After Li Jia finished injecting chicken blood, he emphasized discipline again, and then met with the supply camp and the gendarmerie, asking them to act in accordance with the rules and regulations and not to break the law.

After the lecture, he rushed to other commanders and did not stay for long. At this moment, someone suddenly shouted without warning: "Long live the Commander-in-Chief"

After hearing this, Li Jia couldn't help but look back, thoughtfully.

At this time, following Li Jia was a Taoist priest from the Dai sect, who acted as his eyeliner and maintained the army's ideology. His name was Qingxuanzi. He was a wandering Taoist priest in his thirties and was summoned by Li Jia to join the Dai sect.

sect.

He then said to Qingxuanzi who was nearby: "Don't always introduce the Taoist scriptures of immortals and the like on weekdays. I remember that there are rapists in the teahouse, called Dr. Tea. You can hire a few of them to make Su Dingfang, a stand-up man from the pre-Tang Dynasty,

, Xue Rengui, as well as the unparalleled loyalty and bravery of Fenyang County Prince and other generals, etc., were compiled into scripts and sung in the military camp.

Do you understand what I'm talking about?"

Qingxuanzi was different from those of the Dai sect in that his thinking was not so stubborn. After hearing this, he nodded.

"Understood, just leave it to me."

Seeing this, Li Jia smiled and began to continue his inspection.

Since the Dai sect could not get rid of its leader, he had already set up an ambush. He gradually transferred the Taoist priests among the generals back to the Taoist temple, and then selected some quick-thinking people as believers to supervise their thoughts.

Of course, some obedient Taoist priests are still needed as a transition. If the steps are too big, it will easily lead to nonsense.

Li Jia walked through several camps under his command, repeating the previous process. He sat for a while at the place where rewards and records were made, and then went to inspect the camps.

After asking about the status of the war horses, baggage supplies, etc. under each command, I was relieved to hear that the food and grass were all full and the salary was paid on time.

When I arrived at the Harin Army, most of the people I heard complained about the lack of horses.

"Captain, we have more than 2,000 people in Zuo Yulin's army. We only have 500 horses. It takes several days to take turns. Each horse is served by five people. Our life is as good as that of a god. Every night we are afraid that it will starve."

After all, a horse doesn’t get fat without night grass..."

Speaking of this, Li Wei had a look of complaint on his face.

Hearing this, Li Jia smiled happily.

"You also know that there are not many of this horse's treasures in the whole of Lingnan. It took a lot of hard work to get these, so be content!"

"Besides, if you don't have a horse, wouldn't you be able to train with a mule?"

If you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are, one horse is worth ten soldiers, and it's hard to find a rider.

Most of the cavalry at this time were light cavalry (mainly riding Khitan horses and Tatar horses, which are almost the same breed). Those who can become cavalry must not only be proficient in equestrianism, riding shooting, and riding combat, but also usually know the habits of horses; cavalry

The various soldiers in the army are also equipped with war horses.

A general is usually equipped with a group of heavy cavalry, which is more troublesome. Good horses are difficult to maintain and the armor is heavier. Each heavy cavalry has at least one or two "followers" to help the knights take care of the horses, wear armor and other things.

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Now Li Jia does not have the conditions to recruit heavy cavalry, and the light cavalry is not fully equipped, but this does not mean that he does not want to recruit heavy cavalry.

That's what he said, but Li Jia regretted it in the blink of an eye. He turned his head and said directly:

"In this world, two legs cannot beat four legs. We in Lingnan have few horses and it is difficult to survive. Life is really difficult!"

"But, no matter what, there must be a horse!"

Li Jia clenched his fists and said in a deep voice.

Having been in Lingnan for a long time, people feel depressed inexplicably. It is not a problem to keep training infantry. There are rewards and systems. The only thing missing is practice.

Ma Zheng came out under such circumstances.

Modern people always have misunderstandings such as this, thinking that horses cannot be raised in the Central Plains, and that only pasture lands such as Liaodong and Northwest can produce horses.

You can raise horses in the Central Plains, but there are no suitable horse farms. They are all farmland. As long as you have great courage, you can have horses.

In the early Han Dynasty, the emperor's nine white horses were not enough. By the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, a Northern Expedition required tens of thousands of them. In the early Tang Dynasty, the imperial court obtained 2,000 Turkic horses and 3,000 Sui dynasty horses.

A special horse-breeding institution was set up to "supervise the herding". In the forty years from Zhenguan to Emperor Gaozong's reign, the number of official horses reached 706,000.

What about the Song Dynasty? When Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi destroyed the Northern Han Dynasty in early 979, he collected 42,000 horses from the Northern Han Dynasty. In the same year, he expedition to Youzhou in the north. Among the more than 200,000 troops, there were 30,000 to 40,000 cavalry. The preservation of war horses in the Northern Song Dynasty

The quantity is at least over 100,000.

However, by the time of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, there were only 1,800 horses in the Forbidden Army. What was the reason?

There is a real case: the situation of horse breeding at Raozhou Racecourse. This racecourse has 562 stallions, but 315 stallions died. In the end, only 27 horses were raised.

In this country that values ​​civility over military affairs, everything about the military will be destroyed by the integrity of the literati and corrupt themselves.

Did the Northern Song Dynasty lack horses? No, it lacked people, people who could implement the horse policy.

At the bustling dock, Yang Yuan boarded the boat and watched his family leave. Then he lowered his head, picked up the barrel, and began to clean the cabin.

This is a merchant ship. In addition to the cargo, more importantly, there are dozens of tall horses purchased from the Big Eater. Each of them exceeds a hundred dollars, and they are simply made of gold.

People like him, and there were several of them, were meticulously wiping the floor. Then they had to take care of these precious horses and feed them every three hours.

The cabin is relatively hot and humid, so you need to constantly wipe the floor and body with a dry cloth. At the same time, you can change the horses to some clean fodder so that they can lie down comfortably.

Of course, if the ship is too bumpy, you still need to comfort them, otherwise they will be frightened and die in a few days.

As for feces and the like, others have to deal with it and they have nothing to do with it.

"Where are we going this time?" Yang Yuangang came and was a little confused. He used to serve these horses in the army. When he came to the ship for the first time, he was very uncomfortable.

"Where to go? We can only go to Falk Island!" A groom sat on the ground, and the horses in front of him were eating the big food with relish, and couldn't help but sigh:

"The Governor has taken over an island in Korea and has a large horse farm. We are going to transport these horses there and let them be bred!"

"It's not called Ma Island, it's called Jeju Island!" the person next to me corrected.

"The island is full of horses, so why not call it Ma Island?" The groom was quite dissatisfied. He held his head high and said proudly:

"When I first went there, there were only people on the island, but now there are more horses than people!"

"How many horses are that?" Yang Yuan asked curiously.

"Eight hundred horses, most of them are fine Khitan horses!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone gasped, what a feat! They traveled thousands of miles to raise horses on the island, and their ancestors had never heard of it. The ones they raised were Khitan horses, but they had only heard of it, but had never seen it.

I don't know what to say to the governor, so I can only be speechless.
Chapter completed!