The public warehouses in Chang'an City do not store much, which makes these people think that they have the truth.

"In addition, there are also straws for war horses..." Zao Zhi smiled, looking at these hoarded grains, his eyes showed an indescribable brilliance, as if looking at his own children, and as if

Looking at your beloved lover?

Everyone knows that there are many war horses under the command of Qiusi, and they all think that the consumption of these war horses is amazing, but this is another misunderstanding in thinking. War horses do consume more than people, and they are all guys with huge bellies. If they are in

Especially when preparing for war, or when building fat, let these big guys eat as much as they can. Twenty or thirty pounds of hay a day is considered a small amount...

But normally, if you are in the Longyou pasture area of ​​Yinshan Mountain in the North, you just feed them one more meal at night and let these big guys eat by themselves during the day, so the consumption is actually not as much as these people think.

Think about the wild horses in nature. No one goes out of their way to give them extra meals, and none of them are hungry or sick.

The reason why the nobles think that the cost of raising horses in Fei Qian is very high is because the cost of raising their own horses is indeed high, and the most important reason for the high cost of raising horses is that the horses are kept in a condition where they cannot naturally obtain food for a long time.

environment, so they have to require a lot of feed to feed them.

Fei Qian's war horses are generally raised in Beidi and Longyou. These areas have been horse breeding areas since the Qin Dynasty. In many cases, they even raised more than 100,000 war horses. Otherwise, those war horses were raised when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty conquered the Xiongnu.

Where does it come from?

In the fourth year of Yuanshou, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty dispatched the largest expeditionary force in history, led by General Wei Qing and Cavalry General Huo Qubing, and crossed the desert to attack the hinterland of the Huns. This battle is the famous "Battle of Han-Hungary Mobei".

In this battle, how many horses did Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty use in total?

"Historical Records: Biography of the Xiongnu" records: "... Naimao had a hundred thousand horses and 140,000 horses as private servants, and the grain was not enough."

In other words, there were 100,000 war horses dedicated to frontal combat and fed with millet, and 140,000 "private horses" who did not need to be fed special grain and fodder. A total of 240,000 war horses were dispatched!

Moreover, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also wanted to leave some stallions and horses for daily use, so it can be roughly calculated that the number of war horses raised by the entire Han Dynasty at that time should be about 300,000...

Of course, there was no national statistics agency at the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and there was no exact value. But if Sima didn't just write it randomly, then the scale of the Battle of Mobei at that time was quite astonishing.

At the same time, it also reflects from the side that the Huns had a lot of war horses at that time. Otherwise, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty would not have to use such a large number of war horses. Moreover, because the Xiongnu tribes were scattered, it is impossible to count the number of war horses, but I believe it must be more than that of the Han Dynasty.

Some, that is to say, on the Xiongnu side, the number of war horses raised will exceed 300,000...

The total number of horses on both sides, tsk tsk...

So both sides could raise so many war horses at that time, but now, even if they are discounted and then broken, Fei lurks in Guanzhong Sanfu and feeds a certain number of war horses with Zhuanghe straw, hay and other feeds as a standing force. What problem can there be? And?

Because most of the straw and hay from the village are grown in our own farms, it’s not true that we didn’t spend any money on it. But if we say it cost a lot, it certainly didn’t.

It's just that some greedy and short-sighted guys in Guanzhong Sanfu can't see or understand this. On the one hand, these people think that the Hussar's food and grass reserves have been exhausted; on the other hand, they think that the Hussar has to raise so many cavalry, and then feed and other
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