Destiny Only Han

Xinfeng City.

The alley was empty, and the two-way, four-lane road was crowded with people. These were spectators who came from all over to watch the opening ceremony of the Xiaoqi Cup.

Although some people don't know polo and don't have the conditions to play this kind of sport, it doesn't prevent them from watching and having fun, and the most important thing is to be a troll.

The corners of their mouths couldn't help showing a smug smile when they thought of those wealthy people with huge net worth and those middle-class or quasi-middle-class people who could hide their patches on their clothes as inconspicuously as possible.

But these sour and slippery guys are only a very small part, and more people are actually here to do another thing.

Choose an oiran.

To be precise, today is not only the opening ceremony of the Xiaoqi Cup, but also the opening ceremony of the Oiran Competition. In the next month, they will perform their talents and compete with their opponents on the same stage. The most popular one will win the crown.

Well, seafood merchants are a very old profession. In the past, Guan Zhong of the Qi State tried every means to make the country strong, so he formalized these people who were wandering on the edge of gray. They only need to pay taxes to solicit favors openly. guest.

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, perhaps for the same reason, there was a gossip that Zhu Yuanzhang wrote a couplet for the brothel himself. The second line is "there are so many idiots and idiots in the world, idiots and idiots, and moreover, there are so many idiots and idiots, how many generations of idiots"...

Because Liu Ying had read some related memoirs, she wanted to fight against pornography and illegal activities at the beginning, but she encountered great resistance later, so she simply introduced the way of the entertainment circle [juàn] of later generations, choosing the oiran and promoting X price, in order to achieve the purpose of civilian women not being forced into prostitution.

In fact, this year is not the first time to choose an oiran. It was held here last year. The winning contestant is Orchid from the Middle East. She has chestnut hair and light green eyes. She has a smile that is rare in the Central Plains. Exotic, and more importantly, looks very innocent, just like her name, Pearl.

Therefore, driven by the budding nationalist sentiment, the Han people absolutely could not allow the imperial oiran to be captured by exotic orchids again, so seafood merchants from all over the country began to "Shangluo" and flocked to Xinfeng City.

Naturally, there are no empty seats today...

After all, a ticket for a corner where people are crowded and you can almost smell the stench in each other's armpits costs 180 yuan. Do you really think that people spend so much money just to watch men play?

Therefore, Liu Bang, who was sitting in the auditorium in the front area of ​​the infield at the moment, looked at Miss Bao, who was sitting on a float and circling the arena, dressed in red and green. Looking at Liu Ying's figure.

What is the occasion today?
This little brat is getting worse and worse...

But the little girl in the green dress is so pretty...

On the other side of the auditorium, Liu Ying casually put her arms around Zhang Buyi's neck, but stretched her other hand upwards to cover his eyes:
"You are a person who is about to get married, so it's not suitable to watch this... Be good, close your eyes."

Zhang Buyi was speechless, his head moved up and down, left and right, trying to break through Liu Ying's palm, and had a good time...

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So, from behind, his actions at the moment are quite like a turtle...

Unlike men who look at their faces and figures, the ladies who come to join in the fun without knowing it are looking at the clothes worn by the women, the hair accessories on their heads, and their strange things, whether they are from a small family, or from a famous family. Girly hairstyle.

Women are those who please themselves.

Seeing the disgusting look of their man, they decided that after returning home today, they would ask the maid to find out where there are clothes and hair accessories of the same style for sale. If possible, they also planned to call each other home and teach him How do they do that hairstyle that looks novel and beautiful...

This is the purpose of Liu Ying's selection of the oiran today.

Men spend a lot of money to make rankings for their favorite contestants, while women, in pursuit of beauty, unknowingly fall into the trap of consumerism...

Rich people from all over the world are now gathered in Chang'an City, and money is pouring into Guanzhong like flowing water. It is no exaggeration to say that at least [-]% of the currency in circulation in the entire Han Empire is gathered in Guanzhong.

The Matthew effect says that whoever has it will be doubled to make him redundant; if he does not have it, even what he has will be taken away.

And what the big invisible hand manipulating the economy has to do is to reverse this effect as much as possible.

Therefore, a healthy economic system must be able to gather wealth through overt or covert means, and then make the entire market prosper through internal circulation.

As a result, some sharp-eyed women saw the inconspicuous but familiar logo on the prominent position above the float...

Feeling itchy, they decided not to wait any longer, and whispered to the maid beside them...

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After a while, the float parade ended, and the cheerleading warm-up dance as usual was over. The polo team, which had been waiting outside the venue for a long time, finally entered the arena under the guidance of the master of ceremonies holding a number plate.

In an instant, the audience erupted into cheers no less than the previous cheerleaders when they were dancing.

Handsome!
So handsome!
Beneath the burly golfer was a horse with shoulders high and legs long, with protruding muscles, smooth fur, and a metallic luster in the sun.

People in later generations are obsessed with supercars, and people at this time are obsessed with such tall horses.

This is not just a yearning for money, but more of an original worship of power.

"Look, that's my team!"

Liu Yingsong opened his eyes without any doubt, waving his hands vigorously, jumping and jumping in the audience, enjoying the admiration and envy gathered towards him.

After all, the twelve players of the Eastern Palace team rode horses that were more than a head taller than those of other teams!
These horses are all descendants of Wu Zai, they are like fake hard-earned horses!

Therefore, to a large extent, these worships are a kind of worship of money. After all, the value of a hard-earned horse is at least 50 yuan!
Therefore, Xu Negative, who was "making an exception" and "reluctantly" helping his "girlfriend" calculate the marriage, inadvertently looked at Liu Ying, and became more fiery and greedy...

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Liu Ying shuddered, feeling hairy in her heart but couldn't tell why, she just sat back in her seat, crossing her legs and looking triumphant.

After watching the horses of today's contestants, he is very satisfied with the horse breeding business of the Han Empire today.

In fact, before the Song and Ming Dynasties, even during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, when they were divided and fought with each other, the horse breeds in the Central Plains were not inferior to any of the surrounding countries.

Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty traveled widely to the Western Regions and brought back the Dawan horse in Central Asia and the Wusun horse, which was previously known as Tianma and was later abandoned by a scumbag man who loved the new and hated the old, the horses in the Central Plains The shoulder height has soared from about 1.4 meters before to 1.5 meters and 1.6 meters.

In this way, there is a basis for the emergence of armored cavalry with men and horses.

The time point when China's horse breed lags behind the world's shoulder height lies in the period of Mongolian and Yuan rule.

The Mongols respect nature. When they breed horses, they usually don't intervene too much, but let them compete freely.

But the crux of the matter is that a stallion that is taller at the shoulder than its peers may not necessarily be able to beat its smaller counterparts.

Well, it's like Tyson and O'Neill. Although the height and weight of the former are very different from the latter, there is actually no suspense about the outcome of the battle.

In this way, the defeated loses the opportunity to leave offspring.

Especially those guys with smaller stature, as they get older, their combat experience will become more and more abundant, and they can usually rule a horse herd for seven or eight years, or even more than ten years.

If things go on like this, even after the Mongols invaded West Asia, they quickly replaced them with taller and faster Arabian horses, but in the end they got Mongolian horses that were not much bigger than donkeys...

The agricultural peoples are completely different.

They don't know what genetics are, but the way horses are bred is based on how they grow food.

For example, the seed grains used for saving seeds are basically carefully selected, and the grains are full, so that the germination rate will be high when planting in the next year, and the growth will be much better than that of randomly selected seeds!

Therefore, when they breed horse breeds, what they value is not the wildness and combat effectiveness of the stallion, but the height, weight, length and robustness of the horse, and strive to breed better individuals.

For example, the Percheron horses bred by French farmers abruptly supported the well-known signboard of French knights.

Not to mention being violently beaten by British longbowmen, what really caused the defeat of the French knights was the muddy land and the dismounted knights of the British army.

And it's not news that a dog bites a man, but a man bites a dog.

An army that has never been invincible, only occasional failures will be mentioned repeatedly.

As for the degeneration of horse breeds after the Song and Ming Dynasties, it was because of poor horse management and the severance of the Silk Road that it was impossible to introduce high-quality horse breeds from Central Asia and re-improve the Central Plains horses that had been dwarfed by the Mongols.

After all, the former didn't even have Yanyun, while the westernmost point of the latter was only in Hami, so it couldn't reach the production area of ​​good horses, and the only one or two tribute horses was not enough to improve the entire horse breed.

As for the Qing Dynasty, it extended its hand to Xinjiang, but at that time, the Central Plains was sparsely populated and there was not enough food for people to grow. It was impossible to raise those sweaty horses and Arabian horses that were delicate and expensive, and could not tolerate rough feeding!
Well, the Japanese also brought back horse breeds from Europe back then, and created the Dongyang Dama that Li Yunlong envied.

But how to put it, even if the brigade commander didn't want to leave the horse equipment of that battalion, relying on the economy of the independent regiment, he couldn't afford to support the cavalry battalion at all.

After all, Dongyang Dama inherits the blood of European horses, eats oats and beans, and does not even look at forage horses...

Destiny Only Han