Because of the particularity of war horses, most stallions will be castrated, and gelded war horses are more docile, easy to tame, and easy to control.
A few good breed stallions are kept as breeding stallions, guaranteeing the best quality of offspring.
This generation of the King of the Northern Border Court is not a very wise man, but he has ambitions and can listen to the advice of others. Under the advice of the "wise man", he integrated the business alliance and tightly controlled the resources of the horse farm In the hands of the imperial court, war horses cannot be easily sold.
The former avoids external business impacts and strengthens the local business competitiveness, while the latter increases the battle strength of the northern Xinjiang and the majesty and rule of the imperial court. In the past, as long as you had money, you could buy enough and good enough war horses from the Beijiang Racecourse, but not now.
In order to provide better horses for the soldiers in the northern Xinjiang and improve the overall combat effectiveness, the imperial court in the northern Xinjiang allocates a sum of money every year to purchase the sweaty horses of the Chalan Kingdom, and then leases these sweaty horses to major horse farms to cultivate them. The second-generation warhorse of the company is not allowed to be sold.
The three tribes in the Northern Xinjiang used cavalry as their main combat strength. By this method, their combat strength soared rapidly.
Before the fall of the Daxia Dynasty, the three tribes in the northern Xinjiang took Daxia as their suzerain state and their own as a vassal state, paying tribute every year and becoming a minister every year.
Now that the Great Xia has been destroyed, Kyushu is divided into five kingdoms.
The four tribes of Nanman, which used to be the same as the three tribes in Beijiang, wiped out the royal family of Nansheng Kingdom a year ago, occupying half of Nansheng Kingdom, and turned over from the former dependent country to occupy the territory of the suzerain, which gave the confidence of the three tribes in Northern Xinjiang. Multiply, the ambition grows stronger.
What the barbarians of the four southern barbarians can do, why can't the three tribes in the northern border do
Dongqing is unsatisfactory, and the civil strife continues. It is a great time for the Northern Xinjiang to mobilize troops to the Central Plains and compete in the world!
In order to cultivate more combat power, the Royal Court of Northern Xinjiang buys more horses every year.
At first, only one or two horses tested the water, but now there are more than a dozen or two dozen.
I'm planning to buy 35 horses this year, but I'm squeamish and squeamish on the road.
Even so, Beijiang still bought 19 sweaty BMWs and borrowed them all according to the size of the horse farm.
Then-
The horse farms bred male horses and mares according to the practice of previous years. Because the horse farms are well managed, the climate in northern Xinjiang is also good, and the mares are in heat all the year round. golden age.
There is a time limit for the sweaty BMW leased by Beijiang Imperial Court, and the horse farm does not dare to waste time.
This time of year is almost the busiest time of year for the racecourse.
Of course, it's the slaves who take care of the horses at the stables who are busy.
Only a very small amount of time would they be able to take a break from their busy schedules, and three or five slaves gathered together and whispered.
"Are you wondering - why do these sweaty BMWs feel extra boring this year?"
Another slave said, "I'm not accustomed to the soil and water. Besides, in previous years, it was sent in spring and summer. This year, it's naturally boring."
"It's also—"
Stallions are not easy to handle. There are hundreds of mares that are suitable for pregnancy, but the horse farm has only one or two sweaty BMWs, so it is not tired.
About half a month later, the slave who took care of the sweaty horse was horrified to find that a sweaty horse fell to the ground without warning.
The veterinarian was called, only to discover that the sweaty horse was seriously ill.
"It was fine before, how could it be—"
The slave was sweating with anxiety, and his teeth were shaking with fright.
As slaves on the horse farm, they were tied into a bundle, and the value was not as important as a horse's hair on a sweaty horse.
Now the precious sweaty horses are sick, and they are to blame for their deaths!
What made them even more worrying happened, this seriously ill sweaty BMW also vomited blood, and the skin was always bruised and bruised.
The horse farm thought that the slaves had secretly injured the sweaty horses, and they were furious, and immediately disposed of a group of slaves.
The veterinarian tried everything possible to treat the horse, but the horse died.
The corpse quickly rotted and stinks, and the smell was very strong, attracting many insects and flies.
The value of a sweaty BMW is as high as 400,000 to 500,000 yuan. If one dies, it will lose so much money. Who doesn't feel bad about it
Because these sweaty BMWs were leased from the Northern Xinjiang Imperial Court, the horse farms were also solely responsible for compensating for the losses.
In the end, the investigation continued, and none of the slaves who took care of the sweaty horses could escape, and they were brutally killed and buried with the horses.
The three tribes in the northern Xinjiang have the custom of sky burial. The sweaty horse was identified by a veterinarian as suffering from a strange disease and nothing else, so it was also buried in the sky.
This seems to be the beginning. Just half a month after the death of the sweaty horse, there was news that the sweaty horse was seriously ill from another horse farm.
The second fell ill with exactly the same symptoms as the first.
There has never been horse plague in Northern Xinjiang. Naturally, the symptoms of these two sick horses are not considered in this regard. Even if they do, they will deny it.
As far as they know, horses with horse plague will develop the disease at most in seven or eight days, and in acute cases, they will appear severely ill in one or two days.
Ma Wen has only been heard from horse dealers in Chalan Kingdom, and there is no such thing as Ma Wen in northern Xinjiang and other places.
These sweaty horses came all the way from Chalan Kingdom. They traveled for almost a year. After arriving at the three tribes in the northern Xinjiang, they were bred at the horse farm for more than half a month. There was no sign of illness at all. Just die.
As everyone knows, there are different types of horse plague.
The horse plague in Shalan Kingdom has an acute onset, symptoms will inevitably appear within half a month of being infected, and the mortality rate is as high as 90%.
This time, the source of horse plague was not in Chalan Kingdom, and on the way, even the horse dealers in Chalan Kingdom did not know when they contracted it.
The incubation period is extremely long, ranging from January to April depending on the horse's fitness and resistance.
Of course, once the disease occurs, it means that the disease is too serious to recover and it is difficult to treat.
Like the first sweaty BMW that died of illness, the internal organs were almost filled with blood and thick water, and the skin surface was covered with large bruises.
Therefore, the owner of the racecourse suspected that the slaves secretly vented their anger with the sweaty BMW and beat the BMW seriously.
More importantly, the carcass of this sick horse needs to be cremated, otherwise the insects and mosquitoes will spread the disease source to other hosts.
For example, horses, mules, and donkeys are all susceptible hosts, among which pregnant mares and weak calves are the most susceptible.
With the second horse, there will naturally be a third and a fourth, and there is hardly any time apart.
At this moment, the breeding of the horse farm is basically coming to an end.
The continuous death of sweaty horses has attracted the attention of the Northern Xinjiang Imperial Court, and the King of the Imperial Court ordered people to thoroughly investigate the matter.
At this time, everyone remembered the horse dealers in Chalan Kingdom, but they had already left for two months after receiving the money.
Before they could find out, all kinds of bad news came one after another from the racecourse. All nineteen horses bought at high prices died, leaving no survivors.
Nineteen horses of sweat and blood each cost between 450,000 and 600,000. For them, the imperial court allocated at least 10 million gold and silver jewels. Who will pay for the loss
In the face of this loss, the king of the Northern Imperial Court roared angrily.
Sha Languo sold nineteen sick horses to them as good horses, and took their money