Chapter 153 - 147 Yushan Hall
Zhao Hanzhang sprinted to the outskirts of West City. Naturally, she wasn’t alone; she also brought along four horse handlers.
Gazing at the endless wilderness overgrown with weeds, Zhao Hanzhang waved her hand and said, "This will be our horse ranch in the future."
The horse handlers stared with mouths agape.
"Of course, it can’t be called a horse ranch," she added, "In the absence of imperial permission, no one in the civilian sector can privately raise horses legally. We can’t openly label it a horse ranch, or we’d simply be inviting the authorities to come and confiscate it."
Thus, Zhao Hanzhang declared, "We’ll call it a pasture!"
The horse handler swallowed and asked, "Just grazing like this?"
He looked down at the wild grass by his feet, touched it, then shook his head and said, "Many of these grasses aren’t suitable for horses to eat, but they’re good for raising cattle."
Zhao Hanzhang looked down at the verdant grass, feeling a pang of sorrow, "Unfortunately, we have too few cattle, and so much grass will be wasted."
Wei Matou thought to himself: ... they’re just weeds; there’s no need to be so distressed. There isn’t much else on the land, but there’s enough grass for the cattle.
Having raised horses for many years, Wei Matou was knowledgeable. He examined the soil underfoot, rode his horse around the vicinity, and after a long time, returned. Dismounting, he said to Zhao Hanzhang, "Ma’am, all this land here could be cultivated to grow beans. Horses thrive on beans, and that patch over there is largely untouched land. We can remove some wild grass and plant pasture grass. Each year we can intersperse some, and in a few years, the amount of grazing grass will be sufficient to sustain three to five hundred horses."