Kou Feng's country warriors have all been recruited.
But Kou Feng was very unhappy.
"Brother, you have to help me!" Kou Feng complained to Zhang Xi with a bitter look on his face, "Those people are not soldiers, they are just refugees!"
"He was originally recruited from the refugees...don't take it too seriously!" Zhang Xi comforted him, twitching the corner of his mouth.
Don't even think about where you recruited your soldiers... What do you expect? !
"No, brother, that's not what I meant!" Kou Feng scratched his head and said rather irritably, "These people, not to mention training, are exhausted just by being put in formation...Brother, you have to help me !”
Zhang Xi was helpless and said, "How do you want me to help you?!"
Only then did Kou Feng smile. It was probably this smile. He seemed a bit malicious.
"Brother, you don't need to work too hard. All you need to do is provide food and fodder for my troops..."
"Don't even think about it!"
Zhang Xi refused without hesitation.
Are you kidding me, can there be a backdoor for things like food and grass? !
The army has its own rules, and every army implements them according to the standards, leaving a backdoor for you... If you are really a soldier, you are a vegetarian, right? !
one more......
"Why do you need to ask me for this kind of thing?!" Zhang Xi asked in confusion, "Didn't your family just open a tofu shop... Your uncle really showed his respect for the Xiangyong you recruited? nothing?!"
Although the military system these days is a recruiting system, in theory the recruited soldiers are under the jurisdiction of the Lord, but the Lord and General actually have a great say in the army.
The lord controls the logistics and food, and thereby controls the general's army. This is an iron law that cannot be broken. Therefore, it is impossible for Zhang Xi to open a back door for Kou Feng in terms of logistics.
He still wants the head.
But if the general has the ability to improve welfare benefits for his army, the lord will usually turn a blind eye.
After all, these are troubled times and cannot be compared with the peaceful and prosperous times.
Furthermore, the three hundred men of Kou Feng are not so much the regular troops under Liu Bei's account as they are the tribe of Kou Feng... It's just that the number of these tribes is relative to Kou Feng's current status. Said, the number of people is just a bit too many.
So, if Kou Feng wanted to spend his own money to add some nutrition to the army he recruited, Liu Bei would most likely not care.
But Kou Feng didn't understand... what this had to do with his uncle's tofu shop.
"Soy milk, tofu brain, tofu, eating them can strengthen the body...didn't I tell you?!" Zhang Xi asked Kou Feng strangely, and Kou Feng shook his head first, then looked surprised. .
"Brother, is this true?!"
"I can't lie to you!"
Yes, Kou Feng immediately disappeared as soon as he got the letter.
He probably asked his uncle for tofu.
Zhang Xi really didn’t lie. Soy products are the best way for humans to absorb plant protein.
The Chinese civilization has always been able to stand on the earth and defeat the nomadic civilization many times with its agricultural civilization. One of the important factors is the large intake of plant protein, which has improved the physical fitness of the Chinese nation.
Before modern society, eating meat was always a relatively luxurious thing among the people. Therefore, the intake of animal protein by the people in the Central Plains was definitely not as good as that of the grassland people.
However, because of the availability of plant protein as a supplement to protein intake, the physique of the Chinese nation is not much different from that of the grassland peoples. Coupled with the advanced level of science and technology, the grassland peoples simply cannot compete with the Central Plains peoples who mainly focus on farming.
And Kou Feng really didn't want to let his uncle go, so he wrapped up the poor output of the Tofu Factory that day.
Liu Bi was so angry that he almost cursed his nephew.
But it turned out that this idea came from Zhang Xi, and that this tofu can make people strong... Liu Bi was dubious, but still chose to support his nephew.
Just a little distressed.
Tofu, this is something only nobles can eat, and Liu Bi still wants to make some money from it.
Kou Feng was even more incredible. After getting the support of his uncle, he directly added tofu to the meals of the army.
Originally, the military's morning meal was a meal of corn rice with some green vegetables at nine o'clock in the morning. If you were lucky, it would not be meaty. Dinner is corn porridge with wild vegetables.
Now it's better, each sergeant has two extra pieces of tofu bigger than a slap in the two meals.
When Zhang Xi found out about it afterwards, he also found it funny.
He quickly called Liu Feng over.
There is no need for the soldiers to eat tofu with corn porridge. This does not make much sense and is a waste of tofu.
"You, go back and tell your battalion officers that starting from tomorrow, two meals a day will be changed to three meals a day!" Zhang Xi said to Kou Feng with a smile, "Breakfast will be brought forward an hour to allow the soldiers to wake up. Have a bowl of tofu first, and you can decide whether to add more sauce or not. I recommend adding it. It doesn’t cost a lot of money anyway. If you add a Chinese meal at noon, it will be according to the original morning meal standard, and dinner will be moved an hour later. , which is the original dinner standard. In this way, you can eat three meals a day, and you can be like a general in the army without delaying your dietary training. More importantly, your military food expenditure is still so much, and you can have an extra breakfast. It doesn’t cost much food!”
After all, tofu brain contains much more water than tofu.
To be honest, if this guy hadn't already fed the soldiers with tofu, Zhang Xi was afraid that the soldiers' mentality would be unbalanced, so he wouldn't have to give him tofu at breakfast, just a bowl of soy milk.
There is a limit to the daily intake of plant protein, and too much will be bad for the body.
However, he probably wouldn't understand these explanations to Kou Feng. Anyway, just let Kou Feng do it.
Apart from anything else, Kou Feng still listened to Zhang Xi's words. He actually changed the diet in the camp from two meals a day to three meals a day. This alone made the soldiers take Kou Feng's advice seriously. The loyalty gradually increased, which caused Zhang Xi a little trouble.
This is actually very simple - there has never been a precedent for three meals a day in the military.
The military camp is not a secret institution. Kou Feng's decision to change his camp from two meals a day to three meals a day quickly spread to other camps.
Then Lao Laoyouzi quit.
Why can the big group of soldiers who just entered the military camp have three meals a day, but we veterans of hundreds of battles can only have two meals? !
What a fool...Why don't we have one? !
Let's not make a fuss about this matter. If it does, it will be a big deal.
After all, this matter might cause a mutiny, and military discipline is just like that these days.
The chief officers of each battalion had some opinions on how much Kou should be granted. They felt that this boy was trying to please others and breaking the rules.
The simplest and most direct way for the chief officers of each battalion to express their opinions is to put small shoes on Kou Feng.
The first thing that came to mind was that this guy actually gave the soldiers in the camp three meals a day, so his food standards must have exceeded the standard.
Check, this must be checked.
Jun Zheng came to Zhang Xi specifically for this purpose, checked the food and grass expenditure in Kou Feng's camp, and then went to Kou Feng's camp to inspect for a while. Finally, he drank two bowls of tofu with large sauce and left with satisfaction.
After returning, Jun Zheng told the chief officers of each battalion that he had subsidized a meal for the soldiers. If you are capable, you can subsidize it yourself.
Jun Zheng is not afraid of offending anyone, since he is directly responsible to Liu Bei anyway.
But this kind of thing, Jun Zheng turned around and told Liu Bei...Kou Feng did this, which was somewhat suspected of raising soldiers privately.
But there was nothing Liu Bei could do.
The sergeants are all the same these days. Which general is rewarded with wealth and goods by conquering a city, but does not give some points to the lieutenants in the army? !
If Kou Feng is punished because of a bowl of tofu bread... this soldier will be difficult to lead.
But having an extra meal in the military camp is not a small matter. If one person is not handled well, the soldier will also be difficult to lead.
For this reason, Liu Bei could only summon Kou Feng and ask about the cause and effect of the matter.
Kou Feng was also an honest man, he told the truth about everything, and he sold Zhang Xi casually, which made Liu Bei's face look strange.
After carefully questioning Kou Feng and learning the specific functions of tofu and the money Kou Feng paid for this breakfast, Liu Bei was moved.
Liu Bei never knew that bean curd could be made into soy milk and tofu curd... He only knew that it could be made into tofu and eaten with honey.
It turns out that tofu can be drizzled not only with honey, but also with bean paste, or diluted bean paste.
Which one is cheaper, honey or soybean paste, Liu Bei doesn't have to settle this account, it can be settled by one person.
The cost of this tofu brain and tofu products made Liu Bei even more excited.
As one of the five grains, bean sprouts have always been cultivated by people, so there are not many bean sprouts on the market, and the price is only slightly more expensive than corn.
A bowl of soaked bean curd can yield twenty bowls of soy milk or ten bowls of tofu, while a bowl of corn porridge can only yield two bowls. If you divide it into three bowls, the generals will complain... Liu Bei now has the intention to grab it.
Liu Bei doesn't care about what happens after that.
Kou Feng's army still continued to have three meals a day, and other military camps still had two meals a day. The lieutenants and generals in the army complained. Until one day, Liu Bei announced that all military buildings would have three meals a day, and a breakfast would be added. , the regulation is tofu brain with big sauce...
A few days later, Zhang Xi heard that Kou Feng, this arrogant guy, had appointed his uncle Liu Bi as a subordinate of General Zuo's palace.
From the county magistrate to the subordinate, the actual status was lowered, but Liu Bi was very happy, which meant that he was one step closer to Liu Bei's core class.
As for my tofu shop that opened not long ago...it doesn't have the fragrant official status of a subordinate.
Liu Bei appeased the morale of the lieutenants in one fell swoop, and greatly improved his prestige because of his virtuous policy of eating three meals a day... However, one thing was that the bean sprouts in Xinye County seemed to be out of stock.
In fact, there was a tax quota for bean sprouts in the early Han Dynasty, and you had to plant a little every year. It was originally for Ma Zheng.
But now, the requirements are not so strict, and taxes are not required to be paid, so the common people naturally have fewer crops.
But you still have to plant some bean sprouts. After all, experienced farmers know that if bean sprouts are planted in newly reclaimed wasteland, although the yield of bean sprouts will not be high that year, the corn yield will be higher next year.
There were only a few to be planted, but no one expected that Liu Shijun would come up with some tofu curd, soy milk, tofu and other things in Xinye County. Now there is a bean shortage in Xinye County... It's simply... Unheard of.
But don’t care if you have heard of it or not, aristocratic families will not have trouble with money.
If there is a shortage of bean sprouts in Xinye County, just sell them there.
And the most important thing is, can tofu, soy milk, and tofu curd be sold in Xiangyang? !
To make money, don't give up.
