Construction of the racecourse outside the city of Bastia began on March 8 and took a total of nine days to level the land and carry out construction, and the construction of the racecourse was officially completed at 17:40 in the afternoon.

The horse farm can breed new horses, and horse mounts placed in them will automatically increase experience and increase the growth rate slightly, and other types of mounts can also be stored in the horse farm, but there is no effect of accelerating growth (the growth will slowly increase over time, and leveling up with mounts only speeds up the growth rate), and you cannot gain experience. There is a feeding fee for storing mounts, even if Yun Xiaohan is a lord, but this feeding fee is less than the cost of feeding the mount itself.

The horse farm needs stallions and mares to breed new horses, and Leah gave Yun Xiaohan 600 horses, including 100 stallions and mares, and with Conloff and Baroff, two 9-star horse breeders and 9-star horse trainers, you can produce a steady stream of qualified war horses. Of course, since the quality of the horse breed and mare is not too high, even if there are two extremely capable NPCs, the probability of producing high-quality war horses is still very low.

In addition to the 100 stallions and mares, 100 of the other 500 horses are good horses of blue quality, and the remaining 400 are ordinary horses of green quality, which is the same grade as the yellow horse of Yun Xiaohan.

Further down there are two grades of bad horses and horses, which are white and gray quality, and bad horses can no longer be regarded as qualified war horses, often with various defects, either the horse speed is not up to standard, or the load capacity is insufficient, or the endurance is poor, but when there is really no horse available, it can barely top a top, and the horse can only pull goods.

Although most of the more than 2,000 horses that Yun Xiaohan plundered back were war horses, he also robbed a lot of inferior horses and horses from the town. It can be seen that Liya is very good to Yun Xiaohan, and she didn't give Yun Xiaohan a bad horse and a horse, but gave all the horses that could be used as war horses.

These 500 horses will not have any intersection with the player, on the one hand, high-level players can't look down on blue-quality horses, on the other hand, players can go to the horse farm in Snow City if they really need it, and Yun Xiaohan doesn't need to sell horses to them, so these 500 horses are mainly for NPCs.

The horse farm was not built before, and Yun Xiaohan did not need to bear the cost of raising horses, and the cost of raising horses was temporarily paid by Liya, but Liya would only pay for the player for two weeks at most.

Now the horse farm has been built, these 600 horses have to be raised by Yun Xiaohan himself, the cost is quite high, 100 stallions and mares need 10 gold / day, 100 good horses need 5 gold / day, 400 ordinary horses need 12 gold / day, a total of 27 gold / day, at this price or because there is a horse farm and save most of the forage costs, but also in the horse farm unified batch stocking for the sake of the other two nine star professionals will also save a lot of costs.

If there is no horse farm, and there are no professionals to take care of it, but only build stables to raise horses, then the cost of raising horses must at least double. However, this fee standard is normal, after all, raising a horse is equivalent to raising two ordinary soldiers. (It's too complicated to calculate in the game, and it is impossible to calculate the factor of not having to feed concentrate food in non-war time, so it can only be calculated based on an approximate average)

The expenditure is high, with these war horses and horse farms, Yun Xiaohan can form an NPC cavalry unit, although the number is a little small, but it is still worth the money, but Yun Xiaohan still lacks a professional cavalry general.

In fact, there are not many generals in the territory who can lead cavalry, although none of them have the talent of cavalry, but most of them have cavalry skills, and the Templars like Garibaldi have even more cavalry skills, and even a lot of cavalry command skills, which can barely be regarded as professional counterparts. However, Garibaldi was obviously more suitable for commanding large corps, and it was too big to lead cavalry.

Therefore, it is still possible to mix in a short period of time, but in the long run, a professional cavalry general with a talent for riding and fighting is still needed.

The horse farm does not add additional troops, so the cavalry is converted from the territory soldiers. Cavalry has certain requirements for the quality of soldiers, and only a small part of territorial soldiers can be converted into cavalry. Although the horse farm was built outside the city of Bastia, it was a public building belonging to the entire Viscount of Corsica, and could be converted into soldiers for the entire Viscount of Corsica.

Of course, this refers to Yun Xiaohan's direct territory, not to mention that the two mining estates of Garibaldi and Morris have not yet been built, or they have already been built, and Yun Xiaohan will not consider helping the vassals form cavalry units for the time being, even if the vassals pay for themselves.

At present, there are a total of 3,000 territory soldiers in the three territories directly under Yun Xiaohan, with 1,000 in each territory, of which the 1,000 territory soldiers in Ajaccio City have all been converted into red shirts and can no longer be converted into cavalry. The 500 mountain veterans of Evas City are considered special forces, and they cannot be converted either. The other 500 soldiers in Ivas City can be converted, but they are being trained in Insigne mountain warfare, and the training process of the mountain soldiers is halfway through, and it is obviously not cost-effective to turn now, so Yun Xiaohan is reluctant to convert them.

Then what can really be transformed is the 1,000 territorial soldiers in Bastia City, but only 200 of them are suitable for cavalry, with a probability of 5:1. This probability is based on the region, if it is a region on the side of the khanate, each territory can be converted into cavalry, and although the quality of the soldiers on Corsica is very high, after all, it is only an island area, and the qualified cavalry soldiers are very limited. However, the quality of Corsican's soldiers is here after all, once they become cavalry, they are much stronger than the cavalry converted into normal soldiers.

Only 200 people is definitely not enough, after all, there are 500 horses, even if you don't form a cavalry, it will still cost money to keep horses in the horse farm, so it is a waste not to turn. Fortunately, after Bastia City and Ivas City used the [Elven Dragon's Colorful Tail Feathers], the barracks have been upgraded to level 4 and can recruit 2500 territory soldiers.

There are still 300 cavalry left, and according to the probability of 5:1, Yun Xiaohan only needs to recruit the remaining 1,500 territory soldiers in Bastia City. But the salaries of these 1,500 soldiers, plus the cost of raising horses, would have greatly increased the cost of the territory. However, no matter how high the expenditure is, the trick still has to be recruited, and some money cannot be saved.

The wages of territorial soldiers in Corsica are twice as high as those of normal territorial soldiers, and even if the salary is halved due to the influence of the strange object [Colorful Tail Feathers of the Elven Dragon], 1500 soldiers will need 30 gold/day. Fortunately, because of the cost of raising horses, there will be no increase in wages after being converted into cavalry, which is good news.