Chapter 147 Make the Mixed Noodles Unpalatable! Only in This Way Can It Be Eaten by the Poor!
With hundreds of cavalry, Li Zicheng ran all the way and did not stop after reaching the city of Shaanzhou. It was not until he reached the city of Luoyang that he was in the mood to rest.
After entering Luoyang City, Li Zicheng was finally able to rectify his troops. Not to mention, the old camp of rogue bandits was quite capable at running away. The road from Tongguan to Shaanzhou was all mountainous, not a good place for running away. But that was it.
In this place, most of the high-ranking generals of the rogue bandits fled back to Luoyang. People like Liu Zongmin, Li Guo, and Hao Yaoqi were all safe and sound.
"General, except for General Guo Yi, Xie Junyou and a few others, there is no news yet. Almost all the other generals have withdrawn to Luoyang." Although Niu Jinxing is a scholar, he is also very good at running away. He escaped from the mountain road on a donkey.
From Luoyang.
"As long as they can all be withdrawn, let Jun En do some statistics to see if our brothers in the old camp have suffered great losses." As long as these old brothers are here, Li Zicheng can accept defeat. A temporary setback in the war is nothing.
No big deal. As long as the fundamentals are there, there is always a chance for a comeback.
In history, Li Zicheng developed a bad habit of not fighting hard because he fought against the government troops for a long time. That is why he suffered a big loss in this regard when he later fought against the Qing army. He treated the Qing soldiers as official troops and fought them, thinking that he would not fight hard.
It was over if he couldn't defeat him and ran away. But unexpectedly, the Qing army's legs were longer than his. In less than a year, the Qing army chased away most of China like a rabbit. After being beaten, there were not many people left around him.
He was beaten by the serious landlord armed forces.
There are unofficial legends that Li Zicheng did not die but retired. This is purely nonsense. With Li Zicheng's virtue, as long as he can get rid of the entanglement of the Qing army, he will definitely prepare to make a comeback, so he will not do such a thing as retreat.
Sun Chuanting's army followed the retreating bandit army and killed them all the way. When they arrived in Shaanzhou, a rough count of the heads of beheaded bandits was 40,000 to 50,000. Along the way, there were supplies and messy things thrown by the bandits everywhere. It was these things that blocked it.
That's why the army's train camp couldn't run fast.
"Superintendent, this is a great victory! The army not only regained the city of Shaanzhou, but also killed 50,000 to 60,000 bandits. After this battle, the bandits will definitely be seriously injured. We must quickly give the capital a victory." Staff and commander of the army.
Official Zuo Xing excitedly reported the situation to Sun Chuanting.
Stroking his half-white beard, Sun Chuanting looked at the document and said calmly: "Before you start the victory, wait a little longer. It won't be too late to wait until the army has recovered Luoyang City!"
"Superintendent, are we going to launch troops to recapture Luoyang immediately?"
"At this time, the morale of our army is strong. The bandit army has just been defeated. This is a great opportunity to work together to recover the lost city."
In Sun Chuanting's view, the bandits had been discouraged, and it would not be difficult to regain Luoyang City.
This is indeed the case. Although Luoyang is a fortified city, Li Zicheng's men are not good at defending the city. It is the same for them whether there is a fortified city or not.
Many people will be a little confused, why is there such a thing as not being good at defending the city? This thing is much easier than fighting in the field, right? As long as you have a little bit of military knowledge, isn't it easy to do this job?
However, actually defending the city is not that easy. It requires very formal management and organizational experience. It is not enough to just place people on the city wall in a haphazard manner. If you put people on the city wall in a haphazard manner, you don’t need the other party to attack the city, and you can just use your own people.
It will squeeze out trouble. The essence of defending a city is not in fighting, but in management. It is necessary to reasonably arrange the matching of military services, the rotation of the soldiers who defend the city, and the use of the materials used to defend the city. In short, this is a very detailed and complex management.
project.
It is really easier to let people with less experience do it than to fight in the field. This is why the general commanders of city defense operations are senior civilian officials stationed in the local area. Civil servants are familiar with the city and management, and can reasonably allocate various resources. To bring out the best effect. However, there are also some civil servants who look good but are actually careless about political affairs and cannot do this job well. For example, Zhu Youjian suspected that Shi Kefa did not have such ability.
As time entered October, Zhu Youjian in the capital found that he seemed to have ushered in a good time, and actually started to receive good news.
First of all, the harvest of Huangzhuang this year is generally known. According to Wang Chengen and others' rough statistics, this year's harvest of each Huangzhuang, in addition to satisfying the palace's own use and the food supply of the new army, can also produce about 300,000 shi of mixed noodles. Drinks cost about 100,000 dan, and canned meat costs about 100,000 dan.
Among them, what Chongzhen valued most was mixed noodles and canned meat. With these 400,000 shi of food supplies supplied to the market, it would greatly improve the food supply situation in the entire capital and even the North Zhili region.
Data reported by the Customs Department shows that this year, about 600,000 to 700,000 shi of grain have flowed in from Tianjin Customs. Calculated in this way, without relying on the grain route, more than 1 million shi of grain has entered the Beijing market this year. If Coupled with the Cao Road, there will be no food crisis in the capital this year.
"Daban, the mixed noodles must be sold by supply and marketing cooperatives. The price is set at about seven or eight yuan per stone. This thing can only keep the business, don't think about making money. Of course, the taste of the noodles cannot be too good, otherwise there will be looting. , we ran out of noodles very quickly." The mixed noodles were used by Zhu Youjian as emergency food. If they sell too well, it would be a bit contrary to the original intention. The taste of this thing now is still a bit too delicious. You have to find a way to make it taste less delicious, so that people who generally use regular food will not participate in the looting, and leave this thing to the poor who really need it.
Because about 30% of refined starch is added, the energy and nutrients of multigrain mixed noodles are actually no worse than those of rice and wheat. In other words, mixed noodles are not bad at solving the problem of energy supply by making people full.
"Your Majesty, the noodles after mixing them with vermicelli are more chewy. If we adjust the taste better, it doesn't matter if we sell it at a higher price. Why do we have to make it taste unpalatable?"
"It tastes bad only when it is eaten by the poor. Doesn't it mean that all the delicious food must be eaten by the rich? The industry in our palace is not just for making money. Don't think about making money when it comes to mixed noodles and canned meat. Canned meat The taste of the meat should also be adjusted to be less delicious, and the price can be lowered! The main way for us to make money is to put it on the wine. Throwing away all costs, the minimum we can earn from a stone of wine is about three taels of silver. With nearly 200,000 stone wine, there is no problem in making five or six hundred thousand taels of silver this year. But now there is a problem, so much wine may not be able to be sold."
By the end of the year, almost 100,000 shi of wine will be produced, and by March and April next year, it is estimated that more than 200,000 shi of wine will be produced. The capital is just a city with a population of two million, and all these people are allowed to drink. Fifty thousand dan and more than 6 million jin are enough. Wine can indeed be used as a foreign trade product, but Zhu Youjian feels that in the current environment, selling out 50,000 to 60,000 jin is about the same. In other words, in the market Before it was fully developed, I actually made a little too much wine!