"Sir Liu Junzheng, I would like to take the liberty to ask you, is the food in your army so good?" Xu Zheng asked Liu Yikai with emotion while holding the food in his hand.
"Master Xu, you are too polite. I dare not hide anything. Although our army's food is not the same every day, it is not much different. After all, we are on the battlefield now, and the transportation of military rations is inconvenient after all. If we are stationed in the city, The food is probably much better." Liu Yikai replied without thinking.
Suddenly, Xu Zheng felt like he was bursting into tears.
He asked if their food was so good on weekdays, but he was told that it was only because they were at war that the food was so bad.
"Sir Liu Junzheng, your military rations are so good, how can you guarantee the logistics? If you include the loss on the road, how much military rations are needed to support this? Even if the entire Huguang area is taxed, it will be difficult to support it!" Xu Zheng couldn't help but become a little suspicious.
"Master Xu asked this, he probably hasn't been to our port before!" Liu Yikai said with a slight smile.
"Port? The imperial court banned the sea, oh, no, it was the Qing Dynasty's banned sea. I heard that except for a few ports, other areas are not allowed to go to sea, so there are no ports to see." Xu Zheng replied after thinking for a while.
"Then if you have the opportunity to visit our port in the future, you will understand why we have so much military rations. The port is filled with ships several stories tall, filled with goods shipped from overseas. food." As he spoke, Liu Yikai showed a sense of pride.
"Well, doesn't it mean that it is not good to open the sea? It is easy to attract Japanese pirates. I heard that during the Ming Dynasty, Japanese pirates were very rampant and even captured many cities and killed many civilian officials." Ma Ansheng on the side suddenly suddenly He spoke.
"Japanese pirates? It depends on whose place they belong to. If they dare to come, they will probably die before they get close to the shore." At this time, Liu Yikai was even more domineering. Under the bright red sunshine in the early morning, looking at it makes people feel even more heroic.
"Sir Liu Junzheng, I am not questioning what you said, but the problem of Japanese pirates has always been a major problem for the imperial court, from the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty. Do you think you can solve it?" Ma Ansheng was also confused.
"What's the problem? Let me ask you where did the Japanese pirates come from?" Liu Yikai asked Ma Ansheng. .
"This...I don't know either." Ma Ansheng thought for a while and really didn't know where to start.
"It's the sea!" At this time, Xu Zheng answered.
"Yes, it's the sea." Ma Ansheng nodded and agreed.
"Yes, they came from the sea. But what if there is no way for them to come by the sea?" Liu Yikai asked.
"The sea is so big, how could there be no road?" Xu Zheng felt that Liu Yikai was just bragging too much.
"Indeed, the sea is very big. But we have a large fleet of bandit-suppressing troops! I don't know exactly how many there are, but I heard that the shipyard is constantly manufacturing all day long, and the ships are launched into the water at the same time. I heard that the King of Han We are ready to build a navy. Can you imagine how many ships we will need? How dare that little Japanese pirate come to die?" Liu Yikai said.
"Master Liu Jun, have you seen the King of Han himself?" At this time, Xu Zheng asked Liu Yikai curiously, and even Ma Ansheng next to him looked like a curious baby.
"Of course I am lucky enough to have met His Highness the King of Han." At this moment, Liu Yikai bowed respectfully towards Ma'anshan and said.
"Then please allow me to ask you a foolish question, what kind of person do you think His Highness the King of Han is?" Xu Zheng also followed Liu Yikai's example and bowed respectfully in the direction of Ma'anshan and asked. The same is true for Zai Ma Ansheng.
After all, you want to join others, so naturally you can't make yourself different.
"The Emperor is beyond human imagination." Suddenly, Xu Zheng felt that Liu Yikai, who had just been very sane before him, was now like a devout saint, extremely respectful.
"Is the King of Han really so powerful?" Xu Zheng was shocked.
"If a sixteen or seventeen-year-old country boy does not have the spirit of an emperor, is it possible for him to conquer this country and protect his people?" Liu Yikai was very angry at Xu Zheng's question.
"Yes, I made a mistake." Xu Zheng quickly slapped his mouth and said.
"Master Xu, you don't have to be like this. After all, you have just arrived, so it is inevitable that you will be like this. If you can stay in the bandit suppression army for a longer time, you will understand my respect for the King of Han." Liu Yikai said.
"Yes, yes..." Xu Zheng nodded repeatedly.
"One more thing I can tell you is that it was the King of Han who ordered me to come down to receive you. Do you feel a little strange? What I just told you is that breakfast should be porridge, steamed buns, steamed buns, and fried dough sticks. That's right, but what I'm giving you now is the main meal?" Liu Yikai continued.
"Yes, I was a little confused just now, but I forgot to ask you for a while." Xu Zheng replied.
"That's because they said that if you choose not to meet us on the battlefield, you can be called friends. When friends come, you will naturally want them, and they will entertain you with good wine and good food. But you also know that we are on the battlefield now. , naturally we don’t have any good wine or food, so we can only share our good food with you.”
"I was supposed to give you some breakfast first, and then lunch. But King Han considered that after a night of noisy last night, you should have been hungry for a long time. If you eat some oil and water, you will feel better, so he ordered us Bring out some staple food to fill your stomachs." As he spoke, Liu Yikai bowed respectfully in the direction of Ma'anshan again.
Although Xu Zheng didn't know whether what Liu Yikai said was true, he was moved by his words.
Although they have always called Zhang Rui the leader of thieves, they have always hoped that one day they can kill him, so that they can honor their ancestors and bless their descendants.
But it is really touching that such a person, who can be called the emperor, would consider the problem of hunger for these desperate soldiers who came to surrender.
Xu Zheng thought about it from another angle. If it were Emperor Qianlong of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he would never think about whether they were hungry or not. After all, even if it was the Qing army's rations, he could not wait to supply them for one day.
If possible, Xu Zheng really hopes to meet this rumored King of Han. See if he is really worth following with your life.
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Zhang Rui naturally didn't know what Xu Zheng was thinking, because he was laughing in his tent at this time.
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