Before the soldiers and horses move, food and grass must go first. The supply of military food is undoubtedly the most critical factor in maintaining the army.
Hearing what Zhou Changming said, Li Tai couldn't help but frown: "Didn't you say that the county allocated grain and fodder?"
"It's like this. Originally, the county was supposed to give the township regiment two months of food for training and grand parade after autumn. But not long ago, Longbian Qingshui Dihu moved inland to Huazhou. They need to be properly resettled this year.
We have to cut down the villages and regiments to lose them. Therefore, during the ceremony this autumn, the county can only allocate one month's worth of food."
Li Quji explained that he had negotiated a lot with the county government recently to achieve such a result.
Li Tai had previously been gloating about the misfortune of the villagers, but he did not expect that the relocation of Dihu would have such repercussions, and he suddenly lost his joy.
There are thousands of Dihu families and tens of thousands of people who have moved to Huazhou this time. It is naturally an extremely large number for an individual, but it is actually nothing for a political power.
This amount of resettlement actually forced Dahangtai to change the previous expenditure plan and transfer the grain that should have been allocated to the township leagues to Dihu. This shows how shallow the Western Wei Dynasty was. The financial expenditure was very small.
If there are variables, major stress adjustments must be made.
There must be expenditure elsewhere, so why bother with the livelihood of the township troupe? In the final analysis, although the township corps has been initially integrated, its combat effectiveness and strength are still not taken seriously by Daxingtai, and these previous commotions of Dihu have not
It caused quite a bit of trouble.
Although the Xiangtuan of Wuxiang County is not a force directly under Li Tai, it is the only Kansai armed force that he can intervene to have a profound impact so far. He has great expectations in his heart for the formation and formation of the Xiangtuan.
The formation of combat effectiveness is quite attentive.
Now that there is a sudden food shortage for more than a month, Li Tai is naturally irritated. He feels more and more that Yu Wentai is really picky. You can't support an army of more than a thousand people, and you are still fighting for hegemony! Go back to your hometown to farm.
, you can’t even compare to me in farming!
But after complaining in my heart, the problems that should be faced and solved still need to be solved.
How much military rations does a team of more than 1,600 people need to consume in a month?
The "Song Book" of the Southern Dynasties records a story from the Eastern Jin Dynasty: Today, on the other side of the Yi and Di rivers, the foreign empire is in a hurry. The soldiers have seven liters of food and food, forgetting their own safety and going into danger.
It is said that the soldiers fighting on the front line sacrificed their lives for seven liters of food per day. The extravagant entertainers in the court were given five dou of food per day, which was really inappropriate.
It can be seen that seven liters of rations per day is already a very low supply for a soldier. If the soldier can ensure sufficient supplementation for the whole day's consumption, it is more reasonable to provide one bucket of rations per day.
A soldier needs three dan for a month's ration. The consumption of more than 1,600 people for a month is a food gap of more than 5,000 dan!
"Then can you think of a solution?"
Although Li Tai was worried about this, he did not want to cause this trouble. Not to mention that he did not have so much food at all. Even if he did, it would not be possible to use it all to fill the gap, unless Yuwen Tai was willing to divide these township groups into
Be his private army.
I am determined to be Lu, not Red Rabbit! He Liuhun is still my big brother after all, you Black Otter are nothing.
"I have discussed the emergency with several commander-in-chiefs before, hoping that they can provide help with high righteousness. However, except for the two old governors, the three new ones have lost their posts and received rewards, and their household savings are not huge, so they can barely scrape together
Produce 1,200 shi of miscellaneous grains."
The price of corn is nearly twice as high as that of wheat, and when wheat is processed into flour, the price is nearly twice as high as that of corn. The price difference of two times is the labor cost of processing wheat into flour.
Before today, Li Tai would have scratched his head when encountering this problem, but with the blessing of those hydraulic tools on Luoshui River, this problem can be easily solved. The pulp for papermaking only needs water mills for processing, and water mills can be used to grind flour.
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Nowadays, a Peiyang is equivalent to a small processing factory, so the powerful and powerful are keen to live near the water, and who wouldn't be happy with the business of making money while lying down?
The reason why Liang Chun's family simply gave up the manor was not only because Liang Chun himself was open-minded and uncompromising, but also because the slaves of Zhao Gui's family were too domineering. It was also a kind of torture to watch each other lying around while they came to collect money while they themselves did not dare to work.
Although Li Tai did not own the property, he had already planned to use the first batch of dividends from the printing workshop as compensation.
Shuhui himself may not care about these small things, but after all, he has a large family. If money cannot be distributed fairly and clearly, the business and friendship will not last long.
It's now past the Mid-Autumn Festival, and there are still more than ten days before the end of the month. Liu Gong happened to lead people to buy grain in the countryside, so Li Tai asked him to exchange the grain harvested by his family for a batch of villagers' wheat for grinding and processing.
, and then use the processed flour to replace wheat for recycling.
In Li Tai Manor, the autumn sowing of winter wheat and the autumn harvest of millet and grain had just been completed, and the villagers began to invest in grain processing again.
There are several large wooden rollers installed in the open space of the manor. Someone is cranking the handles and rolling them. The rollers are rotating rapidly, and there are constant crackling and friction sounds inside.
On the other side, there was a long wooden table, and thick round cakes were placed on the table. Someone chopped the round cakes into pieces with knives and axes, and then sent them into the drum with a dustpan for crushing.
These round cakes are sesame cakes with oilseed meal that have been pressed in the oil mill. They are crushed again and then sent to another shed.
There are several large stoves in the work shed, and there is a concave-bottomed copper pan on the burning stove. A person is holding a spoon next to him, constantly stirring the flour, bean powder and sesame cakes in the copper pan.
Li Tai also guarded a large stove, rolled up his sleeves and stir-fried himself. While paying attention to the color change of the fried noodles, he shouted: "The stove should be lower! Add half a liter of mutton oil to suppress the dust... Add salt, just half-close!"
If I do this, you can take over."
After giving up the position of holding the spoon, he walked to the wooden stand on one side and twisted a handful of fried noodles into his mouth. He chewed and tasted it carefully. Then he nodded with satisfaction and ordered: "Add water and make cakes."
.Don’t add too much water. After forming, press it with a bar and send it to the oven for drying.”
There are a row of large wooden barrels used to press the cakes. The large cakes kneaded by adding water are still fluffy and plump. After being put into the wooden barrels, they are first covered with several layers of silk cloth, then covered with wooden boards, and then covered with huge stones.
Finally, workers used wooden bars to squeeze.
The extruded and shaped grain cake is already very thick, but it is still not the final product. It has to be transferred to two wooden boards, and the processing continues using the method of building rammed walls with boards, and the grain cake, which is more than ten inches thick, is pressed to
After a few inches of thickness, this process is over.
On the grill, the grain cakes that are constantly drying and moist are hooked out with hooks and placed under the shed to ventilate and cool.
He Basheng, who had just arrived at the manor, sat on a hut with a golden knife, waiting for the soldiers to scrape off half a bowl of compacted cake crumbs with a knife, and then impatiently ordered someone to mix it with boiling water and serve it.
He drank from the earthenware bowl while blowing on it.
"This is not food for uncle!"
Li Tai saw it from a distance and walked towards the pergola.
"Already drank it all!"
When he arrived, He Basheng showed the bottom of the bowl, patted his belly with a satisfied look on his face and said with emotion: "When I was in the army, I never dreamed of such exquisite and delicious meals!"