Yuyang and the junction of Youbeiping, Wuzhong County.

The enemy-occupied area further east from here is roughly equivalent to the urban area of Tangshan in later generations. However, the main force of the enemy army is in western Liaoning, and the intensity of military confrontation here is not high, and only occasionally soldiers and horses patrol by.

Li Sulai inspected the harvest in Tuntian on the border, which made the local officialdom in Wuzhong County a little nervous, and sent many people to accompany him.

The name of the Wuzhong County Order is Guo Cong, a very inconspicuous side branch of the Yingchuan Guo family, and he is a thousand miles away. Although he is also an official of the six hundred stones, he is of the same rank as Li Supin, but he is very cautious, who made Li Su a big celebrity in front of the king.

Watching Li Su fold off the unripe green and yellow ears of wheat, put them in his hands and pinch and twist, and taste the taste, Guo Cong, who was not familiar with farming, still felt a little contrived and difficult to persuade.

Maybe the chief wants to do a performance project image project to show that he is close to the people.

Who knows, after Li Su tasted the ears of wheat, he actually rubbed out some grains and handed them to the officials of Wuzhong County: "Come, you can taste it together." ”

At this moment, in Li Su's heart, he has actually come up with a plan based on the "Flavor World" that he has seen in later generations.

"Flavor of the World" is a documentary filmed by the original director of "Tip of the Tongue", the first episode of which introduces a food called "rolling", which is made from green and yellow wheat that is not ripe and perishable and cannot be stored for a long time.

But he is not good at acting too prescient, so he has to act a show, appearing to "practice to know the truth", so as not to be said to be a perspective hanging on the wall.

Guo Cong didn't know what Li Su thought, so he gritted his teeth helplessly and swallowed the unripe wheat grains into his mouth with his eyes closed.

After chewing carefully, he found that the wheat grains were a little sweet, and the taste was not bad, but the wheat bran was too coarse.

"Okay, right? This kind of thing is eaten, but it is also full, that is, there is a lot of water, the maltose is easy to digest, and you are hungry quickly—do you have the custom of farmers eating this kind of unripe wheat in the end? Li Su saw that everyone's expressions were also accustomed to the sweetness, and immediately explained with a sense of accomplishment.

Li Suzheng said, seeing the generous and righteous expressions of Guo Xianling and several other officials, and the Adam's apple was also quickly agitated, Li Su hurriedly patted Guo Cong on the shoulder: "Hey! Let you taste the wheat milk, chew and spit it out, who told you to swallow the chaff. ”

The county officials hurriedly spit out the chaff as if they had been granted amnesty, and their faces were ashamed.

Only one of the little officials spit out the chaff from the beginning, neither humble nor arrogant, and had no intention of currying favor with Shangguan. At the moment, he was very calm and did not lose face.

Guo Cong was a little embarrassed: "I'm ashamed, I didn't expect that Bei Jia is also well versed in agricultural affairs, and even these military food affairs can share the worries of the monarch." I waited here for several years, and I didn't know that wheat could be eaten like this—but it is true that the local people rarely cut wheat before it was ripe. ”

Li Su pretended to be surprised: "You people in Youzhou never eat unripe wheat? As far as I know, when Guanzhong and Hanoi were in disconnection, many people ate like this—I think it would be better to cut these wheat in advance. ”

Actually, of course, Li Su doesn't know if the people of Guanzhong and Hanoi have eaten like this, but "Flavor World" says so.

At this time, the little official next to him, who had been quite knowledgeable at the beginning, stepped forward and admonished: "Don't drive, now this wheat has just been filled, and there is much less powder than when it was fully ripe." Eating a bucket of wheat at the moment can only withstand six or seven liters of hunger after it is fully ripe, and who would lose a third of the harvest in vain in order to grab this little time?

And nowadays, some of the slightly acidic fats in these syrups have to be thoroughly matured before they can be converted into wheat flour. These oils and fats will cause the wheat grains to quickly rancid and rot after harvesting, and they will not be stored for a long time, which will ruin the people's harvest for a year.

As for the people of Guanzhong and Hanoi who mentioned that they occasionally eat like this, I think it is probably because the harvest season is different in different places - according to the "Four People's Month Order", the wheat ripening in the Hawei Plain is much earlier than in Youzhou, about two months.

In their place, the wheat will grow so sweet that it is not powdered, about five days, and we have to grow until July. In May, some of the harvests are mostly due to the exhaustion of storage after the winter and the difficulty of spring famine, so they endure the pain of harvesting a small amount and eating it when the green and yellow are not harvested, so as not to starve the people to death.

But in the land of Youzhou, the ears of wheat only ripen to such an extent in July, and even if you plant taro, potatoes, gourds and other miscellaneous vegetables after spring, they can be harvested earlier than green and yellow wheat. The people of Youzhou grow wheat for storage for the winter, so how can it be so wasteful? ”

After hearing this, Li Su was very satisfied.

This kid knows how to do it! On the contrary, I saved myself from making up reasons, and I didn't even need to translate "The Tip of the Tongue", and people directly quoted the scriptures and took the "Four Peoples Moon Order" to help you round it out.

"What's your name? What is your current job? Li Su asked condescendingly, and involuntarily used Yuan Shao's tone of asking Guan Yu.

It seems that staying on the top for a long time is indeed easy to make people flutter.

Li Su, a humble person, found that his subordinates could dig up talents in their NPC tricks, and he couldn't help but be complacent.

"His name is Tian Chou, he is only 19 years old, and he is a scribe in Hucao in this county. The county commander Guo Cong hurriedly played a round in the middle, just like Gongsun Zhan answered when he intercepted Hu Yuan Shao and asked Guan Yu.

Li Su was stunned for a moment, then relieved, and patted Guo Cong on the shoulder: "Guo County Order doesn't need to be nervous, Tian Chou is right, but today, I just want to take advantage of the drawbacks he said and do the opposite." In this way, this time, let Tian Chou cooperate with me as an assistant, and I will take it back to Jixian County for business after the matter is completed, can I? ”

I heard that this person was Wu Zhongtian Chou, and now he was only the smallest low-level scribe, so Li Su was not polite and transferred directly.

Guo Cong was overjoyed: "Thank you for your appreciation!" ”

Tian Chou really didn't have any resistance: "Obey the dispatch." ”

Li Su diverted the topic and got down to business first-he himself is still a don't drive now, so he can't give Tian Chou an official position, so it's better not to say it.

"In this case, I will talk about my idea - the envoy has let us inspect this time, mainly to weaken the grain and grass that the rebels can harvest in the autumn. Commander Zhang Nan originally suggested that he should directly destroy the wheat and burn the fields, but this move was so brutal that the king resolutely refused to allow it, so I tried my best to come up with this method-

Isn't this newly filled wheat not resistant to storage because of oleic acid? But in fact, in Hanoi, there is another way to eat, as long as the wheat is directly ground into strips on the stone and roasted in an earthen oven, the storage period can be extended to one or two months. That is, it will be cut before the end of July, and it can be eaten until the end of September.

As a result, although one-third of the grain has been lost, it is easier for the people to harvest and dispose of it in advance, hide and eat, and it is difficult for the rebels to collect it and store it as military rations. Because the most important thing about military food is that it is resistant to storage and corrosion, and the transfer and distribution link is very long, this kind of thing can only be eaten on the spot, and it cannot be taxed. ”

Since ancient times, the biggest reason why humans have entered the grain society is not because of the high yield of grain or the deliciousness of grain, but because of the fact that grain can be stored for a long time. This laid the foundation for the emergence of taxes and the state superstructure.

Therefore, Li Su read a lot of Internet Xiaobai articles in his early life in his previous life, and often lascivious that "after the voyage in advance and the introduction of potatoes, there is no need to plant rice and wheat, and the population can carry the big explosion".

But these are just obscenities, and they still don't know anything about agriculture - the Germans claim to love potatoes enough, and in the 17th/18th century, they had to grow at least a third of the wheat? How is it possible not to grow cereals at all. No matter how many potatoes there were, we still had to eat wheat in the wax moon and spring famine at that time.

Because cereals can be stored for several years without rotting, this advantage cannot be compared with all non-cereals, including potatoes.

Even in the 21st century, potatoes can only be stored for a year or two, and various aeration environments must be ensured, while potatoes in the pre-modern technology can only be eaten in the current year.

Therefore, since we want to fight the wheat of the rebels, and not so much the livelihood of the people in the enemy-occupied areas, the best way is to poison the people from the time dimension!

I don't hit the total production of grain in enemy-occupied areas, but I hit the distribution of these grains on the timeline!

Make it impossible for the rebels to exchange the food of the present for the food of the future!

Let the rebels have plenty of food to eat from July to September, but after winter, they will starve to death and force you to surrender!

At the same time, it will not be like Zhang Nan, who starves the people to death prematurely before the rebels starve to death.

It is quite the idea of a modern financial strike - to crack down on the reserve of a material is not necessarily to hit the total amount, but also to the distribution of its timeline. Otherwise, why does the value of "futures" fluctuate so much?

And in addition to Li Su, who in the Han Dynasty would have the concept of "futures", being hit by Li Su's dimensional reduction opened up a new dimension, and it was not directly confused.

"How to do it, please don't drive! We will definitely cooperate fully! The benevolence of the king, the wisdom of others, is really beyond the ancient and modern. Guo Cong was completely convinced.

But he didn't forget to pat Liu Yu's rainbow fart: If it weren't for the benevolence and love of the people, how could Li Bei's potential in IQ be forced to come up with this strategy.

So the greatest credit always goes to the great leader.

Li Su didn't hide it anymore, and after thinking about it for a while, he roughly retold the "rolling" production method recorded in "Flavor World".

It is nothing more than grinding green and yellow wheat directly on the stone, but because of the high content of wheat syrup, what will be milled will not be flour, but will be kneaded into something sticky like spicy strips.

Put the spicy strips in the form of raw mills and bake them in a casserole, and you can eat them for a month or two. If it is not baked, it will acidify and rot in half a month at most.

Li Su said that he would do it, and immediately asked the local officials to find casserole stone grinding and other things, and he also personally commanded a group of cavalry to harvest some wheat, and it was not dried in the sun, but directly milled.

Because it is eaten directly, it is better to add a little seasoning, at least salt, and the cooking details will not be repeated.

All in all, Li Su ate a tip-of-the-tongue level of micro-operation, and a little debugging and rework attempt in the middle, and the finished product came out.

Everyone tasted it separately, and it was really good, similar to eating maltose-flavored spicy strips. (Of course, it's not spicy, but it looks like spicy strips)

"Quickly, immediately copy the production method into 100 copies, write as simple as possible, and then gather the middle-class farmers in the county to quickly learn from them, and first cut the dozens of miles of wheat fields in Wuzhong County against the enemy-occupied area.

And then before the enemy could react, he snatched the wheat in Beiping County on the right opposite! Now that there are at least 20 days left before the wheat harvest season, the enemy army will not expect us to come so long in advance, and we must be caught off guard!

During this period, we put the displaced people who had just learned how to harvest wheat and turn them back to the enemy-occupied areas in batches, so that they could spread the rumor that the rebels would inevitably expropriate and extort all the people's rations this year, so that the people on the other side panicked and rushed to harvest and make a roll in advance. I don't expect all the people on the other side to learn, but I can influence as many people as I can! ”

"Yes!"

Everyone was convinced, and the 1,000 cavalry brought by Li Su soon began to secretly cut the wheat on the opposite side in advance, and the work of teaching the people to do rolling and spreading rumors was also quickly arranged.

The entire border of Youbeiping County was infiltrated by the Han army's meticulous work within a few days. Thousands of hectares of wheat were spontaneously harvested by the people in advance.