I was too tiring to work in road construction, so I changed to three meals a day and had lunch.

He stopped his work and saw that Wang Xiaoliu was still there. The old man said wonderingly: "We are going to have a meal, and the official is still there?"

Wang Xiaolei said: "Of course. Today, I was just a coincidence and I would like to have a meal for you."

The old man rubbed his hands and said, "I'm not hiding the officials. We in the countryside just want to eat enough, but the food is not exquisite. I'm afraid that the officials can't eat together. If you rich families don't have wine and meat, how can you eat?"

Wang Xiaolie smiled and said, "Old man, I'm not that picky. As long as I can eat my stomach, what can't I say?"

As they were talking, someone brought the food over. Each person had a large bowl of corn rice and a large spoonful of vegetables. There was no meat in the vegetables, but there was tofu every day. In addition, the easy-to-get dishes were cooked together.

After the meal, Wang Xiaoli held the bowl and squatted with the old man and his son.

In Wang Xiaolien's previous life, he drank too much millet soup, and he really never ate dried millet rice. He has been in this world for almost a year and is still not used to it. He always feels that the millet rice is too dry and too thick, so it is not easy to swallow. However, he has been forcing himself to adapt.

When he saw Wang Xiao hunting a big mouthful of rice, the old man said, "I heard that many wealthy families in the city are not used to this meal. They eat white rice or white flour every time. The rice cooked with corn is too dry and many people can't swallow it."

Wang Xiaoliu said: "To be honest, corn is not as good as white rice as cooking, nor is it as white flour. But there is no way, there is too much dry land, so you can only plant these. If the ditches are opened, you can change to wheat, which will be different."

The old man laughed when he heard this: "We have been used to eating since we were young, so it was different. If we could have a full meal a year, it would be a good day. In the past, when the farming season was slack, we would not do work at night, and we would just drink some thin rice for dinner. It would be good if we had a few grains of rice, most of which were made of wild vegetables for soup."

The son on the side said, "The rice here is eaten every day. There is tofu and the salt is enough, which tastes great!"

Looking at the two, Wang Xiaolie smiled and said nothing.

The lives of farmers are indeed hard. Even in this era of abundant resources, it is still the case. It is not that they produce not much food, nor that the entire society does not produce so much materials, but that the distribution is uneven. A large amount of social wealth is actually taken away by the powerful and powerful people, in the words of later generations, which is the ruling class. If they want to eat white rice and white flour, they often have to drink and meat, the lower class will not be full.

The majority of the social distribution are not the governments and bureaucrats, but the middle and lower classes. The power families in prefectures and counties, the landlords in the countryside, and various local snakes who do things for the government. Can these people be missing? In fact, it is not possible. At least the government's governance ability has not improved, and these people cannot be lacked. Without them, the government's governance ability cannot go deep into the bottom class.

Since Ruzhou, Wang Xiaoli has rectified the officials' style and attacked the middle class of forces. This is the reason. Without this, he will not be able to obtain the richest social resources. Without the middle class, the people at the bottom will benefit and the government's income will increase.

Of course, attacking the middle class must be accompanied by changes in governance methods. Therefore, schools should be built widely to cultivate talents. The quality of talents can be ignored for the time being. As long as reliable people can be selected, the governance method should be simple as possible.

The two tasks complement each other, one is missing, and the other cannot be done well. Without new talents, no one will fill the gap after hitting the middle class. If the middle class is not hit, there will be no job if the talents are cultivated.

After the founding of New China, the overthrow of local tyrants and bad gentry was actually accompanied by the training of new cadres and the way of rule changed. Together, the two emerged in a drastic situation. If one is missing, it will be difficult to complete this work.

In addition to eating full meals, people often eat tofu to supplement protein. In fact, oil is added to the dishes. With oil, the food is very different from before. If you eat the same amount of rice, people will not be easily exhausted.

Seeing Wang Xiaoliu ate a big bowl of rice and a bowl of vegetables, the people around him were amazed. Most officials and officials eat corn because they cook porridge and drink it easily. Like Wang Xiaoliu, it is rare to eat a bowl of dried corn rice with beautiful food.

After dinner, he patrolled the construction site again. Seeing the sun set in the west, Wang Xiaoli returned to Xinye City.

As soon as he entered the city, he saw Shao Ling scolding an official there. The official lowered his head and said nothing. However, looking at his wink, he probably felt dissatisfied. Beside the two, a fat and tall young man stood, watching them at a loss.

Wang Xiaoli stepped forward and asked, "What's the matter? I'll keep arguing here! What would others think if they see it?"

Shao Ling hurriedly crossed his hands: "Go back to the magistrate, this person is an official from Tangzhou, and sent someone to join the army here. But the magistrate saw this person, although he was tall and strong, he was full of fat. His family was rich, and he had never worked since he was a child, and he was breathless after running three steps. How could such a person join the army? Because he joins the army, this person wants to join the army again, and the people below dare not make decisions and make trouble for me."

Wang Xiaoli turned to look at the young man next to him. Because he was too fat, he couldn't tell his age. He was about twenty years old. His face was round and he was covered in fat. As soon as he moved, his fat would tremble. Fortunately, his clothes were wide and very conspicuous at this time.

After looking up and down, Wang Xiaolei said, "What's your name? What's your home? Are you really willing to join the army?"

The man said, "Return to the official. Chi Yuping, the young family has a shop in Tangzhou, selling some food. Since childhood, my parents like it, and I love it, and I have grown a little fat. Now the Jin people are rampant in the Central Plains. Men with blood should join the army! But every time I want to join the army, I say I am fat and no one is willing to accept me. The official leads the army to wipe out Yang Jin, treats the people well, and is a good official. I heard that you are recruiting soldiers, so I asked someone to come."

Wang Xiaoli nodded: "It's good to be willing to join the army. But first of all, it's hard to be a soldier. Judging from your appearance, I'm afraid I haven't suffered since I was a child. Others don't accept you because you are fat, and I'm even more afraid that you can't endure hardship."

Chi Yuping said proudly: "When the country is destroyed and the family is destroyed, what's the point of suffering!"

Wang Xiaolixiu laughed and said to Shao Ling: "As long as he can endure hardship, how can the army be afraid of him being fat? After joining the army, you send someone to look at him carefully. In two months, all of them have been reduced! Looking at his appearance, he will lose weight and become a hero!"

Shao Ling crossed his hands and looked a little disappointed. In this world, some people are born to not gain weight no matter how they eat, while others will gain unreasonable weight as long as they eat normally. Chi Yuping is obviously a person who is prone to gain weight and is really not suitable for joining the army.

Wang Xiaoli looked at Chi Yuping again, and didn't say much, and returned to the yamen. As long as you join forces, are you still afraid that you will get fat in the army? If you are obese, you will practice less. As long as you exercise more, you will lose weight in one or two months.

This era is different from later generations. As long as it is not pathological, it will not discriminate against fat people. Even in society, the body is a bit rich, which is even more enviable. At this time, the portraits left by several famous generals actually have a belly.

In the army, because they do not pay attention to spiritual activities, they pay more attention to power and strength. They need to be strong and strong. They don’t have a few taels of meat on their bodies, and they are not qualified soldiers. Real elite soldiers do not require height and long legs like later generations, but are as strong as cows and have infinite strength.

After returning to the yamen, Wang Xiaoli closed his eyes and took a short rest.

Soon, Shao Ling hurried in and bowed, saying, "The magistrate, like the one who just now, shouldn't be recruited into the army. He was covered in fat, not to mention that it was not easy to practice fat, and obviously he was not a hard-working person!"

Wang Xiaoli opened his eyes and looked at Shao Ling. He said, "If you can't bear the hardships in the army, you will naturally cry and shout and go home. As long as you don't run away, no matter whether he cries or shouts, the army should train him! The commander, the soldiers in the army cannot be selected by us. As long as you join forces, you will have any kind of people. The so-called training of troops means to train all kinds of people into elite soldiers! In the past, the soldiers in our army came from poor families, and their quality was generally good. Now it is different, and there are too many people recruited, so you have to practice with different methods than before!"

"What's the different way?" Shao Ling looked puzzled. "Magistrate, the way we train troops now is to learn from Teacher Lin. Teacher Lin teaches carefully. The people we learn to be careful and have the heart of today. If we change the method, who knows what it looks like?"

Wang Xiaoli said: "Teacher Lin's method is the method of the imperial guards in the past. I ask you, are the imperial guards strong? From the Jin army south, the imperial guards have won several battles? The method of learning the imperial guards is because we were originally a king-supporting militia, but we really can't train troops. After learning, if we can't surpass the imperial guards, how can we deal with the Jin soldiers? As for what method to use, of course we have learned it in practice."

Shao Ling couldn't accept this statement for a while, and didn't know how to refute it, so he was stunned for a moment.

Wang Xiaoliu said: "Reign, you need to know that the Jin army came south and the Song Dynasty was defeated so miserably! If we want to defeat the Jin army, we must do things that our predecessors have never done. I need to learn how to do it. The most important thing now is not what we already know, but what we can learn and how much time we can learn!"

After a while, Shao Ling said: "What the magistrate said is something that the last general had never thought of before."

Wang Xiaoli nodded: "It's normal. But if I hear it, you must keep it in your heart. The troops trained here in Xinye City will be very different from before! We want to build a new army!"
Chapter completed!