The Imperial Horse Farm of Shangyang Palace was built on the ruins of the Shangyang Forbidden City left by the Tang Dynasty. This land is located on the west side of the Ziwei Palace City in Luoyang, adjacent to the Ziwei Palace in the east and the Luo River in the south. It is quite large in area, but it has long since disappeared the hall and loft platform where Emperor Gaozong of Tang and Wu Zetian used to live. When Zhao Kai moved the capital to Luoyang, the Shangyang Forbidden City (all official lands) had been occupied by a group of wealthy families in Luoyang to build a garden.

Of course, Zhao Kai would not be abusive to them. He took all of the imperial edicts and gave some of the gardens located in the corners to the heroes of the new dynasty. He himself occupied seven or eight large gardens in the center and large areas of woodland and wasteland (actually some people cultivated them). However, he did not build a palace on this land, but built a circle of walls, cut off most of the trees, and shoveled all kinds of miscellaneous plants. Finally, he sprinkled grass seeds, built a stable, and built an imperial horse farm.

The horses raised in the imperial horse farm are all Qinghai dragon stallions, also known as Qinghai Cong. They are said to be a good breed of hybridization of Persian horses and local high-quality mares in Qinghai. They first appeared in the Tuyuhun era. At that time, Tuyuhun obtained Persian stallions from Central Asia and then stocked them on islands in Qinghai Lake. At the same time, mares were selected to be on the island every year to mate with these free-range Persian horses. The foals produced were called Qinghai Cong. Later, although Tuyuhun was conquered by Tubo, the tribes around Qinghai Lake passed on the methods of raising Qinghai Cong from generation to generation.

Although this method of raising excellent stallions on islands and selecting mares to the island to conceive is very primitive, it is much better than the "ethical horse raising" and "wild horse hybridization" advocated by civil servants of the Song Dynasty. At least it can ensure that the population of Qinghai prostitutes will be inherited from generation to generation and will not decline.

The tribes around Qinghai Lake paid tribute to Xixia before the Battle of Lingzhou in the second year of Hongwu, so the Xixia court, nobles and powerful people all raised some Qinghai trials.

Before Zhao Kai captured Lingzhou, he got a small amount of Qinghai inspections from the Hehuang Fan tribe. When Lingzhou was pacified in the second year of Hongwu, he received a batch of Qinghai inspections from the Lingzhou tribe and the Hengshan Fan tribe. Later, Zhao Huaien and Zhao Huaiyi (both descendants of Ye Siluo) took back Qingtang City and Zongge City with the support of Zhao Kai, and in return they offered a batch of Qinghai inspections.

Therefore, by the third year of Hongwu, Zhao Kai had more than 2,000 Qinghai trials. So he ordered people to choose the tall and mares, 1,000 of which were suitable for age, and were kept in captivity at the Shangyang Palace Royal Horse Farm in Luoyang.

It is obviously a waste to raise only 1,000 horses in such a large Shangyang Palace horse farm, so Zhao Kai made someone circle some of the territory close to the Luo River as the camp and training ground for the artillery army... so as not to prevent the artillery army from testing artillery outside the Ziwei Palace.

In addition, Zhao Kai himself occupied a garden in the Shangyang Palace Imperial Horse Farm, which was used as a palace courtyard when he inspected the horse farm and artillery army.

Today, Zhao Kai brought his brother Zhao Shu to Shangyang Palace to support him as the "King of the Southern Song Dynasty"!

On a shooting range on the bank of the Luo River, a 25-pound hot pot cannon has been placed in place. A purple-robed officer in his twenties was commanding five artillery soldiers for loading training.

Seeing Zhao Kai riding his horse, he immediately shouted "Stop the team", and saw the five gunners immediately stop working, and then form a group to welcome the emperor.

Zhao Kai smiled and said, "That's of course... The land of the Three Wus will be the vassal of Zhao Chen in the future!"

At this time, Zhao Buqiu had already brought people to fill the hot pot cannons and reported loudly to Zhao Kai: "Report to the official, the cannon is filled, please give an order!"

Zhao Kai nodded and shouted: "Start a cannon!"

"Here!"

Zhao Kai hurriedly covered his ears and saw Zhao Buqiu sending Mars into the cannon's fire gate with a spear wrapped around the lit line of fire.

Then the flames spurted and the thunder blew... Zhao Shu, a generation of "pot king" in the Southern Song Dynasty, was stunned!

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"Official family, official family...a great victory! Zhang Shuye, Xue Bi has recovered Qingliu Pass! In this battle, the new army soldiers sacrificed their lives and went on one after another. They attacked Qingliu Pass for thirteen days, killing corpses like mountains and blood flowing into rivers. Tens of thousands of them were thrown out with a blow-out pot alone!"

On the 30th day of the first lunar month, the Southern Song Dynasty "Zhao Jiandian" and Zuo Shumi Zhao Mingcheng's voice was filled with surprise, and suddenly rang in the Chongzheng Hall of the Jiangdu Palace.

Just when the "King of Pot" Zhao Shu brought a big hot pot and Yuwen Xuzhong to Jiangdu, the battle on Huainan West Road was coming to an end.

Wanyan Zongbi didn't expect to occupy the land for a long time, so he wandered around Huainan for some time and robbed a lot of money and property. He also heard that Zhao Zhen led his troops to attack Songzhou, so he was ready to retreat.

But at this moment, Zhang Shuye and Xue Bi gathered a total of 30,000 new troops and began to attack Qingliu Pass in Chuzhou. Qingliu Pass is located at a critical point, looking south at the Yangtze River and north at the Yangtze River and Huai River. The terrain is dangerous, with high mountains and deep valleys. It is the key to the northwest of Jinling and is known as the "Key of Jinling". If Zong Bi goes south later, there will be heavy troops on Qingliu Pass.

But he unexpectedly caught the Southern Song Dynasty off guard, and lost such an important Qingliu Pass.

However, Zong Bi, who took Qingliu Pass, was unable to cross the Yangtze River in one breath, and began to fall into decline in the first month of the fourth year of Jingkang. Although Zong Bi had many soldiers and strong combat power, he could not resist the Southern Song Dynasty's "Cashing ability"!

When the money power meets the blowing pot, it is so shaking!

The bombs of Zongbi's troops were exhausted in the twelfth lunar month, so in the battles that took place in the first lunar month, the advantage of firepower points was on the side of the Southern Song army!

However, Zong Bi was still unwilling to retreat in disgrace, so he simply concentrated his troops and set up defenses at Qingliu Pass, and made an attitude of preparing to occupy Chuzhou and Sizhou for a long time, forcing Zhang Shuye and Xue Bi to concentrate 30,000 iron armored troops and pounce on Qingliu Pass.

The 60,000 troops of both sides have been fighting fiercely around Qingliu Pass since the 17th day of the first lunar month. The Southern Song army relied on its advantage in firepower (not only the power of a pot blowing pot, but also the power of the Divine Arm Bow), suppressed the Jin soldiers and attacked fiercely.

The yellow-headed Jurchens among the Jin soldiers and the Bohai armored soldiers were also extremely brave, fighting with the Song army with the blowing pot and the wooden feather arrow.

However, this group of new Southern Song troops were not afraid of hand-to-hand combat. Their armor was hard, their swords and axes were sharp, and they were spears like forests. They could also use the cover of the fried pot to engage in hand-to-hand combat - they could use the fried pot to explode the opponent's formation and then enter the attack!

So on the 28th and 29th day of the first lunar month, Wanyan Zongbi finally couldn't hold on anymore, so he had to withdraw from Qingliu Pass and hand over the victory to the Southern Song army.
Chapter completed!