After setting the guidelines and strategies for solving the problem of prisoners, Dong Shouye began to consider the issue of rewarding the whole army.

On the battlefield, what is important is that rewards and punishments are clear, meritorious deeds must be rewarded, and mistakes must be punished. Only in this way can the soldiers return to their hearts and the military discipline be strict. Now that the whole army has won a great victory and defeated the opponent, the reward must be put on the agenda, otherwise the soldiers below will have complaints.

The first is the pension for the fallen soldiers, the soldiers threw their heads on the battlefield and spilled their blood, and they couldn't just die in vain after they died in battle, Dong Shouye gave compensation to all the dead soldiers in accordance with the normal standards in the army. In this way, other soldiers can have no worries, and they can fight bravely on the battlefield.

After the bereavement of the fallen soldiers was processed, the reward of the soldiers of the whole army began. Dong Shouye took out a part of the seized money to reward the officers and men of the whole army. The soldiers are fighting to the death just for some money, after all, no one wants to make a loss-making deal.

In this battle, more than 2,000 batches of war horses were killed on both sides, and Dong Shouye ordered these dead war horses to be collected as a supplement to military rations.

At this time, the general weight of war horses is about 800 catties, and after slaughtering, about 400 catties to 500 catties of horse meat can be obtained, and the meat yield is between 50 and 60 percent.

Horse meat is tender and has a relatively low fat content, which has a unique flavor and rich nutritional value.

However, horses are so precious that ordinary people really can't afford to eat them. And many people think that horse meat is poisonous, Li Shizhen once recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Those who eat horse meat poisoning can be solved by drinking reed juice and eating almonds." "The horse's entrails or something, it's really not to be eaten, throw them all away.

Dong Shouye was ready to take his soldiers to sit on a horse meat hot pot.

So I asked people to find some ginger, pick a lot of mushrooms, and then prepare a lot of vegetables or something, and then put the horse bones in the marching stove and boiled the horse bones into soup.

Wash the horse meat and cut it into palm-sized square pieces, put it in a large pot and boil, cook for about 15 minutes, take it out and let it cool, and slice it.

After the soup stock made by adding various ingredients to the horse bones, the big guys gathered around a military stove, ate hot pot, put horse meat, vegetables, mushrooms, etc. into the pot, and after cooking, let go of the belly and eat it!

How did the Han Dynasty soil buns see this way of eating, they were all amazed. At first, it was a little squirming, but after tasting the sweetness later, it was all gobbling up.

The generals under Dong Shouye were also attracted by this unprecedented way of eating, all of them were elated, dancing, eating happily, eating horse meat in their mouths, and praising Dong Shouye's good ideas.

However, characters like Jia Xu, Zhang Ji, and Du Ji, who are similar to civil officials, are unwilling to bend their sleeves like other soldiers, and let go of their bellies to eat when they walk next to the cauldron.

After all, they are all so-called Sven people, who have received formal Confucian education, pay attention to the right and wrong, do not speak, do not ignore the incivility, and implement it in terms of eating, even if they want to kill them, they will not give up the persistence and pride they have always had in their hearts, go around the cauldron, eat without scruples, and let the grease and stains drip on their long shirts.

However, Dong Shouye also had a way, found a few carpenters in the army, and then made a round table.

Dong Shouye's father was a carpenter before he crossed, and he also knew how to make a round table, and several carpenters in the army were also good at craftsmanship, and the army often needed to make some things and use carpenters, so a set of tools and guys were also very complete. Dong Shouye asked the carpenters to make a hole in the middle of the round table and put it on the military stove, and then set up the tent.

In this way, the old scholars were slightly relieved when they saw the table, but they were still a little slow and refused to sit down.

When Jia Xu saw this strange thing in front of him, he asked, "Childe, what is this?" ”

Dong Shouye looked at a few people around him, including Jia Xu, Xu Huang, Zhang Liao, Zhang Ji, Du Ji, Dian Wei, Xu Rong and himself, exactly eight people, so he said: "There are exactly eight people here, this thing is called the Eight Immortals Table!" Let's put on the gods for a while today. ”

Xu Huang asked, "Marshal, why do we want to become immortals?" ”

Dong Shouye smiled and said, "Big brother doesn't know, let's use this table later, eating fragrant horse meat, wouldn't it be happy like a fairy!" After saying that, several people who had already eaten horse meat chimed in.

Jia Xu, Zhang Ji, and Du Ji saw the unfinished look of the others, and they began to speculate, is this horse meat really so delicious?

Dong Shouye and a few people persuaded him, and the three of them finally agreed to sit down and eat horse meat with everyone, since there is a table, then they can't continue to kneel, Dong Shouye has also been prepared, and when he made a table in the morning, he made more than a dozen Maza.

The practice of Mazha is very simple, two small wooden frames are forked together, riveted with rivets in the middle, and then a wooden board is placed on it, which is simple to manufacture, easy to disassemble, and carryable, which is one of the necessary items for home travel and marching operations.

One by one, after the distribution of Maza, Dong Shouye took the lead in sitting up, at this time it was the first time that the Han Dynasty people under the leadership of Dong Shouye ate at a round table, which was relatively rare, and I didn't know how to sit down.

Because it was the first time, there was nothing to pay attention to, Dong Shouye took Mazha and sat down, just sitting in the main seat facing north and south, under the request of Dong Shouye, Jia Xu and Xu Rong sat on the left and right sides of Dong Shouye respectively, Jia Xu was on the left, and Xu Rong was on the right.

Originally, this was all casual sitting, nothing particular, but later after the round table became popular, the distribution of this time became a kind of benchmark, and it was tacitly accepted that Dong Shouye's position was the main seat, the upper seat, and Jia Xu and Xu Rong's seats were secondary. After that, it gradually evolved into a custom.

After everyone sat down, Dong Shouye said loudly: "This time, we gathered together for a separate banquet, and we have to have an explanation. ”

Everyone didn't know what to say, so there was an explanation for how to eat! Is it a feast without a good feast? No, I haven't made any mistakes lately, and I've always been very good!

Dong Shouye saw that everyone was looking at him with a puzzled look, so he continued: "Since we are enjoying horse meat today, and we have set up a cauldron here, and there is a fire under the cauldron, it is better to call it 'Horse Meat Hot Pot Banquet'!" What do you think? ”

Jia Xu touched his goatee and said: "The title of hot pot is also very appropriate, the idea of the son is wild, and it is difficult for ordinary people to reach it!" ”