Traveling through ancient times, I led my family to prosperity

"It's free. It was given to me by Lord He." Xiao Lan placed the black colt in the shed, fed it the grass for cattle, smoothed its fur and said, "Just make do with it today. I'll prepare the best grass for you tomorrow."

Grass, hay and wheat straw are all coarse feeds. It is impossible to feed horses only with these. In addition to coarse feeds, horses also have to be fed concentrated feeds, such as soybeans, wheat, wheat bran, etc. This is the treatment for ordinary horses. If they are good horses, they probably have to eat even finer food.

Xiao Lan decided to take good care of this black foal, so these good things were naturally indispensable.

After taking care of the foal, Zhang took Xiaolan aside and asked her what she had been doing these days. Xiaolan just smiled and said, "Okay, mother, it's getting late now, you should go back to bed."

"Xiao Lan, there is still hot water in the kitchen. Go take a bath quickly. Mother will fetch some water for you." Zhang smiled and went to make arrangements.

Xiaolan immediately breathed a sigh of relief. She knew that Zhang really wanted to know what she had been doing these days, but when her mother saw that Xiaolan had changed the subject, she wisely stopped asking.

Seeing how Zhang indulged Xiao Lan, Shen sighed and said, "Alright, alright, go to bed quickly. No one is allowed to be lazy or unable to get up tomorrow morning."

As expected, Xiao Lan fed the black foal with fine feed the next day. When she returned home and saw the table full of delicious food, she was deeply moved. This is a family, a family that cares about each other.

Recently, the atmosphere on the border has suddenly become strange. Although the people of Shengjia Village live in the village, they have also heard a lot of news. The most talked about thing is that the Arabs and the Jin Dynasty fought a war for no apparent reason. The Arabs accused the Jin Dynasty of violating the alliance, robbing their horses, and demanded that they return them.

However, the Great Jin said that the Arabs had attacked their garrisons. As for the horse theft, the Great Jin claimed that the Arabs had fabricated the story and deliberately framed them.

The Arabs felt particularly guilty because they had lost something important, and that important defense map was about the Jin Dynasty. They even suspected that the Jin Dynasty had obtained the intelligence and deliberately snatched the defense map back.

It turned out that the big shot who came to the horse farm of the Dashi Dynasty that day was the third prince of the dynasty. Now he could only send people to investigate secretly while arguing with the Dajin people. Because he firmly believed that the people who stole the horses that night were from the Dajin people, or that their target was not the horses at all, but the defense map inside the saddle.

Even though the horse thieves were wearing the uniforms of the Great Qi Dynasty, he could still see their intentions. They wanted to mislead him. The Third Prince sneered twice. The Great Qi Dynasty had just finished fighting with the Great Jin Dynasty and was resting. How could they possibly provoke the Great Qin Dynasty again at this time? Moreover, the war between the Great Qi Dynasty and the Great Jin Dynasty was also provoked by the Great Jin Dynasty. If the Hu people had not gone south to collect grass, how could the two countries have fought?

The Great Jin Dynasty suspected that the Great Qi Dynasty was responsible for this. Although the people who came to attack the stronghold that day wore the uniforms of the Great Qin Dynasty and used the arrows of the Great Qin Dynasty, the soldiers who pursued them saw that some of the retreating people were wearing the uniforms of their Great Jin Dynasty.

However, he allowed him to search for these soldiers for a long time, but he still couldn't find anyone. This made people suspicious. This inexplicable war was obviously instigated by someone to make them fight with the Arabs. Who would benefit the most? Of course, it was the Great Qi. They felt that this war was a trick of the Great Qi Dynasty.

As soon as the topic was brought up by the people of the Great Jin, before they had time to discuss it in depth, they were angered by the endless demands of the Great Tang for horses. In addition, they also captured several Great Tang spies in the past few days, and their purpose was to find the stolen horses.

There are only a hundred or so war horses. When did the Arabs become so stingy?

Even the most carefree Jin couldn't help but wonder if there was some secret hidden on the horse. The Jin was so aggressive that they wanted to find out the truth, but the Arabs became more cautious. In Liaodong Prefecture, when Shen Liu saw the defense map brought back by He Mingyu, he did not immediately send people to identify the authenticity of the map, but directly ordered the entire Liaodong Prefecture to relax outside and tighten inside.

The outer defense remained unchanged, but the soldiers of the third battalion were quietly sent to Quanshuizhen to closely observe the situation. In case of an attack on the right, their army would have to defend Quanshui Town.

He Mingyu approached Shen Liu and said, "General, do you think this defense map is true?"

"We can tell whether it's true or false after we check it out," Shen Liu said, "But now is not the time to fight. We need to strengthen our troops first. Then we can do experiments to test whether the defense map is true or false."

Shen Liu put the drawing away, took it to his bedroom, knocked open a hidden brick under the bed, revealing a small space, and then he placed the box containing the drawing inside.

In the afternoon, Shen Liu and He Ming arrived at the stable together. When they saw the foal being sent to the stable and living in the stable, they smiled so much that their eyes narrowed into a line.

The horse farm has finally gotten rid of the fate of having no horses. The horse breeder didn't know the origins of these horses. He only knew that they were sent by the soldiers under Lord He. He thought that He Mingyu bought them at a high price.

"General, there are not enough stables in this horse farm. The weather is getting cold, and we can't let the horses I bought at a high price freeze to death. We have to find someone to build stables quickly." In order to prevent people from thinking that these were the horses lost by the border country of Daqin, He Mingyu deliberately said that these horses were bought.

Then He Mingyu began to work as a supervisor without any complaints. Then he snorted in his heart, and from now on, I can openly tell others that I have horses in my horse farm. Although there are only more than 300 horses now, I can increase them slowly in the future.

Although he was happy, the weather was going to get cold in a few days, so he had to hurry and build a stable, as these foals couldn't stand the cold.

This winter is particularly cold. Xiao Lan put on a thick cotton-padded jacket early. There is not much farm work to do in winter, so the diligent farmers will go up the mountain to chop some firewood.

It is not the winter solstice yet. Because this winter is cold, every household burns a lot of firewood, more than twice as much as before. The firewood that we thought we had prepared was sufficient is now not enough. Therefore, the children in the family have followed the adults to the mountains to collect firewood these days.

A big incident happened in the village these two days. A wild boar ran out of the mountains and almost hurt the children. There happened to be adults nearby who threw stones to drive the wild boar away and saved the children.