The cooking squad was in the company headquarters, and two soldiers had to go to the company headquarters to fetch each meal, but fortunately, the distance was not too far, and the food was not cold.

Zhu Jiang opened the vat containing vegetables and looked at it, and scolded: "Damn, it's a pig going into the water again, is the food money all shared by the guys in the company, and the pigs have been in the water for five days!" ”

Song Li heard Zhu Jiang say this, and looked at the vegetable bucket, which was actually not bad, it was pork liver soup and fried cabbage with fat intestines, and there was also a braised pork stewed potato. Because Zhujiang is a pig farm, naturally close to the water, there is no other pig to deliver but enough, so the cooking class every day is what pig liver, pig lungs, pig heart, pork belly efforts, the braised pork stewed potatoes is a standard dish. Guangdong has a bumper harvest of sweet potatoes this year, and this kind of thing and corn have not yet become staple foods at the end of the Ming Dynasty, so the people of Guangdong are not interested in this kind of thing with great yield.

However, Guangdong produced so much, except for the use of wine and pig breeding in Guangdong, it was only consumed by troops and homeless people.

When Zhu Jiang was at home, he was clothed and eaten, and he had eaten vulgar food like pork, but when he came to the army, he couldn't help it, because there was nothing else besides these. Zhu Jiang heard Song Li say that there were other meats such as chicken and sea fish in the field troops, but he didn't have that kind of treatment on a pig farm like himself. Only this pig is sold and eaten every day.

Zhu Jiang opened another big bucket again, and frowned again when he saw it, which was full of steamed buns and mashed potatoes. Because there are many people from Henan and Shandong in the army, everyone basically eats steamed buns, but Zhu Jiang was born in Huguang and is really not suitable for noodles. But this can't be helped, if you love to eat or not, if you don't eat it, you don't have it. At the beginning, Zhu Jiang and Company Commander Jiang put forward these suggestions, most of the soldiers in the company were soldiers from Nanzhili, and they were really not suitable for steamed buns, so they asked the company commander to arrange to make a few meals of rice.

How do you know that Jiang Pengju didn't say a word, he directly said those eight words, whether he likes to eat or not, and whether he doesn't eat or not.

Hearing the company commander say this, Zhu Jiang had no choice but to start a steamed bun journey three times a day.

Zhu Jiang looked at these unchanged foods, and had no choice but to take a steamed bun, fill half a bowl of mashed potatoes, and start eating. When the others saw Zhu Jiang moving, they also took out their own utensils and began to eat.

Zhu Jiang endured the meal, watched his subordinates clean up the tableware, Zhu Jiang said to Song Li: "Song Li, do you like to eat this kind of food?" ”

Song Li smiled: "Sir, I couldn't eat this kind of food before, but I was starving outside, it's too normal to not eat for three or two days, let alone meat, my subordinates really want to thank His Majesty Emperor Shenwu, if it weren't for the army to take me in, maybe I would have starved to death like my father and mother!" ”

Zhu Jiang waved his hand to interrupt Song Li's singing of praise, and said in a low voice: "I didn't mean this, you don't want to eat something else?" For example, beef, mutton, or something like that? ”

"Beef? That's against the law! I would like to eat mutton, but there are no sheep in this place! ”

"Stupid, isn't there a cart of oxen in the supply office! They come every three days to collect the pigs, and we can go and steal their cattle and kill them for meat, what do you say? ”

Song Li was scared to death when he heard Zhu Jiang say this, did the cattle in the supply department dare to steal? Not to mention the crime of killing cattle, even the crime of stealing military materials is enough for him to lose his head.

"Platoon commander, don't do it, the military law in our army is extremely strict, stealing cattle is a crime, if it's serious, you have to lose your head, and if you say it's light, you will get a few whips, and the villain will never dare to go!"

Seeing that Song Li disagreed, Zhu Jiang had no choice but to give up. It's not that he doesn't have to want to eat a bite of beef, it's mainly that he wants to do something to attract Zhao Guodong's attention, and it's best for Zhao Guodong to see that he can't support the wall and send himself home. Zhu Jiang has stayed enough in this place, he doesn't want to smell the smell of pig manure when he comes together, and he doesn't want to use pigweed and swill to cook pig food for those humming pigs every day, which is different from the military life he expects in his heart.

Now Zhu Jiang has no ambition to compete with Zhu Hai for the throne, he just wants to return to Guangdong and be his prince of peace.

In fact, it is normal for Zhu Jiang to think so, after all, everyone had a dream when they were young, but how many really realized their dreams? Not all of them gradually recognize themselves when they grow up, and find that they are the same as ordinary people, and then they are slowly rubbed off by life, and then they become one of thousands of ordinary people.

Zhu Jiang is also an ordinary person, when he found that there was a gap between his ideals and reality after his enthusiasm, he began to retreat and wanted to return to his comfortable life. But Zhu Jiang thought so, he forgot that when he stood up and prepared to fight with Zhu Hai, he was not alone, and behind him stood a bunch of people with different goals, these people would definitely not let Zhu Jiang back down, either he would not be the emperor, or he would be banned by Fengyang, and there was no second way to go.

Zhu Jiang saw that Song Li didn't dare to steal cattle, and came up with another plan in his heart.

"Song Li, the food here is really unpalatable, it's better like this, the brothers are okay in the afternoon, how about I take you to Dinghaiwei to play!" Eat something good in town in the evening! ”

Zhoushan belongs to Dinghaiwei, and the guard is a large town of five or six thousand people. Since Li Zhi was stationed here, a large number of Guangdong new troops have come and gone in this place, and these Cantonese Yankees are very rich one by one, so Dinghaiwei has become more and more prosperous here.

Song Li and others came to Zhoushan at different times, but they were all assigned to the pig farm north of Zhoushan as soon as they got off the boat, and they had never been to Dinghaiwei at all. In addition, Jiang Pengju was very strict in governing the army, and they did not dare to go to Dinghai City to play.

Zhu Jiang saw that the ten people hesitated, and then said: "Don't worry, let's go for an afternoon, if there is anything to do, everyone can rest assured!" ”

After Zhu Jiang's repeated persuasion, only four of these people were ready to enter the city with Zhu Jiang, and the other six were afraid of Jiang Pengju and refused to go no matter what they said.

Seeing that there were only four people following him, Zhu Jiang sighed, four people are just four people, Zhu Jiang took people to the city to prepare to make trouble, and only when there are more people can he attract people's attention, only if he goes to make trouble by himself, he will be locked up for a few days.

Zhu Jiang ordered the six people left behind to watch the house, and after some preparation, he took the four people on the road.

Zhu Jiang is naturally not short of money as a prince, Zhu Hongsan treats his son very well, the prince is 36,000 silver dollars a year, in addition to these Zhu Jiang also has several factories in Dongguan, and the annual dividends can also be distributed to tens of thousands of silver dollars, as well as farms outside Guangzhou, there is also an income of several thousand yuan a year. But all this money is managed by Ma Ruyan, because Zhu Jiang has not yet married and is not yet an adult in law, so Zhu Jiang's monthly living expenses are only a pitiful one hundred silver dollars. However, one hundred silver dollars is also a lot, one silver dollar is equivalent to one tael of silver, and one stone of rice in Guangdong is three taels of silver, which means that Zhu Jiang's pocket money for a month can buy more than 30 stones of rice.

So this 100 silver dollars is a lot, even if prices in Guangdong are soaring now, this 100 silver dollars is enough for a family of five to live for half a year.

Zhoushan pig farm is still twenty miles away from Dinghai City, Zhu Jiang and others began to set off after eating, and walked for an hour before arriving at Dinghai City.

Now the army outside Dinghai has gone to Nanzhili, leaving a large number of empty barracks uninhabited, but there is still a battalion of guards left here in Dinghai, after all, although the army has left, but Zhoushan is still a logistics base, and there are still many materials on the island, which must be guarded by the army.

Zhu Jiang is from the big city of Guangzhou, so he naturally doesn't look down on this kind of county-level small city, but the other four people are coming to Dinghai for the first time, and these four guys are very curious.

In recent years, Dinghai City has come here because of a large number of mainland people to escape the war, and tens of thousands of people from the Guangdong New Army are stationed here, Dinghai City is very prosperous, and there are dozens of restaurants and brothels. The streets of the city are lined with shops, selling everything, such as rice from Annam, shark fin from Luzon, fragrant wood from Srivijaya and so on, and several people are dazzled.

Zhu Jiang was curious about everything when he saw the four of them, and scolded with a smile: "You four guys hurry up and keep up, what's so good about this, when I have time, I will take you to Guangzhou, the south city of Guangzhou is called Huahua World, this place is a small fishing village compared to Guangzhou!" ”

Song Li and others knew that Zhu Jiang was born rich and noble, and hurriedly asked Zhu Jiang to promise that he would take a few people to Guangzhou to open his eyes in the future.

Dinghai City is close to the sea and is where the port is located, and it is the most prosperous area in the city. Zhu Jiang looked at a large restaurant in front of him, with three floors, and decided that this was the place.

Song Li saw that he was going to eat in such a luxurious place, and he was a little afraid in his heart, so he pulled Zhu Jiang and asked, "Platoon leader, go to this place?" Isn't it too luxurious? ”

"What is this, my home in Guangzhou is 10,000 times more luxurious than this!"

The other four secretly pouted, not believing it in their hearts. In fact, Zhu Jiangzhen didn't tell nonsense, even if the Guangzhou Temporary Palace didn't invest much money in the construction, it was much better than a restaurant.

When he came to the front, Zhu Jiang saw the plaque "Wanghai Tower", yes, this is it!

There were four guys standing in front of Wanghailou, and they were sent here, and when they saw that Zhu Jiang and the five people were about to come in for dinner, one of them hurriedly came over to greet them.

The guy in the hotel relied on his eyesight, and when the guy saw that Zhu Jiang and the five people were wearing gray and white training uniforms in the army, and there was a faint smell of pig manure on their bodies, he knew that these five guys didn't have much money.

"Wait a minute, five of you are coming for dinner?" Although he looked down on five people, his good professional habits still made the guy smile.

Zhu Jiang nodded: "Yes, a few of us are going to your Wanghai Tower for dinner!" ”

The guy smiled and said, "Five, if you want to eat, go to the restaurant at the first two intersections, three silver dollars you can eat very well, Wanghailou here is not something you can afford!" ”

Zhu Jiang was stunned, what to say at this time, how can there be a restaurant that does not welcome dinner!

"Man, are you afraid we won't give money?"

"This military master, you can't get down without ten silver dollars per table here in Wanghailou, you only have a lot of money a month, so you should listen to the advice and eat enough!"

Damn, Zhu Jiang hasn't met this kind of guy in Guangzhou who looks down on people. Zhu Jiang took out three silver dollars from his arms and handed them to the guy.

"Man, this is for you, arrange a good place for you!"