On the eighth day of January, Li Li brought his children to visit the riverside downstream of Hanshanyan to see how horses exercise.

I saw a dark horse walking slowly on a hydraulically driven treadmill.

The technician adjusted the machine speed, and the rotation speed of the thick cloth belt of the treadmill accelerated, and the movement speed of the dark horse also accelerated, gradually turning into a trot.

The speed continued to accelerate, and the dark horse ran quickly, but because there were cross beams in front and back, they could not run out, so they could only follow the rotation speed of the treadmill.

The little guys looked at the horse 's galloping in place', with wide eyes. Li Ping'an asked, "Aye, isn't this horse running in place, stupid?"

"It's not stupid, it's exercising." Li Li smiled and Li Ping'an asked again: "Stay running in the open space. Is it running here because there is no open space?"

"Well, Ping An is right."

Next to him, Li Anning asked: "Aye, there is a cloth strap under the belly of this horse. Is it necessary to prevent it from falling and breaking its legs?"

"Yes, An Ning looked carefully." Li Li nodded. The eldest daughter, the second daughter, is six years old, has a flexible mind, many questions, and many ideas.

The eldest son Li Fang pointed to the technician waiting by the treadmill: "Aye, don't they take whips?"

"What are you doing with a whip?"

"If you don't run hard, you have to hit the palm of your hand." Li Fang was impressed by seeing his mother holding a ruler to urge her sister to learn to write.

Li Li replied: "Oh, but you can't hit it on this treadmill. If you scare the horse, it will fall."

After a while, the treadmill slowed down and then slowly stopped. The technician opened the horizontal bar and led the black horse out. After a while, two other people walked up with a mottled horse.

There are currently ten hydro treadmills here. They were just installed before the New Year and after the commissioning was qualified, they were officially launched. They specially trained horses to exercise endurance and speed measurements.

Li Ping'an, who had many questions, then asked: "Aye, is it a test for horses to run here?"

"Yes, the test scores need to be recorded. If the scores get worse, they will need to make up for the lessons."

"How to make up for the tutoring?"

"Eat more wheat and grow stronger, and you can run faster and longer."

"Aye, why can't I eat more pastries as a tutoring?"

"Because you want to use your brain, not your feet."

"oh..."

The little guys asked questions in a slight manner, and the questions asked were all kinds of strange. Even Li Shi, who was not speaking properly, had something to say.

Li Qi rode on Li Li's neck, pulling Aye's hair with one hand and pointing at the treadmill with the other: "Aye, I'm going to go up and run..."

Li Li smiled and said, "Yes, but you have to wait until you grow up, otherwise you will fall down if you can't keep up while running."

Next to him, Duan Shao, whose pseudonym was Liang Xiaoyan, looked at the "treadmills" in front of him and the horse galloping on the "treadmills" and felt it was difficult to understand.

He has been dealing with horses for decades, and of course he knows how to raise horses and train horses, but he has never seen anyone use a machine to train horses.

It is said that we need to exercise the endurance of the horse, but this is how it is done to practice endurance?

Duan Shao is now a prisoner of Li Li, but his treatment is still good. He works as a riding instructor under Li Li, trains recruits to ride horses and practice riding.

And this is the "gym" for horses. Just like the gym of the soldiers in Li Li's army, once put into use, there will be horses "gap in place" here every day.

But is this really useful?

Duan Shao felt that it was a waste of effort, because there was a wilderness outside Hanshan Mountain and the terrain was quite flat. Now a horse farm has been built, so there is no place to run horses.

Isn't it much better to let the horse gallop in the wilderness than to run in place on a strange machine here?

Li Ping'an and Li Anning also thought of this question.

Girls always get to know each other earlier than boys. When two clever daughters ask this question, Li Li replied: "How many legs do people use when walking?"

The little girls replied: "Two legs."

"That's it. There are two ways to make the horse run. Either there is a big enough place to move the horse, or the floor will move. You can see that just a little bit of it can make the horse run sweat all over."

Li Li's explanation was easy to understand, and the little girls were thinking, while Li Fang continued to watch the horse running on the treadmill, which was fascinating.

Li Li also looked at these treadmills and felt helpless: indeed, using treadmills to exercise horses is a bit of a sinister way.

If there is a large grassland for the horse to run to the fullest, why should he bother with the machine? But since the facts prove that the treadmill is effective and the conditions allow it, this machine is of course used.

At least it can ensure that the horse has sufficient exercise and exercises endurance.

When in Poyang, because there was little flat ground, Li Li tried his best to make sure that the horse he had saved up with great effort could have enough exercise.

He felt that since people can exercise in the gym, then horses should be fine, but they just need to explore how to do it.

Li Li specially organized a team to raise horses (including horse breeding and horse training). After years of training, the team has grown up and the scale of horse raising has gradually increased.

After continuous exploration, the "treadmill" dedicated to horses is becoming more and more perfect, and the training effect is still OK.

Of course, there is no way to do this. If there is enough flat ground, building a serious horse farm is the best solution.

Only vast grasslands like the prairie can produce many horses.

Is that true?

Li Li doesn't think so.

Although he doesn't know how to raise horses and has never been exposed to related industries, he knows a fact.

According to traditional perspectives, the small-regioned Dongyang island countries cannot raise the scale of horse raising because there are no grasslands.

However, after the introduction of excellent Western horse breeds and breeding and breeding techniques in modern times, the horse politics in the East has made rapid progress, and the number and quality of its horses have been greatly improved, and it once became a major horse breeding country.

It can be seen that without vast grasslands and large open spaces, a large number of high-quality horses can be reproduced.

The premise is to raise horses scientifically and be willing to invest.

From reproduction, cultivation, training to use, we must be scientific and attach importance to Ma Zheng at the national policy level, and invest a lot of resources in this regard.

Instead of regarding raising horses as a low-key career, we cannot regard horse politics as an optional side job, and we cannot regard riding horses as a vulgar behavior.

Unfortunately, the Liang Kingdom of this era cannot do it.

The Liang State had neither a powerful horse government nor a horse-producing land nor a large amount of willingness or financial resources to raise horses. It even valued civilians over military affairs, and officials were ashamed of riding horses.

It is conceivable how low the social status of the horse breeding industry personnel is.

Before the emergence of tanks, cavalry was the main mobile combat troops in war, which played a very important role in the victory or defeat of the war.

Overall, cavalry must not be missing if they want to win a battle.

The basis for the strong cavalry is that there are a large number of war horses, that is, there is a powerful horse politics, which continuously provides high-quality mounts for cavalry.

The Northern Dynasties had a good geographical location, and had a large number of horses raised on the plains, that is, they had horse-producing land, but the Southern Dynasties did not, so there was no way.

Therefore, in this era of extremely low scientific and technological level, geographical factors led to the large scale of cavalry in the Southern Dynasties.

In the south of the Yangtze River and in the Huai River, the Southern Dynasties army could also rely on the water net terrain to deal with the Northern Dynasties army. However, once the battlefield reached Henan and Hebei, if the number of cavalrymen was not good, it would be a waste of people.

Li Li thought about it carefully that instead of thinking about equipping the army with muskets, it is better to calm down, accumulate horses, raise horses, and find ways to increase the number of horses in the army to improve the army's mobile offensive capabilities.

Only in this way can we fight the enemy head-on in the Great Plains without falling behind.

The disadvantage of a good geographical location (no horse-producing land) is real, but Li Li feels that he still has a way to shorten the gap, which is to rely on "scientific horse-raising".

Although he doesn't know how to do it, he can organize a team to learn, constantly explore, and persevere, and he will definitely achieve results.

......

In the afternoon, in the southern suburbs of Hanshan City, Li Li stood at the top of the city and looked down at the situation inside the city.

This sub-city is actually a large horse farm. The horse farm wall is the city wall. All the internal facilities are related to the horse farm. Li Li spent a lot of money to build it.

He didn't know how to raise horses, but he organized a team to be responsible for this matter. He also worked together to raise horses according to the workplace division system, division of labor and cooperation.

Li Li felt that if horses are compared to automobiles, then the model of the automobile industry can be moved to the horse breeding industry.

Automobile manufacturing (horse breeding, breeding), driving school (horse field training, horse riding field training), 4S shop maintenance (horse stables, including horse breeding, care, veterinary), etc.

Therefore, this horse farm has rows of clean and tidy stables, each row has a single room (horse house), and each horse has its own single room, which is taken care of by the keeper.

On weekdays, some technicians checked horse hooves, nailed horseshoes, changed horseshoes, and veterinarians checked horses to treat their illnesses.

The feed is coarse and refined materials, which includes large amounts of hay, corn, wheat and other fine materials that can be eaten well, as well as clean drinking water.

There are also special teams responsible for horse breeding and training.

Just like the division of labor in the field, there are special teams in each "working section" in the horse farm.

After years of training, these technical teams have matured. Not only has a horse farm with facilities (relatively) in Poyang Manor, but also a

Li Li turned his gaze to the racecourse that seemed to be a sports field, and he felt relaxed and happy.

Here, there is an indoor straight line training track with a length of two miles and an outdoor straight line training track with a length of three miles.

There is also an oval circular runway (large), with a circumference of six miles, and there is a smaller circular runway with a circumference of two miles.

There is a ceiling on the circular runway and a complete drainage ditches around it, so it will not be affected by the weather.

In addition, there are separate hurdling training grounds and off-road grounds with undulating terrain (up and downhill) and there are fences outside the city, which together with the city walls form a larger circular runway.

This horse farm covers a large area and is not as good as the pastures on the vast grasslands. Of course, it is not enough to see it, but it can give the horse herd enough space to move and live.

Whether it is a straight sprint or a circle of endurance running, it can make the horse move. When needed, the horse can still leave the city and gallop in the wilderness.

Horse raising requires science, and of course, training requires science.

Here, the horses raised are divided into war horses, riding horses, pack horses and picking horses, and war horses and riding horses must be trained.

Not only do horses need to exercise speed and endurance, but they also need to be used as mounts and carry cavalry to conduct relevant skills training. How to arrange them is a complete set of ‘course schedules’.

The entire horse farm is like a busy workplace. A large number of employees conduct "production" in an orderly manner according to their positions. According to the situation of the Poyang horse farm, the effect is very good.

In short, it is...

In order to raise horses, Li Li, who has invested a lot of money for many years, looked at the brand new horse farm and really wanted to shout: "Ninety-Nine Six" here, whether it is a person or a horse!
Chapter completed!