I have been practicing bows and arrows for a while, but my progress is very slow. Now I am better, Pang Wanchun is here and I am more professional.

The township barracks expanded rapidly, and this time Wu Yong recruited two hundred mountain citizens from Yizhou.

The mountains are barren, and with years of disasters, the people are on the verge of poverty.

Since it is from other places, it is no longer possible to gather the morale of the army by distributing large animals such as donkeys and oxes.

Xiao Rang and Bian Xiang proposed to pay money instead.

If you send too much, you won’t be able to use it. If you send too much, you won’t be able to take it out.

So what is set is that after recruiting, after a month of training, you can persevere and be sure to do it, and then you will pay a settlement fee of five jin of money at one time.

Five-silo money is nothing to rich people, but for rural poor people, five-silo money is heaven, earth, and fate.

Ordinary bride gifts of three stakes are enough, and you can buy three or four piglets for just five hundred mins.

Five stakes of money is enough to make these newly recruited guards work hard for the escort agency.

The township camp has also been reorganized and arranged. The regiment trained Chao Gai and grew up strong in the personal guards. It has a hundred musketeers and a short trolley under its jurisdiction. The cold weapon is made of a light Tangheng sword, which is slender and light in weight, and is made of a hundred steelmaking.

Everyone has no impression of trolls, but they care too much about horizontal swords made of stainless steel. This thing is a sharp blade. A knife is sold for 1,000 yuan. There is still no market price and no place to buy it.

However, Chao Gai was very low-key and was wrapped in linen on the scabbard, so outsiders couldn't see it. A few people who had seen the horizontal knife pulled out were basically hung up, such as the black-hearted boat owner.

Pang Wanchun had 100 archers and cavalrymen, Shi Baodao cavalrymen, Yang Lin had 100 infantrymen, and Deng Fei had 100 infantrymen.

As for Bian Xiang being the chief escort leader now, Chao Gai gave him all the escort agency.

Liu Tang had 100 people who were alone in camp, specializing in some dirty work.

Ruan Xiaoer and Ruan Xiaowu are responsible for more than 200 sailors in the fleet. Ruan Xiaoqi specializes in intelligence and eyeliner.

There are also Lin Chong and Li Kui on the village.

Wu Yong also brought Meng Kang and others to construction at the Mizhou Wharf.

Military advisor Wu Yong, Gongsun Sheng, and clerk Xiao Rang.

The three armies of horses, camps and water were all equipped, and at this point the wings were already formed, but they were just a little weak.

At noon that day, Zengtou City came and sent thirty camels of camels and twenty grassland horses.

Chao Xiong's injury has almost recovered, and he has received Zeng Mi.

"Second Young Master, this camel is quite good. It is strong and it is easy to carry something worth 200 to 300 kilograms. But what's the use of you, a pony? It's so ugly and very short."

Zeng Mi also laughed: "We people in the Song Dynasty buy horses for face, tall and big horses, and beautiful in the first place. This kind of horse is short, thick limbs and short necks, and few people like it. However, this horse is very endurance and most resistant to extensiveness, and is not prone to illness. It is okay to carry hundreds of carts."

"I can't make the decision. I'll go and invite the owner of the manor. The owner of the manor will decide later."

Chao Xiong looked down on such a pony and went back to work hard.

After a while, Chao Gai came.

After a greeting, I got to the point.

When Chao Gai saw that the so-called grassland horse was the later Mongolia? It was just that Mongolia had not yet emerged at this time, so it did not have this name. It was generally called the Hun horse. The main force of the Hun cavalry at that time used this kind of horse.

It can be 200 kilograms lighter than a Xixia horse, and generally has a mass of about 700 kilograms. Its shoulder height is generally about 1.3 meters, and it is one foot shorter than a tall horse. It looks very unpleasant, but it has good endurance and does not pay attention to food and drink.

This is crucial. Chao Gai and others' top-quality horses are very troublesome. The grass eaten by a horse can catch up with the food for five people.

A high-quality horse can reach at least ten kilograms of material a day. With grass, it can make up for the food that five people eat, so most people cannot afford to raise good horses.

Agricultural horses are relatively better, but they also need to eat a lot of food.

Only the Hun horses carry the most rough feed, and the remaining straw in the hay and weed fields can be eaten, and they are resistant to rough feed, which is the biggest advantage.

Chao Gai pulled a Hun horse and gently pressed the horse's back with his hand. It was OK. The horse had good pressure-bearing ability and turned over the horse.

He has a very irritable temper and wants to jump around for a few times, but Chao Gai weighs more than 200 kilograms, and the horse is not so energetic. He reached out and slapped the horse's face, and the horse ran out obediently.

After running around, Chao Gai stopped riding, and the saddle-free horse bumped into the crowd.

This kind of horse is suitable for people with medium size, and people with 150 or 60 kilograms of leather weapons, and can only move quickly.

"Young Master Zeng, talk in the house."

In the living room, the servants serve tea.

Chao Gai and Zeng Mi talked closely here.

"Second young master, tell me the real price?"

"A good horse can be ridden with a case. The general quality is around 18 guan. A good mare is around 15 guan. They are all young and can be raised for a few months and will be raised next year."

"The second young master is worth noting, but I don't have too many horses. The guards are riding horses, and the government is afraid and too arrogant. Give me a hundred horses and a thousand mares."

Zeng Mi was drinking tea when he heard Chao Gai's words, the water cup was not held firmly, and the tea was sprinkled all over the floor.

There are not too many words to open, but there are still one hundred horses and one thousand mares.

"What? The second young master thinks it's too young?"

"No, there are enough, there are enough. But I can't catch up at one time, and I'll get at least five or six batches. I'll send you to Dongping Mansion. We will go through the formalities and transactions in Dongping Mansion because the handling fees in Dongping Mansion are low."

"Okay, send the horses first, and we need to use the semicolon of our escort agency."

"Sure, I'll make arrangements immediately."

Zeng Mi didn't even eat rice, so he went home to drive his horse.

The shopkeeper of the escort agency went to the leather goods store to order saddles. It took time to make a set of saddles.

Chao Xiong didn't understand what arrangement Chao Gai was doing.

"Brother, the Hun horse is short and not good-looking, why choose this kind of horse?"

"The cost is that in addition to water transportation, most places that open roads are transported by horse-drawn carriages, and places that don't use mules and horses. Isn't the thirty camels I bought today just for traveling to the mountainous areas of Yizhou. The Huns are short, but they are not picky about food, have low feeding costs, strong endurance, and run fast. The cost of riding guards can be increased, so they won't be able to bear it."

If you don’t know how expensive you are in the family, you will understand that everything needs to be paid attention to. You can’t feel the consumption of hundreds of horses. If you have more horses in the future and tens of thousands of horses, the gap will be huge.

Mares and donkeys can also get mules. Mules cannot run fast, but they are stronger and more docile. They can carry things and pull carts more useful.

Chao Gai's purpose of asking for so many mares was to cultivate mules.

After the wheat harvest, the weather became hotter and Chao Gai returned to Chaojiazhuang.

Hundreds of children are swimming in the water in the artificially excavated swimming pool by the big stream.

The water here is very shallow, divided into two areas, one meter and two deep, which is where older children swim.

There is also a diving area next to it, which is only 80 cm deep.

Every day, Chao Gaijiazhuang and Lijiazhuang will take turns to send strong men to watch by the swimming pool, in case there is a drowning child to help.

Until now, everything is safe and no one is drowning anymore.

The conflicts between the two villages in the past few years were wiped out, and there were no more conflicts.

Passing by the fish pond, Li Kui was wearing two axes around his waist and five guards, who were patrolling here with his foxes and tiger power.

Just like him, he stood by the fish pond, let alone someone stealing fish, and he had to take a detour when passing by.
Chapter completed!