Shi Zhongkui himself is not short of horses, after all, he is not short of money.

An ordinary horse worth fifty to a hundred taels of silver is as easy as buying groceries in his eyes.

Moreover, the horse he is riding now is the Hequ horse with Kazakh horse blood that Xue Pan found for him.

In the middle of the Tang Dynasty, Uighurs sold horses to the Tang Dynasty, as many as 100,000 horses per year.

Therefore, most of the horse breeds in the northwest after the Tang Dynasty have some blood relationship with Kazakh horses.

But the problem is that no matter what kind of horse comes to China, it cannot avoid the fate of "introduction, hybridization, improvement, backcrossing and disappearance".

Moreover, all war horses will basically be castrated.

In other words, the best war horses are often unable to produce offspring.

Coupled with the lack of high-quality pasture, China has been known as the Celestial Kingdom from ancient times to the present, but it does not even have good horse breeds.

The only Mongolian horses mentioned in the past are still famous for their low cost, easy breeding and strong recovery.

Shi Zhongkui thought for a long time, and finally decided to get three or five Mongolian horses, Sanhe horses, and Kazakh horses to put in the space ranch to try to see if he could breed new high-quality new horse breeds.

Even if you don't succeed, you can still choose the best one from these stallions or newly bred horses and keep it in the pasture.

I don’t believe that if I continuously absorb spiritual energy for three to five years, I won’t be able to raise a spiritual horse.

And he has already thought that when he returns to heaven, he will definitely get some Pegasus cubs and put them in the space ranch.

Yu Shun was ordered to go to the horse market to select stallions, but he did not expect that Yu Shun would go to the camp on his own the next day.

"Sir, a group of Hu merchants came to the horse market to sell a Pegasus, but the asking price is a golden horse the same size as the Pegasus."

The so-called Pegasus is actually the Khan-blood horse, or Akhal Tekin horse.

Moreover, due to its poor carrying capacity, this kind of horse is actually not suitable to be used as a mount for armored and heavy-weapon units, but its advantages are equally outstanding when it cannot hold up to a sweaty horse.

Before the advent of thoroughbreds in England, sweathorses were definitely the fastest horse breed.

At the same time, the endurance is no worse than that of the Arabian horse, but it is taller and more beautiful.

It is also very resistant to high temperatures and thirst.

Even in high temperatures of 50 degrees Celsius, you only need to drink water once a day, so it is especially suitable for long journeys.

There was a record of running 4,300 kilometers in 84 days.

If it had been any other horse, it would have been lost long ago.

After Shi Zhongkui heard the news, just like the big families in the capital, he both wanted and thought those Hu merchants were crazy.

The weight of an adult horse is generally about 700 to 900 kilograms.

But if converted into gold with the same volume as a horse, the density of gold would definitely weigh more than several tons.

Even more than ten tons.

Even if it is calculated as 5 tons, it is a full 10,000 kilograms.

A pound of ten taels is equivalent to 100,000 taels of gold, and when converted into gold, it is 1 million taels.

Probably no one except Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty would be willing to exchange a golden horse for a bloody horse.

Shi Zhongkui thought about it for a moment and felt that Hu Shang was not a fool. The reason for doing this was probably for other reasons.

Sure enough, within a few days there was secret news that the real purpose of the group of Hu merchants was to find the lost clan girls.

After Shi Zhongkui heard this, he could only shake his head helplessly.

Finding someone is even harder than spending money.

Unwilling to give up, he could only think wrongly. The country with the most bloodshed was Turkmenistan in the real world.

But Kazakhs also have sweat blood, and maybe Kazakh horses have sweat blood in their genes.

If you find a few excellent river horses, you can take that sweaty horse into the space ranch.

It only takes half an hour, enough for several Hequ horses to conceive foals.

Soon the Golden Mouse took the order to find some Hu merchants, but he didn't expect that when Shi Zhongkui rode back to the capital early the next morning, he saw Xia Shouzhong waiting for him at the city gate.

"Dong Zhuangyuan, Your Majesty feels that the burden on your shoulders is too heavy, and is also worried that your inner palace is uneasy, so Shi En recalled the eight beauties given to you by the Empress, and instead gave them to you as a court official to show your favor."

Shi Zhongkui was stunned, he said that all the officials in the court were subordinates of the fourth rank.

If you hang around for a few years, you can easily be promoted to a court council official who is also in the fourth grade.

Once you become a court official, it is natural for you to be promoted to a third-rank official such as Vice Minister.

Shi Zhongkui thought for a moment and realized there must be something he didn't know about.

He sneered, "Eunuch Xia, these words are not His Majesty's original intention, but your own nonsense, right?"

Xia Shouzhong smiled awkwardly. It was indeed difficult to deceive Shi Zhongkui with this reason, and it was also normal for eunuchs like him to take the blame for the emperor.

Then he said in a voice that only two people could hear, "Master Zhuangyuan, if the news is correct, the four Hu Ji given to you by the empress should be the people that the Hu merchants are looking for."

Shi Zhongkui felt happy, then frowned and said, "Those people are really just looking for clan girls?"

Xia Shouzhong chuckled, "Anyway, our family doesn't believe this, and if the Hu translator hired by the Xiu Yiwei didn't deceive our family, those Hu businessmen originally said they were looking for a fiancée."

Shi Zhongkui still didn't believe this, and looking at Xia Shouzhong's expression, he didn't believe it either.

But if you are talking about looking for a princess or a saint, that would be a bit silly.

Fortunately, Shi Zhongkui didn't care about princesses and saints, and he had long wanted to get rid of those four orchids.

"Since Your Majesty likes it, then of course I, as a minister, have to share your Majesty's worries." Shi Zhongkui said to Xia Shouzhong with a smile, "Go back and tell Your Majesty that I will keep that bloody horse in my hands for a month or two.

Wait until the New Year, and present the bloody horse to the Royal Horse Supervisor on the grounds that it is not well-tamed and hopes that Dazhou can breed a good horse."

"Good idea", Xia Shouzhong laughed after hearing this. Giving it to the Royal Horse Prison is actually no different from giving it to His Majesty.

But with the excuse of breeding good horses for Dazhou, no one has any reason to cause trouble to His Majesty and Shi Zhongkui.

Moreover, even if the emperor got the bloody horse, he would not have many opportunities to ride it.

Most of them are like Shi Zhongkui, who also have the idea of ​​improving the royal horse and prison horse breeds.

As for Shi Zhongkui's decision to give up the sweat-blooded horse, besides knowing that there was no shortage of sweat-blooded horses in the Western Regions, he also did not want to be the target of public criticism and be remembered by the civil and military officials of the dynasty, as well as the emperor and the Supreme Emperor.

In this case, it is better to take the horse into the space ranch according to the previous plan.

Taking advantage of the space ranch's ability to increase the weight of each animal by 30 kilograms every day, it only takes a month for a horse to grow.

In other words, the speed of breeding horse breeds in the space ranch is 12 times that of the real world.

Maybe by the New Year's Day two months later, I would have bred a horse breed stronger than Sweat Blood.

Now that it was confirmed that the group of Hu businessmen were looking for our four Hu Ji, things became simple.

Not long after, rumors spread all over the capital that Shi Zhongkui had captured the bloody horse.

The people who were looking for him for a while almost broke through the threshold of the Shi family.

When they learned that Shi Zhongkui had returned to Changping's field camp early, a group of distinguished disciples rode directly to the door to block him.

Shi Zhongkui didn't hide it, he generously asked people to lead the bloody horse out and let these dandies watch.

Some people even wanted to mount a horse, but he agreed.

But as three dudes were thrown to the ground by the sweaty horse one after another, everyone suddenly mistakenly thought that this horse was still a fierce horse that had not been tamed before.

Xue Pan took the opportunity and followed Shi Zhongkui's instructions, adding fuel to the fire and saying a lot of bad things about the Hu merchants. Suddenly, the dudes were thrown off their horses and gathered a group of dudes to find trouble for the Hu merchants.

The group of barbarians didn't believe it at all at first. First they almost had a fight with a group of noble disciples, and then they were surrounded by people from the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division.

He had no choice but to agree to send someone to ride on the horse of sweat and blood in person to prove his innocence.

It's a pity that since Shi Zhongkui got the horse, he would of course take it into the space ranch.

And as long as he is willing, the horse will be completely recovered by the ranch like the golden squirrel.

When Shi Zhongkui gave an order, he would naturally not care whether the previous barbarian was his former master or not.

Moreover, after absorbing the spiritual energy in the pasture for a few days, my physical fitness has also improved to a certain extent.

When being ridden by the previous owner, he immediately started to make a fuss.

In just a few minutes, the person on his back was lifted off his back.

"This is impossible."

Barati completely forgot about the pain in his body, got up with a frown, and limped onto the bloody horse again.

This time he had even less time to be thrown off his horse, and he was thrown twice, so he could not get up.

Xue Pan and a group of distinguished disciples chatted slowly and murmured about returning goods with mocking expressions.

For the Hu people, returning the goods meant that the four women who were taken back would have to become Han maids or even female slaves again.

This is the most unacceptable ending for them.

The final result was naturally as Shi Zhongkui expected. The people and horses all stayed in the capital, and the matter was not over until the Hu people brought two horses of sweat from the Western Regions.

As for why there are two horses, of course it is the price of deception, and they are still two mares.
To be continued...