Shanglin Garden, Zhounan Ranch.

Liu Che's Son of Heaven drove to stay in this huge royal ranch.

The scale of this ranch is very large, almost spanning the two rivers of Phongho and Liangshui, covering an area of almost 100 square kilometers.

In the pasture, there are nearly a thousand people just the staff of the Taifu and the Shaofu Yamen!

In addition to this, seven or eight hundred professional livestock managers worked in it.

The person in charge of the ranch is Chu Qiang, the world's No. 1 cattle expert recruited by Liu Che in Hedong in his early years.

At the beginning, when he was in Hedong, Chu Qiang was still a little resistant.

But now, Chu Qiang is already doing a lot of fun in this Zhounan Ranch.

Here, he is in charge of the joys and sorrows and fates of all the livestock and staff of the entire ranch.

In his hands, he has millions of cash flow all the time.

In the pasture, more than 5,000 horses, 10,000 cows, and tens of thousands of sheep and deer herds became the guarantee of his status.

Even if it is a liege, when he comes to him, he must bow his eyebrows and be obedient, and he must be curry-eyed.

Because, he can decide the merits of the war horses assigned to the other party.

Not to mention, with the Son of Heaven coming to power, his title and identity are also rising.

Last year, because of his outstanding work performance in raising horses and cattle, he was jointly promoted by the Shaofu and the Taifu Yamen, and with the approval of the Son of Heaven, he was given the title of Marquis of Guannei, which can be regarded as standing at the peak that non-generals and non-civil ministers can achieve.

As the saying goes, if a person attains the Tao, the chicken and dog ascend to heaven.

Now, he brought his entire family from Xingyang to Chang'an, and lived in the Shangguanli mansion built for him by the Son of Heaven.

The two sons were able to worship under the disciple of Yang Pu, a famous scholar in Guanzhong, and became a glorious scholar reserve.

On such a day, Chu Qiang didn't even dare to think about it in the past.

Now, it really appears in his life.

So. He worked very hard, 365 days a year, 300 days on the ranch, concentrating on his work.

Its professionalism makes even most of his colleagues. Have low self esteem.

"When I ordered someone to recruit Chu Aiqing, it was really my luck!" Liu Che looked at the prosperous pasture and praised Chu Qiang without hesitation.

Chu Qiang's work performance and attitude made Liu Che feel lucky.

Zhounan Ranch, the largest special war horse breeding base and cattle cultivation base in the Han Dynasty, provides more than 1,000 excellent war horses and more than 3,000 excellent cattle to the Taifu and Shaofu every year.

More critically, in this ranch, through the smuggling trade. There is no horse of excellent breeds such as the Wusun horse obtained from Wusun, and so far none of the horses have died due to illness or other accidents.

Such an outstanding result made Liu Che cry lucky.

It is conceivable that if Chu Qiang was not very responsible and very careful, otherwise, such a result would never have happened.

But the performance is too good. Sometimes it's not a good thing.

Especially a common man like Chu Qiang, who has no foundation and no background.

With the situation of Zhounan Ranch getting better day by day.

There are more and more people who want to pick peaches.

In the beginning. It's just a few civil officials, who want to mix up their qualifications in Zhounan Ranch and share some credit.

This is also one of the unspoken rules of officialdom.

Whose credit is it for the good growth of livestock and the prosperity of pastures?

Of course, we civil officials are exhausted and well-led!

Especially today's servant Yuan An. It can be called the person with the highest level of peach picking in the Han family.

The Taifu Yamen under his leadership naturally easily took a lot of credit from Zhounan Ranch and went back.

Of course, Yuan Ang still talks about eating.

After taking the credit from others, I will also remember to compensate.

Afterwards. Taifu Yamen fully helped the operation of Zhounan Ranch, and also approved 10 million yuan of horse administration funds for this purpose, and also sent a luxurious professional horse breeding team to help here.

It's just that others are not as gentlemanly as Yuan An.

It's just that those who come to get credit and qualifications are just that.

There is a name on the left and right, waiting for a reward, and Liu Che is not short of the three or five silk cloths.

But the problem is that some people think that this week, since the South Ranch is a big township measure, the cattle farmers in Xingyang can also fiddle with the wind and water, and they will be promoted to the rank of knight.

After waiting for the noble heroes who read poetry and books, I am naturally more than 10,000 times stronger than this guy who raises cattle.

If he takes over the South Ranch this week, his results will definitely increase several times.

Similar remarks even reached Liu Che's ears.

This made Liu Che unbearable.

Therefore, coming here today is actually to give Chu Qiang a platform.

Chu Qiang, of course, is also deeply aware of this.

After hearing the praise of the Son of Heaven, he said modestly: "Your Majesty praises, the minister is ashamed, the minister is just loyal to the king in accordance with His Majesty's edict......"

After a pause, Chu Qiang said again: "And the ranch can have today, the minister has only done his meager help in it, and other colleagues and subordinates have also made great contributions, and it is inseparable from the support of the young government and the princely servants, and most importantly, there is His Majesty's care and favor!" ”

Sycophant, everyone loves to hear it.

Listening to Chu Qiang's praise, Liu Che was in a happy mood, Liu Che waved his hand and said, "Qing Ziqian ......"

After a pause, Liu Che turned around and asked, "Tell me, what difficulties are there in the ranch now?" If I can do it, I will not be stingy! ”

This time I came to inspect Zhounan Ranch, in addition to giving Chu Qiang a platform, Liu Che's most important thing was to send policies and resources to Zhounan Ranch.

You must know that Zhounan Ranch is now the largest Wusun horse breeding base in the Han Dynasty.

In the past two years, basically more than seventy percent of the smuggled Wusun horses are in Zhounan Ranch.

Its importance is self-evident.

Chu Qiang thought for a while and said, "Your Majesty, if you say that it is difficult, there is a ......."

"Please Your Majesty, can you urge the ink masters of Moyuan to speed up the construction of the green storage cellar......" Chu Qiang looked at Liu Che and said carefully: "It's about to be winter, the hay reserves of this pasture are already fully stocked, but if you want to keep the livestock from losing fat, it is best to feed them with green storage feed, but at present, there are only ten green storage cellars in the pasture, and the green storage material reserves are less than 100 stones." In the middle of winter, even BMW has to feed on hay! ”

Green storage feed is an additional product of the Mojia family when they invented 'chemical fertilizer' last year.

When several ink artists of the Mo family were making 'fertilizer', they had a whim and wanted to try to see if they could bury grass or something in the cellar. See what happens.

The result was beyond their expectations.

Buried in the cellar and fully fermented, the grass became the best livestock feed that humans had obtained before the Common Era.

In particular, the leaves and stems of the plants with crude fibers are fermented and become the easiest feed for livestock to absorb.

In addition, because it is fermented feed, it can be stored for a long time. It has become the trump card of the current animal husbandry of the Han family.

It's just a pity that because of the constraints, the construction of the green storage cellar is a difficult problem at present, and it is necessary to have a suitable cellar and location.

At present, the entire Han Dynasty has only built ten green storage cellars in this Zhounan Ranch as experiments and pilots.

As for scaling up......

That's where it gets tough.

The energy of all the ink masters in the Ink Garden at the moment. All of them are focused on the improvement of the waterwheel and the continuous improvement of the hydraulic forging machinery.

I'm afraid I don't have much energy to help.

But it doesn't matter, build a green storage cellar or something. It's not too hard.

As long as Moyuan takes out the drawings, the craftsmen of Shaofu can handle it.

Thinking like this, Liu Che nodded and promised: "I will give Shaofu an order to build another hundred cellars in the Zhounan Ranch. To fill the needs of the Qingqing! ”

"Thank you!" Chu Qiang was overjoyed when he heard this.

With enough green storage, the livestock in this pasture will be able to survive a good winter next winter, and the demand of the 'BMWs' will be guaranteed at the very least.

"If you have any other requirements, please put them forward!" Liu Che continued to ask.

"Back to Your Majesty. There is another matter...... Chu Qiang knelt down and bowed: "The minister wants to implore Your Majesty to allow the dwarf of the ranch to be a common man, and to issue an edict that there shall be no discrimination!" ”

"Ranch gnomes?" Liu Che raised his eyebrows. His eyes, looking over the pasture, could easily see hundreds of gnomes, running back and forth in the pasture, or driving livestock, or harvesting pasture, or clearing manure.

These dwarfs are the most basic and low-level employees of the entire Zhounan Ranch, and they are also the most pitiful people.

Since the Qin Dynasty, it has been these poor people who have raised and managed horses for the royal family.

All of them are dwarfism.

There are even extremely rare patients with congenital dwarfism.

They are the outcasts of society, the marginals of the margins.

Despised by the eyes of the public, abandoned by the world, and even many people, abandoned by their parents as soon as they were born. Their status in society is even lower than that of the son-in-law, the blind, and only above the idiot.

Out of pity, the Shaofu Yamen of the Han family took on the responsibility of raising and caring for these poor people.

More than eighty percent of dwarfs and dwarfism patients were eventually adopted by the Shaofu Yamen.

But the Han government, after all, is not a country for later generations.

It is already very kind to be able to adopt these gnomes and give them a day's food, shelter from the rain, and a bed to rest.

If you want any special treatment, it's a dream.

As a result, they became the lowest-ranking members of the Shaofu.

Even the prisoners of Shaofu are slightly stronger than them in terms of status and treatment.

Usually, the Shaofu would train them uniformly to be horsemen who specialized in taking care of horses.

As the saying goes, when God closes one window, it opens another.

Although these dwarfs are small in stature, they are not even different in intelligence from children of seven or eight years old.

But their size makes them the best horse caretakers, they can clean the horses at 360 degrees without dead ends, and even live and eat with the horses, and when the horses are in production, they are the best candidates for stable women, and can easily help the horses to produce.

Because they are simple and naïve, they are extremely focused.

Just like the blind masseurs of later generations, they quickly became the most professional horse administration staff in the two yamen, Shaofu and Taifu.

It is no exaggeration to say that the construction of the Han family's horse administration is based on the sweat and dedication of these dwarfs.

But society and the state have never made them official at all.

Liu Che remembered very well that in the history books of later generations, even Dongfang Shuo used these dwarfs to make use of their innocence and naivety to his advantage. (Historical Records.) Oriental Shuo Liebiography)

Looking at these gnomes, Liu Che sighed. Then, shaking his head, he said, "I can only agree to half of what the Qing Zhi requested, that is, to issue an edict prohibiting discrimination and insulting dwarves. It is not allowed to be deliberately abused, but I can't allow it to be a common person! ”

"Because, once I get it, I'll hurt them!"

Yes, there is no doubt that once these gnomes have been given a free identity, then, their time of death has also come.

Once they have attained the status of commoners. You must leave the Shaofu and the Taifu and go to fend for yourself.

What can they do?

And what can be done?

They are not Yanzi, they can use their ingenuity to break out of their own world.

Moreover, the discrimination against dwarfs in society is extremely serious.

Some even see dwarfs as ominous.

To be honest, once they leave Shanglin Yuan, the only thing that awaits them is death.

Not killed. He died of hunger and cold.

Not to mention, among these gnomes. There are also many dwarf complications, such as mental retardation.

Therefore, to give them freedom is to make them die.

Chu Qiang also sighed and came to his senses.

For these dwarfs, Chu Qiang is extremely pitiful.

I have been in Zhounan Ranch for three years. Chu Qiang deals with these dwarfs every day, from the contempt and contempt at the beginning, to today's sympathy and pity, Chu Qiang has gone through an unknown mental journey.

After thinking about it, Chu Qiang had to bow and say, "Your Majesty Shengren." The dwarfs have thanked Your Majesty! ”

Allowing the Son of Heaven to issue an edict to the Shaofu and the Imperial Servants to prohibit discrimination and abuse of dwarfs is already the best treatment that these poor people can get at present.

Chu Qiang even knows that most likely, these dwarfs themselves don't understand that their lives have changed.

After all, for those gnomes who may be only seven or eight years old or even four or five years old, many of them even think that they are of the same race as horses......

After sighing for a while, Liu Che threw these heavy thoughts out of his mind and advised: "In the near future, there will be more than 400 Wusun horses coming from Guansai, so be ready to accept it!" Injured horses must be screened out as soon as possible! ”

"No!" Chu Qiang received the order, and then asked suspiciously: "Your Majesty, why are there so many?" ”

Indeed, more than 400 Wusun horses came at one time, which was unprecedented in the history of trading in the past.

You must know that in the past two years, the Han family has obtained a total of more than 500 war horses from the Yizhi line, of which there are less than 300 Wusun horses, and the number of stallions is not even less than 50.

But this time, not only more than 400, but all of them were Wusun horses, and the number of stallions reached as many as 200!

What does this mean? Undoubtedly!

Liu Che smiled slightly and said, "Someone is going to jump off the wall in a hurry!" ”

In order to get this batch of Wusun horses, Liu Che paid a full 4,000 bows, 500 sets of armor and 1,000 spears, as well as 10,000 catties of pig iron and bronze.

It can be said that there is a lot of blood.

And where these weapons will end up is something that can be guessed without an ass - Wusun!

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Wusun's situation is indeed extremely bad at present.

Even, it can be said that it is extremely bad!

A month ago, the Huns had conquered Wusun's largest pasture south of the White Mountain and completely annihilated the local Wusun cavalry.

And that's just a secondary issue.

After all, in a big war, it's not a big deal to lose battle or something.

Of course, the Wusun people were bitten hard by the Huns, and they were covered in blood.

But the Huns were no better than there.

In the past few months of war, one of the 10,000 horsemen has been completely crippled, and the heads of two Gudu Marquis have been cut off as trophies.

However, the fall of that ranch exposed the secrets of the Wusun people to the Huns.

Wusun Horse!

This kind of Wusun people spent decades, secretly hiding from the Huns, and privately bred a new and excellent horse breed, which has been obtained by the Huns.

The top of Wusun, as long as they are not idiots, understand that next, the nature of the war has changed.

If it was said before, the Huns might still be beating the little brother disobediently, and the attitude that it was time to spank was just to teach Wusun a lesson, so that Wusun could become the cannon fodder and vanguard of the Huns.

So, in the war, the Huns showed mercy.

In the war, the Huns did not adopt the same methods of warfare that they had done in the past against rival tribes: that is, to kill all men who were taller than a wheel. Burn all pastures and pollute all water sources.

They employ the tactics of their internal war.

It is only through the superiority of troops, squeezing and squeezing the activity space of the Wusun cavalry, and trying to achieve victory at the minimum cost.

However, when the secret of Wusunma was exposed to all the Xiongnu nobles, especially the military ministers.

The nature of war has changed.

Wusun up and down. Very frightened.

After all, in the past, if Wusun was defeated, in the end, at most, the old Kunmo hunted arrogance to give the Xiongnu Shan Yu to apologize, kowtow, and at the same time give up part of his autonomy, if he could win one or two victories, then Wusun could even end the war with dignity.

But, when the Usun horse was exposed.

So. As long as the Huns are not stupid, they can immediately understand the fact that the Wusun people have long harbored suspicions and have two hearts.

War, immediately from the little brother disobedient and need to be spanked, turned into a life-and-death battle for hegemony.

Just like the war between the Yueshi and Donghu and the Huns back then. Unless one of them falls or flees. The war will not end.

However, the current situation is that even if the Wusun people want to run away, they have no chance.

The Huns already knew the borders of the world, and they even found the Yueshi people who ran thousands of miles away.

If the Wusun people run again, where can they go?

Not to mention. Once the westward migration begins, a powerful alliance of domestic clans like Wusun may soon collapse.

The Cypriot and Yueshi people used to be able to be the grandson of Yi Zhixian in order to survive. Now, he can also be a grandson of the Huns.

The only good news for the Wusun people right now is that they are not alone.

On the Xiongnu side, Yi Zhixian is still replenishing blood and providing information to them through various channels.

The smuggling trade channel with the Han Dynasty is still open to this day.

This has allowed Wusun to barely survive until now.

But now, with the exposure of Usunma.

The people of Wusun knew that they had to give up White Mountain.

If you don't take advantage of the opportunity that the Huns have not yet adjusted and jump out of the encirclement, then once the Huns begin to change their tactics, strangle the Wusun people, and buy and divide them, then Wusun will really destroy the country.

"But, where can we go?" Hou Kundun asked.

The vast steppe, to the west, is equal to chronic death, to the south, is the heavy army cluster of the Xiongnu, to the north, it is the vast Gobi.

Only the East is the only way out.

But the problem is that the East was the stronghold of the Huns.

Moreover, the Donghu people also walked the same path back then.

As a result, it goes without saying that it was a death march.

The huge Donghu Empire, on the way east, fell apart.

"Let's fight back to the ancestral land!" Kun Mo Lie stood up arrogantly and said in an extremely firm tone: "To the east, towards Rouge Mountain, Qilian Mountain, Helan Mountain, the military ministers will definitely not think of our moves, not to mention, we still have Yi Zhi Xian, you can ask Yi Zhi Xian to provide us with guidance and intelligence, lead away the Xiongnu tribes on the road, starting from Baishan, in a month, we can return to the hometown of Kunxi, there are still Xiaoyue clans hiding in the mountains, we can unite with them, we can also ask for help from the Han Dynasty in the south, borrow troops!" ”

At this moment, the arrogance of hunting is like a gambler, pressing all his chips on the table.

"But......" Da Lu Nemo stood up and objected: "Yi Zhi is unreliable, in fact, my son is more worried, Yi Zhi is betraying us!" ”

Truly!

Considering the ideology of the grassland people, Yi Zhixian has a high probability of betraying Wusun.

As a friend of Ichi's slanting, Nemo knows his true nature too well.

He's a hungry wolf, and as long as there's something good, he'll do it.

Just like before, he helped the Wusun people, secretly passed on news and intelligence, and smuggled Wusun's war horses to the Han Dynasty through various channels in exchange for a large amount of supplies.

But Yi Zhixian did this, just to make the military ministers deflated.

He never thought of subverting the Xiongnu Empire.

In fact, Yi Zhixian is the same person as the military minister.

Counting on Yi Zhixian to help, isn't it a sheep into the tiger's mouth?

Even, Nemo was very suspicious that the envoy of the Mu Yan clan who died in Wusun for no reason was very likely to be a ghost made by Yi Zhi.

If this is the case, then Yi Zhixian must have been ready to betray Wusun to gain his benefits.

With the support of the Mu Yan clan and the strength of the old and young remnants of the former Right Sage King, as long as Yi Zhixian makes the merit of annihilating Wusun, it may be impossible to restore the status of the Right Sage King, but at the very least, a Right Valley Li King or even the Left Valley Li King can't run.

"However, except for Yi Zhixian, no one else can believe it!" Hunter shook his head and said, "We can only believe in Yi Zhixiao!" ”

"Admittedly, Yi Zhixian may betray us, but ......" A hint of cunning flashed in Hunter's arrogant eyes: "What if we say that we want to go around behind the military minister and take his head?" ”

"I believe that Yi Zhixian must want the military minister to die!" Hunter said arrogantly: "He wants the military minister to die more than everyone else!" ”

This is indeed a fact!

Because the military minister currently has only one four-year-old son, Yu Dan, once the military minister dies, then, Yi Zhixian is the indisputable heir of the Xiongnu Shan Yu.

"That's it, Da Lu, you go and be responsible for informing Yi Zhixie, just say, we want to go around behind the military minister, launch an attack, and take the head of the military minister!" Hunt Jiaomi ordered: "Kundun, you go and contact the middle and right candidates, and tell them that Ben Kunmo will fight a decisive battle with the military ministers on the Ile River, and let them lead their troops to the Ile River to set up defenses!" ”

There is no doubt that Hunter Jiaomi intends to abandon the Cypriots and the Yueshi people.

It's like a gecko with a broken tail, throwing the Cypriots and Yueshi people to the Huns, and running away himself. (To be continued.) )