Horses are the foundation of military and armor and the great use of the country. If peace is to distinguish between high and low, it will be difficult to help the distance and near.

Whether the war horse is excellent is of great significance to the rise and fall of the country and peace. This is something that the ancients also knew.

Ma Yuan, who takes horse as his surname, knows this better.

The original horse breeds in the Central Plains region have greatly reduced their running ability and endurance due to long-term captivity and driving. This kind of horse is not ideal for cavalry with extremely high requirements for speed and endurance.

Therefore, it is important to introduce war horses of excellent bloodline to improve war horse bloodline.

But this is not a solution to the problem. The reason why the difference between horses in the Central Plains and horses in the plateau is the breeding environment of war horses.

There are vast grasslands and plateaus in the northern and western Central Plains, with vast land and sparse populations, which are convenient for horses to run and gallop. The breeding of horses is free-range.

Due to geographical restrictions in the Central Plains, the traditional method of raising horses is to be captive, which limits the range of horses' movements.

It was fine at the beginning, but over time, the impact of free-range and captivity on horses was reflected.

The custom of raising horses in the Central Plains cannot be changed. Unless the bloodline improvement of war horses is continuously improved, the advantages of bloodline improvement will still be lost, and excellent war horses will still degenerate into slow horses.

This is very dangerous because Mr. Guo cannot guarantee this, or the Wei Empire cannot always guarantee that it can introduce excellent bloodlines to improve bloodlines in a timely manner.

The number of war horses that can be raised in Bingzhou and Hexi is still limited.

Therefore, Guo decided to take down the grassland areas occupied by the Western Regions and the region and the northern Xianbei region, occupy them for a long time, and use them as livestock areas in the Central Plains to build a grassland animal husbandry economy, and revitalize this idea.

He wanted to raise livestock in these places, provide meat and dairy products to the Central Plains, and also stock war horses in these places, supplemented by bloodline improvement, so as to completely change the dilemma of the continuous deterioration of war horses in the Central Plains.

War horses are tanks in the era of cold weapons, especially after being equipped with the three cavalry artifacts, as the number of cavalry in the Wei army system continued to increase, the number of cavalry victories continued to appear, which was proven.

Yu Jin's raid on the royal city of Fuyu was the cavalry equipped with three artifacts, running at high speed and not even resting, so when he raided the royal city in one fell swoop, Fuyu Kingdom never reacted at all.

This is especially true for heavy armored cavalry made of tall horses and powerful warriors. Although they do not have much practical experience on the battlefield, every time they appear, they will inevitably cause bloody storms in the enemy's military formation.

And raising horses in the Central Plains is really expensive.

Without forage, war horses can only eat rice, and the land needed to raise a horse can support thirty to fifty people. How can this economic account be calculated?

In the end, I am afraid that it will be a horse-eating man-eating encirclement exercise.

The Song people suffered a great loss for this, and Mr. Guo would never repeat the same mistake.

The grassland animal husbandry economic zone must be completed, and the grassland must be controlled, so that the grassland can become a military buffer zone, and a solid line of defense for the northern part of the Central Plains.

So Mr. Guo handed over this difficult task to Ma Yuan.

Let him know that one of his major tasks on his journey west was to obtain excellent war horses from Dayuan Kingdom, and then bring them back to Wei Kingdom to improve the bloodline of war horses.

So Ma Yuan advanced all the way, reached the western end of the Pamir Plateau, and finally found the Dayuan Kingdom.

When they arrived in Dayuan, the equipment of Ma Yuan and others was different from when they set off.

In order to better walk in the desert, they exchanged camels with merchants and travelers from the Western Regions, so the entire caravan was no different from a Western Regions caravan, except for war horses.

Camels are also worthy of the title of Desert Boat. Moving forward in the vast and sparsely populated desert of the Western Regions is indeed faster, better, and more patient than horses.

The huge camel caravan was carrying heavy loads in the desert and slowly arrived in the Dayuan Kingdom.

At this moment, the Dayuan Kingdom no longer had the fearless attitude of the ignorant person back then.

The past, which was severely dealt with by the Han army and bullied by the Shache people, made them no longer arrogant. Faced with the arrival of the Wei United Caravan, they expressed a warm welcome.

The King of Dayuan met with Ma Yuan in person and learned that Ma Yuan wanted to buy a sweat-blooded BMW and other excellent Dayuan horses. He looked at the hundreds of elite knights following Ma Yuan, swallowed and nodded without saying a word and agreed.

Not only did he agree to trade horses, but he also agreed to start a large-scale trade with the joint caravan, and then personally hosted a banquet to entertain key figures in the joint caravan such as Ma Yuan.

The Central Plains products brought by the joint caravan were loved by the Dayuan nobles, including silk, porcelain, and other handicrafts. Then, if nothing unexpected happens, the iron pot was once again welcomed by them.

Along the way, iron pots have always become a hot-selling product, so Ma Yuan set the rules.

First, raise the price of the iron pot, and then restrict sales from being sold at a place, only a part of it is sold so that all countries in the Western Regions can buy and use it in the future, so as to open up the market and gain more share.

After all, iron pots are not the kind that cannot be used anyway. If they are used, they will buy them.

Transplant the living customs of the Central Plains to the Western Regions as a whole, complete this silent change of moistening things, and then take action after completing it, they will not feel pain and then resist violently.

They will accept this fact better.

This is what Mr. Guo thinks.

So Ma Yuan was very polite and enthusiastic about communicating with the Dayuan King, selling him some handicrafts and some luxury goods. The Dayuan King was very happy and liked it very much, and was also willing to exchange goods with the Dayuan Horse and the United Caravan.

The atmosphere of conversation between the two sides was generally good.

After three rounds of wine and both sides were happy, Ma Yuan asked the King of Dayuan about his own questions.

He wanted to know some specific news about the Kushan Empire. It is said that Dayuan and the Kushan Empire are very close and have many interactions.

The King of Dayuan did not hide it, saying that decades ago, Dayuan was indeed ruled by the Kushans and became a role similar to their vassal state.

However, not long after, Dayuan took advantage of the chaos and subsequent decline in the Kushan Empire, and joined forces with Kangju, Huashuzimo and other countries to break free from their throne and become an independent country.

But unfortunately later, I was forced to listen to Shacheguo again.

The King of Dayuan did not say such words clearly, but Ma Yuan could hear them.

The Kushan Kingdom is related to the former Yuezhi people. It is said that the descendants of the Yuezhi people destroyed the country established after the Daxia Kingdom, which once established the country here. It is said that the territory is thousands of miles, the population is millions, and the army is more than 200,000.

"More than 200,000 troops?!"

Ma Yuan was surprised.

Guo Peng once told him that the Kushan Kingdom was a big country with a large army of not small, at least not less than 100,000. This was their troops that attacked the Western Regions back then, but who would have thought that the total military force of the Kushan Kingdom had reached 200,000.

This is enough to prove that the Kushan Kingdom is indeed a great country that cannot be ignored.

However, it seems that this big country is not very good now. Otherwise, according to their number of troops, Dayuan will not be able to escape from the rule of restraint.

But this is also very important.

With more than 200,000 troops, even if they are crowded with people, they cannot be defeated by a small number of troops.

It seems that Guo Peng's judgment is also correct. He must establish a stable bilateral partnership with the Kushan country, and not be hostile to each other.

"They used to be very strong, but in recent times, they have had a lot of friction with the Anxi Kingdom. In the north, our country, the Kangju Kingdom, and the Huashuzi Mo Kingdom, we all resist the Kushan Kingdom, and the Kushan Kingdom, and there is no way for us to do so until now."

The King of Dayuan explained what he knew.

Ma Yuan nodded.

"So that's it, I understand... By the way, does the Kushan people welcome business travelers to their domestic business? If you go, are there anything you need to avoid?"

Ma Yuan, who is well versed in the local customs, asked this question.

The King of Dayuan knew that Ma Yuan might have planned to go to Kushan to do business, so he nodded.

"Of course, I can send someone to lead the way so that the envoy can enter the Kushan country to conduct business. The Kushan country does not exclude foreign merchants from entering the business, and the rest of the country can also enter. It is said that there are merchants from further west to do business, and there are many people anyway."
Chapter completed!