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Shen'an Farm, located in the north of the provincial capital of Liaodong Province, is a government-run farm directly under the Liaodong Provincial Department of Industry.

It is worth mentioning that even if the farm belongs to the category of agriculture, it is still under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry or the local industry department, because it involves official capital management issues.

Except for some special industries, the official investment of the Great Chu Empire is basically under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry.

Although the Ministry of Industry was initially an industry-based organization, it has basically evolved into a government-owned asset management organization.

Regardless of whether it is industry, farms, or some other infrastructure industries, the investment management authority is basically in the hands of the Ministry of Industry.

Of course, there are no special circumstances. Except for the Postal Bank, all other government-run banks are under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Finance.

Da Chu Mansion Newspaper and Da Chu Mansion Newspaper, as well as the provincial newspapers that have emerged in recent years, are under the jurisdiction of the Chaobao Department of the Ministry of Ethics and Education.

Postal banking and the postal industry are under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Communications.

The Railway Corporation was initially under the jurisdiction of the Railway Department of the Ministry of Communications. Later, the Railway Corporation became independent and directly under the cabinet.

The Great Chu Empire Grain Corporation and the Salt Corporation are also second-rank institutions directly under the cabinet.

Although there are special circumstances of one kind or another, generally speaking, when it comes to government-run enterprises, it basically refers to the government-run enterprises invested and established by the Ministry of Industry or various industrial departments, divisions, and departments.

Shen'an Farm is like this. They are invested and managed by the Liaodong Provincial Department of Industry. They are the largest farm in Liaodong Province. They have a large area of ​​arable land and adopt large-scale mechanized cultivation. In addition to planting, they also raise A large number of horses, beef cattle and other livestock.

So they are not only the largest single grain planting base in Liaodong Province, but also the largest government-run horse farm in Liaodong Province. They not only provide a large number of mules and horses for the people, but also provide a large number of horses for the military.

When Luo Zhixue arrived at the farm, the first thing he saw was not a large piece of local farmland, but a large herd of horses in the distance!
"The horse farm here mainly breeds Toyoshu horses, which are very good working horses."

Luo Zhixue naturally knew about the Fengzhou horse, because it was the most important working horse in the Great Chu Empire in the past ten years. It was bred on the basis of some large European horses and blended with the local Mongolian horse blood.

Its average shoulder height can reach about 1.5m[-]. Although its explosive power is a bit weak, it is not suitable for cavalry horses, but its pulling power is very good, and it has a docile personality, good endurance, rough feeding resistance, and good cold resistance.

Therefore, this Toyoshu horse is widely used in agricultural production and transportation.

The military also purchased a large number of Toyoshu horses and bred them in many horse farms. They were mainly used as draft horses. Of course, they could also be ridden when necessary, and used as riding horses for mounted infantry.

If you don't ride it to charge, its tall size is still very intimidating... After all, the average shoulder height is 1.5 meters five.

Speaking of which, there are still many horse breeds in the Great Chu Empire. In addition to the original various traditional Mongolian horses and Southwest horses, a large number of foreign horse breeds have been introduced in the past 20 years, including Kazakh horses and Turkmen horses from Central Asia. , Arabian, Spanish, Hanoverian, Thoroughbred and many other horse breeds.

Basically, the Great Chu Empire collected all the horse species that could be collected through foreign commercial exchanges. After the introduction, they first carried out breeding conservation, and then selected a group of horses for random crossbreeding with other horse species.

In turn, a large number of crossbred horse breeds have been produced, some of which are good and some of which are not so good.

Among them, the most famous one is the Jinling horse, which is a hybrid of Mongolian horses, Arabian horses, Spanish horses, Turkmen horses, and thoroughbred horses.

This kind of riding horse with an average shoulder height of 1.6 meters and excellent explosive power is currently rare and expensive. It usually exists as a toy for the rich and powerful, because although it has a very beautiful body and good explosive power, its endurance is not good. land, and the breeding is extremely delicate.

This thing is actually more suitable for use as a short-distance horse race, basically no difference in performance from the thoroughbred horses imported from the UK.

But the body shape is more beautiful, and it runs very beautifully... You can see that it runs very pleasing to the eye, well, Jinling horses are also more delicate than thoroughbred horses...

The Hexi horse, also known as the Central Asian horse in the early days, is the first excellent military horse bred in the Great Chu Empire. It is a hybrid of Mongolian horses, Kazakh horses, Qinghai horses and Arabian horses, with an average shoulder height of 1.4. Rice, particularly good endurance, easy to raise, cold-resistant, poor explosive power, is an excellent light draft horse and riding horse.

The New Southwest Horse is a kind of horse bred from many native Southwest horses. Although the average shoulder height of a stallion is only 1.1 meters, it has excellent endurance and adapts to special climates such as plateaus and tropical rainforests. Very good draft horses are used in the southern region.

Liaoxi horse, with an average shoulder height of 1.5 meters, is the product of crossbreeding Spanish horse stallion and Hexi horse mare.

These characteristics make it gradually become the most important riding horse in the Great Chu Empire Army. It has been bred in a large amount and is widely equipped with various cavalry units and used as an officer's mount. It is now the iconic riding horse of the Great Chu Empire.

Fengzhou horse is a variety of western horse breeds, mainly some western draft horses, such as Hanover horse and other horse breeds and Mongolian horses. The average shoulder height is 1.5 meters five. It has a docile personality, good endurance, and is easy to raise. It's just that the explosive power is not good, and it is only suitable for use as a draft horse.

To put it simply, the large-scale breeding in the Great Chu Empire and the horse breeds used by the military are the four major categories of Hexi horses, Liaoxi horses, Xinxinan horses, and Fengzhou horses.

Among them, Liaoxi horses are pure riding horses, Hexi horses are light work horses and riding horses, Xinnan horses are special work horses for southern jungle water networks or plateau mountains, and Fengzhou horses are Medium-sized work horse.

Of course, this is only approximate!
In fact, the Great Chu Empire still retains and breeds a variety of native horse breeds, such as several well-known horse breeds: Arabian horses, Spanish horses, British thoroughbred horses, Turkmen horses, and of course native Mongolian horses. horse.

There are also many types of horses used by the military. It is not about what is easy to use, but what is suitable for what is used... After all, the deployment of the Chu army and the deployment of the Chu army is too wide, from the arctic ice sheet to the tropics. Rainforests range from plateaus to low-altitude plains, from snow to deserts, in all kinds of messy climates and geographical conditions.

As for horses, it is difficult to say that they are suitable for all climates and terrains.

Therefore, the use of horses by the Chu army also uses different horses according to the geographical climate.

In addition, the use of war horses will also be restricted by transportation. In many cases, horses cannot be transported from the hinterland of the country, so the transportation cost is too high. At the same time, foreign horse breeds also have environmental adaptability problems.

Therefore, the Chu army fighting overseas will try to use local horses if possible. For example, local Kazakh horses, Turkmen horses, and Arabian horses are widely used in Central Asia and West Siberia.

The garrisons in India widely use local Marwar horses and other horses. Among them, Marwar horses are the product of natural hybridization of Central Asian Turkmen horses, Arabian horses, Mongolian horses and local horses. Excellent riding horse.

Strictly speaking, the armies of many countries in the world should not use so many types of horses at the same time as the Chu army.

Of course, this is also due to the fact that many countries do not have the strength and conditions to maintain such a large-scale overseas garrison... There are not many overseas garrisons, so naturally it is impossible to talk about large-scale overseas cavalry, let alone use a variety of horses up.

But the Chu army is different. The Chu army now has more than 6 troops deployed in the Indian region, including a lot of cavalry, plus the officers' mounts, artillery and the draft horses and pack horses needed for the luggage. There are quite a few horses.

From this we can also see the importance of various military horses to the Chu army.

Let’s not talk about horses for riding. If there is not a large number of horses for service, the artillery units that the Chu army is proud of will not be able to go to the battlefield.

It is like a field artillery of hundreds of kilograms or even one or two thousand kilograms at every turn, but it needs a lot of horses to maintain mobility and combat.

It can also be seen from this that the importance of Fengzhou horses as the main force in the Great Chu Empire Army was used.

This Fengzhou horse has been bred and bred in many horse farms in the Great Chu Empire, and Shen'an Farm is just one of them.

The largest breeding base of Fengzhou horses in China is not Shen'an Farm, but Fengzhou Racecourse in Fengzhou Prefecture, Monan Province. Otherwise, why did they get their name? It is because this kind of horse was bred by Fengzhou Racecourse came out.

However, although the herd of Fengzhou horses in Shen'an Farm is not large, there are only more than 5000 horses in stock at present, but it is still very spectacular to watch from a close distance.

Before Luo Zhixue got out of the imperial carriage, he saw a large herd of horses from a distance. After entering the farm, he went to see the huge herd of horses first, and watched a simple horse-drawing organized by the farm. What about the car show?

I saw a number of four-wheeled carriages full of heavy loads, each of which was dragged by four tall Toyoshu horses with a shoulder height of 1.6 meters, and the roads were not flat hardened roads, but gravel pavement.

Four Toyoshu horses, pulling a four-wheeled carriage carrying about [-] tons of goods, are not weak at all on this kind of road, and the speed is quite fast.

Seeing these Fengzhou horses easily pull the heavy-duty carriage forward, Luo Zhixue showed a satisfied expression.

He is still very satisfied with the breeding of Fengzhou horses. Since the breeding of this medium and large draft horse, the artillery and logistics forces of the Great Chu Empire can be said to have risen to a higher level.

Even some heavy field guns that were inconvenient to use in the past are much more convenient to use now.

More importantly, the successful breeding of medium and large draft horses suitable for the climatic conditions in the northern part of the Great Chu Empire, especially in the Northeast region, has brought great development to local agricultural production and transportation.

You must know that horse plowing is widely used in agricultural production in North China.

Although mechanized farming has also appeared, and its application scale is not small, some privately owned small and medium-sized farms, or simply put, local farmers basically use horse farming, and Toyoshu horses are very suitable for horse farming. Used by plow horses.

It is also very suitable for pulling goods.

The vast number of farmers in the Northeast region use Toyoshu horses to cultivate, and then use Toyoshu horses to pull grain from rural areas to cities, and then transport them to inland rivers or coastal ports, or railway stations, and then transport them by rail To North China or to the South by sea.

Naturally, Luo Zhixue attaches great importance to this excellent draft horse that has multiple functions in military use, agricultural production, and transportation.

Even in order to promote and encourage the use of Fengzhou horses, the draft horses used in Luo Zhixue's imperial carriages are all Fengzhou horses.

In other words, this thing is still an imperial draft horse.

It is much more important than the Jinling horse.

Although Luo Zhixue used Jinling horses for riding, other than being good-looking and fast, it was really useless.

After watching the performance of Fengzhou horses, Luo Zhixue came to the grain planting area on the other side of Shen'an Farm.

This is also the core area of ​​Shen An Farm.

"Our farm currently mainly grows rice and soybeans, and also some corn introduced from the Americas and some pastures."

"The most important thing is rice planting. The large paddy field in front of us is one of our main rice planting areas. There are [-] mu of rice here. Apart from this [-] mu of planting land, we have four other large and small rice fields. a rice growing area."

"It's autumn harvest now, and we are harvesting rice with a steam engine combine harvester!"

Without being reminded by others, Luo Zhixue also saw a large golden rice field in front of him. On the edge of the rice field, there were many huge steam combine harvesters that were spraying a faint white mist, and they were harvesting.

This scene was also the main purpose of Luo Zhixue's visit to Shen'an Farm today.

Just to take a look at the mechanized planting in the Great Chu Empire.

At first glance, how to say, the level is there, but this steam combine harvester is too big!
And there are not one or two people operating above, but more than a dozen...

After all, steam combine harvesters these days are not easy to serve. There is no so-called automation, and many operations require manual labor.

When Luo Zhixue was in Tianjin before, he visited a local steam plow machine, which also required more than a dozen people to operate at the same time.

Therefore, the steam agricultural machinery these days is not a worry-free thing. All of them are big guys and not easy to serve.

But the efficiency is not low, much better than manual work.