continued to inquire about some trivial matters, and after a while, Zhou Kong returned to the office with Xiao Lianzi and other female pawns majestically, carrying a basket of bloody rhinoceros horns in his hand and entering the room, Bai Liyan didn't know what was in his hand, and asked her curiously:

"What is General Zhou carrying?"

"I went out to hunt some wild boars, but I ran into a group of rhinos, and I killed me and cut off the horns of the rhinos."

"What, rhinoceros!"

Bai Liyan was startled when she heard the news, and hurriedly got up and stepped forward to check Zhou Kong's loot: I saw that there were as many as twenty-five rhino horns in the basket, and Zong Botai did not forget to come forward to congratulate him.

"Rhino horn clears heat and cools blood, and it will detoxify and detoxify, but it is a rare medicine in the world."

Hearing Zong Botai's words, Bai Liyan's eyes suddenly dizzy.

In the material-scarce agrarian society, rhinoceros horn has the effect of curing diseases, and some of the current incurable diseases are largely chronic diseases caused by long-term nutritional deficiencies, and it is reasonable to use animal resources in medicine.

However, with the development of medicine and biotechnology, many animal resources can be replaced, so there is no need to hunt rare animals. Although rhinos are still very common nowadays, there are not many of them.

Because rhinoceros hides are far better than cowhides, rhinoceros hides have always been the superior armor of competing countries, and all countries have armed heavy infantry with culling rhinoceros for tanning.

Thousands of years of uninterrupted hunting and killing have led to a sharp decline in rhinos in the Central Plains, and it is almost impossible to find rhinoceros in Xianguo and Jin Kingdom, and the living environment of rhinoceros has also been compressed to the generation of Changsun, Sun Guo, Liang State, Yan State, and Qiguo State.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Liang Dynasty, the Ji clan took the rhinoceros as the national animal, and since then all countries have no planned large-scale killing of rhinos, but the private killing activities of the powerful are still unavoidable, but in general, the rhinoceros has not been extinct under the rule of the Liang Dynasty is a blessing in misfortune. Based on the intensity of wars and human development activities in recent centuries, rhinos should have become extinct early.

The basket of rhinoceros horns in Zhou Kong's hand was large and small, and most of them were because they met a large family and gave her a full pot. Although the Thyme Swallow is not an animal conservationist, the importance of species diversity is related to the healthy development of the entire ecology, and when the species becomes extinct, it is humans themselves who will ultimately suffer.

"General Zhou, don't take the killing of rhinoceros as an example, and hunt and kill them again if you don't open it."

Zhou Kong was puzzled and a little displeased, threw the basket to the ground, and said unhappily:

"Why, aren't they rhinos?"

"In the early years, rhinoceros was widely distributed to all countries, but rhino skin was the best armor, and hundreds of thousands of years of human killing and indiscriminate hunting made armor, resulting in a sharp decline in rhinos in various countries. Now the rhinoceros of Xianguo and Jin Kingdom is difficult to find in the past hundred years, and the rhinoceros of Zhiguo has become extinct.

From now on, the whole army is not allowed to hunt rhinos, and in the future, the country of Xian must also make laws, and it is not allowed to hunt rhinoceros privately, otherwise it will be a serious crime. ”

When Zhou Kong heard the news, he was about to be convicted, and his face immediately darkened:

"For the sake of a few rhinos, you have to cure my crimes, hum, little lotus seed, let's go!"

"Oh......"

Zhou Kong left angrily, and Bai Liyan was very helpless.

"This woman is really, it doesn't make sense to fight with me if she doesn't let me kill rhinoceros."

At this time, Zong Botai said:

"Vice Marshal, is the rhinoceros really so important?"

Bai Liyan took a deep breath and said slowly:

"Sir may not know that although the world is big and all things are complex, they have their own laws of life and reproduction, and they are by no means inexhaustible. If a man kills too much, sooner or later he will bring harm to himself.

For example, the two counties of Dekang and Ganfu are fertile lands, but before that, there were vast forests and large swampy wetlands, and successive kings cut down forests and filled in ravines and swamps in order to obtain food and grass.

It seems that the land was obtained and the grain was obtained, but in fact, the flooding of the two counties is not because after the trees were cut down, the land lost its strength, and the water was washed into the river, which artificially filled the ravines and silted up the waterways, and then every flood season, these two counties will be flooded.

As a result, after our country took over Ganfu, we had to build embankments on the one hand, and dredge rivers and widen inland rivers on the other, during which countless financial and material resources were consumed, and it was only under the condition of excellent craftsmanship that the flood could be stopped.

Isn't this taking too much from all things, and being eaten by all things in the world, but the predecessors harmed the future generations, and unfortunately it was my turn to spend a lot of effort to rectify it.

The same is true for this rhinoceros, which is not like a pig that can give birth to more than a dozen heads a year, and is inexhaustible after captivity. Rhinoceros breed slowly, making it difficult to raise, and if left unchecked, they will be slaughtered sooner or later. The slaughter of rhinoceros is not harmful in the short term, but if the slaughtered are cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens, ducks, and fish, and people have no meat to eat, it will not harm themselves, and the same is true of the slaughter of rhinoceros. ”

In the early society, there was a lack of material, limited cognition, survival was still unsatisfied, and they didn't care about the demand for nature at all, and modern people's cognition was largely based on the scientific ethics of modern material, if one day food was cut off, who would care about the animal protection law, and who cared about being able to live tomorrow.

Zhou Kong, Zong Botai and even everyone at the moment all think so, in the eyes of everyone today, Bailiyan's can't help but be a little worried, and he is full of nosy.

On the afternoon of December 13, he received a war report forwarded by Lu Gao from Zhao Xun, and Du Ruixun surrendered. This meant that the siege of more than forty days finally ended with the complete surrender of the Eastern Front Guards.

However, it is worth mentioning that Du Ruixun tried to break through many times, but was repelled by Zhao Xun's First Army.

The Xian army was extremely well prepared before the attack, and considering the needs of besieging the city, a large number of barbed wire and iron horses were customized in advance. Surround Du Ruixun with three layers and three outer layers, and nail three-inch-long big iron nails at the four corners of the rejection of horses, no matter day or night, it is impossible for the guards to break through the siege of rejection horses and barbed wire.

Ten days after the siege, the grain and grass in Du Ruixun's camp were exhausted, but it still did not fall, and the morale of the guards further collapsed, and they began to flee and surrender one after another.

At this time, Zhao Xun made a second move according to the plan, and sent Du Ruixun grain and coal for heating on the third day after the guards ran out of food, but this was not to pity the enemy, let alone raise tigers.

Zhao Xunzhi gave grain and coal, nothing else, the battle of Hukou Bay took place in mid to early October, the siege was already mid to late October, and the food was cut off in early November, so the guards were not well prepared for winter clothing, and they would definitely not survive after entering the ninth winter.

And the grain is not flour or rice, it is indica rice, because indica rice can provide the lowest amount of energy.

For the same weight, there is not much difference between the calories of flour and rice, but the weight of flour under the same volume is more than that of rice, and the calorific value of indica rice is less than that of ordinary japonica rice, so the calories of flour food are 1.5 to 2 times that of rice and more than twice that of indica rice in the same volume.

Of course, rice can also be milled into rice flour, but in most cases it is not done.

A large reason for wheat to be milled into powder is that wheat grains are coarse grains, with poor taste, and the consumption of heat and labor when thoroughly cooked or steamed is more than that of rice, and the granular wheat grains are not easy to digest, and the efficiency of energy and nutrient acquisition is low.

Milling into flour improves the taste and reduces the energy required for processing, and is also easy to absorb and digest, which is not the case with rice. Therefore, the combat efficiency of edible flour is often higher than that of the army that eats rice. But if the rice is ground into powder, it needs to consume labor, so the rice flour is not cost-effective.

However, wheat is not the most efficient, the highest should be glutinous rice, which has the highest starch content of most grains. However, its fatal disadvantage is that the yield is small, before scientific improvement, glutinous rice production is less than wheat, and it requires more light and temperature accumulation, so not everywhere can grow rice.

In addition, there is one vital supply to the Guard, and that is salt.

With food and coal alone, at best, you can't freeze or starve, but if there is no salt, hehe, you don't need to be vain and weak for ten days, and after twenty days, you can only lie down and pant, without cotton clothes and salt, what will Du Ruixun do to fight the Xian army.

Of course, Du Ruixun, the kindness of the Xianjun, did not appreciate it at first, and suspected that the Xianjun had poisoned the army and shook the morale of the army. However, by the sixth day of starvation, more than 800 of the guards had starved to death, and with the leaflets constantly thrown by the Xian army, Du Ruixun could no longer restrain the soldiers from frantically grabbing food and coal, so he opened this opening, and the guards were able to continue to survive until the end of November.

However, at the end of the month, due to the lack of salt supplementation, all the guards in the battalion were vain and unable to lie on the ground and pant for breath, and there was no oil or meat for food, and all the soldiers of the guards had dry stomachs and intestines, and had difficulty in defecation, and their stomachs were too strong to endure and their combat strength was exhausted.

In desperation, Du Ruixun sent his escort Wang Xie to negotiate with Zhao Xun for four days before he negotiated the terms of surrender, and finally Du Ruixun was carried out on a stretcher.

Zhao Xun hurriedly asked people to give him saline and glucose, seeing this posture, Du Ruixun really knew what the frog at the bottom of the well was, it turned out that from the beginning, he had failed.

As soon as Du Ruixun fell, the other cities that were still under siege surrendered one after another, and the pressure of the Xian army was linked, and the war in the east ended. After the guards were contacted and armed, targeted ideological and political education was carried out according to the "ingredients."

The political education of the slave army, especially the slaves of the four countries of the West Sea, not only had to rely on lip service, but also on dedication. Then there are ordinary soldiers of the common people's guard, and typical representatives are selected and sent to various places in Ganfu County to visit the people's feelings under the Xianguo, and then compare the people's feelings.

For the aristocratic and authoritarian class of the patriotic country, it is useless to talk to them about personal equality, and directly go to Fengqing, the capital of Ganfu County, to visit and browse, and let them know that Fengqing, a local county capital, is also as prosperous as the capital of the patriotic country.

Finally, when I went to the Tongxiang Pig Iron Plant, which the Wei Army had been trying to get rid of, I had to let them know that the first phase of the project could produce more than 10,000 catties of pig iron a day, which was three or four million catties a year, which was more than the total output of pig iron and steel in the whole country.

In this way, the hundreds of thousands of guards who surrendered will soon be dismantled in the face, propaganda and heart, policy guidance, and public opinion building, and the hundreds of thousands of guards who surrender will soon be dismantled to fight, eliminate the harm of resistance to the greatest extent, and eat and drink three meals a day, no matter whether they finally choose to stay or return to defend the country, they will doubt whether their country is a country from top to bottom, and the more they live, the more they feel that they are not human.