Well, Jiang Tian found that he seemed to have underestimated the darkness of folk food in this era. In other words, the territory and customs of the Kingdom of Zealand are similar to the Gallic Chicken of another time and space, and the food style of the Kingdom of Zealand is actually not much different.
Although there are advanced agricultural techniques and species brought by the Seris people, while improving productivity, the degree of improvement in the lives of inland people is also quite limited. It is said that only in the southern coastal areas of the kingdom that have been deeply affected for a long time, there will be some improved products.
Therefore, what farmers in the countryside usually eat are various tubers, beans, oats, barley, rye and other feed crops, smashed together with their shells, and stewed into a pot of mixed porridge with unclear ingredients. Sometimes a large number of wild vegetable roots and fruits are added to make up the number.
The staple food for residents in the towns is coarsely ground and baked, and becomes hard as soon as it cools down. It is said to be black bread that can be used as rice cakes, or bread cakes made of mashed barley, rye and water. , with sour and smelly bad cheese, fermented oatmeal.
For those who are a little more wealthy and can afford to eat fish and cured meat, they can stew and grill it in various ways, and then add more ingredients and seasonings from various sources, and finally it becomes a random stew for each person. Mixed cooking, unknown stuff with a complex taste that is hard to describe.
Under normal circumstances, military rations include blackened pantothenic rusk, salty bacon and dried fish, and wormy cheese. The best food that can be provided in church services is some leavened bread without plant ashes to de-acidify it.
Therefore, the popular beer that can be sold in civilian pubs is a turbid liquid bottled in some rough clay pots and inferior glass bottles. When poured into greasy pottery cups and wooden bowls, you can see obvious suspended matter and precipitated impurities; the taste It smells like pot water.
Despite this, some people still use this simple drink, paired with the half-cooked barbecue on the fire that is obviously lacking in oil, salt, and get themselves drunk. As for the leading few, they actually shared the private collection of spirits in translucent bottles belonging to the officers of the Principality of Milan.
One of the specialty products introduced by the Seris people who arrived on the Europa continent hundreds of years ago through the sea is the extracted soju, which is known as the "source of happiness for sailors". Then it quickly became one of the exclusive products of the royal families of various countries, and liquor officials were set up to ban private brewing.
In addition, about ten pounds of tea cakes, several large bags of coarse sugar used to prepare tea, and a small jar of refreshing and appetizing preserves were also found in the Milan officer's private collection; these were also found by Eastern merchants. The imported products from the road have become one of the specialties of overseas colonies.
The products sold to the people in the inland areas by merchants approved by the Wang Family Special Sale are even more maliciously mixed with a lot of extruded weight-increasing ingredients such as gravel and charcoal. Therefore, Jiang Tian personally recommended a few slices of sizzling meat and dried cheese to satisfy his hunger, along with the sweet tea that was boiled with a lot of impurities and had a strange smell.
In addition, there were some roast chickens and smoked geese collected from the town hall for the officers, a few dozen raw eggs and a small bucket of milk, etc., which were distributed by Jiang Tian to the injured who could not attend the banquet afterwards. The patients once again received a wave of tears of gratitude.
When the sky lights up again, the town of João is already a different scene. The spoils of this raid were quickly cleared and simply counted; although there was not the military supplies for a thousand people that Jiang Tian boasted about; but as a regiment station, there were still supplies for hundreds of people.
In addition, in addition to having more than enough long and short weapons for everyone, they also pieced together 23 pieces of various armors from the corpses, including chain shirts, coiled armor, and short pierced armor, plus more than a dozen inlays. Half-body leather sheaths of iron sheets and spikes; and more thick cloth smocks.
Then, they found more than a dozen long and short matchlock guns of different specifications, as well as a few small barrels of gunpowder and a large plate of lead blocks, molds, iron sticks, pliers, charcoal and other supporting tools. Armor is mainly used to arm the second team, while firearms are classified into the first team.
Immediately afterwards, the reserve funds of the regiment and the property they had collected and looted privately were also found in the residences of the regiment captain Baron of the Principality of Milan and a dozen officers and sergeants. There are probably more than a hundred large corolla silver coins of the Kingdom of Sealand and five hundred small corolla silver coins;
One thousand, four hundred silver coins with the coat of arms of the Principality of Milan, as well as a number of gold and silver utensils, necklaces, bracelets and more than a dozen pieces of large and small jewelry; based on the common ancient silver coins of the Kingdom of Zealand, it is probably worth five to six thousand. A residence; and one Ecu is equal to twenty centimes (copper).
In the kingdom before the May Storm, for five centimes (copper coins), you could get an independent room with hot water and three meals in a hotel. Or enough to feed a family of five in town for one day. Even in some remote areas, you can only see them when you pay taxes in the spring and autumn.
Of course, now that the capital government is rotating like a lantern, it is issuing various tokens and paper rolls. Under the constant impact, prices have already become expensive, with prices rising three times a day. However, due to their relative weight during casting, Ecu and centime only depreciated by half.
So Jiang Tian decided to share the money with everyone. He divided the various copper coins, which amounted to more than a thousand centimes, into one share based on head count. One share was given to the team he belonged to, and another share was given based on specific performance and contribution; the injured could receive half a point. Although there are not many people, it is still a good start.
Then, while the iron was still hot, he announced the rules governing the distribution of spoils and battlefield captures. Among them, the food, property, and equipment were managed uniformly and rationed according to needs; while other items were appraised and half belonged to the public and half belonged to individuals, so it was natural that they agreed.
Then I spent another whole day repairing, searching carefully, packing and taking away all the available supplies. Then, the ownerless things that could not be taken away were piled in the small square in front of the town hall, allowing the surviving local residents to take them for their own use...
Therefore, when Jiang Tian and his party left the devastated town of João, the number of fully loaded people more than doubled again. Among them were townspeople who had joined the ranks of revenge because of the tragedy that had happened to their families, local farmers who had been captured, and a few former captured soldiers of the Kingdom's army.
Therefore, although the establishment of the three teams has not been increased, the number of people has been greatly expanded. In particular, the long and short weapons teams of the second team expanded to 80 and 67 people respectively. The equipment has also changed from the miscellaneous and rusty old stuff before to at least 70% to 80% new.
Even the two washerwomen Lila and Dolly had seven or eight more temporary companions/underlings; the reason is simple. After the disaster caused by the Northern Italian Allied Forces/Duchy of Milan soldiers, almost all the permanent residents of João Town were Half of them disappeared, and many orphans and widows were created.
Therefore, these women who have become helpless may not be able to survive even if they continue to stay there; so it is logical to accept the shelter of this temporary army at a certain price and go to the next city to make a living, even if This is only a small hope.
Jiang Tian also has a Jarhead boy Xiao Juyin beside him. The reason is also very simple. He is the town mayor's brother-in-law and an accountant at a provincial church school. After the town mayor's family who supported him in school were killed, little Juyin, who claimed to know how to keep accounts and double-entry calculations, was in urgent need of a job.
In addition, he was also more clumsy than the record-keeper Andrew who was so clumsy and could only say "Sovereign Lord" and "Almighty Lord" when he spoke. But when he saw the bloody surgery and wound dressing, he looked pale and soft-footed. , more courageous, reliable and dexterous.
That's right, Jiang Tian is now a multi-talented man. He is the leader, coach, first team captain, logistics officer, and the only military doctor. Therefore, as the team becomes more substantial and standardized, there are too many tedious things; so we must find ways to share some of them.
Although the kingdom's military system is relatively mediocre and lacks distinctive features compared to other countries, at the regimental level, it also includes deputy regimental commanders, first adjutants, flag officers, military judges, military medical officers, quartermasters, financial officers/accountants, etc. , more than twenty auxiliary left-wing officers and affiliated personnel.
At the wing level, there are also more than a dozen auxiliary non-commissioned officers including exclusive deputy company commanders, flag bearers, service officers, sergeants, doctors, coaches, and recordkeepers. In addition, there were several ad hoc titles specifically governing craftsmen and laborers. Therefore, Jiang Tian could only slowly fill these candidates and positions.
The encounters and experiences he encountered along the way also made Jiang Tian, who had just traveled from a peaceful and prosperous unified dynasty, once again realize the ancient saying that "bandits pass through like a sieve, and soldiers pass through like a grate". It is no longer limited to the damage caused by the invasion and transit of foreign enemies.
"Gene Era"
There are also subsequent chain reactions of riots, refugees and bandits; like ripples that are constantly aroused and spread, quickly destroying the social order and the general public's sense of security wherever they pass; this brings about The incoming business travelers were cut off and the fields became barren, which further affected the country.
In the end, in a series of endless cycles of famine, plague, and turmoil, the population as a factor of mobility was almost wiped out, and large areas of land were barren and towns were abandoned, eventually forming many buffers of no man's land before the "Apocalypse" stopped. The continued internal friction of the Four Horsemen.
Therefore, what Jiang Tian saw most along the way were old and new corpses and shriveled heads hanging on the roadside, trees with their branches and leaves gnawed away, swaying in the wind; and from time to time, they were found in ditches and grass beside the road. , stripped naked or mutilated corpses.
Sometimes there are starving people lying in the shade of the tree with skinny bones, mouths stuffed with bark and leaves, eyes dull and dying. Or simply there are piles of suspicious bones with dense tooth marks; scavenging crows are chirping in the treetops, and wild dogs are wandering not far away.
