Zhu Zhu left as soon as he returned home, and took a boat from Nanyuan via Yongding River to Ji Canal to visit his family.
His family has moved to the vicinity of the racecourse, where each of the fifteen military households who were originally from the Ruishitan Hundred Household Residence were allocated one hundred acres of land.
All the money Zhu Zhu earned in the past few years has been remitted back to his family. The family has built a new house and has saved a dowry for his sister. Her sister is eleven years old and will have to marry her husband's family in three or four years.
There is Xinghe Bank in Zunhua, and there is also a small branch in the racecourse. After all, the cavalry training regiment is stationed here, and the residents here have exceeded 10,000.
At this time, meals were already being served in the military camp.
A group of 100 people took turns to come up to cook. Yang Fan gave them small stainless steel pots, which are the cheapest and cost one yuan each. The soldiers prepared rice one by one in front of the fifty large noodle pots according to their own camp heads.
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The noodles that had just come out of the pot were picked up into a basin by Huotoujun's long kuaizi. Then they were poured with meat sauce and simmering meat, which made people's mouth water just looking at them.
Yang Fan also made a pot and tasted it. It felt very fragrant and he ate it with satisfaction.
Seeing that the commander was eating the same thing as them, the officers and soldiers felt something was touched in their hearts. A warm feeling filled their whole bodies, and their throats felt a little clogged.
They knew that the commander was inspecting the work of the Huotou Army.
The commander-in-chief has provided such good materials. If they don't cook well, the commander-in-chief will definitely beat them with a military stick. The commander-in-chief will eat these things himself, and the fire-headed army will not dare to cook them. They must try their best to cook them well and do them well.
Make it taste good and satisfy the boss.
Seeing the snow-white noodles being picked into their iron basins, the officers and soldiers were trembling with excitement. White noodles are not something ordinary people can afford, and ordinary people only eat some grains.
If you can eat enough grains, it will be a good life. Not to mention fat and fat.
Here in the Ming Dynasty, fat meat is more popular than lean meat because they are too lacking in fat.
The camp was full of the sound of people eating noodles. After eating, you can go get some food. However, the number of people must be rotated in groups of 100 people. Otherwise, it will easily cause chaos.
Because there are so many people, it often takes half an hour to get another chance to eat.
Everyone, as if they didn't know they were full, kept eating, and their bellies were bulging.
After cooking the noodles many times, the noodle soup became thicker. I had to change the water and continue cooking. The replaced noodle soup was all drank up. There is salt on the noodles, which brings flavor to the noodle soup.
Salt in the Ming Dynasty was very expensive. These soldiers usually drank porridge, and occasionally boiled water spinach as a vegetable. They stewed a large pot without adding a few grains of salt. Birds would burst out of their mouths.
These obviously salty noodle soups were very popular and were quickly sold out. Those who didn't get them sighed as if they had suffered a great loss.
The Huotou Army was exhausted. This was the first time they were allowed to eat without restrictions. Their legs were cramped when carrying water.
The banquet lasted from two o'clock in the afternoon until dark. Zhou Yuji hurriedly came to Yang Fan and asked for an order to stop.
These people haven't seen oil and water in several years. Now they are all red-eyed and trying to eat as hard as they can, so don't overwhelm a few of them.
Yang Fan felt sour in his heart. He said to the soldiers: "I don't know what will happen to you in the future. However, I will take you for one day and I will make sure that you are all well fed. Don't eat anymore today. Stop collecting food immediately."
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"Now, everyone listens to my order, immediately forms a team, walks around the school grounds three times, and then goes back to sleep." Yang Fan ordered. "Tomorrow night, use fat meat to make braised pork, three liang of fat meat slices per person,
The staple food is white rice.”
As soon as he finished speaking, all the soldiers of the three armies cheered.
White rice and braised pork, these are good things that I haven’t had in years.
After Yang Fan decided to take over the logistics of these 50,000 people today, he contacted Yaoguang and asked her to organize a steamship to transport rice and various supplies.
The steamboat has strong power and is very fast against the current. It will be enough to get here at noon tomorrow.
There are more than a dozen large lakes in Nanyuan. They are connected to the Yongding River, and the water depth is more than three meters, so it can be transported directly by water. Nanyuan was originally the old course of the Yongding River in the Tang Dynasty. Later, after the Yongding River changed its course, it became a lake like Haidian.
Densely populated place with many wild animals.
Since the Jin Dynasty, this place has been used as a hunting ground and palace for the royal family. Because the Yongding River passes through the garden, a large lake and swamp is formed, with lush vegetation, animals and elk gather. Nanyuan is also called "Nanhaizi". In the Yuan Dynasty, it was the royal palace
The hunting ground is known in history as "dismounting the horse and letting it fly to the moor".
In the Ming Dynasty, the river channel was dredged here and connected to the Yongding River. Water transportation became more convenient. The emperor hunted and summered here and built palaces and gardens. By the middle of the Ming Dynasty, because there was no money to maintain, it had been turned into a vegetable garden and military barracks.
Many eunuchs who had fallen from power were assigned to grow vegetables here.
There is also a stone pier built during the Xuanzong era, which was originally used to dock the emperor's painting boat. Now it has long been abandoned, leaving only the stone pier base.
This place can be used to park the steam fleet. Yang Fan built a temporary warehouse here with bamboo poles and stored the transported materials here.
Now that Yang Fan has taken over, he won't cause trouble.
Without good nutrition, training intensity cannot be increased at all. These people have been malnourished for a long time, and after all, their bodies cannot bear it. Large amounts of exercise are supported by high-calorie foods. Otherwise, the soldiers will only be physically damaged.
The steamer fleet arrived at noon the next day.
The officers and soldiers were excitedly organized to unload the ship, and 200 kilograms of sacks of rice were transported into the warehouse. There were also jars of soybean oil, bean cakes to feed the horses, and even 50,000 sets of old-fashioned camouflage uniforms, belts, and rubber shoes were transported on one ship.
These camouflage uniforms are very sturdy and suitable for training.
Many of the clothes of these veterans from the Beijing camp were in bad condition. They tore apart when they moved a lot.
Especially the Yuanyang War Jacket, the latest one is more than ten years old. The fabric is in bad condition, and the iron mesh inside is corroded and broken. If you are not careful, you will get stuck.
These military uniforms are so rancid and smelly that I dare not wash them, and they are ruined as soon as I wash them. This is the only uniform that I wear for daily drills and inspections by superior officers. How dare I ruin it? If it is washed and tattered, there is no need to wear it.
These officers and soldiers don't take baths all year round. All kinds of small animals are crawling around their bodies, and their skin is black.
Yang Fan frowned as he looked at it. This would not work, as it could easily lead to the spread of disease. With so many people gathering together, an outbreak of infectious disease is no joke.
Yang Fan called Zhang Cheng and made an explanation. The soldiers went down to work.
They built a large bathing shed with ease and made a bathtub with woven plastic sheets. Five hundred soldiers replaced the tired and paralyzed fire-headed soldiers and began to boil water.
The officers and soldiers looked at the commander's soldiers busy in surprise. They had just finished eating. What were they doing? Do you want to start eating again?
Soon new orders came that everyone must take a shower in the afternoon.