On a clear winter morning, the herdsmen of Shule City drove their sheep to the Cangcao compound of the Governor's Mansion, waiting for the compound to open and exchange the whole sheep for forage.
Nowadays, rumors are rampant in Shule City. Some say that there will be large-scale slaughter next year. Some say that the pasture in the Governor's Mansion is simply not enough. It can only last for two months and will be exhausted. As a result, most herdsmen think that while there is still time,
If you can exchange sheep for grass, try to exchange as much as possible. Don't wait until there is nowhere to exchange for grass and you don't know where to cry.
The side door of Cansao was only as wide as a draft truck axle. The door panel made a slight creaking sound, and the herdsmen became alert and crowded towards the side door with their sheep.
The side door that had just been opened a crack was suddenly closed again. A subordinate of Cangcao climbed to the top of the wall and hung out a wooden sign that read: "Limited to 300 heads per day."
The herdsmen were furious and asked loudly: "Why only exchange for 300 heads! Are you people showing favoritism? You gave all the forage to your relatives and friends!"
"Fart!" The subordinate official stood on the top of the wall and clarified angrily: "Tell you why, the Tang Junjun men almost vomited after eating your sheep! They can consume more than 300 sheep every day! Each of your families still has some leftover grass.
Even if you don’t get it today, you still have a chance tomorrow! You can get it every day!”
After he finished speaking, he took off the cloth bag from his waist and shouted to everyone: "This cloth bag contains the ranking number, from one to one hundred, and each family is limited to three!"
After that, he opened the mouth of the bag, and many pieces of cloth with written words fell down one after another. The herdsmen crowded and fought, and after a brief commotion, two people who grabbed the same piece of cloth shook their fists at each other.
, fighting endlessly.
The governor's office, Cangcao, had no energy to take care of it, nor did he want to take care of it. After these guys were beaten and fought over, they lined up in a long queue in an orderly manner. Those who didn't get the number could only lead the sheep back home in frustration.
The side door of the warehouse opens, and the herdsmen lead the sheep in and push the pasture out on carts. Sheep that are too thin and unqualified will be rejected. Those who have changed the sheep are not in a hurry to leave, and push the carts with their peers outside the door.
Just talking. They can still live with it for the time being, which is much better than they expected. After burning all the pasture, more than half of the sheep can be left behind. If it were in previous years, they would never dare to imagine such a thing...
In this boring and frightening winter, the Tang Army opened three internal training courses for the soldiers. These were three non-combat and even useless skill trainings. Only in this season of frozen land, they had free time.
Calm down and study.
The first skill to learn is bowl carving, which requires all employees to receive training. The teacher is a bowl carver specially invited by the governor's house. The learning goal is that everyone must be able to carve a lump of poplar wood with the knife at their waist.
To make a bowl. This requires meticulous water grinding skills, just like an embroiderer who spends time doing embroidery. It takes two hours for a bowl carver to make a bowl, and they need even longer, but it is worth learning.
The soldiers talked about this matter as an anecdote. It is said that this was promoted by Li Zhenshi himself with great efforts. He only inspected the beacon fort once and saw that the soldiers were using the pigeons as their rice bowls, so he asked the soldiers to use wooden bowls.
This kind of thinking can be considered as a detail.
The second training class is cured meat, which is taught by Li Zhenshi himself. It is aimed at the fire chiefs in the army. Soldiers who are interested can also come to learn. For old soldiers who like to eat meat but are not good at preserving it,
This is a skill that must be learned.
The third training class is a bit more advanced, battlefield rescue and injury treatment training, open to all soldiers of the Tang Army. Those who are literate and educated are preferred, and there are restrictions. The most basic units of the Tang Army have one quota per tenth. Most of the Tang Army are lazy and unwilling
I want to learn how to treat injuries, and at the same time, I have the idea that after I get injured, there will be people who can help me treat it. But I heard people say that people who learn how to treat injuries can earn two hundred dollars more per month than others by serving as a therapeutic soldier in Yishi Middle School.
The salary is almost as high as that of the flag officer in the team. Tongbao mobilized his enthusiasm again, and the soldiers rushed to sign up.
The person in charge of teaching is a medical officer from the Shule Army and a medical doctor from the Dudu Mansion. Doctor sounds very high-ranking, right? In fact, it is an official title, only from the ninth rank, and he is in charge of one assistant and twenty students.
The doctor is responsible for providing a venue to start the class, and the assistants and students are responsible for teaching Tang Jun. The content of the class is professional and simple, including preparing wound medicine, cleaning the wound, suturing the wound, and performing some minor operations such as removing arrowheads from the flesh.
The wound medicines in the army are very simple and can be obtained from local materials, so the trainees need to identify the medicinal materials so that they can be collected in the wilderness during the march. Disinfection requires cooled boiling water, and among Huo Chang's marching supplies, there are cooking utensils like Diao Dou.
It can be used for both cooking and boiling water. There are generally only two ways to deal with open wounds. You can use horsetail sutures to suture them in winter and burn them with fire in summer. Ordinary soldiers can also use these methods.
Li Siye personally wore a cowhide apron to demonstrate and explain to the soldiers: "Salt, honey, and vinegar will not deteriorate, so the way we preserve meat is to pickle it with salt. For example, pickle a stick like this
For lamb legs, you need to mash the coarse salt we use, then put it on the chopping board and rub it into the meat with your hands. The more salt you rub, the longer it will be preserved."
"There is a second step for the cured meat, which is to hang it under the eaves in a well-ventilated place to air-dry. The air-drying time takes one to two months. After the cured meat is officially air-dried, the cured meat can be stored for a period of time.
years or more.”
The history of cured meat can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but it could not be preserved for a long time, and it did not become a food item in the military. Any technology requires long-term accumulation and improvement in its application. What Li Siye taught was nothing more than curing meat.
The ultimate improved version.
Following Li Siye's demonstration, the fire chief and soldiers of the Tang army frantically marinated mutton. The entire eaves of the Tang army's barracks in Shule City were covered with strips of cured meat. After seeing this, the residents in the city also asked the Tang army for advice.
, so the eaves of every household in Shule City were hung with dried and cured meat. This move caused a sharp shortage of salt in the Shule army warehouse.
After that, Zhao Chongxun quickly sent a letter to Qiuci to request for the allocation of salt. One month after the letter was sent, Cangcao, the governor of the governor, sent a horse team to deliver 500 stones of salt to Shule. At the end of the twelfth month, Zhao Chongxun once again sent a letter to the governor of the governor for help.
On the twentieth day of the first lunar month of the second year of Tianbao, the Duhufu sent a horse team to deliver 800 stones of salt, and attached a reply letter to the Shule Army.
General Zhao Chongxun opened the letter, took out the paper and shook it open. He saw only four words written on it: You will die and so on.
This is just the origin of another joke for the Shule Army, for the brothers to talk about after dinner.
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While Li Siye was making bacon, Feng Changqing came back with an advisor. This person was an Aijin under King Bahanna of Xiuxun Prefecture and the leader of a Tuqi Shihei tribe named Jiebi.
Luo.
Ambassador Li reluctantly took off his apron, and Twelve Niang handed him the crimson official robe. After changing it, he received guests in the front yard of the Ambassador's Mansion.
Jie Biro was wearing a lapel robe and a fan hat, with six or seven big black braids hanging down the back of his head. His face was red and he looked to be in his forties. When he saw Li Siye, he bowed and saluted, and then brought
He said with some pride: "I didn't expect that the Anxi Army, which dominates the Western Regions, would ask me, a sheepherder, for advice. I'm afraid this is the most glorious moment in my life."
This Tuqi Shiren was quite funny. Li Siye smiled and said: "Confucius said that if three people are walking together, there must be me as a teacher. We just want to learn from those who are good at other things. Jie Biluo Aijin, please come in."
Li Siye asked Jie Biro to sit on the upper right side, and Feng Changqing sat next to him. He sat in front of the screen table and looked down: "Ai Jin has been tired from the journey. Let's rest in the city center post for two days, and then we will go on the road to explore.
Planning the ranch.”
Jie Biluo smiled humbly and said: "We Tuqishi people have been traveling all our lives and will not feel tired. When will we set off, please give me the general's instructions."
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