There are many people in the military market, and Meng Chang's movement is not a small thing, but it is a helpless move. I don't know a few merchants, and if I don't hawk the meat, I won't be able to catch a big boss like Lu Jia. .
Three hundred gold has been entrusted to Lu Jia to send back. He will not have to worry about food and drink in the military camp. He only needs to keep a little spare and occasionally go to the military market to buy some meat to satisfy his craving.
After all, he is also a captain, capable of managing thousands of soldiers. He can be regarded as an official, large and small. Meat is indispensable in the military camp.
But the food in the military camp is just enough to fill your stomach. It's difficult to make it taste good.
I don’t have any cooking skills, so I just stew in a big cauldron.
Li Jing, Zhao Bing, Chen Qi and others, after having a homemade barbecue here in Mengchang, they rarely go to the kitchen camp to eat. They like to come here for a walk when they have nothing to do. Two generals and a school lieutenant come here every day. It's also quite fun to eat in other people's barracks.
Sometimes when they smell the smell of meat, Chonghou Tiger will come over and have a meal. After eating, he will joke and simply transfer Meng Chang to the kitchen to camp.
Meng Chang actually disdains these barbecue methods. What he eats is tasteless, but in the eyes of others, it becomes a delicacy.
There is no cumin and no chili. If you want to add a layer of oil, you have to dig around and take coins to the military market to exchange for meat oil. It is very good to taste the delicious meat. It will taste like any barbecue stall in the future. Better than these.
Fortunately, pure natural, pollution-free, organic green and healthy ingredients, and sometimes you can also eat meat from exotic animals from the mountains and seas, which is a good thing.
After returning to his camp, Meng Chang asked his soldiers to invite Li Jing, Chen Qi, Zhao Bing, and Ma Quan. In order to have a good feast, he even cooked and roasted three sheep himself and placed Western Zhou rice wine on the floor.
After a feast of wine and food, Meng Chang gestured to Meng Zhu and took out the gift he carefully selected.
"The ability to kill Cong Cong is not due to me alone. You all fought bloody battles on other roads. I was lucky enough to run into this beast."
"Otherwise, any brother on the road could kill it easily. Most of this trophy was scratched off by that boy Mei Luan, and there wasn't much left. I bought some gifts to reward my brothers for their help. I hope my brothers won’t dislike it.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Meng Zhu stood up and took out a large hardwood bow tanned with deer sinew from his cloth bag.
"In the last arrow competition, General Li never missed a shot and his archery skills were excellent. This three-stone bow is worthy of a warrior."
Li Jing was very happy. He often practiced archery at home, but his old bow was damaged during the long journey. Later, his archery skills were useless. He was quite regretful. He didn't expect Meng Chang to be so interested in his archery skills. Approved, he is indeed a good brother who knows my heart.
In recent days, the five of them often gathered for banquets. Li Jing was not polite to Meng Chang. He picked up the big bow and tested its strength. He nodded with satisfaction and saluted and thanked him.
What was given to Chen Qi was a pair of copper and iron breast shields for the front and back chest. Warriors in the battle formation were most afraid of stray arrows and hidden arrows. Chen Qi was very useful in the battle formation. A strong breast shield was very useful for enemies like him. The objects the archer focuses on are also very useful.
According to the preferences of several people, Meng Changdu gave gifts to Zhao Bing, two jars of Western Zhou Dynasty wine, and bought a new bronze armor for Ma Quan.
It cost a lot of money, but it was worth it. They all did what they wanted, and it just touched the hearts of a few people. This friendship is worth hundreds of dollars.
After the banquet dispersed, Meng Chang stood up, took away the small gifts he had chosen for the generals with good connections in the army, and went out to visit.
During non-war times, there is no ban, but you are not allowed to go into the mountains to hunt animals at will, so as not to be attacked by monsters and lose your life in vain.
Meng Chang exchanged all the remaining fifty or sixty gold into sword coins and asked Meng Zhu to take them out and divide them equally among the thousands of soldiers under his command.
He has not forgotten his father's teachings at all. He was born as a civilian and could not afford to spend a lot of money to hang out with Mei Luan and Zhang Guifang. However, it was just right for other civilians and generals who were born as civilians. Everyone. None are wealthy.
In the military camp, there is not only fighting and killing, but also human kindness.
Thanks to the times, people like Wang Mang have not been able to set an example for everyone. Except for the big shots in power, people at the bottom are still relatively simple.
With the presence of a man like Meng Chang who made many friends, the atmosphere in the entire camp became more lively.
This was something Chonghou Hu saw but did not stop.
He didn't object to Meng Chang's own management, but he didn't like that Meng Chang always cared about his humble origins and resisted playing with the aristocrats of the Mei family and Cheng family. In his eyes, aristocrats were the foundation. It may seem like putting the cart before the horse.
There are thousands of soldiers under Mengchang's command, each of whom has five or six sword coins. This money is not considered huge wealth for the soldiers, but the fact that the chief has made a fortune and is willing to share it equally with his men has never been heard of. , Now what Meng Chang has done has greatly increased their goodwill, and they have no doubt about their captain.
No one is perfect, some people like it and some people hate it. Meng Chang first made a huge 'windfall', I don't know the exact amount, but I think he had a hundred gold, and then he spent money like water and money to 'win people's hearts'.
Mei Luan and Cheng Yuan, who were descendants of Chongcheng retainers, were quite unhappy. What's more, this guy actually gave away all the others, leaving them alone.
Don’t worry about scarcity, but worry about inequality. This principle has existed since ancient times.
Therefore, Mei Luan did not think about what happened when he took other people's trophies, and directly complained to Chonghou.
There is no good reason, it is just to disturb the morale of the military, or it may be due to improper financial methods, forming cliques for personal gain, etc.
Every one of them is aimed at death, but Chong Houhu knows the specific things in every one of them.
Financial irregularities, a joke, they are looking for Lu Jia, who do you think Lu Jia is? After receiving the meat, he reported the matter to Chong Houhu as soon as possible, and then negotiated the meat monopoly business.
Forming cliques for personal gain, it would be a joke if guests like Li Jing had any impact on the structure of Chongcheng after becoming friends with them. Among the five of them, only Ma Quan and Zhao Bing belonged to Chongcheng's main division.
As for disrupting the morale of the army, if the atmosphere of brotherhood and brotherhood and the soldiers chatting and laughing with each other can be regarded as disrupting the morale of the army, Chonghou Hu would like to disrupt it several times a day.
As a result, Mei Luan received a scolding. For a retainer, being scolded several times by the master for being a villain can be said to be a very serious matter.
Meng Chang soon found out about this, thanks to his good brother Zhuo Shou in the military camp.
Because of this incident, Mengchang became even more unhappy with Mei Luan. It is you who are greedy for merit, and it is you who robbed your colleagues of their trophies. Now you are the one who does not want to see others making a fortune and harming his own people.
Now I am weak and have no right to speak. Just wait, I have a bright future, and sooner or later you will have to learn a lesson.
However, under the exaggeration of several nobles, some bad names such as Meng Changfu and Shengmin Xiaowei were spread throughout the coalition camp.
It doesn't matter, I'm used to being called a reckless person. As for belittling my own life experience, it doesn't matter anymore. Is there anything that can resonate with the grassroots more easily than the rise of the grassroots? You can promote it, but Meng Chang doesn't care at all, and he doesn't have to pay Mei Luan's advertising fees.
What is the purpose of all this trouble? Sometimes Meng Chang also wants to ask Mei Luan and other nobles, but how can my two acres of land in Luoyang be worthy of the seal of the Six Kingdoms?
In the following days, after seeing Chonghou Hu's broad mind, Mengchang completely let himself go.
Leading the soldiers under his command, every time he went on a mission, he would always run to places where there were many monsters and beasts. He would rush in and disrupt the rhythm of the ring dogs and crustaceans, and then ask his soldiers to form formations to follow.
Unlike other generals and lieutenants who lead troops, noble children will maintain their identity and let ordinary soldiers and soldiers rush into battle.
The captain who climbed up step by step as a civilian will cherish his life and work steadily step by step. No one can be like Meng Chang, who acts like a madman and actively attacks the enemy formation for a group of ordinary soldiers.
As the saying goes, if a soldier is raging, he will be raging in a den. Meng Chang's crazy fighting style also drove crazy the soldiers under his command, each of them was very fierce. If Meng Zhu didn't insist on shouting to maintain the formation, they would have been killed. Everyone wants to rush together.
Mengchang didn't know much about the art of war. It was this subconscious behavior that reduced the damage to his brothers, allowed the strongest himself to maximize his abilities, and then created opportunities for his brothers, which actually expanded the results of the battle.
The generals worked together as one, and the general was not afraid of death. Therefore, the military situation, one of the four military forces, was fully displayed in Meng Chang.
There are also people in later generations who play like Meng Chang, and many are famous. The representative figures are Bai Qi and Xiang Yu.
The former is guided by layout, and then defeated and killed, while the latter is more domineering, charging directly, crushing the morale of the opponent's troops and then taking them away in a wave.
There are advantages and disadvantages. This method is suitable for Mengchang. Find his own strengths and then maximize them. This is what he tries instinctively.
Gradually, there were fewer and fewer voices that originally laughed at Meng Chang's soldiers for following a reckless man and idiot.
Every time the monsters in Yanshan were wiped out, Mengchang's army made the most gains with few casualties.
Generals have a circle of generals, and soldiers also have a circle of soldiers themselves. Through word of mouth, a tall and majestic image emerges of a man who loves his soldiers like his own son, is brave and fearless in battle, always goes to the front, and can share interests with his subordinates equally.
Some of the generals and commanders in the camp who were not very good in character were eager to switch to the selfless Captain Meng.
But this is impossible. The military camp has its own organization and specifications.
Slowly, in the cycle of Mengchang making money, building reputation, treating guests to meals day by day, making money again, building reputation again, and treating guests to meals, Yanshan was finally wiped out.
In war, there are always people who sacrifice, and there are always people who become famous. Those who are good at fighting do not have great achievements, but those who have great achievements, who dares to say that they are not famous generals?
Mengchang's name as a mad warrior and a fierce warrior also spread throughout the coalition forces from the Chongcheng camp.
