The donkey was a strange animal of the Huns before the Han Dynasty, and there was no one in the original. Four hundred years before and after flowing into the Central Plains from the Western Regions, people have always thought that it is very magical, in the past people have been calling the donkey a wild horse, even the white donkey that the Emperor Ling got the tribute is very surprised, riding and running in the palace, so that the price of the donkey in Luoyang at that time rose and rose, until now there are still people to the court to offer the white donkey.

In this era, the donkey was a rare beast that was thought to have a nice call, but most people had never seen it. If you were born in the northwest, it's okay, there are no donkeys in Youzhou, not to mention the Yellow River, and no one over there has ever seen a donkey.

Giving the white donkey to You Heng was just a whim, and there was also a bit of ridicule, and he wanted to see if You Heng could call or the white donkey could call better.

Needless to say, how precious donkeys are, even Yanbei personally ordered Jiang Jin to search for hundreds of donkeys from the Shangdang generation in the summer, and transported them to Youji to build a donkey farm to raise. Of course, he didn't want donkeys for fun, but in the hope that within five years, the number of donkeys would reach more than half of the number of horses produced in Youji.

Thinking of this, Yan Bei also sneered at himself, compared with the ministers of the court, he was too vulgar. Others get one or two donkeys, raise them seriously, eat and drink, not to mention compared with the common people, even better than war horses, they are three points better, and they are completely like raising wolves, tigers and leopards and other beasts.

When he arrived in Yanbei, it backfired, and he didn't treat the donkey as a strange beast at all, and the three or four hundred kilograms (Han Jin is 12 to 1,060, too troublesome to write) car drove a heavy load on his chest and rode on the school field in the Da Sima Mansion.

There is no way, he has a family history, and his ability to raise horses and herd sheep in a chariot is unmatched by no one among the princes of all walks of life, but anything with four legs is a tool in his eyes.

His background determined that the donkey, a strange beast with the nature of most playthings, in his eyes, was divided into high and low, like a horse and a good horse.

"Da Sima, come down, this donkey can't run!" The old maimafu in the Da Sima Mansion looked distressed, and his legs were windy behind the car, and he reached out to chase after the car, shouting: "This is not a horse, you let him carry such a heavy thing for three hours!" ”

The old horseman in the house came with Zhen Jiang, an old man in the Liaodong period, and he spent most of his life in Wuji in the past. Yan Bei entered Yecheng, and he came with him, and whenever he saw the old groom, he always felt very much like his father, so he never treated him badly, but if something did not go well, he just said a few words lightly.

In fact, the slaves of the Great Sima Mansion were like this, after all, their lord was a slave in the past, how could he inflict on others the pain he had suffered when he was young.

"Uncle Zhen, it's been three hours?" Yan Bei turned his head and asked back, slowly reined in the reins, let the donkey pulling the cart stop, easily jumped out of the car, patted the donkey's neck affectionately, and said with a smile: "Good baby!" Good baby! ”

"I said how to get to the back a little slower." Yan Bei threw the reins to Uncle Zhen, turned his head and ran to the edge of the school field, and the clerks sat behind the desk, with tall books and simple drawings full of characters on their faces, Yan Bei immediately asked: "Did you calculate it, how many laps and how many miles did you walk in three hours?" ”

"Back to the general, there are forty-six circles around the school field, and one circle of the school field is six hundred steps, a total of ninety-two miles."

"Forty-eight circles around the school field, a total of ninety-six miles."

"Surrounding the school field, fifty-one circles, a total of one hundred and two miles."

Several scribes wrote down different numbers, but Yan Bei didn't care, and spent nearly three hours and nearly a day staring at the donkey cart in the school yard, not to mention that there were also Yulin warriors in the Great Sima Mansion on the side, coaxing around, and it was difficult to keep his mind from wandering. Otherwise, he wouldn't have had to find three scribes to keep notes. He just said: "Write it down, today the car is 1,400 catties, and the donkey travels 90 nearly 100 miles." ”

Saying that, Yanbei flipped through the records of the previous days, and walked away with only a negative person, and the donkey could travel 140 miles a day at the earliest; And as the load is getting bigger and bigger, the travel speed is getting slower and slower, but the extra six or seven hundred pounds of the car can still maintain the speed of 100 miles a day, which is already amazing!

The Youzhou army randomly picked out a war horse and carried people for half an hour to walk thirty miles as easily, but if they were allowed to pull a cart, they would not be able to go far. If you use horses and camels, you may be able to walk 30 miles in an hour, but you can only travel more than 20 miles by pulling a cart.

Although they are walking on flat ground, and if they really change to the road, they will have to be a little slower, but even if they are slower than twenty miles a day, they can still travel eighty miles a day tirelessly, much faster than people.

In this way, we can see that donkeys and horses are good at each other. Moreover, the donkey is more patient, and the temperament is docile enough, and it does not need much good riding skills to ride, whether it is carrying a man or pulling a cart, the speed is neither fast nor slow, and it does not seem so tired after walking for a whole day.

In food, it is also easier to feed.

"I've heard that the nations of the Western Regions use donkeys as labor to plough fields and pull carts, and it seems to be true, but we have mistaken them and kept them in stables as rare treasures." Yan Bei shook his head and said: "This is not right, their food and habits determine that they are rare treasures for the country, but they should be raised by the people, to plow the fields, to pull carts, to transport...... Baggage! ”

This is the true feeling of Yanbei riding a donkey for two days, and the donkey should go to transport the baggage.

If he had 2,000 donkeys, he would have been able to levy 10,000 fewer men in war. And because of the road consumption, 10,000 people were less levyed, and from Youzhou to the Yellow River, a one-month trip could reduce the rations of 7,000 people, that is, at least 8,000 stone of grain remained. Moreover, the donkey cart could carry more things than the people's carts, but they could only eat a little more than the people...... Yanbei has always liked four-legged animals, in the past in the pacification of the Black Mountain, he asked Wuhuan riders to use war horses and horses to transport grain and grass, standing in the school yard and looking at the white donkey that was unloading the car and driving Sahuan slowly pacing, so that he couldn't help but imagine how much road consumption he could save if he used donkeys and horses to transport baggage instead of the people, and the power of the two states of Ji was poor.

It's a pity that Yanbei doesn't know actuarial science, he can't calculate how much road consumption can be reduced, but it doesn't matter, there are people in Da Sima Mansion who can calculate!

On the way to the official temple where Tian Feng was located, Yan Bei's mind was full of ambition to bark at donkeys everywhere. In the past, Emperor Xiaowu brought the seven-foot-high West Pole Heavenly Horse from Dawan, and the Lidan Mountain Military Horse Farm strengthened the military and government of the country, and finally defeated the most powerful Xiongnu in the world in the north. Now that he Yan Zhongqing raises donkeys, he will not be able to collect all the land in the world in the future and then open up the territory to the north!