"100 Stallions ······"

"Three Thousand Mares······

Absentmindedly 'inspected' the Shaofu Army Workshop in Shanglin Yuan, and then said goodbye to Liu She outside the workshop group, and took a chariot all the way back to Chang'an, these two figures have always been unwilling to disperse in Liu Sheng's mind.

- 100 stallions;

- Three thousand mares.

And they all have to be well-bred, adult or sub-adult horses.

Although he doesn't know much about horses and horse politics, no matter how he says it, Liu Sheng is still not the second generation who can say 'why not eat minced meat', and is not close to the fireworks in the world.

In fact, in today's Han family, even the sons and daughters of the henchmen who fight cocks and lackeys all day long are mostly aware of things related to horses.

According to Liu Sheng's current general understanding, the war horses used to form cavalry and equip cavalry are generally mares.

This is because mares have a milder temperament and are easier to control than a hot-tempered stallion;

At the same time, the mare will not, at least not be, like the stallion in heat, and when they are fighting, they still have the heart to fight with the mare who is charging with them, or fight with the stallion next to them, in order to determine who has more right to mate.

This means that in the breeding of horses, especially in the mode of personal control and direct control of the central government such as Taifu Ma Zheng, and the large-scale and systematic storage of war horses for strategic purposes, the existence of 'stallions' is basically equivalent to 'stallions'.

At the beginning of the establishment of the stable, with a small number of high-quality breeding horses, and a sufficient number of high-quality mares - more than ten times the number of stallions, plus a suitable field, you can officially start raising horses;

When the thousands of high-bred mares are 'divided' among the dozens of good-bred mares and give birth to foals the following year, they need to start screening.

- First of all, identify the outstanding stallions with the potential of 'stallions', keep them in the garden until they reach adulthood, and finally, join the ranks of 'sowers';

As for the remaining stallions that have no potential, can neither be 'seeded' nor domesticated as war horses, they will be directly eliminated from the ranks of 'reserve war horses'.

In the next few years, these 'Puxin men' will be perfunctory and raised by the horse garden until they reach adulthood, and finally sent to post wars or local government offices in various places according to the specific needs of the court to become a means of public transportation.

As for the mares, they also need to be screened.

Those who exhibit good genetic performance enjoy the same treatment as potential 'prospective stallions' and continue to be carefully waited on until adulthood and join the 'breeding army';

Inferior horses with slightly inferior genetic expressions, that is, inferior horses that can neither become war horses nor become 'war horses', will be sent directly to inland areas and handed over to post wars and government governments to raise the next generation of public transportation.

The screening work is over, and the first cycle comes to an end;

The second and third reincarnations are most likely the same as the first reincarnation - they are still those stallions, and they are still those mares, and they continue to breed offspring repeatedly;

By the time of the fourth reincarnation, the stallions and mares produced by the first reincarnation have reached adulthood, and the herd can grow for the first time;

In each subsequent reincarnation, the horse herd will also grow slowly, until ten or twenty years later, it will grow into a mature horse garden like the former Yanmen Garden - hundreds of breeding horses, thousands of mares, and more than 100 qualified war horses are slaughtered every year.

After understanding the horse breeding model of this era and Chinese farming civilization, it is not difficult to understand Liu She's sentence that 'only 100 horses and 3,000 mares are needed to directly build a new horse garden'.

Liu She's meaning is very straightforward: since the model of Yanmen Yuan takes too long and the investment is also not low, it is better to skip the intermediate 'population growth' stage;

Directly at the very beginning, a strong enough population was artificially formed, and from the next generation bred by the population, it directly began to produce war horses.

That is, after this group of horses gives birth to offspring, the qualified mares that are screened are no longer used to breed the next generation, but are directly trained into war horses.

The benefits of this are obvious: skipping the long period of population growth can greatly reduce the time between the establishment of a horse farm and the start of slaughtering horses.

As for the disadvantages, or difficulties, it is also clear at a glance······

"Hundred stallions;"

"Three Thousand Mares······

"——Since they are to be used to breed war horses, these mares naturally must at least be 'trained to be war horses'."

"And such a horse, even if you put aside the channel, the price is ······"

Thinking like this, Liu Sheng only turned his cloudy face slightly and looked out of the car window aimlessly.

In today's Han Dynasty, horses are more scarce than gold.

Needless to say: in the two cities of Chang'an, if there is a horse that looks good and has the strength to carry an adult man, it will inevitably attract the surrounding pedestrians;

If you can see the extraordinary horses at a glance, it will attract the attention of most of the princes and nobles of Chang'an in a very short time.

As for the price, it is even more outrageous to the point of smacking.

- Liu Sheng clearly remembers: about three years ago, when the fourth brother Liu Yu was about fifteen years old, his mother, Mrs. Cheng's maternal relatives, once presented a batch of horses to Liu Yu in order to win the favor of the fourth prince and draw in the friendship between them;

And that is not very outstanding, and it may not be able to become a war horse in the army, and it is likely that it can only be used as a letter horse, but it is worth as much as fifty gold!

Even in the process of snapping up this 'good horse', Cheng's relatives also had a feud with a certain small meritorious marquis of 500 households, and at the same time inherited the favor of another small meritorious marquis.

- Enmity is due to the fact that both sides are determined to win, but neither side will give in to each other;

owes favors because they withdrew from the 'bidding' and 'ced' the right to buy the horse······

"In this way, the price of a horse that meets Liu She's requirements is at least an average of sixty or seventy gold per horse?"

"At least according to the current market price, it should be more or less like this······"

···

"A hundred stallions, let alone ten thousand gold;"

"Three thousand mares, even if they are fifty gold each, they are still 150,000 gold."

"Even if this money is paid by Shaofu, it will be a big difficulty where the horse comes from;"

"What's more, if these 16 or 70,000 gold are smashed, you will get 100 stallions and 3,000 mares, and you can only build a horse garden."

"If you want to build a few more, you have to spend several more '160,000 gold'······"

···

"Hoo ~~~~~······"

"It's hard to ······"

Thinking of the end, Liu Sheng exhaled a long breath of turbid air with a sad face;

I thought about it secretly for a long time, but I couldn't think of a way, so I casually cast my eyes in front of me.

——In front of Liu Sheng, Liu Yu, the tenth son of the emperor and the king of Jiaoxi, was bowing his head and contemplating with a solemn expression;

At the back of the carriage not far from the side of the two brothers, Ling Xia Que, a member of the middle car of the Tai Palace, was full of anxiety and adjusted his sitting posture, ready to answer Liu Sheng at any time.

It's a pity: Liu Sheng's playful gaze only stayed on Xia Que for a moment, and then moved out of the car window again.

Because Liu Sheng knew that even if he didn't ask, the conversation that happened between Xia Que and Liu Yu in the dormitory before, there would not be even a word that could not reach his ears for any reason······

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"Horses?"

"Isn't it just to find the Marquis of Chang'an?"

After returning to Chang'an City by car, Liu Sheng and his entourage went straight to the Changle Palace where the Empress Dowager Dou was located.

Seeing the two grandchildren coming, the Empress Dowager Dou also smiled, and even with the question of Xiao Liu Yu's inquiry, it did not make the Empress Dowager Dou impatient at all.

Gently and softly gave Xiao Liu Yu a reply of 'The prince didn't lie to you', and asked Xiao Liu Yu to take Xiao Liu Yu to the library in the apse, so that he could see that past record with his own eyes, as soon as Empress Dowager Dou's eyes fell on Liu Sheng, her face immediately added a little kindness.

And after Liu Sheng proposed today's trip, what he saw and heard in Shanglin Yuan, as well as the conversation with Shaofu Liu She, and the sorrow in his heart afterwards, the solution given by Empress Dowager Dou made Liu Sheng a little dumbfounded.

"Chang'an Hou?"

"What the imperial grandmother said is the descendant of the late Yan King Lu Juan, and now in the grassland, Lu Tazhi, who is the king of Donghu for the Huns, right?"

"This Lu family, can you really help my Han family in such a thing?"

Seeing Liu Sheng's ghostly posture, Empress Dowager Dou only chuckled and shook her head;

And the look of surprise on Liu Sheng's face became more and more unbelievable as Empress Dowager Dou's head slowly shook from side to side.

- What are you kidding?

That's Lu's!

The descendant of the late Yan King Lu Juan, the current Hun Donghulu King!

Regardless of the status of this Donghulu King in today's Xiongnu, the deep meaning implied by the word 'Donghu King' alone is enough to make people feel stunned.

Donghu was the former overlord of the grassland.

Once upon a time, the entire grassland was shrouded in the cruelty of the Donghu people;

The entire grassland was also ruled by the brutal Donghu people.

Around the time of Qin's unification of China, Donghu, the overlord of the grassland, ushered in a new challenger.

It's just that this challenger is not the Huns who now rule the grasslands, but the Yueshi people who have been driven to the Western Regions by the Huns, and even began to migrate to Central Asia on a large scale.

- Donghu is the overlord and Yue's is the upstart, and the struggle between the two is naturally intensifying, and they are more and more inclined to 'new upstarts replace the old hegemon', that is, the Yue's replace Donghu and become the new ruler of the grassland.

It's just that in the process of Donghu becoming weaker and weaker and Yueshi becoming stronger and stronger, the Chinese civilization danced its wings a little, and it completely changed the civilization process of the steppe nomads.

In the thirty-seventh year of the reign of the First Emperor of Qin, the First Emperor Yingzheng died in the sand dunes;

In the same year, Qin Zhongche's subordinates ordered Zhao Gao and Prime Minister Li Si to tamper with the edict of the first emperor, set up the son Hu Hai as the emperor, and successively forced the son Fusu and the general Meng Tian to be killed.

The following year, that is, the first year of the second Huhai, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rebelled against Daze, and the world rose up and obeyed;

The first emperor relied on the power of the ancestral dragon to suppress the world until the moment he closed his eyes, and the war was suddenly ignited.

Like the vast majority of peasant uprisings in human history, the Chen Sheng and Wu Guang uprisings did not achieve ultimate success.

Just half a year after the Daze Township Uprising, Chen Sheng (Chen She), the ruler of the Zhang Chu regime, died under Qin Ge of Zhang Han of Qin Shaofu.

After starting from Xianyang and easily destroying Chen Sheng, Zhang Han led his troops eastward, invincible all the way, and the rebel army that pacified and surrendered was unknown;

It's just that in the end, at the end of the Qin Dynasty, he almost supported the building in the general tilt of Qin Shaofu Zhang Han, and met Xiang Yu, the overlord who was sinking in the giant deer······

The overlord was broken, Qin Shaofu was cornered, and finally surrendered;

And what the overlord buried in the Battle of Julu was not only the last capable minister of Great Qin: Shaofu Zhang Han, but also the last hole card of the Ying Zhengzong Society: the Northern Great Wall Army.

That is, in later film and television dramas, the Great Qin Iron Cavalry, who was falsely called the 'Mengjia Army'.

In order to save the Yingqin Sheji, which was about to collapse, the second Hu Hai could no longer care about the entrustment of the First Emperor, who had mentioned several times before his death, that 'no matter what, the Northern Great Wall Army must not be withdrawn';

Under the order of the second emperor, the 200,000 Qin Great Wall army abandoned most of their baggage, went south lightly to quell the rebellion, and finally died in Julu.

When the Qin Great Wall Army was busy going south, the weapons, baggage, grain and grass materials left on the front line of the Qin Great Wall were all cheaper At that time, they were still unknown on the grassland, and they were so weak that they could no longer be weak, and they were so ordinary that they could no longer be ordinary.

The head of this tribe is called the head man of the scarlet;

He had a son named Susan Maudun, who was a proton in the court of Donghu······

"Kill your father, kill your head, kill your head Mandanyu, and set yourself up as a Hun Shan Yu;"

"Only two years later, the Xiongnu defeated the grassland overlord Donghu, and the head of the king of Donghu was made into a wine vessel, which is still hanging in the Xiongnu Shan Yu court ······"

···

"The only two remaining remnants of the Donghu people were driven to the extreme west by the Huns, and the tribes named after the exiled mountains, namely: Xianbei and Wuheng;"

"And the word 'Donghu' was given to Lu Juan, the former king of Yan, who defected from the Han Dynasty and joined Hu Man······"

Recalling the past that the old prime minister Shen Tujia told him many years ago, Liu Sheng's doubts only increased;

Of course, Liu Sheng knew: In the past few years, Lu Tazhi, the king of Donghu, or 'Lu Tazhi, the Marquis of Chang'an', danced between the Han and Hungarian sides with long sleeves, and the double-faced spies flew up and stepped on two boats, and they befriended each other at both ends, and did not offend at both ends.

But in Liu Sheng's cognition, this is just Lu Ta's mercenary intentions, wanting to leave a way out for the future.

- Neither end of the offend, and one day in the future, when the Han and Hungarian sides will divide the victory and defeat, the Lu family will always have a way to completely devote themselves to the victorious side.

If the Xiongnu win, then the Lu clan will be the king of Donghulu who will be unswerving against the Xiongnu and against Shan Yuting;

If the Han family wins, then the Lu family will be the loyal and righteous man who endures humiliation and has been 'lurking for many years' outside the fortress, and the dog and horse of Emperor Taizu Gao's most loyal minister.

It's just a war horse······

"Horses, especially good breed horses, have always been strictly guarded by the Huns, and none of them want to put them on the Great Wall?"

"During the time of the first emperor, the Xiongnu sent a delegation to the old Shangji porridge, and among the gifts sent to the first emperor, they were basically only two or three castrated stallions;

"For this matter, find ······· Chang'an Hou"

"Can it be done???