Jingnan Strategy

Chapter 46 Compensation for Sun
"Tuk Tuk..."

"coming!"

At midnight the next day, when Zhu Gaoxu had woken up to practice martial arts, there was a knock on his courtyard door.

Zhu Gaoxu, who was wearing short brown clothes, walked to the courtyard gate, but he didn't expect that the people coming were the eunuchs of the inner court and more than [-] cavalrymen of the Leopard Guards.

"Slave, please see Your Highness..."

Seeing Zhu Gaoxu's short brown appearance, before Zhu Gaoxu could be frightened by the formation, the eunuch was frightened by him first.

"What happened to Prince Yan's Mansion? The prince has been reduced to a short brown man wearing linen clothes?"

The eunuch was daydreaming in his mind, but he did not dare to show it on his face. He could only smile and bow:
"Your Majesty, please tell me that your Majesty has sent a horse to you."

"Send a horse?" Zhu Gaoxu came back to his senses, a little surprised.

"Your Highness, please take your slave to the backyard and open the door. There are already soldiers waiting there."

The eunuch made a "please" gesture with a smile. Seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu could only go to the backyard with the eunuch and his confusion, followed by two soldiers of the Leopard Tao Guard.

After entering the backyard, the Baotao guards opened the backyard door. Sure enough, there were several soldiers standing outside the door, and they were leading several horses behind them.

Among them, the most eye-catching one is a bright red young horse.

As a person who was baptized by the Internet in later generations, Zhu Gaoxu recognized the horse at first sight, ran out of the door happily, and "snatched" the reins from the soldiers.

"This is a sweat-blooded horse, right?" Zhu Gaoxu turned around excitedly and kept soothing his hands on the horse's face, which made the maroon sweat-blooded horse enjoy it very much.

"Back to Your Highness, it's exactly..." the eunuch responded with a smile on his face, and bowed and told the origin and name of the horse:
"This horse is the son of Fa Luochi who was sent by Bie Shu Bali Khan Hei's son Huo Zhe in the 24th year of Hongwu and Hanlouluo who was born in the 25th year of Hongwu. His Majesty renamed Chi Huan. He is now two and a half years old. He is a horse. Young horses.”

"Now this horse is given to you by His Majesty, but if Your Highness is in Beijing, then Chi Huan will need to go to the Bureau of Animal Husbandry every spring for breeding."

"In addition, this horse is still young and can be used for riding on weekdays, but try not to gallop."

"Okay!" Zhu Gaoxu was not surprised when he heard the eunuch's words, but he kept looking at Chi Huan and never left his eyes.

In the early Ming Dynasty, horses were scarce, and the cavalry in the army mostly rode Hequ horses, Mongolian horses and Western Region horses.

These horses cannot be said to be bad, but they are still worse than Arabian horses and Persian horses.

Because of this, a bloody horse is particularly precious.

Zhu Gaoxu was sure that even if he lost eight miles of blood-stained BMWs, he would not be able to count them more than his hands, which shows how precious they are.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu looked down and smiled happily after discovering that Chi Huan was a horse with a handle.

But when he was laughing, the eunuch dismissed the soldiers in the backyard, bowed to Zhu Gaoxu and said:

"Your Majesty, your Majesty has one more thing to explain."

"Tell me, tell me, finish it all in one breath." Zhu Gaoxu was naturally happy to get a horse worth thousands of gold, so he followed the eunuch's words.

"Your Majesty said that this is just an apology to the emperor's grandson. Please put the Ming Dynasty first..."

"..." After hearing the eunuch's words, the smile on Zhu Gaoxu's face froze for a moment, but he quickly made a choice and turned his head with a smile:
"I have always been on good terms with the emperor's grandson, how come we have a conflict?"

"Then I will not disturb His Highness during the horse riding parade. Your Highness will be blessed with good health..."

Seeing that Zhu Gaoxu was so easy to talk to, the eunuch breathed a sigh of relief and took the opportunity to leave. After all, the Zhu Gaoxu in front of him was a popular person in the emperor's eyes. If he made any request that was difficult to refuse, then he would be in serious trouble. "Go, go." Zhu Gaoxu didn't care about the eunuch's departure, but instead focused on Chi Huan.

He led Chi Huan into the house and briefly cleaned the empty stables in the backyard.

Chi Huan was good-tempered and did not dislike the simplicity of the stable. Instead, he lowered his head and drank water quietly while Zhu Gaoxu was filling the manger with water.

Zhu Gaoxu looked at it, the more he looked at it, the more delighted he became.

Although Chi Huan is only two and a half years old, he is almost as tall as a five or six year old Mongolian horse.

According to what Zhu Gaoxu learned about horse breeding during this period, Chi Huan will be able to support himself on the battlefield when he is four or five years old.

But the premise of all this is that he must take good care of Chi Huan.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu went to the main house, took a bunch of money from the house, and went out in a hurry.

There are many families raising donkeys and military horses in Fujun Qianweifang, so there are also shops that specialize in supplying horse feed and hay.

It took Zhu Gaoxu some time to find the store, and then he dropped a lot of money and asked the store to send a batch of hay and beans to his yard every three days.

After doing all this, he went home happily, took a small bench and sat in front of the stable in the backyard, waiting for the fodder to arrive, without taking his eyes off Chi Huan.

From time to time, he touched Chi Huan's neck and back, and patiently combed his mane with his hands.

If his appearance were photographed by future generations, others would probably think that this guy was a horse fanatic.

After waiting for a long time, when he finally waited for the delivery man from the horse feed store to knock on the backyard door, he and the man immediately moved a dozen bags of chopped hay and enough fodder and beans for three days to his home.

During this period, the waiter's eyes had been attracted to Chi Huan, and there was a sour taste in his eyes when he looked at Zhu Gaoxu.

Such a look made Zhu Gaoxu's chin lift higher, almost to the sky.

When the waiter left, his eyes were still on Chi Huan reluctantly. Until Zhu Gaoxu closed the door, he still lay at the crack of the door and looked at it for a while. After a while, he reluctantly pushed the cart back to the store.

But after he left, Zhu Gaoxu happily poured two kilograms of bean feed and five kilograms of grass into the manger, and then spread bags of hay all over the stable to serve as bedding.

Bedding is very important for raising horses. It not only encourages horses to lie down and rest, but also provides horses with a clean and comfortable resting environment, preventing horses from being injured when lying down and slipping, and reducing the smell of the stable.

Therefore, laying bedding is a very learned thing.

Whenever this kind of thing happens, Zhu Gaoxu's experience in helping Bao Taowei raise horses in the teaching field comes in handy.

When laying bedding, the principle of three high and one low should be followed. Where there is no door and three sides are against the wall, the thickness of the bedding should be more than one foot three inches, while the thickness in the middle of the stable should be kept at about five inches.

This kind of paving can concentrate horse manure, making it easier to clean, and can prevent horses from getting stuck in corners when lying down or rolling over, making them unable to get up and causing accidental casualties.

Since they are raising military horses and they are hard-blooded horses like Chi Huan, it is necessary to change the bedding every three days.

Zhu Gaoxu was busy for half an hour. When he finally finished everything, Chi Huan also lay on his side in the stable after he walked out of the stable, rolling around like a child.

Seeing its playful appearance, Zhu Gaoxu also laughed stupidly.

For him, such a horse can save his life in the future...

(End of this chapter)