The Rise of the European Emperor

Chapter 1888: Cattle and Horse Boats

A bad-tempered bull is terrible. The tonnage of the bull is there, plus the sharp horns. Once angry, it will become as dangerous as a Spanish bullfight.

However, Marin knew a very interesting phenomenon. That is - even bulls without horns are used to hitting each other with their heads when fighting.

This seems to be an instinct of fighting cattle. When fighting cattle, they don't like to bite with their mouths, and they are not good at kicking with their legs. They just like to push. Therefore, the fighting action of a cow is also called pushing a cow.

If there are sharp horns on the head, the top bull is very dangerous and can cause great damage. But if there were no horns on the bull's head...

In his previous life, Marin had watched a funny video - two hornless cows fighting, and they pushed each other with their bare heads. However, there are no horns, so there is no lethality. As a result, the fight between the two cows turned into a funny confrontation similar to pushing and shoving each other. After fighting for a long time, the two cows were not injured...

In the end, the two cows probably felt bored themselves, and when they were tired, they dispersed to graze...

It is foreseeable that the explosive cattle that Marin asked the livestock experts to breed will definitely not have a good temper. Therefore, it is inevitable that there will be bull fights.

Since brawls were unavoidable, Marin came up with a solution - to breed hornless Beefalo cattle!

No matter how bad your temper is, without the horns, pushing the bull will become a vigorous pushing and shoving. While this "shove and push" can be injurious, it's much less deadly without the sharp horns.

In this way, even if the high-speed Beefalo cattle bred are not so good-tempered, the danger is greatly reduced.

After thinking about this, Marin ordered that only hornless cattle and bison should be used for crossbreeding. Also, when capturing bison for crossbreeding, only hornless bison are allowed.

In order to breed the hornless Buffalo, Marin even made a rule that when he saw the hornless North American bison, he could not be shot, but could only be rounded up. In this way, the probability of breeding hornless furrow cattle is greatly increased.

The probability of normal cattle without horns is very low. Except for a few specially bred breeds such as Angus cattle, most cattle breeds have horns, accounting for the vast majority. Therefore, every hornless bison is a rare specimen. Therefore, Marin planned to equip the hunting team with binoculars and strictly ordered them to use binoculars to confirm that there were no hornless cattle in the herd before hunting. If hornless cattle are found, the policy must be changed immediately, and more hunters must be summoned to round up the cattle and capture the hornless bison alive to obtain breeding samples.

Marin intends to breed the hornless North American bison in two directions. One is to mix with the European hornless cattle to obtain the Pufflow cattle with a relatively good temper and not too slow. The second direction is the internal cultivation of hornless bison and the cultivation of specialized hornless bison.

But in fact, the second direction also serves the first direction. Marin is not sure what level of Buffalo cattle can be bred by hornless North American bison and hornless European cattle, and the quality is not guaranteed. However, if the hornless bison is bred internally, the characteristics of the species can still be stably retained.

In this way, while retaining the characteristics of the hornless North American bison, it has become the best choice to try to breed Beefalo cattle that meet the requirements. One day, experts will be able to breed high-speed Beefalo cattle that meet Marin's requirements, which can be used to pull carts and plow fields at a higher speed.

Marin didn't know that because of his temporary interest, horses became unemployed all over the world.

Because, people were surprised to find that the hornless furrow cattle not only have great strength, but also pull carts at the same speed as horses, and have stronger endurance...

For farming, the stamina is stronger, and the hornless furrow cattle that are not slow are no worse than the draft horse. As for the usual feeding, it is obviously easier to feed the Buffalo cattle. In addition, Buffalo cattle are more adaptable to harsh climates and disease resistance than draft horses...

Therefore, many years later, the high-speed hornless furrow cattle almost squeezed the draft horses so that there was no living space. Then, when people raise horses, they only have the role of riding. Even the transport vehicles on the main road have begun to mainly use high-suction hornless furlo cattle. Only some people-carrying vehicles use horse-drawn carts because they are particular. However, trucks considered from an economic point of view have adopted high-speed hornless furrow cattle to pull carts one after another.

But this has not been popular for too long, because after the oil extraction technology matured in the North Sea country, it began to mass-produce tractors, replacing the status of livestock. Later, only remote areas with very inconvenient transportation continued to use livestock to plow land and pull carts.

Therefore, the high-speed hornless skinflow cattle bred under the order of Marin, like the flying shear boat, were born in the wrong age and are destined to be short-lived.

In the era when the flying shear ship appeared, the steam engine ship technology was relatively mature and began to develop rapidly. Therefore, the clipper boat was born at an untimely time, and it was only popular for a while.

Likewise, Marin replicated the 12-horsepower single-cylinder diesel engine before ordering the breed of high-speed hornless furlo cattle. If it weren't for the severe shortage of diesel supply, there would be no such thing as cattle and horses.

But anyway, this is also a good story in history. After all, it is indeed a very genius idea to cultivate fast hornless ox-drawn carts.

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The cultivation of high-speed hornless furlo cattle still takes time, and requires multi-generation cultivation and optimization to stabilize performance. So, it will take a long time.

Just after Marin set up a cross-breeding plan for high-speed hornless furrow cattle, the Long Island Shipyard in New York sent back good news-the manufacture of a cattle and horse boat specially for transporting large livestock was successful!

Long before contacting the Persians, Marin made a plan to develop professional ships for transporting livestock. After all, Marin intends to import livestock such as cattle and horses from Persia on a large scale. As for the transportation of livestock, ordinary boats are incompetent.

Ordinary ships are generally designed to be very compact to maximize the use of space. Therefore, many times, when sailors enter and leave the cabin, they have to go in and out with their waists bent. Moreover, the cabin environment where the sailors live is also very harsh.

But such a boat is very inconvenient for transporting livestock. Because large animals like cattle and horses are very huge, and the hatches and stairs suitable for sailors to enter and exit are not suitable for cattle and horses to enter and exit at all.

In addition, a closed environment like the bilge is completely unsuitable for livestock to survive. Because animals are animals after all, and they don't know how to go to the toilet conveniently. Therefore, it is often resolved on the spot. If it's on the top deck it's fine, easy to clean and dump into the sea. At the same time, sailors can also wash the deck. If the animals are kept in the bilge, and the animals urinate everywhere, it is estimated that the relatively closed bilge will become extremely stinky.

Also, animals cannot be lumped together. Because they are easy to fight with each other. Especially some male cattle and horses are particularly aggressive and easily hurt each other.

Therefore, in the past, if you want to transport large livestock, you can only tie the livestock on the top deck and separate them from each other. While avoiding their mutual harm, it is also convenient to clean up cow dung and horse manure and dump them into the sea.

But in this way, the number of cattle and horses that can be transported by a ship is very limited. Usually, a ship can only transport a dozen or twenty head at a time, and at most a few dozen head, and it is very troublesome to serve.

Therefore, if you want to transport large-scale livestock such as cattle and horses on a large scale, you must design a special transport ship for large-scale and safe transport.

However, at the beginning, the shipbuilders of the Beihai Kingdom were a little lost in their direction and took many detours. It was not until Marin introduced the shipbuilders of the treasure shipyard from Daming, and brought the technology and ideas of horse ship manufacturing in the treasure ship of the Ming Dynasty, that he accelerated the pace of research and development. In the end, a professional cattle and horse ship that can transport 200 horses or 200 cattle at a time was manufactured...

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