Chapter 760: What does elephant meat actually taste like?

Style: Historical Author: Ximen YangzhouWords: 2090Update Time: 24/01/12 17:02:21
After the capital of Linyi State was captured, Lanyuan County affairs were directly handed over to the prefect Yu Fan, and Gao Shun and Shamoko were asked to assist him in controlling the situation. He and Gao Ling mysteriously headed south with hundreds of soldiers.

When Yu Guanhua, who was over sixty years old, took office, he first restored the Han name of Linyi to Xianglin County;

Secondly, there were public and centralized trials of treasonous criminals, and Cham officials were punished with both kindness and force. They cooperated with the Wuxi barbarians of Samoko to implement military control. After the situation in Rinan County stabilized, the advanced system of Jiaozhou was introduced;

Finally, Guangfu Square was built in Xianglin City, and a monument of meritorious service was erected in the center of the square for people to admire. Yu Fan personally wrote the names of those who had made contributions and asked the stonemasons to carve these names on the monument, including Lan Yuan, Gao Shun, Sha Mo Ke, Li Yi, Chu Qing and other more than 2,000 people.

On April 28, more than 2,000 treasonous Cham officials, generals, soldiers and other criminals, led by the old king Qujin and the new king Qumi, were taken to the north gate of Xianglin at the same time, and were executed while kneeling facing the direction of Chengdu. , Yu Fan required all residents in Xianglin City to send a representative from each family out of the city to observe the execution.

At three quarters of noon, the storm was raging.

The prisoners kneeling on the ground were like wild flowers, and the cold light was like a strong wind harvesting the earth, leaving only rows of roots in the end.

In troubled times, heavy rituals must be used. Yu Fan stood at the top of Xianglin City like a god of death. He used the blood of the dead to warn the living, what is meant by "anyone who openly offends a strong man will be punished no matter how far away".

Since the Ou family rebelled and became independent, in addition to ensuring the royal family's continuous support, they have not cared about the life and death of ordinary people at all. Therefore, even if Yu Fan killed many people, they did not have any sympathy for the Ou family.

In troubled times, the people's thoughts are very simple, and they just want to live out their lives in peace. However, most of the people in power regard the people as nothing. The people are burdened with heavy taxes and corvees. Even if there is no war, they will die of exhaustion early. Therefore, regardless of whether it is in the Han Dynasty, Nichinan County There is not much difference between the local people and the local aristocrats, who can quickly adapt to the new policies.

On April 29, Lan Yuan and Gao Ling returned to Xianglin from the south. Under the leadership of the local guide, they found the 'Champa Rice' that Lan Tian had longed for.

At this time, the rice in Champa had only been sown for a month, and the seedlings brought back were only a few inches tall. Lan Yuan had someone make a wooden box out of wooden boards, and dig out the seedlings and soil from the field.

In addition to the rice obtained from the fields of the tribal people, many wild rice seeds were also found from riverbanks, mountain streams, slope forests and other places, with a total of more than 500 samples collected.

When Lan Yuan returned to the city, he asked the trapped troops to assemble, preparing to return to Guangzhou immediately to find Lan Tian to recover. This move made Xiang Lin, who had just settled down, become restless again.

Yu Fan and Shamoko came to the military camp to persuade them to stay, saying: "The soldiers have worked hard all the way to the south and have achieved extraordinary achievements before resting for only a few days. Why do they need to turn around in such a hurry?"

"Although Jiaozhou is far away from the Central Plains, it is bordered by Jiangdong after all. The trapped troops have been staying in Rinan for a long time, which may make Sun Quan covet him. It would be better to go back early. Moreover, the newly obtained rice seeds also need to be transplanted." Lan Yuan nodded and explained. .

Yu Fan smiled and asked, "I just saw it outside the camp, but the young general's new seedlings are like weeds, far less robust than the current rice seeds in Jiaozhou. What do you want to do with these when you bring them back?"

Lantian had only told a few people about the magical effects of Champa rice. The Jiaozhou rice that Yu Fan saw was just a seed bred by agricultural researchers in Guangzhou. It was basically a rice seed from Jingnan and Jiaozhou.

The two-line hybrid rice that Lantian has been researching requires a large number of farmers to carry out manual pollination, so it cannot be popularized and planted. It is still being planted as a sample in experimental fields.

Upon seeing this, Gao Shun said: "Sir, he is particularly interested in new crops. Boyang didn't have any decent loot on this trip, so it would be a good idea to go to the south of Xianglin to pick some rice seeds for him and bring him back."

"Spoils of war? Do you want to take away the two elephants..." Samoko was just halfway through his words when he saw Gao Shun shaking his head and stopped abruptly.

"Yu heard about General Lan's intensive farming when he was in Guangzhou. This kind of hobby is comparable to that of the ancient sages. However, it is really inconvenient to travel far away for the seedlings. General Li can be taken away by boat first. Let's take back the battle report of Ninan." We should be arriving in Guangzhou soon, right? In fact, the trapped army can definitely take the sea route, otherwise it would be too hard to travel thousands of miles back and forth..." Yu Fan suggested, stroking his beard.

"There is no problem for He Miao to take the water route, but the soldiers must return by land. Even if they travel thousands of miles for training, it is really not a hardship for the trapped troops." Lan Yuan's expression was indifferent.

"I finally understand where the strength of the trapped army lies..." Yu Fan sighed as he looked at the sky, then raised his hands and advised: "It's almost noon now, why not take a rest overnight and set off early tomorrow morning? The soldiers even had a celebration banquet. Nothing can be done..."

"What's going on?" Lan Yuan looked surprised after hearing this, thinking to himself that he had been away for several days, why didn't he even have a good meal or drink? If Xianglin City really couldn't use it, they could ask Li Yi to move it on the ship. They captured Rinan County in half a month and saved a lot of military rations.

Gao Shun smiled and joked: "Without you as the commander-in-chief of the trapped army, how could the soldiers dare to eat well by themselves?"

Lan Yuanxin said that you are really good, and his prestige is not as good as Uncle Gao, right? Your reasons for retaining people are really unique.

"Uh... Then let's stay one more night." Lan Yuan nodded awkwardly at first, and then told Gao Ling: "Those seedlings in the camp are precious. We must send people to guard them all night long."

"Don't worry, Boyang." Gao Ling clasped his fists sonorously.

As soon as Yu Fan, Shamoke and others left, Lan Yuan approached Gao Shun and looked embarrassed, "We have to prepare a celebration banquet for ten thousand people in such a short period of time. I don't know if we can buy it in the city." There are enough ingredients, and you must restrain your subordinates not to plunder people's property, otherwise it will leave a bad impression on the people of Xianglin... Where can you get so much meat?"

"Hahaha, Boyang, you look just like sir now. How can you, the commander-in-chief, think about these little things? Only Prefect Yu and General Sha will prepare the ingredients for the banquet. We can just take Zhang Zui there in the evening..." Gao Shun laughed. road.

"You asked General Sha to prepare? He won't kill a few elephants to make up the number, right?" Lan Yuan asked in surprise.

Gao Shun smiled mysteriously: "General Sha has taken over this matter, how can the celebration banquet be without meat? Even killing the elephant is understandable..."

Gao Ling's eyes were as wide as copper bells, and he said to himself that the elephant was "invulnerable". If he really wanted to kill it for meat, he didn't know how many hours it would take to stew it...

As the sun set in the evening, Lan Yuan and Gao Shun came outside the city. Samoko found a large open space and held a banquet for ten thousand people in the evening breeze.

As soon as Lan Yuan sat down, he smelled the aroma of meat. Samoko personally brought a bowl of broth to him.

"Major General, this meat soup is cooked by my people, please try it quickly..."

Seeing how enthusiastic Samoko was, Lan Yuan picked up a piece and put it in his mouth to chew. The tender and crunchy feeling was very special, so he frowned and said to himself: "Does elephant meat actually taste like this..."

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