He walked out of the pavilion, and his younger brother and sister who were watching the fun came out quickly. Yang He stroked the heads of the two and sighed in his heart.

Whenever I encounter tragic things along the way, I don’t know if it will leave any psychological shadow on their young hearts.

He looked out at the four fields and saw an abandoned village two miles ahead, which was very large in scale, somewhat similar to Du Xu I had seen before.

There is still a lot of water in front of you, and you can irrigate many fields around the canal, but now they are all abandoned.

Qi Youxin and Yan Dezheng also came out. Qi Youxin looked at Yang He and sighed, "I hope I can collect some wood after I get to the front farm... If there are shields in this battle, there will not be so many people who are injured."

Yang He nodded, the importance of equipment was unreasonable, just like the bandit sword and shield hand. Although he was powerful, he was actually only similar to Minister Yang, at most a little stronger, but after equipping with the shield, his combat effectiveness increased dramatically.

If there were shields in this battle today, the casualties would not be so severe. At least the arrows shot over can basically be blocked.

While looking at it, there was a sudden clamor and it turned out that Minister Yang and the others were back.

Minister Yang smiled and led a horse over with a smile. Han Guan'er was holding it beside him, with a satisfied smile on his cold face. Then he wrapped one after another on the horse's back, all of which were seized from the bandits, as well as a bunch of swords, guns and sticks.

There were still a lot of clothes on the horse's back. It seemed that the bandits' clothes were stripped of by Minister Yang and the others.

Seeing this horse, Yang He also lit up his eyes. Four horse thieves, one of whom was riding a horse and fled, and two died with their horses. Only the horse thief wearing a blue folded scarf was shot to the ground by Yang He, and his horses were also taken over to his own side.

The noise was heard, but a bunch of young and strong men came from behind, carrying two dead horses, dense ropes and shoulder poles.

A horse weighs at least a thousand pounds, and even ten people seem difficult to carry. Moreover, the road is farther away, so the young and strong are grinning and difficult to walk.

Seeing the young and strong men coming over with a dead horse, people here cheered and meat was in the warehouse. It was so good that they all went up to help.

Yang He saw that Luo Xianjue was also raising the person, and he smiled and couldn't help but look at him a few more times.

The newcomer performed well today, and Yang He saw him waving his stick and killing a bandit.

Yang He also noticed that Zhang Yun'e and his daughter were holding her concerning eyes on Luo Xianjue. It seemed that after Wu Shengzuo's death, her heart fell on Luo Xianjue.

Perhaps for her, this man will be the support of their mother and daughter in the future.

There were also some young and strong people carrying several corpses on their backs, and they looked painful and silent.

Seeing these corpses, the refugees also fell silent. On the way to escape, everyone continued to lose their relatives and friends. After repeated grief, everyone became numb.

A sense of grief surged in Yang He's heart, and he suppressed himself. He was in a chaotic world and felt the fragility of life.

At this time, Minister Yang's voice sounded: "Young Master, look, there is a horse. You will not have to walk with the young master and the two little masters in the future."

The younger brother and sister also shouted over happily and ran around the strong horse. Yang He was a little worried about Minister Yang's health. In the previous battle, he saw Minister Yang being beaten out by the bandit's sword and shield hand and vomiting blood.

Hearing Yang He's inquiry, the stout boy smiled with his big mouth: "Don't worry, young master, it's okay."

At this time, Sun Zhaodi came out and she kept saying, "Hurry, take down everything on the horse's back. From now on, this horse will be my husband's mount and take care of you."

Everyone stepped forward and took off the things from the horse's back with all their might. Minister Yang reported to Yang He about his gains.

They carefully cleaned the battlefield and obtained 32 sticks, three spears, one waist knife, three sabers, two pairs of double inserts, two red tassel felt hats, and two collars of cloaks.

Then many packages were seized and a pack of fine salt, a piece of salt brick, and a bag of flour were found.

The thieves still had some silver on them, all of which were more than 100 taels, all placed in a bag of beans, and a bag of beans.

In the end, Minister Yang didn't care about the clothes, shoes and socks on the thieves, and Yang He didn't care about them either.

However, when Yang He heard about the seized of some fine salt and salt bricks, as well as flour and beans, he was delighted that there was not much rice in the team. The harvest of these flours solved the urgent need, and salt was also urgently needed by the ranks.

He took the bag that Minister Yang mentioned, and there was indeed some silver inside, which was indeed more than one hundred taels.

At this time, one pound is sixteen taels, and these silvers look like six or seven pounds.

There is also a pack of fine salt in the bakery, which is about one pound, and a large piece of salt bricks, about two pounds.

I also brought up the bag of flour and looked at it, which was probably more than 30 kilograms.

He ordered: "Zhao Zhongju, the flour and salt were put away, and the horse meat was also processed."

Zhao Zhongju responded quickly, and she was happy. Originally, there was not much salt or rice, and the addition of these materials could be said to have solved the big problem.

There is also horse meat, a horse and horse meat is at least a few hundred kilograms. If you have the harvest of these two horses, even if you finish the wolf meat, you can still eat it for a long time.

Of course, the meat quality must be considered. Even if the meat has not been treated with salt or other treatment in winter, it will not last long.

Zhao Zhongju took people to work happily, and not to mention her, the refugees were also extremely happy.

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The horse's supplies were put down a lot and the horse's back was cleared. Yang He looked at the horse's horse. He was tall, his mane and tail had been trimmed, and his whole body was as red as fire. It was not only fat horses, but also reached the standard of war horses.

This made Yang He happy. It was not easy to obtain war horses. Among the ten horses, there were almost one or two that could fight horses.

Especially the kind of fierce horses that can be used for hard arrays require strict selection and training. Generally, war horses dare not rush to the array with a little training, but the best war horses dare to rush to the strict spear formation.

Each of the war horses that can ride on the battlefield must be assessed.

He came to the horse, and the horse stood obediently. When Yang He came over, he gently lowered his head to his chest. Yang He comforted it a few times and took out the bag of beans, which looked like they were more than 20 kilograms of bean cakes and beans.

It seems that the horse thief takes care of his horse very carefully, which is easy to understand. For the horse thieves, their cost of eating is one of the horses and the other is bows and arrows. Even if they don’t eat or drink, they must let the horses under their crotch eat and drink well.

This is particularly obvious among the bandits. Whether Li Zicheng or Zhang Xianzhong, the army has the highest priority to obtain horses and mules.

Yang He took out a handful of beans and fed them to the horses. The refugees watched excitedly and pointed at them. At this time, the horses and animals were more precious than the BMWs and Mercedes-Benz in later generations. They had horses in the ranks, so they couldn't be unhappy.

Han Guan'er suddenly said, "Look, there is a mark on it."

Everyone looked at it and found that there was a mark beside the horse and some symbol in the middle.

Minister Yang identified, "Dongping, Sun...what is in the middle?"

Everyone was talking about where Dongping was, and some people also discussed the mark.

Everyone knows that when a horse reaches one year old, it is necessary to cut the hair and print it. It uses a red-hot iron to mark the horse. That symbol may be a unique mark for the owner of the horse. After all, there are too many people in a place with the surname Sun.

Yan Dezheng said: "Dongping belongs to Yanzhou Prefecture. On the 28th day of the first lunar month this year, the local thief Li Tingshi and Li Dingxuan fell into Gaotang Prefecture. Then Dongping Lixu promoted chaos and welcomed the thieves into the city to defend it. Later, they were defeated by Liu Zeqing, the general town... These horse thieves might be the Dongping defeated thieves from that side, and they might still be horse-raising households..."

Everyone suddenly realized that Yang He nodded, and there were many horses in Shandong. They especially implemented the "people's herdsmanship" strategy, setting up a large number of horse households in Shandong, Jin, Henan, North and South Zhili and other places. "The eleven households in Jiangnan and five households in Jiangbei raised one horse together."

Because of the harsh horse government, many horse breeders have broken their families, so they have turned into various famous horses. The famous ones in history were Liu Liu and Liu Qi.

At present, Lu has been drought year after year, and thieves have emerged everywhere. This year alone, there have been several large-scale rebellions. The officers and soldiers fought along the canal. All kinds of defeated soldiers were everywhere. It is not surprising that there were horse thieves running here.

Yang He fed the horse for a while, and then Minister Yang took over, and his younger brother and sister watched excitedly. Yang He picked up his sister Ying'er and asked her to sit on the horse, making her clapped and cheered.

Looking at the horses in front of him, Yang He was happy. With the horses, traveling was convenient and his combat effectiveness was greatly improved.

He even fantasized that he would have a cavalry, but this was not easy. The cost of raising horses was not cheap. A horse would require fifteen kilograms of hay and three liters of beans a day. When he encountered a battle with travel, he would also have to supply salted fried noodles, otherwise he would lose weight and run fast.

If you have a horse, you must have people. If you eat horses and chew horses, you will not know how much it will cost.

It’s okay to have a horse, but the key is that it can’t be done.

In the Ming Dynasty, the official price of Mongolian horses in the border market was eight taels per horse, and the private price was more than ten taels. Until now, ordinary fat horses can raise fifty taels of silver. If they are well-trained war horses, it is normal for a horse to charge eighty taels of silver and one hundred taels of silver.

In this chaotic world, who is willing to sell a horse and mule to others?

It is normal that there is money to buy horses, just like there is money to buy food.

He sighed in his heart that the Ming Dynasty did not lack horses, and the horse politics of "people's herder" even made the people own a large number of horses, but the result of the horses stored in the people is often cheaper for bandits and warlords.

The government also talks about methods of exploitation, but the bandits and warlords directly robbed them.

Throughout the dynasties, only the bandits in the late Ming Dynasty could form such a large-scale horse team.
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