Chapter Fifty-Seven: Wild Vegetables

"General." Cao Zongyu said: "I have no opinion on the timing and rationing of grain, but I think that grain distribution needs to be divided into grades. I think there must be no problem with the food supply for thousands of soldiers, as the first gear, and the strong men who can work are divided into the second gear, and the old people who cannot work are divided into the third gear. ”

Zhang Xuan was silent for a while and said, "Okay." ”

Of course, Zhang Xuan knew what was his foundation, not the hearts of the people in Linying, but his subordinates, who could only hold three thousand subordinates in his hands. What will happen in the future, and the capital to make a comeback. And for the sake of the food problem, the treatment of the soldiers was reduced. If the soldiers mutinied. Zhang Xuan's head is about to move.

In fact, Zhang Xuan also knew that others were a little self-deceptive, after all, his old subordinates couldn't lower their food standards. It will not achieve the purpose of saving food at all.

"Brother Zhang, Third Brother Zhang, organize the people of the whole city, specific to everyone, can you do it?" Zhang Xuan asked.

The purpose of any policy is good, but if you want to see the final result, you must see whether it can be implemented. Zhang Xuan didn't have so many talents at hand, he could only rely on the Zhang family, if there was no help from the Zhang family, any method proposed by Zhang Xuan would be a dead letter, there were more than 20,000 people in Linying City, and Zhang Xuan couldn't let him manage them one by one.

"The people in the city, each with their own armor, just need to fill it according to the system, but the people outside the city, each to protect the chaos, want to sort it out, but it is not an easy thing." Zhang Zhen said.

If Zhang Xuan had just come to the Ming Dynasty, he wouldn't have understood what Zhang Zhen was saying, but after such a long time of fighting, Zhang Xuan knew a lot about the basic regime of the Ming Dynasty, so he could understand what Zhang Zhen meant.

Emperor Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty was a control freak, and he weaved an extremely fine net for the Ming Dynasty, which could control every common person in the Ming Dynasty, and this net was the Yellow Book.

However, with the decline of the Ming Dynasty, the early Ming Dynasty regarded as the most important yellow book, but also fell into the point of unsustainability, first, is the compilation of the yellow book, is very manpower and material resources, not to mention, you can understand the yellow book system, is today's household register, but to be in quadruplicate, I, the county government, the province, the central government each leave a point, change every year, but the Ming so many population, revised every ten years. All taxes and servants are paid from here. At that time, there was no Internet, so you can imagine what a huge project it was, when Taizu and Chengzu were there, it was okay, and there was a strong monarch to suppress it. However, as soon as this kind of powerful monarch is gone, the repair of the Yellow Book will be declining, and under the accumulation of many drawbacks, the Yellow Book has long been unusable, and it does not match the actual situation. The county officials in various places privately made a set, known as the white book, which is actually the private account of the government. However, there is still a surplus of the Lijia system in the city, and it is very simple that when the county was established, it was determined that a certain place was a certain place, as if in the city, a certain area was the family home of a certain factory, although the population is no longer clear, and the people who live in it may not be the family members of a certain unit. But the house is here, as long as you rearrange the armor according to the address, you can still get it out.

But outside the county seat, it's different.

Speaking of outside the city, there is one thing that has to be mentioned, that is, the township covenant. Armor protection.

The armor protection system can be said to have a long history, when Wang Anshi changed the law, it was the armor protection law, but in the rise of the Ming Dynasty armor protection system, or after the collapse of the Yellow Book Lijia system, on the one hand, it is the need for government management to fill the vacancy in the Lijia system. On the other hand, it is also the gentry in various places who are bigger, because there is a township covenant first, and then there is a baojia, and some local governments have more power, and the chief is still sent by the government, but in many places, the chief is hereditary to the patriarch of a certain big family.

The key point of the painting is that the grassroots power organs of the Ming Dynasty have transitioned from the Lijia system to the Baojia system, which also shows that the Ming Dynasty has transformed from a strong government that cares nothing to a weak government that can not manage anything.

The above is just a background introduction.

Zhang Xuan thought for a while and said, "Wu Laiqing." ”

"The subordinates are here." Wu Laiqing said with some apprehension. Many of the hungry people outside the city followed the Wu brothers.

Zhang Xuan said: "I appoint you as Linying Qianhu, and assign all the hungry people outside the city to you to manage, and within a few days, I will see the roster of Linying Qianhu." In the future, the distribution of food will be according to the roster. Remember? ”

"Subordinates obey." Wu Laiqing said.

Zhang Xuan also saw that the two Wu Laiqing brothers were not illiterate.

As long as you are literate, Zhang Xuan's only requirement for his subordinates.

Zhang Xuan held a whole morning meeting with his subordinates, and finally arranged everything. There was another panic in Linying City. The Zhang brothers led the people of the Zhang family to find some children who had a difficult life to serve the rebels. And began to tidy up the whole city, and after hearing this, the grain was sent according to this, and the whole city cooperated very much. The Wu brothers were also placed in the northwest of the city, in the Wanshou Palace, and in the city guard camp, and the Wu brothers were also working hard to compile a roster for all the people.

In the county government, Zhang Xuan faced a table of meals, but he had a feeling that he couldn't eat.

The dish is not too good, but it is homely, one fried garlic sprouts, and the other is marinated horse meat. Such dishes were just common in later generations, but they were indeed extremely extravagant in this era.

"What's wrong?" Luo Yujiao said cautiously: "Why is it not appetizing?" ”

"No?" Zhang Xuan could also see that this was cooked by Luo Yujiao. Luo Yujiao followed her father and wandered around, and she didn't learn what these ancient women had to learn at all, and she was good at riding a bow and horse. Now for Zhang Xuan's sake, he is willing to learn cooking again, and Zhang Xuan is only moved in his heart. But when I think of the hunger outside. Zhang Xuan couldn't help but say: "If there are people starving to death every day on the land of Henan, let's eat these again, it's not appropriate." ”

"It's already easy?" Luo Yujiao said: "I came here to inquire, Linying garlic is also a specialty, this horse meat, or a month ago, in the battle of Xiangcheng, the war horse that was killed, I was reluctant to eat it to leave it to you." ”

"I know hello to the lady, but," Zhang Xuan said, "I really can't eat, and now the food in the army is not enough to feed all the people in the city." I'll save a little tomorrow, and you can go to the camp with me to eat." ”

What is the food in the camp, it is not enough to manage the porridge.

"Okay." Luo Yujiao said: "I know that my husband is kind-hearted. Okay, I promised to come down, since there is a shortage of food and grass in the army, I will go outside with Aunt Tian to get more wild vegetables, this is the season, and if it is a little later, there will be no wild vegetables. ”

It is now the middle of the tenth month of the lunar calendar. The field is already a mix of yellow and green. Some of the plants and trees are withered and yellowed. But there are still some plants and trees that still hold on to the green, but they won't last long.

When Zhang Xuan heard the wild vegetables, he suddenly remembered something, and said, "Yes, there are still wild vegetables?" He immediately got up. Just get ready to go out.

Luo Yujiao said, "What are you going to do?" ”

Zhang Xuan said: "Send people to pick wild vegetables in the field. ”

Luo Yujiao couldn't help laughing and said: "Zhang Lang is ten fingers that don't touch the spring water, and you still need to be reminded of this matter." I dare say that the food in the camp is definitely porridge with wild vegetables, and there are many wild vegetables and little food. ”

Zhang Xuan suddenly felt relieved, without him, when he calculated the grain data, he never included the data of wild vegetables. Even in order to stabilize the morale of the army, he did not even tell others how many days the food could be supported. Now that he suddenly added the variable of wild vegetables, maybe his food is not so tight.

Anyway, Zhang Xuan still has the wild vegetables in his heart, and he doesn't know how many wild vegetables there are in the ground at this time. This is related to the rations of tens of thousands of people, and Zhang Xuan can't afford not to value it.

"Anyway?" Luo Yujiao said: "Eat the rice first, now the food is expensive, and it can't be wasted." ”

When Zhang Xuan heard this, he immediately sat down and finished the meal. immediately said a word to Luo Yujiao, and immediately went out, he first found the Wu brothers, and then found licorice. Discuss how to collect as many wild herbs as possible for the people of the city to spend the winter.