Chapter 602: Extremely Crazy
There have been huge changes in Prairie City in the past two years.
It is not just as simple as upgrading from a village to a city, what is more important is that even the positioning has changed.
The grassland city was originally built as a military camp for the purpose of training and storing troops, and as a stronghold of their Great Zhou in the grassland area, taking root here.
But now there are already garrison camps on the grassland, and because of the year-round garrison, the scale has become quite large and the facilities are complete, so they can also train and store troops there.
In this way, the functions of the grassland city and the garrison camp are highly overlapping.
Faced with this situation, Zhou Xu waved his hand and officially moved the military barracks to the garrison camp, and transferred Ye Jinghong there as the commander-in-chief.
After that, Prairie City developed into a proper city.
Later, some new population was transferred here to contribute to the development here, and now the main focus is on developing animal husbandry.
After a round of development, Zhou Xu was still very satisfied with the development of Caoyuan City in the past two years.
As of now, the animal husbandry and related industries here are doing very well, in line with his expectations.
Taking a step forward, Zhou Xu walked towards the last stop of this inspection, the horse farm!
The horse farm can be said to be the most important facility in Prairie City. After all, it is related to the production of war horses for their Great Zhou cavalry.
Outside the horse farm, Ma Guotao, the owner of the horse farm, had received the news that Zhou Xu was coming, and was already waiting there.
As soon as he saw Zhou Xu coming, he hurried forward to salute.
"Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you!"
"No need to be polite."
There was no need for Zhou Xu to say more after that, Ma Guotao made a quick "please" gesture.
Due to the special nature of this horse farm, Zhou Xu would often come to inspect the situation. As time went by, he and Ma Guotao became completely familiar with each other. After completing the necessary procedures, they were not so restrained when getting along with each other on a daily basis.
When Zhou Xu saw Ma Guotao's enthusiastic look at this moment, he knew that this guy must be eager to show off to him.
Of course, having said that, Zhou Xu himself was actually very much looking forward to it.
"Wait a moment, my king."
After entering the stable and arriving at an open space, while Ma Guotao was talking, Zhou Xu saw two stable staff members in the distance, one on each side, controlling a yellow horse with two ropes and walking towards them.
During this process, it was not known whether the yellow horse noticed Zhou Xu's presence or not, but it began to struggle. At the back, it even raised its two front legs and neighed loudly.
Zhou Xu raised his eyebrows slightly as he watched this scene.
"Your temper is still so bad?"
Needless to say, this was exactly the grumpy little pony that Ma Guotao had chosen.
Hearing this, Ma Guotao smiled.
"Although this guy's temper is still not good, he wasn't throwing a tantrum just now."
"oh?"
"It's showing off, really showing off, it's really crazy."
Ma Guotao revealed the answer with a smile.
Zhou Xu nodded to show that he understood.
Judging from the status, as a Ferghana horse, this guy is basically like the king of horses in this horse farm, so it is natural for him to show off.
During this period, Ma Guotao did not forget to continue introducing him.
"A white face and four white legs. We usually call this a Five-Lucky Horse."
The four white hooves were very evenly colored, and looked comfortable. The originally brown hair had become brighter. In the sun, the body with perfect muscle lines actually had a metallic golden luster! Even Zhou Xu, who had basically never studied horses, could feel the power of this horse from this appearance.
"Please look at its trunk, my king."
Following Ma Guotao's guidance, Zhou Xu focused his attention on its torso. Then, with the breathing of this Arabian horse, the outline of its ribs, like shark gills, was fully displayed in front of Zhou Xu's eyes with every breath.
"Panoramic sunroof, naturally aspirated engine, travels a thousand miles a day, eight hundred miles a night, and only needs a handful of grass to travel a hundred kilometers."
What he said at the beginning was quite serious, but at the end, Ma Guotao played a little trick and made a joke on him.
Later, at Ma Guotao's signal, two staff members led the Arabian horse and circled in front of Zhou Xu twice, allowing Zhou Xu to see it from all sides.
"Is it ready for breeding now?"
It must be said that Zhou Xu was also very excited at the sight of this extremely handsome Arabian horse.
Of course, reason told it that this Arabian horse was to be used for breeding, so he had to stay calm.
"Yes, my king. I will arrange it next spring."
Over the past two years, after catching a certain number of wild horses, their Great Zhou horse farm has grown to a certain scale, and many foals have been successfully born, but the one Zhou Xu is most looking forward to is obviously this one.
"Have you discovered any potential stocks recently?"
"have."
As he was talking, Ma Guotao led Zhou Xu to a fence. Inside the fence, a black pony was circling in circles a little anxiously. The scene really seemed familiar.
"Is this also a Ferghana horse?"
"It has some characteristics of a Ferghana horse, so it's probably not a purebred. But if it grows up, it can be kept for breeding, or used as a war horse."
After giving a brief evaluation, Ma Guotao obviously had no intention of staying here any longer, and quickly led Zhou Xu towards the next fence.
"The highlight is here."
As he said this, Ma Guotao presented the white horse in the fence to Zhou Xu as if he was presenting a treasure.
At that moment, Zhou Xu couldn't help but narrow his eyes.
Unlike the previous Arabian horse that had been raised since childhood, this white horse was simply dazzling. In the sunlight, its silver-white fur had a metallic luster and was slightly pink. Its extraordinaryness was revealed from every angle of 360 degrees.
Before Zhou Xu could ask any question, Ma Guotao had already impatiently revealed the answer.
"This is also a Ferghana horse! It was caught in Mustang City half a year ago."
The fact that they were able to catch the foal among the wild horses meant that there must be some Arabian horses among the herd. Zhou Xu had guessed this a long time ago.
But even so, Zhou Xu was still very surprised when he learned that they had successfully captured a Ferghana horse.
"When it first came, it wasn't that pretty. It was much more shabby than this. I put in a lot of effort and took good care of it for half a year before it became like this."
Having said this, Ma Guotao paused.
"Given their age, we can wait until next spring to breed them. They will give birth to purebred Arabian horses!"
After hearing what Ma Guotao said, Zhou Xu's expectations soared. He then chatted with Ma Guotao for a long time about the topic of breeding of Arabian horses before leaving.
(End of this chapter)
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