The heavens start from saving Daming

Chapter 667 Ma Zheng
At this time, Wei Qing was a little immature, and his ability to lead troops to fight was naturally far inferior to Li Yunze.

To be able to be born at this age, and to make an indelible contribution, only the surname Huo can do it several times in the history books.

The reason why Li Yunze didn't personally lead the troops to fight was not that he couldn't win the battle, but that he was the emperor and couldn't do everything himself.

The world is so big and there are so many things, he can't do it all by himself, and he is not a quantum computer.

So you must give your subordinates a chance to get ahead and let them get things done.

After seeing off Wei Qing and returning to Weiyang Palace to rest for a while, Li Yunze saw Wei Zifu waiting for him as soon as he entered the bedroom.

Wei Zifu, known as having the strongest dowry in history, is just Jiji's girl at this time.

Seeing Li Yunze approaching, he saluted slightly flustered.

Wei Zifu has been carefully cultivated since he was a child. Compared with Wei Qing who herds sheep, he has hardly experienced any hardship.

The idea of ​​Pingyang Marquis Cao Shou and Pingyang Princess is very simple. Naturally, such outstanding servants should be trained well and be treated as rare goods as gifts.

In this era, this is a very normal thing, just like those families in the Lijia Mansion in the world of Dream of Red Mansions, whose life and death are all controlled by the family head.

If those time-traveling women who shouted something like "a couple for a lifetime" came to this era, they would basically not be able to survive three episodes due to their nature.

"Get up." Li Yunze stepped forward and pulled Wei Zifu up, "There is no need to be polite."

Holding Wei Zifu's little hand, they walked into the palace to have dinner together.

Talking caringly while eating, booing and inquiring, and other scumbag tricks are completely at the fingertips of the old driver.

Wei Zifu has never seen such methods before, and he is already smiling in a few words.

According to the process, after eating, I went shopping and watched a movie, and finally got drunk and coughed. The current environment is obviously not suitable.

"How about I take you to Shanglin Garden?"

Naturally, Wei Zifu would not refuse to "follow His Majesty's orders."

She thought she was going to go in a carriage, but she never thought that Li Yunze simply got on the horse, and then leaned over Wei Zifu's exclamation, and put him in her arms.

Li Yunze rode forward and headed straight for the palace gate.

Ju Meng accompanied hundreds of palace guards in a mighty manner.

Different from the Loess Plateau that later generations are accustomed to think of, Guanzhong at this time is full of trees and clear water.The natural ecology is so good that it is unbelievable.

And Shanglin Garden is such a royal garden with a perfect ecological style.

It is said that it is a garden, but in fact, the area of ​​Shanglin Garden is huge, it is estimated to be hundreds of square kilometers.

Moreover, the place is not surrounded to collect tickets, and the surrounding people can come in and out at will, and many people even live in it, working and farming.

Li Yunze is not interested in building magnificent palaces, so Shanglin Garden only has some palace complexes left over from the era of Qin Shihuang, and the Shaofu can be used after maintenance.

He is not very interested in hunting in Shanglin Garden. He has killed tigers with his bare hands before, so hunting is meaningless.

For Li Yunze, the biggest function of Shanglin Garden at this time is that it is used as a pasture for breeding horses.

Fighting against the Huns requires cavalry, and the most important thing to train cavalry is to have good horses.

Sergeants can be recruited for training, equipment can be crafted, and supplies can be stored, but the best war horses can only be bred.

He galloped all the way to a pastoral supervisor, reined in the horse and walked slowly to the side of the fence.

Wei Zifu in his arms was out of breath because of the fright and running around, his pretty face was flushed and looked very good-looking, but Li Yunze didn't even look at her at all, but looked over the fence and looked at the hundreds of acres of pasture in front of him, those who were running, Or horses eating feed.

The shepherd supervisor arranged by the Shaofu here ran over panting to greet him.

Li Yunze waved his hand and asked, "How many horses are there in this ranch?"

"Return to Your Majesty, here are 63 foals, 59 mares, and one stallion."

Usually a horse needs at least ten acres of grassland to feed, but Shaofu's various pastures in Shanglinyuan use the kind of breeding and direct feeding.

That's why it is possible to feed more than a hundred horses in a pasture of only a few hundred acres.

And there are hundreds of pastures of this size in the entire Shanglin Garden.

Li Yunze nodded in satisfaction, his eyes swept over the horses, and finally fell on the short-tempered stallion that immediately bit the approaching mare.

In history, in order to get good horses, Emperor Wu did not hesitate to launch a war to snatch hard-earned horses.

But Li Yunze knew that there were actually good horses in the territory of the big man.

After all, the horses of this era have not degenerated to an unbearable level after thousands of years of castration.

The most important thing is to write a family tree for the horse and record the genetic inheritance in detail.

In the animal world, genetic inheritance is very important.

The offspring of outstanding horses are naturally more likely to be equally outstanding than ordinary horses.

Therefore, male horses were carefully searched for from all over the country, and placed in pastures everywhere, specially used to inherit good genes.

Looking at the irritable stallion, Li Yunze couldn't help but laugh, "It seems that it has been messed with too much, and it can't take it anymore."

Then he asked the pastor, "Is it too much for a male horse to have fifty or sixty mares?"

Under normal circumstances, it is the limit for a stallion to be matched with twenty or thirty mares. Here, it is doubled directly, and the pressure is too great.

"His Majesty."

The supervisor hurriedly responded, "The main reason is that there are too few qualified stallions, and the Shaofu and the army are pressing hard, and the ministers and others are helpless."

Li Yunze could understand this.

After all, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, the horses on the land of China began to be artificially castrated, resulting in the continuous degeneration of horse breeds, and the number of strong male horses naturally became less and less.

As for why the horses are castrated, it is because during the war, if the male horse is not castrated, it is very likely that it will be attracted by the opposite mare and go crazy, leading to accidents in the war.

It's just that the price of this castration is the degeneration of the horse breed.

After all, the more outstanding a horse is, the easier it is to be used as a war horse. Once it becomes a war horse, it will be castrated. Over time, excellent horses cannot leave offspring and will naturally degenerate.

Li Yunze nodded, agreeing with this statement, "Then add more fine ingredients to it."

After finishing speaking, Li Yunze pulled the rein of the horse, "Go to the stables to have a look."

A group of people rode their horses straight to the stables. The smell here was so pungent and unpleasant that Wei Zifu in his arms couldn't help covering his nose.

Li Yunze smiled and didn't care, got off his horse and walked into the stable, carefully checking the environment and feed.

Ordinary fodder is naturally forage. In fact, forage is also a kind of tax in Dahan. The common people have to pay a certain amount of forage every year as tax.

However, since it is raised, it is definitely not enough to rely solely on forage, so the real staple food is still mainly soybeans.

Li Yunze encouraged a large number of soybeans that originated in China to be planted in rotation with alfalfa.

Not only can it fertilize the fields, but it can also squeeze the oil after harvesting to provide the people with precious oil, and then mix the bean dregs with salt, corn, wheat husks, etc. to make feed for large livestock.

Undoubtedly, the cost is very, very high, but under Li Yunze's insistence, he still insists on carrying it out.

After checking the feed, he took the account book handed over by the pastor to check the warehouse survival.

After all, bean dregs, salt, or corn and wheat husks are all high-quality commodities, which can be sold for money.

In the last month alone, there were more than a dozen incidents of deprivation of pasture feed reported by Zhang Tangbao.

"It seems that Zhang Tang's knife has worked."

After the inspection, it was confirmed that there was no greed for horse feed in this pasture, Li Yunze also showed a gratified smile.

After all, Zhang Tang personally sat in the town before, and spread the killing ring in various pastures and spread the news to various pastures, which indeed played a deterrent effect.

They are greedy even for horse feed, these people really don't regret their deaths.

Li Yunze then checked the condition of the horse.

His push to record bloodlines for selection has only been going on for a year or two so far, and those foals haven't grown up yet.

However, some outstanding seedlings can already see some clues.

Among other things, foals whose shoulder height is significantly higher than that of their companions will be over five years old in two or three years, and then they can be selected and sent to the newly built horse farms in Guanzhong and even in the Kanto region to carry on the family line.

With the passage of time, under the optimization of generations of horse breeds, the quality of Dahan's war horses will continue to improve, and there will be no such thing as the continuous degradation in history until it is comparable to a donkey.

"The record of bloodline inheritance must be done well."

Before leaving the ranch, Li Yunze told the supervisor, "Who is the offspring of each foal, it must be clearly recorded."

The pastor did not dare to be negligent, and hastily saluted in response, "Here."

For Li Yunze, Ma Zheng is a very important matter.

His eyes were not just on the Huns.

Hollowing out the Western Regions, going deep into the two rivers, breaking the Yuezhi into Parthia, passing through Seleucus, and reaching the west coast is his goal.

To achieve this goal, it is not enough to simply rely on the infantry of the Han army who mainly walk. It is estimated that it will take two or three years for them to walk from Chang'an City to the west coast.

And along the way, whether it was the Huns, Wusun, Yuezhi, Parthia or Seleucid, most of them were powerful forces dominated by cavalry.

Only large-scale cavalry is a powerful force to sweep the westward road.

"Pity."

On the way to the next ranch, Li Yunze regretted inwardly, "If 200 years earlier in Wu Qi's era, he could still wrestle with Alexander, it would just stop the nonsense of those Asians in later generations. How could it be possible for the Macedonian Legion? It's Qin Guohu Ben

opponent! "

In a good mood, Li Yunze took Wei Zifu around a few pastures to check.

When it was getting late, he rode his horse to a nearby palace to rest.

When passing by the village, the accompanying palace guards accidentally rode their horses into the field, trampling the young crops in the field, and immediately provoked the shouting and scolding of the old farmers who waited on the crops.

If it was in the braid dynasty, it would definitely kill the old farmer's family, not to mention the entire village, after all, it was wild boar skin that devoid of humanity.

But here in Han Dynasty, Li Yunze asked Ju Meng to give the old farmer some money as compensation.

The emperor of the Han family will naturally not embarrass the people of the Han family.

(End of this chapter)