"Excuse me, is Childe a member of the Hundred Families?" A voice rang out.

Everyone looked back, and a man in his twenties with a hunched back walked over, the man's hair was slightly messy, it seemed that he was simply tied up, and his clothes were also the most ordinary civilian clothes, and his expression was slightly restrained.

Seeing this, Bai Zihuan did not despise him because of this person's dress, those who could have the courage to come to Wuxuan's side were all people with skills, and he smiled at Shen Ye and the others: "See? This son only needs to sit here, he doesn't need to speak, and he has talented people who come here. ”

Bai Zihuan nodded at the man and said with a smile: "I am Bai Zihuan, the son of the head of the hundred families, what skills does your Excellency have, do you want to be my guest of the hundred families?" ”

Bai Zihuan thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't think of the appropriate wording.

When Shen Ye and the others heard the word "guest", they laughed in their hearts.

When the man heard that this son was still the son of the head of a hundred families, he said happily: "I have seen the son, and the small people call him Jiugao, I don't know if the son's family lacks people to raise horses." ”

"Poof."

Chang Luochen couldn't hold back, laughing on the side, he gasped and said: "Brother Zihuan is really famous, just sit down, and the horsemen in the world will beg to come over and lead the horse for you." ”

Bai Zihuan opened his mouth, listening to the laughter of several people beside him, his face turned blue and red for a while, and he said angrily: "Didn't you say that everyone who came here has a skill, why did you come to a groom?" I am the eldest young master of a hundred families, and I came all the way to the literary meeting, but the first person to come to me was actually a groom? When it is over, the matter will be a laughing stock. ”

Bai Zihuan was in an extremely bad mood, his tone became cold, and he said to him: "I don't need a groom in the Baijia, you can go." ”

Jiugao's eyes dimmed eagerly, he was actually worried in his heart, the other big clans were crowded with people, his heart was a little timid, seeing that there was no one under this hundred families, he had the courage to ask, but he didn't expect to be ridiculed, Jiugao smiled bitterly, turned his head and left.

"Your Excellency, please stay."

Jiugao heard the voice coming, he turned around, and saw a young man waving at him, and this person was the only one who didn't laugh at him, Jiugao had a good impression of him, looked at him curiously, waiting for him to say something.

Bai Zihuan and Chang Luochen were taken aback, Bai Zihuan looked at Shen Ye and said, "Ziye, what are you going to do?" Are you going to take him? ”

Shen Ye smiled and said, "Don't worry, even if you raise horses, you are also skilled, you might as well see if this person is a little different?" ”

Bai Zihuan and Chang Luochen both showed disapproving expressions.

Shen Ye didn't care either, called Jiugao over, and asked, "What unique skills do you have for raising horses, or do you have your own unique recipe for horse forage?" ”

Jiugao was stunned, then shook his head and said, "No." ”

Shen Ye also frowned at this time, could it be that this person really wanted to make trouble?

Suddenly, Shen Ye's heart moved, and he asked, "Do you know how to take a horse?" ”

As soon as he heard Soma, Bai Zihuan and Chang Luochen beside him suddenly became serious.

Jiugao was stunned and said, "I wonder if what Gongzi said about Soma is the intention of choosing a good horse among the horses?" ”

Shen Ye nodded, looked at him expectantly, and said, "Exactly." ”

Jiugao said: "What grass people are good at is choosing good horses. ”

Shen Ye said happily: "Okay! Your Excellency, I want it! ”

Jiugao showed a happy expression and was about to bow down.

"Slowly, slowly!" Bai Zihuan hurriedly said: "Nine what? ”

Jiugao bowed and said, "The common people are called Jiugao." ”

Bai Zihuan said with a displeased face: "Jiugao, let me ask you, why didn't you just say that you would be a horse?" ”

Jiugao said blankly: "Xiaomin doesn't know what Soma means." ”

Bai Zihuan was suffocated and said regretfully: "Then don't say that you are a horse breeder?" ”

Jiu Gao said blankly: "Is there any difference?" ”

Bai Zihuan said angrily: "Where are you from?" ”

Jiugao said: "The common people live in the grassland in the north of Youzhou. ”

Bai Zihuan and Chang Luochen showed a sudden expression, the northern grassland of Youzhou has always been inhabited by some large horse breeders, the most powerful of these big families are some slaves who can do horses, these people have been taught to learn the art of horses since they were young, and basically do not communicate with the outside world, so it is normal for this Jiugao not to know the meaning of horses. It's just that the art of Soma has always been monopolized by those horse households, and now it has been regarded as a stunt by the major families, especially in the eyes of those rich gentry who raise horses and sell horses. Why did someone named Jiugao come here?

Bai Zihuan and Chang Luochen knew that there was a story in it, and the two figured out the key, and did not ask the reason, but began to grab this person.

Bai Zihuan said first: "Jiugao, I don't complain that I rejected you, it was you who didn't make it clear, now I ask you again, are you willing to come to my hundred families and be the steward of my hundred families?" From now on, you will be in charge of the horse industry of my hundred families in various states. ”

Chang Luochen was startled, looked at Bai Zihuan and asked, "Why didn't I know that you had a horse industry?" ”

Bai Zihuan said impatiently: "Go and go, don't interrupt, it's going to be there right away, can't it?" ”

Chang Luochen said angrily: "I'm sorry, you stinky shameless!" ”

Jiugao was just about to speak, but Chang Luochen saw that the situation was not right, gritted his teeth, and bowed down.

He was startled by this action, and Bai Zihuan was surprised: "What are you doing?" ”

I only heard Chang Luochen say in a muffled voice: "Mr. Jiugao! Chang is willing to worship Mr. Jiu as a teacher and teach me the art of Soma. ”

Bai Zihuan gasped and scolded secretly: "This is really stinky and shameless!" After thinking about it, he also let go, and bowed down like Chang Luochen.

The art of Soma has been on the table for a hundred years, and it is recognized by the nobles and the people as a vulgar and lowly art, and only those who are forced to make a living and do not want to beg will learn some fur, and the real Soma art is gradually lost. It was not until later that the Beidi people on the grassland rose, and the Beidi cavalry with strong mobility made the rulers of the previous dynasty pay attention to the war horses, and the garrisons of the northern states recruited a group of people who specialized in horses, so that they could select good horses in the war horse herd and form their own cavalry units to contend with the Beidi people, but most of these temporarily recruited Soma people were halfway monks or mediocre people who came in to eat mixed meals, and the selected war horses were either not endurance or had poor mobility, and could not compete with the war horses of Beidi in all aspects.

At that time, the empire only had grasslands that could support a large number of war horses, and the number of war horses was in short supply. Although people began to raise horses because of interests, they were raised indiscriminately because of resistance, so although the horses purchased from the private sector filled the vacancy of war horses in the army, they still could not guarantee the overall quality of war horses, resulting in an increasingly dangerous situation in the north of the empire.

The emperor of the previous dynasty had no choice but to decide to drive the expedition in person, raise the strength of the whole country, and exterminate the Beidi, he ordered to build a military fortress near Youxian near the grassland in the north, and hoarded heavy troops and materials here, and used this as a base to divide the troops into five roads to carry out the first Northern Expedition, in the process of the Northern Expedition, although the five roads of men and horses have won the battle, but also suffered heavy casualties, the most important thing is that there is no way to find the royal court of the Beidi people.

Just when the emperor of the previous dynasty was worried, the battle damage report of a cavalry unit attracted the attention of the emperor of the previous dynasty, although the cavalry was less than a thousand, but from the beginning of the war to the present has achieved almost zero casualties at the same time, the emperor of the previous dynasty summoned the young general Dugu Yan who led this cavalry on the spot, that is, the grandfather of the founding emperor of the new dynasty Duguli.

The emperor of the previous dynasty had a conversation with him, only to learn that Duguyan was a good horse by nature, he was not ashamed of the art of horses since he was a child, but when he was young, he entered the grassland alone many times, and exchanged the herdsmen of the Beidi people with the experience of raising horses, horses, and royal horses, the art of horses is quite proficient, and the horses he rode were also carefully selected by him, and the speed and endurance of these horses even far exceeded the mounts of the most elite cavalry of the Beidi people.

The emperor of the previous dynasty, Longyan Dayue, immediately rewarded him, and in the following ten years, the emperor of the former dynasty had to bring Duguyan with him every time he went on a northern expedition, and Duguyan also lived up to expectations, and repeatedly made war exploits, and finally the emperor of the former dynasty gave the entire Fuzhou to the Duguyan family, so that it could guard the north for the empire for generations.

It can be said that the art of Soma has promoted the rise of the Dugu family, since then every child of the Dugu family is proud of the art of the Soma, to the generation of Duguli, the Dugu family is a peerless Soma genius Dugu Jing, Dugu Jing's personality is similar to the Dugu Yan of the year, since he was a child, he likes to study the art of Soma, and on the basis of the art of Soma handed down from his ancestors, he added his own innovation, in the observation of many good horses for many years, Dugu Jing found a black war horse with strong endurance and load-bearing capacity, he named it "Dark Cloud Horse", As a result, the first heavily armored cavalry army in the history of the entire continent was born, which is now famous in the world as the "Beifu Iron Cavalry", laying the military foundation for the Dugu family to win the world.

After the Dugu family seized the world, the art of Soma that made the officials and nobles despised, turned into a stunt respected by the people, but after all, the art of Soma needs decades or even hundreds of years of inheritance and accumulation, and there are very few people who have learned it, and those Beidi slaves who are good at Soma left in the north of the empire have become the sweets of those big horse breeders, and they firmly control it in their own hands, these Beidi descendants have brought huge profits to the horse breeders in the north. But there are no people in the clan, so they can only ignore this matter.

Hearing that Jiugao knows the art of horses, and then thinking of the name Jiugao, Chang Luochen immediately determined that this person is a descendant of Beidi, is a talent that cannot be obtained, if you get this person, your family can step into the horse industry, coupled with the strong financial resources of your family, maybe you can also cooperate with the Imperial General's Mansion in the future, become an imperial businessman, and provide war horses for the four major battalions, which is enough to support the family's century-old luck in the future.

Chang Luochen figured this out and put down his body and asked to apprentice, although Bai Zihuan didn't think about it so long-term, but seeing Chang Luochen behaving like this, he knew that Jiugao was more important to the major families than he thought, so he also bowed down.

Jiu Gao has known very little about the outside world since he was born, and those big families have deliberately concealed it, he doesn't know the attraction of his talents to these families, seeing that these two young masters are so solemn, he doesn't know what to do for a while.

He turned his head to look at Shen Ye, Shen Ye also cherished his talents, but after all, Bai Zihuan helped Shen Ye a lot, and Shen Ye was embarrassed to rob him, so he smiled and said, "Whoever you want to follow, you can choose for yourself." ”