Destiny Only Han

East of Jingshui, Gaoling County, the official pastoral garden.

It was originally a garden palace left over from the state of Qin, but now it has become a horse farm under the management of the eunuch Xia Houying.

Although Liu Bang expressed strong dissatisfaction with this, and angrily went to Xiao He to break his head, but in the end he was defeated in despair and accepted this tragic reality.

Just after the hour, Liu Ying followed Liu Bang, surrounded by more than a hundred knights, and went straight into the pasture garden.

It was time to fight the Xiongnu, and the cavalry was the most important thing. Naturally, inspecting the breeding and breeding of horses was Liu Bang's top priority during this period.

Liu Ying followed, mainly because she wanted to see if the black horse had been drained...

Now it is in the estrus period of cows and horses. In order to obtain better offspring, only Wuzhui and more than 100 donkeys are males in the pasture here.

Well, the latter is for mating to produce mules.

To be precise, a mule.

When a large male donkey mates with a female horse, it can give birth to a mule whose shoulder height is higher than that of a horse. It not only has better endurance than a horse, but also has a small food intake and high digestibility. For ordinary people, the benefits of raising a mule are, Much higher than raising horses.

After all, the more you save, the more you earn!

Seeing the arrival of Liu Bang and his party, Xia Houying, who had come here in advance to prepare, hurried up to greet him.

"Meet Your Majesty..."

Liu Bang jumped off the horse, and punched him with a smile: "Don't play such nonsense, lead the way!"

Liu Ying silently followed behind Liu Bang and Xia Houying, who were walking forward with their arms, and looked around at the deserted scene, feeling a little embarrassed in her heart.

The former name of this palace was Gaoquan Palace.

Well, there is another Gaoquan Palace in Qin State, but it was built by Mi Bazi or Queen Mother Xuan, and it is located in Meiyang, which is the northwest of Wugong County, Shaanxi.

The purpose of building the palace is to support the Empress Dowager Xuan, and by the way, to wear a cuckold for King Qin Huiwen...

Well, the little widows of their old Ying family have this tradition...

The former owner of this Gaoquan Palace in Gaoling County was Fusu, the prince of Qin who was ordered to commit suicide by Zhao Gaojiao.

The palaces of the Qin Kingdom are arranged according to the stars. The Xianyang Palace located in Xianyang City corresponds to the Emperor Star, and the Gaoquan Palace corresponds to the Prince Prince...

It's a pity that good fortune tricks people.

But again, it is not the Confucianists who fooled and helped Su, but the Legalists.

At this time, Confucianism emphasized that the small battle should be followed by the big battle, and avoid letting the father bear the crime of killing the son, while the Legalists emphasized that the monarch must die, and the minister must die; the father must die, and the son must die, and establish the absolute authority of the dictatorship .

Fusu, who practiced the Qin law, died under the Qin law, which is quite similar to Shang Yang, who founded the Qin law and died under the Qin law.

While Liu Ying shook her head silently and sighed, she saw Wu Zai in the distance with her upper lip pursed and her footsteps faltering with a wretched face. She wanted to greet her, but after thinking about it, she decided to talk about it later.

The movement of Wu Zai pursing his upper lip is to sniff a kind of smell in the air.

The smell of a mare.

In front of Wu Zai, a black mare with a big and round buttocks and smooth hair was fixed next to the wooden frame, with one front hoof raised high.

This kind of action is to prevent the mare from suddenly kicking and launching an attack when Wu Zi comes over.

After all, in the wild state, if a male horse wants to complete mating, he needs to show his muscles to repel his rivals and gain the approval of the mare.

That kind belongs to free love.

But at this time it was an arranged marriage, and the woman was tied to the bed during the bridal chamber...

While some women will be excited by it, it is not ruled out that there will be dislikes.

Liu Ying once watched a video in which a mare kicked the male horse's head with its powerful hind hooves when the male horse excitedly approached him, killing him with one blow!
Although Liu Ying got a few smuggled bloody horses at this time, there was only one as strong as a black horse.

Therefore, we must take preventive measures to avoid irreversible tragedies.

Beside Liu Ying, looking at Wu Zai who had arched his nose and entered the state, and Liu Bang and Xia Houying who were standing with their arms folded, they couldn't help showing a bit of self-ashamed expression.

But soon, their confidence was rebuilt again.

Although Wuzhi is big, it cannot last long...

Liu Ying glanced contemptuously at the two inexplicably arrogant men beside her, and walked towards the exhausted Wu Zai with a basket.

Wu Hao obviously recognized him too, her big wet eyes were full of grievances.

During the period between spring and summer, it has to impregnate nearly [-] mares. Apart from the fact that human beings are keen on doing that and never get tired of it, animals are more dominated by instinct, and they can't help themselves to complete reproduction the behavior of.

Liu Ying raised her hand and patted the horse's head, then took out a duck egg from the basket and smashed it into Wu Zai's mouth.

This is the knowledge he learned from later generations that he thought was useless at the time, but it is of great use at this moment.

During the mating period of the stallion, feeding high-protein feed such as eggs and milk can enhance the physique of the stallion and the quality of sperm, and produce better offspring.

As for Liu Ying feeding duck eggs instead of eggs at the moment, the main reason is that he raises more ducks than chickens in Guanzhong, and the duck eggs are a bit fishy, ​​so they are not as delicious as eggs if they are not handled properly.

So duck eggs are unsalable...

After Liu Ying knocked four or five duck eggs into Wu Zai's mouth, she took out a brick from the basket and hung it on a stake for Wu Zai to lick.

Liu Bang came over curiously, but stood directly behind Liu Ying under Wu Zai's guarded eyes.

Since Xiang Yu's death, Wu Zai's temper has gradually become less irritable. Liu Ying rode well, and the little loli Liu Le sometimes bravely sneaked into the stables, but she was not angry, and let the stubby loli grab the mane. Mao lay on his back.

But there is one exception.

Whenever Liu Bang tried to get close, Wu Zou either kicked him directly or stared at him, ready to give him two hooves at any time...

So at this moment, Liu Bang regards Liu Ying as his human shield.

He pointed to the brick Liu Ying hung on the railing and asked, "What is this?"

Liu Ying said without turning her head: "Salt bricks... Well, to be precise, they are salt blocks that have not been processed. Although people cannot eat them, horses and cattle cannot be separated from this kind of thing."

Liu Bang scratched his nose and asked, "Why?"

Liu Ying looked at Liu Bang, then at Xia Houying who was also puzzled, and frowned and asked, "How did you raise horses in the past?"

Xia Houying replied: "Feed the fodder, and then move the horse to the river to wash it regularly, and then let it play happily..."

"I see." Liu Ying nodded, and the doubts in her heart were eliminated.

In the stocking state, the livestock will lick the salt precipitated on the ground or rocks. Although the amount is not large, it is better than nothing.

However, in the state of captivity, it is necessary to add salt to the livestock to maintain the osmotic pressure, acid-base balance and water balance in the livestock. It can also make the body get energy balance and recovery, which is conducive to relaxing the nerves, relieving fatigue, promoting metabolism, and preventing minerals. Material nutritional deficiency.

So when the price of salt soars, it affects not only people's lives, but also the dying animal husbandry.

Of course, it doesn’t include the salt merchants and gentlemen who never tire of eating and drinking in the paradise on earth, and how the show broke up and the lights went down the stairs...

Liu Ying pointed to the bricks of salt that Wu Zai was coiling with sticks and said, "People can't live without salt, and so do pigs, horses, cattle and sheep, so we need to put a few more salt bricks in the stables in the future..."

Listening to Liu Ying's words, Xia Houying nodded frequently.

Facts speak louder than words, and Wu Hao's actions at this time have already surpassed Liu Ying's thousands of words.

As a servant, his duty is to raise more and better war horses for the country, so Liu Ying's actions today are of great help to his work.

Walking with Liu Bang and Xia Houying in the pastoral garden for a while, Liu Ying pointed to the garden that used to be full of exotic flowers and plants in the distance, but has now been shoveled and turned into farmland:

"Huh? Is there rice planted here too?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Liu Bang and Xia Houying looked at each other and laughed.

What the hell... Liu Yingyuan clenched her fists tightly in her sleeves. If she hadn't been unable to beat them, she would have beaten these two old fellows to the brim!
Liu Bang smiled for a while and shook his head and said, "That's not rice, that's barnyardgrass!"

"Weeds?" Liu Ying scratched her head, still full of doubts: "What are weeds?"

Liu Bang explained: "It's the weeds that grow in the rice fields. The weeds look like rice when they are young, but they can be recognized when they grow up..."

Liu Ying suddenly realized that she nodded, gave a thumbs up, and casually patted Liu Bang's free flattery: "Father really knows a lot...you can even distinguish weeds from rice at a glance!"

Then, Liu Bang's old face instantly turned red.

This is not the pride after being flattered, but the shame and anger of being stung when guilty.

In his opinion, Liu Ying's praise at this moment is a mockery of his spending time in the past and letting Lu Zhi take Liu Le and Liu Ying to live in the fields to farm...

The little bastard really holds grudges... Liu Bang gritted his molars, and decided to wait until a while later to beat Liu Ying to vent his anger on the grounds that Liu Ying entered the door with his left foot!

Unconsciously, Liu Ying, who flattered the horse's legs, turned her head, looked at Xia Houying, who was watching a play, and asked, "Then why do you plant weeds in the pastoral garden?"

A complex expression appeared on Xia Houying's face, and he said after deliberation: "Before I became the governor of Pei County, I was responsible for taking care of the horses in the county. I found that it was also feeding grass, and when feeding the weeds pulled from the ground, the horses Not only do you enjoy eating, but you also gain weight quickly..."

"Therefore, during the annual evaluation, the dozen or so horses I raise are the 'best', so I have accumulated merits and become Si Yu..."

"So, I just planted weeds here and used it as fodder... Anyway, weeds don't need to be taken care of, they grow fast!"

Liu Ying nodded and sighed slightly: "It seems that pulling weeds in the farmland is really hard work... Unfortunately, there is no good way to weed the weeds, and we can't curb the growth of weeds in the farmland..."

Xia Houying smiled mysteriously: "Pulling weeds is really hard work, but the weeds I got back then were not only plentiful but also effortless... Your Highness may wish to guess where I came from... Mmmm..."

Liu Ying said with a face full of horror: "Father, if you don't let go of Uncle Xiahou, you will smother him to death..."