Jiang Nv is indescribable

Chapter 76
Tongyun Army Horse Farm is a natural grassland with flat terrain, lush water and grass, and a huge scale.

The entire racecourse extends to the east, spanning two counties and adjoining six counties. It is the most important military horse breeding and domestication base in Binzhou, sending tens of thousands of high-quality horses to various parts of Dayan every year—of course not unconditionally.

Since it was officially opened in the Han Dynasty, Tongyun Racecourse has been used as a royal army horse farm for hundreds of years.

Since the previous dynasty, with the passage of peace, the imperial court has neglected the cultivation of war horses, and Tongyun Racecourse has gradually become abandoned.Dayan has always been mainly farming, lack of natural pastures, and there are not enough conditions for large-scale domestication of horses.

This has also resulted in a long-standing situation where good horses are scarce and horse prices are high. Not to mention war horses, ordinary horses can be sold for sky-high prices in the inner county.

During the years of war with various barbarians, especially after driving out the Northern Liang soldiers, the six northern states began to pay attention to the training of military horses and cavalry.

After several years of dormancy and recuperation, the current Northland is barely considered a thriving population and the treasury is full, and the war horses can already be supplied adequately.

The price of horses in Zhubian County is only [-] yuan for the higher ones, and the regular price is only [-] yuan, and some are as low as [-] yuan.

In the Southland, the so-called high-grade horses bought at a high price of [-] yuan are at most classified as middle-grade or even low-grade in the Northland-the profit difference between them can be imagined.

But at this time war horses are prohibited from trade.

The noble family of the Jingling clan can occasionally buy one or two fine-bred war horses, but they still have to beware of being held accountable by the court.Generally, the nobles use ordinary horses at most, and the next ones are cattle, donkeys and the like.

After Jiang Fosang asked, he found out that Tongyun Racecourse has as many as 700,000 horses, and its prosperity is astonishing.

Mrs. Bian smiled proudly: "Although there are countless horse farms in the Northland, Tongyun Race Farm is the largest one. Other states and counties occasionally want to buy horses from us through the imperial court."

"So." Jiang Fosang nodded.

Chongzhou is rich in iron ore, and Binzhou has excellent horses. It is not without reason that they can become the two confidantes of the imperial court.

Although Tongyun Racecourse is a horse farm in name, in addition to the big horse camp and large grasslands, there are also large areas of cultivated areas and forest areas, so even women who do not participate in riding and archery scenes do not have to worry about being bored. Under his escort, he took a car to watch around.

Jiang Fosang walked around the horse farm with Di Si and Xiao Hu's nephews before going to the archery range.

Both the tent and the high platform were set up, surrounded on three sides, Xiao Hu, his senior officials and the heads of the various clans sat in the northern tent, the female relatives were in the east, and the low-level generals were in the west.

Those who participated in the competition were also young children from various families.

This is also Xiao Hu's intention—compared with the Southern Dynasties' dislike of military status and contempt for martial arts, Xiao Hu hopes that the sons of the North will never forget to fight and always be prepared for war.

His original words were: "As a man, not to mention killing the enemy on the battlefield, at least he must be able to ride a fast horse and draw a strong bow. If he blindly pampers himself and develops a pretentious temperament, so what if he becomes a celebrity? Enemy bandits It will only die faster when it comes."

Therefore, among Xiao Hu's six sons, except for the youngest Xiao Yuanzhen and the cowardly Xiao Yuanxi, basically all of them are good at fighting.

Although the second son, Xiao Yuancheng, is already bad at walking, his legs were also broken in the battlefield.

Every big festival like Yuan Day and Double Ninth Festival, Xiao Hu would hold martial arts performances and archery competitions for motivation and school examination.

Incentives mostly mean, so it is natural to set a lottery.

In previous years, there were bloody horses or rare weapons, but this year it was a whole set of Hetian jade wine utensils, which is also fresh.

Women's Watching Area——

Zhong Mei looked left and right: "Why hasn't the fifth cousin come yet?"

Madam Yue coughed and pulled her to sit down.

He Zhen rolled his eyes blankly.

Zhong Mei refused to sit quietly: "If the fifth cousin does not participate in the competition, I will not come to see it!"

After all, get up and leave.

Mrs. Tong glanced at Jia Yu, and Jia Yu whispered: "Your servant has persuaded everything that should be persuaded..."

Including Mrs. Tong, several eyes glanced at Jiang Fosang as if nothing.

Jiang Fosang looked forward, pretending not to hear.

Here, Madam Yue and Zhong Meili are still arguing.

Over there, the young men who were already in place were chatting to each other while gearing up.

"Xiao Wu won't stop coming, will he?"

"Xu Shi, busy guarding the city gate."

"Hahahahaha, Xiao Wu also has today!"

"What happened to guarding the city gate? You have all seen the bride he married. If I can marry such a woman, I am willing to guard the toilet!"

"If you are willing, others may not be willing!"

"Why don't you say that Xiao Wu is blind, he doesn't understand pity at all..."

"Hush! Stop talking! The overlord is here!"

Zhong Mei's eyes lit up, and she rushed into the arena and waved: "Cousin!"

Jiang Fosang looked along, and the person in front of the horse entering the arena was none other than Xiao Yuandu.

There is nothing wrong with a horse under his crotch and a strong bow in his hand.just clothes...

Jiang Fosang was stunned, looked around, and found that the other female relatives also had the same astonished expressions.

On the other side of the northern tent, just now they were talking lively, but now it is also deadly silent.

Even if he couldn't see Xiao Hu's black face, he could probably guess his mood at the moment—it must be that he hated himself for not killing this scoundrel earlier.

The men in the north are not like the gentlemen in the south who wear rich clothes and belts, and they often wear simple and neat straight trains.

But today Xiao Yuandu was wearing a round neck gown with black bottom and narrow sleeves, and his whole body was covered with large golden and red patterns that perfectly matched his arrogance.

The hair is not bundled up, it is just loose, not very long, uneven, at most it reaches below the shoulders, a little finger-wide braid is tied on the forehead to fix it, and it is matched with a leather belt around the waist, The boots on her feet... were dressed in a glaringly different race.

Wherever he passed, everyone looked sideways at him.

The atmosphere in the field changed suddenly, but Xiao Yuandu didn't care: "Who said I dare not participate?"

The group of young men who were discussing vigorously just now had twinkling eyes, holding back and holding back, after all, no one thought they were the young bird.

Xiao Yuandu smiled contemptuously, and looked at Mu Cheng who presided over the competition: "Not yet?"

Mu Cheng looked at the main stage, and before Xiao Hu could speak, the time had indeed come, so he asked someone to ring the gong, and announced with a loud voice, "The competition begins!"

As the saying goes, "When you draw a bow, you should be strong, and when you use an arrow, you should be long." From the weapons a person uses, one can roughly infer a person's strength.

Although Jiang Fosang didn't quite understand it, he could tell that Xiao Yuandu's bow and arrow was the heaviest among nearly twenty contestants.

Seeing her staring intently at the field, Mrs. Bian thought she was worried.

"Sister-in-law just put your heart in your stomach. Uncle Wu is brave and has excellent skills, especially good at bowing horses. Among these young children, there are not many who can easily beat him."

Jiang Fusang didn't know where she saw that she was worried, and it was hard to tell, so she smiled tactfully.

"Really? That Husband Lord is really powerful."

(End of this chapter)