System Blessing: The Young Master of the Dong Family and Diao Chan's Fate

"After my conspiracy, open plot, and open statement... I used a little trick and displayed my divine power..."

"After a bloody battle, our army finally defeated the invading Xianbei cavalry and captured over 10,000 war horses."

Dong Yu began to describe the course of the battle in an exaggerated manner.

Faced with his son's exaggerated performance, Dong Zhuo could not help but hold his forehead helplessly.

But when he heard that more than 10,000 war horses had been captured, his face suddenly changed.

"Where's the horse?"

Dong Zhuo looked at Dong Yu with a strange expression and asked.

"Bring it back."

"I plan to form an invincible cavalry."

"I calculated that 10,000 war horses, if distributed according to the ratio of two horses per person, can form more than 6,000 cavalrymen."

Dong Yu enthusiastically described his plan to Dong Zhuo.

But Dong Zhuo did not show any joy at all, instead he looked worried.

Dong Zhuo looked at his son's excited face, hurriedly pulled his arm, and said something that made Dong Yu look confused.

"Well...sell it."

Dong Zhuo's throat rolled, and he couldn't bear to interrupt Dong Yu's plan.

"Why?!"

Dong Yu tilted his head in disbelief and looked at his father, even speaking in bird language.

"There's no one outside."

Dong Zhuo looked outside the main hall and asked in confusion.

"Give me a reasonable explanation!"

"With over 10,000 war horses, over 6,000 cavalry, and the Flying Bear Army, this kind of fighting power is enough to make us fearless of any prince."

Dong Yu calmed down for a moment, then asked in confusion.

"I can't afford it."

"Is it reasonable?"

Dong Zhuo explained seriously.

Hearing this, Dong Yu blinked, obviously feeling that it was not quite right.

"Do you know how many cavalrymen your father has under his command?"

Dong Zhuo sat back in his seat and asked.

"..."

Dong Yu looked at his father blankly and did not answer.

I definitely don’t know.

The only Xiliang cavalry he came into contact with were the Feixiong Army.

As for how many other cavalry units there were, he really wasn't sure.

"The Feixiong Army's 3,000 cavalry, and the combined 1,000-plus cavalry from all the battalions, make up the entire cavalry of the Xiliang Army."

"Don't listen to what others say about my father having hundreds of thousands of cavalrymen under his command. It's easy to say without any hesitation. If I were one of those cavalrymen, the world would have belonged to me, Dong Zhuo, long ago."

"Horses are such a glutton, we can't even afford to raise 10,000 war horses."

"I can assure you, Yuan Shao is rich, right?"

"He couldn't even muster a thousand cavalrymen."

"With enough money and food to feed a thousand cavalrymen, we can raise an army of tens of thousands."

Dong Zhuo looked bitter and began to complain.

Horses are different from cows, which have multiple stomachs.

It only has one stomach, which results in a very low absorption rate, so it can eat more than cattle and sheep.

As the saying goes, a horse cannot grow fat without night grass.

Horses spend eight to nine hours every day eating, and their daily food intake is more than 50 kilograms of grass and fodder.

It can be said that he is either eating or on the way to eating.

You can even often see horses eating and defecating at the same time.

Of course, the horse’s ability to eat is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that Dong Zhuo’s territory is too small now.

It is only half of Sili, and the population here is small, so the productivity naturally cannot be increased.

Chang'an is definitely different from Luoyang. With the Eastern Han Dynasty moving its capital to Luoyang, Chang'an's former prosperity is no longer there.

With such a small space and population, we really can't support anything.

"If we sell it, won't that be aiding the enemy?"

"That's such a shame."

Dong Yu rubbed his temples and felt a headache.

He had to admit that he had indeed forgotten about it.

As a fine horse, the Red Carbon Fire Dragon Colt needs to eat 70 kilograms of high-quality grass a day.

Ordinary war horses eat less, but still about 50 kilograms or more.

Calculated at 50 jin, 10,000 war horses would be 500,000 jin a day...

After figuring out the accounts, Dong Yu couldn't help but shudder.

No wonder my dad was worried instead of happy when he heard it. These are not ten thousand war horses, they are ten thousand gold-eating beasts.

No wonder that after the Three Kingdoms situation stabilized, Cao Wei was still dominated by infantry corps, retaining only a few thousand Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.