After knowing Tang Yi for more than ten years, Liuying always felt that this person had strong magic power, and she could not see clearly how deep his bottom was and how many hidden abilities he had!

He just wrote three books, and Liuying couldn't accept Tang Yi from a scholar to an expert in raising horses.

Is the gap between these two professions too big?

Seeing Liuying surprised, Tang Yi's vanity was also quite satisfied, and he introduced his horse raising scripture to Liuying.

As the king of the cold weapon era, cavalry is a symbol of invincibility. Once a hero appears in the vast grassland, who can organize 100,000 cavalry, it means that countless countries will be destroyed and countless nations will be destroyed in the vast ocean of history.

Wherever God's whip reaches, the land collapses and is destroyed!

From ancient times to the present, farming peoples are often helpless when facing the cavalry of nomadic peoples. Apart from the powerful Han and the prosperous Tang dynasties, there are few records of victory.

The Song Dynasty had the most developed economy because it lost the horse farm and could not organize cavalry and was always passively beaten. Even the small Xixia could ride on the neck of the Song Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty may be better than the Song Dynasty, but since it lost Hetao, only Liaodong was left. Every year, it could only get thousands of pitiful war horses through trade, and the stallions were all stabbed and could not reproduce their descendants. After riding for ten years, it was destroyed.

In addition, raising horses is more expensive than raising people. The consumption of a war horse can be as high as three soldiers, and even people cannot afford to raise them. How can we raise powerful cavalry?

The generals of the nine-sided towns all distributed a limited number of war horses to their servants, and the other soldiers could only rely on a pair of feet. Only Ma Fang's subordinates had sufficient war horses, but that was obtained by their lives. They rushed into the grassland more than a dozen times a year, and cut their heads to make military achievements are secondary, and war horses are the key.

By seizing, Ma Fang maintained his undefeated myth. However, Ma Fang's experience could not be copied, and most Ming generals did not dare to compete with Altan head-on, nor would they raise horses and train troops.

How difficult is it to obtain a war horse? Even a military idiot like Liu Ying doesn't believe that he can produce hundreds of thousands of cavalry.

What a joke, hundreds of thousands of cavalry must retain hundreds of war horses. Although the land of the Ming Dynasty was vast, it was still impossible to find such a large horse farm. Moreover, horse feed was needed to raise horses, so could the court pay for silver?

Take the institution that specializes in raising horses, Yuanmasi, for example, the annual funding is only 300,000 taels. After deducting personnel expenses, only over 100,000 taels can be used on war horses. It is conceivable how much it can be done.

Raising millions of horses is a courage that only the Han and Tang dynasties had. The Ming Dynasty did not have that ability. Raising so many war horses would only drag down the finances, which was not realistic at all.

"According to the past, I can't raise so many war horses, but I came up with a new idea." Tang Yi smiled and pointed to the surrounding mountains.

"I'm going to plant apple trees on the mountain!"

Apples are not unusual. They have been recorded in writing since the Han Dynasty, but the crispy apples that were often eaten in later generations were introduced overseas from the late Qing Dynasty. Liuying just thought it was a bit square. She just said that the war horses were involved, but why did they get involved in apples in a blink of an eye? Is there any connection?

"Of course it's related. After planting apples on the mountain and raising the horses in the mountains, the horses will feed on the weeds on the ground to help the fruit trees weed. Moreover, horse manure can also be used as fertilizer to make the apple trees grow better."

Tang Yi put forward the idea of ​​combining breeding and breeding, and combining horse raising and apple raising is definitely of unimaginable benefits.

First of all, the capital and Tianjin have a large population and a huge market. If you grow apples, you will never lose money. On the contrary, you will have a lot of money to make money. You can use orchards to raise horses, and horses can feed on weeds, which not only helps people and horses weed, but also reduces feed consumption.

Moreover, the orchard is very vast, so it is definitely much stronger than captive to let horses gallop and seek food in the orchard.

Tang Yi estimated that raising horses in orchards is nothing more than consuming some forage in winter, and a horse costs less than three taels of silver. The increase in orchard income brought by horses and reduced labor expenses can reduce consumption to two taels of silver. Suppose that three years of breeding, six taels of silver for forage, and a good horse can sell at least fifteen taels in the capital, making a net profit of nine taels of silver. If the income from apples is included, it is definitely more than one or two times higher than simply growing apples.

When Tang Yi talked about his vision to Yu Dayou, the old general was cheered up. He kept thinking about Tang Yi's method, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that this method was too good.

In the past, people were struggling to have no place and spent too much forage, so they did not dare to raise horses. But Tang Yi's method solved all the difficulties. Apples and war horses were harvested together, so what if the fool didn't do it?

Although the solution is good, Yu Dayou is a little worried. The war horses raised in the orchard are definitely better than those raised in captivity, but they are still much worse than those found in the grassland. When the two armies fight against each other and fight desperately, they are sure to suffer losses.

When Tang Yi heard Yu Dayou express his concern, he laughed, which made Yu Dayou confused.

"Did you say it wrong?"

"Brother Yu is right, but we don't need to fight for riding and shooting skills!" Tang Yi smiled and said, "At present, we are equipped with sharp muskets and cannons, and we are not at a loss when facing bows and arrows. What we need to do is to keep up with Altan in the vast grassland. As long as we can bite them, it is enough. When fighting, we still have to rely on the muskets to form a formation and defeat Altan with a dignified army!"

After hearing Tang Yi's words, Yu Dayou woke up as if he was dreaming. The old general thought for a while and couldn't help but give Tang Yi a thumbs up.

That's right, there is no need to be so troublesome. With the powerful firearms, the Ming army was not afraid of fighting with the Mongols. The subordinates of famous generals such as Yang An and Qi Jiguang could already fight with the Mongols to the death without being at a disadvantage, and could even win the battle.

But even so, it does not mean that they can traverse the grassland and beat the Mongolians to the point of falling flowers and flowing water.

The reason is very simple. The Mongols were cavalry and nomadic people. They could not defeat them and escape. As long as they escaped into the grassland and let the Ming army catch up, they would harass the logistics and cut off the food route. Without supplies, even the most powerful army would be dragged down and killed.

Zhu Di made this mistake in his subsequent expeditions to Mongolia. He went on a hard expedition and found nothing.

For example, Qi Jiguang's victory in attacking Dabancheng was achieved by Governor Tang Yi as bait to attract Altan's army. Not to mention the danger is huge, Altan may not be deceived next time.

However, the solution given by Tang Yi solved this problem.

What the Ming army lacks at the moment is just four legs. With war horses, they can catch up with Altan's main force, protect the safety of the food route, and run for a long distance and fight continuously. When the horses send elite troops such as the Qi family army to the front of the Tatars, the victory of the Ming army can be basically announced.

Moreover, there are too many horses, weapons such as offense and defense can be manufactured in large quantities. In short, Altan is not worth mentioning if he loses the speed advantage!

After Yu Dayou understood Tang Yi's idea, he was so excited that he couldn't sleep for several nights. The problem of war horses that had been plaguing the Ming Dynasty finally had hope of solving it. Only with plenty of war horses can the nine sides turn into defense to offense, and the Ming Dynasty can avoid being bullied.

Although he is in the world, he can reform the Ma politics and solve the problems that have been in the past two hundred years by himself. Tang Yi is really extraordinary and is even better than Yangming Gong.

Yu Dayou admired him, but Tang Yi was not blindly optimistic. He asked the old farmer that there were risks in raising horses in orchards, such as whether horses would steal ripe fruits, whether they would destroy trees, weeds in orchards, whether they could fill the horse's belly, and how many war horses could they raise in an acre of orchard.

Tang Yi was not in a hurry and experimented patiently. He first introduced saplings and planted them widely in the mountains, and then stocked nearly a hundred ponies he bought into the mountains.

As a result, on the first day, the newly planted sapling was poisoned and trampled by the horse. Tang Yi had to arrange manpower to follow the horses to protect the trees every day.

After a few days, the fruit tree was alive and took out the tender green new leaves. The naughty horses ate them all. Tang Yi had to ask someone to prepare extra forage and feed the horses once a day to let them eat half full. The less delicious fruit tree leaves will not become their choice.

It was just a bit different from Tang Yi’s idea at the time, and the money for artificial and forage increased by a large amount.

As expected, it is easy to do, but it is difficult to raise horses, but another experiment was successful. Tang Yi promoted rice cultivation at a small station. As autumn began, standing by the field, he seemed to smell the scent of rice floating out. Needless to ask, it would be a good harvest year! It is not to be continued
Chapter completed!