As soon as the summer begins, the business volume of various industries in Wuhan will surge. The temporary workers in the yamen are also busy. Whether they can be "reformed" depends on how they do the work in the two quarters.

In addition to the normal local governments and government officials, large-scale purchasing mainly depends on the court. The situations encountered every year are different. For example, if you want to build roads in the Western Regions, you may need more wood or even stone, and then a large amount of equipment will be spent on a large price to enter the sea of ​​thousands of miles of sand.

For example, if there may be horse bandits everywhere, a special batch of military horses is needed, specifically for combating guerrilla or sweeping.

From the 22nd year of Zhenguan to the 23rd year of Zhenguan, the military camps in the Western Regions were relatively scarce. Qualified and easy-to-use military dogs.

Specializes in cultivating military dogs, the yamen ghosts are managed by the government, but the batches are small and the total is small, so it can basically only meet the needs of the military government in the capital. At most, dozens of good dogs are provided to Yuchi Gong.

Even if the Western Army wants it, it won’t be the turn.

Therefore, in recent years, the Ministry of War bought military dogs mainly because it was mainly about Wuhan.

Even if you raise a dog, Wuhan will be better than others.

There are basically no wolfhounds. The main force is a southern native dog. It is a common white native dog in Lingnan. It has short hair and wide ears. It has excellent tracking ability and can be improved into a mountain hunting dog. It also has rough grain resistance, good endurance, and is combined with bone meal, so the cost of education is not high.

It is not a cold-resistant dog breed because of geography. Therefore, the other breeding hunting dog is similar to the Caucasian type, with poor endurance, but has strong explosive power, so it is enough to use it in the mountains. After all, the more troublesome places in the river area are mountain tribes everywhere.

The last type is sled dogs, which are basically not cultivated. They are a project jointly organized by Wuhan and Anbei Protectorate. The biggest cost is training costs, and rations are just a little bit. The northern herdsmen may not be able to eat meat a few times, but as long as they are purchased by the Ministry of War, the hunting dogs and sled dogs are transformed into military dogs, it is no problem to eat good meat every three or five days.

However, Wuhan has nothing to say about whether it can become a military dog. The Ministry of War does not buy it directly, but instead entrusts certain "professional departments" to investigate and only after obtaining the "report" can the order be placed.

And this "professional department" is not official, but a private institution.

This structure is controlled by the Dou family. Dou family, which has many foreign relatives since the Han Dynasty, has been "authoritative" in raising dogs. After all, Dou family did not only produce queens, but also "champion horseman".

Due to historical and realistic conditions, Dou became a broker for military dog ​​purchasing.

In the past, military dogs were just a small amount of money, but because the territory of the empire has expanded more than twice, most of the territory is either desert or grassland, or plateau and next door, and mountainous areas are even connected to mountainous areas. But because of this, there are more places where military dogs are used.

No matter how small the "blue ocean market" is, the total amount is not small.

Originally, when we were in the Western Regions, the total number of military dogs was less than 300, and half of them were still intended to be used as "emergency rations".

But with professional matters being made by professional people (dogs) and tracking in the mountains, people are far less useful than good dogs. For long-term public security maintenance, a good dog is stronger than placing three or five secret whistles and wandering whistles. Not only the Western Army, but even later, the Dunhuang Palace began to consciously prepare some military dogs.

Because at that time, the Dunhuang Palace had a strong sense of "security war" in the area of ​​Jibei, Qiao Shiwang and Guo Xiaoke issued an operation order for a period of time, basically every operation had to bring excellent military dogs.

Therefore, for several consecutive years, the demand for military dogs has increased in a doubling manner. Even though there was a grain pressure at one time, the increase in military dogs was finally guaranteed.

By the 22nd year of Zhenguan, in order to manage the river, the total number of two types of military dogs specially prepared for the river exceeded 3,000.

The expenses of one month are no less than those of the local government troops who raise an army. If the total purchase cost is converted into, the cost of a army of 2,500 people may not be as good as that of 3,000 dogs.

A local dog is not worth a lot, but the price of a hunting dog can reach ten to thirty stakes. A hunting dog who can understand the orders and train, the value is at least two Turkic Tun Ma.

The hunting dog purchased by the Ministry of War will have a higher standard if you want to get the military dog ​​qualification.

Of course, there are naturally some brokers who raise the price. Dou's purchase price from a military dog, and they have received a maximum rebate of fifty cents.

In other words, just kickbacks are a huge deal.

In addition, the special rations for military dogs that Wuhan was not willing to promote were "trial-operated" in a very small place when it came to Dou's family.

Even if it is just a "pilot", there are still 500 fake dogs. How much is the price of special rations? I can even know the tricks in it with my eyes.

Taking advantage of the east wind of the empire's expansion, Dou's family played tricks on dogs. Although Wuhan also made profits from it, Dou's family was the one who could eat delicious crispy dog ​​meat.

But the people don’t know that the dignified Dou family actually makes money by dogs...

If the conditions were not as good as Wuhan, Dou originally wanted to leave Wuhan and work alone. However, Dou's resources were not as good as Wuhan, and Wuhan could get any dogs. For targeted breeding and training of various types of dog breeds, there are also always special talents.

Even though Dou has hundreds of years of experience in playing dogs, he only specializes in the "Royal Hound", which is still incomparable to "monsters" like Wuhan, which have a strong foundation and wide range of people and can play with anything.

“How many puppies are sent out this year?”

"It has exceeded 30,000, which is a good sign."

The Jianghan Observation Office had a special "production department" yamen. In the past, after the mother gave birth, the government would send a dog or a sheep.

At first, sheep were better than dogs, but later sheep and dogs were similar, so the choice was handed over to the mother's family.

In recent years, due to the great improvement of living conditions, raising dogs has become the mainstream, and most of the people are willing to choose dogs. There are about 30,000 to 40,000 newborns born in a year, and 30,000 in summer, which means that there are already 30,000 babies born in Wuhan.

Although different from the past, the mothers who give birth in Wuhan today may not be from Wuhan. They may very likely come from Chengdu, or from Xiangzhou, or even from Guangzhou.

There is no other reason, the survival rate of production in Wuhan is actually higher.

Anyone who has the conditions is willing to go to a large hospital in a big city.

What's more, there are only three metropolises with real hospitals in the country. Even in Suzhou, Hangzhou, Huaiyang, are not as well-prepared as Wuhan.

"There are actually 30,000?"

"Many of them came from other places and also received dogs."

Faced with Zhang De's questions, the people from the "Production Department" explained.

"This is not in line with the rules."

"It's all bought with money, so I want peace of mind."

Lao Zhang was stunned at first, and then realized that this was probably a "red envelope" given to Wuhan by the mother's family, but it was changed to buying a dog.
Chapter completed!