Akhal-Teke horses were rare horses from Western countries. After the Han and Tang dynasty, there were very few purebred Akhal-Teke horses that were imported to the Central Plains. Thus, even the appearance of a mixed-breed Akhal-Teke horse could cause a huge commotion.
In his later years, when Great Zhou's Emperor Shizong obtained a mixed-breed Akhal-Teke horse from the Western countries, he cherished it greatly.
In the past few years, because the relationship between Great Jin, Great Zhou, and West Xia had been tense, the land trade routes had been cut off for a while. In addition, horses were difficult to bring along, so no one had brought horses from the Western countries in the past hundred years. In the past, Qi Haoran and the others had either snatched the horses from Great Jin or bought them from vendors who frequently traveled to Great Jin.
