Feelings of Heaven and Earth(145)

The wind has picked up and the dust is flying.

Tongtong stood in the back garden and dug down with a small shovel. This land was deliberately not watered, so even after digging for half a foot, there was no moisture at all. Winter wheat seeds were scattered here, and now the wheat seedlings are all wilted.

Well, it may be confiscated.

This autumn - there will be drought! This winter, there will definitely be drought.

What will happen next spring is hard to predict now!

Tongtong then sent someone: "Invite the fifth princess."

Xiaowu came very quickly, "I've been very busy recently. The cabinet issued an order to check the disaster preparedness food in various places. The capital is fully stocked, and reports from other places are arriving one after another. My table can hardly be piled up.

Already."

Tongtong said, "Not only do we need to check the disaster preparedness food, but we also need to continue to increase the amount of disaster preparedness food. In places without drought, add half of the original amount."

Such a large amount!

"Be prepared!"

What is this disaster preparedness food? Every village has to collect all the wild vegetables that can be eaten in the fields. Regardless of whether they are old, bitter, or what, as long as they are edible, they must be picked up, blanched and dried.

Dry.

This is easy and easy. You can even pick it out from the pigweed. After picking it out, wash it, scald it in water, and dry it in the woodshed.

After drying in the shade, the family either pays 20 kilograms or 30 kilograms and delivers it to the female official in the village. The village then organizes people to send it to the county. There are special people in the county who can process these dried vegetables under high pressure.

suppress.

It is usually pressed into the size of a green brick. It is not just dried vegetables, but must be filled with wheat bran and brown rice. In addition, it is mixed with a certain amount of salt and fishmeal. Fishmeal is fish caught along the coast and rivers.

, a certain amount must be dried every year. After drying, it is ground into powder, and a certain amount is added to each piece of grain preparation.

If there is too much fishmeal, use more. If there is less fishmeal, use less.

Things like locusts were collected, dried and ground into powder, and the imperial court spent money to buy them. Anyone who had a lot of dried vegetables could exchange them with the imperial court for salt for household use.

Therefore, I have relied on this method to prepare disaster food supplies in recent years.

Of course this stuff doesn't taste good, but it can definitely save people's lives.

Moreover, no one is willing to eat this thing even if there is nothing we can do about it. Therefore, in the past few years, during the transportation of this thing, I have never heard of it being lost along the way.

This is because Tongtong really couldn't make taro mud bricks, but he made this thing. After the thing is pressed, it is as hard as a brick and can really kill someone.

People are really going to starve to death at the end of the day. According to the ration ratio, a piece of famine grain is enough for one person for two days. The village is divided according to the population. This piece of famine grain is boiled in a pot with water, and it can be cooked.

Half a pot. Or smashed and boiled a little at a time. One piece is enough for one person to eat for two days.

Tongtong and Fourth Master have tried this thing themselves. It is particularly unpalatable, but it makes them full. Although they are not resistant to digestion and will easily get hungry after doing a little work, this kind of hunger is a level of hunger that is acceptable to ordinary people. Carrying one

It was almost time for dinner, which was actually not bad.

Of course, there is also a special disaster preparedness food, which is cheese.

If there are children under five years old or elderly people over seventy years old at home, they should have a daily quota of cheese.

Therefore, in these years, the trade with the Liao Kingdom and medicines in exchange for cheese were all used to prepare for disasters.

Daily disaster preparedness is a common understanding among Dachen people. In the first year, there were still people who fooled around and mixed things with mud.

Just do it, no one will care. As a result, your home was hit by a disaster, and you will understand when you eat it. Don’t fool anyone with this kind of thing, who knows who’s mouth will end up handing it in? It’s not guaranteed that it will go around in a circle

It's back again? Therefore, 99% of it is good. But what if you encounter that naughty one? Anyway, it's nothing more than sand, as long as it doesn't kill anyone.

But because the imperial court paid great attention to it, they were indeed very afraid of causing disaster.

Therefore, many people also have food in their homes. As long as there are extra dry vegetables, take them to the county for processing. Press and suppress the assembly. The loach and eel in the field are dried and turned into powder, which is to dry two pheasants into meat.

If it's dry, add some salt, fry and grind the corn into powder, mix it together and press it. If the conditions are good, there will be more grain. If the conditions are not good, a brick and a handful of grain will do. This is at least better than the court's.

Eat it! Moreover, it is very durable and will not go bad for two or three years.

After pressing it, take it home, seal it in a jar, seal it with plant ash, smear it with yellow mud, and then cover it with a stone slab or wooden board. If you don't leave it for three to five years, it will be fine forever.

Rich people save food, and poor people can survive famines by saving food like this.

The imperial court added another part. In the past few years, there have been disasters either here or there. There have never been any reports of people starving to death. This is the result!

It's one thing for the court to pay attention to it, but it's another thing for the people to pay attention to it too.

We have to teach the people how to survive the famine! Everyone participated in the court's disaster preparedness food, so we can prepare it ourselves! Just be more diligent, even if there is no matching food and salt, get more medicinal materials and wild vegetables,

You can also exchange them for part of them. Isn't it a disaster preparedness food if you put them together?

The imperial court did not allocate it in time, and every family was prepared.

Anyway, the awareness of preparing for disasters is up and down.

Even so, Tongtong asked Xiaowu to increase the amount, keep it, don’t panic.

Xiao Wu agreed, "The disaster preparedness food in autumn is much more unpalatable than the food in spring."

That’s right! The wild vegetables in autumn are all old and bitter. In spring, when they are still tender, their natural taste is different. But this year’s autumn and winter are dry, who knows what will happen next spring?

Be prepared!

After everything was said, Xiao Wu stood up and said, "I have to go! I'm really busy."

Get busy! I'll take you out.

They had all reached the door, and Xiao Wu suddenly stopped. He twitched the corners of his mouth a few times as he wanted to say something, but in the end he had no words. He waved to Tongtong and left.

Tongtong stood still and watched Xiao Wu leave.

Liu Yun whispered: "Master Xiao impeached a female official again!"

Why this time?

"Several female officials were sued by their mothers-in-law to the Yamen, saying they were unfilial." Liu Yun said, "There are all kinds of rumors outside. For female officials who have acted unfilially, they are criticized more than praised."

Tongtong nodded and said nothing more.

Whether you are truly unfilial or falsely unfilial, this is actually normal. In any group, there is inevitably a mixture of good and bad.

Tongtong asked: "Prefect or Su Youji?"

Yes! The prefect of the capital is still Su Youji.

Tongtong turned around and walked back. Su Youji was recommended by King Zhao when he was supervising the Ministry of Personnel. He has been in office for almost six years now. Ordinarily, he will be transferred soon.

Liu Yun asked: "Do you want me to inquire about it?"

No need! Everyone should perform their duties.

Tongtong went back to the house and took Chengping with him. He had to go see the queen.

Cheng Pingai went to the Queen's side, and as soon as he passed by, he called out: "Grandma—Grandma—"

The queen's eyebrows and eyes were filled with smiles, "Taiping is here..."

Yes! He said yes, and raised his little hand to stuff the Queen with preserved fruits. The Queen ate it with the child's hand, "Why are some of these preserved apricots salty?"

Cheng Ping chuckled and secretly told the queen: "...Mother... didn't give me food... she stole it..."

Your mother didn't give it to you, so you stole it and gave it to your grandmother?

OK!

"Why are we so annoying?" The queen held the child in her arms and then sat on the couch, beckoning to Tongtong: "If you are busy, please put Chou'er down for me."

Tongtong went over, "Mainly because I'm afraid of disturbing you. This guy's temperament is not as quiet as his brother's, he can be very noisy."

Where is the trouble? Every child has his own temperament.

While they were talking, Guo Daosheng hurried in and said, "Empress, concubine, go to the study and start a fight."

The Queen didn't take it seriously. What kind of fight could a few three- and five-year-old children have? What's so strange about brothers and sisters fighting? "Little Four and Little Five are still fighting now?" Is it worth making a fuss about?

No, "It was Concubine Gao and Concubine Xiao who were fighting at the door of the upper study room."

Concubine Xiao was originally concubine Xiao. She was promoted from concubine to concubine last year. The reason was that concubine Xiao had a serious illness last year, and her energy and spirit were all gone. The illness at that time... was probably caused by anger. She was in the palace

Here, the three children don't really listen to her, the son-in-law is rarely seen, and there are only two daughters-in-law.

But the two daughters-in-law are teething more than the other.

Normally, she would deliberately dote on Mrs. Xiao and pick on Zheng Yuanniang's faults. Depending on their origins, one is an orphan and the other's father is a cabinet minister. There is no comparison.

Once or twice, Zheng Yuanniang didn't take it seriously. But many times, Zheng Yuanniang couldn't tolerate her. She said bluntly: "Back then, you favored the prince and chilled the hearts of the fifth emperor brother. Now, if you go against the fifth brother sister, you may not come back warm."

The fifth brother’s heart may lose the prince’s heart.”

This is also true!

The fifth child is not even close to his mother. How sincere is his daughter-in-law to you, your mother-in-law?

On the contrary, if you keep picking the wife of the boss, your son will have no objection to you after a long time?

At that time, Xiao Bi said that she felt uncomfortable. She was in menopause again, and her mood suddenly became extremely low. She didn't think about food and food, and she had no energy at all. This was because she wanted to die!
To be continued...