"General Rabbit, rabbit, I'm not talking about you, it's a rabbit that the scouts who took turns to come back for dinner hunted on their way back."
Xu Da's soldiers shouted at the door, "We can give the generals extra meals. There is so much meat on the grassland."
"Bring it in." Xu Da frowned and relaxed again. He remembered that this was not a time to discuss military affairs, but a time to eat.
Otherwise, no one from outside will be allowed to disturb you easily.
The soldier walked in backwards and held up the curtain with his back. Then he turned around and carried two big rabbits in one hand: "General, four are enough?"
"How many were hunted in total?" Lan Yu asked with a smile.
The soldier shook his head: "General Lan, I don't know, there are too many people, and some people just brought them back to other military formations.
Our Chinese army returned and left behind one hundred and thirty animals, as well as five roe deer.
The brothers who came back said that the others were too big to take back, so they stopped hunting. "
The soldier said as he put down the four rabbits. Seeing that no one asked any more questions, he turned around and walked out.
"You can take the remaining cans." Xu Da handed over the cans he was supposed to share with the bamboo tube.
"General, eat it! Oh! I'll take it. Thank you, General."
The soldier wanted to refuse, but when the general stared, he smiled and ran over, took the bamboo tube and ran out.
A nearby general squatted beside the rabbit and looked through it: "It was injured by an arrow. No firearm was used. It seems that when he ran out to investigate the situation, he thought of coming back to bring the prey. This arrow is accurate!"
"If you eat well, you will naturally have the strength to train. The cavalry will have two dan rations per month. There will be money in the palace. In addition to the two dan dan rice, they will also provide meat.
After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty Navy, they led the people to fish at sea, patrolled Japanese pirates, and used light to lure fish. They caught a lot of fish, salted them and dried them, and sent more to the war armies of all parties.
The soldiers ate salted fish and were not short of salt. After eating meat, they recovered quickly after training, and even the number of deserters was less than 10% before.
Your Majesty and the sergeant sent things to their homes. At present, the morale of the Ming army is at its peak. "
Another general said the reason was that he was well fed and given plenty of food, as well as new firearms and equipment, and the old firecrackers were renovated and upgraded.
Soldiers find themselves more likely to win the battle and are less willing to desert.
He was also worried that he would die during the battle, so he trained hard.
Moreover, with new alcohol and suture methods, the number of deaths from injuries and infections will be reduced, and we will be less afraid of war. Isn’t the enemy afraid of death?
Lan Yu was not busy eating. She took a knife and came over to handle the rabbit skillfully.
While peeling the rabbit, he said: "Xiaqiu Village is worthy of being the first village in the world to which His Majesty personally gifted three archways and the words "Dongliang of the Ming Dynasty".
Now in the court, things in Xiaqiu Village are no longer a secret.
Someone was probably thinking about it, but couldn't intervene.
In order to protect the village, His Majesty even kept Donghua Gate and Chaoyang Gate open, and built a wall around Xiaqiu Village outside. "
After Lan Yu finished speaking, the skin of a rabbit was processed so quickly.
He didn't need to remove the rabbit's internal organs. It was already empty when it was delivered, and it was probably fried and eaten.
Along the way, everyone discovered that the edible internal organs of animals are not as fragrant as fried ones. If they are fried for a while, the taste will be better.
Xu Da was also handling a rabbit next to him: "The rabbits on the grassland will be so fat before autumn. Remember to keep the medicinal things you hunt on the road.
Whether the horses in the team are used for fighting or to help with transportation, salt cannot be missing.
This method of drying salt on the beach was promoted and provided by Xiaqiu Village.
First let people see the salt fields in Fujian, and then improve them, so a lot of them were exposed to the sun.
Taking the products of the sea and reducing the losses of the people, the price of salt is less than half of the original price.
In the past, the soldiers were only given two pounds of salt per month, but now they are given ten pounds.
With the addition of dried salted fish and an extra stone of grain, there would be nothing left to be a deserter. "
After Xu Da finished speaking, the other two rabbits were also processed, and he gave instructions: "Come here, take them away, and roast them outside. They are just looking for work for us!"
The soldier came in with a basin and said with a smile on his face: "The rabbits you prepare yourself are delicious. It just so happens that the skin is cleaned with plant ash first."
He put the rabbit and its skin into a basin and carried it out. Another soldier came in to bring water for everyone to wash their hands.
The four men who took care of the rabbits rubbed their hands with soap, washed them, and sat back to eat.
Since we have set up camp in advance today, we do not plan to march any more. The scouts have been sent out for fifty miles to conduct reports.
A general took a bite of rice and tasted some canned food: "The extra rice was obtained from the palace's trade with the barbarians in Shibosi."
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"Come and try the honey rock sugar rice cakes sent from Xiaqiu Village. The weather is hot, and heatstroke is more likely to occur if you are short of sugar. Remember to drink more water."
Zhu Yuanzhang is in a good mood today. He has just received the previous battle report and everything is going well.
Then Xiaqiu Village sent a large number of rice cakes, which were glued with honey and rock sugar.
The honey was originally sold to Shopkeeper Song and others. It was sold for sixty cents and bought back for thirty cents.
Shopkeeper Song and others took the money and returned to Zhejiang to follow the methods taught by Xiaqiu Village, otherwise they would not have enough money on hand.
When I left, I bought a thousand bars of soap for four hundred cents a piece. As long as they sell well, they can recover a lot of losses.
Waiting for winter to transport the things to Yingtian Mansion to sell them, in this way the lost money will be earned back, and there will still be a surplus.
When there was too much honey, the people borrowed it from the palace, and Xiaqiu Village began to make honey snacks.
When Zhu Yuanzhang was in a good mood, he would give rewards to the eunuchs and maids.
Seeing that the solar term of Beginning of Summer was approaching and the weather was getting hotter day by day, Zhu Yuanzhang did not want the eunuchs and maids to die due to the heat.
In the past, there were no conditions, and life in the palace was tight. This year, a lot of soaps, rock candy, glass mirrors and music boxes were sold.
And the Yi people who were deceived bought bamboo fungus and white fungus and made more than one million yuan in less than four months.
This is still the result of controlling shipments. Some Yi people went back and came back with a lot of things.
According to this calculation, the palace's fiscal revenue this year will be 3 million yuan. The Yi people should work hard and sell their things quickly, and then go to the Ming Dynasty to exchange them.
Zhu Yuanzhang watched the palace maid and eunuch knelt down to express gratitude, waved his hand, felt the coolness emanating from the ice basin next to him, and murmured to himself: "Have the five thousand spleen bees been distributed?"
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"A hundred boxes more or thirty boxes less will be decided according to the number of spleens. Send people to put up awnings first. When everything is ready, we will move the beehives."
The head of the village was busy arranging things that Zhu Yuanzhang remembered.
The bees began to collect honey again, but it was too dense and the surrounding honey sources were limited.
Xiaqiu Village had to bring out sugar to replenish the bees and send people to find a place.
There must be a water source nearby, and then it is convenient to set up an awning, and there must be a honey source.
By spreading out the bees, the village can save a lot of sugar and harvest more honey.
"Hanhan, give me another bowl of ice." Zhu Ping was also here, and he felt the surrounding scenery shaking with heat.
Zhu Wentian was shaving ice under the shed, which existed in the Song Dynasty. He shaved the ice into powder and poured juice on it.
Different from the Song Dynasty, Zhu Wentian did not use a plane. He asked the village blacksmith to make a hand-operated ice shaver.
Using this is cleaner and more hygienic than using a plane, and most importantly, it’s less tiring.
The shaved ice was not brought from the north. The ice was taken from the river. He now uses saltpeter for the ice.
When it is made, it is not completely solidified. It is placed in the ice cellar to exchange heat with other river ice, and then taken out to be shaved.
(End of chapter)
