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Chapter 129 The Storm Rises (Please Subscription, Monthly Pass)
Upon hearing Ma, Shopkeeper Lan smiled, waved his hand and said, "This way please."

As he spoke, he led the five people to the backyard, where there was a huge fenced horse farm, and all thirty horses were tied up in the stables at this time.

"Look, Brother Zhang, this is brought back from Liaodong by a few brothers risking their lives. The ranch that sold my horse is owned by Tartar nobles, and it is said that behind it is Dabeile Daishan of Tartar."

"It's not brother bragging. It's not a problem to send this horse directly to the Tartar army camp. Brothers, let's see if it's right."

Shopkeeper Lan said, Li Chaohu laughed after hearing this, "Don't fool me, I have seen the horses of Tartars before."

Li Chaohu said and entered the stables, and the rest of Li Chaosheng also entered the stables. Although they didn't understand, they all looked at them pretendingly. Li Chaohu came to Li Chaosheng and said: "I think these horses are not bad, but the breed is a little bit different. Miscellaneous, there are foreign horses, Western horses, native horses, and Mongolian horses."

"Is it so complicated?"

Li Chaosheng frowned when he heard this. He saw that these horses were all about the same in appearance and size, and they couldn't tell the difference between them.

Li Chaohu said: "The Tartars actually lack horses? They also need horses everywhere, especially the Mongolian tribes, where horses are more abundant. This shopkeeper Lan has connections outside the pass, so he can get horses raised by the Tartars' ranch."

"Is his relationship reliable?"

Li Chaosheng asked, Li Chaohu said: "It should be okay, it is said that he has a cousin who is a horse officer Niulu of the Tartar Han Army Banner."

Li Chaosheng nodded and said, "Then let's take this horse?"

Li Chaohu said: "It can be accepted."

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng said: "Okay, you can negotiate with him later."

As the two talked, Li Chaosheng stretched out his hand to flatter him, looking at the short horse in front of him, he was a little speechless. Compared with the tall horses Li Chaosheng rode on modern racecourses, these horses were somewhat similar in size to mules, and somewhat larger than donkeys.

There is no way, the main reason is that there are no tall horses in China. The tall horses we talk about generally refer to the Dawan horses imported from the Western Regions, and the more famous ones are sweaty horses.

However, the import journey is too long, and each time it is imported, it consumes a lot of money. The high-ranking people want to use Dawan horses to crossbreed with local horses to produce fine breeds. It started well and can breed intermediate breeds. The difference is that there are too few Dawan horses, and after a few generations, the descendants of this intermediate horse directly return to their ancestors and become low local horses.

So after the tortuous process of introduction-hybridization-improvement-returning to the ancestors-disappearance, the Chinese horse breed was not improved in the end.

Of course, the Chinese are still very smart. In the Song Dynasty, there was a breakthrough in the breeding field. That is, the Song Dynasty Fu Yanqing tried to use the backcross method to strengthen the kinship characteristics of the offspring of horses, but a little accident happened.

This story was recorded by Wang Yucheng, a poet and essayist in the Song Dynasty.

It is said that in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a general named Fu Yanqing who liked to raise horses. There were people in his mansion who were good at breeding good horses. , Strengthen the characteristics of the mare and good horse. As a result, this attempt was noticed by the two horses, and then the two horses committed suicide and died.

So the society criticized this phenomenon at that time, saying: It is rude to call animals and beasts, so father and son gather together!Husbands and horses are also beasts, and the ancient sages subdue them and drive them away, so they are called subduing cattle and horses!Is it true that a horse has its body like a beast and a person has its heart?
This sentence is recorded in Wang Yucheng's "Little Animal Collection" Volume [-] "Recording Horses".

So this behavior was completely eliminated, even considered deviant, so this modern and more scientific breeding method was directly abandoned, making it more difficult to keep good horses. As for the Yuan Dynasty, let alone, Mongolian horses It is a Mongolian pony, and the horses at that time were almost all crossed with Mongolian pony, so the pony became the mainstream.

So far, in the Central Plains, apart from the princes and nobles, a small amount of tall horses were imported from abroad, and the rest of the regular horses were all short horses, one size bigger than a donkey and similar to a mule.

But shortness does not mean poor physical strength, poor endurance, and slow running speed. You must know that most of these horses have the blood of once Mongolian pony.

Mongolian pony, who dares to say that it is not strong, think about the Mongolian iron cavalry that once conquered the two continents of Europe and Asia, and the countries that fought and fled. Isn't this the Mongolian pony used?
Li Chaosheng touched these little ponies, not to mention they were quite strong. At this time, Li Chaosheng couldn't help but have a strange idea in his mind. They said that there were little ponies in the horse farm of the famous cross talk actor Yu Qian. Is that kind of pony? Breed out of a pony?
Li Chaosheng wanted to get rid of this weird idea. The horses are still good, and this kind of horse has some fighting power. After all, the main fighting power of the Tartars is riding these horses.

Li Chaosheng thought, at this time Li Chaohu checked all the horses again, first looked at the teeth of the horses, and determined the age of the horses. The teeth of the horses are like the annual rings of a big tree. Find out the age of the horse.

Immediately afterwards, Li Chaohu and a few people took the horses out of the stables for a walk, to see if there were any problems with the legs of these horses, and to see if there were any problems with the horses' hooves.

Li Chaohu and the others were looking at the horse, but shopkeeper Lan kept staring at Li Chaosheng. At this moment, a clerk approached shopkeeper Lan and said, "Shopkeeper, what are you looking at?"

Shopkeeper Lan smiled at this moment and said, "Where are the big shots?"

"Big man? That kid?"

The clerk looked at Li Chaosheng and asked, after hearing this, Shopkeeper Lan said: "Why don't you believe me?"

"I don't believe it, the big guy here should be that pockmarked Zhang."

At this moment, the clerk said, after hearing this, Shopkeeper Lan shook his head with a smile and said: "You are wrong, boy, the pockmark is the assistant, and this young man is the master."

After hearing this, the man looked at Shopkeeper Lan and said, "How do you know?"

After hearing this, shopkeeper Lan laughed and said, "I've traveled all over the world for so many years, and I haven't seen anything. I'm still surprised that there are only five people in Zhang Mazi. No matter how powerful Zhang Mazi is, how could he beat the four or five hundred people in Heilongzhai? Supported by a mysterious person."

"You mean this boy?"

The shopkeeper said, after hearing this, Shopkeeper Lan shook his head and said, "I'm not sure, but at least this young man has status in this mysterious force, otherwise Zhang Mazi couldn't treat him like this?"

"what for?"

The shopkeeper was puzzled, Lan shopkeeper said: "Since entering the door, Zhang Mazi has been standing in front of the boy intentionally or unintentionally. This is a kind of protection. Secondly, his subordinates all surround the boy. Behavior."

"And during the horse meeting just now, that pockmarked boy took the initiative to talk to the young man. May I ask if someone in a higher position would take the initiative to bow his head to talk to a lower-ranking man."

"These other people are all inspecting horses, even Zhang Mazi did it himself, but this young man remains motionless, hehe... don't you think it's strange?"

Shopkeeper Lan looked at the clerk and said, the clerk heard this and said: "It can't be that this young man can't watch horses."

"That's even more strange. When you come to buy a horse, why bring someone who doesn't know how to look at horses? Display?"

Shopkeeper Lan asked a rhetorical question, and the clerk was stunned for a while, and the clerk said for a long time: "This boy is really Zhang Pocky's head."

"I don't know if he is headed or not, but he must be a big shot."

Shopkeeper Lan said, at this time Li Chaohu checked all the horses?No problem, all horses are good horses, even the horseshoes on the hooves are new.

Li Chaohu jumped off a horse at this time and said: "Yes, shopkeeper Lan, your horse is very good."

After hearing this, shopkeeper Lan said with a smile: "They are all the best horses, how can you use a bad horse to count on Brother Zhang?"

Li Chaohu said with a smile: "Okay, this horse is not bad, let's pay the bill."

After hearing this, shopkeeper Lan turned around and made a gesture of invitation: "Talk in the room."

Li Chaohu went in first, followed by the fourth child and the third child, then Li Chaosheng and Li Chaomeng walked over, and when they arrived here, Shopkeeper Lan looked at Li Chaosheng and said, "Your surname?"

"Ok?"

Li Chaosheng was taken aback by Shopkeeper Lan's question, and then said: "Miangui's surname is Ye, Ye Liangchen."

Li Chaosheng put on a defensive vest with a smile on his face. After hearing this, shopkeeper Lan cupped his hands and said, "Young Master Ye is facing the extraordinary, he is very precious."

Li Chaosheng looked at shopkeeper Lan and said with a smile, "Treasurer Lan is good at physiognomy?"

"I know a little bit."

Shopkeeper Lan said with a smile, Li Chaosheng squinted his eyes and looked at Shopkeeper Lan and said, "What did Shopkeeper Lan see?"

"Lan doesn't know anything."

Shopkeeper Lan shook his head.

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng was even more sure that shopkeeper Lan must have seen his identity, but the old fox was unwilling to say so. Li Chaosheng thought of this and looked at shopkeeper Lan and said, "Thank you, shopkeeper Lan, by the way, our master is still waiting for Lan What about the shopkeeper's account transfer?"

Shopkeeper Lan smiled after hearing this, and immediately made a gesture: "Please, my lord."

Li Chaoshengzi glanced at Shopkeeper Lan again and said, "Please, Shopkeeper Lan."

……

After entering the house, shopkeeper Lan recovered as before, and discussed everything with Li Chaohu, as if he regarded Li Chaohu as the leader again, but Li Chaosheng kept frowning, where did he leak his flaws, and he really underestimated the ancients. Judging by people's ability, it's really amazing.

The price has already been negotiated, 70 taels for a war horse, last time the deposit was 500 taels, this time Li Chaohu took out 500 taels again, enough to make up 100 taels of silver.

In this way, the transaction was completed, the transaction was completed, Li Chaohu didn't want to stay longer, and wanted to hurry back to the cottage, after all, this is the territory of shopkeeper Lan, and things will change later.

Talking about several people moving the horse away, before leaving, Li Chaosheng found shopkeeper Lan and said: "Treasurer Lan, you are a character, I, Ye Liangchen, like to make friends the most, let's make friends."

Shopkeeper Lan said with a smile at this time: "Lan also likes to make friends the most. It is my honor to make friends like Mr. Ye."

After hearing this, shopkeeper Lan said: "By the way, if Mr. Ye needs horses in the future, you can find them here."

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng looked at Shopkeeper Lan and said, "Sure, but next time it may be a big order."

Speaking of which, Li Chaosheng waved his hand and said, "Goodbye, we have time to chat."

After talking, a group of people led the horses and walked forward. Everyone was very cautious along the way. These thirty horses are a lot of wealth. Zhao Sheng breathed a sigh of relief.

It was really a bit arrogant to lead thirty horses to swagger through the market, so they walked for ten miles, and suddenly there was a billow of smoke and dust in the distance. Seeing this scene, Li Chaohu was taken aback, and reined the horse to signal everyone to be alert.

At this time, a group of people and horses passed by. Li Chaosheng took a look in the crowd, and it turned out to be a group of ten officers and soldiers. Ten people rode across the road on horseback. Especially those thirty war horses, their eyes lit up, but they didn't say anything when they saw the number of opponents and the guys in their hands.

Riding their horses straight past, Li Chaohu and Li Chaosheng looked at each other, and they both saw a trace of uneasiness in their eyes.

After the group of people ran over, a cavalryman said to the leader: "My lord, they are all good horses."

Hearing this, the leader of the cavalry nodded and said: "But the other party has many people, which is more difficult, and the guy in his hand must be a bandit."

Hearing this, the cavalry said, "Yes, it's really eye-catching."

As the cavalry said, the cavalry leader nodded and said, "By the way, does that leader look familiar?"

The cavalry said: "It looks familiar."

At this time, a cavalry behind him said: "I know, isn't that guy Zhang Mazi?"

"Zhang Mazi?"

The leader of the cavalry frowned when he heard this, and said, "I remember, the horse thief helped Zhang Mazi."

Hearing a cavalryman say: "This kid has become more prosperous recently. I heard that Heilongzhai has been pacified, and now he has become the head of Heilongzhai."

After hearing this, the cavalry leader said: "Yes, I really didn't expect that the Black Dragon Village would be flattened. That Panshanlong is a character."

The cavalry leader was talking, and at this moment a cavalryman beside him said: "My lord, is this horse really slipping away just like this?"

Hearing this, the cavalryman said: "It can't be helped that there are too few people this time, it's all right, don't worry about it, let's pass the news to Lantian County Magistrate first."

The leader of the cavalry said, urging the horses. This time he was in charge of delivering the message. The bandit leader Wang Er led thousands of people and captured Pucheng the day before yesterday. He intended to continue to advance south. If you can cross Weinan, you will be on the verge of Lantian, so the county magistrate of Lantian must immediately cooperate with Lantian to garrison Qianhu, and do a good job of defense to prevent the enemy from attacking Lantian.

The leader of the cavalry galloped wildly on his horse, rushed all the way to the county government office, and met the magistrate. When the magistrate heard that Baishui Wang Er intended to come to Lantian, the magistrate frowned immediately, and immediately looked for the garrison Qianhu to discuss countermeasures. This team of messengers took them down directly and greeted them with good wine and meat.

And one of the people who greeted the cavalry leader was a government servant named Bai Shoumin, who was very eloquent, so he exchanged glasses with the cavalry leader. Zhang Mazi, who saw Black Dragon Village today, bought thirty war horses to show off in the market, thirty horses, that's two or three thousand taels of silver..."

(End of this chapter)