"What? Putting shoes on the horse! "Li Chengqian exclaimed.
"Nonsense, if I let you walk barefoot, wouldn't you feel uncomfortable? You know how to wear shoes, why don't you know how to put shoes on the horse!" Meton rolled his eyes and said.
"Uh uh!" Li Chengqian was speechless. It was reasonable, but putting shoes on the horse was awkward no matter how he thought about it.
Li Chengqian didn't think that Morton would be so imaginative. It was just as Morton had said, it was very simple. But who would have thought of it? Moreover, even if the horse was put on shoes, how could the horse run? Li Chengqian didn't think that Morton would be so imaginative.
"Brother Gao Ming, please take a look!"
Meton lifted the hoof of Vanishing Shadow and signaled Li Chengqian to take a closer look.
Li Chengqian looked for a long time and shook his head with a wry smile. He only felt that the hoof was still a hoof. It seemed that he was still in the realm of seeing a mountain as a mountain.
Meton was helpless. He pointed at the cuticle of the hoof and said, "The hoof of a horse is a piece of dead skin, just like our fingernails. It doesn't feel pain. This layer of hoof is the easiest to wear, so the way to prevent the hoof from wearing is very simple. Put shoes on this layer of hoof. In this way, the shoes will wear out. If the shoes wear out, then change to another pair of shoes will be fine."
"Oh!" Realization dawned on Li Chengqian. He touched Vanishing Shadow's hoof out of curiosity, and then looked at the hole Morton had drilled into the wire to heal Vanishing Shadow. It was indeed a piece of dead skin.
"But what kind of shoes can fit a horse's hooves?" Li Chengqian felt that his imagination wasn't enough!
"Young master, the things you want are here!"
At this time, there was a noise outside the door. Old Zhang's second son, Zhang Yang, ran to Meton while panting. He handed over four semicircular strangely shaped iron products.
"So fast?" Meton took it in surprise and rubbed it along the arc of the iron product lovingly, as if he was admiring an exquisite work of art.
Li Chengqian came over curiously, looked at the strange thing and asked, "Is this the horse shoe you mentioned?"
"This is called a horseshoe! It's also called a horseshoe! " Meton measured the size of the horseshoe and the Shadow Hoof Armor. The size was just right, and he nodded with satisfaction.
Li Chengqian picked up the two horseshoes and looked at Shadow's horseshoes. He couldn't figure out how this thing could be worn on the horseshoes.
Zhang Yang moved a wooden stool that was as high as his knees and placed Shadowless Shadow's hooves on it. Then, he picked up a knife and carefully trimmed the hooves of the horse.
After trimming, he picked up a few long nails and nailed the horseshoe to the horse's hooves with Tie An's help.
This process was repeated three times. In less than a quarter of an hour, the four hooves of Shadowless Shadow were all set.
"That's it?" Li Chengqian curiously looked at Shadowless Shadow's four hooves that were not used to it, leaving a circle of nearly full moon on the ground.
"Of course. In this way, if the horseshoe is worn out, you can directly replace it. These horseshoes are made of the best fine iron of the Mohist family. They are extremely hard and can withstand a great force without being deformed. Moreover, the horseshoe has a great advantage. It can help the horse's hooves grasp the ground better and avoid slipping as much as possible."
"Good stuff, really good stuff!" Li Chengqian's eyes suddenly lit up and he praised repeatedly.
As the Crown Prince, Li Chengqian certainly knew the situation of the Tang dynasty. Horses could pull carriages and plow the fields. The demand for horses among the people was great. In the countryside, if there was a cow, you would be considered a rich family, let alone a horse. Among the people, horses were regarded as luxurious ornaments.
In the Tang dynasty, there were countless losses caused by excessive wear and tear of the horses every year. The less severe ones were injured and recuperated, while the more severe ones were directly scrapped.
However, with horseshoes, every horse would be covered with a layer of protective film. All these problems would be solved easily. For the people of the Tang dynasty, they could use horses for a long time without worry. This was a great blessing.
In the big picture, it meant that his beloved horse in the East Palace finally did not need to be in the saddle for a year and a half. As long as it was replaced with horseshoes, his beloved horse would definitely become lively again.
After a period of familiarization, Shadowless Shadow gradually got used to the things under its feet.
"Go!"
Meton turned over and got on the horse. With a shout, Shadowless Shadow trotted for a while and jumped over the crossbar again. This time, it was very easy and landed firmly, leaving only deep horseshoe marks on the ground.
Meton rode Shadowless Shadow in Meton's backyard for a while. Then he let go of Shadowless Shadow's reins and let it run freely in the backyard of Mo's Mansion.
"Herod!"
Shadowless Shadow had not run since it was injured. Now that it had such an opportunity, it naturally jumped and ran freely. From time to time, it neighed loudly. The demeanor of the former horse king reappeared.
Soon, under Zhang Yang's skillful craftsmanship, the remaining more than 80 horses were all fitted with horseshoes.
Seeing Meton solve the problem that had troubled China for thousands of years so easily, Li Chengqian stared at Meton as if he was looking at a monster. His stare made Meton's hair stand on end.
"I really don't know how your brain works. You even know how to do such an obscure thing. I don't know what else in this world can baffle you. "
Meton covered his head and looked at Li Chengqian with a vigilant face.
"Go away, who wants your head!" Li Chengqian scolded angrily. The self-restraint of the former crown prince had long disappeared.
"It's useless even if you want it. I didn't come up with this horseshoes. This thing has been in the world for 600 years." Meton shook his head regretfully and said a piece of shocking news.
"That's impossible!" Li Chengqian was shocked. If it had really been in the world for 600 years, how could he not know that there were so many wounded horses in the Tang dynasty every year?
Suddenly, Li Chengqian had a flash of inspiration and said, "Is it a foreigner's thing?"
Li Chengqian knew that the ancestors of the Mo family had traveled to many foreign countries outside the Tang dynasty and experienced a lot of strange things.
Meton nodded and said, "In the records of Mo Zi's secret book, in the west of the Westernmost Kingdom, there is a vast Westernmost Ocean. In the Westernmost Ocean, there is an island country in the Westernmost Ocean.
A nail is missing, and a horseshoe is lost.
A horseshoe is missing, and a warhorse is lost.
A warhorse is lost, and a battle is lost.
A battle is lost, and a country is lost. "
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Clang! At the moment when Charles III was pushed to the guillotine, he would never have thought that he would lose a country just because of a small nail. "
"Ah!" Li Chengqian was shocked and opened his mouth wide. He had never thought that a horse nail could be equated with a country.
"Brother Gao Ming, have you learned anything from this story?" Meton asked.
"For a small loss, the dam of a thousand miles collapses because of an ant's nest." Li Chengqian opened his mouth and said.
"Wrong, other people's horses have horseshoes, but ours don't." Meton said bitterly.
"Uh, uh!"
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