Song Dynasty Iron Armored Army

Chapter 155 Adopt a Horse
The team leaders were very happy when they heard that. These days, the density between villages is very low, and there are barren mountains and mountains everywhere. Especially in summer, there are weeds everywhere. When the rain is strong, the weeds are high and there can be more than one person high.Grassland horses are only a few dozen catties of grass a day, so there is no problem at all whether it is grazing, grazing, or mowing.As for the miscellaneous grains used as horse feed, it is also easy to solve, barley, buckwheat, soybeans, peas, and various points in the field can be solved.

"Great, it's a good method. It can turn all the arable land in our village into animal power in a short period of time. Horse manure is still a good fertilizer." Everyone said one after another.

"My family wants to raise a horse. I love horses so much that I dream of raising one," said another group leader.

Chai Gang said: "Stop shouting. Let me tell you the principle. First of all, there must be a strong labor force in the family. After all, we are mainly engaged in farming. It is impossible to graze unlimitedly. We need manual preparation of forage and cleaning of the stables. Second, the last It’s better if you don’t have a big animal. If you already have a big animal at home, don’t join in the fun, and leave the opportunity to the farmers who don’t have a big animal. Third, you must have land in Chaijiazhuang, whether it is leased or self-owned. It’s all right, if you don’t have land, you have to have a regular job, you have to have free space at home, and most importantly, you have to have space to build a stable. Team leaders, each of you has a charter, and you go back and give yourself a group According to the principle of voluntariness, those who meet the requirements are reported for review, and those who pass the review will start to receive horses after the first month.”

All the team leaders each received a promotional material, took it back to their own groups and started to promote it.

Only Chai Gang and Chai Lin were left in the conference hall. Chai Gang said: "The owner, the horses raised by the farmers lack exercise, so they can only be regarded as farm horses. It is no problem to pull carts, plow the land and carry things. Only professional horse farms can train them."

Chai Lin drank a cup of tea and sighed: "Our Chai family has a lot of talents, and we didn't develop them well before. They are brave and strong, and they are all dragons and phoenixes. The other three have become generals, and you have also done logistics and are in charge of us. The important task of raising mules and horses is much more mature than before. You are right. Farmers rarely raise horses to graze. Most of them are led and occasionally grazed, and they go to places far away from the village. But, our one-year-old When I was young, I took back the foals and sent them to the horse farm for two or three years. Those that could be bred were distributed to the farmers for further breeding. The stallions that could not be bred were used as geldings. Aren’t these geldings more good training horses? ?"

Gangzi slapped his head and said: "Oh, I suddenly understood, the master's trick is really powerful. After the farmer has a horse at home, he will prepare a saddle and start learning how to ride a horse slowly. Learn to ride a horse, and within a few years, the number of people who can ride a horse will increase greatly, so that if you recruit cavalry in the future, almost all the recruits will be experienced, and you will no longer have to learn how to ride a horse as you do now."

"This is only one aspect. The increase of horses, donkeys, and mules can greatly speed up the speed of farming and production, and improve our overall strength. When you are not busy, you have to cooperate with the business to do a good job in the distribution of donkeys and horses. We will use three In one year, the entire Cangzhou can be turned into animal power." Chai Lin said.

Chai just sat on the chair and heard what Chai Lin said, so frightened that he couldn't sit still, and almost fell off.Cangzhou has a total of nine counties, with a population of nearly one million and almost 11 to [-] households.Not counting big landlords and squires, there are only [-] to [-] ordinary households with cattle, horses, donkeys, and mules.The remaining [-] households have no large livestock. If [-]% of the farmland is to be converted to animal power, then [-] large livestock will be needed.Breeding of large livestock is slow. As a base, there must be a breeding base of [-] head in order to achieve this goal.

"Owner, I heard you right. If this is the case, then [-] to [-] animals must be distributed to achieve this goal. How much financial support will it need?" Chai Gang asked.

Chai Lin said with a smile: "Zengtou City is a tiny place. There are only four or five villages with thousands of horses and tens of thousands of donkeys and mules. Our Chaijiazhuang is looking at the whole of Cangzhou. The big ones come from the village, and the small ones come from the farmers. , We still have iron mines and saltworks, so don’t worry about this piece of steel, I’ll take care of the money, and you will do the work.”

"Since the financial resources are no problem, is the source of horses sufficient?" Chai Gang asked again.

Chailin laughed and said: "This idea is even more superfluous. On the vast prairie of the Liao Kingdom, there are more horses than people. Often a dozen people graze thousands of horses. A small tribe also has tens of thousands of horses, and a large tribe has several tens of thousands of horses. One hundred thousand horses. You must know that there are as many tribes on the grassland as there are stars in the sky. Now that the Liao Kingdom has lost half of its empire to the Jin Kingdom, there is an urgent need to sell horses to continue their lives. As long as the money is in place, horses are not a problem.”

Since Chailin said there is no problem, it must be no problem. There will always be difficulties, but there is nothing that cannot be overcome.

There has also been a major event in Chaijiazhuang in the past few days, that is, the East Village of Chaijiazhuang has established a market, which is held on the fifth, tenth, fifteenth, twentieth, 25th and [-]th of every month.When I arrived at Kuoji, the nearby vendors kept coming and going, and they all traded on the edge of the big poplar forest in the south of the village.There are all stalls on the side of the road and the river with two miles of land, and there is a steady stream of buying and selling.

The main reason for the establishment of the market is that Chaijiazhuang East Village is relatively rich, the people are rich, and their purchasing power has increased.Especially next to a large military camp, all of the more than 500 township soldiers have money, with a monthly salary of [-] Wen, plus bonuses and the like.

The play was sung for three consecutive days, and many people from the surrounding area came to see it in the cold weather.

Cangzhou City, the shopkeeper of the department store, is trading with the caravan from Chang'an.

The shopkeeper frowned, looked at the black bag of kapok seeds in front of him, and said, "hard work is hard work, and long roads are long roads, but you want five hundred yuan a catty. This is simply stealing money?"

"Scarcity is the most expensive thing. The soap we bought from you is transported to the Western Regions. A piece of soap sells for at least [-] cash. This kapok seed is what your business is looking for. We bought it from the barbarians, plus the shipping fee. The price is extremely expensive," said the caravan.

The shopkeeper said with a smile: "I'm sorry, one hundred cents a catty, if you sell it, it's a deal, if you don't sell it, it's fine. And your behavior of selling high prices makes us very angry. If the cooperation fails, you don't want to buy a piece of soap or a carriage in the future. "

The caravan from Chang’an was actually trying to swindle money. Originally, the kapok seeds were only used for ornamental flowers. At that time, people had not discovered that kapok was used for weaving and keeping warm. I bought it in my hand, plus the shipping cost is just about [-] yuan per catty.

"No, no, no, at least [-] Wen, and the deal will be made if you can."

The shopkeeper patted the table and said: "Deal, overweight."

The cotton seeds were transported by Hu merchants as oil seeds. The quantity is not much, only five mules. After weighing it, it is only 150 catties.There is no need to pay them, and they can be converted directly with soap. Chang'an merchants do not represent Chang'an. They are going to the Western Regions for trafficking. It is said that the team is very large, with [-] camels.But only a hundred mules came to Cangzhou to buy soap and carpentry tools.

(End of this chapter)