A carriage carrying some vegetables slowly arrived at the Anbei Army Camp under the care of some Yanmen people.
I just arrived at the Anbei Army Camp and saw some energetic soldiers standing at the door. These people were sighing here.
"With such a strong military guard, the Northland is in no danger."
What's more, since the Turks have been defeated, their lives will get better and better.
But what they didn't notice was that these Anbei soldiers' eyes widened when they looked at the vegetables they brought.
After receiving permission, the people happily entered the Anbei Army camp and were immediately shocked by the scene in front of them.
There were soldiers lying on the ground in a mess everywhere, basking in the sun out of boredom.
"Is this a plague?"
Xu Guichang suddenly said such a sentence, which shocked the soldiers guarding the door who let them in.
"Suffering from a plague? It's almost the same. It's a flesh plague."
"ah?"
It was a very confusing sentence, and the arrival of Wang Xiaofei and others made these people just turn their heads to look at them and then once again went to the place where the snow had been cleared and basked in the sun honestly.
"What the hell is going on?"
Xu Guichang asked anxiously here.
"Is there really a febrile epidemic in this military camp? What should we do? I didn't bring any herbs this time, only some vegetables. Our Yanmen Kuhan doesn't have much."
But as soon as they heard about green vegetables, the soldiers who were basking in the sun on the ground suddenly stood up and gathered around.
"This county magistrate, are you bringing food? Is it for our Anbei Army?"
A brigade marshal-looking man came up and asked. Xu Guichang nodded hurriedly.
"Yes, yes, they are just some ordinary vegetables. They are indeed given to you. I hope you don't look down on them."
When he heard that it was indeed a dish for them, the brigade commander shouted at the top of his lungs.
"Brothers, someone has brought us food."
"What? Delivering food?"
With a crash, all the soldiers basking in the sun got up from the ground and gathered around.
Xu Guichang couldn't help but be startled when he saw the soldiers who were still standing on the ground looking helpless and hurriedly surrounding him.
"You...what's wrong with you? Didn't you say that you suffered from the plague?"
"Yes, we have a flesh plague."
"Meat plague? What kind of plague is this?"
After everyone talked about the flesh plague, Xu Guichang once again considered what the flesh plague was like, and his wife Wang Xiaofei showed her head from the carriage without any embarrassment.
"Sirs and soldiers, you don't look like you are suffering from the plague!"
In an instant, the person in front of them started to explain to them. It didn't look like they were suffering from the plague.
"Didn't we tell you that we are suffering from a flesh plague?"
Flesh plague?
It was this word again, and everyone was very curious and confused, eagerly waiting for an explanation.
Then these people said that they had been eating meat for almost a month, and then in order to reward them, the imperial court sent them more meat, so that they could eat meat to their death, including beef, mutton, fish, chicken, and duck meat in rotation. , but they almost vomited after eating.
However, when they heard that meat could be eaten for nearly a month, and there were mountains of canned meat piled up in the camp, the peasants who came to deliver food couldn't help but swallow their saliva.
"Is there such a wonderful thing? How come we have never been tired of eating meat? Every time we don't have enough meat, it will be gone after three or five bites.
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We may not be able to eat meat once a month or two, which is good. The meat in the Anbei Army camp is piled as high as a mountain. The soldiers have eaten it for a month and are not interested in eating it. "
Just as these people cheered and looked at the cart of vegetables that Xu Guichang sent, although it was just some dried radish and dried vegetable leaves, for these Anbeijun who were already tired of eating meat, it was not conducive to the real delicacies of mountains and seas. I burst into tears right here.
Xu Yunyan received the notice and walked over slowly, followed by several generals. As soon as these generals saw the cart of vegetables in front of them, they immediately rushed towards it with gleaming eyes.
"This is actually a dish, great! That's great!"
These people were muttering here that this was a good job, while Xu Guichang came to Xu Yunyan's side and carefully hugged his fist.
"Who are these General Li?"
Before Xu Yunyan could be polite to Xu Guichang, she heard Xu Guichang asking about the identities of these people who were obviously wearing much more gorgeous armor and clothing.
Xu Yunyan then pointed at them and began to explain, "This is Mr. Shi Jinshi, the Deputy Protector of the Anbei Protectorate."
"Xu Guichang, the magistrate of Yanmen County, has met Mr. Shi."
After Xu Guichang saluted, Shi Jin patted him directly on the shoulder.
"Okay, you're very good. You brought us food. If you have any questions in the future, just give me Shi Jin's name and I'll protect you."
After Shi Jin said this, Xu Guichang felt embarrassed, but not long after he was embarrassed, Feng Tao next to him directly clasped his fists.
"Shi Fengtao, the director of the Northern Protectorate of Xia'an, met Xu Shijun here. We also want to thank Xu Shijun for sending us vegetables. After eating meat for almost a month, we are almost turning our food into bacon."
Xu Guichang chuckled after Feng Tao's half-joking remark.
"Master Feng is joking. This meat is very precious. How can it be compared with these vegetables? Our Yanmen is not suitable for production and is a bitter cold place. I finally managed to get some vegetables together, which made you laugh."
But just when Xu Guichang was being polite to them here, he suddenly looked at Xu Yunyan, Shi Jin and Feng Tao and said something.
"Deputy Protector Shi, Feng Changshi, I want to discuss something with you."
As soon as Xu Yunyan spoke, Shi Jin and Feng Tao looked at him hurriedly. Even the two generals behind them were watching here, waiting for Xu Yunyan's arrangements.
"You two, there is a lot of meat in our camp. Since the brothers are tired of eating it, how about we use some of it to replace it with some vegetables?"
"Can."
Shi Jin shouted here without thinking, while Feng Tao touched his chin here.
"This seems inappropriate."
"Well?"
Doesn’t Feng Changshi think it’s inappropriate for me to take it and exchange it for vegetables?
Just before Xu Yunyan could say anything, Shi Jin asked, while Feng Tao looked at these vegetables and spoke slowly.
"The reason why it's inappropriate is that it's hard for farmers to save some vegetables for the winter. We exchange meat for it. How many vegetables can a pound of meat be exchanged for? Can this be determined? If a pound of meat is exchanged for a pound of vegetables, I'll wait until I don’t think it’s anything, but will these people change it? This dish is very expensive now.”
So that's what happened.
As soon as Feng Tao said this, everyone suddenly realized, but Xu Guichang said here, "One pound of meat can be exchanged for at least ten or eight pounds of vegetables. How come it can only be exchanged for one pound?"
Xu Guichang said this, and the peasants who were escorting the vegetables were also nodding here. After the scene fell into silence for a while, the two brothers Li Yunlong and Li Yunfei took a step forward.
"Is it true what you said? A pound of meat can be exchanged for so many vegetables? Then why don't we just exchange less meat for a few vegetables? It won't affect the people around us to survive the winter, and we can also exchange the excess meat for Make some vegetables that you won’t be able to eat here.
Although the general..." The two of them were about to say the word "dried meat" when they immediately remembered that this is a taboo in the military. They were still trying. If they rashly leaked it and other interested people found out about it, they would be in trouble if Tang Jun did something. .
In order to divert this topic and save this interested person from spreading the news, so that the foreign races who have complaints against the Tang Dynasty can also learn from them, I want to reserve military rations, Xu Yunyan said here.
"Since Magistrate Xu has said so, I will prepare a cart of meat for you and let Magistrate Xu exchange it for some vegetables for us when he returns. How about that?"
Xu Guichang was surprised when he heard this.
"This is true, but I don't know how to exchange the meat and vegetables?"
"Just follow what Feng Changshi said just now, one pound for one pound."
Xu Guichang burst into tears at this moment.
"I'm waiting here to thank General Li again. You said you wanted to eat vegetables. You're just pretending. It's just to help the people in my bitter cold land. I'm waiting here to thank General Li again."
Seeing Xu Guichang's expression of gratitude here, the civilian husbands behind him also had tears in their eyes of gratitude.
They came here to repay Xu Yunyan's kindness to Yanmen. They didn't expect that they would get such a big deal in the end. They actually brought back a cart of meat and exchanged one pound of meat for one pound of vegetables. Thinking about it, it felt like the meat was free. .
Most of these dishes are dried vegetables that they can't finish eating in autumn, and they are not worth a lot of money, but this meat is real meat!
After Xu Guichang began to return with some meat on the carriage, Wang Xiaofei scolded Xu Guichang in the carriage, pointing at Xu Guichang and saying something wrong with him.
Xu Guichang lowered his head and did not dare to say a word.
"What Madam said is true. General Li is always excellent. Just look at how he came up with such weird ways just to give us some meat."
"Yes, General Li can do this, what about you? In the future, he will say that he cares about the people. If you compare with General Li, the gap is really big."
Wang Xiaofei said this and Xu Guichang nodded helplessly.
"Yes, yes, the gap is too big."
However, after this farce-like exchange of meat for vegetables came to an end, Xu Guichang looked at the weather that was beginning to improve outside and asked the generals next to him.
"How far has our dried meat been dried now? Have you ever seen it?"
As soon as Xu Yunyan spoke, logistics director Feng Tao laughed.
"The general's method is good. The wind in the north is as strong as a knife. The hot days after slaughtering have dried them like firewood in two days. Now I have had people try it. I gathered them all together and beat them into meat. Silk, it is true that the meat of a cow can fit into the bladder of a cow, and it looks like it will not be damaged after three to five years of drying."
After Feng Tao said such good news, Xu Yunyan said directly here, "How about we try the taste of this meat at noon today?"
"Okay! I just happened to bring one."
While Feng Tao was speaking, he waved his hand, and there was a soldier of Feng Tao outside the door who brought in the items prepared by Feng Tao.
Seeing that the leather bag, which was about the same size as a basketball, was easily grasped in his hand, Shi Jin leaned over and picked it up.
"This thing is really light. It has the meat of a cow? If each of us has one like this, we don't have to worry about food supplies."
"Yes, we don't have to worry about food supplies, but there is one problem. There must be water. If there is no water, our supplies will be like a joke."
Feng Tao was very satisfied with this.
But when he thought of water, Xu Yunyan hurriedly spoke here.
"Second order, in the future when marching and fighting, no matter who drinks water, he must drink boiled water, and every time he takes water, he must test whether it is poisonous. Don't fall into the trap of Xiaoxiao."
