Chapter 12: The Pasture
The horse thieves were gone! There were twelve more guards in the ranks of the slaves, pulling horses and goods and heading towards the depths of the grassland. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Seeing that there were so many more people in the team, Zhang Xiaoshan was very happy, and he played those twelve guys around all day. Two days after encountering the horse thief, Nu Tian and his party finally reached their destination.
There are sixty-seven pastures of the Jin Kingdom on the Chixia grassland, which are dedicated to grazing military horses. And the ranch where Nu Tian is located belongs to the lower pastoral supervisor, with 3,000 war horses, and as the deputy supervisor, he can be regarded as the identity of one person in the ranch and above everyone! But when Nu Tian arrived at the ranch and handed over to the original deputy supervisor, he found that the situation was not like that at all.
The shepherd is a national herding horse, although he is an official, it is really a drudgery. Generally, only those newly promoted officials who have offended the officials or have no backstage will be placed in this world to graze. However, Nutian's boss was a son of a family, and he was assigned the official position of pastoral supervisor by the family in order to accumulate merits. But for some reason, the shepherd didn't really take office – but everyone thought he was in office, so the ranch was actually the deputy superintendent. At the urging of the former deputy supervisor, the handover was completed in just a few moments, and the lord didn't even take Nu Tian to inspect the ranch, and hurriedly left with his subordinates. So from this moment on, Nu Tian officially became the deputy pastor, the real boss of this ranch!
Nu Tian looked at the former deputy supervisor who was speeding away, and then looked at the well-behaved subordinates in front of him, and he was a little dazed for a while, not knowing what to do!
"My lord, let's take you to check out the pasture!" said Huchi'er, who was the chief bookkeeper, and said respectfully.
Nu Tian has been in the academy for decades, and he has developed the mentality of a superior person a long time ago. Just now, I just couldn't get used to it for a while, but I quickly recovered. He nodded, motioning for Huchir to lead the way.
In fact, when the handover was just now, Nu Tian had already used his divine sense to scan the ranch slightly, so he still knew the situation here. But when Huchir explained the situation of the ranch in detail, his face slowly turned dark. From the very beginning, Nu Tian guessed that the situation that the deputy supervisor said must be different from the real situation, but he never imagined that this discrepancy would be so big.
At the time of the handover, the deputy supervisor said that there were 3,000 horses in the ranch, and at that time, Nu Tian checked it with his divine sense and found that there were indeed about 3,000 horses in the pasture, so he didn't particularly care. It was only when Huchir explained that he learned that the three thousand horses in writing should be three thousand sturdy adult war horses, and that the horses in the pasture were either too old or too small, and some of them were even disabled. Although there is not much difference in quantity, in fact, the difference is huge!
The duty of the shepherd is to herd horses for the country, and every once in a while he has to hand over some of the horses to the military department. There are 3,000 war horses in this pasture, and in two months, the military department will come to receive 2,000 war horses. No wonder he ran so fast, if he could, Nu Tian wanted to run away now, who would want to take over such a mess?
Seeing Shangguan's sneering and silent appearance, the people below didn't dare to gasp for breath, and they all looked bowed and submissive. Don't look at Nu Tian as a new official, but no one dares to underestimate him. Because this is the world of monks, those who can become officials are basically monks. They all knew a truth, the higher the cultivation, the more prosperous the official fortune, and the clothes of the academy on this lord proved that he could not be a low-level monk. The deputy superintendent who had just left only had to build a foundation, and this lord's servant was already a foundation builder, all of which showed a problem—this lord was not something they could offend!
At this time, Nu Tian also saw that the real person in charge of this ranch was probably this master! Although the other people were obedient, they always kept their heads down and didn't know what to think when they asked questions, or they just looked absent-minded, and no one dared to come up to answer their own questions.
"How many adult horses are there in the pasture now?" Although Nu Tian was annoyed in his heart, there was no trace of it on his face.
"My lord, less than five hundred!" replied Huchier, with a weak heart.
"Hehe, that lord is really capable!" Nu Tian laughed angrily and sneered mercilessly.
"My lord, is there a matter that I don't know whether to say or not?" At this time, Huchier suddenly made up his mind, approached Nutian's side and asked in a low voice.
"But it doesn't hurt to say it!" Nu Tian frowned, and a chill unconsciously rose in his heart - wasn't that enough?
Huchier led Nu Tian and the others to a stable, and Nu Tian saw that several horses in the stable were unusually strong, with shiny hair and light steps, and at a glance he knew that they were not ordinary.
"Do you know anything about 'riding on the wind'?" asked Huchier, whispering, gesturing to the horses in the stable.
"That's the most elite cavalry of the Jin Kingdom!" replied Nu Tian.
"Your Excellency is worthy of being a talented person in the academy, and you are indeed very knowledgeable!, but you may not know that the 'Wind Treading War Horse' for 'Wind Riding Horse' is very difficult to raise. Therefore, the imperial court assigned the heavy responsibility of raising to each pasture, and although our ranch is small, we still have to hand over twenty 'wind riding horses' every year......" Hu Chier paused here as he spoke, as if to let Nu Tian digest what he said.
"Go on!" Nu Tian commanded calmly.
"Here's the thing! When we handed in the 'Wind Treading War Horse' last year, the adults who came to receive it told me that our Shepherd Supervisor had promised to hand in 100 'Wind Treading War Horses' in the pasture this year...... "Huchier said with a bitter face.
"Lord Shepherd, what a courage!" Nu Tian's face suddenly darkened completely. After slowly looking at the people beside him, he coldly asked again, "How many 'Wind Treading War Horses' are there in the pasture now?"
"Less than ten!" The answer was simple and straightforward, but it really startled Nutian.
"How come?" asked Nu Tian sharply, glaring at Huchier.
"My lord doesn't know, the 'Wind Treading Battle Horse' has a fourth-order demon beast bloodline on its body, even if the inherited bloodline is not strong, but it is also a rare good horse, and it is hard to find!" Huchier replied respectfully with his head bowed.
"Good!" called Nutian coldly.
With Nu Tian's good voice, there was a dead silence on the field, and no one dared to say another word.
"Is there a solution?" said the slave genius after a long while.
"The horses handed in by the ranch every year are all stopped at the third order because of their thin blood, and most of them are not selected for the 'Wind Riding Ride' in the end. If you can find one or two sturdy fourth-order war horses and be selected for the 'Wind Rider', you may be able to avoid a catastrophe!" Huchir replied with a bowed head.
"Sir, this method is indeed wonderful!, but there are so many ordinary war horses, I'm afraid the boss won't spare me and others. Nu Tian said with a wry smile.
"There are a lot of wild horses on the grassland, and adults can send someone to catch some to fill up. Huchir spoke again.
"It's rare for Mr. to have such talent, so this matter will be troublesome for Mr.!" Nu Tian chuckled and saluted Huchier.
“...... The villain obeys his orders!" Huchier didn't expect that Nu Tian would set a trap here and wait for him, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart.
In fact, the two methods that Huchier said sounded like a solution, but as soon as Nu Tian heard it, he knew that this guy was testing his ability and background. The method of stimulating the potential of the bloodline is often an unpassed secret of the high-ranking sects, and it is not something that ordinary people can do if they raise a third-order demon beast to the fourth-order; as for catching wild horses, it is now a thousand war horses! Dozens of people on the Ren Ranch can catch such wild horses and train them to be qualified war horses in two months--in other words, it is to let Nu Tian use his means and put all the responsibility on him, the new deputy supervisor.
"Wait a minute!" Nu Tian felt annoyed when he saw the people in front of him, so he waved them away.
"Yes, my lord!" everyone said goodbye and hurried away.
"Mr. Huchier, have all the people from the ranch arrived today?" Just as everyone was leaving, Nu Tian suddenly asked again.
"Not a single one was absent!" replied Huchier.
"Sure enough, the capable work hard!" Nu Tian sighed and waved his hand to signal Huchier to leave, and he looked up at the white clouds in the sky quietly.