Meat floss or meat wool and meat crisp is a kind of dehydrated product that is nutritious, easy to digest, easy to eat and easy to store by boiling meat and then stewing and kneading. It's easy to make, it's easy to store, and it's easy to carry, making it an excellent ration supplement for long marches.

The raw materials for the production of meat floss are very ordinary, pork, beef, rabbit, fish, ...... and so on can be used to produce various kinds of meat floss.

Historically, the Mongols would kill the old and weak livestock in the autumn of each year, and then after smashing and other treatments, a head of beef or mutton would be made into meat floss and stored in a small bag made of sheepskin or cow bladder.

Generally, beef is used to make meat floss, and then beef bladder is used to store meat floss, and a cow can ensure a person's ration for several months!

The Mongol cavalry used this method during the expedition, mixing meat floss with milk powder and adding water to make a thick soup to drink. When Genghis Khan galloped across Europe and Asia, he relied on meat floss and milk powder as dry food. It can be said that it was meat floss and milk powder that assisted Genghis Khan's great cause.

Xia Hongsheng made milk powder, mainly so that the babies of Datang did not have to have a substitute for breast milk, as for the army, it was secondary, so at that time, in order to let Li Shimin pay more attention to the civilian effect of milk powder, he did not introduce it for the purpose of military food, and did not cooperate with meat floss.

At present, Li Shimin has agreed to vigorously promote milk powder and reduce the price of milk powder, Xia Hongsheng's primary goal has been achieved, and he has begun to let milk powder also play its role in supplementing military food.

Meat floss is not difficult to make, Xia Hongsheng has seen another teacher from the same school do it countless times in his later life.

There were butchers who killed pigs in Zhuangzi, and Xia Hongsheng ordered the little servants in the family to buy a few.

Because the purpose of making meat floss was to supplement the military rations, Xia Hongsheng did not let his subordinates interfere, but called his own soldiers to come, cut off the meat, set up a large pot to add spices, and cooked the meat until it was cooked, and then ordered those relatives to work together to smash the meat with wooden sticks.

After that, sprinkle in some seasonings and stir constantly, crushing more fully and evenly. After stirring, it is kneaded and pressed again to further squeeze out the water.

The last step is to bake, turn it from time to time, bring it to the water to dry, put it in the pot again, stir-fry it over very low heat until it becomes a dry powder, and the meat floss is ready.

In fact, it is common to eat meat floss by yourself, and you can bake it, so that the meat floss will not be too broken. But what Xia Hongsheng wants to do is for the march, so he stir-fried more, so that the meat floss has become powder, which is easy to soak in milk powder, and it is not easy to choke when drinking.

Naturally, Xia Hongsheng also set aside a part that was not so broken and ate it himself.

"You all taste it." Xia Hongsheng pinched a trace, put it in his mouth, chewed it a few times, and felt that it tasted good, so the soldiers said.

Everyone went over, pinched some out of the bamboo plate, put it in their mouths, and chewed it.

"It's delicious." After tasting it, the soldier said, "It tastes like meat, but the flavor is different from the meat you usually eat." ”

"This thing can be eaten at home, but it is mainly in the army, and it is even more useful." Xia Hongsheng said to a few pro-soldiers: "You all came out of the army and know the situation inside. For these two days you have the right to try, and you will not eat grain, nor meat. It was like a long march and a deep desert. There was no surplus food in the army, only milk powder and meat floss. You just rely on the milk powder and the meat floss, mix the meat floss with the milk powder, and eat it for a few days to see how your strength weakens. ”

"Order!" Those pro-soldiers naturally received the order.

Xia Hongsheng asked them to press some meat floss into bricks again and carry them to their sides, and the milk powder was also full of bags and hung on horses. Then they were let out.

These pro-soldiers, Xia Hongsheng did not arrange any work for them, they still trained every day, and also trained some young people who were interested in joining the army in the future, while maintaining their combat effectiveness, they could also be regarded as cultivating some young people.

They took Xia Hongsheng's order, only brought meat floss and milk powder, and started a day of training.

When it was time for dinner, Xia Hongsheng went over deliberately.

"How, after an afternoon of activities, are you hungry or full than usual?" Xia Hongsheng called a few pro-soldiers and asked.

"Childe, this thing is really hungry. Eat five big meat buns at noon, and then eat two big bowls of rice and two big bowls of vegetables, and by this time the stomach has already been ringing non-stop. But I didn't feel hungry even today! A pro-soldier replied: "I just scalded a big bowl of milk powder at noon, and I kneaded two handfuls of meat floss in it!" ”

Xia Hongsheng was dumbfounded. He'd seen the big bowl they were using, and it was bigger than their faces! That big bowl can scoop two scoops of water into it without filling it! Inside is sprinkled with two large bars of meat floss...... Xia Hongsheng looked down at his fist, well, it's almost as big as Ben Gongzi's face, these two big ......

"That's how you all eat?" Xia Hongsheng turned his head and asked the other soldiers.

The crowd nodded.

"Uh, Qi Yong, go and let the kitchen boil some hawthorn water for them to drink." Xia Hongsheng commanded.

This group of people is too good to drink, so two bowls of milk powder with meat floss, I'm afraid they won't be hungry until tomorrow morning.

Xia Hongsheng left there and went back to his home, but when he arrived at the door, he saw a palace guard standing at the door.

Xia Hongsheng saw the guard, and the palace guard also saw him. Wu Zi ran over, stepped forward and saluted, and said, "Humble to meet the young master, Your Majesty has ordered the young master to enter the palace immediately." ”

Xia Hongsheng nodded, and asked again, "But I don't know what it is?" ”

"Your Majesty did not say it explicitly." The janissary shook his head and replied.

"That's just the coincidence." Xia Hongsheng raised his hand to greet him, and the housekeeper standing at the door ran over.

"You go and tell Madame that when she goes to Chang'an tomorrow to visit the queen's mother, she will bring the meat floss with her. I'll go first. Xia Hongsheng instructed the housekeeper.

The housekeeper received the order, and Xia Hongsheng took Qi Yong and went to Chang'an with the palace guards.

When everyone arrived in Chang'an, it was already dark.

Xia Hongsheng went straight into the palace, where only the emperor was left. However, from the chairs placed next to it, it can be seen that there are quite a few people here.

"Son-in-law, look at this." Li Shimin handed over a piece of paper, which was the paper used by the spy battalion to transmit the report.

Xia Hongsheng took it and opened it, but it was Cheng Zhijie and Niu Jinda who had already destroyed the mud bhara, but they did not capture the mud bhara lord and the royal family, so that the mud bhara lord and the royal family fled to Tianzhu.

"Now that the mud Bora is destroyed, I think Tianzhu may not directly confront the Tang Dynasty." Li Shimin said: "After all, the speed of transmission is too slow, let Cheng Qing and Niu Qing drag the mud bhara, and by the time Tianzhu's decision to start the mud bhara arrived, the two of them had already destroyed the mud bhara - this mud bhara is really ...... It's also a country, and I can't drag it out for a month! ”

Uh, Xia Hongsheng scratched his head, the army of the Tang Dynasty is now like a hanging, and Ni Bora is a very small country, so it is too embarrassing for Ni Bora to hold on for a month under the hands of the Tang Army......