Chapter 429 Transaction with Ekaterina

"Give me a group of Don horses for the Cossack cavalry."

Chutian dined in the main hall of the southern main city, opposite Ekaterina at the long table. He unceremoniously asked Ekaterina for a batch of first-class war horses.

The cost of raising ordinary war horses in Xuzhou and Yanzhou is very high. The land for raising an ordinary war horse can be used for farming and can support a dozen people. As for the best war horses, it requires sophisticated feed and the cost is higher.

So Chu Tian hit Ekaterina's idea.

Ekaterina mentioned that she has a territory on the Don River, so her cost of raising war horses is much lower. The Don Horse is an excellent war horse used by the Cossack cavalry. If you can dig a group of war horses from Ekaterina and go back to the Eastern Han Dynasty, you can save 100,000 taels of silver, which is also considered to be 10,000 taels of gold. For Ekaterina, the training cost of thousands of Don River horses was less than 100,000 taels of silver.

Ekaterina squinted: "What do you want the Don hippo to do?"

"Improving the horse breeds in the Central Plains of the Eastern Han Dynasty."

"The war horses in the army are all gelding horses, and you can't bring them back to the Eastern Han Dynasty. If I return to the main world, I can give you hundreds of stallions that have not been gelded. However, it is difficult for you to improve the horse breed. "

Ekaterina looked at the man sitting opposite, not very optimistic about his plan to try to improve the horse breed.

Chutian knew that she had a large number of cavalry, and she was an eagle on the prairie. She should have great insight into raising horses: "How do you say it?"

"First of all, with the natural conditions in your place, high-quality war horses cannot be taken care of well. A large number of Don hippos die every year, and their breeds will decline. If you take care of them carefully and maintain the breeds, horse administration will cost a lot. The cost of a premium warhorse may be several times higher than the cost of a premium warhorse purchased directly, because the purchased warhorse can be put into use immediately.”

"Secondly, if the base number of good horses introduced is too small, plus the good horses die every year due to acclimatization, and the base number to be improved is very large, the breeding results are likely to disappear during the process of backcrossing."

"Furthermore, it takes ten years for the improvement of war horses to achieve little results, and thirty years for the results to be significant. This is still the improvement of horse breeds under modern conditions. Unless you think that the second generation of horses can achieve the results you want, then The probability is very small.”

"Finally, it's still the soil and water issue. The improvement of horse breeds may fail, and two or three generations may not be able to produce an ideal thoroughbred horse. Some ancient civilizations even spent hundreds of years improving horse breeds."

Ekaterina's words made Chutian need to make more detailed considerations.

Horses can be raised in farming areas.

Just caring for war horses from a young age, plus the opportunity cost of mortality, breed degradation, and occupation of cultivated land, is much higher than the cost of nomadic areas. There is a higher chance of degeneration of superior warhorses.

The main reason is that the war horse has been improved for too long. In modern times, it took ten years for the improvement of war horses to see initial results, and it took thirty years to achieve remarkable results.

Thirty years, Chu Tian thought that he was in his fifties...

For thirty years, Chutian thought that he was enough to snatch a horse-producing land.

"Give up the war horses in your place. You can consider using Mongolian horses, Dawan horses, and Donhe horses to improve Ili horses. The breeding of Ili horses is mainly Donhe horses. Or, use Mongolian horses, Baikal horses, Arabian war horse, improved Sanhippo. However, you must have excellent pastures, such as alpine meadows, mountain meadows, mountain meadows and grasslands... Otherwise, it will be extremely difficult to improve horse breeds, or it will cost a lot of money, and it may not be able to achieve the goal. , unless you have the resources and conditions of an industrial civilization.”

Ekaterina talked eloquently.

Chu Tian's eyes lit up, Ekaterina was a talent.

No wonder she can become the largest lord of the Grand Duchy of Moscow.

Ekaterina saw Chu Tian staring at her. Although her body was a little hot, she still asked anxiously, "What's wrong? What am I saying?"

"No, you're right. Having good pastures can really reduce the burden. But improving horse breeds can be tried now to prepare for the next generation. This generation can't use it, and it can be used in the future."

Chu Tian looked at Ekaterina with hot eyes: "I really want to take you back to the Eastern Han Dynasty to raise horses."

Yekaterina was a little annoyed, she could raise a child, but how could she be allowed to raise a horse.

Chu Tian already knew something.

It takes a lot of time and energy to improve horse breeds, and it is impossible to quench thirst.

In the generation of Chutian, it is faster than the improvement of horse breeds to snatch the production land and sweep the world.

Improving horse breeds takes time and can be done at the same time.

Perhaps in ten, twenty, or even thirty or fifty years, the local horse breeds have undergone earth-shaking changes.

"Can you let me go now?"

Of course, Chutian couldn't catch Yekaterina in the Eastern Han Dynasty to raise horses. Whether Yekaterina is willing to let him go is a question.

"Who wants to keep you here, Sophia, take him away."

"I'm leaving."

"Wait..." Ekaterina was remorseful again, and she became witty. "How do I give you the stallion of the Don Hippo? We should build a teleportation array in our territory."

With the teleportation array, there will be a way to deceive Chutian to St. Petersburg in the future...

"Can a teleportation formation be established between the Eastern Han Dynasty and the city of the Grand Duchy of Moscow?"

Chu Tian was a little surprised.

You know, his summer city and Yekaterina's St. Petersburg are separated by half the world. Yes, exactly half the world.

"St. Petersburg is the 'world trade node' of the Grand Duchy of Moscow. You should know that between world trade nodes, you can pay a high price for teleportation. If your Han Empire's world trade node 'Western Region Protectorate' is willing to sign an open teleportation agreement with St. Petersburg Once the treaty is reached, I can send someone to bring the horses from St. Petersburg to the Western Regions Protectorate, and then use the Western Regions Protectorate to go to other cities in the Eastern Han Dynasty."

Ekaterina explained.

In fact, it is very simple, that is, it is transmitted from St. Petersburg to the Protectorate of the Western Regions, and then from the Protectorate of the Western Regions to Xiacheng.

The world trade node is very important, ensuring the circulation of special products and population, and is also a way to carry out expeditions.

The Western Regions Protectorate and Nanhai County were two world trade nodes in the Eastern Han Dynasty, representing the land Silk Road and the Maritime Silk Road respectively, and were occupied by the Western Regions Protector Huo'an and Jiaozhou Muwang Defa.

Huo An's relationship with Chutian is ok, and signing the St. Petersburg-Western Region Protectorate Treaty should not be a problem.

In theory, it is possible to use the teleportation array to sneak attack on other civilizations, but Chutian doesn't need to worry too much.

The teleportation array can only transmit a few hundred people at most at a time, and the cost is extremely high. Unless a lord is rich enough, he will send troops directly from St. Petersburg to attack the Protectorate of the Western Regions. Send hundreds of people at a time, just to die.

Furthermore, the teleportation formation is mutual, and the Protectorate of the Western Regions can also send troops to St. Petersburg.

St. Petersburg is a bridgehead for attacking northern and eastern Europe.

If there is money in the future, Chutian would not mind taking a hundred thousand troops to St. Petersburg for sightseeing.

"There is no problem with opening the teleportation array, but you will give me 20,000 Don River war horses and 30,000 other war horses. 50,000 war horses should not be a big problem for you who owns a pasture. Go back to the main world. I am of great use. In consideration, I will give you a sum of gold and silver."

Chutian won a lot of loot in the national war, and found a lot of gold and silver jewelry from the dead enemy soldiers, as well as the throne of Suleiman the Great, Chutian Tongtong used it to exchange with Ekaterina.

Ekaterina has a vast grassland, more than Xu Fengnian's Longxi war horse. Plus a personal relationship...

For the exchange of interests on the battlefield of the national war, there is no need to consider the cost of the teleportation array. Chutian can buy three war horses from Ekaterina for the price of one war horse from Xu Fengnian!

Of course, this was with the consent of Ekaterina.

When it comes to business, Ekaterina is serious and refuses to back down.

"Don't forget that you are still my servant. You should obey your master's request. Otherwise..."

In order to buy 50,000 fine war horses from Ekaterina at one-third of the market price, Chutian had to take out the hemp rope that Ekaterina gave him.

Although Ekaterina is a pervert, Chutian can only sacrifice himself for the sake of fifty thousand war horses...

"No, this is 50,000 war horses... I... I will never agree..."

Ekaterina is determined.

About two hours later, the defeated Ekaterina finally decided to sell 50,000 war horses to Chutian.

50,000 war horses were really nothing to her. In this national war, there were more than 50,000 warhorses captured alone. Catherine used her troops to conquer the Cossack tribes in the Don Valley, and she did not know how many horses she had.

Chutian took care of Ekaterina and obtained 50,000 war horses. Ekaterina promised that after the opening of the teleportation array, she would send the best stallions among the Don horses to Xiacheng, and then she left Yeka contentedly. Terina's room.

Chutian's officers were anxiously waiting for their lord to return. Their lord suddenly disappeared last night, even Dian Wei didn't know about it.

Joan of Arc and Li Xiuning asked Sophia for someone, but Sophia didn't know what to do.

When Chu Tian came out, the tension between the two sides was resolved.

Li Xiuning seemed to see something, she was as shrewd as Xia Xia Liang after all.

It is neither complicated nor complicated, nor simple.

Chutian approached Huo An to discuss opening up the Silk Road with Europe. Huo An's Protectorate of the Western Regions was originally a transit station between the East and the West, and he was happy to open a teleportation array with St. Petersburg: "As long as the surveillance of the teleportation array is strengthened and the teleportation array is closed in time, the European legions will not be able to reach the Western Regions. Guardian."

"Then it's up to you."

Chutian just had to wait for Ekaterina to deliver the Don Hippo stallion as agreed.

Chutian also purchased a batch of Dawan horse stallions from Huo An, and carried out a small-scale improvement plan for horses.

However, the cost of raising good horses in the Central Plains is high and the time is long. The military horses that are usually purchased are fan horses and cannot breed offspring.

Before capturing the horse-producing land, the source of good war horses was basically still buying.

Ekaterina's 50,000 warhorses are enough for Chutian to squander for a while. What's more, Chutian also captured a lot of war horses in the national war, including Mongolian horses, Arabian horses... but most of the war horses were gelding horses and lost their ability to reproduce.

"With St. Petersburg in the future, can't we send troops to Eastern Europe?"

Huo An thought.

"It also depends on whether Yekaterina agrees. She should not want our troops to set foot on her territory."

Chutian draws a line between the individual and the territory, and most likely Yekaterina did the same.

She would allow Han troops to appear in Eastern Europe unless there was a common interest.

When Huo An thought about it, it was true: "And from the Protectorate of the Western Regions to St. Petersburg, the cost is not small. It is estimated that a soldier will need 20-30 taels. A hundred thousand troops is 2,000,000 taels, or even 3 million taels of silver. "

Thinking of this astronomical figure, Chu Tian and Huo An both shook their heads.

Unless you organize a special expedition, you are willing to spend such a big price.

"The national war is coming to an end, and Temujin has no chance to overtake in a short period of time. Just in case, Cao Cao, Wei Qing, and Le Yi swept the nearby enemies."

In order to suppress Temujin in the last period of the national war, Chutian sent Wei Qing, Cao Cao, Le Yi and other commanders to sweep the nearby civilizations and continue to accumulate points.

Cao Cao served as Chutian's stand-in in the first battle in the southern main city, which was regarded as a certificate established by Cao Cao.

Wei Qing and Zhou Yafu may not have Cao Cao's omnipotence, but their ability to command troops and horses is almost the same as Cao Cao's, ranking in the ranks of army commanders.

Cao Cao's loyalty has also increased, coupled with Chutian's "Han Wu" characteristics, Cao Cao's loyalty has increased even more.

Then just wait until the end of the national war.

During this period, Ekaterina selected 50,000 war horses to Chutian. Anyway, after returning to the Grand Duchy of Moscow, she will soon be able to replenish her war horses.

"These war horses have lost a lot of fat after the national war, and they need to be taken care of."

Ekaterina was clearly familiar with war horses.

Chutian took over 50,000 horses, and at the same time paid a lot of gold and silver, and handed the throne of Suleiman the Great to Catherine.

Catherine will gain the throne of Suleiman the Magnificent and her popularity in Europe will soar because Suleiman is one of Europe's enemies.

To Chutian, Suleiman's throne was just a piece of gold inlaid with gems, and it was absolutely not a loss to exchange for a war horse.

Ekaterina looked at Joan of Arc and Li Xiuning with vague hostility.

The national war was about to end, and Temujin, who was besieging the city of the Mughal Empire, found that he had no chance to catch up with Chutian, because Chutian's points were still increasing.

Lack of large-scale siege equipment such as Xiangyang artillery, the Mongolian cavalry was not strong enough to attack the city, and could only rely on the servant army to attack the city.

Crassus, one of the three giants of Rome, was brought by the Mongolian cavalry to meet Temujin, who was overseeing the battle.

Crassus was sweating profusely in front of the Great Eastern Demon King.

"The national war will end soon, and you will be taken to Mobei to serve me, but you can survive. The premise is that you have a talent..."

Temujin slid the dagger through Crassus' throat. Crassus felt the chill of the dagger and swallowed: "Money, I am willing to redeem my freedom with 10,000 taels of gold!"

Temujin said indifferently: "No, you have to help me get one million taels of gold."