The new era of chaos begins in the Song Dynasty

Chapter 56 Be careful when fighting, don't hurt the car
Ergou was not a cool person who allowed others to scold him. He got a little angry after being insulted by Butcher Fan several times, and said angrily: "You butchering dogs and selling meat, you are such a shameless person! How dare you be so rampant and have bad breath?" ! If I don’t teach you a lesson, I’m afraid I won’t be able to be a stable person!”

After saying that, the two dogs dwarfed and rushed in front of Fan Butcher's horse, and swept the bronze chopper in their hands towards the horse's front hooves.

Fan Tuhu was caught off guard, and was taken aback immediately. He yanked the reins quickly, but caused the horseman to stand up, and just avoided the catastrophe of the broken hoof.

Butcher Fan yelled in shock and anger: "Straight bitch! You are such a rude fellow! You want to destroy my mount! You are no longer a son of a man!"

There is some reason for this butcher Fan's anger. This is because the territory of the Song Dynasty was inherently deficient compared with the previous dynasties. The Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures in the north and the Hetao area in the northwest had not been acquired, the two major horse-producing areas in China. , so that the entire Northern Song Dynasty has been in an embarrassing state of lack of war horses.

This also led to the surprisingly high price of horses in private houses.

We can compare the prices of the three most common livestock horses, cattle, and donkeys in the Northern Song Dynasty.

The first is cattle, which mainly exist as farming cattle. Due to the strict restrictions on the price of farming cattle by the government, the price of farming cattle is somewhat low. If the cattle are sold for meat, they can be sold for more than [-] guan, which is a difference of ten times the profit. Needless to say, there are problems in it.

Even when Ergou was in Zhezong's period at this time, a good farm cattle could only be sold for seven or eight pennies, while the price of beef had soared more than ten times.

Such a profit difference of a hundred times is no wonder that the art of making animals is prevalent in the world.

Let's talk about donkeys. The price of donkeys is relatively stable. Depending on the quality, it ranges from about ten to forty or fifty guan. It is neither exaggerated nor overly derogatory. It fully reflects its own ability and value. This value is not limited to the value of working ability and the value of meat.

The price of horses is quite scary.

We all know that horses in ancient times were mainly divided into two functions: draft horses and war horses.

The so-called draft horses are the kind of horses used to pull carts, plow fields, and carry goods. Their functions are not much different from those of oxen and donkeys.

The war horse is the elite among the horses that soldiers ride to the battlefield to charge into battle.

When the Northern Song Dynasty was founded, the price of draft horses was slightly higher than that of donkeys. However, as the Song Dynasty army lost several battles with the Liao Kingdom in the north, especially the cavalry, the price of war horses soared rapidly.

Especially after the Chanyuan Alliance, the Liao State deliberately controlled the price of horses exported to the Song Dynasty, but the prices of war horses and draft horses reached a level that ordinary people could not bear.

For example, ordinary draft horses, even during Zhezong's period, were rarely below a hundred guan, and good-looking draft horses were sold directly as low-grade war horses, and could be sold for hundreds of guan.

Further up are the real war horses, some of which are less than a few hundred guan, and those of better quality are close to a thousand guan. If there is a war horse that looks like a divine horse, it can even be a few thousand guan.

For example, there are famous war horses in "Water Margin", such as Hu Yanzhuo's imperial gift of "Kicking the Snow Wuzui" horse, which can be worth thousands of gold; and Shi Wengong of Zengtou City robbed the BMW "Zhaoye Jade Lion", Even ten thousand or even one hundred thousand guans cannot stop it.

In the Song Dynasty, when a person was described as wealthy, he was often praised for having thousands of possessions. For example, this was the case for a high-ranking official from Ximen. It seemed that if such a person had a good horse, then the value of the good horse would be enough to cover nearly half of his family property.

To put it bluntly, in the Song Dynasty, this war horse was equivalent to the supercar of the millionaire in modern society, the private jet of the multi-millionaire, and the [-]-ton luxury yacht of the billionaire. The problem of soreness.

The wealth of a person like Butcher Fan is not comparable to that of Ximen, a senior official in Yanggu County. However, he has raised two good horses, which shows that he is definitely a true horse lover.

Of course, Fan Tuhu called him "not a son of man", not only because he felt sorry for his baby, but also because the most vicious bandits and robbers would not treat big animals, especially horses, easily. start.

Everyone is messing around in the rivers and lakes, but they all pay attention to people.

However, Ergou is a person who doesn't know the rules, and he has some bad morals when he gets started.If it is true that this guy and his beloved horse are crippled with a scythe, it is impossible to say that he will really have a death feud.

Moreover, Ergou's reputation in the world may have plummeted!

Let's talk about a similar off-topic person, also from "Water Margin", "Golden Gunner" Xu Ning.This man, who was born in the Golden Spear Class of the Forbidden Army in the Beijing Camp, is the instructor of the Golden Spear Class, and he is always at his command.

There is a saying about the origin of such a person, he is called a royal bodyguard with royal equipment, a serious royal bodyguard, and someone who is not the best in the world of military force cannot serve.Of course, there are some who deserve this position in vain, but that is just an honorary title and does not fulfill the duties of a bodyguard.

But Xu Ning is a serious imperial bodyguard. His level of martial arts is definitely unparalleled in the world. Even Lu Junyi and Shi Wengong cannot defeat him.

It's just that Xu Ning's martial arts are a bit dishonorable, but he is specially used to attack war horses. He hooks people and cuts them with horses' hooves. You say how bad the reputation of the world is, even the calligrapher's boss is afraid. How to treat him.

Therefore, Xu Ning made excuses to be obsessed with Baojia, and he went to Liangshan as soon as he was tricked. Even though he had the most top-notch martial arts among the gangsters, he only ended up ranking No. 18.

Let's talk back to Ergou.

Ergou was only pretending to scare Butcher Fan, but did not actually kill his mount.This frightened Butcher Fan so much that he trembled all over. He no longer wanted to fight with the two dogs while sitting on the horse, so he only left the saddle and removed the stirrup, and got down to the ground to fight with him on foot.

But the butcher Fan abandoned the two-foot-long steel spear and only held a pair of black iron corrugated maces in his hand. He stared at the two dogs and started beating the two dogs.

Ergou knew that he couldn't withstand Butcher Fan's huge strength, so he only took a step back and leaped two feet away.After landing, he sprinted forward again. At the same time, he dragged the copper blade backwards with both hands. The blade of the war scythe was turned outwards behind him, but he struck back at the opponent with a momentum similar to that of a cavalry charge to harvest.

This butcher was limited by his habitual thinking, seeing Ergou rushing backwards and forwards, extremely swift and furious, and consciously wearing armor, but he only cared about his copper scythe, and was not on guard against Ergou himself who had passed him by.

When the two sides crossed each other, Ergou reached out and slapped his beast-faced shoulder armor, but the psychic electricity penetrated into the armor, immediately paralyzing Fan Butcher's whole body, and only the two maces he was wielding were also struck. Just slip out and fly out.

When the flying mace hit the head of the copper plowing sickle, Ergou cleverly let go of the handle, causing the copper plowing hammer to be smashed away as well.

For a moment, Butcher Fan fell to the ground stiffly, while Ergou stood beside him with bare hands, and sneered: "What an ignorant butcher! I wanted to save face with you, and deliberately refused to fight in front of the town. I retreated just to protect your reputation. On the contrary, not only did you not accept my kindness, but you came to provoke me and chase me. Do you think I am really afraid of you?!"

(End of this chapter)