Mules, such large animals, are not much worse than horses, eat less than horses, tolerate rough feeding, and are not as fodder as horses, so they are easy to feed.

However, the strength is much greater than that of a horse, and it is full of endurance and disease resistance.

At the same time, it can run faster than a donkey.

It is a hybrid that combines the strengths of both horses and donkeys.

If you choose a male donkey and a mare with good physique as your parents, you can give birth to a large mule, and if you are lucky, it is not without a large horse, and it is a very good use animal.

With the big men of Longyou and Huangshui River Valley, the mare basically doesn't have to worry.

It is not difficult to find a high-quality donkey with two or three heads, but it is more difficult to find dozens or even hundreds of high-quality donkeys.

Even if the prime minister of the Han Dynasty wants to levy a sufficient number of high-quality donkeys, it will take a lot of effort.

But Feng Ghost King is different.

As long as he expresses one meaning: I want the big donkey.

Not to mention the territory of the Han Dynasty, even in Guanzhong and Wu, there are people who try their best to collect the big male donkey and send it to him.

As long as the woolen brown molasses is sufficient, there is no problem!

And for Feng Ghost King, as long as money can solve the problem, it is also called a problem?

With the big male donkey, coupled with the horse resources owned by the Qiang Guard's Mansion, as long as there is enough time, it is not a problem to produce mules in large quantities.

With a large number of mules, it is a matter of minutes to form a motorized force in this era.

Mule-backed infantry, in terms of logistical costs alone, is worth promoting than horseback infantry.

It's still the same sentence: eat less, have more strength, have enough stamina, and have strong adaptability.

Isn't that better than the horse infantry?

It's slower than a horse, but it doesn't matter.

Because whether it is a horse infantry or a mule-backed infantry, it is still infantry after all.

It is impossible to have the luxury of having them ride alone and run for a long time.

After all, in many cases, the infantry is to attack the city, and the rear baggage can't keep up, no matter how fast you run, it will lose most of the meaning.

It's a matter of trade-offs and balance.

Feng Ghost King wanted to form a motorized army in the Three Kingdoms era, not on a whim, but with some consideration.

It's not that he brags, no matter who it is now, as long as he hears the word Feng Yong, no one dares to dismiss it.

As long as the military literacy is above the average line, the enemy generals will pay attention to the attack of the infantry of the school captain's mansion.

When the enemy is on guard, then the rush will lose its meaning in many cases.

What Feng Yong had to do now was to prepare an ancient motorized infantry unit and exert this rushing ability beyond their imagination.

After running at long-range targets beyond your enemy's imagination, you can also jump into battle as soon as you reach your destination.

Maybe you can scare the other party to death when the time comes.

Didn't Sima Yi travel 1,200 miles in eight days a few years ago, and he directly frightened Meng Da?

Motorization asks if you are afraid!

Plus a large number of light and heavy cavalry equivalent to the steel torrent of later generations.

Thinking of this, Feng Junhou was about to laugh from ear to ear.

The way to always maintain superiority over the enemy is not to hide the technology and not show it, because if you don't use the technology, it is equivalent to having no technology.

Always develop new technologies, or take advantage of productivity to keep the enemy behind you.

The path behind the apprentice was all walked in front of the master, and he was afraid that he would jump into the sky?

The idea that the enemy hides the technology for fear that the enemy will know and does not even use it is called cowardice, that is inferiority, and that is ignorance.

Feng Ghost King despised this!

Now don't say it's a Wei thief, it's inside the Han Dynasty, except for the insiders of the school governor's mansion, everyone thinks that Xiao Guan is in a battle, and the school captain's mansion can't be relieved for three years.

Feng Ghost King went to Hanzhong a few times ago, and he basically cried poor, and he had no idea of showing off his wealth at all.

Xiao Guan is a big victory, but it is also a hard battle, not to mention the casualties of the soldiers, after the battle, only the dead and wounded horses, everyone is eating while shedding tears......

That is, Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty and Zhang Xingcai, knowing that Feng Junhou has been working hard to increase the production of large livestock, he will definitely have some inventory in his hands.

But they also don't know how many hole cards Feng Junhou has in his hand.

After all, no matter how smart and capable Zhang Xiaosi is, he will always be limited by knowledge before he has studied biology.

The mule is not a rare animal, and it does not mean that no one knows its merits.

The key point is that with current technology, there is no way to reproduce it in large quantities.

Horses are hard enough to raise, and stallions miss the mares' estrus period a lot of the time.

This donkey and marre...... Let it be!

As one of the representatives of productivity, the knowledge of livestock rearing has subverted this phenomenon.

Posture is power!

Feng Ghost King, he is proud!

"Returning to the mountain, there are two thousand six hundred and thirty-two mules that can be used now."

"It's a little less."

Seeing that the mountain chief didn't seem to be very satisfied, Zhou Lu became a little nervous:

"It's such a mountain that this mule will grow for two years before it can be used, but it can't pull heavy loads for it. Only when it grows to two and a half years can it be considered to be fully served. ”

As soon as Zhou Lu said this, Feng Yong reacted:

"You mean, this is the first batch?"

"Yes, Yamako."

Zhou Lu nodded hurriedly, "Half a year, as long as half a year, the student can produce five thousand heads for the mountain chief, all of which can be served." ”

I guess I'm really anxious, a little unscrupulous, and I don't know how he produced it......

"Don't be nervous."

Feng Yong waved his hand, "You've done a good job." There should be no big war in the Captain's Mansion this year, so there is no need to rush this matter, and it is useless to be in a hurry. ”

From the beginning of trying to accumulate experience to fully promote it, this is a process that needs to be improved, and Zhou Lu can do this step, which is already very remarkable.

Zhou Lu was praised by the mountain chief, and smiled a little embarrassedly:

"Since the mountain chief said this, then the student is not afraid. After this time next year, we will be able to use 16,000 mules, at least, and 20,000 if we have more. ”

More than 2,000 heads are only the first batch, because of the maturity of the technology, all the stalls can be spread out, and the second and third batches in the back are all doubled up, which is about the same as the profit rolling.

"Okay, that's good."

Feng Yong nodded approvingly.

Longyou's excellent mares should give priority to the production of foals that can be cultivated into war horses.

And if you want to produce a good mule, the mare is better to be the kind of horse that is good at pulling the mule, rather than the one used for charging.

Fortunately, the Huangshui horses produced on the other side of the Huangshui River Valley, that is, the later Hequ horses, have a great advantage in this regard.

"The students found that although the war horses used for the cavalry were taller than the Huangshui horses, the mules produced were not as durable as the mules produced by the Huangshui horses."

Zhou Lu held a booklet and flipped through it while introducing Feng Yong to the current situation of mule farming.

"Therefore, the mares used by the students now are all Huangshui horses, so that they do not have to fight with the cavalry, and secondly, the mules produced are also the best."

Look, this is the benefit of intellectuals sinking to the grassroots.

Feng Yong nodded repeatedly.

Why did he give Liu Hanzi so much face and publicly praise him a few days ago?

It's not all because he married five bearded girls.

Of course, marrying five bearded girls is also an important reason.

Another important reason is that in the past few years, he has had a way to continuously deliver good water horses to the school captain's mansion.

Whether it is exchanged or bought, even if it is selling the hue, it is also dedicating oneself to the country.

As long as he can extract a large number of horses from the Hu tribe in the Huangshui River Valley, and let those tribes indirectly become horse breeders in the Qiang's Captain's Mansion, he will be considered to have done a good job.

When those Hu people get used to this method, when the time comes, the Huqiang School Governor's Mansion will implement the Qi people to organize households, and it will be a logical thing.

Feng Yong stood up straight and looked into the distance, where horses, cows, sheep, and mules were all separated by a fence.

The herders in the pasture hold the forage and constantly pour it into the trough.

Some of the fences were open, and the horses were driven farther away, and the horses began to run, and the ground shook slightly, and the horses' hooves were like thunder.

"That's picking a warhorse, right?"

Feng Yong pointed to the galloping horses, and asked as he walked forward.

"Exactly."

Zhou Lu hurriedly followed and explained, "The best horses here, or the first horses and the like, will be sent to a special horse farm as stallions after they are picked out." ”

"Then tell me about the war horse."

In the first battle of Xiaoguan, the school captain's mansion can be described as hemorrhaging.

As the captain of the Qiang Guard, Feng Ghost King went to inspect various pastures, which was to show his attitude.

"Yes, Chief."

"Each of the stallions you pick out has a pedigree record, right?"

"Back to the mountain chief, the pedigree files of these stallions will be archived only after each student will personally inspect them."

Recording the pedigree of a good stallion was not proposed by Zhou Lu.

It was proposed by Feng Yong.

The reason for this is because of the lessons of Hanzhong Ranch and Yueshan Ranch.

Although Feng Yong knew about eugenics from his previous life, because the ranch did not establish a pedigree file in time, there were still some degraded and even congenitally deficient foals in the back.

This reminded King Feng of some practices in later generations.

Although the pedigree archives of later generations have changed their flavor in many cases, they have been used by some people to pretend to brag.

But Feng Ghost King is also a character who has studied biology in high school, and he quickly figured out the benefits of establishing a bloodline file.

One is to avoid inbreeding, which leads to the degradation of the horse herd in the second and third generations.

The second is to facilitate inbreeding, that is, backcrossing.

Because backcrossing can sometimes maintain some kind of merit and stabilize, of course, backcrossing is more often to give birth to congenitally deficient offspring.

To put it bluntly, it is convenient to manage.

Of course, if there is an opportunity in the future to use the bloodline file to coax the wronged boss, Feng Ghost King will naturally not refuse.

Looking up, there is a long dragon winding towards the north, which is the Yellow River.

On the other side of the Yellow River is Luyin County (that is, near Jingyuan County in later generations).

After the Battle of Longyou, it has always been the stronghold of the Wei army in Liangzhou.

Later, before the school captain's mansion left Xiao Pass in the east, General Guan sent Zhao Guang to lead the army to attack, and brought this Liangzhou Wei army stronghold under the rule of the school captain's office.

General Guan's move is not as simple as raising a glass to recover Luyin County.

Instead, he directly pushed the Han army's troops hundreds of miles west, directly to the core of Liangzhou, Wuwei Guzang.

Because crossing the Yellow River from the Luyin Ferry, and then going west along the Great Wall, you can reach Wuwei Guzang all the way unimpeded.

This road is the earliest Silk Road, but because of this hundreds of miles of wasteland, it is inconvenient for caravans to supply.

In addition, by taking Longxi to Xiping and passing through the Dadou Pull Valley, you can go directly to Zhangye, Liangzhou, so the caravan will gradually stop taking this northern road.

But from Luyin County to Guzang, hundreds of miles of wasteland happened to be a battlefield for cavalry galloping.

Therefore, General Guan Da pulled out the stronghold of the Wei army in Yuyin County, which had a strong meaning of deterring the Wei army in Liangzhou.

The subsequent development of events really proved the wisdom of General Guan Da.

Without the bridgehead of Luyin County, coupled with the Xiping Rebellion and the inability to become a climate, Wuwei Guzang finally did not dare to send troops over to try to deal with the Wei army in Guanzhong.

Thinking of this, Feng Yong turned his head and looked behind him.

I saw Mrs. Zhengfu and Xiaosi standing in the shade, and I didn't know what they were talking about.

Not far from them, his two children were frolicking in the grass.

Feng Yong beckoned, Guan Ji had a smile on his face, and he also waved happily to this side, looking like he was responding to his own Ah Lang.

Feng Ghost King's face froze, and then he sighed:

The husband is sluggish! I obviously asked you to come over, what do you mean by just doing this?

Forget about the eldest lady in the main room, this little four didn't have any eyes, but she actually glanced at herself.

Feng Junhou took a deep breath, then with a smile on his face, he walked over and asked:

"I want to go to the other side of the river to have a look, do you want to go and see it?"

"Concubine remember, in the past few months, the second mother of the Xu family has been cultivating wasteland over there?"

Guan Ji didn't answer immediately, but asked.

Feng Yong nodded, "That's right." In the past, it was all about planting heads, but now the situation is different. ”

"I heard that the land is very fertile, and it can be irrigated directly by diverting water from the big river."

"The second mother of the Xu family has long wanted to open it into a good field, but the fourth mother won't let it, so the matter has dragged on."

"Now Siniang feels that the time is ripe, so she arranged it."

I didn't open it before, because of that piece, I could go straight to Wuwei Guzang, and the enemy could also go directly to the big river crossing.

In case the battle of Guanzhong is really going to be stalemate, the Wei army in Liangzhou will definitely take action, and the fighters are changing rapidly, who knows what the good land that has just opened up will be ruined?

Isn't that in vain?

After the Battle of Xiaoguan, Liangzhou has become cooked meat in the pot, so naturally there is no need to worry about it anymore.

Guan Ji listened to Feng Yong's explanation and nodded:

"That being the case, then let Siniang accompany Ah Lang, it's too hot this day, the child should not be too tossed, the concubine is here to watch the child."

Zhang Xingyi looked at the scorching sun in the sky, and only felt that he really wanted to go out, and he would be roasted with oil, so he pouted: "Sister, I don't want to go to ...... either."

"Smack!"

Guan Ji slapped it over, and said angrily:

"Who will go if you don't go to your duty? Ah Lang, as a prince and a lieutenant of the Qiang Guard, has to go down to inspect the petitioners, are you more delicate than the prince? ”

General Guan's vigorous words caused Feng Junhou to squint:

Are you embarrassed to say that? You're not the same as serving in the Captain's Mansion? Why should I stay here and enjoy the shade?

It's just that General Guan's tiger is too powerful, and neither of the two dares to refute, so one of them obediently got into the car, and the other rode on the horse stupidly and headed towards the north.