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Chapter 427 War Horse
As August approaches, the harvest season approaches.

Staying away from war for many years in a row, Liangzhou is full of vitality.

The population is getting denser and denser.

Among the fields, ridges and alleys, there are running children everywhere.

Their parents may still be Qiang, Hu, Hun, and Xianbei, but they are no different from Han children.

She wears braids of shofar horns, speaks pure Chinese, and wears Hanfu issued by the government.

The newly established Department of Consolation pays special attention to this. No matter whether they are slaves or returnees, all children born to them are governed by the people, and the Department of Consolation will register them.

Send some food, cloth and mutton every month to investigate their living conditions.

If children cannot speak Chinese, punish their parents immediately.

For the Qiang, Hu and Huns, raising children is similar to herding sheep and cattle. They only care about life, and whether they can survive or not depends on their own good fortune.

If it is a daughter, or a thin baby boy, it is often thrown into the water.

For any reason, the child will be thrown in the wilderness.

The Department of Comfort has taken in thousands of babies this year.

Yang Zheng had no choice but to promulgate a decree prohibiting abandoned babies. If they can't live or don't want to raise them, they can be sent to the comfort department to raise them.

When life is stable, the population will naturally increase.

There are not many recreational activities these days, and as soon as it gets dark, they start making people under the covers.

In order to encourage childbearing, slaves were rewarded with one sheep for a boy and one stone of grain for a daughter, and two sheep for two stones of grain.

The vast majority of Han people in Liangzhou are governing people, and Yang Zheng's move is actually secretly encouraging the Han people to have more children.

The descendants of slaves who are no longer slaves work better than any slogan.

The stable environment has also continuously absorbed tribes from the Western Regions and Mobei to move in.

This year Zhang Te sent more than 3000 Western Region tribes from Gaochang.

The tribes in Mobei and Monan also went south one after another.

Yang Zheng took all the orders, and all the leaders and nobles stayed in Guzang to enjoy the glory and wealth, while the tribesmen were scattered to Jincheng, Longxi, and Beidi for resettlement.

As for those chiefs who did not want to enjoy the glory and wealth, Yang Zheng let them go home on the principle of kindness and friendliness.

Most of the tribes who moved eastward basically had to move eastward because they couldn't stay in place.

Yang Zheng told them to go back, almost cutting off their way of life.

And these tempers were relatively hot, and they broke out on the spot, wanting to loot the city.

Unexpectedly, they were surrounded in all directions.

Yang Zheng dared to let them in, so he was fully prepared.

The government soldiers cooperated with the pro-army to quell the rebellion.

Human heads are piled directly on both sides of the official road to warn latecomers.

"Yang Xiao and Yang Ji recruited refugees in Shuofang and Jiuyuan, widely opened farmland, built canals to divert water from the Yellow River to the inner fields, rebuilt the Han chicken deer fortress and Gaoque fortress, restored the surrendered city of the Han Dynasty, and repelled the Western Xianbei's invasion three times , the political achievements are the first among the counties."

The secret report of the Nine Camps was submitted, and Yang Xiao and Yang Ji were still ranked in the top two in terms of political achievements.

In addition to the two of them, another person's political achievements also ranked in the top five.

Suo Jing who was released to build the Liangzhou racecourse.

Since the beginning of this year, Suo Jing has been busy on the Liangzhou grassland day and night with a group of youth camp children.

Plan the grassland, set up the animal husbandry department, appease the slaves, and select and breed fine-bred livestock...

Grasslands are different from farmland, and shepherd slaves are different from slaves. Running around is not so easy to control.

There is also the Western Xianbei who comes in to rob from time to time.

One can imagine the hard work.

But Suo Jing arranged it properly, and several shepherd rebellions were quickly put down, and six small Xianbei tribes in the northeast of Juyan County were conquered, and [-] cattle and sheep were obtained, making the Liangzhou grasslands full of vitality.

In addition, Suo Jing also ordered people to go to Xihai, Western Regions, and Mobei to select and breed good-bred war horses, and bring them back to Liangzhou to raise them.

This is the advantage of the powerful gentry. Ordinary people are struggling on the verge of hunger and cold all their lives. How can they have the leisure to read and write?
It is precisely because of these gentry children that Liangzhou has entered the track of rapid development.

"Development is the last word." Yang Zheng couldn't help blurting out as he looked at the boundless wheat waves outside Guzang City.

"What?" Du Yu was taken aback for a moment, then thought carefully, "What the general said is true!"

This is of course the truth that has been verified by later generations.

Yang Zheng laughed dryly for a while.

Du Yu asked someone to bring a horse, "This horse was specially sent by Cheng Suo Si, the general guesses what is unique about it."

"Oh?" Yang Zheng was taken aback. Since it was sent by Suo Jing, there must be ulterior motives.

But this horse looks a little hip.

The body is not very big, and the coat color is also a bit sad. It is shorter than the surrounding Hehuang horses and Liangzhou horses.

The only advantage is that the head is big and the neck is short, the hooves are strong, the chest is wide and the mane is long, the skin is thick and the hair is thick, and it looks relatively strong.

If it weren't for Du Yu's special reminder, Yang Zheng felt that he was a draft horse and a bad horse in the army.

"Is there anything unique about this?" Yang Zheng asked doubtfully.

Du Yu didn't hold back anymore, "This horse is hardy to cold and heat, good at running and not afraid of wild wolves."

"Hehuang Hequ horses are also cold-resistant and not afraid of wild wolves." Yang Zheng still couldn't hear the difference.

As a general who came out of the battlefield, he naturally liked the tall horses of the gods.

Du Yu laughed, "This horse doesn't need to be intensively fed. It can be raised with ordinary grass. It can travel a hundred miles in four hours. It lasts for thirteen days. With a little intensive feeding, it can march for seventeen consecutive days!"

"What?" Did Yang Zheng not know what this meant?

Liangzhou horses and Hehuang horses are of course great horses and fast, but they are expensive and eat more than people in one meal, and they are not good at walking and have poor endurance. They usually march for seven or eight days in a row, and then they will die.

With this kind of horse, wouldn't all soldiers be able to mount it?
Yang Zheng remembered that the reason why the Mongols were able to sweep across the Eurasian continent in history was because of the hard-working Mongolian horses that were easy to feed.

What if the Mongols rode Liangzhou horses or Hehuang horses?Can you afford one hundred thousand cavalry?

Eating also made them poor.

Besides, the Mongols didn't have that much food to feed their horses.

"Where did this horse come from?" Yang Zheng was overjoyed.

"Come from Mobei."

Since it is Mobei, isn't it the Mongolian horse of later generations?
Even if there is some gap, just train again!

With this kind of horse, Yang Zheng's sword can stab eastward from Guzang into Liaodong, or westward into Tianshan Mountains!
The characteristics of nomadic civilization, as far as the horseshoe can travel, the empire's territory can expand as far as possible.

And the Chinese civilization can also spread outward with this horseshoe.

"Good! Suo Jing has made great contributions to Liangzhou!" Yang Zheng expressed his appreciation, "From now on, Liangzhou, Xihai, and Hetao racecourses will use this horse as the main one!"

Suo Jing solved Yang Zheng's most pressing problem.

War horses do not need intensive feeding.

According to the standard that raising one horse is equal to raising five soldiers, how much food did Suo Jing save Liangzhou?

On the battlefield, it is equipped with heavy cavalry composed of Liangzhou horses and Hehuang horses.

Equipped with saddles, stirrups, and horseshoes, the Liangzhou army is still invincible?
It is conceivable that with the left-handed farming to stabilize the interior and the right-handed nomad to open up the outside world, Chinese civilization will rise to another level!
A dual empire that combines farming and nomadism is about to emerge!
(End of this chapter)