The horse that Yue Fei sits, how did Yue Fei evaluate the two horses?

This doesn't seem to be mentioned in historical writings or **.

Yue Fei defeated Cao Cheng and pacified Yang Qi. Song Gaozong summoned Yue Fei in the seventh year of Shaoxing. Song Gaozong calmly asked

Do you get good horses? Yue Fei replied, "I originally had two good horses.

They have to eat several buckets of clean beans every day and drink clear spring water. If they don't have clean food or drink, they'd rather starve than bear it. Put on the saddle armor and ride it to start, at first it is not very fast, and only after running a hundred miles will it gallop forward.

From noon to dusk, you can run an extra 200 miles. When the saddle armor is removed, it neither pants nor sweats, and appears as if nothing happened. This is because they are large but not greedy for casual food, and energetic but not brave in the moment.

They're good horses for long distances! Unfortunately, however, they have died in successive battles. At the moment I'm riding a lot worse.

It eats only a few litres of food a day, is never picky about what it eats, and is not selective about the water it drinks. Before the saddle is set, the hoof must be raised. As soon as he had finished a hundred miles, his strength was exhausted, and he was soaked with sweat, as if he was going to die.

This is because it is small, so it eats little food but is easy to saturate, and likes to be strong but strong on the outside and dry in the middle. It's just a mediocre and inferior horse, and it's too late! Song Gaozong said after listening to Yue Fei's remarks

Makes sense! ”

Yue Fei is a wise and brave general. He was battle-hardened, brave and good at fighting, and of course he attached great importance to his mounts, and he knew at a glance what kind of horses were good and what kind of horses were bad. Once, Song Gaozong and Yue Fei talked about horses and asked:

What kind of horse do you think makes a good horse? What is the difference between a good horse and a bad horse? Yue Fei thought for a while and said

I used to have two mounts, both of which were good horses. Song Gaozong asked, "How can you see it?"

Yue Fei said: "The two horses both eat a lot of food, and they have to be fed a few loads of forage every day, plus a few liters of beans, and they also have to choose very good concentrate feed. In addition, the water that the two horses drink is also very particular, and they do not drink unclean spring water.

Every time you walk a horse, saddle them, then let go of the reins and watch them spread their hooves and run. At first, it was not very fast, but he trotted out about a hundred miles away, and began to accelerate, his mane rose at first, his head was raised high, and he snorted, and he ran faster and faster, and in three hours, he could run more than two hundred miles. After a long run, the saddle is unsaddled and there is no fatigue, neither sweating nor panting, this is a good horse.

Song Gaozong asked again: "What about bad horses?" "The amount of food for bad horses is much smaller, for example, my current mount, a few catties of grain a day is enough, and there are no special requirements for the quality of food or drinking water.

Every time I walked the horse, as soon as I rode it, I could feel that the horse had no energy, and before the reins were shaken off, it ran lazily. I couldn't run a hundred and ten miles, so I was out of breath and sweating. Exhausted, such a horse is certainly not a good horse.

Gaozong said: "It seems that the quality of horses has a lot to do with their innate quality and diet. Yue Fei said:

Yes, a good horse requires a good diet and eats a lot of food, so it can have enough energy to resist fatigue, have endurance, and have stamina. Inferior horses can't eat a lot of feed, their physical fitness is poor, and they can't run far and get tired. The more knowledge you put into your head like a person, the wiser and more intelligent you are.