Luoyang, Baibo Camp.

The Baibo camp was built to reorganize the Western Army and was proposed as early as the early days of Zhao Ji's ascendance to the throne. Now Zhao Ji has been the emperor for seven years, covering an area of ​​tens of thousands of acres, and the camp that is enough to station a hundred thousand troops has been built, but it has been empty because the Western Army has been ruling for various reasons. It was not until thousands of educational regiments led by Zhang Yuan arrived that there were the first batch of troops to settle in.

According to the plan formulated by the dispatching room of the Dujun Massachusetts, the military and horse association of the Dajiao Regiment was stationed in Baibo Camp for at least ten days, waiting for the Taoist soldiers and monks from Kaifeng Prefecture and the nearby Dengfeng County, to arrive before they embark on the journey again.

The so-called Taoist soldiers and monk soldiers are actually not composed of real Taoist priests and monks, but monks and Taoist men dressed up by strong men recruited by temples and Taoist temples of the great education regiment. However, these disguised monks and Taoist soldiers have not received formal training and are not equipped with equipment. They cannot go to the battlefield without a few months to a year of training.

Even the five thousand infantry and cavalry (4,000 infantry and 1,000 cavalry including auxiliary light cavalry entourage) that set out from the Border River are far from reaching the level of elite force.

Therefore, during the ten days of staying in Baibo Camp, the officers' team led by Ma Zheng and Wang and Liu did not relax at all and were still stepping up training.

Wu Haogu accompanied Zhang Yuan to inspect the empty Baibo camp. He has now set up the General Army Machinery Office, Infantry Academy, Knight Academy, and Navy Academy. He has also opened the General Army Machine Room in the front army, the Guards, the Guards, the Guards, the Shangsi Army, the Coastal Mass Control Department, the Shuofang Road Supervisor, the Northwest Xuanfu Department, the Model New Army and other departments. He has also set up the model New Army's stand!

Wu Haogu himself admired himself a little after doing so many things in just a few months.

However, Wu Haogu, who had been in the officialdom of the Northern Song Dynasty for so many years, still knew the reason why haste would not be understood. Even if he did not expect that Zhao Jiaren, aide he brought to Kaifeng Prefecture, would still remind him: It would be too big to make such a thing as reform!

So after supporting so many institutions and turning the three straight brands of the imperial fronts into a model new army, Wu Haogu passed the daily work of the Dujun Machinery Department to the deputy envoy Zhang Shuye and Quanfad dispatching room (equivalent to the combat office) Zhang Zhifeng, Quanfad dispatching room Zhao Jiaren, Quanfad dispatching room He Tianran, Quanfad dispatching room Miao Fu and others, Lu Renjia, the head of the Hall Front Army Machinery Department. He took Guo Xiaoxiao to go out of Kaifeng Prefecture to meet Zhang Yuan in the name of inspecting Baibo camp.

Now the two are walking side by side, followed by a large number of military officers from the General Office of the Education Regiment. Chen Jian, who cheated Cai Jing and Zhong Fu, was listed. He is now Ma Zheng's deputy, and he is the deputy general officer of the Education Regiment. Moreover, Ma Zheng is the backbone of Wu Haogu, and it is impossible for him to stay in the northwest all the time, so he will be the general officer of the Education Regiment in the future.

As for Yu Tongdao, Liu Long and Xue Ding, they also served as generals of the Ma Army and infantry, and are now training their own troops.

Wu Haogu and Zhang Yuan stopped in front of a horse farm surrounded by wooden fences. From a distance, they saw 500 cavalry divided into 10 teams, all forming a dense formation of rectangular shapes, trotting slowly. Compared with the fast cluster assaults that the knights and the student Jurchen Gundam could launch, these cavalry were much different, and the formation would be scattered when they were fast. However, in the eyes of the experts of the Cavalry Academy, cluster charges were still much better than the scattered ones who fought immediately...

At this time, Zhang Yuan noticed that the war horses under the crotch of these cavalrymen were tall and majestic, so he asked Wu Haogu: "Brother Chongdao, what's going on with the horses in Cangzhou? I haven't heard of the horses in Cangzhou in the past, why are there so many good horses emerging all of a sudden? Is the climate in Cangzhou particularly suitable for raising horses?"

The literati and officials of the Song Dynasty built their understanding of horse raising based on the "environmental impact theory", so they ignored breeding and breeding, emphasized the environment in which horses grew, and believed that excellent war horses could only be raised on cold grasslands. In the absence of natural grasslands in the Central Plains, they even requisitioned agricultural grass planting, artificially created grasslands, simulated the "most suitable" environment for horse raising. Unfortunately, there was no effect.

So it was not surprising that Zhang Yuan was surprised to find that Cangzhou, which did not have a large grassland, had actually raised good horses.

Wu Haogu smiled and said, "Where is there any special climate in Cangzhou? It's not that different from Hebei? Cangzhou horses are mainly because of the introduction of Persian horses, big-foot horses and green-Tanglong stallions, and also strictly control the mating of stallions and mares... Establish archives for all good horses, record their bloodlines, and mating according to their bloodlines. At the same time, the choice of stallions is relatively strict, and the foals are not easily castrated.

It’s not complicated to say, but it’s not easy to do, and it’s slow to take effect. I’m afraid the group herders’ supervisor will not be able to learn it.”

The Border Hippo farm has been open for seven years, and a total of three generations of Border Hippo were bred. At the beginning, it was just a hybrid of Persian stallions and the tall mares of the Central Plains and Khitans. Later, the Indian Folding Horse and Qing Tang Dragon Stallions were introduced, and several new genealogies were opened.

Now, I finally got some results. However, it is still far from reaching the level of horse breeds (that is, the extremely high horse-quality rate). It may take decades to finalize them.

For a civilian official who has been a group of herders for a few years, this efficiency is simply unacceptable.

Zhang Yuan nodded silently and said after a while: "Chongdao, Cangzhou horses are gradually becoming famous, and people in the court must be concerned about them. At that time, they may be recruiting stallions from Jiehe. You must prepare early."

In fact, some officials who have served in Cangzhou, Qingzhou, Xin'an Army, Baoding Army, Hejian Prefecture and other departments have submitted memorials to report the news that "the good horses came out in Cangzhou."

Listening to Zhang Yuan's kind reminder, Wu Haogu smiled gratefully and said, "I have prepared for this matter for a long time. Now the hippos in the realm are finally a bit basic. Not only are I raised in my horse farm, but the Knights' House placed in Cangzhou also got horse breeds. It is still possible to take out dozens of stallions that can be used as stallions."

Wu Haogu’s career in raising horses in Jiehe was actually burning money and there was no possibility of profit. He also asked Jiehe Horse Farm to provide breeding services for the mares of Cangzhou Knights’ House for free, thereby improving the quality of Cangzhou horses and cultivating a horse-raising industry that can generate income for knight families.

Since it is an industry, of course it must have a market and profit. In addition to Jiehe Market (including pack horses, horse racing, horse racing, horse racing, horse racing, and war horses), the market in Cangzhou is of course the Song Dynasty court like a sucker!

It is impossible for the imperial court to recruit stallions, so they can only buy them at a high price... Then there will be some bargaining.

...

When Wu Haogu was thinking about how to give the Cangzhou horse high price to the court, Ji Yi, the notorious colonist, had already arrived in Mingzhou.

He threw away the main fleet and rode the "God of Light" to the second largest port in the southeast of Shenjiamen Port in Mingzhou. This is an inland river port, located at the intersection of Dajia River and Yuyao River. The Yuyao River is connected to the southern section of the Grand Canal, and can also be seen as part of the Jiangnan Canal. The Dajia River connects to the sea, and the Yuyao River connects to the canal. The Jiangnan section of the Grand Canal directly connects to the canal system of the Yangtze River and the Central Plains.

It is precisely because of the well-connected water transportation system that Mingzhou has become the most prosperous maritime trading port in the Jiangnan region.

However, the Oriental Hall of the Ji Family Marine Merchants is not here, but is located in Pingjiang Army at this time, which means Suzhou is also a coastal city. Later, Suzhou River in Shanghai was named Wu Songjiang at this time, and it was the boundary river between Pingjiang Army and Xiuzhou. The Huangpu River, located in the lower reaches of the Suzhou River, has not yet appeared. This section of river channel into the sea in the lower reaches of the Huangpu River belongs to Wu Songjiang.

The upper reaches of Wu Songjiang are connected to the Jiangnan Canal, which directly leads to the Pingjiang Army's city.

In the eyes of the predecessors of the Ji family, the section of Wu Songjiang, which belongs to the Pingjiang Army Kunshan County and Xiuzhou Huating County, is much better than Dajiajiang in Mingzhou and is more suitable for becoming a harbor. So he moved the headquarters to Pingjiang and spent a huge amount of money to buy a large area of ​​land on both sides of Wu Songjiang. Then the former Jiangnan No. 1 maritime merchant became the second maritime merchant, and was surpassed by the Mingzhou Xie family...

By the way, Ji Yi also owns eight manors in the lower reaches of Wu Songjiang and Shanghai Wu, with a total of 80,000 mu of land (the land reserves of 53.28 million square meters in the center of Shanghai)... If it can be held until the 21st century, the world's richest man will become!

Unfortunately, Ji Yi did not understand the true meaning of real estate to promote the country, and she was not interested in the land in Shanghai she owned. This time she went south and didn't even take a look, and went directly to the busy Dajiajiang River in Mingzhou, which was blocking the ship.

However, he did not come to do business, nor did he meet officials from the Mingzhou Maritime Warehouse or the Mingzhou Provincial Government. Instead, he came in a very disguised manner, got off the boat at Laiyuanting Wharf, and took Yuzhang Long Chenggui, hired a donkey, and went to a large, dilapidated Baoyun Temple outside Mingzhou Prefecture City, which was not very incense-free.

Today is not the time to burn incense. The mountain gate of Dayun Temple was closed, and there was only a young monk who was cleaning in front of the door. Cheng Gui got off the donkey and went up to ask, "Is Master Jingming here?"

The monk raised his head, looked at Cheng Gui and Ji Yi, and suddenly laughed, "But Jade Claw Dragon and Ji Daguan Ren? The little monk is Fang Jie."

Cheng Gui looked closely and then turned to Ji Yi and said, "The great official, I really met Fang Jie."

Ji Yi also got off the donkey and walked to Fang Jie, who was only fifteen or sixteen years old, and asked with a smile: "I heard that you have joined Fang La's disciple and are now the disciple of Master Jingming. I ask you, are your master here?"

The little monk sang a fat look and replied with a smile: "Master Ji, Master Jingming returned to Baoyun Temple six months ago and is in the temple today."
Chapter completed!