I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 62 How is Centripetal Force Formed?

Chapter 061

The big dining hall of Wenquan Town, this is not only the big dining hall of Ning Navy officers and men, but also the big dining hall of all military households in Wenquan Town.

This is a landmark building in Wenquan Town, and it is also a new canteen that has just been built and has been in use for less than a month and a half. The entire canteen has a very ugly appearance, which is quite different from ordinary buildings in the late Ming Dynasty.

From the appearance point of view, it looks like a big rectangular box with a triangular roof. A huge wooden shed. When it was first built, the cafeteria didn't even have walls on all sides, only a huge thatched shed.

With the cold weather, four walls made of red bricks were added to the original wooden shed. The top of this thatched shed is about two feet high, which is higher than the city wall of the town castle. However, it is really missing. The dignity of the government.

This is mainly because Cheng Shijie, in order to save money, can be an excellent craftsman who can carve beams and paint buildings. The problem is, it all costs money.

Under the constraints of the two principles of saving money and being practical, we can only make do with it. As the saying goes, good steel needs to be used wisely.

It is very spacious inside, and can accommodate more than [-] military households and their family members from Hot Spring Town at the same time, a total of more than [-] people dining.

Looking at the huge canteen, the recruits of the Ning Navy navy were stunned.The huge canteen has twelve straw mats made of wheat straw and straw, which can block the wind and cold outside.

Lift up these straw mats and enter the cafeteria, and you will see five or six hundred long tables. On both sides of the table, there are long stools that can sit three people at the same time.When they arrived, there were thousands of people lined up, waiting to eat in line.

Cheng Shijie originally thought that he would be able to save a certain amount of sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn seeds in the spring of next year. However, it was not until he came to the canteen in Wenquan Town that he discovered that the porridge in the canteen was actually made of sweet potatoes, old rice, pumpkin, and broad beans. , peas, soybeans and other grains are boiled.

Cheng Shijie pointed to the sweet potatoes in the vat and said, "Why are there sweet potatoes here?"

"Isn't this sweet potato?"

Zhou An asked a little puzzled.

"Never mind what name it is, where did it come from?"

"I bought it, and the military households also planted it themselves!"

"Planted?"

In Cheng Shijie's impression, he remembered that sweet potatoes and corns should have been planted on a large scale in the Qing Dynasty. The so-called prosperity of the Kangxi and Qianlong periods was due to the introduction of high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes, corn and potatoes into China.

After Zhou An's explanation, Cheng Shijie's findings showed that potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn had already been grown in Shandong more than ten years ago.The first to plant these crops was actually forced by the Ma Zheng of the Ming Dynasty.

Shandong was one of the places where horse households were concentrated in the Ming Dynasty. Many farmers were forced to raise horses, but horses needed a lot of food. They had to eat [-] to [-] catties of hay every day and a certain amount of concentrate. A large amount of land has been developed, and it is very difficult to support the tasks assigned by the imperial court to Mahu.

Later, these people discovered that corn stalks and sweet potato seedlings are good feed, especially if you cut off a stubble of sweet potato leaves, like leeks, another stubble will grow soon, and these sweet potatoes are not picky. Fields and dry fields can be planted, and there is no need to spend a lot of effort to serve them.

However, the yield of these sweet potatoes was astonishing. Sweet potatoes began to be introduced into Fujian in late May of the 21st year of Wanli (5), and soon spread to the north.

Some refugees and fleeing households secretly grow sweet potatoes in mountains, forests, river beaches, and even landlords' fields.In the cold weather at the end of Ming Dynasty, crops could only be planted in spring and harvested in autumn. Landlords knew common wheat, soybeans, peas, broad beans, sorghum, millet, and rice, but landlords of sweet potatoes did not know them, thinking they were weeds.

Even if the tenants were found to be cutting sweet potato seedlings to eat, they would not care. When the crops in the field were harvested and the fields were empty, the tenants would secretly dig out the sweet potatoes at night.Although the stewards of the farm are known, but the stewards who are settled by the tenants will turn a blind eye and close one eye.

Those who know this will know it, and those who don't know it have been kept hidden. Sweet potatoes are the food of untouchables and tenants.

Cheng Shijie finally understood, and had to admire the peasant's cunning.

The food of Ning Haijun soldiers is not rich, because Cheng Shijie knows that these soldiers have been hungry for a long time, and their gastrointestinal function has degraded. If they come up and give them big fish and meat, they will eat bad stomachs.

Of course, Cheng Shijie doesn’t have so much meat for his soldiers now. Even for the Ning Navy’s infantry, their meals are mainly bread, steamed buns, and grain porridge. Even if salted fish is an extra meal, only well-trained soldiers or meritorious service Soldiers who have the highest level will be rewarded to eat meat.

Chen Ermao saw that the porridge in the vat of rice was about to bottom out, and he became a little anxious. In the Dongjiang army, if they eat, they will actually grab it. There is no way, there is too little food.

Chen Ermao has a wealth of experience in how to grab food. He turned to his back and said, "Brother, the food is almost gone!"

More than [-] people from Ning Haijun's navy rushed towards the window for cooking.

"Don't squeeze, don't squeeze!"

Seeing the chaos in the ranks, the experienced veterans swung their pointers and hit the heads and bodies of these navy officers and soldiers. They were wearing thick cotton clothes, so they would not be injured.

After a beating, order was restored.

"Fuck you, the food is enough for you to eat. Our garrison has stipulated that the officers and men of the Ning Navy will provide unlimited food every day. Even if you can eat five catties of food for a meal, it is enough!"

With dozens of barrels of steaming porridge, steamed buns, pots of noodles, and rice served, the sailor soldiers calmed down seeing that there was still so much rice.

It was finally Chen Ermao's turn to cook. Just now, when Ning Haijun's instructor was maintaining order, his lunch box was knocked out, and he was stepped on a few times. Fortunately, these wooden lunch boxes are of high quality and have been used by dozens or hundreds of people. I only stepped on it with a big foot, but it didn't break.

Chen Ermao didn't think it was dirty either, so he wiped the lunch box with his hand and quickly handed it over: "Fill it up!"

"Stop food waste, if you don't finish eating, you will be beaten!"

Chen Ermao smiled slightly: "Don't worry, I can finish eating!"

In Chen Ermao's lunch box, there were four spoonfuls of viscous multigrain porridge, as well as cabbage and pickles.

Suddenly, Chen Ermao saw the steamed buns and asked, "Can I still have steamed buns?"

"Of course, if you want steamed buns, there are steamed buns, if you want noodles, there are noodles, and there are also rice, unlimited supply!"

Chen Ermao didn't believe the chef's words, so he inserted three steamed buns with his chopsticks and took a few mouthfuls of each. When he sat down at the table, one steamed bun was finished.

In order to eat more rice, Chen Ermao was not afraid of being scalded. The miscellaneous grain porridge burned his teeth until he grinned, but he still ate quickly.

The navy soldiers of Ning Haijun began to eat, and the movement was earth-shattering, as if hundreds of thousands of pigs were eating crazily.

Chen Ermao ordered three meals in a row, and he rolled his eyes. In the end, he wiped the water from the pickles with a steamed bun, and he didn't even need to clean the lunch box.

The instructors did not dine with the sailors. Fifty instructors conscientiously held pointers and patrolled the dining hall back and forth.

Chen Ermao thinks that these instructors are superfluous, what is the world now, dare to waste food, if they can eat such a full meal when they are in the Dongjiang Army, even if they are asked to fight Jiannu, they will be absolutely unambiguous.

As for wasting food, that is even more impossible. In the Dongjiang Army, they would not be able to eat such a meal for a year.

Cheng Shijie didn't advocate equality between officers and soldiers. Officers above the post commander had much better food conditions than ordinary soldiers.The common people and soldiers of this era have no intention of being equal. Officers are treated better than ordinary soldiers. They take it for granted, and making them equal will discourage their enthusiasm.

It's like a company, if there is no performance appraisal standard, if everyone is paid the same, who is willing to improve technology, who is willing to work hard to improve production efficiency?He doesn't even have the intention of being a manager. The greater the power, the greater the responsibility and the higher the risk.

The general manager of a company will get involved if there are more than one hundred dereliction of duty. A cleaner will be dismissed even if he does not work for ten days. This is the difference.

Officers received a lot of military pay, good treatment, good housing, and good food.

Good white rice, white noodle steamed buns, and noodles. There are two kinds of soups. They eat three kinds of dishes, namely stewed pork with cabbage, stir-fried pork with radish, and a bowl of sweet and sour lotus root and haggis soup.

"Based on this meal, I have decided that I will sell this life to Lord Guard!"

Li Fang was sweating profusely from eating, and their treatment now is better than that of the generals of the Dongjiang Army.

Li Zhixiang cast a glance at Li Fang and said, "You don't want to join General Shang Shen?"

"Hey, isn't this little brother short-sighted!"

Li Fang looked at Li Zhixiang and said, "Third brother, I heard that we can get five taels of silver every month, so that's... 60 taels a year?"

"The total is ten taels of silver a month!"

Li Zhixiang said earnestly: "Take it easy and put your heart in the right place. Ning Haijun will reward ten taels of silver for decapitating the first class. I hope to make meritorious service as soon as possible and earn hundreds of eighty acres. Take Ye Niang over!"

Li Fang lowered his voice and said: "Third brother, I know that there is a group of pirates' stronghold. They have been operating for several years, and their family fortune should be quite a lot. Do you want to report to the guard, let's come and eat black..."

"Farts are black and black, we officers and soldiers, this matter must be reported to the garrison immediately!"

When Cheng Shijie heard Li Fang and Li Zhixiang's report, he sighed in his heart, and the centripetal force of the organization was formed.

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