"Lord Chun, did you find a problem?" Wei Renshi said to Li Chun.

"What's the problem?" Li Chun asked.

"The soldiers of the Shence Army are basically strong and look mighty, but the soldiers of the Sixteen Guards are very weak." Wei Renshi said: "Even the 1,100 people selected from the Jin Wuwei are much thinner than the soldiers in the Shence Army below. ”

Li Chun picked up the telescope and looked down again, then put down the telescope, nodded, and said, "That's true." The soldiers in the Shence army are much stronger, and they all look powerful. ”

"The Shence army has sufficient food and salary, and if they are well fed, they will naturally be physically strong." Wei Renshi said again: "The soldiers of the Sixteen Guards are not as good as the Shence Army, and they can't eat enough, so they are naturally weak. The body is weak, so even if you train them, your body can't bear it. ”

Wei Renshi sighed: "A soldier is a person who fights, just like a blade in the hands of the imperial court. If the blade is not sharp enough, not hard enough, how can it kill the enemy? For the soldiers of the Sixteen Guards to become the ones who make up the blade, they must be strong and strong and physically strong in order to become a hard and sharp blade. That's why it's especially important to be well-fed. The soldiers of the Shence Army are generally stronger than the soldiers of the Sixteen Guards, to a large extent, because the food and salary of the Shence Army are more adequate than those of the Sixteen Guards, and they can eat well. If you can eat enough, people will not be weak and powerless, this is the foundation of the army! ”

Everyone fell silent for a moment.

The Shence Army is now the most effective army under the direct control of the Tang Dynasty, and it is the Tang Court's reliance.

And the Sixteen Guards now have no name.

Therefore, the equipment and food are naturally distributed by the Divine Army.

The food and pay were sufficient, the soldiers were well fed, and they were naturally physically strong, and they were able to adapt to some more intense training.

But the sixteen guards were not good, the food was insufficient, the soldiers did not have enough to eat, their physical functions were weakened, and they were not strong enough. This thousand-and-a-one person, because he was specially selected from the Jin Wuwei, is still in better health - the Jin Wuwei is responsible for patrolling Chang'an, and he usually plays a useful role, so the food and salary are more adequate than the others in the sixteen guards. And this one thousand and one hundred people were specially selected from the sixteen guards, and they must have been picked out even better.

But even so, the body of this thousand-and-a-hundred-person person was not as strong as the body of the soldiers in the Divine Ce Army. It's not one person or two, it's universal.

It is even more conceivable that the other soldiers of the Sixteen Guards are gone.

But there is no way around it. The imperial court has limited resources, and it will definitely tilt towards a more advantageous army.

The food and salary of the 16 guards were insufficient, and the soldiers were not strong enough to eat enough and could not keep up with their nutrition, so their bodies could not adapt to this kind of high-intensity training.

That's a big question.

If you want the Sixteen Guards to rise again, you must make the combat effectiveness of the Sixteen Guards at least equal to that of the Shence Army.

But the physical gap is not something that can be recovered in a day and a half.

In order for a soldier's combat effectiveness to rise and maintain it, physical strength is the most basic. And if you want the soldiers to be physically strong, you must at least let them eat enough and ensure nutrition.

But today's Datang is no longer the prosperous era of "Xiaoyi still hiding ten thousand families" before.

Food was limited, and it was impossible to guarantee that all the troops of the imperial court would be able to feed and pay enough.

The food in the Tang Dynasty was insufficient, and the feudal towns in various regions were only intercepted by themselves, and the ones in the hands of the imperial court were even more limited.

The court needs food!

That's a worrying thing.

Now that the high-yielding crops are still on the other side of the ocean, there is really no way to do it.

Suddenly, Wei Renshi had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and remembered that when he was in the previous dynasty, he heard that the Annan Protector of Fuya drove Wang Jiyuan to observe Pei Tai and cause Pei Tai to rebel, and Tai fled to Zhu Yuan. The next day, Zhao Yun beheaded Wang Jiyuan and his party, and welcomed Pei Tai back.

When I heard the news, I didn't react at all. Just when I heard Annan, I thought about where Annan was in the afterlife. So I also remembered two thoughts, one is a Vietnamese monkey, and the other is Lin Yi country.

The area of Annam Protectorate is Vietnam in later generations, and it is also the Linyi Kingdom and surrounding places in the early Tang Dynasty.

And when it comes to Linyi Kingdom, another name comes to mind - Zhancheng Rice.

The yield is high, and it can be harvested three or even four times a year in the tropics and subtropics, and even in the north, it can be harvested twice a year and once a year.

It seems to have been introduced in the Song Dynasty, and then popularized, in conjunction with late rice, so that rice increased significantly income.

Champa Rice ......

Wei Renshi knows where the high-yield grain crops are, but the key is that he can't go now.

Most of the main food crops in later generations were imported from South America, such as potatoes, corn, sweet potatoes, and so on, and no ship can now discover the New World.

The most likely thing to find is Champa rice.

If Champa rice can be found from Annam, and then large-scale development of Lingnan, Ryukyu and other places that can make Champa rice grow three times a year, led by the imperial court and forcibly promoted, it may greatly alleviate the dilemma of food shortage in the Tang Dynasty.

If Champa rice can be popularized in Datang and Datang can increase its rice income, then the food problem can be alleviated, and the Sixteen Wei Xing may be able to have sufficient food and wages.

"The lack of food in the hands of the imperial court was given to the army as food, and the soldiers had no food, and the first problem was that they could not eat enough, which led to a weak body and a reduction in combat effectiveness, even if they practiced, it was difficult to bear. The second problem is that it seriously reduces the enthusiasm of the officers and men, that is, it lowers the morale of the soldiers and weakens the morale of the troops. With such a team, there is no way to balance the Shence Army. Wei Renshi said to Li Chun.

"I have food in my hands, and I don't panic in my heart." Li Chun also sighed: "I naturally know this truth." Just ......"

"Lord Chun, have you ever heard of a rice seed, the name is Zhancheng Rice." Wei Renshi turned his head and asked.

"Champa rice?" Li Chun shook his head and said, "I haven't heard of it, I've only heard of Lucheng rice, which is the best in rice." ”

Everyone was also curious, so they asked, "Brother Renshi, what kind of rice is this Zhancheng rice?" ”

"It's also the best in the rice...... Wei Renshi said: "Under the Protectorate of Annan, there is the Kingdom of Huan, which is the former Linyi. There is a rice variety here called Champa rice. This rice seed can be harvested three to four times a year in the local area. ”

"Huh? Three crops a year? Everyone obviously didn't believe it, Li Chun smiled and said: "This must be just a rumor, Brother Renshi should not think that I don't know about farming." Is there any grain in the world that can be ripened three or four times a year? If so, then the people of the world would not have to suffer from the famine, and we would not have to lack food. ”