However, it is a very common situation that the troops with good combat effectiveness must have a good quantity and quality of food, and the troops with poor combat effectiveness must have very miserable food regardless of quality or quantity, and the army of the Central Plains Dynasty is generally in the early stage of its establishment, when the country is peaceful and the people are safe, and when the wind and rain are good, there can be sufficient and even elite troops can issue double rations, and the combat effectiveness is very prominent. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

At the end of the dynasty, when the government was corrupt and there were many famines, the army's food plummeted, and the soldiers had vegetables and could not eat. When you can't pull the bow, you can't walk on the march, you can't put on your armor, you can't swing your sword and spear, and all kinds of things will happen when the enemy army wins more with less, the army is crushed like a mountain, and the dynasty is destroyed.

Therefore, Zheng Guang thinks that the three armies have not moved, grain and grass first, is an iron rule, the same, if you want the army to fight a good war, it is very important to eat a good meal, before the training, Zheng Guang to the Yiwu soldiers prescribed food is three meals, one meal is thin and two dry, drink broth once a day, eat meat every three days, every day to ensure that there is a sufficient amount of salt intake, plus Yiwu local ham provides, such food can also be guaranteed, but after leaving Yiwu to fight, ham is unsustainable, can only eat sauce and salted vegetables.

What's more, the money is not enough, there is not so much money to ensure the food supply of the army, it is a fantasy to have meat at every meal, even if it is a broth once a day, Zheng Guang gritted his teeth and decided, got some ham to cook a lot of soup, mainly vegetables, a little oil, just like that, the funds given by Zhu Su were quickly spent, Zheng Guang himself silently paid the subsidy in his pocket, and also mobilized everyone to hunt and hunt game, which barely survived.

Therefore, even if the new army is established in the future, the only military food that can be guaranteed is flour, water and pickles, which is almost the best configuration, and the soldiers dare not ask for more, they can eat two meals a day to eat enough, but the ancient Chinese are mistaken, non-staple food is also very important, eat vegetables with oil and water and vegetables without oil and water, hunger is completely different, the fastest consumption is food, the slowest, is oil and water, if there is oil and water, there is no need to consume so much food!

Sugar can also increase satiety, oil and water can also increase satiety, enhance the physical strength of soldiers, and delay the appearance of hunger, and these two points are very rare in the ancient army, not to mention oil and water, sugar is a luxury! Who dares to use it for the army, it will go bankrupt in three or two days!

Modern people are full when they eat a bowl of rice and vegetables with oil and water, but in ancient times, they could not be full when they ate three or five bowls of grain. Zheng Guang had learned that there were peanuts in the Ming Dynasty before, but they were very rare, in the southeast coastal area, Zheng Guang had seen it in the market in Suzhou, so he bought a lot of it and fried it to eat, and this time it was also brought to Beijing, and it was well received by a group of foodies.

It is that the yield is too scarce, almost no one planted, rape flowers are the same, high-yield rape flowers should be introduced from abroad after the establishment of New China, China has rape flowers, but the yield is very low, there is no large-scale planting at present, most of the earliest are planted in the northwest, Sichuan also has part, has not been promoted to the Central Plains and Jiangnan, and even many people do not know that the vegetables can also get oil, they feel that the oil is squeezed out of the meat, and the gold is expensive!

It seems that in the future, it is necessary not only to write a letter to propose the reform of military rations, but also to reform the status quo of oil products, vigorously promote peanuts and rape flowers, greatly increase the output of oil, increase the proportion of non-staple foods in the people's diet, reduce the dependence of the Ming Dynasty on grain, and then prepare for the Northern Expedition to Mongolia.

In this way, Zheng Guang began to tinker with new military rations, such as salt and noodles, baking a thick flatbread, then cutting it in the middle, coating it with sauce, putting some vegetables on it, and then closing it, rolling it up, stuffing it into a bag, and carrying it with him, it feels good, and it is also shelf-stable, ensuring the intake of salt, and it tastes better than baked dry and crispy cakes, at least it won't feel so dry, and it won't be too hard when it's cold.

When Zheng Guang was eating, Xu Pang came when he smelled the smell, and saw Zheng Guang holding a flatbread and gnawing on it, with an apron wrapped around him, and there were many traces of cooking, and his eyes suddenly widened: "You really cook and eat?!" ”

Zheng Guang looked at Xu Pang indifferently, swallowed the big cake in his mouth, took a sip of soup, and said slowly: "Why not?" Is the gentleman far away from cooking? ”

Xu Pang shook his head: "I don't care about this, but some people do, if you show it to some people who are in charge of etiquette, you will be beaten, just play with it in private, a dignified scholar actually cooks, do you know why it is called a kitchen and not a kitchen?" Isn't it because this thing is ninth-rate?! ”

Zheng Guang rolled another portion of the finished flatbread and handed it to Xu Fat: "Taste it." ”

Xu Pang sniffed it, smelled it, looked at it, the surface was shiny, tasted it, it was soft and delicious, salty and fresh, quite delicious, and couldn't help but light up his eyes, and asked, "How did you do it?" I really can't see that there is not only a hobby, but also real materials, not just cooking cooked food? ”

Zheng Guang nodded and said: "That's it, man, you have to know a little bit of everything, you can't just read, what's the difference between that and a waster?" A lot of things are not as easy as words, you have to do it yourself, like you know what I'm doing this for? You think I'm looking for scolding? I was thinking about improving the existing military rations, so that the soldiers could eat better and increase their combat effectiveness. ”

Xu Fat's mouth stopped biting the flatbread, stunned for a while, then looked at the flatbread that was being eaten by himself, and then looked at Zheng Guang, and after a while, he swallowed the flatbread and asked in disbelief: "Military rations?" Are you going to give this to the soldiers? Are you mistaken? There's oil on it! Oil! What a thing in the flesh! What a precious thing! You want the emperor to sell the whole of Beijing for money to get you military rations! ”

Zheng Guang glanced at Xu Pang, held a peanut in his hand, and showed it to Xu Pang: "Look clearly, the oil is made from this peanut, who told you that the oil must be from the meat to get it?" Let me tell you, it's not just peanuts, in the northwest region, there is also a plant called rape flower, whose flower seeds can also be used for oil! ”

Xu Pang snatched the peanut with one hand, looked at it, and said in surprise: "This is not what you got for us, that, what kind of fried peanuts is that?" I still remember, it's delicious, it's fragrant and crispy, here, there's oil? ”

Zheng Guang said proudly: "Who made you so lazy when you were in Suzhou, when I tossed these peanuts in the kitchen and backyard, you were always sleeping, and I opened up a piece of land in my backyard to try to grow these peanuts, you still don't know, right?" Don't you think it's strange that I got you this to eat? ”

Xu Pang was shocked and said, "How do you know?" The things that grow in this field can be used to extract oil, and I have heard of sesame oil and cottonseed oil, and the sesame oil is so expensive that the cottonseed oil cannot be eaten yet, so it can only be used to light the lamp! ”

Zheng Guang said with a smile: "This is the Franco machine merchant I met in the Suzhou market sold to me, at that time he said to me, this thing can be squeezed out of oil, I still don't believe it, I think it is, squeezed out of it is the same as cottonseed oil can not be eaten, but he said that this thing can be eaten, the oil squeezed out is also very fragrant, but not many people know." ”

Xu Pang was surprised: "Have you tried?" Squeezed out? Can you eat it? ”

Zheng Guang nodded: "Yes, what you eat is a flatbread made of peanut oil, the flatbread baked with oil is softer, not easy to harden, and fragrant and delicious, plus the sauce is more delicious, and it is also anti-hunger, Wen Chang, have you noticed?" When we eat, we all have to eat vegetables, and there is oil and water in the vegetables, so we eat one bowl of rice and two bowls of rice, and we are full, but the farmers in the fields have no oil and water to eat, so they can only eat grain, and as a result, four or five bowls of rice are not full, and they are hungry fast! ”

Xu Pang blinked and asked tentatively, "Do you think it's the reason for the oil and water?" ”

Zheng Guang nodded and said: "I tried it for my tenants, and I found two families, and the family only ate two bowls of rice and salted vegetables, and the family ate two bowls of rice and the same green leafy vegetables fried in oil, and they all ate them all, and guess what?" As soon as he finished eating, the man who had no oil and water said that his stomach was still empty, and the children were shouting that he was not full, and the lady who had the smallest amount of food also said that he felt not full.

And the family that ate the oil and water, the man said that he could still eat one bowl, but he thought it was amazing, he could eat six bowls of the small bowl like that before, and now he is full after three bowls, and the child and the wife of the family said that he was full; Then the two families went to work in the field, which one did not eat oil and water, about half an hour, the man stopped, covered his stomach and said that he really couldn't stand it, he was too hungry, the one who ate oil and water, worked for more than an hour and a half, almost at noon, came out, said that he was hungry, he felt amazing, two or three bowls of rice can last so long, you say, why is this? ”

Xu Pang's eyes lit up, staring at the big cake in his hand and looking at it constantly, and then asked excitedly, "This is the peanut oil you use?" ”