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Since these rebel armies entered Shanxi, there are many local wealthy clans in Shanxi, and it is not easy to conquer cities and villages surrounded by high walls. The rebels can only gnaw down those small cities that do not have much food or not many defenders, although the small cities can be conquered, but there is not much food, so the efforts of the rebels are difficult to be proportional to the income, often it is difficult to defeat a city, but they have to prepare rations for the cannon fodder who are ready to enter the battle next time, otherwise their own strength will only be less and less. No matter how many cities the rebels captured, food would always be the most scarce thing for them.

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But this thing in front of him is a real ration, Shi Lidong hurriedly put this small brick-like thing to his mouth and gnawed it gently, although it is said that the compressed dry food is hard in winter, but its hardness is not difficult in front of the teeth, and the ration that was bitten into crumbs entered the mouth, not only has a fragrance, but also has a faint sweetness, which makes him shudder, "There is sugar in this?" ”

"Yes, there is sugar," Maruyama said with a smile, "such grain bricks, we have a whole large cargo hold that can be exchanged, as long as you provide people to come, we can give them to you, but people are different, first of all, women and children are the most valuable, a young woman, four pieces, a little girl three pieces, a little boy two pieces, other young adult men one, two old people for one." ”

Shi Lidong's heart immediately made an calculation, and after thinking for a moment, he asked a little weakly, "How long can I keep this thing if I eat a piece?" ”

"Huh?" Maruyama didn't understand what this "how long to keep" meant, Shi Lidong hurriedly and carefully explained, "Does it mean that eating one piece can last for half a day?" ”

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"Oh," Maruyama now knew what he meant, and hurriedly said, "A piece of such a ration can ensure the needs of a normal person for one day, and if you don't do too much work, you can basically guarantee it for two days." ”

Shi Lidong nodded hurriedly, "The villain knows, the villain is going to prepare for a replacement, but I don't know how many such people the adults need?" ”

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"Well," Maruyama stood up and beckoned to Shi Lidong, "Get up and come with me." Shi Lidong hurriedly got up, but his legs and feet were inconvenient in winter, so he knelt for a long time, tossed several times before he got up, and stumbled out of the door with Maruyama.

Outside the gate was not the camping area of the previous detachment of the northbound brigade, but was set up in the warehouse area near the barracks, because the living area of the personnel should not be mixed with the warehouse area, otherwise one of them would be attacked, and chaos would occur in both areas at the same time, so the warehouse area was set up one kilometer south-east of the barracks area. Shi Lidong didn't know where this was, he went to the camp, and then he was put on a hood at the gate of the camp and sent here, only knowing that he had walked a long way before being sent to that room. As I stepped out of the gate, it suddenly opened up to a wide flat field that had been swept out of the snow, flanked by low houses. However, Shi Lidong knew that this must be the construction method of the underground nest, but there seemed to be no people living in the underground nest, and there was neither the hustle and bustle of the people, nor the smoke and dust from burning for heating, and even the smell of smoke.

Next to the nest was a wall, unlike anything he had seen before, it was made entirely of snow and ice. The plan for the ice wall was not a plan for the northbound brigade, but was accidentally proposed by a soldier after arriving in Taiping. The method of building such an ice wall is very simple: first make a mold with snow pressing, then fill it with branches and bamboo branches as stiffeners, and finally fill it with snow during the period, and then pour hot water into the mold step by step. The hot water melted the loose snow inside and filled the gaps between the walls, and then the cold northern wind blew and the hot water quickly re-condensed into a wall of ice. Thanks to the stiffeners, such an ice wall is much more impact-resistant than a normal ice wall and can be easily repaired in winter – just add water. But although such an ice wall is simple, it is not just anyone can build, first of all, it needs to consume a lot of fuel, its building materials are mainly water, in the northern winter water is not so easy to obtain, can only be obtained by melting ice and snow, Shanxi local aborigines or rebel armies do not have so much fuel can be luxurious to melt the ice and snow and then re-freeze to play, so in front of Shi Lidong, this is simply like seeing the Great Wall of ice and snow as amazing.

Maruyama ignored his surprise, but led him all the way to a semi-underground building that was also made of ice walls, and waved his hand to the soldier guarding the door in the ice house at the door, the soldier hurriedly shook the handle of the door, and the gate made of ice slowly moved to one side, and after a while, the gate was completely opened, and inside was a large pit of about one meter, with an area of about one acre, and the ground in the pit was leveled, and the light penetrated through the roof of the ice and snow, shining in the room, although it was not very bright, But it can also be seen clearly. There were several neat piles of crates on the ground, and each box had a lot of words printed on it with square characters that Shi Lidong couldn't read, and given that the words on it seemed to be all the same, he felt that the contents of the boxes should be the same goods.

Maruyama walked closer, picked up a crowbar from the side, and pried open one of the crates, which contained neatly arranged small squares, and he took out a piece from it and threw it to Shi Lidong, who was still standing behind him. Shi Lidong hurriedly caught it and opened it carefully, and it turned out to be the grain brick that he had gnawed on before.

Maruyama pointed towards this area and said loudly, "There are a hundred boxes of grain bricks here, forty in each box, a total of four thousand grain bricks, even if you exchange the most expensive woman, you can exchange for a thousand, as long as you have enough people, we have enough food to exchange, each takes what he needs to live and prosper." ”

Shi Lidong was relieved now, I heard that eating one piece of these grains can ensure the needs of a day, and four thousand yuan is enough to ensure the needs of four thousand people a day, and it is very convenient to carry or eat, which is far better than going to the remaining villages nearby to search or fight the autumn breeze of large households.

However, Maruyama is also very happy at the moment, these grain bricks are completely different from the grain bricks sold by the Senate to the north and south of Annan, not only are the ingredients far less in quantity and weight than the genuine version, but the weight itself is not as good as the monkey version of the north and south of Annan, in order to ensure that the weight will not be too much less, it is directly mixed with a lot of wood chips, yes, it is wood chips. There are too many of these things in the Dongfang Port Timber Mill, even if they are used as raw materials for production, they are far from being consumed, so the warehouse of the lumber mill has long been piled up and is about to overflow.

Of course, these wood chips are not just any wood chips can be mixed in, mainly pine wood chips, and the main purpose of filling them in is to reduce food consumption. These grain bricks are manufactured for only one purpose, that is, to replace people with the rebel army, such grain bricks look high-end and high-grade, in fact, it is far from the genuine version of the monkey version prepared for refugees and the foreign legion's own food, at best, it is just to meet the minimum survival needs, and at the same time, it also makes the rebel soldiers rely on this convenient ration one by one, so as not to go out and rob everywhere.

"Okay, okay!" Shi Lidong couldn't care about his identity as just a small flag at the moment, and hurriedly bowed to Maruyama, "Don't worry, the villain will go back and prepare, when can I come to change?" ”

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"The day after tomorrow, tomorrow you will report to us how many people there are, and then we will prepare grain bricks according to the quantity, and then exchange them before the battle." As soon as Maruyama finished speaking, Shi Lidong asked a little impatiently, "My lord, is this only changed once or can you change it for a long time in the future?" ”

"Of course it's for a long time," Maruyama smiled, "you can exchange as many grain bricks as you have, as long as we are still here for a day, we can exchange, as long as you inform us of the number of people and genders one day in advance, we can exchange them at noon the next day." ”

Shi Lidong was put back on his hood, and then sent back to the gate of the camp where he was stationed, only then was the hood lifted, he couldn't help but turn his head to look at the camp behind him, the same ice wall, the same nest house, but different from what he had seen before, there was a faint white vapor coming out next to these nests, which seemed to be very warm, and the soldiers in khaki tweed coats walked between the camps with iron lunch boxes in their hands, heading to their respective houses. The lunch box they were holding in their hands was slowly steaming, and the other hand was either holding steamed buns or carrying lunch boxes brought by other comrades-in-arms, and the whole camp was filled with the fragrance of food. He took a few deep breaths greedily, and then touched the three grain bricks he was carrying in his arms, which were the samples that the official army brought back to him in order to prevent his superiors from believing it, and then walked towards the military camp on his side.

"What?" Wang Ziyong almost didn't jump, but he thought about it for several days, and held several meetings with his subordinates before deciding to send an envoy to ask for a truce with the official army. The officers and soldiers in Taiping City had not let his envoy approach for almost two months, so he thought that the group of officers and soldiers on the other side would be the same, not to mention that they still had such powerful weapons. But they not only received the envoys they had sent and agreed not to fight them now, but also proposed to exchange food for people.

He heard what Shi Lidong said, and saw with his own eyes the whole box of grain bricks in the warehouse of the official army, swinging from the ground along the wall to the roof, 4,000 grain bricks of the same specification, which was simply a charcoal in the snow for him! With this batch of grain, they can not only quickly fill the granary that is about to bottom out at the moment, but also send out the cannon fodder who is not very useful in the first place.

These refugees who are used as cannon fodder, one by one, they can't carry their shoulders or carry their hands, and they still chase after what they want to eat every day with their mouths open. But now that there is no war, these refugees will not be able to bring benefits to themselves at all, and there will be no work to do in winter, and these people are just a bunch of wasted people at the moment, and they have to pay for their own food. The method used by the king himself is to reduce the rations of the cannon fodder, so that they can kill each other in order to fight for the rations, so that in addition to being able to kill a group of waste people every day because of fighting or freezing to death, it can also reduce the number of mouths for eating. But now suddenly the official army proposed to exchange food for these waste people, which is simply too good, and Wang Ziyong's heart is simply happy.

"Strategist, come here!" An old man with a goatee next to him hurriedly came over and arched his hand towards Wang Ziyong, "General! ”

"Go and count the number of cannon fodder or something, and send those who are dying of hunger and freezing to death." Wang Ziyong said happily, Shi Lidong hurriedly said beside him, "General, don't do it!" ”

"Why is that?" Wang Ziyong couldn't help but be stunned, "Didn't you just say that you can exchange people for grain bricks?" As he spoke, he picked up a grain brick and looked it up and down a few times, then leaned to the tip of his nose and sniffed it, "Is it for this grain brick?" ”

"Yes, General," Shi Lidong hurriedly said, "In exchange for this kind of grain bricks, but the price of people is different." ”

"Oh?" Wang Zi used his interest, "Are there more young and strong men?" ”

Shi Lidong said with some embarrassment, "No, general, young men can only change one piece, children can exchange two, women can change children can change three, and young women can exchange four." The old man is too cheap, and only two can be exchanged for one. ”

"That's it!" Many question marks popped up in Wang Ziyong's head, how could there be such a change? It doesn't matter if the old man is not worth much, why is it that the woman is still worth more, but the man is not worth much? What did the officers and soldiers do with these refugees? Isn't it incorporated into military households to replenish military strength? Summoning so many women to go, is it possible to form a women's battalion? What can a woman do on the battlefield? It's just to let his subordinates enjoy and boost their morale, if it's just for this reason, then wouldn't it be over with the camp with some camp prostitutes? Why do you need to trade from a refugee? This group of refugees has not been able to eat and dress well for several months, and there is no place to take a bath, all of them are dirty, even if they are beautiful and beautiful for a few months, they are ugly to death, and this group of officers and soldiers is so short of women?

But he thought about it, women and children can be said to be the most useless existence in the camp, they don't dare to rush when they fight, they can't run fast when they are defeated and escaped, and they are not easy to die, it is better to directly exchange rations with the officers and soldiers, of course it is good to have a lot of people, but when they are not fighting now, they are just a group of bone dragons, which is useless at all! Thinking of this, he couldn't help but nodded, and said to the military advisor, "Then first take all the women and children in the camp, take out a number tonight, and replace them tomorrow." ”

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