After coming down from the mountain, every day on the road from Cheonggong to Uiju, there would be Chuanyi horses galloping with bamboo tubes hanging on their backs.

Today, Min Tinghye arrived at Fengshan, tomorrow he went to Pingyang, and the day after tomorrow he went to Anzhou. In short, it was a daily report, and he was reporting news to Yizhou every day.

Hong Dashou also felt that the departure date was coming. While packing his clothes and bedding, he notified Jin Douji to prepare to leave. Liusun from Wufeng Mountain promptly delivered the 300 taels of cash on the ninth day, and Jin Douji turned around. I gave it to Hong Dashou.

He didn't know what route he took, so he bought a lot of random things. He even bought a lot of mother-of-pearl paint boxes, filled them with two large packages of goods. He took a horse and was ready to set off.

The Li Dynasty also had high-quality war horses with a shoulder height of more than 1.41 meters. This was one of the properties left to the Li Dynasty by the horse administration of the Yuan Dynasty. Especially on Tamna, also known as Jeju Island, which belonged to the Yuan Dynasty at that time. It is one of the largest official ranches in the north.

At one time, they had more than 80,000 horses [Note 1]. Through the Yuan government, they introduced fine horse breeds from Central and West Asia, crossed them with local Mongolian horse breeds, and developed the Tamma horses that are quite suitable for northern East Asia.

During the period of Taizu Li Chenggui, the elite cavalry that dared to fight ranged from 5,000 to 8,000 cavalry. In the late Goryeo Dynasty, when Li Chenggui commanded 50,000 people in his Northern Expedition to the Ming Dynasty, the cavalry was numerous and highly offensive and aggressive.

It's a pity that Li Chenggui and Li Fangyuan met two ruthless people, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di. How ruthless were they?

In just over ten years, the Li Dynasty was forced to purchase more than 100,000 military horses. Especially when Zhu Di went north to Mongolia many times and needed a large number of military horses, he repeatedly blackmailed the Li Dynasty.

Finally, Li Chao went to the table and ignored other content. There was a very sad sentence. Li Chao gave all the good horses in the country to the Ming Dynasty. The remaining horses in the country were not as tall as fine dogs and could only be used to carry dung and plow. The fields can no longer be plowed.

The thin dog is an ancient hunting dog in East Asia. Su Dongpo also wrote the sentence "lead the yellow on the left and hold the blue on the right", and the yellow color refers to the thin dog.

In short, horses after the Li Dynasty were only as tall as tall dogs, but dogs are dogs after all, and they are only one meter taller.

It's very vivid. The horse in front of Hong Dashou is really only one meter tall at the shoulders. If you say it is a horse, it is true, but it looks like a bigger dog.

Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di turned Li Chao's horses into dogs alive, devastatingly eliminating Li Chao's offensive nature.

The merit lies in the present time and the benefit lies in the future!

good!

"Where did you find this horse?" Looking at this cute but already adult horse, Hong Dashou suddenly felt what he would look like if he rode such a horse on the battlefield one day. Strange picture.

"Don't mention it. I went to the inn to pick up some of the stage horses they replaced. I picked them up. This is the best!"

"Is this the best horse in Tieshan Station?" Even Lin Shangwo was shocked.

"Isn't that right? Fortunately, I am an old acquaintance with the clerk at the station. They reported a hoof disease to me and then gave the horse back to me."

"They dare to sell the registered Yima privately?"

"Isn't it just a matter of money? There are dozens of stagecoach horses that are replaced every year to supply the envoys. After a trip to Yanjing, I don't know how many people died of illness, and more than half of them ended up in the stables of the governor's family. What's more, I reported a hoof disease, walked on official documents, and paid money to eliminate them."

"How much did you spend on such a horse?" Hong Dashou thought that if it was cheaper to get one himself, the transportation problem would not be a big problem.

"There are only twenty-five taels in the account, and I gave an extra sixty taels." Jin Douji looked like he was in pain.

"That's not bad. It's not too expensive. Can you buy one for me?"

"Let's go, Mr. Hong, you have spoken." Jin Douji left the horse and goods at Hong Dashou's house, feeling very relieved.

The three of them went to Tieshan Station outside the city. Like Nanchuan Station, a small village formed around this station.

Many thatched houses and wooden houses were built crookedly around the three sides of the inn, and the streets were only dirt roads paved with gravel. Except for the inn, which looked decent, the other houses were low and dilapidated, not worth mentioning.

Jin Douji walked into the post station with ease. There were two stalls in the station, commanding four or five servants to carry fodder. There were always hundreds of dogs in the stables, no, hundreds of horses.

After searching among the heads, Jin Douji found a middle-aged man wearing a gauze hat and cloth clothes, but judging from the narrow brim, he was the middle-aged man.

The two of them muttered a few words, and the middle man was brought to Hong Dashou by Jin Douji.

"Master Hong, I am a clerk at Tiechuan Station. I wonder what kind of horse you want to buy?"

"Take me to see you first." Hong Dashou pulled Jin Douji and asked him to lead the way.

The main reason is that Hong Dashou doesn't understand horses. Some people can tell by looking at the teeth of a horse that it is a horse that is two years old and a horse that is three years old. Some people can judge whether the horse can go a long way just by looking at its hooves.

But horse racing is a technical job, and those who haven’t learned it will certainly have a black eye. What’s more, in such a tall guy, a bunch of horses that are one meter or one meter are really just like toys, how do you choose?

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"Do you know how to pick a horse? I don't know how at all." Hong Dashou whispered to Jin Douji quietly, while pretending to accompany Lin Shangwo to point at the horse.

There are more than a hundred horses, which can be said to be too many, but not too many. It will not take long to take a tour.

"I know it well." Jin Douji gave Hong Dashou a knowing smile as if he was sure of it.

"The maroon one in front was added last year?" Jin Douji asked as they left the stable.

"The chestnut one in the front, oh oh oh, that one was added last year. It's a four-year-old horse, so it will be no problem to ride."

The scribe hurriedly asked an official servant to lead the horse out. It was an ordinary horse and had no appearance of a dragon or horse. But Lin Shangwo next to him actually nodded, thinking it was okay.

"Brother Lin, do you think it's okay?"

"It's similar to the packhorse that went to Yanjing in our business group. You can see that his nostrils are naturally moist and there is no runny nose, which means the horse is in good condition and has no hidden diseases."

What Lin Sangwo said was quite similar. Hong Dashou didn’t see anything unusual about that nostril anyway. But since both Jin Douji and Lin Sangwo thought it was okay, Hong Dashou was prepared to pay.

"Old Xu, it's cheaper. Mr. Hong is Ambassador Min's attaché this time and will become an official in the future."

"I know, I know, twenty-five taels will go to the official account, and the rest will be an extra fifty taels."

Yes! Hong Dashou’s face is worth ten taels!

[Note 1]: One more thing, Luzhou Mu, one of the three major horse farms in the south during the Yuan Dynasty, fell into the hands of Zhu Yuanzhang very early. As one of the largest horse farms in the south, at its peak, there were horses (
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