Quan Cong looked at the undulating sea and said, "I remember when I and Lu Boyan and Governor Lu attacked Cao Xiu together, they relied on this ordinary porridge as military ration to survive!"

In the first year of Huangwu (222), Cao Xiu, the Wei army, led the boat army out of the cave entrance, and Sun Quan sent Lu Fan to supervise Xu Sheng, Quan Cong, Sun Shao and other generals to lead the boat army to resist the enemy.

After that, Zang Ba of the Wei army attacked Xu Ling several times with light ships, so Quan Cong often brought armor and soldiers to serve him endlessly.

Soon, thousands of enemy soldiers came out of the Yangtze River. Quan Cong and Xu Sheng defeated him, killed Wei general Yin Lu, and took his head. Quan Cong was moved to General Suinan and was granted the title of Marquis of Qian Tang.

In the seventh year of Huangwu (228), Sun Quan went to Wancheng and sent Quan Cong and General Lu Xun of the Assistant State to attack Cao Xiu, and defeated Cao Xiu at Shiting.

At that time, the mountain people in Danyang, Wu County and Kuaiji became bandits again and attacked Wu County. When Quan Cong was in charge of Fuchun, Sun Quan then divided three counties into Dong'an County, and Quan Cong led the prefect.

When Quan Cong arrived, he was clear of rewards and punishments, and inducement and surrender. Over the years, he collected more than 10,000 people. Sun Quan then summoned Quan Cong back to Niuzhu and abolished Dong'an County.

Quan Zi said, "What my father said is that this handful of rice and half a pot of water play a great role in wartime. Even on weekdays, countless families will live on this."

Several types of grains commonly eaten by our ancestors were millet, sorghum, millet, and rice. No matter what kind of grain, the method after the shell was removed was to roast it in fire, and the other was to burn it in stone (pronounced fán). The method of making porridge belongs to the third type, which is also heated on the fire, but it should be placed in a container and added water to soften it.

A handful of rice and half a pot of water can raise smoke without oil, salt and side dishes. The grains diluted with water disperse the starch and sugar they contain in the whole pot, which can maintain the most basic survival of people with the minimum resources and cooking costs. Porridge is therefore closely related to hunger and even poverty.

In ancient times, famines occurred frequently, and the food that the lower class people often had to fill their stomachs all year round was bran and vegetables. Drinking porridge to survive and eating porridge means that their family was poor.

In the process of cooking porridge, the ratio of water to rice determines whether the final product is rice or porridge.

Someone once said: "When you see water but not rice, it is not porridge; when you see rice but not water, it is not porridge. You must make the water and rice harmonious and soft and as soft as one, and then it is called porridge."

No water can make porridge, but since you need to add enough water, you have to have requirements for the depth of the container. Anyone who has been in the kitchen knows that when cooking soup foods, too shallow containers often cannot withstand the boiling overflow of liquid.

Therefore, tracing the origin of porridge to the Huangdi era, it is better to say that containers suitable for cooking porridge were born in the Huangdi era.

Scholars in the Han Dynasty believed that Huangdi invented cooking utensils such as "cauld" and "steam (pronunciation zèng)," and so he attributed the invention of porridge to him.

In fact, since the Neolithic Age, in addition to "die" and "kettle", pottery suitable for "cooking with water", there are also "li (pronounced li), "fu (pronounced hu)" and "gui" that appeared in the middle and late periods.

Among them, the word "li" means a three-legged pot, which happens to be the lower half of the traditional Chinese character "Yu" of "霸"; the upper half of the character "美" and the "bow" on both sides of the character "ri" describe the steam rising when cooking rice.

Quan Cong stroked his beard and sighed: "This bowl of porridge reminded me of the father of His Majesty and the Chief Secretary when I was young. When I was young, I ordered me to transport some rice to Wuyou for trading. However, when I saw the poor people in the city had no food, I gave all the rice to their father and was furious. Fortunately, he did not punish me in the end."

In the 14th year of Jian'an (209), Liu Bei submitted Sun Quan as the General of the Chariot and Cavalry, and Sun Quan used Quan Rou as the Chief Secretary, and later served as the prefect of Guiyang.

Quanrou once sent Quancong to transport thousands of hu of grain to Wu and traded something.

But after Quan Cong arrived, he used grains and rice to help the poor, and returned in an empty boat.

Quan Rou was furious when he heard this, Quan Cong paused and said, "I think the matter of selling rice is not urgent, and the scholars and officials are in danger of being overwhelmed, so I used rice to rebel, but did not respond to my father first." Quan Rou was also surprised by his ambition.

At that time, the scholars in Zhongzhou avoided the chaos and went to the south. Hundreds of people followed Quan Cong and lived there. Quan Cong would spend all his money to help the poor and the poor, so he became famous far and near. Later, Sun Quan appointed Quan Cong as the Fenwei Captain, and granted thousands of troops, and ordered him to attack Shanyue.

Quan Shu said, "Father is kind and righteous, no wonder the people in Wu praised you for your style as Mengchangjun during the Warring States Period! You are even more grateful to the people than Mengchangjun. After all, Mengchangjun helped his disciples who were useful to him, while you helped ordinary poor people."

Mengchangjun Tian Wen was in Xueyi and recruited guests from various vassal states and those who fled for crimes. Many of them defected to Tian Wen.

Tian Wenning was willing to give up his family business and gave them generous treatment, so he made all the wise men in the world yearn for it.

There are thousands of diners, and their treatment is the same as Tian Wen, regardless of the status of the people.

Whenever Tian Wen receives guests and sits and talks with guests, he always arranges the attendant behind the screen, asking him to record the content of Tian Wen’s conversation with guests and record the residences of the guests and relatives he asked.

As soon as the guests left, Tian Wen sent an envoy to the guests' relatives' homes to comfort and greet him and offer gifts.

Once, Tian Wen was entertaining a guest for dinner, and someone covered the lights. The guest was very annoyed and thought that the quality of the meal was definitely not equal, so he put down the bowls and chopsticks and said goodbye.

Tian Wen stood up immediately and personally served his food. The guest was ashamed of being ashamed and committed suicide by committing suicide. However, his "gracefulness" was only for the guests, but for the poor, he was "the rich man smelled of wine and meat, and he had frozen bones on his way."

Quan Cong waved his hand and smiled and said, "Hey, my father is not comparable to that of the prince Mengchangjun of Qi. He can afford to support thousands of guests with so much money and grain, but he can still use some rice and grain to help the poor from time to time."

Quan Cong said again: "We have arrived at Dengzhou Ocean now? I guess we will be able to log in in only more than ten days at most."

Quanxu went out of the cabin and clasped his fists and said, "Da Sima, now our army has sailed to the Miaodao Island. In a while, we will see Daxie Island, Wuhu Island and other islands."

Miaodao Island, also known as the "Changshan Islands", is the general name of the 32 islands here. The main islands are: Nanchangshan Island, Beichangshan Island, Daheishan Island, Xiaoheishan Island, Miaodao (commonly known as Nanwu Islands), and Tuoji Island, Daqin Island, Xiaoqin Island, Nanhuangcheng Island, Beihuangcheng Island (commonly known as Beiwu Islands) and other uninhabited islands. Among them: the largest island is Nanchangshan Island, and the smallest island is Xiaogaoshan Island.

From Qi State during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to later generations, Miaodao Archipelago is one of the two shortcuts for the Central Plains to enter Liaodong.

Quan Cong thought for a while and said, "I just read some records about this archipelago. According to legend, Chang Island is known as the Three Immortal Mountains of Haishan, but there are most of them no immortals or elixirs on it."

Chang Island is known as Penglai, Yingzhou, and the three sacred mountains on the sea. The ancients had a poem that "were accompanying the immortals in Penghu". The legendary Penglai Fairy Island refers to Chang Island. Chang Island is located in the water, surrounded by blue waves, with beautiful mountains and rivers, and unique scenery.
Chapter completed!