After the war, Su Yonglin arranged for soldiers to clean the battlefield, and at the same time arranged for pots to be cooked on the spot, using food from the Jin army to appease the empty stomachs of the victorious soldiers.
The journey was so stressful that Su Yonglin didn't even have enough time for the soldiers to eat. He hurriedly ate a few pieces of meat and drank a few sips of water and treated them as one meal.
In less than ten days, the number of times the soldiers have had hot meals can be counted on one hand. The desire for hot food has exceeded everything else.
Moreover, there are meat, rice, and condiments here, which can be used to prepare a big meal to reward the soldiers, allowing them to eat a delicious meal, eat a piece of fragrant meat, and drink a bowl of rich broth.
Su Yonglin has always believed that carbon water and high oil and salt are the source of happiness. In order to save time when he was on the road to fight, the meat he ate was simply boiled and sprinkled with salt for seasoning. There was no other taste, which made him somewhat unsatisfied.
Now that he had some free time, Su Yonglin arranged for the captured Jin Army cooks to cook together with his fire-headed soldiers, stewed meat in a large pot, and used the captured soy sauce as a condiment to make a braised meal. Meat.
Modern seasoning methods are definitely a dimensionality reduction blow to ancient seasoning methods. As the saying goes, high-end ingredients only require the simplest cooking methods, but the ancients may not think so. Just removing the fishy smell is troublesome enough. In order to pursue a simple and delicious taste, they It’s also about searching up and down.
But in the end, the delicious taste without the fishy smell prepared from various precious meats can only be enjoyed by a few people at the top, and has nothing to do with the working people. Even soy sauce obtained from beans is not a popular condiment.
It was not until after the industrial revolution that the invention of MSG made the wonderful taste experience of umami cheap and popular.
For the soldiers of the Victory Army, it is a wonderful thing to have a meal of stewed meat with condiments such as soy sauce. Coupled with the fragrant rice, it will really make your stomach explode. Be willing to stop talking.
The fragrant smell began to permeate the air, already making many soldiers' mouths water and their stomachs roaring.
When things started here, Su Yonglin started arranging to screen ordinary prisoners and officials. The method was still the same.
Those who have food on their faces and are in ragged clothes are military officials and civilian husbands. Those who are neatly dressed and have no food or even some meat on their faces are officials.
It is very easy to distinguish between the two.
Before the meal started, Su Yonglin found out Chu Qi, the chief officer of the Grain and Grass Camp, based on the identification of some soldiers and civilians.
When he was found out, this guy took off his official uniform and smeared mud on his face, which almost made him get away with it.
However, his figure was more voluptuous and did not look like someone who worked hard every day, so he attracted the attention of the screening soldiers.
The screening soldiers snuck him out and asked around. They soon asked about his identity and learned that he was the transport officer of this large grain and grass camp.
When Chu Qi was brought to Su Yonglin, the sky had already darkened. Su Yonglin and a group of soldiers gathered around the fire, eating meat and drinking hot soup, enjoying themselves.
Seeing Chu Qi's dejected look, Su Yonglin smiled.
"Han Chinese?"
Chu Qi nodded.
"Han people."
"How old is your official? Can you bully others?"
"Bullying?"
Chu Qi smiled bitterly for a while: "It's good if I don't get bullied. I work hard every day, but I still don't get favors from both sides. The people above me think I'm slow in doing things, and the people below think I'm too quick to rush. I've been blamed by both sides, and I can't even give an order." Even a knight can threaten me. Apart from being able to eat and drink well, what else is worthy of praise for a position like grain officer?"
"Indeed, if there is a food problem in the army, you grain officers will be the first to suffer the consequences. It is common for them to be killed to appease public anger."
Su Yonglin took a sip of the rich broth and smacked his lips with satisfaction.
"Want to live?"
Chu Qi swallowed and nodded.
"think."
"Find out all the other officials."
"…………"
"What, you don't want to live anymore?"
"think!"
"Then do it."
"good."
Although Chu Qi said that he collapsed and wanted to die, when the real danger of death swept over him, he still honestly followed the guidance of the desire to survive and uncovered many officials under the guidance of the desire to survive.
Especially some officers.
Then Su Yonglin waved his hand and killed all these Jurchen officers, leaving no one alive.
In the process, he also learned more about Chu Qi's difficulties as a grain officer during this period, and consulted some prisoners about Chu Qi's daily behavior style.
Then he had an idea.
"You have been bullied to this extent, but you still want to treat others as a cow or a horse. Then they really treat you as a cow or horse. And you are not a Jurchen. No matter how hard you work, you will never gain their trust. They will never truly trust a Han Chinese."
Chu Qi raised her eyes and looked at Su Yonglin.
"Where are the Khitans? Where are the Xi people?"
"You will never gain their trust. They only believe in themselves, and they may not even believe it themselves."
Chu Qi regained her composure and looked Su Yonglin up and down. She saw that Su Yonglin had an extraordinary appearance, but even with a beard, it could be seen that he was not very old.
"Your Excellency doesn't want to kill me, but you want me to surrender?"
"Yes, I have just recruited a lot of soldiers here, and the logistics are in a mess. I need capable people to help me share the responsibilities. You are very good, and you have the energy to act like a cow or a horse."
Chu Qi blinked.
"If you don't treat the Jurchens as cattle or horses, why don't you treat yourself like cattle or horses? May I ask who you are?"
"My name is Su Yonglin, my nickname is Yuting. I am the commander of the Shengjie Army under the Liberation Army, and I have been awarded the title of Hussar General. I defeated your Shandong East Road Soldiers and Horses Deputy Commander Jiagu Asu, and captured Dongping Mansion. We captured Dongping Prefecture Yin Yelv Chenghui and Yidu Prefecture Yin Tu Shan Jingdu, and then attacked the city and captured the land all the way, and ended up here."
As Su Yonglin spoke, Chu Qi's eyes slowly widened.
"Dongping Mansion...Yeluchenghui and Tudanjing were captured by you..."
"Well, do you feel like you can't keep up with the food here? That's because no food has been delivered since Dongping Mansion. I took over the place where the highest command center of the gold thieves is in Dongping Mansion. They are all mine now. Imprisoned."
Su Yonglin stared at Chu Qi and said, "From there, I learned everything about Shuhu Siji, including where you transported food from and where you transported it to. They also told me about this camp. So, you Do you feel like Shuhu Siji still has a chance of winning now?"
"If he counterattacks immediately..."
"I burned all the food and grass, fled immediately, and did not fight with him. How could he hold the whole army in place and not collapse? How could those soldiers hold their own when they learned that the food was gone?"
Su Yonglin smiled: "Admit it, the Liberation Army won, and we all won in Shandong. Even if Shuhu Siji can defeat the Liberation Army for a while, he will be finished now. Both Shandong East Road and Shandong West Road will belong to the Liberation Army." military."
Chu Qi swallowed hard.
"What the general said is..."
"So, are you willing to surrender?"
Chu Qi lowered her head and thought for a moment.
"I'm not a local. My family is in Bozhou. I'm worried..."
"Bozhou is my next goal."
Su Yonglin didn't give him a chance to finish his sentence.
Chu Qi was suddenly speechless.
After hesitating for a long time, Chu Qi took a deep breath.
"Chu Qi, I'm willing to surrender."
"good."
Su Yonglin was very happy. He smiled and patted Chu Qi on the shoulder: "My army has four departments responsible for logistics and military supplies: the Military Law Department, the Guidance Department, the Food and Rating Department, and the Ordnance Department. I plan to arrange you to help me in the Food and Rating Department. My old subordinates are doing things, and the Food and Pay Department is the busiest and most powerful department. It has been short of people for a long time, and my old subordinates will be very happy if you go."
Chu Qi forced a smile.
"Thank you, General, for taking this seriously. Chu Qi dare not not do her best."
"That's good."
Su Yonglin nodded and said: "You can go to the prisoner camp and pick out all the old subordinates who are comfortable with you. You can pick more, and I will accept them."
Chu Qi's eyes lit up and she felt a little more happy.
"Thank you, General, for your magnanimity."
"If you do your work seriously, I won't treat you like a cow or a horse. I will treat you like a human being. You will soon find that it is more comfortable to be a human being."
Chu Qi was stunned for a while.
Be a human being?
Be a cow or a horse?
Chu Qi nodded silently and went to choose a suitable candidate.
