Zhenguan Chang'an Xiaofangzheng

Chapter 416 Avoiding Horse Plague

"It would be better to add some more to Quyuanli."

Xun Cangwu thought about it.

It doesn't matter if there is a lack of animal power, the Quyuan plow is light, and if it doesn't work, it can be pulled by manpower.

To put it harshly, sometimes a human life is worth less than a large animal.

Fan Zheng thought it over and said: "Qu Yuanli is easy to handle. I will go to find a master craftsman. It will take a hundred of them, and it will take half a month at most."

"The livestock is a bit of a headache, I'll discuss it with Taipusi."

The Taipu Temple is an institution for the imperial court to manage chariots and horses, and there are a lot of institutions under its jurisdiction.

Take the emperor's jade, gold, elephant, leather, and wood five-carriage chariot in charge of the Yellow Office, as well as its auxiliary chariot - an auxiliary chariot existed in the era of Qin Shihuang. For details, see Zhang Liang's "Mistake the auxiliary chariot".

There is also a guide car;
Ji Li Drum Chariot (mechanism technique, wooden people walk one mile to beat a drum, ten miles to beat a bracelet);

Egret car (advocate car);

Luan flag car;
To dispel evil chariots (Tai Bu Ling is alone in the chariot, holding bows and arrows, flat scarves, Fei Ni crotch, and big-mouth pants);
Pixuan chariot (the first team of guards on the left is holding a crossbow, and the clothes are the same as Taibuling).

The Department of Stables raises cattle, horses and miscellaneous livestock, mainly for the imperial court to carry and prepare for transportation.

The Department of Animal Husbandry is a transit agency. The animal husbandry supervisors send livestock to be raised by them temporarily for sacrifice and food.

The Chefu Department is in charge of elephant-legged chariots, leather-legged chariots, wooden-legged chariots, and chariots below the princes, as well as mausoleum visits, weddings and funerals, first-day and winter court gatherings, envoys, and officials of the fourth rank and above.

There is a Shayuan supervisor in Tongzhou, but unfortunately its function is similar to that of the Department of Animal Husbandry.

The real shepherds were mainly in the Longyou area, which is why Xixia became self-reliant and there were almost no cavalry in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Although Longyou is relatively barren, it produces horses!

The population of Shanzhou and other places is actually not as small as the geography shows.

A very real question lies there. Gaolan Mansion, Lushan Mansion, Jinshui Prefecture, Baulin Prefecture, and Helan Prefecture are all sent to Liangzhou. What is their population?

Leaving aside the government soldiers and other things, the shepherd of the pastors, his people are in Longyou, but his household registration is in Taipusi!
Horses are used to distinguish grades. Five thousand horses are the upper prison, more than [-] horses are the middle prison, and the following are the lower prisons.

The animal husbandry supervisors set up supervisors, deputy supervisors, prime ministers, and master books. What's interesting is that there are chief shepherds and shepherds according to herds.

The chief shepherd is the heir of the sixth-rank official, Bai Ding, and the variegated people (Fanhu, Zahu), and the shepherd is the heir of the scattered official below the eighth rank.

For the selection items, there are eight items for officials and ten items for others.

Heirs of officials have preferential treatment, and it is clearly stated there that no one will talk too much.

It's a cover-up, and the thing that was supposed to be as big as a needle tip has to be made into a washbasin.

The shepherds mainly raised horses, and there were also many mules, donkeys, cattle, and sheep. At this time, Datang already had sheep, which were called white sheep in writing, which repeated the name of Qinling takin.

The name of the goat is 羖羊.

In the same place, the left and right shepherds will roughly appear, the one who raises fine horses is the left shepherd, and the one who raises rough horses is the right.

The reason why it is so difficult is only one problem, the imperial servant is Xiao Rui, the consort of Princess Xiangcheng.

Xiao Rui has a good temper, he is also polite, and he does things fairly and honestly, but who told him that his Aye is the governor of Shangzhou and the Duke of Song Xiao Yu, who has a bad mouth and is somewhat at odds with Fan Zheng?

Although there may not be conflicts with Xiao Rui, and Xiao Rui may not be able to block Fan Zheng, but... embarrassment is inevitable.

Therefore, what Fan Zheng was looking for was Zhang Wansui, a servant and young minister who was comparable to Fan Laoshi's age.

The skinny Zhang Wansui hummed in his nostrils: "Plow horse, no."

Fan Zheng had a smile in his eyes: "Brother, don't worry, there are no horses, but cattle are also available."

Zhang Wansui clapped the case: "Isn't your face too big? Even if Lei Yongji is face to face, he still has to call me brother, and you deserve to be called brother too?"

Fan Zheng laughed: "It doesn't make Uncle look young."

Zhang Wansui followed Liu Wuzhou to revolt in his early years, his seniority was older than Yuchi Jingde, and he descended to Tang Dynasty together with him.

The embarrassing thing is that although Zhang Wansui is also called Wansui, he is no match for Shi Wansui in war, and he doesn't even have the capital of a middleman.

Fortunately, Zhang Wansui has excellent horse breeding skills. He was nicknamed "avoiding horse plague" and changed his job to raise horses for Datang. Fight again and again.

Don't look at him as just a servant, but even the emperor can't easily replace him.

When the Tang Dynasty fought in all directions, government soldiers, soldiers, and horses were indispensable. It was far from enough to rely on the government soldiers to collect six packs of animals.

Otherwise, Fan Zheng didn't have to make jokes here.

"There are no horses, at most two cattle, four mules, and two donkeys."

Zhang Wansui pondered for a while before speaking cautiously.

For Fan Zheng, the Jianghu lingo says that thieves don't go empty-handed, and if they don't give them something, they definitely won't do.

Although there are hundreds of thousands of horses, Zhang Wansui refuses to give in lightly, because he wants to keep them for reproduction.

The number of horses is quite a lot, but the number of government soldiers in Datang is more, Zhang Wansui hopes to see more Yueqi appear.

This is a man with aspirations.

Fan Zheng muttered: "That's only eight heads, can't you even round it up?"

Zhang Wansui rolled his eyes: "Do you want it? If you don't want it, you don't have one end. If you have the ability, you can sue the imperial court!"

It was the first time that Fan Zheng met such a tyrannical official, but he had the capital of tyranny.

Believe it or not, if Fan Zheng went to sue, he must be the one who was whipped?
Eight heads are eight heads. Although it is a drop in the bucket, it is better than nothing.

"One pair of fine oxen and Dunniu, one pair of donkeys and grass donkeys, and two pairs of mules." Fan Zheng's little abacus rattled.

Zhang Wansui looked sideways, he had never seen anyone more difficult than Cheng Yaojin.

Is this the idea of ​​co-authoring the self-breeding of livestock in Sinong Temple?
You are young, depending on how you have the ability to reproduce, there is no certain base number, and when you smile at Jiuquan, there will not be a few more livestock.

Just like those common people who are suffering, they dig a penny out of their teeth and save it, until the day they die, they still can't afford to marry a wife.

Fortunately, Datang has clear regulations on marriage and dowry, and the village is also obliged to arrange for Dingkou who cannot afford a wife, otherwise, hehe.

Inside Sinong Temple, Tongren Tang gave Fan Zheng a thumbs up.

When Tang Tongren moved to the right side of Sinong Temple, he thought about getting some livestock from Taipu Temple to give to the garrison supervisors, so as to increase his prestige by the way.

No, even though Aye and Emperor Zhenguan were family friends, Zhang Wansui didn't show any affection, let alone livestock, he didn't even get a single wool.

Tang Tongren was amazed that Fan Zheng was able to pick some animals out of Pixiu's mouth.

"You can make livestock and cowhide in the hands of avoiding horses who don't have sex, greed, and drink!"

Even without a single farm horse, Tang Tongren was very satisfied.

Hearing that Fan Zheng called Zhang Wansui "brother", Tongren Tang's eyes widened.

In this era, it is suspected of breaking the etiquette law.

Fan Zheng smiled lightly, without explaining.

Hey, Tongren Tang couldn't understand that those men in their 80s and 30s in the later generations still combed their hair so that flies slippery, and they were all smiles to hook up with women in their [-]s and [-]s, and they kept saying "We are true love".

Cough cough, that's a bit of a stretch, all in all, Zhang Wansui actually likes others to call him younger, but he is restricted by today's etiquette and can't fulfill his wish. Fan Zheng is called following what he likes.

(End of this chapter)