The beautiful Qujiang River has become a noisy construction site.
The general supervisors, the Shaofu supervisors, the military supervisors, the supervisors of several yamen, the officials of the Dianshi, the government, and the history, etc., drove the royal slaves, government slaves, as well as the drafted craftsmen and strong men to be busy.
Very disgraceful.
One hundred Qianqi from Shenji Camp's right camp are also building temporary barracks.
Huaiyu took Fatty Wu around, but the Cucumber Marquis who raised pigs from his ancestors was obviously unwilling to flatter him and didn't bother to follow him. He was standing on the construction site minding his own business, but he didn't know where to start. He stood and looked there.
, even thought the dust at the construction site was so dusty that it soiled his robe.
"Brother, go tell Wei Changshi and ask him to quickly get the rations for our brothers from the right camp of the Shenji Camp. Firewood, salt, oil, rice, soy sauce, vinegar, and horse feed are all indispensable. Hurry and get them.
.In addition, the pots and pans cannot be missing, it will be noon soon, we can’t let everyone be hungry all the time, right?”
He gave the idle Wei Siren an errand and sent him far away.
"Erlang can just ask the leader of the team to do this. If you order him like this, I'm afraid it will make him unhappy," the fat man reminded.
"It doesn't matter, since he is my subordinate, I can't give him up in the future?"
Wei Siren called his entourage and a group of Qianqi. Sure enough, he went into the city to collect food. This guy worked very efficiently and quickly brought the food back.
Wei Siren handed a list to Huaiyu, somewhat intending to take credit for it.
Huaiyu looked through it and went to the Taicang Department to receive a month's worth of grain. Each Qianqi's ration was one stone of millet per month, a little more than three liters a day, but the food he was given was not all millet, but barley, wheat, and buckwheat.
, millet, rice, millet, millet, hemp, soybeans (soybeans), adzuki beans (red beans), beans (peas) and other grains are converted.
Salt is one and a half liters per person per month.
A war horse needs nine liters of horse salt per month, a bushel of millet and two kilos of wild rice a day. A war horse consumes at least thirty kilograms of dry feed in a day. The greater the amount of exercise, the more beans and millet concentrates are added.
Add half of the concentrated feed.
The Taicang Department was not at all embarrassed.
Everything was given according to regulations, with no deductions, and the amount was one month at a time. If the officials in the late Ming Dynasty saw it, they would have to give them a hammer, and they would not be able to deduct half of it first?
In addition to the one hundred thousand cavalry from the right battalion, the officers were also given extra.
However, they were only given grain and salt.
"Where are the vegetables? Don't you have oil, sauce, and vinegar?"
Wei Siren said directly: "They said that the camp has given us the farmland and capital, and let us solve it ourselves."
"General Zhou promised to give us five hectares of farmland, but it hasn't happened yet. Even the 150,000 hectares of land haven't been paid yet. These 100 brothers from Qianqi can't live without food, right?"
Wei Siren said proudly, "I also brought back some vinegar cloth."
"What?"
"Vinegar cloth can be used to make soup with meals."
Huaiyu saw vinegar cloth when he was in the Longyou Army. A piece of coarse cloth was repeatedly soaked in strong vinegar, and then dried in the sun, so that it could be carried with him. When going out to fight, soldiers often used vinegar cloth to wrap pieces of sauce.
The soybean paste is brewed and dried in the sun. It is a good condiment and is easy to store and carry. It is not easy to spoil.
When you have no conditions, eat some dry food and add some sauce cubes, which not only adds salt but also adds flavor.
Vinegar cloth can be used to wrap soy sauce cubes, and can also be fried in porridge or soup to give it a vinegary flavor. Vinegar cloth is even pickled with salt and can be used as a substitute for salt.
But when it comes to the taste, it's really hard to describe. It's just an emergency item that can't be helped.
Now that I'm in Chang'an, can I still use this thing?
However, when Wei Siren asked someone to get the vinegar cloth from the car, he discovered that the vinegar cloth was not the vinegar cloth he had imagined. It was obviously kelp.
Or it should be called kombu.
This is a good thing that can be used both as medicine and food. Even for many people in the capital of Chang'an City, this may be the only seafood they have ever eaten.
It is sun-dried, rolled into balls, gray-brown, and has a layer of white frost on the surface.
However, it is said that kelp and kelp are cousins ​​at best, but they are not the same thing. In ancient China, there was no such kelp in later generations on the coast of China.
But this thing actually tastes similar, a little thicker.
Especially this kind of kombu, which is simply harvested and dried, is covered with salt and frost, and can be used as a substitute for vinegar cloth.
It’s convenient to carry around, and you don’t need to wash it when eating. What you want is the salty taste. Cut a few pieces and throw them into the pot to cook. It tastes like the sea!
This thing is not common in Chang'an. It is a local specialty that is paid tribute along the coast. Wei Siren asked Taicang for pickles, but the other party refused to give them. Finally, when he saw the kelp, he insisted on a cart.
If there are pig's feet, the pork feet stewed in kelp will be quite fragrant.
Looking at these dry kelp, Huaiyu had a headache.
When he raised his head, he happened to see the large surface of Qujiang Pond in front of him, and there were large lotus leaves in the water along the shore.
If there are lotus leaves, then there are lotus roots.
Since there is such a large area of ​​water, there must be fish.
"Xu Erzhi."
"Erlang,"
"You go to the city immediately and buy some fishing nets. We will lower the nets to catch fish and have fish soup tonight."
He also called other Qianqi and asked them to carry all the food, horses and grass they had received into the account and store them, and then went into the water to dig lotus roots.
It's already August, and the lotus roots are already fresh and tender.
Seeing Wei Siren standing there again and again, Huaiyu felt that it was an eyesore. This guy's nostrils were turned upward and his arrogance was really annoying.
If he were like Lu Huairang and the others, he would still be willing to make friends, but this guy is obviously another Chai Zhewei.
Huaiyu couldn't be bothered to curry favor with this kind of person.
"Wei Changshi, thank you for your hard work. Now, could you please go to the Beimen camp again and ask General You Tuenwei to get the 150,000 yuan that was promised to our camp? Then go to General Zhou to ask for some pot."
Bowls and pans, etc., our Qianqi camp is newly established, we can't just give them nothing and let us buy them ourselves, right?
Are we going to eat with our hands?"
"I also need some soy sauce, vinegar and charcoal."
Wei Siren didn't want to go.
Standing there refusing to take a step.
"Wei Changshi, you are the commander of Qianqi Battalion, and I am the chief judge of Cao affairs."
"How about I go tell General Zhou and tell him that our Qianqiying Temple is too small to accommodate Mr. Wei? That's right. The dignified Marquis of Huanggua County and the provincial minister in the palace are on errands as close servants. He came to our place and mixed with these rough people. It's true.
It’s an insult to Siwen.”
As soon as these words came out, Wei Siren's expression was not very good. He was young after all. Although he looked down on Wu Huaiyu, it was extremely bad for his boss to report him like this on the first day he took office.
"I'll go." Wei Siren endured, "If you have any other instructions, tell them all so that I don't have to run back and forth."
"That's all for now, let's go."
Seeing this guy leave angrily, Fatty Wu said, "Erlang, you offended him the first day, how are you going to get along with him in the future?"
"I'm afraid of birds, but I am the superior officer."
After finishing the Qianqi camp, he went to Yanbo Island, where Xu Jingzong had been busy. Compared with Wei Siren, Xu Jiancheng worked much harder.
He was truly capable of bending and stretching, and he was a dignified bachelor of the Prince of Qin's Palace. Now he was reduced to dealing with a group of slaves and civilians on a construction site, but he didn't have any emotion at all.
"Erlang, I have prepared all the materials and tools you want."
"Well, thank you for your hard work, Bachelor Xu."
Huaiyu called the ten royal slave craftsmen and took them to a smaller island not far to the north of Yanbo Island.
Huaiyu took ten people on a boat to the island. This small island will temporarily serve as his firearms teaching point.
A small island covering an area of ​​at most 2,000 square meters.
There is a three-story pavilion on the island.
After landing on the island, Huaiyu first went to the third floor of the attic. Standing here, he could take in the scenery of the surrounding Qujiang River. It was a good sightseeing spot.
Ten old craftsmen followed him from a distance, and they were very excited.
To be continued...