Class A individual soldier rations are commonly used by elite snipers in the Marine Corps and are most suitable for stealth operations.
Black milk chocolate candies, nut compressed biscuits, canned tropical fruits, beef jerky, small packages of fish floss... all of them are high in calories and can make you hungry.
These more than 300 people were sitting on the ground. Once the individual soldier rations were removed, the other troops and civilians were dumbfounded.
"Eating so little? The head of state is not very good at their soldiers!"
"That's right, what is that black brick-like thing? It has no smell at all..."
"Our meat buns are the best, every bite is oily..."
Next to the Chinese defense area were Eight Banners soldiers all over the city. They stuffed the meat buns into their mouths as a demonstration, as if they were deliberately greedy for the Marines.
How could these veterans of the European War pay any attention to these clowns? They even started brewing matcha powder with hot water to refresh themselves.
Matcha powder is a unique way of drinking tea in Japan. The top-quality green tea is dried and ground into a very fine powder. It is brewed with hot water and drank together with the water and tea leaves.
In order to increase the taste, you can also add sugar or condensed milk. Originally, Xiao Letian wanted to use coffee to refresh the soldiers, but in the end the soldiers chose matcha powder, which had a more acceptable taste.
The green glass of water made the people around me feel disgusted. "What, what is this? It's more disgusting than the sour water used to wash the pot!"
The emphasis on Class A individual soldier rations is that they are small in quantity but still provide enough calories to withstand hunger. All the soldiers had already solved the breakfast problem in an average of ten minutes each.
Then the soldiers began to defend in divisions. The position more than 1,000 meters west of Wusongkou was defended by Oni Suzuki Tai and others, while old shopkeeper Fan Jian and senior executives such as Sakamoto Ryoma waited patiently at the bank.
The Marines solved the premature birth in ten minutes, but other troops and civilians were not so fast!
It was noisy, people finished eating the steamed buns and then ate rice balls, stuffing them one by one with all their strength. It was really the reincarnation of a starving ghost who stuffed two steamed buns into his arms unpreparedly, making them look like a girl's breasts.
Bang bang... The officer went up and whipped him twice. "You are a foodie who has suffered a thousand blows. I gave you money, food, and even a new short-sleeved shirt... Still not satisfied? How dare you sneak it?"
"Which village is this from? Find them all and remove them from their ranks... and send them to their hometown for three days! Which county does this village belong to? All officers will be fined for half a year!"
The crowd flashed out of an alley, and the fifth master of the capital, Prince Chun Yiju, who was wearing a prince's robe, walked out, and all the people along the way knelt down with a roar.
"My lord, please have mercy on me! My lord, please have mercy on me!"
The village chief who led the team was a landowner. His pigtails were already gray. He was kowtowing desperately on the stone road. "Your Majesty, please let the little ones live! I will turn around and beat him to death. I beg Your Majesty for his life!"
Yi Pei is currently very busy with the matter of being welcomed. How can he resist this old man's insistence, "Nonsense! How come the shackles are going to kill you in just three days?"
"What a cunning person, a big cunning person!"
The prince's guards came up and were about to beat them. At this time, Fu Qing's voice came from behind Yi Pei: "Your Majesty... you should try another method of punishment. They really can't survive if you do this!"
"That's right, Your Majesty, please spare my life!" The landlord Lao Cai pinched the villager who stole the steamed buns, pulled out his hair and knocked him to the ground to make him kowtow.
"What did I say! I won't let you eat more, but you insist on eating...you're in trouble! I'll beat you to death..."
The villager had been frightened for a long time, his eyes were full of confusion and stupidity. He couldn't figure out in his life why two steamed buns were going to kill someone?
Yi Pei was also a little confused. Fu Qing whispered in the prince's ear, "It's easy to call them for three days. You can call them for a month and it'll be fine..."
"But Your Majesty, you have implicated their county government. This is outrageous... You will be fined half a year! Those local gangsters, arresters, gangsters, masters... these local snakes will have ten thousand ways to kill these villagers!"
"These people are ruthless and murderous!"
Only then did Yi Pei suddenly realize that, to put it bluntly, he was still the prince of the capital. He had never been to the grassroots level, so he really didn’t understand the twists and turns involved!
"Forget it, I'll just listen to you... The people in this village will greet you first... then turn around and stay in the shackles for half a month... As for the county, they won't be implicated!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for saving my life... I kowtow to you, little old man, kowtow..." More than a dozen people from a village, led by the landlord, kowtowed like garlic.
Everything was witnessed by the Marines. At that moment, these Chinese Marines suddenly felt a strange feeling.
"Do I... really live in the same world as these people?"
With this episode, the people behind them no longer dared to hide their secrets. They all ate until they were 70% to 80% full, and then headed to the bank of the Huangpu River under the leadership of the police to wait patiently.
In ancient times, the emperor's patrols were always earth-shattering events, but no matter how grand the scene was, it was just a pile of wealth and wealth created by people. It was incomparable with the grand scenes of later generations where sound, light, movies, heaven, earth, and even the sea were shocked.
Various trees and flowers have been planted along the Huangpu River for a long time. Gardeners in Jiangnan made a lot of money during this time.
Then there are those who set up colorful sheds, painters, erect archways, set off firecrackers... dragon and lion dances, perform various tricks, whatever the fun is, let's do it!
On the Double Ninth Festival, it’s already the autumn weather in Sijiu City, but it’s still very hot here in Jiangnan!
People who had had breakfast went to the riverside to wait in groups. From a distance, it looked very crowded with people, but if you walked in carefully, you would see that every one of them had expressionless faces.
After all, I was just waiting, and I didn’t have a timetable. When would I finish the work? Especially the elderly, who don’t have children and grandchildren waiting to celebrate the Double Ninth Festival?
The young people also want to go home and kowtow to the old people in a hurry. Waiting here in a daze is really torturous.
In the Chinese Central Bank building, Mi Fu looked at the crowds of people downstairs and turned to Boss Niu, "How many people have been mobilized in Songjiang Prefecture? It must be sixty or seventy thousand..."
"More than...it's more than 110,000!" Boss Niu of Sihai Trading Company said with a big belly. "The Ninth Marshal and Prince Chun have spoken. Long live the Lord. He is coming back from a trip to Europe, which is bigger than Qianlong's trip to Jiangnan." The feat must be done in a lively manner!”
"It is estimated that the Jiangnan area will spend at least six to seven hundred thousand taels of silver to welcome him..."
It was more than 600,000 to 700,000. Niu Jinfu said it was less. Just to welcome Emperor Tongzhi this time, various prefectures and roads in the south of the Yangtze River were reimbursed. In the end, according to the Ministry of Revenue, a total of 1.8 million taels of silver was spent!
Time passed minute by minute, and there was no movement at the Huangpu River Estuary. From four o'clock in the morning to three o'clock in the morning, nine hours passed, but there was still no sign of Yujia's battleship!
The crowd gradually couldn't hold it any longer. The young people could still hold on to some extent, but the old people couldn't stand it. Some people's eyes turned black and they fainted with a pop. People screamed and rushed to a cooler place. lift.
Heat stroke is not the most serious issue because of the hot weather. The most important thing is that people are not allowed to drink water. Who can bear this?
"When will Long Live Lord come over? How long has it been? I'm so thirsty..."
The crowd began to chatter and became a little restless, and the Songjiang Prefecture's officers and soldiers from all walks of life began to suppress them, and each of them cursed at the people with a ferocious look.
"Killing by a thousand swords! How can you live a good life without Long Live Lord? You don't even have this bit of filial piety? Why don't you die standing up even if you die of thirst!"
"Cheer up, everyone..."
Among the hundreds of thousands of people in the chaos, no one noticed that a group of people quietly approached from the desolate tidal flat east of the Huangpu River.
