The recruits, who didn't know what to cook, almost swallowed their tongues in the face of the big pot of rice in the army.

Although it is just a simple stewed lamb with radish, and the mutton is only a small piece in each person's bowl, the taste of the mutton soup and rice is also delicious.

For that young man in Qinzhou, this meal was definitely the best meal he had ever eaten in his life.

This unforgettable taste even influenced his taste for food throughout his life.

The rice bowls in everyone's hands were clean as if they had been washed with water.

Even if some people are full, they are reluctant to put down their rice bowls, and feel the taste of the rice bowl before those fierce armored soldiers take away their rice bowls.

Half a month later, more than 1,500 recruits arrived in Chang'an City one after another.

After a few days of feasting, these rookies were in for a hellish ordeal.

Traveling to unknown places, how can the safety of the fleet be guaranteed without excellent combat skills.

If you want to improve the combat effectiveness of soldiers, improving the physical fitness of soldiers is the most important thing.

They are as thin as skin and bones, and it is estimated that they will already burn high incense when they arrive in the Americas without being robbed.

For this reason, the first thing Yang Hao did was to give enough food, especially protein grains, which were indispensable.

Their food level was already second only to the most elite Imperial Forest Army in the Qi Kingdom.

After a few days of full food, the rookies have enough spirits to realize what kind of place they have come.

Originally, I thought it was heaven on earth, but from the beginning of the training, I knew that it was hell on earth.

Their training is not like the Army's general practice queue, and all the training subjects revolve around ocean voyages.

Lucky for the young man, he was singled out by Stony Brook to become one of the lookouts due to his apparent flexibility.

And the rest of the rookies are not so lucky.

On the simulated deck, boring rubbing the deck that can almost illuminate people.

Once they were dry, the damned veterans would pour water over the deck once more and step on it like mud.

The rookies who dare to be angry and dare not speak can only pout their butts and rub the damn plank over and over again under the scorching sun.

After a day of training, everyone had lost the strength to eat.

After dinner, the entire barracks was silent, and there was no more sober recruits, only the sound of snoring from the various barracks.

Yang Hao looked at the training results of the past few days and felt that this kind of training intensity was still not enough.

There is not much time left for the recruits, and it is very difficult to train these people who have never even seen the sea into qualified sailors in less than a year.

If you don't take high-intensity training, when you are really far away from the mainland and encounter real trouble, it is already good to be able to give full play to half of the results of your usual training.

A few days later, when the new training plan was issued, the rookies realized that they were actually living in paradise the other day.

The high-intensity training was even carried out day and night, and in order to simulate the situation that might be encountered at sea, Yang Hao could be said to have put a lot of effort into it.

Time passed day by day, when the cool autumn wind blew from the north.

Qi ushered in the harvest season of the new year.

Unlike previous years, in addition to the traditional production areas, Yangzhou's contribution to the Qi court accounted for as much as 10% of the annual tax revenue.

Yangzhou is one of the newly established territories of the Qi State, and it can contribute so much tax revenue at the beginning, thanks to Yangzhou's state farms.

The entire output of this institution, which was established this year, goes to the state treasury.

Such an efficient production model made the officials extremely admire Yang Hao's extraordinary wisdom.

The officials who tasted the sweetness even wrote a proposal to change all the farmland in Qi to the farms of Yangzhou.

But the unrealistic suggestion was immediately rejected by Yang Hao.

If all the land of Qi is turned into a state-owned property, then the people of Great Qi can only drink the northwest wind, and his fate is estimated to be not much better than that of the king of Shang.

It is estimated that the history books of later generations will also position themselves as mediocre monarchs who work hard and lose money.

However, the state farm can perform so well, and it is indeed a bit unexpected for him.

According to his original guess, as a demonstration area in the first year of its establishment, it is enough to have a normal level of output.

But I never thought that there would be so much more than I expected.

The contribution of the farm to the tax revenue is not only in terms of crops, but also in the way of intensive breeding of poultry, and although the amount of eggs produced in this six months is not very impressive, when the eggs as tribute are transported to the royal palace.

Looking at the basket of eggs, Yang Hao was extremely excited in his heart.

This is a small step for himself, but it is a big step for Qi State.

This step is right, and in this day and age, there is nothing more precious than food.

Only by preliminarily solving the problem of eating can human beings free their hands, free their minds, and think about things that have nothing to do with survival.

Yang Hao firmly believes that the future will be a beautiful country.

He didn't expect that he could build the Great Qi Kingdom into a society with sufficient materials in later generations, but only hoped that in his lifetime, the people of Qi would feel that it was a lucky thing to live in this world.

When someone asks if they are happy, it is not full of helpless ridicule.

Whether in his past life or in this life, Yang Hao has lived at the bottom of society and understands the helplessness and sadness of the people at the bottom very well.

Now that he has the ability, he naturally doesn't want his subjects to be full of disappointment in the court.

Even though he has been an emperor for more than ten years, he still can't change the essence of his resentment.

Yang Hao hated social injustice.

Although there is no absolute fairness in this world, at least as a ruler, you can make the people feel as fair as possible.

This goal is easier said than it is, but it may be more difficult to achieve than the unification of more than 9 million square kilometers of land.

At the end of October, it has reached the cat winter season in the north, and the southern state capital like Jingzhou has begun to prepare for the sowing of winter wheat, and the four towns in Jiangbei are also preparing vegetables that can be planted in winter.

This season has passed the best solar term for planting rice, even if it is slightly warmer than the Central Plains and the four towns in Jiangbei, but the cold weather is not suitable for the growth of rice.

Fortunately, there are plenty of edible wild vegetables in the south, and a lot of vegetables can be harvested before the spring of the following year.

Although most of these vegetables cannot be transported to the north due to backward transportation conditions, some vegetables that can be pickled and taste good have gradually become one of the indispensable dishes for winter in the Central Plains.