Great Tang Dynasty

Chapter 657

The food was quickly swept away by Cheng Yaojin and others.

And just after everyone was full of wine and food, they rushed directly to Chang'an City.

On the way, Cheng Yaojin suddenly remembered something, and said: "Qin Tian, ​​the horses will be delivered in a few days, you have to do what you said earlier about giving birth to horses, if it succeeds, When Qin Wu and the others get the horses back, we will directly do it on a large scale, and after a year, we will have a lot of Ben Lei horses."

Cheng Yaojin loves horses very much. He naturally likes a good horse like Ben Leima very much.

Qin Tian felt that what Cheng Yaojin said was also reasonable. After all, let’s try it now. If it is really successful, it can be done on a large scale in advance.

"Okay, don't worry, Lord Lu, I will come to test in a few days."

When the group rushed back to Chang'an City, it was already late and the city gates were almost closed.

In the next few days, Cheng Yaojin and others moved the unused horses from his house to the alpine pasture one after another. Qin Tian also sent over a dozen horses from his house.

After sending the horse over like this, Qin Tian started.

After these people's horses were acquired, there were about a hundred horses in the alpine pasture. Among them, there were some good horses, and some horses of not very high quality.

Qin Tian's experiment was relatively uncomplicated. He took out the tadpoles of the stallion and the eggs of the mare, and combined them together. After the combination, he found other mares with poor quality and rubbed them in. That's it.

There are no sophisticated instruments, so the chance of successful conception is not very high, but even if there is only a [-]% chance of success, it is a very meaningful thing for them.

Because, those things about stallions and mares are sometimes quite a lot.

Qin Tian did this for an ordinary mare for several days in a row, once a day. After doing this, he waited for the result.

According to his knowledge of horses, if the horse is successfully conceived, it should be able to tell in about half a month.

Of course, these can be handed over to those who raise horses, and those who raise horses know more about these.

The mare used for the experiment was protected, and no stallion was usually allowed to approach.

While Qin Tian was doing this, the news had already reached Li Shimin.

"My lord, Qin Tian is impregnating the mares in the alpine pasture."

Hearing this news, Li Shimin was taken aback for a moment: "Is he really planning to do this?"

From the beginning, Li Shimin didn't believe it, but when he heard that Qin Tian was really doing this, he had some expectations. If it succeeded, it would definitely be of great significance to them.

They, Datang, no longer have to worry about war horses.

"Okay, let him continue to do it. If it really works, I will reward him heavily."

Speaking of this, Li Shimin seemed to think of something again, and asked, "Is there any news about those people who went to Dawan to buy horses, and when will they come back?"

"Your Majesty, there is news. They have already purchased more than 5000 galloping horses from Dawan Kingdom, and they will be able to return to Chang'an City in about a month."

More than 5000 thunder horses are not too many, at least not enough for building cavalry.

However, Li Shimin also knew that besides these racecourses, other merchants were also selling Ben Lei horses to Chang'an. In a short time, the number of Ben Lei horses in Chang'an City should be more than [-].

More than 1 Ben Lei horses will be ready to use in a year or two, and during this time, there will definitely be many Ben Lei horses entering Chang'an City one after another.

A rough calculation shows that before Datang built cavalry, there might have been as many as [-] horses that came in from Dawan Kingdom, not counting the bred Benlei horses.

If the imperial court has money, it may be more.

Thinking of these, Li Shimin's confidence was even stronger.

While Li Shimin was thinking about this in the imperial study, other people in Chang'an City also heard about Qin Tian one after another. After hearing this, they couldn't help laughing.

"Qin Houye is really... really ridiculous."

"Who says no, this kind of thing can be done by man?"

"Sometimes I really doubt Lord Qin Hou. You say he is smart, and he is quite smart, but sometimes, why would he do such a stupid thing?"

"It's, it's..."

The rumors spread in Chang'an City, and everyone thought Qin Tian was stupid for doing such a thing.

From their point of view, this is completely incomprehensible and unacceptable. If this kind of thing can be successful, then the knowledge they have received before will be completely subverted.

High House.

Gao Shilian laughed when he heard the news.

"This Qin Tian is really stupid, but it is also a good thing for me. As long as he fails, I will impeach him again."

Qin Tian became the laughing stock of Chang'an City, and this incident also became the butt of everyone's jokes and conversations.

However, Qin Tian didn't care much about these things. After finishing those things in the alpine pasture, he devoted himself to Shang Shusheng's affairs again.

After all, the Shangyuan Festival has passed, a lot of work has to be put on the right track, and everything has to be busy. It only takes half a month for him to know the result.

Maybe he will fail, but he will not give up.

As time went by, refined salt was first sold in Chang'an City.

The taste of refined salt is very good, the price is not expensive, and it is not much different from the previous salt, but not many people buy it.

There is no way, during the first year of Zhenguan, the people in Chang'an City frantically bought salt, and many people had no problem eating salt for several months, or even half a year.

Nowadays, although the refined salt is good, the common people have not finished their salt, and it is impossible to ask them to change the refined salt.

Although those coarse salts are not very tasty, they are salt after all.

Not everyone can eat salt casually.

However, ordinary people buy less, and all the inns in Chang'an City have replaced all the previous coarse salt with refined salt, and there are no diners if they don't change.

As long as one inn uses refined salt for cooking, other inns must use it. Otherwise, everyone will eat meals with refined salt. If you don’t use it here, the taste will be bad. Who would come here?

With everything there is going to be an excess, and the substitution of refined salt certainly does.

For something that affects everyone's daily life, if it wants to be accepted by others, it must be handed over to time.

At the same time that refined salt was sold in Chang'an City, some trading places between Datang and other countries also started selling refined salt.

These refined salts are all in the hands of the imperial court, so when trading refined salt with other countries, relatively speaking, there are not many problems.

(End of this chapter)