Guns are not a rare thing in Anbei Military Town. Although Niu Laoliu has not become a soldier, he can also shoot a gun. His eldest brother, Mr. Niu, still has two "ancestral" turtle-dove-footed fire blunderbuss hidden in his home. Sometimes he takes them out for his brothers to use to hunt wolves on the grassland.
But he never thought that guns were a necessity in life here in Xinzhou Continent... Most Xinzhou people who live in the cities and farms on the west coast have guns, and people like Niu Laoliu Because the "Xinzhou Military Households" went to the front line to resist Indians and Europeans, everyone must have a gun!
Because Northern Xinzhou is too vast, the places along the western coast where there are more Han people are better. Going east is a vast land with sparsely populated areas!
A Zhuangzi with 200 households was often the only Han settlement within a radius of one or two hundred miles. Moreover, these 200 households cannot stick to Zhuangzi and not go out, otherwise they will not be able to carry out production and obtain supplies. And if you want to herd, farm, hunt, and transport materials, you will definitely have conflicts with the indigenous people. It is difficult for farming people to coexist peacefully with the nomadic indigenous people...
Moreover, human beings' pursuit of security often has no limits. In order to pursue absolute security, these settled military households often take the initiative. Once the young men in Zhuangzi attack collectively, the task of defense will fall on the old, weak, women and children.
Therefore, all military households in Xinzhou, including women and children, must be equipped with guns and must learn how to use guns. Of course, children who are too young cannot learn, but among military households in the front lines, children as young as six or seven begin to learn how to use guns. Loading ammunition and making paper shell custom ammunition. You have to start shooting when you are about ten years old. By the time you are thirteen or fourteen years old, your marksmanship is very good.
At this time, it is time for the boys among them to go out of the village to join the war and fight to the death with the natives!
This is the price of eating meat!
Eat meat every meal! How could you not pay the price?
There is no free lunch in this world, let alone big fish and big meat? And in the United States of New Zealand, the head of the country is still a rich man who is smarter than a monkey. How can it be possible for people to eat meat for free?
In ancient China, anyone who served as a soldier or went into battle was considered a soldier. We all know that if it’s not a festival, and meat is served to you, it’s usually not a good thing... maybe it’ll be your last meal!
And the more meat you give, the bigger the problem will be.
Although Niu Laoliu has never been a soldier, his father has carried a gun for the "Loan King". When he was "eating grass" in Jining Guard, he often listened to a group of old military households bragging about the prosperous years in the past, so he knew The rules of eating meat in the military.
The "Loan King" lives his life carefully and is also very picky about the military households below him. In the army of Dai Wang, they would eat dumplings stuffed with cabbage and pork during festivals, and they were the kind with a lot of cabbage and little pork, which gave them a delicious meaty taste. If you are given cabbage and pork dumplings every festival, it usually means you are going to the front line! If you have a small piece of braised pork, you will definitely go to battle with the Tatars.
If the boss eats a piece of meat... then the matter will be serious, and he will probably lead the battle as a dead soldier. Not to mention a narrow escape, it is still 50-50, at least 30-70. Those who are timid will cry and eat meat at the same time.
If there was a tub of beef carefully marinated in table salt and spices... oh my god! How big of a deal is this? Is the sky falling? Do we need to repair it? Or is something wrong? That won't happen!
Niu Laoliu was frightened when he saw a tub full of corned beef and a small bag of flour that the quartermaster wanted to give him! There is so much meat. The meat I have eaten in my life is less than half, no, more than a third!
How many lives do you have to sacrifice for this?
"Why are you so stunned! Have you never seen beef?" The person in charge of distributing food was a quartermaster who was a second-generation soldier. He couldn't bear to see this kind of person who was frightened by meat...it's not just meat. Well! I wasn't afraid at all when I saw so much meat!
A man is a man, he is not afraid of death, but he is still afraid of eating meat?
"Well, I've seen beef before, but not so much..." Niu Laoliu's voice changed when he spoke!
"There are so many strange things out there..." The quartermaster waved his hand, "Hurry and take it away, go back and eat it!"
It’s over, it’s over, open it up and eat!
Does that mean the whole family will be shattered to pieces?
"Master, can I ask..." Niu Laoliu asked in a trembling voice, "After eating, is it time to go to the battlefield?"
The quartermaster nodded and said with a smile: "Of course! Why are you coming all the way to the United States of New Zealand if you don't want to go to the battlefield?"
yes! Why not go to the battlefield? Come to eat meat?
Niu Laoliu was speechless, but his wife Yang Erniang still had something to ask.
"Master, can I ask, is this the only amount of noodles needed to make steamed buns?"
A tub of meat is paired with a small bag of flour... Some people actually call this rations, it's obviously meat! Where and how to eat meat?
The quartermaster nodded and said seriously: "Yes, that's all. This is not to fill your belly, but to regulate your stomach... The conditions of our nomadic households are quite difficult. Flour was hard to come by, so they had to eat mainly meat.
You have to start getting used to eating meat now. As long as your stomach can bear it, you have to eat meat. If the oil and water are too much and you can't bear the diarrhea, you can eat this noodle, adjust it, and then continue eating meat! When you get used to eating meat, it's time to follow His Highness King Huai eastward to the Great Plains! "
In fact, it is not that there is no grain to eat here in North New Zealand, and the supply of grain here is also very sufficient. The United States of New Zealand has a population of less than 1 million, and more than 8 million acres of cultivated land are sown every year. And these 10 million acres of land are located around the Gulf of America, the Great River Basin, the Po Valley and the northern part of the Flood Valley. They are all very fertile land with suitable climate and humidity, and the yield per mu is extremely high. All kinds of things are enough to supply 1 million people, and they are also very wealthy.
However, it is difficult to transport the grain produced on the western coast to the Great Plains of North New Zealand. Because there is no water transportation, there is only a "field line" along the way, and it is impossible to support relay transportation. Without relay transportation or water transportation, it is unrealistic to transport grain thousands of miles.
Therefore, Niu Laoliu and his family will have to eat meat for a long time in the future... mainly beef. If they want to change their taste, they will have to eat passenger pigeons or go to the Mississippi River to catch fish.
What kind of steamed buns, what kind of steamed buns, what kind of millet paste, and even delicious foods like sweet potatoes and taro, I don’t know if I will be able to eat them again in the future!
As for the feeling of being hungry...I'm afraid I will never experience it!
...
Washington DC, white house.
King Zhu Hehao of Hezhu and his two good brothers, King Huai Zhu Hekun and King De Zhu Hezhen, finally met in the New World.
The three brothers were now holding each other's arms and crying on the Washington D.C. Pier. After crying, they returned together to the White House, the palace of the King of United States.
The white house has been expanded and is much larger than when Zhu Hehao first arrived. Two auxiliary buildings have been built, and now they are all vacated for Zhu Hekun, Zhu Hezhen and their families to live in.
Construction of Prince Huai's Mansion and Prince De's Mansion in Washington City has also started, but the progress of the project is not very fast. It is estimated that it will take one or two years to complete. There is more meat, more food, more money, more money here in Xinzhou, but there are fewer people, so the construction of the project is very slow. .
However, King Huai and King De won't be able to use the palace for a while...because they are nomadic princes!
Emperor Zhu has already decreed that the two of them must live nomadically on the Great Plains of North New Zealand... and they must chase the bison! Grazing and hunting at the same time, gradually reducing the bison population on the Great Plains while building and growing your own herd.
Alas, the good Prince of Ming Dynasty was deceived by me into becoming a nomadic king! They are still descended from Concubine Zheng! Who should I ask for comment?
Zhu Hehao looked at the two dejected brothers and had no choice but to find a way to comfort them!
"Second, fifth... In fact, the Great Plains is a good place." Zhu Hehao thought for a while, "It is really a good place. The land is extremely vast and fertile. Except for the extremely cold winter, the other They are much better than our Central Plains. In fact, that land is very suitable for farming, but..."
As soon as he said this, a rush of footsteps suddenly came from outside the small restaurant of the White House, and then a female voice shouted: "Your Majesty, the Cabinet Secretary Zheng and the Army Chief Chen are asking to see you. They said they have urgent military affairs! "
