Destiny Only Han

Chapter 202 I am your father...

Xinyou in August of the second year of the Han Dynasty, north of Xingyang.

On the temporary high platform, a relatively small ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven is in progress.

The one who held the ceremony was naturally the king of Han, Liu Bang.

Standing on his left and right are Han Xin and Cao Shen who are about to go to the Western Wei Dynasty.

In this battle, Han Xin was appointed as the main general, Prime Minister Zuo was added, and Cao Shen was appointed Deputy General. On the title of lieutenant, a false Prime Minister Zuo was added to lead the [-] newly recruited elites from Guanzhong.

The so-called false Prime Minister Zuo refers to the deputy of Prime Minister Zuo. For example, in the army, the adjutant of the army Sima is a fake Sima of the army, and the adjutant of the army marquis is a fake marquis.

At this moment, the right prime minister of Han is Xiao He, and the fake right prime minister is a man named Yan Zechi.

This person was originally a planner in the state of Qin, similar to a civil servant in the local audit bureau. After Liu Bang became the Duke of Pei, he became a pawn of Liu Bang's shield in order not to lose his job.

But the world of a husband and a sage is like an awl in a bag, and the end of it is seen immediately.

Yan Zechi, who is proficient in adding and subtracting multipliers within three digits, quickly won the favor of Xiao He. From an ordinary soldier, he became a military officer, and later became the sheriff of Heshang County. Now he has become a false right prime minister, following Liu Bang Xingyang, handling logistics support work such as the allocation of food, salaries and supplies.

At this moment, he and Liu Ying were standing under the stage together, behind him were Zhou Bo Fan Kuai and other generals of the Han army.

Amidst the sound of Huang Zhong Da Lu's Shao Yue, two rows of actors in khaki clothes began to sing in unison.

"I will share with me, the sheep and the ox, and the heaven and its right. The code of the ritual punishment of King Wen, the day and the four directions. King Wen of Yi, you are right. I am in the night, fear the power of the sky, and protect it at the time. "

After the sound of the rumbling drum, hundreds of dancers poured in.

The first person wears a crown on his head and holds a relative in his hand, standing still on the mountain.

What he plays is the King Wu of Zhou described in this "The Book of Songs·Zhou Song·My General".

Other dancers held gold-painted wooden weapons and galloped back and forth in front of him, showing that King Wu of Zhou led his troops to the north to cross the alliance and join the alliance with the princes. The history of the strike.

In the next scene, an actor playing the role of Jiang Ziya personally led the dancers holding swords, stabbing with arms, stomping their feet violently, one blow and one stab, and repeated four times.

This represents the scene in which King Wu ordered Taigong to lead a death squad to break into the enemy's line to challenge, and then won quickly, which shocked the Central Plains.

In the third act, the dancers turned from facing north to south, indicating that Master Zhou returned to Haojing triumphantly.

In the fourth act, the dancers fought in chaos, and the dancers pretending to be Zhou and Zhao Ergong came out to stop them, so all the dancers knelt on their left knees, indicating that after King Cheng ascended the throne, rebellions broke out in the east and south, and Zhou and Zhao Ergong The fact that led troops to quell the chaos.

In the fifth act, the dancers are divided into left and right parts, the Duke of Zhou is on the left and the Duke of Zhao is on the right. The bell rings to encourage the dancers to move forward, indicating that King Cheng ordered Duke Zhou to guard the southeast and Duke Zhao to guard the northwest.

In the sixth act, the dancers resumed their positions in the first scene, performing military parade celebrations and honoring the emperor and becoming king, which means that after the Zhou Dynasty was in chaos, they celebrated the peace of the world, and the princes from all over the world respected the emperor of Zhou.

The major affairs of the country are sacrificed to Rong. Although these things are cumbersome and superficial, it is undeniable that with these flashy and costly things, a person's authority can be quickly determined.

As for choosing this dance song, he secretly compared Liu Bang to Zhou Tianzi.

Xiang Yu is just a bully...

Tyrant, Bo Ye, refers to the eldest son of Zhou Tianzi in the Zhou Dynasty.

Through this operation, Liu Bang became Xiang Yu's father...

It's just different from the solemnity of Yan Zechi who handled this matter single-handedly, Liu Ying and Fan Kuai and Zhou Bo also showed salivating expressions on their faces.

According to Liu Bang's status at this time, the sacrifices used during the sacrifice can be called Tailao.

The so-called Tailao refers to the three animals of cattle, sheep, and pigs.

This is the highest sacrificial standard in traditional culture.

Because these sacrificial sacrifices need to be kept in the "prison", that is, the room where the animals are raised, before the sacrifice, they are called too prison or less prison according to different standards.

What Liu Ying and Zhou Bo were greedy for was naturally the beef they shared with everyone after the sacrifice.

Well, the offering for sharing was actually only a thin slice.

Focus on meaning but not form.

Sharing sacrifices is intended to express acceptance of God's blessing.

But here, there are very few people who can share this thin piece of meat, and a cow weighs at least a thousand catties!

In other words, at least within a day or two, everyone can achieve beef freedom.

Mutton and pork have long been commonplace for senior generals like Fan Kuai and Zhou Bo.

But in fact, beef is not an unattainable thing for them, at least they are willing to spend money, there is no shortage of beef.

I don’t know when it started, it spread that Chinese people didn’t eat beef in ancient times, and in the Water Margin, Tiangang Disha ate beef, showing the struggle against the feudal kingship, blah blah blah…

In fact, this is wrong.

Even in the farming era, the consumption of beef by the ancient ancestors never stopped.

In ancient times, most of the farming cattle in the north were yellow cattle, while in the paddy fields in the south, buffaloes were used.

In terms of species, the buffalo belongs to the genus Buffalo in the family Bovidae, while the yellow ox belongs to the genus Homo in the family family... Bah, it belongs to the genus Bovididae.

But according to the subdivision of the people of the big foodie empire, among the two, those with the bones of a tree on the back are called farming cattle, and they are generally reluctant to eat them before they die of old age.

Even if you want to kill and eat meat, you need to report to the government first, and slaughtering without permission is against the law... Well, the kind that the people don't sue the officials and don't prosecute, and enforce the law selectively.

As for those without bones in the back, they are called vegetable cattle. Like pigs and sheep, they are raised for meat.

Most of the cattle used in sacrifices are such products.

After eating all day long, the fat content in the body is very high. Judging from the cut lines, snowflake meat can be found everywhere, which is not inferior to the so-called high-grade Wagyu...

Therefore, even Liu Ying is too greedy!

Well, in fact, Yan Zechi purchased the livestock used for sacrifice today from Liu Ying.

After the Han State quickly captured Guanzhong, it completely inherited everything from the Fengchang Mansion of the Qin State in the past.

The so-called Fengchang refers to the two thousand stone senior officials who are mainly in charge of the sacrificial etiquette of the ancestral temple and rank first among the nine ministers.

When the state of Qin was in power, it was only used to worship the ancestral temples, gods, and officials and soldiers who guarded the mausoleums of successive Qin kings. It is conservatively estimated that there are more than 10 people!

As for raising sacrificed slaves, there are countless.

These are all directly supported by the state, a group of masters who eat financial food!

The Qin State was destroyed, and the Sai State, the Yong State, and the Zhai State no longer existed, and Liu Bang's ancestral grave was in Fengyi, Pei County.

That's why Xiao He, who worries about the lack of manpower and financial resources every day, will not support these idlers.

So with a big wave of his hand, they were all laid off and went to earn their own living...

It was under such circumstances that Liu Ying saw the right time and included all the officials and officials who were responsible for feeding the sacrificial sacrifices.

That night, he sent people to Hanzhong and transferred some of the backbone of the Dahan Farming and Animal Husbandry Co., Ltd. to Guanzhong.

Here, he plans to set up several super-large animal husbandry centers.

Some of them are raised by themselves. As for the rest of the stalls, they buy livestock from the people, or the surrounding Qiang people, Di people, and even the Huns, and fatten them up for the people of the country to enjoy.

In Guanzhong at this time, although most of the fertile land had owners, barren slopes abounded.

Because it is far away from irrigation canals, these lands cost only a hundred dollars per mu, and during the year when the food supply in Guanzhong was insufficient, the prices of these wastelands dropped to only a few tens of dollars.

After all, with limited manpower, what everyone intensively cultivates is the top-quality fields near the water canal.

These places where the grass is filled with bean sprouts are scarce, basically they are sold for money!

And this, for Liu Ying who wants to raise livestock, is actually a good thing that can make money without losing money.

His main purpose of buying these wastelands is to grow pastures such as rye and amethyst.

And with enough wasteland, another project can just start.

raise horses.

The main reason why the cavalry of the Han army could not compete with the cavalry of the Chu army was that the horses of the cavalry of the Chu army were good, and most of them were the first-class war horses captured from the Great Wall Corps of the Qin State.

As for the remaining horses in the Guanzhong area, although they are exactly the same in breed, they are neglected and need to be trained for a period of time before they can be used effectively.

What Liu Ying has to do, on the one hand, is to carry out in-depth cooperation with the servant, that is, Xia Houying, to expand the supply of high-quality war horses in the Han army.

Because to cultivate a qualified war horse, you need not only feed and a place to breed, but also horse training, harness making and skilled veterinarians.

Veterinarians, in particular, are talents in great demand.

Even with antibiotics and various vaccines in later generations, bankrupt farms still abound after an infectious disease.

In large-scale farming, how to prevent livestock from being infected with the plague is the biggest difficulty.

However, although Liu Ying could not solve this problem, he still had some experience in breeding horse breeds.

According to his observation, most of the war horses in Guanzhong came from the Qiang people in Longxi, and belonged to a kind of Hequ horse. If they were divided by 'blood', they should be a kind of warm-blooded horse.

Horses can be roughly divided into warm-blooded horses, cold-blooded horses and warm-blooded horses according to the different breeds of horses.

Just a name for this classification and has nothing to do with the temperature or body temperature of a horse's blood.

Among them, the representatives of hot-blooded horses are Arabian horses, British thoroughbred horses and Mongolian horses. They are characterized by strong temperament and fast running speed, and are suitable for war horses or race horses.

The representatives of cold-blooded horses are Shire horses or other rough horses. Most of them are close to a ton in size, and some can reach two meters in height. Their slow speed, quietness and calmness make them suitable for pulling carts or working.

In the official herd garden in Guanzhong, Liu Ying found hundreds of poor horses from the land of Yanzhao. Their size and condition perfectly matched the characteristics of cold-blooded horses.

These large livestock that can be used to pull plows are at least three times more efficient than cattle are the focus of Liu Ying's next breeding.

But the most important thing is to use these cold-blooded horses to crossbreed with the Qin horses in Guanzhong to obtain a brand new breed of horses.

Warmblood.

(End of this chapter)