Tang Dynasty good brother-in-law

Chapter 825 Heavy Horse

"This business is good, this thing is probably worthless." Guo Xiaoke also saw that this thing is a small thing compared to a real weapon.And they know that Liumu has a stamping machine, and such knives and forks can be mass-produced.

Li Xiaogong closed the box in front of Liu Mu, turned around and asked Liu Mu: "Where's the knife?"

"Hold the qin." After Liu Mu shouted, a group of people came in and placed more than a dozen weapons in front of Li Xiaogong.

Li Xiaogong took out a horizontal knife and tested the feel: "A good knife, several times better than a iron knife, this is the three-layer steel knife!"

Liu Mu gave Bao Qin a wink without answering, Bao Qin took two knives and threw one over the beam, and held the other hand in front of Li Xiaogong.

Guo Xiaoke was a general. Historically, Guo Xiaoke died in battle in Kucha. Although he had some minor problems and was greedy for luxury, he was still an excellent general overall.

Guo Xiaoke didn't look up, just reached out and caught the knife thrown by Baoqin.

This knife is completely different from Datang's knife. The blade of this knife is flat and has a square head.The two generals flicked the blade with their fingers, and they knew from the sound that it was inferior steel.

"The blade is wide enough. Although the steel is a little inferior, it is afraid that an ordinary horizontal knife will be cut off by this knife."

Guo Xiaoke shook his head: "This matter has to be reported to the imperial court. Be cautious about what kind of weapons you sell to Rome. By the way, to be serious, I have brought 200 people with me in addition to purchasing the items on the list this time. return."

Before Guo Xiaoke could finish speaking, Liu Mu smiled and said, "The slaves are all young and beautiful female slaves."

Guo Xiaoke blushed: "Yes."

But Li Xiaogong asked very seriously: "What is the origin of these slaves?"

Hearing this, Guo Xiaoke also became serious: "Although it is impossible to find out the background of everyone, I believe the Romans will not lie to me about the origins of these people. They say that they are one of their three major enemies, the Slavs." Speaking of this, Guo Xiaoke changed the subject: "I found a treasure over there."

"treasure?"

"En." Guo Xiaoke nodded heavily: "There are two horses, both three-year-old stallions. According to a great nobleman in Rome, these are very good thoroughbred horses. One of them, I heard, is Wild horses found among the Celts conquered in the pre-Western Roman era were trained for almost 400 years to become war horses."

Liu Mu's expression also changed. He heard about this kind of horse, but he didn't remember that it appeared in this era. It should be 500 years later.

There was a hint of excitement in Guo Xiaoke's tone: "A hundred stones, this horse can pull a carriage with a hundred stones of goods. A grown-up horse weighs twenty stones. This is an overweight cavalry horse. It is also the same in Rome. It's priceless, and I paid three silks for this purebred stallion."

Three bolts of silk would cost at least a hundred taels of gold in Rome.

Li Xiaogong asked again: "What about the other horse?"

"A trophy, not as strong as this one, but extremely fast. A trophy, the best of a lot of horses taken from the Persians. The price of two silks. They call them Arabian horses. "

"Burden?" Li Xiaogong's expression changed when he asked this sentence.

Guo Xiaoke stood up, almost roaring. "Fully armed, much stronger than our horses, none of which weigh less than fourteen stone."

As a military commander, Guo Xiaoke participated in the first battle of Bingzhou, and fought three small-scale harassment battles against Tubo in the Western Regions.

Datang’s heavy cavalry has to bring two people, and all the equipment is only worn during wartime. The best horse is the horse that charges three times and then loses strength. Liumu’s heavy cavalry can charge four times because of better equipment. Already the limit.

It can be said that after the heavy cavalry is fully armed, being able to run ten kilometers at a medium speed is the physical limit of the horse.

It can run again, but it has no lethality at all, and it will hurt the horse.

"I want this horse!" After Li Xiaogong finished speaking, he added: "I think all the generals want it too."

"This thing can't be bought with money alone. We need to find another way."

Li Xiaogong asked: "Why?"

Guo Xiaoke replied: "The military quality of Eastern Rome is far worse than that of our Tang Dynasty. According to the local people, it is too far behind the glory of Western Rome. Their emperor is trying to change the army. I can see it. Their best equipped army is no better than our farmer with a stick."

"why?"

"Let me tell you a joke. I also heard it from an aristocrat. There was a fierce battle between Eastern Rome and Persia about five years ago. Their emperor summoned heavy cavalry to participate in it. As a result, these people would rather pay than go to war. They are all nobles. My son, I have lost my bloodliness. In the past few years, many low-ranking new nobles are the main combat power of Rome. But these high-quality horses are controlled by these nobles who are afraid of death."

It's not that Guo Xiaoke didn't think of a way, he wished he could get on his horse and come back this time.

Such a heavy horse can improve Datang's horse breed, so that Datang will also have a large number of heavy horses.

"We can't decide on this matter." Liu Mu ended the topic.

Li Xiaogong sighed slightly: "That's right, everything is left to Chang'an."

Liu Mu patted his body a few times before getting up: "I'll go to the warehouse to see if there are any good things worth intercepting."

Li Xiaogong didn't move, he planned to chat with Guo Xiaoke more, Li Xiaogong came to Jiangnan Dongdao as the general manager, this place will be one of the main portals to the outside world, it is very useful to learn more about the states outside the Tang Dynasty necessary things.

Li Xiaogong wanted to know about the humanities, customs, military affairs, and social structure in Eastern Rome.

Liu Mu went to the warehouse, he wanted to see the items on his want list.Especially oil palm fruit and olives.

Datang’s current rapeseed oil yield rate is too low, and improved varieties such as high-end technical living willows cannot be used. Even if willows have this ability, it will take ten or eight years to improve the oil yield of a plant. Willows Can't wait.

When Liu Mu arrived at the warehouse, the various supplies brought back were already being sorted out here.

The most numerous of them are all kinds of oil palm fruit.

After turning around, Liu Mu asked the person in charge: "Is there a list, how many kinds of fruits are there here?"

"Lang Jun, there are only less than half of the oil palm fruit here. Thirty percent of the olives. The rest are shipped to the oil mill in Cixi." The manager reported from the side.

Another person sent the list, and Liu Mu took it and looked through it carefully.

This list is not detailed, only how many baskets of oil palm fruit, obviously the Romans would not separate these things into different varieties, but it does not matter, Liumu believes that the people in his oil workshop will complete these, as a detailed oil yield list, they Doing these things is already quite professional.

(End of this chapter)