Chapter 11: The Smell of Blood
"This Gai Suwen is well guarded."
Hou Junji picked up a clay pot with a joke and used a dagger to cut open the mud seal notch, revealing the lotus leaf substrate inside. After opening it, there was a slimy thing inside, and when I sniffed it, the military department Shangshu asked the grain officer from Cangzhou, "Can this be eaten?" ”
"Don't blame Shangshu, this thing looks a little worse, but it's delicious."
As he spoke, the grain officer picked up a wooden spoon, took a wooden bowl, dug a spoonful of something that looked like thin cow, buckled it in the wooden bowl, pulled it twice, and the grain officer said, "Shangshu, please see, there is not only meat, but also big taro, and the amount of beans is also sufficient." ”
The military department smacked his mouth, but he still didn't dare to taste it, and said secretly in his heart: Gaolinu is strong and clear, if it was in the past, it would be quite troublesome, but this year is very different, the cart can pull five hundred cans at a time. This jar is worth four or five catties of coarse millet.
The Gangsters in Fenzhou have never been starved seriously, but they have also suffered hardships. When I started up, I also ate miscellaneous food, and in the past few years, because I have been holding back my strength to be promoted and make a fortune, I have never thought about such hardships. After becoming the secretary of the military department, he was impeached two or three times in a row, and if he was a secretary, if he couldn't make a million profits from the expedition to Liao, he would have to step down.
Canned production is not high, but not low either. It is not a problem to replenish energy for one or two thousand elites, Zhang De does not dare to say that he is a nutrition expert, but how to make the turtles full, he, an engineering dog who has watched the sunset and sunrise in the desert Gobi, still has some right to speak.
A clay pot tied with straw rope can ensure that it is not damaged during transportation. Of course, it is better to use glass for the quality of canned food, but the cost of that thing is too high, and Zhang De is not surnamed Lei, how can he specialize in such good things.
The shelf life is a little worse, but the temperature in late winter and early spring has given a lot of convenience. And according to the rhythm of this expedition to Liao, as long as Hou Junji can ensure that he can have fifty or sixty thousand slaves before the beginning of Xia, he will have immeasurable merits.
Just by virtue of this, the wealthy upstarts, the old clans, and the stinking and shameless crony capitalists have to keep his position as the secretary of the military department for a few more years.
"What kind of meat is this?"
"Pork."
"Can you eat pork?"
Hou Junji squinted at the grain officer, and then felt that this question was a bit stupid, and coughed lightly, "The soldiers are fighting hard, and they can't deduct the grain." ”
"Shangshu can rest assured that these grains and straw are enough for random inspections." After a pause, the grain officer bowed slightly and said with a smile, "In March and May, the fleet and convoy have never stopped, and now the people are looking forward to Shangshu's triumphant return, and they are going all out to support the front." ”
Blinking, Hou Shangshu asked with some curiosity: "What is the front branch?" ”
"Support the front line to kill the enemy!"
The changes brought about by the war have made some traditional areas of Hebei Province, which were originally stable and peaceful, restless. Even Fan Yang Lu, who had been taught by Li Dong, was enthusiastic again at this moment, and he was busy running around.
The small Bohai Sea, let you storm the waves, only the Yellow River has no ditch, Zhanghe River, Luan River...... All the rivers that can lead to the Bohai Sea are connected by boats and boats, like long dragons.
It is the sail that shades the sun, and it is the Tang people who drive the kun to pull the boat.
"Closer!"
"Don't panic, it's really a giant kun!"
"Laizhou's 'whale riders' are here, don't rob the Laizhou people's business!"
"Dengzhou's 'Killer Hero' is a waste of fame? Water man, you have to look at me Dengzhou people! ”
"you! Brethren, come on! ”
Boom! Boom! Boom!
I don't know what type of whale it is, the big one is at least five feet, and the tail swings, setting off a splash.
The whaling fork shot out by the eight-bull crossbow pierced the sea water and pierced the whale in an instant, sneering, and the sea water instantly dyed red. Also blood-red, there is also a sailor staring at the whale, a big whale, full of wealth.
Whale oil, cortex, bones, internal organs, whale brain...... There are also the most realistic, direct and best-selling ...... Whale meat!
"Where did that brute come from, report your name!"
"The cheap seed who entered the mother dared to rob us of our business in the Bohai Sea, and he had the courage to do it!"
Around night, the northeast corner of Liaodong Bay, which is deserted because of the clear wilderness of the strong wall, is where Goguryeo Jian'an Fortress is located. Originally, there were about 200,000 people living in this area, but as the Tang army gathered in Hexi and the golden arrows of the Heavenly Khan spread to the border, Gai Suwen quickly concentrated the population in the fortified fortress. The newly built Great Wall is to keep the Tang army out.
It's just that to the surprise of the Goguryeo people, the Tang army was not at all as violent as the legend suggests. Li Jingxue's drama of destroying the Turks at night was not staged at all.
The Goguryeo people had strong walls and clear fields, and even decent wood and stones were not left for the Tang army, and even if it was a grass house in the countryside, it had to be burned clean.
What kind of grain, poultry and livestock, not a grain of rice will be left to the Tang army.
Tang Jun should feel difficult, right?
However, no, the Tang army did not rush to attack the fortifications, but as if in a dumbfounded battle, the camp ditches advanced layer by layer. The rangers guarded the advance of the foot soldiers, and skirmishes, and there were always elite Tang troops who fought more and ate a part of the Goguryeo army.
Even Gai Suwen wanted to lure the enemy deep and give away his head with blood, but Tang Jun still ate as much as he wanted, and he was still not in a hurry.
When the Tang army's fortified fortress appeared near Jian'an City, the Goguryeo scouts could already see from time to time sea ships entering Liaodong Bay, and then the newly built coastal trestle bridge leading to the sea. On those strangely shaped Tang boats, large chunks of meat were unloaded from time to time......
"The Don's ship is here again!"
The scouts on horseback looked from afar, with quivers hanging on both sides, horse bows in hand, three horsemen in a team, one on guard, and two on observation.
"It's meat again!"
"How can the Tang people have so much meat to eat!"
"A lot of meaty ......"
Soon, in the Tang army camp, armored soldiers pushed wheelbarrows and transported a stone of whale meat back to the camp from the trestle. Twenty wheelbarrows came out at one time, and there were five teams of foot soldiers and a team of rangers to protect them. A trip to the trestle is two thousand catties of meat into the camp.
The horseback scouts of Goguryeo are all a little confused, what is the role and significance of the western lords' strong walls and clear fields?
Does the Tang Army really need those millet wheat? How long will there be enough food in the city?
Goguryeo has transformed from fishing, hunting and herding to farming, and it is a typical agricultural area. If the land is never cultivated, the pressure is unimaginable.
Tang Chuan is always like this, once he comes, it is thousands of catties of meat, as if it is inexhaustible, and people can't understand why at all.
And these meats, the soldiers of the Tang Army, actually have a large amount of salt to pickle...... In order to take care of the taste of the soldiers, some soldiers will also smoke a batch and roast a batch. So outside the city of Jian'an, the Goguryeo people who had never entered the city occasionally found that the Tang army was in the back camp and actually dried salted meat and bacon in the open air......
In Chang'an City, Zhang De looked at the bear children who moved from the Dahe Workshop, and then handed out a handout: "I am very pleased that someone got a full score in this algebra coursework......
As for the system of equations, it seems that the bear children like it very much, and they like it even more than the sum of the squares of the right angles of the right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse. Because the reward is more generous, you can get a piece of cream cake. For the right triangle problem, at most a sugar triangle is mixed ......
"Sir, I heard that someone in the capital wants to compete with us?"
"Mountain Chief, are the people of the capital smarter?"
"Of course, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, the first good place, how can it be duller than ours?"
"The bloodline of the princes and princes is definitely not simple......"
The bear children were arguing, but they saw a man come in at the door, dressed in a xia coat and wearing leather boots. Although it is not a neon dress with water sleeves, it is also loose and elegant. It's just that my daughter's family wears a hairbrush, which looks very interesting.
After the woman came in, a group of bear children turned pale, and they didn't even dare to come out, and even worse, they trembled directly, holding their heads in their hands, and didn't dare to look at people on the desk.
The corners of Zhang De's mouth twitched, and he said softly: "Why did the little lady come?" ”
"Brother, you teach a good student. Cowardice before fighting, it is really a loss of face for our Dahe Workshop, where is the dignity of the Tongren Medical Hall?! ”
Wu Erniang was put up with a "bright and moving" signboard by the royal family, and the word "Mei Niang" was called cheerful by others, but Lao Zhang felt awkward, and always felt that this would trigger an unscientific historical process.
"It's okay, it's okay, compared to the last time, it's to know the high and low. Practice makes sense. ”
"Humph!"
Her Majesty snorted coldly, and pointed at a group of bear children with one hand on her waist and the other, "You wait for the rats, and you go to school in vain." What happened to the capital? At the feet of the Son of Heaven is everyone smart, like a sage? But I don't know what to do, the children like Wubenfang are either studying the scriptures or saying poetry, even if they like arithmetic, what can they do? Familiar with the nine chapters is not enough, so he called Pang Que and other idiots who can only make cakes, and they don't know how much. ”
"Yes, yes, Erniang's lesson is that it is ...... me to wait"
"Shut up!"
The queen's cold eyes swept over, and the guy was about to cry, lowering his head, not daring to raise his head, "Don't you know what happened to the past year?" It was a few women, and they made the pinworms who were officials in the Ministry of Civil Affairs suffer greatly. You are not as good as a woman? ”
"What Erniang said, deafening, my generation ......"
"Shut up!"
The queen swept her eyes again, and the elder Xiao Langjun's tears were about to fall, and then she glanced at Zhang De, who was pretending to be a critic, as long as she lowered her head silently, "This competition, if you can't win the competition, then you will go to Baqiao and jump into the river!" ”
"Ahem."
Zhang De coughed, then looked at the bears, and said earnestly, "The little lady is also kind, you should keep it in mind." In this competition, don't be too careful, victory or defeat is the ...... of soldiers"
"brother!"
The queen turned her head sharply and glared at Zhang De, "It's about honor, how can you be sloppy?" If you don't win, you die, Fang is the right way! ”
I don't care about you! Lao Tzu teaches mathematics, not success!
However, Zhang De still tried to squeeze out a smile: "The little lady is heroic, brave and neat, she is really a model, a model ......" (to be continued.) )