Wang Jing was appointed as the Minister of Internal Affairs by Wang Jing because of his meritorious work in digging the Luohuai Canal, and Da Zongzheng had just died of illness not long ago, and Wang Jing appointed Wang Zhe to serve as Da Zongzheng.

Since Wang Jing planned to use troops against the Xiongnu, he naturally had to do a good job. The most important thing in fighting the Huns was the issue of war horses, so Wang Jing and Han Xin, the general of Zhenbei, were sent to inspect the horse farm in northern Xinjiang.

Wang Luo captured the Hetao in World War I, then established Shuofang County, and established a military horse farm in Shuofang. Over the past forty years, after more than ten generations of careful breeding, better war horses have been bred.

The cold wind is howling, the sky and the earth are vast, the snowflakes are falling, and everything is quiet. The north wind is blowing, and the snow is drifting for thousands of miles. Although it has only just passed October, snow is already falling in the north.

This was even more true in Shuofang County, where Wang Jing and Han Xin led the delegation to Shuofang, where there was a layer of ice and snow on the wooden tracks on the road.

Han Xin was very happy when he learned that the Son of Heaven planned to use force against the Xiongnu, but he had always wanted to be a marquis. It's just that the world has been peaceful all these years, and even if he has a skill, he has no chance to show it.

Now that he has an opportunity, he must seize it.

Shuofang County is mainly garrisoned by the Marquis of Linrong, when the Marquis of Linrong opened the Liaodong Kingdom, the Hu people in the north had meritorious, and then followed Wang Ke to quell the rebellion, so he was named the Marquis of the county, the Marquis of Linrong, and the fief was Linrong.

Because of the bitter cold in the north, Wang Ke deliberately sealed 1,200 households that year. Therefore, there are 3,200 households in Linrong Hou's food estate, and let him guard Shuofang.

And the Marquis of Linrong also lived up to expectations, repeatedly defeated the southern invasion of the Xiongnu, and protected the northern land of Daqian from being invaded, although the military horse farm in Shuofang County was not under his direct jurisdiction, but he also had the right to supervise.

Linrong Hou tightened the leather clothes on his body, looked at the heavy snow and said: "Li Taishou, is the grain and grass in the horse farm ready, the horse farm is not allowed to be negligent." ”

"The old man is sixty years old this year, I just want to live a good life in peace and stability for a few years, and then pass on the title, do you want to be promoted to Luoyang to serve as the high position of the three princes and nine kings, or still let the horse here, it all depends on this!"

Lin Ronghou's words were not good, but Li Cheng, who was too guarded, was not displeased. The main reason is that over the years, the Marquis of Lin Rong has been in charge of the military of Shuofang County, resisting the Huns, and has never made mistakes, which also makes his assessment better every year. As long as there are no accidents in the racecourse, he will be able to be transferred to the capital as Jiuqing next year.

"Linrong Hou rest assured, the last person in the world who wants an accident in the military horse farm is me, as long as the military horse farm is fine, I will be able to enter Beijing next year, I will not joke on this kind of issue."

Lin Ronghou nodded and said, "That's good!" ”

Li Cheng was about to speak, when suddenly a rapid sound of horses' hooves sounded, and then he saw a knight rushing out of the snow curtain, it was a herald.

"The marquis, Taishou, a noble person has arrived in Luoyang!"

Linrong Hou and Li Cheng were shocked when they heard this, they glanced at each other, they didn't dare to slack off, and immediately asked people to come and turn over the horses and say, "Do you know which noble person is here?" ”

"The marquis of the county, the noble man is accompanied by the general of Yulin Guard to guard Zhenbei."

The Marquis of Linrong and Li Cheng immediately understood that the Yulin Guard was the royal family's descendant, and the prestige of the Zhenbei general Han Xin also knew that there had not been many wars over the years, but this one was still only one step away from the marquis by virtue of his military exploits.

"Li Taishou, let me ask you again, has everything been done in the military horse farm?" Lin Ronghou asked again.

Li Cheng frowned, and said in an affirmative tone: "Don't worry, the county marquis has harvested enough grass before the heavy snow comes, and I have ordered all this year's beans to be supplied to the military horse farm to ensure that the military horses will not lose fat." ”

The two of them galloped on horseback, and more than a dozen armor soldiers followed behind them, galloping towards the county government.

The county guard's mansion, Wang Jing and Han Xin were looking at a map of the county guard's mansion, Han Xin was in high spirits, pointing to the map and explaining something.

Linrong Hou and Li Cheng quickly rushed back, and when they saw those Yulin guards outside the county guard's mansion, they were even more cautious in their hearts.

When I entered the lobby, I saw two young people in their thirties, one of whom was handsome and had a calm temperament, and the other was full of vigor and military spirit.

Marquis Linrong and Li Cheng hurriedly stepped forward and saluted Wang Jing and said, "The subordinate ministers meet the prime minister, General Zhenbei." ”

Wang Jing helped the two of them up and said with a smile: "Mrs. Li is exempt from the courtesy. ”

"Two, I'm here today for the sake of war horses, I don't know how the military horse farm is?"

Li Taishou and Linrong Hou hurriedly said: "Prime minister, the matter of the war horse is the top priority, I dare not slack off, we have already prepared." ”

Wang Jing nodded and said, "Since that's the case, let's go and have a look together!" ”

Li Cheng took a deep breath and said, "Prime minister, please, General Zhenbei, please." ”

Wang Jing and Han Xin nodded and immediately walked out.

Marquis Linrong and Li Cheng immediately took Wang Jing Hanxin to the horse farm, and beside everyone were two hundred forest guards and two hundred northern cavalry to follow the guards.

Li Cheng and Linrong Hou led everyone to the horse farm, and introduced: "Internal Minister, the Shuofang Military Horse Farm was built by order of His Majesty the First Emperor, and it has been more than 30 years since Emperor Taizong, and after our improvement and optimization, there are more than 600,000 horses here, of which more than 300,000 can be used as war horses. ”

"There are more than ten kinds of horses in the horse farm, such as Western Regions horses, grassland horses, Henan horses, etc., and after continuous breeding and selection, we have bred several different war horses, all of which are called Shuofang horses."

"300,000 horses!"

Wang Jing was also surprised, and Han Xin's eyes lit up, 300,000 war horses, even if it was one person and three horses, it was enough to form 100,000 cavalry. Enough for a decisive battle with the Huns.

The group was very fast, and in about an hour, everyone came to the horse farm. At this time, a large number of stables appeared in front of everyone in the stable, and countless war horses lived in the stables.

"Inner phase, this is the Shuofang horse, tall, strong muscles, fast speed, good endurance, better than the Huns' war horses."

Wang Jing and Han Xin looked at the handsome war horse in front of them and were very satisfied.

There are other Shuofang horses next to it, and when Wang Luo set up a horse farm, he let people breed different kinds of war horses.

Some war horses have strong gravity, average sprint speed and strong endurance, some war horses have fast sprint speed, good endurance and average gravity, and some negative gravity, sprinting are average, but the endurance is extremely strong, and it is convenient to feed at the same time.

Cultivating different types of war horses is to form different cavalry, and in the books left by Zijue back then, several different types of cavalry are given, including armored cavalry, light armored cavalry, and rangers.

Armored cavalry means that men and horses are full body armor, and they are brave and invincible in charging through formations, while light armored cavalry is wearing light armor, and horses are only equipped with horse armor in key places, and rangers are only equipped with leather armor, and war horses are unarmoured, and they use bows, arrows, and sabers to harass.

The three types of cavalry have different uses, so the original breeding of war horses was also cultivated in different directions.

(End of chapter)