At this time, Wei Qing was a little immature, and his ability to lead troops to fight was naturally far inferior to Li Yunze.

can be born at this age and make immortal achievements, and only the one surnamed Huo can do it in the history books several times.

The reason why Li Yunze did not personally lead the troops to fight was not that he couldn't win, but that he was the son of heaven and couldn't do everything himself.

The world is so big, there are so many things, he can't do it alone, and he is not a quantum computer.

So you have to give your subordinates a chance to get ahead and let them get things done.

Li Yunze, who sent Wei Qing away and returned to Weiyang Palace to rest for a while, saw Wei Zifu waiting for him as soon as he entered the palace.

is known as Wei Zifu, who has the strongest dowry in history, but at this time he is just a girl with a curtain.

Seeing Li Yunze coming, he saluted in a little panic.

Wei Zifu has been carefully cultivated since he was a child, and compared to Wei Qing, who is herding sheep, he has hardly suffered much.

The idea of Pingyang Hou Cao Shou and Princess Pingyang is very simple, such an excellent slave maid is naturally trained to be a good student and a strange commodity to live in as a gift.

In this era, this is a very normal thing, just like those children born in the Lijia Mansion in the Dream of Red Mansions, the fate of life and death is controlled by the head of the family.

If those time-traveling women who shout something 'one life and one couple' arrive in this era, their temperament will basically not survive three episodes.

"Get up." Li Yunze stepped forward and pulled Wei Zifu up, "No need to be polite." ”

took Wei Zifu's little hand and stepped into the dormitory to eat together.

When eating, scumbag means such as verbal care and greeting for warmth are completely easy for the old driver.

Where has Wei Zifu ever seen such a method, and he is already smiling in a few words.

According to the process, after eating, it is to go shopping and watch a movie and finally drink and cough, and the current environment is obviously not suitable.

"How about I take you to Shanglin Yuan?"

Wei Zifu naturally would not refuse, "Everything must be obeyed by His Majesty's orders." ”

She thought she was going to take a carriage, but she didn't expect that Li Yunze simply turned over and got on the horse, and then leaned over to Wei Zifu's exclamation, and took it into her arms.

Li Yunze rode forward and went straight to the palace gate.

Ju Meng took hundreds of palace guards, and accompanied him before and after.

Different from the Loess Plateau that later generations habitually believed, Guanzhong at this time was full of green trees and clear water. The natural ecology is unbelievably good.

Shanglin Garden is such a royal garden with a perfect ecological style.

It is said to be a garden, but in fact, the area of Shanglin Garden is very large, and it is estimated that there are hundreds of square kilometers.

Moreover, there is no fence off to collect entrance fees, and the surrounding people can come and go as they please, and there are even many people living in it, working and farming.

Li Yunze was not interested in building a magnificent palace, so Shanglin Yuan only had some palace buildings left over from the Qin Shi Huang era, and the Shaofu could be used after maintenance.

He is not very interested in hunting in Shanglin Yuan, he has killed tigers with his bare hands, and it is not interesting to play any hunting.

For Li Yunze, the biggest role of Shanglin Yuan at this time is to be regarded as a ranch for breeding horses.

Cavalry was needed to fight the Huns, and the most important thing to train cavalry was to have good horses.

Sergeants can be recruited and trained, equipment can be crafted, and materials can be stored, but the best war horses can only be cultivated and raised.

Riding his horse all the way to a pastoral supervisor, he reined in his horse and slowly walked to the fence.

Wei Zifu in his arms was short of breath because of the fright, and his pretty face was crimson and extremely good-looking, but it was a pity that Li Yunze didn't even look at her at all, but looked over the fence at the hundreds of acres of pasture in front of him, those horses that were either running or eating feed.

The pastoral envoy who was arranged here by the Shaofu ran over to greet him out of breath.

Li Yunze waved his hand and asked, "How many horses are there in this ranch?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, there are sixty-three foals, fifty-nine mares, and one stallion here."

Usually a horse needs at least ten acres of grassland to feed, but Shaofu uses the kind of breeding and direct feed in the various pastures in Shanglin Yuan.

Therefore, more than 100 horses can be raised in a grassland of no more than a few hundred acres.

And there are hundreds of large and small ranches of this size in the entire Shanglin Garden.

Li Yunze nodded with satisfaction, his gaze swept over the horses, and finally landed on the stallion that was grumpy and bitten directly when he saw the mare approaching.

In history, in order to get a good horse, Emperor Wu did not hesitate to start a war to grab a bloody horse.

But Li Yunze knew that there were actually good horses in the territory of the Han Dynasty.

After all, the horses of this era have not yet degraded to an unbearable level after thousands of years of castration.

The most important thing is to write a family tree for the horse, which records the genetic inheritance in detail.

In the animal world, genetic inheritance is very important.

The offspring of an outstanding horse have a better chance of being equally good than an ordinary horse.

Therefore, stallions are carefully searched from all over the country and placed in pastures everywhere to pass on the good genes.

Looking at the irritable stallion, Li Yunze smiled, "It seems that there is too much trouble, and it can't stand it anymore." ”

Then he asked the shepherd, "Is it too much for a stallion to have fifty or sixty mares?" ”

Normally, a stallion matching twenty or thirty mares is considered the limit, but here it is directly doubled, and the pressure is too great.

"Your Majesty."

The pastoral envoy hurriedly responded, "The main reason is that there are too few qualified stallions, and the young government and the army are urging tightly, and there is no way for the ministers to wait." ”

Li Yunze can understand this.

After all, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, the horses on the land of China began to be artificially castrated, resulting in the continuous degradation of horse breeds, and the number of strong stallions was naturally decreasing.

As for why the horse is castrated, it is because in the war, if the stallion is not castrated, it is likely to be attracted by the opposite mare and go crazy, resulting in an accident in the war.

It's just that the price of this castration is the degradation of the horse breed.

After all, the more excellent the horse, the easier it is to be used as a war horse, once it becomes a war horse, it will be castrated, and over time, excellent horses will not be able to leave offspring, and will naturally degenerate.

Li Yunze nodded and agreed with this statement, "Then add more concentrate to it." ”

After that, Li Yunze pulled the reins of the horse, "Go to the stable and have a look." ”

The group rode their horses straight to the stable, and the smell here was pungent and unpleasant, so that Wei Zifu in his arms couldn't help but cover his nose.

Li Yunze smiled and didn't care, turned over and dismounted and walked into the stable, and began to carefully inspect the environment and feed.

Ordinary fodder is naturally forage, in fact, forage is also a kind of tax in Dahan, and the people have to pay a certain amount of forage as a tax every year.

However, since it is raised, it is definitely not possible to rely on forage alone, so the real staple food is still based on bean feed.

Li Yunze encouraged the planting of a large number of soybeans originating in China, and rotated with alfalfa grass.

Not only can it fertilize the fields, but it can also squeeze oil after harvest to provide precious oil for the people, and then mix the bean dregs with salt, corn, wheat husk, etc. to make feed for large livestock.

There is no doubt that the cost is very, very high, but at Li Yunze's insistence, it is still firmly implemented.

After inspecting the feed, he took the ledger handed over by the pastoral supervisor to check that the storehouse was alive.

After all, whether it is bean dregs, salt, or corn husk, they are all good commodities, and they can be sold for money when they are taken out.

Last month alone, Zhang Tang reported more than 10 cases of deducting pasture feed.

"It seems that Zhang Tang's knife has worked."

After the inspection, it was determined that there was no greed for horse feed in this pasture, and Li Yunze also showed a relieved smile.

After all, Zhang Tang personally sat in charge before, killing in various pastures, and also spreading the head of various pastures, which really played a deterrent role.

Even the horses are greedy for fodder, and these people are really not sorry to die.

Li Yunze then checked the situation of the foal.

He pushed for the selection of the pedigree that had only been going on for a year or two now, and the foals had not yet grown up.

However, there are some outstanding seedlings, and some clues can already be seen.

Not to mention anything else, the foals whose shoulder height is significantly higher than their companions can be selected and sent to newly built horse farms in Guanzhong and even all over the Kanto region to carry on the family lineage after two or three years reach the age of five or more.

With the passage of time, under the optimization of generations of horse breeds, the quality of Dahan's war horses will continue to improve, and there will no longer be the continuous degradation in history, until it is comparable to that of a donkey.

"The record of the lineage must be done."

Before leaving the pasture, Li Yunze instructed the pastoral supervisor to "record clearly who each foal is descended from." ”

The pastoral envoy did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly saluted in response, "Oh." ”

For Li Yunze, Ma Zheng is a very important thing.

His eyes weren't just fixed on the Huns.

Hollowing out the Western Regions, going deep into the two rivers, the Broken Moon Clan entered Parthia through Seleucus, and reached the west coast was his goal.

In order to achieve this goal, it is not enough to rely solely on the foot soldiers of the Han army, who are mainly on foot, and it is estimated that it will take them two or three years to walk from Chang'an City to the west coast.

And along the way, whether it was the Xiongnu, Wusun, Yueshi, Parthia or Seleucus, most of them were strong forces dominated by cavalry.

Only a large-scale cavalry is a powerful force to sweep the westward route.

"It's a pity."

On the way to the next ranch, Li Yunze secretly regretted in his heart, "If it was two hundred years earlier in the era of Wu Qi, he could still break his wrist with Alexander, and it would be just the end of the nonsense of those Yafu people in later generations." Macedonian legion, how can it be a tiger of the Qin State

opponents! ”

Li Yunze, who was in a good mood, took Wei Zifu around a few more pastures to check.

When it was getting late, he rode his horse to a nearby palace to rest.

When passing through the village, some palace guards accidentally rode their horses into the field and trampled on the green seedlings in the field, which immediately provoked the scolding of the old farmers who served the crops.

If this is in the Braided Dynasty, it will definitely kill the old farmer's whole family, and even the entire village will be slaughtered, after all, it is a wild boar skin that destroys human nature.

But here in the Han Dynasty, Li Yunze asked Ju Meng to give the old peasants some money as compensation.

The son of heaven of the Han family will naturally not embarrass the people of the Han family.

(End of chapter)