Chapter 41: Difficulty

Cheng Chumo was stunned, and remembered the bits and pieces of getting along with Li Shen these days, it seemed that it was such a thing for a while, and everything was basically arranged for Su Dingfang and Qin Huaiyu, he didn't seem to have done anything these days, and he bragged with Li Chongyi all day long, how could he compare with Li Chongyi and them? He is a real military general, and he can handle many important matters in the army.

Cheng Chumo looked at Qin Huaiyu with a sad face, and said, "Brother Huaiyu, what can I do now?" Why didn't you tell me sooner? ”

"Told you in advance? I want to know in advance, I'm not also suspicious, I always feel that something is wrong, so many geniuses have finally been determined, this will not tell you. ”

"What now?"

"Cold salad, you ask me, who do I ask? Who makes you half-hearted. ”

"When did I get half-hearted? It's not all my father who asked me to do it, and besides, I won't do anything to be sorry for my brother. ”

"said that he wouldn't do anything to be sorry for Brother Qian, the key is that Brother Qiange knows? He didn't know what the use of saying more? ”

Cheng Chumo lowered his head and whispered, "I ask you what to do now?" What's the use of all this? ”

"I don't know, but it's actually ......"

"Actually, what?" Looking at Qin Huaiyu, who was silent, Cheng Chumo continued a little anxiously: "You said it!" ”

"Actually, it's just my guess, maybe Brother Qian, he doesn't." Qin Huaiyu said lightly.

"How is that possible? In the past, Brother Qiange asked me to do everything, but these days, you see that I have never been asked to do something. Cheng Chu said helplessly, and continued: "Actually, I didn't do anything to be sorry for him, my heart is still towards him, I know that it is better to follow him than to follow others, at least for such a long time, he is not bad to us." ”

Qin Huaiyu nodded, stretched out his hand and patted Cheng Chumo's shoulder, and said, "Tie Niu, maybe I'm thinking too much, it's really better to find a suitable opportunity to talk to Brother Qian, it's better than letting him miss you alone... This one is much better. ”

Cheng Chumo nodded and said, "Now it's the only way to go." ”

"Commander, many soldiers have fainted." Su Dingfang frowned, looked at Li Shen and walked over, and said hurriedly.

Li Shen frowned slightly, and sighed in a low voice, the conditions are really bad, and he doesn't have the slightest way, he is a little too anxious to go on the expedition, otherwise he can do some commonly used daily medicines, and now he doesn't have the slightest way, and said, "What about the military doctor?" Let the military doctor take a look and prescribe some prescriptions to cool the heat. ”

"Marshal, where are the medicinal materials left for our march to now, and there are only a few medicinal materials left for the treatment of knife wounds, and the supplies behind it can't keep up at all now, not that they can't keep up, but they have been completely cut off, and the food can barely last for twelve days at most." Su Dingfang said with a helpless wry smile.

The army went straight into the hinterland, how could the grain and grass supplies behind keep up, all of them were in Goryeo along the way, and they didn't dare to transport it!

Li Shen was a little helpless when he heard this, the consumption of these 120,000 people a day was too great, so he paused slightly, looked at the honeysuckle all over the mountains, smiled, and said: "Yes, arrange some people to collect honeysuckle, boil some boiling water, put some salt in it, and cook it for the soldiers to drink." ”

It's really a bunch of quacks, this mountain is full of medicinal herbs, they don't know how to get it, but wait for the arrival of the supply team behind, it seems that the army that has been rescued on the battlefield should also be set up this time, Li Shen thought in his heart.

Since the march all the way, Li Shen has seen too much, there are too many disadvantages of the officers and soldiers in the army, and in this way, the army is currently the most powerful army in the world, and he does not dare to imagine what the armies of other countries are like, and the most unbearable thing for him is hygiene, which is really bad, habitual open defecation, it can be said that there is and urine all the way all the way.

"Salt?" Su Dingfang looked at Li Shen a little strangely.

Although there is no shortage of salt in the Tang Dynasty now, it is also a valuable thing, marching and fighting in the army, that is, when fighting, let the soldiers eat a little salt to save their physical strength, how can they be willing to use this thing at other times, and more than 100,000 troops, how much salt do you have to use in a day? No matter how bad the salt is, it will reach 100 wen per catty, even the imperial court is difficult to support the soldiers to eat salt every day, generally speaking, the soldiers in the army will eat it every once in a while, or use salt as a reward for the soldiers.

The price of salt was not lowered until the middle of the Tang Dynasty, when the system of on-the-spot monopoly (official sales at the official end of the sale) was implemented.

The prosperity of Zhenguan is just hyped up, and it is in the hands of Li Zhi to create a prosperous era in the Tang Dynasty.

Even if it is about to enter the last years of Zhenguan now, but the treasury income of Datang in a year is only more than 30 million guan, what can more than 30 million guan do? The salary of the official, His Majesty Li Er has to swing up every year during the New Year, and reward some of those who come from Fanbang to congratulate, in addition, from the establishment of the Tang Dynasty to the present, this battle has never stopped, and these all need money.

It's like building a palace, how many years, if Li Shen hadn't given him the money for handmade soap, he didn't know when Ma Yue would have been able to build it, so the treasury of the Tang Dynasty was basically empty every year, and occasionally owed the soldiers a reward, these are common things.

There is such an incident in Li Shen's impression, which happened two years ago, when Hou Junji destroyed Gaochang and embezzled one million yuan, he was played by His Majesty Li Er, although he didn't know what to say, but he could see with his own eyes the helplessness of His Majesty Li Er and Hou Junji at that time, and finally the matter was over.

One million is not a small amount, it can be said that it can directly take Hou Junji's life, why can't it be done, it is not because Hou Junji is not corrupt at all, but all the rewards that are owed to the soldiers in exchange for their lives, this is just something that happened two years ago, it can be seen that Datang is really poor.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Li Shen asked suspiciously.

"Dashuai, you are a nobleman, it's normal not to know, where is there so much salt for the soldiers to eat."

Li Shen paused slightly, looking at Su Dingfang in disbelief, in his impression, it seemed that no one had ever said that he could not afford to eat salt, although the salt was indeed rougher, but it was not so bad that he could not afford to eat it, and said: "Let's laugh, how can you stand it without salt." ”

"Vinegar cloth."

"Vinegar cloth? What is this thing? Li Shen asked.

"It's cloth, soaked in vinegar and salt, and it comes out as a vinegar cloth, generally speaking, we call it salt cloth, and it's more convenient to carry, and there are not many vinegar cloths and salt in the army, so the end will arrange for people to pick honeysuckle."