Chapter 711: Replacement of Human Mounts
In order to facilitate the travel of ordinary people, Chi You specially organized a large number of human witches to help the tribes under Chi You to build roads. For those human witches other than the witches, if they were asked to do physical labor, it would be a piece of cake, but if they were asked to do mental labor, it would be difficult for them!
With the help of the human witches' physical strength and witchcraft, it didn't take too long to complete the road construction throughout the territory! Although the roads built by the human witches were not as good as the so-called cement roads or asphalt roads, they were still as good as the roads in Chendu in the entire prehistoric world!
In order to prevent the road from being damaged, Chi You also specially sent people to maintain the road regularly. At the same time, Chi You also asked those human witches to drive away the wild beasts near the road to ensure the safety of mortals traveling!
In order to speed up the travel of mortals and promote the development of primitive commerce such as barter, Chi You also referred to the travel methods of immortals and began to select suitable mounts from the domesticated livestock of humans. At this time, cattle became the first choice for human travel!
However, Chi You soon saw the disadvantages of riding cows to travel. First, the speed was too slow. Second, cows were good helpers for plowing the land. If people were allowed to travel by riding cows, it would likely cause a sharp decline in the number of oxen, which would be greatly detrimental to further expanding grain production!
In order to solve this problem, Chi You began to search in the wild to see if there were any wild beasts that could serve as substitutes!
It is not known whether it was because of Chi You's actions that brought him more luck for the human race. In the process of searching for a substitute for the cow, Chi You found a wild beast called a donkey. After rounds of continuous domestication, Chi You finally domesticated the wild donkey completely, turning it into a new generation of mount, replacing the position of the cow!
Originally, Chi You thought that a donkey was the best mount, but who would have thought that his brother who ranked eighteenth would find him a wild horse galloping on the grassland!
Chi You was very fond of these untamed wild horses with very fierce temperaments. However, the Jiuli tribe already had an army of iron-eating beasts, and did not need these weaker wild horses as mounts for the cavalry. So Chi You gave the captured wild horses to the group of pure-blooded humans under his command, hoping to create a second cavalry corps besides the army of iron-eating beasts!
Although most of the ancient human race has become so weak that they don't even have the talent for cultivation, it is undeniable that with the current concentration of spiritual energy, the physical fitness of the human race is much stronger than that of the human race when the Tianzhu Zhoushan collapsed in the original trajectory, the spiritual energy degenerated into acquired spiritual energy, and the concentration of acquired spiritual energy was decreasing. When facing this group of wild and unruly wild horses, they also have enough strength to tame them!
After rounds of continuous screening, the wild horses were finally domesticated. Although there are occasional incidents of horses injuring people, it is not a big problem and no one takes it seriously!
After the wild horses were tamed, Chi You also went to visit the training of the new cavalry. During the training of the new cavalry, Chi You also discovered many problems!
As an excellent blacksmith, and one who was extremely skilled at making weapons and equipment, it didn't take him long to find a solution to the problem. Horseshoes, saddles, stirrups, reins and a series of other tools that allow horses to run faster and more steadily came into being!
After the horses he bred met the needs of the army, Chi You chose to sell them to the people. Because the cost of raising a horse was much higher than that of a donkey, most civilians still chose to ride donkeys when traveling, while those primitive merchants and officials were relatively richer, so they chose to ride horses when traveling!
However, in order to take care of their families, these officials and merchants who had the capital to raise horses also drew inspiration from sedan chairs and donkey carts used to pull goods. In the end, they also worked together to invent a carriage that was better concealed, faster, and more stable!
