Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 558 Staged Achievements

"Marshal, the Bian army keeps setting up camps and digging trenches. The east and south sides of General Yang's camp have been half surrounded."

"It's hard for them to let mounted infantry defend the city. Order——What's General Gao's opinion?"

"The recruitment envoy has ordered Yang Sheng, the deputy envoy of the Tiande Army, to lead [-] infantry into the camp at night. The dragon army and cavalry army have already withdrawn from the camp."

"Is there any other movement from Bian people these days?"

"But build strongholds and dig trenches. General Gao keeps sending people out of the city, fighting every day."

Shao Shude nodded, almost the standard siege mode in this era.He remembered that in history, Li Ke used to attack Xingzhou defended by Li Cunxiao, and dug three trenches in one go, just because he was afraid that his brave adopted son would lead troops out of the city to make a surprise attack.

"There are more than [-] people in Shaozhou Tutuan, continue to practice. Hand it over to General Gao before the end of the month."

"As ordered."

Shao Shude continued to immerse himself in the official letter.

The Tutuan soldiers in Shaozhou were conscripted and organized at the prefecture and county levels, and belonged to local government affairs. Gao Renhou had no way to intervene, and he did not dare to intervene.Only when Shao Shude ordered these ten thousand people to be handed over to him can he use them and command them.

On the Heqing battlefield, it seems that everything is normal at present, and the progress made by the Bian army is quite limited.But they have lost more than 5000 people, and Xia Jun's loss is about one-third of Bian Jun's.

Continue to spend, anyway, if you attack the city, you will suffer, so why am I anxious.

After reading the official letter, Shao Shude found that he couldn't change a single word.The two "prime ministers" are too capable, should we promote another one?Song Le, deputy governor of Zhenbei, has been in Shengzhou for many years and has made great contributions. Now that the ruling center is far away from Lingxia, it is time to transfer him.

After dealing with these, he went to the An Le Hall again.

Zhe Fangai, Pei Zhenyi and two pregnant women were chatting and laughing, when they saw Shao Shude coming, they stood up and saluted together.

Yes, Shao Shude made Pei's belly bigger again. In fact, he didn't know why he liked getting Pei pregnant so much. Maybe it was some kind of dark psychology at work.

"Ms. Juan is here too." Shao Shude stretched out his hand to beckon, and a little girl with a bun came over and saluted in a childish voice, "Grandfather."

Juanniang is Li Renmei's daughter and Li Renyu's niece, strictly speaking, she is the princess of Ganzhou Uighur.Shao Shude took her over, adopted her as a righteous daughter, and handed her over to Pei to be raised.

Everyone from the Pei family was born, and they have dabbled in piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, singing and dancing.If the Uighur princess was brought up by her, she would probably be more educated and reasonable than the daughter of the orthodox Han family.

But he has regretted it a bit recently, Chengjie and Siwu, two bastards, heard that they often play with Juanniang, and they like this little girl very much.On the contrary, it was their respective fiancées, one in Lingzhou and the other in Shazhou, whom they hadn't met a few times.You have to keep an eye on it, so as not to cause an ethical tragedy.

After giving Juanniang a small gift casually, Shao Shude looked at Zhe Fangai and asked, "Is there a letter from my uncle in Tangzhou?"

Zhe Zongben has not had a good time recently.

The Bian army went south to pursue Zhao Kuanglin and directly occupied the three counties of Shenzhou, and it seemed that they had no intention of returning them to Du Hong.

On the other side of Pingjing Pass, Zhao Kuanglin's gang of shrimp soldiers and crab generals defended very hard, and were almost defeated several times.The Bian army also crossed the mountains and sent a small group of soldiers into the hinterland of Suizhou, but Zhao Kuanglin barely repelled them.

The battle in Dengzhou has reached a stalemate.In fact, Ge Congzhou had more than 1 yamen troops, and he didn't intend to make efforts in this direction. He was just cooperating with Ding Hui to attack Tangzhou.

On the main battlefield of Tangzhou, Ding Hui led [-] elite Yamen troops to enter from the direction of Caizhou.

The Bian army could not attack the city, so they plundered and retreated to Xu and Cai, but the threat was still there and should not be ignored.

On the southern front, I plundered your Caizhou, and you plundered my Tangzhou. It turned out to be a mess.However, it is enough to attract the troops of the Bian army, Shao Shude is not demanding.

"Grandfather sent a batch of goods and servants over, saying that he wanted to build a mansion in Anyi." Zhe Fangai was pregnant for several months, and her mind became more sensitive, she held Shao Shude's hand, feeling a little worried.

"Haha, my uncle has done a lot of hard work, so it's nothing. But don't buy a house in Anyi. After staying for a few years, you may have to move out again." Shao Shude squeezed Fang Ai's hand to reassure her.

But I was slightly displeased with Zhe Zongben's actions in my heart, and the goods were nothing more than the goods, what happened to the servants?Still prairie style.

He knew that there were many tribes of the Hao family in Linzhou, just like the meeting in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, they were used to arresting people to fill the tribe.But when they arrived in the Central Plains, they had to follow the rules. The Yuwen family knew how to release slaves, and the Northern Qi who didn't do it thoroughly didn't play with him, let alone the aristocratic families of the Southern Dynasty who treated the people as slaves.

Zhe Fangai keenly sensed Shao Shude's inner emotions, forced a smile and said: "The slaves should leave, it's not suitable for the king not to raise a trilogy."

"Madam, you don't have to be like this." Shao Shude sighed, hugged Zhefang Ai into his arms, and said: "I will remember the kindness of the Zhe family. Without the Zhe family, I don't even have cavalry, and no one will go to Xiangyang to take Tang Deng."

Mrs. Pei glanced at Zhe Fangai with some envy, what's the use of being favored, the family formed a bond of husband and wife, and her mother's family was so good at fighting, the Pei family was incomparable.

……

After lunch, Shao Shude went directly to the racecourse.

"Commander, these are the war horses sent by Yinzhou." Chen Qi, the judge of the Shuofang shogunate's stable shepherd, pointed to the hundred and ten horses and said.

Shao Shude has been engaged in horse administration for more than ten years. After the initial inefficient work, Yinchuan Ranch, which leads the stallion breeding on site, has become more and more proficient, and has formulated strict rules and regulations.

Breeding good horses has been done since ancient times. To put it bluntly, it is very simple. It is to purify good genes and allow them to be passed on stably.

For example, if you want to obtain a stable yellow-haired horse, you have to cross a pure-blooded black horse with a pure-blooded white horse to give birth to a generation of black horses, black-and-white horses, and white horses. .And if a yellow horse mates with another yellow horse, the chances of getting a yellow horse are very slim.If it is due to the limitation of the breeding cycle and lifespan, they may not be able to produce yellow-haired horses like themselves in their lifetime.

The role of thoroughbred horses in pastures is to fix some genes, and free mating must be strictly prohibited, otherwise some benign genes may disappear forever.

You don't know which genes are anchored in the mixed horse at random, so the breeding has no clue at all, it is a stroke of luck, and there is no way to stabilize the inheritance. This is not science.

Yinchuan Ranch didn't know much about these things before, but after years of exploration, it has summed up many rules.Shao Shude asked them to record all of them and compile a textbook, which will be improved later.

There are also quite a few thoroughbred stallions in the ranch, all of which have fixed part of their genes, established genealogy, and grouped each other, and the groups are not allowed to mate with each other.

The ranch will regularly formulate mating plans, various permutations and combinations, to see if they can get ideal horses.

"A total of 98 horses?" Shao Shude said casually after reading the document, "The shoulder height is good, the coat color is also pure, and they are all white horses. What are the defects?"

He knew that none of the horses that could be sent to the army were perfect horses as the ranch thought.That kind of thoroughbred horse is an extremely precious resource, it is used for breeding, how could it be used for you to kill?

After the founding of the People's Republic of China in later generations, horse breeding was vigorously carried out, and thoroughbred horses were also very precious, and they would not flow out easily.This thoroughbred horse is able to give birth to offspring with yellow fur, this thoroughbred horse is able to give birth to offspring with big ears, and so on, all of which have great breeding value.

Even in the 21st century, there are still a large number of artificially purified horse breeds selected into the "National List of Breeds of Livestock and Poultry Genetic Resources".The breeding of thoroughbred horses is so important, and major countries are doing it, which obviously shows the direction of development. It is really ridiculous to embrace the rough-feeding bantam prairie Ma Dangbao.

"Marshal, these horses are tall at the shoulders and strong, and they are extremely fast, but they can only charge for less than half an hour, and they are sweating and foaming at the mouth." Chen Qi introduced.

Damn, so extreme!How did you get it?Is this trading stamina for impact?

"Give it a try." Shao Shude said after sitting on the top chair.

Soon, a driver stood in the racecourse, vigorously waving his whip in the air.

Just hearing the crisp sound of "crack", 98 horses immediately galloped around the racecourse.For a while, there was a sound of horseshoes, and the dust was flying all over the sky, but the power was really amazing.

"What a fast speed!" Shao Shude got up from his chair and stared intently at the galloping horses in the arena.

These horses were free, without bridles and saddles, but they were all rough and tamed. Shao Shude felt itchy and wanted to try riding one himself.

"Any more flaws?" he asked again.If it's just stamina, it's completely acceptable, the big deal is that you usually eat and drink, and you just ride when you charge. The advantages outweigh the disadvantages, but he doesn't believe that things are so simple.

"It's easy to get sick." Chen Qi said, "The shoulder height is not enough."

I see.Shao Shude sat back again.

Easy to get sick is indeed a very serious defect, and the shoulder height is indeed not enough, at least 150 cm or more, preferably 155 or more, and it is still a lot worse now.

"Judge Chen, Lingzhou Agricultural School recently asked Yong Qingzha to help breed sheep, and Yinchuan Ranch should also be handled by some staff."

"What does the handsome mean?"

"Create a sheep that produces soft wool." Shao Shude said.

After living in the Tang Dynasty for so many years, he discovered a strange phenomenon: most of the sheep that people eat are actually sheep!
The mainstream sheep breed in Lingxia is called "Hexi sheep", the mainstream breed in Hedong is "Hedong sheep", "Shayuan sheep" in Guanzhong, "fat-tailed sheep" (ancestor of Mongolian sheep) in the north of Yinshan Mountain, and "Kangju sheep" popular in Liangzhou. "Big-tailed sheep" is an imported breed from the Western Regions.

In addition, there are Man sheep, Tao sheep, Wu sheep, etc., with a wide variety.

These sheep are all fucking sheep!
Shao Shude didn't recognize them in the early years, because these so-called sheep produced too little wool, and they were not like the sheep he knew in his previous life.

Then he gradually understood.The sheep of later generations should also be like breeding good horses, purifying the blood from generation to generation, first making "pure blood sheep", fixing certain genes, and then directional breeding, and finally came up with a breed of sheep that produces more wool, and is thin and soft.Spain's Merino sheep and Turks' Angora sheep are all in this way.

But what do sheep look like today?First of all, it produces less hair, and second, the hair is short, thick and hard, which is not easy to use, and it is troublesome to clean up.

Take Kangju big-tailed sheep, a specialty of Liangzhou, as an example.Look, the talent point is in fat production. This is medicinal material, not fabric.

"Marshal, I heard that there is a kind of Hu sheep in Dashi, which is similar to Kangju big-tailed sheep, or it is a close relative. It is more than three feet tall, and its tail weighs ten catties. It is as big as a fan and can hardly walk. Its wool is more than that of Kangju big-tailed sheep. Delicate, soft, and fatty. Maybe—”

"You handle the specific affairs. How to breed, how to breed, after so many years of horse administration, you should know a lot." Shao Shude waved his hand and said, "As for how the big food sheep came, um..."

Shao Shude thought of several forces in the Western Regions.

　I have coded a chapter at work.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)