I had long heard that the life of the rich family in the Tang Dynasty was extremely luxurious, but when he heard that there were people who were responsible for cutting green onions and carving tofu, Qin Ze was still a little surprised.

On the other side, Yuan Yuzi was also a little flustered when he saw that his identity was revealed. If you can't join this team, won't you be sent to the government, and then it will be miserable. But he was honest and stupid, he didn't know what to say, he just looked at Qin Ze with a bitter and pitiful face.

Seeing Yuan Yuzi's expression, Qin Ze was also a little funny. Maybe in the eyes of others, his craft is useless at all, but in Qin Ze's opinion, this craft is really useful to him.

So he also stretched out his hand and patted Yuan Yuzi on the shoulder, and said seriously: "I am born to be useful, you will follow the gang, and I will think about how to arrange you in the future." ”

"Really?" Yuan Yuzi suddenly smiled, his two hands were tightly clenched together, this look that made people laugh was really a waste of his bald fierce image.

His appearance naturally made everyone laugh, but after laughing, they all fell silent.

Now they don't have much food, but now that they have joined so many people, their consumption has increased greatly, and according to this trend, their food will only be enough for two days at most. It was far from supporting them to go to Lingzhou.

Qin Ze also saw the thoughts of these soldiers, so he simply pulled Wu San over and asked him about the situation in Lingtai County.

Cheng Huailiang originally led a group of soldiers to count the spoils of war on the side, but it was just some tatters, not to mention dividends, and this little thing was not enough for everyone to eat a mouthful of food.

It also got bigger and bigger, and in the end, Cheng Huailiang really couldn't go on, glared coldly at Wu San over there, and then walked over.

That Wu San was still responsibly explaining the situation in Lingtai County to Qin Ze, but he looked at Cheng Huailiang coldly, and when he arrived, he felt chills all over his body, and hurriedly saluted Cheng Huailiang.

Qin Ze naturally knew what was wrong with Cheng Huailiang, and he didn't sleep all night this time. Study the terrain and arrange your own tactics, and in the end it didn't work, and you didn't get anything, where did you let him live in his heart.

Wu San over there also wanted to cry without tears, not to mention that he was robbed as a robber, and he was even disliked by others, which was enough to make him sad.

"Forget it, come with me to Lingtai County tomorrow, go to the county order and talk to the county order, just give us some grain." Qin Ze was also about to cry when he saw Wu San, so he patted Cheng Huailiang and asked him not to hold on to the other party anymore.

Cheng Huailiang glared at Wu San again, then glanced at Qin Ze, and said with a sigh: "This year's drought and locust plague, from Weibei to Lingnan, all suffered here. In particular, the Kannai area was severely affected. This Longzhou itself is arid, except for a few places where the Longjiang River and other rivers pass through, the rest of the place is desert.

In previous years, it was also used as a military granary, but do you know what is the most grain here? Cheng Huailiang sighed again when he said this, and he also looked bitter and hateful.

Qin Ze really didn't know this, he was originally a southerner and lived in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. I am really not too familiar with the place of Weibei, and now the place where they are located is the place where Shaanxi and Inner Mongolia meet. Drought is natural, but I haven't really thought about it.

Now when he heard Cheng Huailiang say this, he remembered that he seemed to have walked all the way, and he really didn't see that there were many fields, and most areas were also covered with shallow grass.

"And what's planted here?" Qin Ze was also a little unable to sit still, these days the soldiers had finally eaten up the locust powder, and their hatred for themselves had also decreased. I have been comforting them, saying that there will be delicious food in Lingtai County, but now it seems that something is going to happen!

"It's all soybeans and sorghum." Cheng Huailiang also said everything at this time. And this is also the reason why he is so active in encircling and suppressing robbers, because he knows that even if he goes to Lingtai County, he can only get these things.

In fact, the status of soybeans has always been very embarrassing, and after this thing is cooked, there is a protease in it that the human body cannot digest. Therefore, after eating, people will have a swollen stomach, and then they will keep passing gas. So this thing is either made into tofu or fed to horses.

However, making tofu is time-consuming and laborious, so it is naturally not suitable for the army. So if it is really used as military rations, it is estimated that there will be problems with the air of this team.

Although sorghum can also be eaten as food, everyone who has eaten it knows that it is much worse than wheat in terms of texture and taste. And there is not much energy, it is a kind of coarse grain.

As the record of sorghum in the "Tang Dynasty" says: "It is planted in the Weibei area, and it is used by cattle and horses, and it is used as a grain preparation for disasters." ”

What does that mean? In other words, it is generally used to feed livestock such as cattle and horses, and it is only eaten in disaster years when there is really nothing to eat.

And as soon as he heard that there were only these things, Qin Ze was also a little stunned. He looked at Wu San on the side, and the other party also nodded. That's what they planted on that mountain, but after thinking about it, they said, "Lord Lieutenant, but there are still people who grow wheat." ”

"Hmph, what if you take their wheat and let them eat soybeans and sorghum for a year?"

Just because he didn't get anything from this encirclement and suppression, Cheng Huailiang's attitude towards Wu San was very bad. Even he himself wanted to go up and kick twice, but since Qin Ze had left them behind, he naturally wouldn't be rude anymore. It's just that this is a verbal ......

"That's it, that's it. Let's go to the meeting tomorrow with the prefectural magistrate. Seeing Cheng Huailiang's increasingly unkind expression, Qin Ze also hurriedly waved his hand and let Wu San retreat.

When Wu Sanyi left, Cheng Huailiang looked at Qin Ze with a bitter and hateful expression. stared at it like this without speaking, which made Qin Ze himself a little embarrassed.

"What do you think of me like that?" Qin Ze pushed Cheng Huailiang and said jokingly.

"My father told me before I came out. Let me hear from you, at first I didn't understand what he meant, but now that I look at our team, I understand a little bit. From the beginning of the loose, to the current discipline. You did get all their motivation out there, and both the flag and the perfect logistics were impeccable.

For this team, the combat effectiveness has definitely increased by more than three percent. But you are not consuming them quickly, and once one day you cannot satisfy their desires, there is nothing left to motivate them. When the time comes, where will this team still have combat effectiveness? ”

Speaking of this, Cheng Huailiang looked at the veterans lying on the ground on the side, these people were holding vouchers one by one, and their greatest happiness was to be able to count this every day. Then he planned to build a few tiled houses for his family after he went back, and marry his own bastard to marry a daughter-in-law......

And with the accumulation of these certificates, their appetite is getting bigger and bigger, and Cheng Huailiang is really afraid that one day he will not be able to satisfy the appetite of these people.

Qin Ze also followed Cheng Huailiang's gaze and looked at the guys who were happy to count the money. But he was unhappy for a while, last time he took out all his savings in order to let Liu Lankou and them go home beautifully, not to mention, and owed Zheng the shopkeeper forty copper coins. That's why he's the thankless one.

"Do you think I'm going to train them to be real killers on the battlefield?" A smile appeared on the corner of Qin Ze's mouth, he did have this idea at first, but as time went by, he found that these people had completely ossified. Instead of spending a lot of time training them, it's better to start with new recruits.

Cheng Huailiang on the side was also stunned when he heard Qin Ze's words, frowned and asked in a low voice, "Then what do you mean by this?" Although they may not be of great use in the future, their combat effectiveness is definitely good for now, don't you want them to be the victims of the charge? ”

There is no word cannon fodder now, otherwise Cheng Huailiang would definitely say this. However, Qin Zeke never had this plan, he was like pulling out the seedlings to help him grow, this time was the time when these people were the strongest, so they naturally had to cherish it.

The reason why he vigorously cultivated these people was also to leave seeds for the Tang Dynasty's army. Although these people's blood will subside, their experience will not subside. Whether it is the various formations or the coordination between the teams, it is a great asset.

Qin Ze's time was limited, so he planned to train these people to become his own preachers. Then they brought a series of Qin Ze's ideas to various armies.

A spark can start a prairie fire!

But now is not the time, everything is still in the embryonic stage, Qin Ze still has to do a lot of practice in order to find the best way.

told Cheng Huailiang all his thoughts, which dispelled his doubts. The two discussed together again about entering Lingtai County tomorrow, and then he patted his ass and left.

Although Cheng Huailiang was satisfied, Qin Ze was still full of thoughts. The gunpowder shells handed over to the master of the ordnance supervisor still did not have the slightest idea, and the main thing was that the lead of the flame was really a troublesome matter.

If the lead is not good, this thing will not blow up if it is thrown out of ten or nine, then what is the use. In Qin Ze's impression, the lead of the later generations seems to be made of gunpowder, but now there is no such technology, so he can only think of another way.

Now the idea of the Ordnance Superintendent is to wrap the gunpowder with twine as a lead, but the twine is extremely easy to extinguish. If you light it and throw it out, it is estimated that it will be extinguished as soon as the wind blows.

And Qin Ze knows that cotton thread can do it, but the key is that there is no cotton thread here. Although the cotton thing in the Tang Dynasty already exists, it is now called white stacks, and it is still regarded as an ornamental plant.

Only the dignitaries and nobles in Chang'an will raise some, in this remote Weibei, where can he go to find it? So for a while, the research on this powder bomb also reached an impasse.

However, he had already sent someone to find Wang Fu at the back of the line, thinking that he might be able to get some from him.

After carefully calculating everything, when he found that there was nothing missing, Qin Ze went back to the camp to rest, after all, he had to go to Lingtai County tomorrow, if he encountered the same situation as Fangwu County, it would take a lot of effort.