Chapter 575: Let him sober up
The striker is very hard, opening roads in the mountains, building bridges in the water, and paving roads by the way. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info This process is also harassed from time to time, although there are light cavalry forward to explore the way and guard, but these paving soldiers, will still encounter the enemy. Like today, they encountered enemy horsemen lurking in the middle of nowhere.
The soldiers were as easy as training, and they easily harvested hundreds of heads, and they attacked the enemy with great momentum, holding their heads and running away. Their calm four-wheeled vehicles formed a circle, all of which were tilted inward. In this way, it is convenient for them to untie the harness and put it on.
For such a car formation, the enemy had a headache when attacking, and the horses could not jump, and the Tang soldiers were still hiding behind the tall carriages, desperately firing their guns. Today, though, they have a solution. They wanted to take the carriage away.
It is to use a rope to lasso the car and then force the vehicle away. This is indeed a feasible way, if they succeed in towing away one or two vehicles, it is equivalent to breaking a gap in a circular formation, and then the Tang army will not even have a place to run.
It's just that when they endured huge casualties and charged to the front of the Don army, their hopes were completely shattered. It doesn't work at all. Many people who managed to win the rope were immediately killed by the fire. They didn't give up, one died after another, desperately trying to tear open a gap.
Probably it was their heroic fighting behavior, feeling the heavens, and finally, several cavalrymen, trying not to be shot, trying to start pulling, just...
Why can't it be pulled? They exert all their strength to get out of the milk, they pull desperately, they pull desperately, they pull hard, they can't pull. They had to pull desperately, and more and more people came to pull, and they saw that the carriage moved, but they moved a little, and then they couldn't pull it anymore.
Don't give up, more and more people leaned over, desperately trying to pull, wanting to pull. It's a pity that this time, God didn't bless them anymore, and when the number of people gathered to a certain extent, more than a dozen black balls were thrown out, and the place where the pulling car was taken care of, and the three balls flew towards here.
Then, there is no then. The whole army was defeated, and the warriors who pulled the cart died so much that they couldn't die anymore, but they couldn't figure it out before they died, why couldn't they pull it?
"These stupid pigs, the wheels of the carriage are strung with chains, how are you going to pull them?" , Team Zheng shook his head, looking compassionate, but was shot, "Team Zheng, you are really bad enough, deliberately leave them hope, let's not beat them, leave them hope, and finally send him on the road, tsk, this black heart."
"Shut up." , the intentions were exposed, and the team did not blush, and defended loudly, "I'm just worried that they will run out, and I deliberately leave some hope for them, and I want to kill a few more." , the Tang army had a four-wheeled carriage, a carriage and a horse workshop, and the wheels were all trained with iron chains, how could they be pulled.
This is the standard tactics of the Tang army's vehicle warfare, pay attention to the point, and dig trenches outside, so it is even more solid, Mo said that there are about six times as many people as many as today, about three hundred people, and then double, six hundred people, and I am not afraid of it anymore.
"Less nonsense, hurry up and clean up the battlefield, we still have progress to catch." After the team finished arguing loudly, they began to urge them to clean up the battlefield and complete today's progress, and they were in a hurry.
Easily won a large amount of loot, as well as military merits, everyone was very happy, these trophies, according to the regulations, they can get a lot, which is also the benefit of the striker. No good, who will.
This regulation had been in place for a long time in the Tang Army before, and this was also the motivation for the earliest Tang Army soldiers to participate in the war. However, with the corruption of military discipline, this rule gradually disappeared, and there was not necessarily a life left behind when it was distributed, and there would even be officers who maliciously asked soldiers to be sent to death in order to embezzle property. Li Chen is now restrictive in military discipline, so naturally he will not allow this kind of thing to happen.
After cleaning the battlefield, they began to eat lunch, for convenience, the carriage was not untied, everyone left a watch, and everyone began to eat lunch.
"It's such a cold day, you still drink beer, and the more you drink, the colder it gets." "I just like the smell." "Dead drunkard, your little money has been used to buy wine, and it will be up to you to support your family in the future." "Don't be afraid, when I retire, I'm going to go to the brewery, and I'll drink all-you-can-drink beer every day, and I will have a monthly salary."
Beer, this kind of wine was also introduced by Li Chen. Since its introduction, this wine has become more and more popular in Datang, and it has sold very well in both winter and summer. A can of cold beer in the summer, a spicy hot pot in the winter, or a cold beer in the hot springs.
The difference between beer and the traditional liquor of the Tang Dynasty is that this kind of wine cannot be stored for a long time, there are a lot of bubbles, which is carbon dioxide, when it is drunk into the human body, it will be excreted by the human skin, and by the way, it will take away the heat, and it will feel very cool. Therefore, it is also known as ice wine and sparkling wine.
At present, the scale of Datang Royal Brewery is getting bigger and bigger, no matter where it is, there is the shadow of Datang Royal Brewery, and the profits brought by it are getting higher and higher, and the profits that can be brought every year are gradually catching up with the trend of overtaking the liquor tax.
Countless people want to know the secret of beer brewing, but unfortunately the Royal Brewery is very secretive. Countless people wanted to find out the secret to win people, but they all returned in vain.
Some people wonder if it is because of the hops factor that this sparkling wine can be brewed. Some people also speculate that whether or not to use wheat is actually only a little related.
Li Chen introduced hops and began to plant them in Datang, which are currently in the contract production mode, and all of them have been purchased by Royal Brewery. So some people speculate that it is because of the hops that there is beer.
Indeed, beer would not have that unique taste without hops. Even, the international definition of beer is to ferment with malt, add hops to brew, and contain carbon dioxide to obtain alcohol.
Brewing beer doesn't have to be hops, though. Hops are mainly used to add flavor and sterilize. Li Chen also tried to brew beer without hops, which is also quite popular. It has little to do with hops, it has nothing to do with malt, and all starch crops can be used to brew beer. Because it doesn't have much to do with it, everyone guessed wrong.
In fact, it's not that no one hasn't imitated sparkling wine, but none of them are very popular. They have this technology because the Chinese tradition has the technology to brew beer. It's just that they are missing a little step, which leads to the gradual obsolescence of this brewing technology.
Ancient Chinese beer, called liquor. It still existed until the Western Han Dynasty, but it was slowly eliminated, and by the Tang Dynasty, this wine had disappeared. Because of this wine, the alcohol content is relatively low.
Originally, liquor and general liquor were soaked in water with grains and fermented after germination, but later it was discovered that the brewed rice could be fermented together, so that the degree of brewed wine would be relatively high, so the brewing technology of using steamed grains and koji to make wine eliminated the brewing technology of beer. Now it has been found back by Li Chen, and it has become another money-making weapon for the royal family.
The difference between traditional liquor and modern beer is the grinding technique. Beer is made by grinding the grains after they are sprouted, but the traditional liquor was originally developed because the grains were moldy, and it was discovered that they could be turned into liquor. However, the lack of grinding process leads to the brewing of wine, which is not enough.
In modern beer making, this process is called glycation. It's not that no one has discovered this process, but no one in the world has thought that it can be used to make wine, but to make sugar. Remember? Maltose Tang Dynasty name, this kind of barley, or wheat, glutinous rice made of dessert, after the New Year to the elderly to eat, try the teeth, brown, soft, will stick to the teeth to get sugar.
Now there are fewer people who do this, because Li Chen vigorously planted sugarcane, and the sugar production increased greatly, and this sugar was too good at sticking to the teeth, and it was gradually eliminated. This kind of sugar is a technology developed by the ancients from liquor. Probably the ancients did not expect that winemaking relied on sugar or starch. I didn't think that this technique could also make bars.
There are still records of this aspect of Tiangong Kaiwu, that is, the liquor is thin and has been eliminated. Is modern beer low in proof? In fact, it can also reach 37 degrees, which is the best degree for beer to drink. And the liquor brewed by the ancients seems to be only four or five degrees, no wonder it was eliminated.
"Ignore him, it's such a cold day, you need to have a fire, come and eat something special today." , the soldier in charge of cooking today, took the potatoes out of the charcoal fire.
This crop, after several years of cultivation, has been rolled out in Datang. Potatoes in the north, sweet potatoes in the south. Regarded as a sacred relic by the farmers, the yield is too high without him. At the beginning, the American expedition was instructed by Li Chen to bring back pumpkins, potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, peppers and other crops no matter what.
It is important that there can be a little less, but the first four should be as many as possible. As long as the first four food crops were brought back, even if they came back empty-handed, the voyage would be considered a success.
The expedition also lived up to his expectations, bringing back many original creatures from the Americas, and many more. After several years of promotion, this crop became popular in Datang. The yield per mu is 1,000 pounds, not a joke.
Sweet potatoes and potatoes are not as productive as their descendants, but they are also amazing, with a yield of 1,000 catties per mu. There is also a mixed planting technique of corn, pumpkin and carob, which is not much inferior to the first two, and a thousand catties are not a problem. All of a sudden, Datang's grain crop output soared.
Li Chen's prestige was unmatched for a while, because at the beginning, Li Chen insisted on tightening his purse, and he also had to send a fleet of ships and dispatch personnel according to the unknown map. After a few years to no avail, the matter of planning to send a second one was reported by Suncheon Daily.
When they first saw this high-yield crop, all the farmers wept bitterly, crying silently, not sad, but happy. It's an ideal crop that is so high-yielding, doesn't pick the ground, and is drought tolerant. In the traditional concept of farmers, drought-tolerant crops, such as corn, do not have high yields. To be productive, you need to irrigate.
However, sweet potatoes and sweet potatoes, even if cultivated in dry farming, yields are higher than those obtained by planting traditional crops with irrigation. It's a godsend. Even the ministers who had seen it at the beginning were all excited, claiming that with this thing, Datang could be guaranteed for 10,000 years.
And Li Chen's original persistence is now also a legend. However, the people were not excited, because many people had long known that Li Chen was the ruler of the heavens and the stars, and he would rule the heavens in the future, becoming the Jade Emperor in the heavens, and governing heaven and the underworld.
If you haven't forgotten how Li Chen made Taoism so successful before, you won't be surprised. And since it is a star descending to earth, there are naturally some miracles. Therefore, they only affirmed the Taoist sayings, which also led to the spread of Taoism more rapidly and the rule of the Tang Dynasty more stable.
However, all this was not without a discordant voice, Li Chen was so angry that he asked the guards to throw an official into the river, "Let him sober up."
In the early spring, although the weather began to get warmer, the water was still very cold, and the officials who were thrown down also fluttered loudly and said, "The minister is not guilty, the minister thinks about everything for the Tang Dynasty, and the minister is not guilty." , fluttered a few times, I don't know if he had no strength, or if he wanted to die to make a reputation, he slowly sank into the river, and Li Chen asked the guards to salvage him.
"Confused, stupid and useless, go read more books, you go and become a school scholar." After the hair fell, Li Chen snorted coldly and left, the man was still unwilling, and argued loudly, "Today's sage does not accept the advice of the minister, the Tang Dynasty is in danger, the sage..." What else does he have to say, Li Chen has already gone away.
Li Chen was very unhappy, and finally went to Beijing, and when he encountered this kind of person who didn't know whether to invite a name, or if he was so confused that he was unconscious, he was really in a bad mood. I heard that he is still a famous Qing official, but I don't know if this reputation is hyped.
The reason for this is that high-yielding crops have to be promoted. This history of assassination, in the book, is really shocking, as if it is not done according to his words, the Tang Dynasty will die.
The main content of his recital is to say that the grain is cheap and hurts the peasants, this kind of crop is too high-yielding, because it is fresh, the market is still digesting, if the planting is promoted in the future, it will cause the grain price to collapse, and the most hurt is the common people.
When the time comes, the people will not be able to afford to pay taxes or even eat, and then it will cause national turmoil and social unrest.
Li Chen has already refuted his recital twice, and said more for the first time, saying that he should think more, observe more, and don't rush to conclusions. As a result, the second time he wrote again, the wording was more intense than the first time, and the content of the chapter pointed out that Li Chen was a faint monarch, and this kind of crop was promoted, and the Tang Dynasty would be in danger of losing the country. At that time, Li Chen will not only be a faint king, but also a dead king.
Li Chen was very unhappy, for the first time, in order not to discourage his enthusiasm, let him think about it, I didn't expect that this time the old tune was repeated, and it was so ugly, what did you think? This time, Li Chen didn't care, and directly gave the piece to his son and took it to the paper airplane.
Later, he seemed to have written a few more times, and Li Chen instructed that if he still repeated the same old tune, he would directly dismiss the matter and save him trouble. As a result, he didn't expect that when he came to Taiyuan Mansion, he encountered such a play, blocking the road and shouting grievances, and blocking the bridge, and the family blocked the bridge deck, stating that Li Chen had to take over his recital, otherwise he would die here.
Not only did he die himself, but he also had to die with his whole family. And Li Chen took a look at the chapter, skipped the nonsense, the content was still the same, Li Chen asked people to throw him into the water, and finally demoted him to be a school scrivener.