and the remaining four imperial horses were rewarded twice by the emperor.

The four royal horses are all mares, and it is clear that the imperial horse supervisor is to prevent Deng Haonan from obtaining the best stallions for breeding good horses. However, what they don't know is that Deng Haonan's other identity is Li Xiaoqi, and he has the royal horse Galle, and the Hurricane is a stallion, so that Deng Haonan can use five royal horses to breed good horses.

However, this cultivation progress is very slow. A horse gives birth to one horse a year, which is quite slow. As Deng Haonan's own use, this is enough. However, the whole army needs to be equipped with tens of thousands of high-quality war horses, so it is obviously unable to meet the demand.

To this end, Deng Haonan needed to introduce a large number of horse breeds and establish a secret military horse farm.

On the Mongolian side, Deng Haonan had already broken his mind, and the domestic war horses were generally low in size, and their endurance was not enough to support the high-speed mobility of cavalry and cavalry artillery.

Deng Haonan thought of a plan, which was to introduce high-headed Malaysians from the West. The war horses in the West are divided into light and heavy cavalry, even if they are only light cavalry horses, if they are introduced to the East for breeding, then they can undertake the task of heavy cavalry in the East, because the Oriental people are generally thin and weak, and they can basically reach the weight of the Western light cavalry after wearing armor. Once mounted, the heavy cavalry of the East could reach the speed of the light cavalry of the West. If the war horses used by the Western heavy cavalry were introduced, the advantages would have been even more obvious.

Plans to introduce horse breeds were soon implemented. The first is to use the war horses of the Dutch, and the Dutch left two thousand war horses in the fortress of Geranza, which belonged to Wenxue horses.

The origin of the Dutch warmblood comes from two native breeds of the Netherlands, the Gelderlander and the Groningen, which in fact have a lot to do with the local soil. Hellderland is in the middle of the Netherlands, and the local soil is sandy. The horses that have been developed are relatively light. Groningen, on the other hand, is hard clay, and the horses that grow up are heavier. However, the genes of the two breeds are compatible, so breeders often add the Groningen bloodline to the Gelderland pedigree to increase the weight of the Gelderland and vice versa.

Both breeds, the Gelderland and the Groningen horse, have been around the Netherlands and its neighbouring regions since the Middle Ages. Hellderland horses include Andalusian, Neapolitan, Norman, Norfolk Roadster, Oldenburg, Holstein in Germany, Anglo-Norman, Hackney and Thoroughbred in EnglandPedigree. The Groningen horse, on the other hand, was created by crossing two breeds, the Friesian from Denmark and the Oldenburg from Germany.

Since ancient times, Dutch farmers have lived in Kao horses, and strict methods of breeding horses have long been established to weed out the shortcomings of health and character in the breed, as well as the lack of intelligence. This rigorous selection has led to the creation of today's Dutch warmbloods. As the Dutch began a half-century-long war of independence, the Dutch army had to face the threat of the Spanish army, the dominant power in Europe, which turned the use of horses to riding and fighting, and the Dutch once again successfully demonstrated their breeding skills.

The Hellerland and Groningen breeds have some exciting characteristics in common: flamboyant movements, good basic construction, graceful quality, the ability to grow steadily, and a gentle and cooperative temperament. The Dutch introduced the English thoroughbred to increase its courage and improve its flaws, such as an excessively long back, a neck that was too short, and forelimbs that were too short and too weak. The rather light movements are also brought about by thoroughbreds, and in order to remove the unruly traits that come with thoroughbreds, kao not only introduced other Dutch bloodlines, but also SelleFrancias from France, Hanoverian and Holstein from Germany, to improve the final breed.

The British Hackney was also introduced to breed beautiful horses, while others continued to breed horses in the traditional Gelderland horse form, which eventually evolved into three types of Dutch warmbloods.

The Dutch left in Taiwan were all war horses, of which 600 war horses were mounted war horses, which belonged to the category of European light cavalry, and carried Dutch musketeers to form lancers. Fourteen hundred war horses belonged to the horses, which were mainly used to carry goods and pull artillery.

The Dutch war horse is the second most popular war horse in Europe after the Spanish war horse, and in order to invade the world, the Dutch horse farms are also all over the world. Among them, the horse farm in the Far East is in Batavia, with a scale of about 10,000 horses. However, Deng Haonan obviously could not get their horses from the Dutch.

However, Deng Haonan had many allies, the most helpful of which was Philippine Governor Fernando. Spain has been a European land power for centuries, so Spain's war horses became the most common war horses in Europe. With the opening of the Philippine colonies by Spain, the Spaniards took control of important areas of the Philippines with fortresses and cavalry in the face of the Filipino native people, whose population was twice as large as that of the Spaniards.

On the southwestern plains of Manila, the Spaniards built a large military horse farm dedicated to breeding Andalusian horses. The horses were preserved by the Carthusian great-bearers and were crossed by the native Sorea bloodline with European wild horse influences with the invaders of North Africa, the Bobu horse.

However, strictly speaking, this is no longer a pure Spanish war horse. With the breeding of Andalusian war horses in the Philippines, this type of war horse introduced the bloodlines of Arabian war horses and Philippine wild horses in order to adapt to the oriental environment. In this way, a new breed of horse was derived, the Philippine blood horse. Although the speed is not as fast as the original, it is agile and active. It has a tasteful head with an eagle-like silhouette. Its mane is long, bushy, and sometimes wavy.

Deng Haonan sent people to negotiate with Governor Fernando about the purchase of war horses and the introduction of horse breeds, which was strongly supported by Governor Fernando. Of course, Deng Haonan paid a price that was also not small, otherwise it would be difficult to pry open the mouth of Fernando, a vampire.

The Philippines has 20,000 horses for cavalry and 30,000 horses. In exchange, Governor Fernando sold only 10,000 horses for riding. Fifteen thousand horse-wielding horses. The price is one hundred taels of silver for riding a war horse, and the rebate is thirty taels. Fifty taels of silver for a war horse, and a rebate of twenty taels. In this way, Deng Haonan paid 2.625 million Spanish dollars (1.75 million taels of silver) to the Philippine Governor's Office, and paid Governor Fernando a personal kickback of 900,000 Spanish dollars, or about 600,000 taels of silver. In addition, there is a stallion fee of 200,000 taels, otherwise the Philippine military horse farm will gelding all the stallions. However, the cost of these 200,000 two kinds of horses, Deng Haonan was also directly handed over to Governor Fernando, because the Spanish government not only restricted the export of silver to the Ming Dynasty, but also did not allow the export of war horses to the Ming Dynasty. Hence this kind of deal behind it. They are all invisible.

Governor Fernando only needed to stamp two red stamps to get a kickback of 800,000 taels of silver. What's even more odious is that Governor Fernando no one dared to care about him in the Philippines, he even announced a plague epidemic in the military horse farm, and a large number of war horses died, and as a result, in the report reported to the Spanish government, 20,000 war horses were erased, and only 5,000 horses were written out to the Ming government, and the rest of the money was all embezzled by him.

Deng Haonan naturally didn't know about these, but he knew that Fernando was a vampire. The two million 550,000 taels of silver spent by the Liaodong Governor's Mansion estimated that this money would be embezzled by Governor Fernando, but he never expected Governor Fernando to be so greedy.

After the purchase of war horses from the Philippines was finalized, Deng Haonan also made a war horse deal with the British East India Company. However, the British East India Company did not breed war horses, and their horse farm only bred horses.

However, their horses were the most needed by Deng Haonan's cavalry artillerymen, because this kind of shire horse was the most noble horse in the world. The horses could pull up to 5 tonnes of weight and were still used to work in some breweries in England to this end. Sharmas are often more than 1.8 meters tall and weigh up to a ton. He had long hairs on his feet, as if he had "foot guards."

And the Apocalypse five-year front-loading field gun used by the cavalry artillery of the Liaodong Governor's Mansion weighs less than 300 kilograms, and it is a perfect match to use this guy to pull and run.

Negotiations with the British East India Company were much smoother than with Fernando, and Governor John learned that Deng Haonan had already taken control of Ryukyu and Taiwan, and had sent the Dutch back to Batavia, so he was very interested in cooperation with Deng Haonan.

As part of the Charle Horse Deal, John made huge concessions on economic interests in order to win political goals with Deng Haonan.

The Shire Horse Farm of the British East India Company was located in Calcutta, and since the British East India Company did not have the right to declare war, it did not develop war horses. Under these circumstances, the British East India Company vigorously developed the horse to move goods in India and trade on land.

With the withdrawal of the Dutch from the Ming trade chain, the British East India Company was anxious to open up the Ming maritime trade, so Deng Haonan proposed to purchase British Shire horses on a large scale, and the British sold 5,000 Shire horses at a price of 27 pounds, and will provide 5,000 horses to Deng Haonan every year.

Twenty-seven pounds is about fifty-four taels of silver, which is almost the cost price, and he didn't make Deng Haonan's money more.

In return. Deng Haonan allowed British East India Company ships to pick up goods directly in Taiwan and enjoy equal tariff treatment.

The East India Company of other countries was too small, such as the Alden horse in France, the Hanoverian horse in Northern Europe, etc., although the war horses were good, but unfortunately the total number of horses was less than 1,000. However, Deng Haonan still traded with them, mainly to introduce good horses and horses from various countries, and prepare to match the special excellent military horses of the Liaodong Governor's Mansion.

The problem of war horses and breeds was solved, but the horse farm was a problem. There are places in Taiwan, but the problem of temperature will affect the strength and endurance of war horses. Good horses are bred in the cold land, so Deng Haonan hopes to build a large military horse farm in the north.

Liaodong is okay, but Deng Haonan's Jinzhou Wei is too small, and if tens of thousands of war horses wander around in Jinzhou, the people's crops will suffer, and it is also not conducive to the running training of war horses.

The Northeast Plain is a good place, fertile fields for thousands of miles, abundant water and fertile grass, but Deng Haonan is worried that once Huang Taiji learns about it, it will be an enemy, and Deng Haonan will be angry.

Therefore, Deng Haonan asked Hai Lanzhu about the situation in the far north.