If persuasion doesn't work, then you can only guide.
The guiding role of those in power in this era is still very strong.
As long as the superiors use cow dung and horse dung as fuel, even if the soldiers are not used to the smell of burning cow dung and horse dung, they will try it, hold their noses, and use it bravely.
After all, people who are several times, or even more than ten times more noble than you don’t mind the smell of cow dung and horse dung burning, so what right do you have to be arrogant?
"In this way, you replace all the silver frost charcoal that my second brother and I will use in the future with cow dung and horse dung. In addition, pile a pile of cow dung and horse dung in the middle of the martial arts field, and then light them. I will take the soldiers with me.
Warm yourself by the fire."
Li Yuanji thought about it and made a decision.
Li Yuanji was willing to set an example and set an example, so Li Shiji naturally had no reason not to agree.
Li Shiji immediately bowed and said: "Here!"
Then, they quickly sent people to pile up cow dung and horse dung in the middle of the martial arts arena. As for replacing the silver frost charcoal burning in the central army tent with cow dung and horse dung, there was no need to rush.
"Oh, by the way, send the silver frost charcoal that my second brother and I saved to the wounded barracks. Cow dung and horse dung cannot be used to keep away the cold in the wounded barracks, only silver frost charcoal can be used."
Li Yuanji didn't know whether any harmful gases would be emitted when burning cow dung and horse dung, or whether they would cause any harm to the injured.
Therefore, for the sake of the lives of the wounded, they cannot be allowed to use it.
Let them use Silver Frost Charcoal first and enjoy high-end treatment.
At present, the entire Turks can be counted on one finger.
This person is Li Yuanji himself.
Li Shimin was all confused.
Although Li Shimin has been demoted to a commoner, he can still use silver frost charcoal as much as he wants, but that is the treatment he can only enjoy when he is in Chang'an City.
Now that he is in Turks, there is no way he can ask people from the Ministry of Civil Affairs to work hard to transport silver frost and charcoal to him for the sake of a common man, right?
Therefore, among the Yinshuang charcoal supplied by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, there was no ration for him, not even for Li Jing, Li Shiji and others.
Currently, only Li Yuanji has it.
Of course, it is limited to Turkic battlefields, such as the Tuyuhun battlefield, and there are more noble ones.
However, the Chinese army's tent over there is pitched on the edge of Liangzhou, and there is no shortage of Yinshuang charcoal. Unlike here, the Chinese army's tent has been pitched in the hinterland of the Turks. The cost of transporting Yinshuang charcoal is extremely high.
high.
And with these costs, we can transport several more carts of grain, or several more carts of clothing to keep out the cold.
Therefore, neither the Ministry of Civil Affairs nor the Central Army's headquarters can waste a large amount of resources on Yinshuang Tan.
That is to say, all the silver frost charcoal used in the Chinese army's large tents was taken from Qingzhou, and was donated by the gentry of Qingzhou. The gentry were also willing to bear half of the transportation cost, otherwise Li Yuanji would be embarrassed to use it.
As for the gentry in Gyeongju being courteous to others, it doesn't matter whether they have anything to ask for or not.
Even if they wanted something, they would not be able to ask, let alone dare to ask.
They are not from an aristocratic family.
And since they can't speak, isn't it the same as asking for nothing?
"Your Highness, everything is ready in the martial arts arena. Are you going to light the fire now or wait until the soldiers are gathered?"
The people Li Shiji sent to pile cow dung and horse dung in the middle of the martial arts arena left very quickly and came back very quickly. After returning, they muttered something to Li Shiji's side.
Then Li Shiji made a prelude to invite the guests.
"Just be direct."
Li Yuanji gave instructions calmly.
After the soldiers were all gathered together, the fire was fully ignited, and the smell was almost gone. The intensity of the fire and the surrounding temperature were also pushed to a level where they could be warmed, which was just right.
Li Shiji nodded and ordered his men to do it.
Then he led Li Yuanji to the martial arts arena.
It is said to be a martial arts arena, but it is actually a large piece of hard flat land that has been cleared of grass and snow, and has been trampled by people and horses.
In the middle of the flat ground, there is a pile of cow dung that is three feet high.
There are hundreds of small dung piles set up around it.
The dung piles are all hollow cones, like stacked Arhats or building walls, staggered and stacked on top of each other.
It looks very regular and has an architectural beauty. As for other things, I won’t mention it.
After all, no one likes smelly things.
If there was nothing to burn on the grassland and the grassland people could only use this kind of thing as fuel, it is estimated that the grassland people would not regard it as property, let alone collect it and use it as fuel.
Hundreds of Li Shiji's guards, under the guidance of Li Shiji's Buqu, took torches and lamp oil, poured it on each dung pile, and lit fires.
Soon, hundreds of fires were lit on the school grounds.
The largest one among them, the flames shot up very high and seemed to be burning in the sky.
Not surprisingly, cow dung and horse dung do have a faint odor when burned, but what is surprising is that there is also a relatively strong grass aroma.
The two flavors mix together and it smells weird.
It's not an unpleasant smell, but it still makes people feel uncomfortable.
There may be something wrong with the smoke emitted, or it may be a function of human psychology.
Li Yuanji's medical knowledge was limited to the few medical books he had read in Wude Hall, and his chemical knowledge was returned to the teacher before he traveled through time.
Therefore, he did not dare to say whether it was the cigarette that was the problem or whether there was something wrong with him.
However, the main purpose of lighting cow dung and horse dung this time and inviting all the soldiers to warm themselves by the fire is to make the soldiers give up their resistance to this kind of fuel and choose to use this kind of fuel to keep out the cold, so I have to say something nice.
"It's not very smelly, the smell of grass is stronger. Why do the soldiers resist it?"
Li Yuanji said with emotion.
Li Shiji couldn't laugh or cry and said: "I have known for a long time that this thing does not smell very bad when burned, and even smells like grass. I also sent people to demonstrate it in the soldiers' camps.
But the soldiers not only refused to accept it, they also said that the smell of grass was poisonous."
Li Yuanji said speechlessly: "They can use human blood steamed buns to treat diseases, but they are afraid of the smell of grass?"
Sometimes people are really contradictory. They are not afraid of what they should be afraid of, but they are scared to death of what they shouldn't be afraid of.
This may be due to ignorance.
This also proves that ignorant people will really be tortured to death by their own ignorance.
Without waiting for Li Shiji to speak, Li Yuanji directly ordered: "Summon all the soldiers in the camp to me quickly. Today I will accompany them to keep warm with cow dung and horse dung.
If they are afraid of being poisoned, then let them look at me!"
Li Shiji knew that the grassy aroma of cow dung and horse dung was not poisonous to humans. As for whether it was poisonous or not, he did not dare to say, but judging from the fact that people on the grasslands had used this stuff for hundreds of thousands of years and were not poisoned to death, this
Even if something is poisonous, the amount of poison is very light. Not only will it not be fatal, it may not cause much harm to the human body.
So he didn't stop him, nor did he take the initiative to ask for help. Instead, he readily agreed, "Here!"
Then he sent his troops and guards to summon all the soldiers in the camp.
There are not many soldiers left in the camp, only more than 8,000.
Among them, more than 3,000 were the guards of King Yong, more than 3,000 were guards guarding the riches in the camp, several hundred were Li Shiji's subordinates and bodyguards, and the rest were almost all wounded soldiers.
Therefore, this "bonfire dung meeting" mainly targets the more than 3,000 Yongwang guards and the more than 3,000 guards.
It was impossible for the wounded soldiers to come out.
Because those who could be sent to the Chinese army's tent to recuperate were almost all severely wounded who needed long-term treatment and long-term rest. Most of them could not run or jump, and could only lie down in the tent and brag to their colleagues.
Therefore, those who were summoned were all Yongwang guards and guards.
After the three thousand King Yong guards and guards arrived, Zhao Chengyong and the general leading the guards stood up and began to adjust their formation.
When His Highness King Yong is in person, you still have to behave appropriately.
It can't be chaotic, let alone be clustered together like a group of wandering soldiers.
Fortunately for the guards, the soldiers of King Yong's Guard now have no appearance in front of the people they need to protect, so they are not far away from being replaced.
Fortunately, both the Yongwang guards and the guards are veterans who have undergone long-term training and are experienced in the battlefield. They still have organizational discipline.
Zhao Chengyong and the general who commanded the guards only made a slight adjustment, and the soldiers formed two quite neat square formations.
Li Yuanji did not criticize the formalism of Zhao Chengyong and the generals who commanded the guards. Instead, he asked Li Shiji to find a large cart, stand on the shaft of the cart, look at all the soldiers and say: "I
I heard that some people are very opposed to using cow dung and horse dung to keep out the cold. They also say that when cow dung and horse dung are burned, the smell emitted is poisonous.
Now I will personally demonstrate it to you and let you see whether the smell emitted by burning cow dung and horse dung is poisonous."
With that said, Li Yuanji got off the cart, walked to the largest fire, and sat down quietly.
When the soldiers saw this, they looked at me and I looked at you. Their eyes were darting around. They seemed to have a lot of things to say, but none of them spoke.
It's not that they don't want to, it's that they don't dare.
The boss, the boss's boss, and the boss's boss, as well as the people they need to protect and support, are sitting there.
If they didn't have eyesight, they would cause a commotion.
Then their superiors' superiors, superiors, and superiors cannot tolerate them.
The right way is not to attack those who are diligent and not to attack those who are lazy, but only to attack those who are not discerning.
They are undoubtedly long-sighted, so they dare not make mistakes in this situation.
"Zhao Chengyong, bring me some pots of wine. I want to cook it and drink it."
After sitting for a while, Li Yuanji suddenly gave Zhao Chengyong instructions.
This is the limit of what he can accept. If he is asked to bake something with cow dung and horse dung, there is nothing he can accept.
When Zhao Chengyong heard this, he first shouted to all the Yongwang guards under his command: "What are you doing here standing still? If you are a team, go and stay by the fire."
Whoever dares to fart at me again and say that the smell of burning cow dung and horse dung is poisonous, I will peel off their skin."
When the Yongwang guards heard this, they were like a mouse meeting a cat. They quickly formed dozens of groups and gathered around the nearest fire.
Their strong resistance to using cow dung and horse dung for heating disappeared in an instant.
Zhao Chengyong has given an order, not to mention that cow dung and horse dung are not poisonous when burned, even if they are really poisonous and can poison people, they will still have to do it.
This is called military orders.
Li Shiji could actually give the same order. The reason why he didn't was not because he didn't know how to give it, but because he was not qualified to give orders to King Yong's guards.
As for the guards, they were not directly under his command. The generals who led the troops were also selected by the three provinces. They were directly responsible for the three provinces and Li Yuanji. It was not something he could force.