"Wash it clean, it's all the things you want to eat. The more you make, the less afraid of losing food when you go to Liaodong."

On the fifth day of the first lunar month of the Taichang year, next to a small river at the foot of Yanshan Mountain, tens of thousands of people were squatting on both sides of the river.

Beside them, there were trucks of trucks carrying food for autumn harvest.

Strangely, they are cleaning rice at this moment, and as general Qi Jin, Qin Bangping followed Zhu Youjian, while shouting and explaining to Zhu Youjian:

"If the army goes to war, if it is on the march, it is impossible to take it directly and peel off the grain from the rice husks and wheat husks."

"If the expeditionary troops and horses are stretched, they are easily attacked."

"So we need to reduce the size of the food, so military rations are different."

Qi Jin introduced to Zhu Youjian and gave an example:

"Generally speaking, it is not surprising that millet is garrisoned in the city and eating soft rice."

"But if you attack for a long distance, or go deep into the enemy's territory, and fight in the wilderness, the amount of food should be small and you should be able to eat enough."

Zhu Youjian understood Qi Jin's words, but to put it bluntly, it is portable rations, such as modern compressed biscuits.

However, he was very curious about how Qi Jin would use to make compressed rations.

Fortunately, within a few seconds of his curiosity, Qi Jin answered:

"Before going to war, you need to take one stone of rice, remove the shell and wash it, cook it and bake it in the sun, dry it and take out the impurities and steam it."

"After repeating this ten times, you can get two buckets of hard rice."

"These two dou of rice require soldiers to carry a marching on their backs. Every time they build a pot to make rice, each person takes three cents of hard rice and throws it into boiling water. After boiling, they can get a bowl of hard rice."

"How long can you eat two dou of military rations like this?" Zhu Youjian understood it. To put it bluntly, it was to remove the water in the rice, and then compress the weight of the rice after repeated repeated times.

But even so, how long can I eat it?

Faced with his problem, Qi Jin smiled and said, "Add two taels of army salt and a piece of vinegar cloth, these two dou of rice are enough for the army to eat for fifty days."

"What are military salt and vinegar cloth?" Zhu Youjian was slightly stunned when he heard that two dou of rice could be eaten for fifty days.

Two dou of rice can be converted into two, but only twenty-five pounds, which is equivalent to eating half a pound of rice every day.

But when Zhu Youjian thought that the twenty-five kilograms of rice were dried and compressed with one stone of rice, he didn't find it strange.

He also saw it when he was a child. If a grain of rice is cooked and refrigerated, it will be lighter than the original rice, but the taste is worse.

After repeating this ten times, there is actually still so much rice, but the weight is reduced.

When Zhu Youjian realized it, Qin Bangping next to him explained with a smile:

"Military salt needs to be taken three kilograms of salt, put it in the water and boil it until it is very solid. It will probably be as big as three fingernails, weighing two liang. Every time you cook, you can cut a trace with a knife.

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"Vinegar cloth is to soak a foot of coarse cloth into a pound of vinegar. After drying it hard, cut off one inch every time you cook, soak it in water, and then pick it up after the coarse cloth changes color."

"In addition, mulberries, wild fruits, or other things will be eaten after being exposed to the sun."

"These things cannot be missing. If they are missing, they will make it difficult for the soldiers to persist."

From a scientific point of view, Qin Bangping's words are just supplementing salt and vitamins.

In ancient times, some people could come up with this method, which even showed that the ancients were not stupider than modern people, and even more so.

Later generations just stood on their shoulders and looked higher and farther.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian also said:

"If the Imperial Horse Supervisor has the opportunity to accept Taipu Temple in the future, it will definitely ask every soldier to eat jerky."

It is rare for ordinary soldiers to eat jerky, especially during marching.

Zhu Youjian used his great energy to raise the three guards of the Yulin and the Imperial Horse Supervisor, and all he wanted was that they were brave and good at fighting.

But if they can't even eat well, how can they be brave? How can they be good at fighting?

At present, the grassland of the Imperial Horse Supervision has insufficient arable land, so naturally they cannot afford to raise so many cattle and sheep that can be eaten by the army.

But Zhu Youjian was confident that as long as he continued to follow his plan, there would only be more and more cattle and sheep.

He thought so, then he and Qi Jin and the others turned over and rushed towards Yanshan Camp.

On the horse's back, Zhu Youjian asked:

"According to this place to go to Liaodong, I wonder how much military rations you need to stockpile?"

Seeing this simple question, Qin Bangping answered directly: "It takes about twenty-four days when the army travels fifty miles a day from here to Chenyang."

"So when my sister brings Bai Gan soldiers to come, and if the civilians and husbands are 11,000 people, they should need 11,000 pounds of military rations, but they don't need vinegar cloth."

"But 10,000 kilograms of salt must be prepared, and at least 20,000 kilograms of dried vegetables and 30,000 kilograms of vinegar are made."

"If there are 11,000 dou of military rations, it will take about 5,000 stones of hulled rice."

"Okay!" Hearing Qin Bangping's words, Zhu Youjian said to the two of them:

"I will transfer the Imperial Horse Supervisor to pick up two thousand horses, two thousand horse carriages, ten thousand pounds of salt, ten thousand pounds of vegetables, and thirty thousand pounds of vinegar, and 5,000 taels of silver from the Imperial Horse Supervisor."

Logically speaking, there is no need for Zhu Youjian to pay the money and food.

Because logically speaking, the Ministry of War would be released, and the good emperor also agreed to pay military salaries for 20 taels per person.

However, these days, Qin Bangping and Qi Jin have taught him so many things, and they are half of his master, so he cannot just let it go.

In addition, he also had important things to communicate with the two, so after they thanked each other, Zhu Youjian said:

"Although Liaochen is good for each other, it still needs to station in Zhenjiang and use three places as horns to restrain Nurhaci. Two of them know more about this than me."

"But what I want to say is that it is difficult to pacify Nurhaci. Among the million Liao people, we don't know how many of them defected to Nurhaci and how much information they betrayed."

"So I hope the two generals will not be greedy for merit and come out of the city to meet the enemy."

"The most important thing at the moment is to defend Liaodong and then wait for the follow-up reinforcements from Shizhu and Zhejiang soldiers."

"I told my brother that if you want to win, the first thing is to do is to remove the Liaodong troops and replace them with a guest army to defend the city."

"As long as the two generals hold on to Liaodong for three years, they will definitely have tens of thousands of soldiers under their command."

"At that time, I will send Sun Yingyuan, Man Gui and others to the Seven Guards and First Battalion, and Liaodong will be in the near future."

"Your Highness, I will listen to what he said." Qi Jin and Qin Bangping returned the gifts one after another, and Zhu Youjian also explained:

"I'm afraid I can't greet you later."

"But please don't worry, after I return to the capital tomorrow, I will ask the emperor's brother to allocate 300,000 taels of silver, 55,000 taels of silver as the opening silver, and the rest as military pay for the next year."

"As for Mrs. Qin Liangyu, I will ask the emperor brother to allocate another silver and ask her to return to eastern Sichuan to continue recruiting troops."

"It's so good..." Qin Bangping and Qi Jin looked at each other, and Zhu Youjian also took them to the Yanshan camp with a smile.

After the three of them returned to Yanshan Camp, they all returned to their residences to rest because it was noon.

Zhu Youjian also returned to the backyard of the Imperial Horse Supervision Office, but after arriving here, he asked the eunuchs around him:

"Where is Cao Huachun?"

"Go back to Your Highness..." The little eunuch saluted slightly:

"Admiral Cao took people to Yanshan Station, and then he had to supervise the refining of honeycomb coal."

"How is that..." Hearing the little eunuch's words, Zhu Youjian frowned slightly, and then said:

"Since that's the case, I'll take a lunch break first and wait for Cao Huachun to come back to wake me up."

"I will take the order." Hearing Zhu Youjian's words, the little eunuch saluted obediently. As soon as Zhu Youjian walked into the dormitory, he stepped out and looked at the little eunuch:

"That honeycomb coal will be made more than 3,000 kilograms tonight, and another thirty furnaces will be made. I will take it with me tomorrow when I return to the capital."

"I will accept the order." Hearing this, seeing that Zhu Youjian stopped talking about anything else, the eunuch quickly sent someone to notify him.

As for Zhu Youjian, under the clothes of others, he took off his regular clothes outside and lay on the bed in his underwear and got up.

Before going to bed, he was still thinking in his mind how to use honeycomb coal to harvest the silver of the Mongolians and the people. It can be said that he was crazy about making money.

But before he could sleep for a long time, he heard the rushing footsteps and the sound of blocking the road:

"Yang Jiashu, Your Highness is taking a lunch break, you..."

"Lunch break? Let's go, I have something important!" Yang Lian's irritable voice appeared in Zhu Youjian's ears. Zhu Youjian could only get up tiredly and sighed:

"Let Yang Jucheng come in."

"I will take the order..." Hearing this, the little eunuch didn't dare to block the road, and Yang Lian also broke into the dormitory and reported to Zhu You on the bed and said:

"The things in Liaodong have made progress. Zhu Tongmeng and others brought people back to the capital early this morning. After His Highness returns to the capital tomorrow, if Xiong Feibai has anything to do, he will definitely protect him!"

Yang Lian was very nervous at this moment, and it was hard to imagine that such tension would appear on a Donglin Party.

As the Donglin Party, he wants to protect Xiong Tingbi of the Chu Party now, which makes people laugh...

However, Zhu Youjian couldn't laugh at the moment. He got up and took the letter. After glanced at it, he confirmed that there was no handle from Xiong Tingbi who was caught by Yao Zongwen and others, he rubbed his eyebrows and said:

"I was arrested without a handle, Xiong Tingbi was in charge of Liaodong, and there would be no mistakes in Governor Yuan Yingtai's combination."

"The problem with Liaodong at the moment is that after winter passes, Nurhaci will definitely launch a large army to invade Liaodong."
To be continued...