"This can tastes really good..." Li Shi suddenly pointed to a can and asked Sima Zhongping casually, "Unexpectedly, your army also has this thing? How come you can also produce this thing?"
This is actually because Li Shiming knew the truth and asked. Although these cans are military food and do not have any packaging trademarks, they are obviously produced in Yanyun County, because only Yanyun County in the world can produce this kind of canned food, and there is no other semicolon. He is also very familiar with the taste of canned food. He always ate it in the army.
"Oh, this was obtained from the previous battle with the prince." Sima Zhongping answered quickly and politely. In fact, it was stolen.
"Haha, Zhongping, you guys are really lucky. I'll tell you the truth. There are so few cans in our army that even I, the king, can't eat them." Li Shi said with a smile.
Xiao Chen did provide them with cans, but for an army of 200,000 people, one person would eat 200,000 cans every day. Not to mention that the supply exceeds demand, even if Xiao Chen opened up the supply, there would not be so many ships to transport them back and forth. Besides, the cost of making cans is not low...
Didn't Xiao Chen give these cans for free? Of course not. Yanyun Cannery is a 'private' factory. The boss also wants to make money, and the workers also want to eat, okay?
Besides, Yanyun County's economic management model is different from that of Dazhou. It has independent accounting, and its relationship with Dazhou is that of brothers settling accounts openly.
But as for Sima Zhongping, were these cans stolen? Then only he knows... maybe Xiao Chen also knows.
When Xiao Chen asked the cannery to work overtime to produce a batch of cans to support Yizhou, the person in charge of the cannery suggested whether the packaging and content of some cans could be changed?
For example, the canned food should be larger and the metal sheet should be thinner, the fish head is not clear in the canned fish, the chicken head and chicken feet are also included in the canned chicken, and the hearts, livers and lungs of cattle, horses, sheep and pigs can be put in them. Anyway, they can all be eaten. It can provide enough fat and calories, and it is given to them for free, so just save the cost you can.
They won't mind it, right? Why do you think it's sour even if you beg for food?
This is actually not impossible, but Xiao Chen rejected this proposal and decided that it would be best to follow the canned model provided to Li Wanyun and the others. Now it seems that doing so is very wise...
Someone may ask, if Yizhou wants to buy or even customize Yanyun’s cans, there are actually many channels and ways to get it, right?
After all, Yanyun canned food is sold well at home and abroad, so they can easily find some middlemen to purchase it on their behalf.
This is indeed the case, but don't forget that canned food is very expensive, and Xiao Xinghan and the others can't afford it...
Having said that, what matters in war is logistics and money, but overall strength.
If Xiao Xinghan had enough money, complete supplies, and advanced weapons, the Zhou soldiers and Japanese people would not be able to defeat him so easily.
Li Shi successfully recruited and surrendered the remnants of Tianxuanhui... Yes, all the credit for this goes to him.
Although Xiao Chen was an imperial envoy who came with an order, and he was the first to contact Sima Zhongping, Sima Zhongping still would not surrender if Li Shi had not risked his life to go there in person.
In fact, Li Shi didn't contribute much in this battle. It was Li Wanyun who planned the strategy, and Li Feng who charged into the battle. He, Li Shi, basically had nothing to do...
But it's different now. He is the last person to come forward to clean up the mess.
When Li Wanyun and Li Feng had already killed every opponent's chess piece and were sure of victory, the last move of the general was made by Li Shi...
Looking back at the merits and rewards, even if he does not remember his first merit, it is enough to be on par with Li Wanyun and Li Feng.
Xiao Chen didn't care about credit or anything else. He had already made enough credit. What he cared about was saving Sima Zhongping and all the brothers from the Tianxuan Society.
Under Sima Zhongping's influence, other small remnants of Tianxuanhui all over Yizhou basically surrendered. This move saved at least tens of thousands of lives.
Originally, Li Feng wanted to kill a group of people, but Xiao Chen, as an imperial envoy, strongly opposed it. Since he was recruiting people to surrender, he shouldn't kill anyone. He couldn't kill anyone!
You must know that Tianxuanhui still has remnants outside Yizhou. It doesn't matter how many people you kill now, will they surrender in the future? I'm afraid they will all fight to the death!
Which one is light or serious, which one is right or wrong, please think twice!
Li Wanyun, Li Shi, Xu Haiming and others all agreed and firmly supported Xiao Chen. Li Feng had no choice but to surrender.
The army began to retreat in batches back to Minzhou, Jiangnan, Jiangdong and other places to rest and recuperate. Li Wanyun ordered Lin Han to act as general of Yizhou and lead 20,000 people to garrison Yizhou.
As for how to deal with the remnants of the Tianxuan Hui, it still needs to be decided by an edict. Li Feng wanted to take them under his command, but Li Wanyun felt that it was inappropriate. You have been fighting with the Tianxuan Hui for many years, and the relationship between your generals and their soldiers is also very bad. The hatred is as deep as the sea, how can we cooperate with each other?
It's no joke if there's a mutiny.
Li Shi suggested that Sima Zhongping and his remaining troops be temporarily settled on Huoyun Island, dozens of miles southeast of Yizhou, under the control of General Lin Han of Yizhou, and they could be regarded as part of Yizhou's outpost.
Fire Cloud Island is only a few dozen miles in radius. It is an undeveloped island. There is no farmland on the island, and there is no city. Of course, they will not be given ships.
All logistical supplies will be handled by Yizhou, so that they can be completely controlled. In fact, it is tantamount to a disguised form of exile.
Some people also suggested disrupting their organization and placing them in various guard posts in the mainland, or simply letting them all disarm and return to their fields, which would be a permanent solution.
But no matter how it is arranged, it seems to be unstable, and it will cost a lot of money.
In fact, there are only about 2,000 Tianxuanhui remnants who are fully organized and capable of fighting, and the other thousands are all wounded and disabled soldiers. These people still need to be treated, given pensions, severance pay, and properly resettled.
According to the treatment of disabled sergeants in Dazhou, each person would have to receive at least seventy or eighty taels of silver in terms of consolation money!
What the hell, we still have more than 30,000 wounded soldiers. We don’t know where this money comes from. How can we take care of them?
If such preferential treatment is given to them, then the soldiers under his command will definitely be very dissatisfied. The court will not care about us when we fight hard and get injured. We will not give the reward for our military achievements, but first give the money to a group of rebels. Is it ridiculous? Then I can rebel too!
The morale of the military may be unstable.
"If it doesn't work." Xiao Chen, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke, "Let them all go to Yanyun County. The situation in Yanyun County is also very tense now. The Russians have repeatedly launched provocations in the Beihai Sea. Maybe they will do it in the near future. Go south in a big way to attack Yanyun, and I don’t have many soldiers there. If these people go, they will be a force after all."
Not to mention that this is really possible, sending these guys to Yanyun will save us a lot of trouble, but you can't just ask for those who can fight. What will happen to the wounded and disabled soldiers?
If you want it, just ask for it. How great would it be if we just package it all for you.
