Ji Han Grand Commander

Chapter 408 402. New Communication Method
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With the cry of an eagle, a goshawk landed in a camp outside the city of Jiangling.

Along with Goshawk came the actual leader of Jingzhou, the Han army commander-in-chief Feng Xi.

This camp is tightly guarded by hundreds of Han soldiers, and it is watertight. In addition, the people in the camp are relatively honest, so nothing has happened in more than a month.

"King Mulu, you trained your first eagle so quickly?"

Feng Xi came in from outside and naturally saw the goshawk circling in the air. He was a little surprised that King Mulu was so efficient. He heard that it took three days and three nights to train a hawk, so why was it so easy for him?

"General, the eagle is okay, but I feel it's not as difficult as the tiger and leopard."

King Mulu, who was still dressed as a barbarian, saw Feng Xi coming and saluted him respectfully. There was a hint of Versailles in his words, as if "Take the entrance exam to Fudan University? It feels easier than taking the entrance exam to Peking University or Tsinghua University."

But think about it, King Mulu trains hundreds or even thousands of ferocious beasts, including jackals, tigers and leopards. It took him nearly a month to train the first eagle because this is a new track, and King Mulu still has to explore it. Once the technology is mature, the efficiency will probably be higher.

"What about pigeons? If pigeons are used properly, their effect is no less than that of eagles."

Feng Xi asked quickly.

"Pigeons are simple. Just follow the method of taming wild animals. Encourage them a few times and they will come back. As you can see, there is already a cage."

King Mulu pointed to the wooden tower behind him, which was the bird and beast tower built by the animal trainers of Bana Cave. Of course, the eagle still had to be put in a cage, otherwise it would become a buffet in the bird and beast tower.

"So magical? Let's give it a try."

Feng Xi suddenly became curious and wanted to see whether the pigeons trained by King Mulu in this "wild way" could have the same effects as those in TV dramas.

"Okay. Guys, catch a pigeon."

King Mulu nodded, and a trainer behind him immediately walked to the bird and beast tower, grabbed an innocent pigeon that was still resting, and put it in the wooden cage in his hand.

Feng Xi asked for paper and pen, tore off a piece of paper, wrote something on it, and then tied it to the pigeon's leg with a thin thread.

"Come here, ride a fast horse for twenty miles, then release the pigeon and come back."

Feng Xi pointed to a soldier and gave an order. The soldier saluted, immediately led a war horse, and galloped out with the pigeon cage in hand.

Feng Xi was not idle either. He followed King Mulu to see many other achievements.

King Mulu is good at taming wild beasts, and he naturally knows the physiological structure and many habits of wild beasts very well. After all, in addition to taming, raising them is also very important.

Feng Xi's order was simple, which was to study how to make pigs, cattle and other animals reproduce better, especially pigs. Although after Feng Xi's guidance, pigs were castrated from childhood and grew up to be less smelly, and the meat was still delicious. But Feng Xi was not satisfied with this. He hoped to select some pigs with good genes for large-scale breeding, so as to improve the lives of the people of the Han Dynasty.

So he gave this task to King Mulu, and the screening method was very simple, which was the most classic selection of the best.

He selected pigs with good meat quality and fast fattening for targeted breeding until he could maintain this genotype after several generations. Although King Mulu did not understand genetics and dominant and recessive expressions, he knew how to select high-quality species.

It just so happened that those pigs with inferior genes were eaten by King Mulu and his people from Banadong. As long as they had meat to eat, the people of Nanzhong didn't care about the taste. Now that they were full every day, they were unwilling to change.

Just when Feng Xi was checking the pigpen of King Mulu, a flapping sound was heard in the air, and everyone saw a gray-white pigeon flapping its wings and landing on a wooden pole on the Bird and Beast Tower that was specially provided for pigeons to rest.

The animal trainer from Bana Cave hurried over and caught the poor pigeon again, carefully removed a piece of paper from the side of its leg, and handed it respectfully to Feng Xi.

Feng Xi opened the note and saw that it was indeed the few words he had just written. He was very satisfied with the actual effect of the pigeon.

After a while, the soldiers who had just been sent out to release the pigeons returned safely, proving that the experiment was relatively successful. However, this was only twenty miles after all, and Feng Xi felt that it was still not enough for the experiment, so he specifically asked King Mulu for a cage with six pigeons, and he would continue the experiment slowly later.

After Feng Xi left King Mulu, he went to the arsenal and asked the carpenter to make two more cages. He then divided the six carrier pigeons into three parts and asked the messenger who was going to Sichuan for routine contact to release the two pigeons back in Chengdu. He then asked the person sent by Huang Quan to Yangzhou to release them back in Jianye. Finally, he even asked someone to give them to Zhang Nan and asked him to release them the next time he sent the navy to patrol.

Only after many experiments can we know the final effect. Although Feng Xi still needs to experiment, he is actually very satisfied with the effect of this pigeon. If the eagle can be trained to have the same effect, it will have many advantages in marching and fighting in the future.

Apart from anything else, at least when landing in Xuzhou and Jizhou, carrier pigeons can play a very good role in communicating between the two armies, so that the two sides will not have any information problems.

Moreover, in this era without radio and telephone, carrier pigeons and carrier hawks are the fastest means of communication currently available. Feng Xi is still very concerned about this.

Orders from Jingzhou were sent out from Jiangling and headed non-stop to Jianye, Chengdu and other places.

Of course, the first people Feng Xi informed were the Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty, Zhuge Liang, and the semi-retired general, Zhang Fei. Needless to say, Zhuge Liang was now in charge of the government, and he had to make all the decisions of the Han Dynasty in person, so he was very busy.

After all, Zhang Fei was now the general of the Han Dynasty, the nominal highest official, and the biological father of Empress Zhang. He was a relative by marriage in any case, so Feng Xi had to report to his immediate superior as a formality.

In the Chengdu Palace, Liu Chan was just sitting there in a daze doing nothing as usual during the morning court session. In his opinion, today was no different from the past. Even if there were any problems, Prime Minister Zhuge would come up with solutions for him.

"Your Majesty, I have a memorial."

As a result, Zhuge Liang suddenly stepped out and bowed respectfully to Liu Chan, which made Liu Chan's expression stiffen.

Generally, those small matters were raised by the Shangshu and Zhuge Liang answered them one by one, but the matters that Zhuge Liang could personally report to him were definitely top-notch matters.

In other words, trouble is coming.

(End of this chapter)