The Song Dynasty finally had a grassland where horses could be raised, and it was quite large. Outside Kaifeng Prefecture, a land of more than 100 miles in radius from the Xuanhe crisis to the present day, it has been deserted for almost two years, and it is also called the Yellow River water soaked for several months.

The original mud was covered by the sand brought by the Yellow River, and the Tianlong Villages and Towns disappeared, and even the woods were flooded, leaving only endless weeds.

This radius of more than 100 miles is about 2,000 square kilometers. If the Yellow River area can be treated well in the winter of the first year of Hongwu, it may be able to cure 4,000 square kilometers of grassland, which would be 6 million acres!

If bean cakes can be supplied, there will be more than 200,000 horses raised in these six million acres of grasslands! During the reign of Emperor Taizong of Song Dynasty, the number of official horses raised in the Song Dynasty's pastoral prison was the same.

However, to raise horses well, it is not enough to have grasslands and bean cakes alone. There must be officials and officials who are knowledgeable, and responsible horses and high-quality stallions and mares!

The owner of the Qunmusi Department is the official family of the Song Dynasty. Six million acres of pasture and 200,000 horses belong to the official family, that is, Zhao Kai!

How is this horse raised? The official who raises a horse should be beheaded, promoted and awarded a meritorious service, and it was ultimately decided by Zhao Kai, the official family.

So if Zhao Kai doesn't understand horses, then the people below will be fooled.

The horse politics of the Song Dynasty became worse and worse. In fact, it was not related to the officials who grew up in the deep palace that had no idea why there were so many horses during the reign of Emperor Taizong? It was not because Zhao Guangyi could still command the official family at least, he was not a military strategist, but he had at least half a bucket of water to linger.

Zhao Kai is now a half-bucket military strategist. Although he doesn't know how to raise horses, he can already ride horses and fight, and he can tell which horses are good and what are bad.

Moreover, some of his female squads know how to raise horses, and some of them are from Longxi and Qingtang, and they have quite awesome horses at home!

With an official who understands horses, it will be easier to find officials who understand horses.

Previously, the Song Dynasty was afraid that horses would rebel, because it was afraid that horses would be led by ill-conspired generals to rebel, so it used the method of "council of the Palace" in horse politics.

The palace is an eunuch, and the court is a civil servant. The cavalry is used for horses, and military generals cannot ask, and the disabled eunuchs and civil servants who are well-read in poetry and books must be managed. The Zhang Wansui, the name of Zhang Wansui, encouraged Liu Wuzhou to rebel against the Daizhou rebels, to manage such an important horse politics. But the question is how do eunuchs and civil servants understand animal husbandry? Who did they learn from?

The official family does not understand horses, and the eunuchs and civil servants in charge of horses do not know how to raise horses. The horses, who are specifically responsible for raising horses, hold a small salary for the soldiers, and will never be promoted for the rest of their lives. Can they still let them mess with Zhang Wansui's heart?

Moreover, if the civil officials of the Song Dynasty do not know how to raise horses, don’t command blindly, but they still like to pretend to understand. These officials have made many contributions to destroying the Ma Zheng of the Song Dynasty. Their contributions are mainly in three aspects. First, ethics and morality cannot make horses mess up Malen, so it is not allowed for horses to engage in inbreeding to purify bloodline!

Second, I believe in the blood of wild horses. In the northwest, officials who manage horses often ask local wild horses to mare with mares on horse farms to obtain the so-called "good breeds" naturally selected "good breeds" to carry a dead living person to charge in the battle?

Third, if you are crazy about the baojia horse raising law, the herdsmanship prison professionals cannot raise well, and even let a group of old farmers who don’t know horses and don’t use horses to raise official horses. If they are broken, they will have to pay for them. Isn’t this a scam? If you want to share official horses with the Western Army generals and the family of the army riding horses and fighting, it’s still a little reliable. But if a group of farmers who cultivate land raise war horses, what is this?

In Zhao Kai's hands, civil officials and eunuchs who didn't understand horses were not involved in Ma Zheng. The current commander of the Mass Division was Ma Wang, who was still a lieutenant of the military two years ago. In the past, he was only able to be a rank of two provinces or above!

The three deputy envoys of the Qunmusi Department are all Zhao Kai's "brother-in-law". One of them is named Zhao Huaiyi, who is given the surname. He is the clan brother of Zhao Huaien, who is recommended by Qian Gai to deal with the Huangshan affairs, and is a descendant of Li Sila.

A deputy envoy named Ren Dejing, who was the cousin of Ren Baolian who had just been promoted to Wanrong.

There is also a deputy envoy from the Zhe family in the Prefecture, named Zhe Yanwen, who is the son of Zhe Keqiu.

These three people can get the high position of deputy envoy of the group herder's department, not because their girls are favored, but because the three of them have issued military orders to return to their hometown to hire horses for Zhao Kai and acquire good horses. Each of them must bring back more than 300 horses and more than 1,000 good horses with fertility ability to maintain their position as deputy envoy of the group herder.

In addition, Ma Wang has now pieced together seven or eight hundred horses, thousands of horses and mares for Zhao Kai.

When Zhao Huaiyi, Ren Dejing, and Zhe Yanwen all came back from their hometown, there would be about a horse and horse in Kaifeng Horse Farm, with more than 1,000 mares. More than 1,000 horses were enough, but there were still a little less horses!

But the question is where to get enough good horses?

The reproductive ability of a horse is not strong, and the size of a horse does not depend entirely on the stallion. The quality of the mare is also very important. Therefore, the horse farm cannot just count quantity, but also pay attention to quality. Otherwise, the rate of good horses is too low, and it is not enough to raise all vegetables and horses!

After returning to Kaifeng Prefecture City, Zhao Kai summoned his ministers in Jiangxiao Tower in Genyuetai City, hoping to discuss where to get more good horses to enrich Kaifeng ranch.

However, before the court discussion began, Zhao Kai received a secret report from Wang Xiaode, who was promoted to the Imperial City Department. Ma Zhi was Zhao Liangsi's original name.

Because the fact that the Jin Dynasty destroyed Liao was a bit messed up, Zhao Liangsi's reputation became terrible, and it was not convenient to become an official in Zhao Kai, so Zhao Kai simply changed his name back to his original name, and he was also called Ma Zhi.

Ma Zhi is not in Kaifeng Prefecture now, but sneaks into Yanjing and becomes a disciple of Guo Yaoshi, a left-behind Nanjing in the Great Jin Dynasty. He now lives in Guo Yaoshi's mansion.

Although the military power of Guo Yaoshi and Guo Anguo and his sons were taken away, Wanyan Zonghan still had to use the troops of their father and son to maintain the situation on JD.com, so he had to protect them.

Therefore, their lives are pretty easy, and Ma Zhi can find out a lot of secrets.

"The official family, Mr. Ma's letter said that Wanyan Zonghan, Wanyan Zongbi and Wanyan Zongwang's son Wanyan Qi went north to Huining together a few days ago. Moreover, when Wanyan Zonghan passed through Yanshan Prefecture, he also cared for Guo Yaoshi to repair the palace left by the Liao Kingdom as soon as possible, saying that the Emperor Wu Qimai, the Jin thief, would come to live next year."

"What?" Zhao Kai, who was eating in Jiangxiao Tower and listening to Wang Xiaode's report, immediately realized something was wrong. "Wu Qi bought Yanshan Mansion, is the Jin thief going to invade the south again? Is this news accurate?"

"The official family, the news from my father is not wrong!" Guo Tiannu was having dinner with Zhao Kai. When he heard Zhao Kai's words, he interrupted, "The Jin thief's Nianhan has always been inconsistent with the emperor Wu Qimai. Now Nianhan personally invited Wu Qimai to go south, and must have wanted to start a war next year!"

"Official family," Wang Xiaode took out another envelope and handed it to Zhao Kai with both hands, "This is Guo Liushou's handwritten letter."

"Goddess, take a look."

Zhao Kai did not go to pick him up in person, but asked Guo Tiannu to do it for him.

Guo Tiannu took the envelope, tore the opening, took out the letter paper, and then opened it and looked at it. "It's indeed my father's handwriting. My father said in the letter that the northern tribe that now caused the Jin thieves the most troublesome thing is not the Khitans in Zhenzhou, but the Mengwu people in the Onan River Basin!"

"Mengwu people?" Zhao Kai heard this name and stopped eating. "Goddess, are you sure it's Mengwu and not Mongolia?"

Mongolia is almost the same!

They are not a family, are they?

"Mongol?" Guo Tiannu thought for a while, "It seems that this Mengwu tribe could also be called that after the collapse of the Liao Kingdom, their leader Hebule was very capable. In recent years, he has conquered many tribes and has already shown signs of unifying Mengwu. This year, he also convened various Mongolian tribes to hold meetings and became the Khan of the Mongolian people!"

"Khan?" Zhao Kai thought for a while and asked again, "Is this Hebule a surname?"

"No, the surname Borjijin of Hebule means brown eyes in Turkic words." Guo Tiannu knew a lot, and it was still worthwhile for Zhao Kai to shoot her to death without an arrow!

"Borjijin" Zhao Kai's face was gloomy and he thought to himself: That's right, this is Genghis Khan's ancestor!

Guo Tiannu didn’t know who Genghis Khan was. She had read her father’s letter and smiled and said to Zhao Kai: “My father said, we can have a coalition to destroy the gold!”

What? The Union of Jin Dynasty destroyed? Why does this sound so familiar? It seems like this is the case in the Southern Song Dynasty that it was completely troubled!

"Isn't this similar to the Lianjin defeating Liao?" Zhao Kai frowned, "What if Mongolia rises after destroying Jin?"

"Mongolia Rises?" Guo Tiannu looked at Zhao Kai and actually saw a sad look on his face. "Officials, what are the Mongolians who are worried about? They are just a group of barbarians on the grassland. I don't know how many such barbarians are on the grassland! But they are very scattered and cannot be unified."

It is not the end of the Ming Dynasty. The climate on the grassland is still relatively warm and humid, and there are many people that can feed! Moreover, Buddhism is not popular on the grassland, so the population of the grassland is growing very fast and its combat effectiveness is also very strong!

Guo Tiannu said again: "As far as the Khitans are concerned, they are one of them. But the Khitans do not have the ability to truly unify the grassland. When the Khitans did not lose their country, they started wars on the grassland year by year, and were tortured by these barbarians! Could it be that even the Khitans can do something that the Mongols can do?"

Yes! Zhao Kaixin said: The Khitans did not have Genghis Khan!
Chapter completed!