Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 461 Barbarian war horses also have spring

  On the small hill, when Fei Qian arrived, Yu Fuluo was sitting on the ground alone, tapping on the table and humming an unknown song.

The Hu people seem to be born singers. Perhaps the openness of the prairie has formed their deep and broad voices. The same is true for Yu Fuluo's singing. How much can I feel the nostalgia for my hometown in Fura...

  After singing a song, Fei Qian lightly clapped his hands and praised, "Shan Yu is in a good mood, and he also sang a good ballad, which has a sense of vastness and vastness."

  Yu Fuluo got up to meet him, and said: "Feishang County has won the prize, it's just an pastoral song in my hometown, you can sing it as you like... Come, please take a seat..."

   It seems that I stayed with the sheep for too long, or I ate too much mutton. About three meters away from Fuluo, I can always smell a strong smell of mutton.

  The sheep in the Han Dynasty were basically not castrated.

   In other words, in the Han Dynasty, most animals were almost free, except humans.

As early as the Xia and Shang Dynasties, castration of livestock had already appeared, but on the contrary, the castration technology for the human body was at the forefront. Human beings were the first animals to be castrated on a large scale, and they were the first to strictly regulate the entire castration steps and measures. There are even special castration rooms for animals, called "silk rooms"...

  Yu Fuluo would never think of Fiqian thinking about castration when sitting together, otherwise, he would definitely hold the meat-cutting knife tightly in his hand.

  Today’s treat in Furo, of course it’s the old three, cheese, mutton, kumiss...

The cheese has not been purified or filtered. Of course, as the leader of the tribe, the majestic Shan Yu is somewhat more delicate, but it is limited. Although the color of the lump in front of him is not black, it is estimated that There were some problems in one link, most likely due to careless storage, which resulted in a little dust, some gray, and sometimes a little sand.

   Lamb, it still tastes old, full of sheep flavor. If people in later generations are sensitive to the smell of mutton, then in the Han Dynasty, it was basically impossible to eat large-scale livestock meat. Beef is the best, but cows can’t be eaten as soon as they want. For the rest, sheep are extremely muttony, and pigs are extremely saucy. You can choose one of the two.

   Of course there are some chickens, ducks and fish, but they are not often seen. The main reason is that there is no large-scale breeding, and all of them are sold by farmers. And once the large-scale chickens and ducks get sick, it is also very scary.

  Fish is also available. People in Yangzhou also like to eat raw fish, but because the fish dies when dehydrated, and there is no means of transportation, it is not easy to eat fish in remote inland and mountainous areas.

   "Shanyu, it will take a while to settle down..." Fei Qian said slowly, holding a knife, cutting the mutton. The meat on the lamb chops is fat and lean, and chewy. It tastes very fragrant after being grilled, especially the half-grilled fat that bursts out between the lips and teeth, which is simply mouth-watering.

Yu Fuluo was stunned when he heard the words, his thick black eyebrows almost stood up, he tilted his upper body, ignoring that the sheepskin robe on his body rubbed against the greasy mutton in the plate, and stared closely at Fei Qian , Said in a deep voice: "What do you mean by Feishangjun's words? Are you going to renege on your word?"

Originally, Yu Fuluo invited Fei Qian for a banquet in order to finalize the specific steps and time, otherwise Yu Fuluo's heart would be hanging in the air, but before he could open his mouth, he heard Fei Qian's words, It's not that these years of experience have made Yu Fuluo's personality much calmer, I'm afraid he has already turned the table...

  Fei Qian didn't panic, and said: "Spring is coming, everything is growing, and it's the season... Does Shanyu want to go to the Southern King's Court without riding a horse?"

Yu Fuluo opened his eyes wide, and then blinked a few times before reacting: "This...I didn't expect...Feishang County also responded to this...this..." Yu Fuluo was also a little embarrassed for a while, not knowing how to evaluate Fei Qian will be better.

After March, as the weather gets warmer, the horses gradually enter the estrus period. This kind of animal behavior will not be shifted by people's wishes. In May, large-scale breeding behavior will begin , This kind of behavior will last until July and August, and then it will gradually enter the rutless period. The horse's small brain capacity will gradually regain some sense, know how to distinguish between friend and foe, and then obey the owner's orders .

Otherwise, as long as one mare is in heat, all the male horses will go crazy and bite each other irrespective of whether it is their own side or the enemy's. Just to be able to have a good time, um, a few times...

   Feiqian nodded and said nothing.

   Han people and Hu people are not the same after all.

Because the Hu people are nomads and have a vast territory, they seldom fight with each other under normal circumstances. Even if they do, they usually want to fight for inheritance rights like Fuluo, or fight for pastures, but the Han people are different. Since the Warring States period, it has become a season of the year, with constant disputes, from spring to summer, from summer to autumn, from autumn to winter...

  In order to make war horses adapt to long-term battles and reduce the distress caused by seasonal problems, horses are basically castrated.

   Later, even the horses sold by the Hu people to the Han people were castrated first...

As for the horses that Yu Fuluo brought to the south, most of them were in a natural state, and only a small part were castrated. Now that this season has come, even if they leave for the royal court immediately, it is basically the season, and there is chaos among the horses. How else to fight?

   Halfway through the charge, they turned in pairs and went to the side woods to have a refreshment...

  Cough cough.

  Yu Fuluo just thought of this matter, and was scratching his head. He couldn’t castrate all the horses now. This kind of behavior is a virtue like killing chickens and eggs.

"Ah! What should I do..." Yu Fuluo was really anxious and didn't want to delay for a moment, but the real difficulties were also in front of him. Without Fei Qian's cooperation, he still couldn't do it with his own strength. Fei Qian also obviously wouldn't take advantage of his capital, and tried his best to fulfill his wish of regaining the royal court for him. They were all using each other, so they could only act together, and it didn't matter who left or who left.

   "It's not that you can't do anything now, Shanyu please see..." Fei Qian stood up, pointed to the land around Pingyang where people had begun to cultivate, and instantly put on a look of emotion on his face.

   "...These lands have been abandoned for a long time, but we have overcome many difficulties for Shanyu's great cause. Looking at Shanyu, the canals have to be re-dug to restore the water flow. This project is very hard..."

"...Although the land is just plowed, it will soon produce food, and it will only take half a year to start harvesting, which can provide us with more food and grass reserves... You can also see that the soil has to be turned over, It still needs to be planted and fertilized... It is dirty and smelly, and it has to be exposed to the wind and the sun, it is very hard work... Can Shanyu understand this?"

  Yu Fuluo was stunned for a moment, then nodded, suddenly a bad premonition surged in his heart...

   "Zilong, let's go south together..."

   "Okay, my lord."

   "Zilong, let's go to war together..."

   "Okay, my lord."

   "Zilong, let's run for our lives together..."

   "Okay, my lord."

   "Zilong, let's go to Soochow to get married..."

   "...well, my lord..."

   Later, Ma Chao came...

   Liu Bei has always disliked Ma Chao all his life...

   …

  (end of this chapter)