The morning sun shines on the body, making people feel particularly warm. The dewdrops on the grass on the roadside have not dried yet, and the sun shines on it, exuding a colorful light.

Xu Ping had no expression on his face and took Han Ju and Su Shen to the horse farm first.

Han Ju was also a little embarrassed. He didn't speak along the way, but just followed Xu Ping silently.

Mei Xun, the group shepherd's envoy drank a little too much last night, and knew that she didn't have to go to court today. The sun was rising and the sun was rising and not getting up. Xu Ping waited for the time being, and finally waited for the personal entourage of Mei Xun to come out to deliver the message. The bachelor's envoy would not go today, so he just asked the group shepherd judge Han Ju to go with Xu Ping to see it. When he went back, he would naturally arrange it in the group shepherd's office.

After obtaining this result, Xu Ping was angry, but he had no choice but to suppress the anger in his heart and take Han Ju to see the horse. Su Shen, the magistrate of Zhongmu, followed him boredly.

It has been half a year since Zhongmu, and he has not come to visit Xu Ping in the village. Yesterday, Mei Xun was coming, so Su Shen hurried to welcome him. Su Shen himself knew that he could not talk to Xu Ping. What's more, as the largest family in Zhongmu, he is rich and powerful, and the Xu family has never caused trouble to the government. Even the reclaimed desert land is to be recorded in the leap year this year, and the Xu family took the initiative to report the acres to the county, and Su Shen was a little embarrassed.

It has always been difficult to measure the land acres of land that was reclaimed from the abandoned horse supervision. It involved the reduction and exemption of money and grain in the first few years, and the ratio of mature fields and wastelands that were reclaimed. Especially for the Xu family, they have almost bought the original Chunze Supervisory. How much farmland and how much wasteland there is cannot be measured at all, and it depends entirely on conscious declaration.

If I change to a minister's house, let alone false reports and conceal reports, I will have to pay any money and food at all. Could it be that Zhongmu County dare to come to collect it directly? Xu Ping didn't want to have a handle in the hands of others, so he wouldn't do this.

Tao Liu was waiting outside the stable early. When he saw Xu Ping bringing people over, he hurriedly stepped forward to greet him.

Xu Ping said to Han Ju: "Judge Han, should we look at the mare that was conceived first?"

"Everyone obeys the orders to be ordered, and the officials must carefully and report what they see and hear."

Xu Ping nodded and ordered Tao Liu: "Let's go and see the mare that is conceived first. Listening to the ears is false, and seeing is true. Only when you see it in your eyes can judge Han go back and explain it."

Tao Liuyingnuo and led everyone to the herd of mares not far away.

When horses are in heat, the farm will divide horses into small groups, with a small group of generally ten or twenty mares. If there were one or two males and two males in this group, and pregnant horses would be in groups alone. Now there are no stallions in the group of horses, but only conceived horses are in groups alone.

Seeing that the vast pastures ahead were divided into small pieces with wooden railings, Han Ju said: "It turns out that horses are raised on the farm. Unlike horse prisons, they are all free-range in it, but the grasslands are not separated."

Xu Ping said: "In spring and summer, horses are in heat, and to prevent accidents, they separate the grasslands. In autumn and winter, these railings are opened. Horses always have to run dozens of miles a day to grow well and cannot be kept in captivity."

Han Ju said yes repeatedly, and silently wrote down these things in his heart.

Tao Liu opened the door of the railing and said to Han Ju: "Judge, this column is eighteen horses. Because they are all pregnant mares, they are more than usual. There are about twenty acres of land outside the grassland, and the village scatters selected grass seeds in the fields every year. Relatively speaking, the grass grown in this way is more popular than the wild horses that grow in normal times."

Han Ju nodded. He could plant grass in the horse prison, but it was not as particular as Xu Pingzhuang, and it was relatively extensive. Moreover, there was no special requirement for grass varieties. He could eat whatever was grown in the field, and the grass prepared in winter was basically the same.

At this time, the dew had not dried, and the horses were still locked in the shed and were not released.

The horse shed is very simple, it is just made of wood and covered with thatch to block the rain. The horse should not be too spoiled, otherwise it will be difficult to adapt to other environments after development, which will be bad.

When I arrived in the horse hut, the first thing I saw was a huge bundle of hay piled high beside the hut, square and neat.

Han Ju said curiously: "Are the grass on the farm to be made like this? Unlike the horse prison, which is bounded in bunches, occupies a large area, and is inconvenient to use, it is better to do this."

Xu Ping said: "Yes, it's good to save good luck by pressing it into bundles like this. However, I told the Qunmusi Department several times, but they just refused to do this. They just said that it was inconvenient to buy it, and it was difficult to convert it into money and grain."

"The official has recorded this matter and will make a decision when he goes back."

Han Ju didn't dare to settle this matter, and he couldn't make the decision. Forage is also part of the money and grain collected, and can be taxed in some areas. For convenience, the first thing the bureaucrats require is to convert food with it.

Generally speaking, the official collection of forage grass at this time is based on bunches or circumferences, and a bunch is basically equivalent to a stone of food. Not only is tax collection, but also transportation. More importantly, the delivery of food and grass to the border areas is also converted in this way. Once the unit is changed, it will inevitably cause temporary chaos. The efficiency of the bureaucratic system in this era is really not satisfactory and it is difficult to correct it at once. As for this, it will reduce efficiency and cause waste, the bureaucrats do not care.

When he arrived at the manger, Tao Liudao said: "Officials, now that mares are conceived, they are not allowed to eat only grass, so they add essence to them at night. The farm planted with black beans, mixed with alfalfa and added ingredients to them at night."

Han Ju nodded. This was the usual practice. The horse shepherd's prison also stored beans and beans. Although these essences were always stolen and sold by horse-raising officials and the wing army, they were repeatedly banned.

After looking at the horse-raising facilities in the shed, Tao Liu looked at the sky and said, "It's almost time. It's time to put the horses out and let them eat grass in the pasture. It's not enough to keep them in the shed all day."

After saying that, he ordered the farmer who was watching the horse, untied the horse's reins, opened the fence, and let the horse go to the grassland outside.

Watching the horses leave the horse shed, Tao Liu said to Han Ju: "Look at Judge Han, these horses have been conceived, and they are not as quick as usual. Horses have spirituality and know how to care for the ponies in their belly."

Several people followed the horses to the grassland for a while and saw that the sun had risen. Xu Ping said to Tao Liudao: "The main thing that the Qunmusi Department is looking at today is to get the horses conceived. It's getting late. You find someone to show Judge Han so that you won't miss the time and can't go back to the capital today. The village is deserted and there is no point in living there."

Xu Ping didn't have the intention to play with Master Mei in this village. He would come back early and come back early. If you want to relax, just wait for the Dragon Boat Festival to return to the village after two days. Mei Xun's status is there, Xu Ping was very tired to accompany him and couldn't relax at all.

A few people left the horse farm and arrived at a remote horse shed, surrounded by railings. The railings were much stronger than the horse farm just now, and the whole thing was like a large courtyard.

After entering, the horse shed was more refined than before, and surrounded by three sides, leaving only the sunny side facing south. At this time, there were only three or five horses in the shed, all of which were majestic and magnificent, and they were carefully selected at first glance.

Tao Liudao: "Judge, this is a stallion specially selected by Zhuangzi. They are all Qingtang horses bought at high prices. Each one costs hundreds of cents! The one on the far right was taken to see by Master Mei last night."

Han Ju looked at it and secretly praised in his heart that the stallions in this farm are much more particular than those in the Hermitage. The best horses in the Horse Prison are picked out and sent to the Qiji Courtyard, which is exclusively for the emperor to ride the carriage and reward princes and ministers. Where can we keep the best horses as stallions? Moreover, the Qiji Courtyard is not a member of the Hermitage Department, and the good horses there will not be distributed.

At this time, the horse supervision did not pay attention to the breeding of horses. They just followed the Mags and breeded more at will. They did not know what bloodline the best horse has. Anyway, they just mixed up together, and whether they can produce good horses depends entirely on luck.

Han Ju looked left and right, and the more he looked, the more he felt that these stallions were so arrogant that they were liked. He asked Tao Liu: "Hidden, how many stallions here can conceive in a year?"

Tao Liu replied: "Reply to the judge, if it were in previous years, he could only have thirty or fifty horses at most. The ponies born did not die prematurely, and only ten or eight were waiting for the Mag after they were raised. This year, because people in the farms used people to help mares conceive, hundreds of horses were normal, and they would probably get one or two hundred good horses."

This number scared Han Ju. Xu Ping's farm was just a Chunze Prison. Even if it was small in the horse prison, a large amount of land has been reclaimed into farmland, and he can still get one or two hundred good horses a year. If the official horse herder's steward had this efficiency, the military horses needed by the imperial guards would be no problem.

When he arrived, Tao Liu pointed to a shelf built of wood and whispered: "Officials, this is a horse bed, which is used to use horse essence. What you want to do below is a bit indecent, so don't blame the official who sees it."

Han Ju nodded: "When you come to the farm, you must look at this. Just do it without worrying."

Tao Liu claimed the crime and ordered the patrolman in the shed to take cloth and cover the horse's eyes, leaving only one left, saying, "This horse has only taken the semen once this year, and just took it again for the judge to look at it."

While speaking, he ordered the shopkeeper to take a mare outside and explained to Han Ju: "There is a high-quality mare and is in heat to come over to attract the stud to get the ejaculation."

When we got here, it was hard for others to answer, so we only watched Tao Liu busy instructing people to do things.

After a while, the shopkeeper led a very energetic mare into the horse pen. Tao Liu called out a man who looked very vulgar, and led the selected stallion to the horse bed and performed a retrieval.

Although Xu Ping, Han Ju and Su Shen had already known what was going on, they were still a little embarrassed when they did it in front of him. They all watched quietly, and could not even hear the sound of breathing.
Chapter completed!