Chapter 34: Fishing and Hunting
(crying for collection, recommendation!) )
After the battle, Qin Dong's team rested in place for three days, he was not in a hurry, and it was not safe to hurry to Saidika, others had the courage to raid him in the hinterland of the Xiongnu Empire, let alone in the border city of Saidika.
Qin Dong's transformation and influence on this team is very great, he stipulates that both men and women must take a bath every three days, change clothes every three days, and the wounded must change their clothes frequently, except for the elderly and children, because the physique of the elderly and children is relatively weak, and it is still very cold in March of this era, and it is easy to get sick, but it is also necessary to wash every five days, and once a day after the hot weather.
In addition, the water that everyone drinks must be boiled in advance before drinking, and people in this era do not know that raw water contains a large number of disease-causing microorganisms, so they often suffer from abdominal pain and diarrhea because of drinking raw water, and even plagues break out when they are strict, especially in the army, and now when they are fighting, both sides almost do not bury their bodies, which often causes plagues to rage. Last year (452 AD), Attila led his troops to attack the region of Inner Gaul, until the army came to the city of Rome, why did he retreat so willingly, could it be that Pope Leo I was really eloquent and persuaded Attila? It is not excluded that Leo I did have this talent, but the main reason was not Leo I's persuasion, but because the plague had spread very badly in Attila's army, and a large number of soldiers were attrition because of non-combat situations, and there was another reason, the reinforcements from the Eastern Roman Empire arrived, so after Leo I brought a lot of gold persuasion, Attila had to go down the slope and receive Leo I's compensation and lead the troops back home.
Qin Dong originally only had more than 300 people plus his family, but now there are more than 300 people who have surrendered, there are nearly 600 people, and there are more than 500 adults, which causes the food to be insufficient, originally the food they brought from the royal court is enough for more than 300 men, women and children to rush to Saidika, but now the number of people is more than doubled, and the food is obviously not enough, which has brought Qin Dong a lot of trouble, you must know that this is a wilderness, where to get food?
The food of nomadic people like the Xiongnu was not all meat and dairy products, but also some of the food was wheat and millet grain, which was exchanged with the Eastern and Western Roman Empires through guò, basically with cattle, sheep and furs and other things in exchange with the merchants of the Roman Empire, of course, if there was money, you could also buy it from the merchants of the Roman Empire. Moreover, since the establishment of the Xiongnu royal court in the Hungarian plain, the Xiongnu also cultivated some wheat and millet in small quantities, not all meat and dairy products, if they really eat all meat, no matter how many cattle and sheep will be eaten.
When the deputy Agoura reported the lack of food to Qin Dong, Qin Dong had no good way for a while, the Roman Empire and the Xiongnu Empire had a special trading city on the border, which was mainly a trading market specially set up by the Roman Empire in order to prevent the Huns from going south to plunder when they had nothing to eat, but their current location here is too far away from those border trading cities, and the water cannot quench their thirst.
After Agoura left, Qin Dong was alone in the big tent to figure out a way, and Liu San walked in with a plate of mutton, a few pastries and mare's milk wine, "Young master, it's time for lunch!" ”
"Oh, you can leave it there first!" Qin Dong waved his hand, his brows furrowed. This food problem is definitely not a trivial matter, and if it cannot fill its stomach, the army will collapse.
Seeing Qin Dong's sad face, Liu San couldn't help but ask, "Young Master, what's wrong with you?" You should be happy to have won a big battle! ”
Qin Dong poured a glass of mare's milk wine and drank it in one sip, and sighed: "Of course I am happy to win the battle, but there are many people who are also annoying, there is not enough food to eat, although it is still early to run out of food, but I can't help but find a way to solve this problem in advance, is it true that when there is no food, all the cattle and sheep will be killed and eaten?" These are all the capital of our start, and we can't move it! ”
After hearing this, Liu San patted his thigh and smiled: "Young master, dare you to worry about this?" You don't have to worry about it, leave it to me, and I promise you have enough food to keep them hungry!" ”
When Qin Dong heard this, he looked at Liu San suspiciously and said, "Uncle Liu, this is not a joke, what can you do to get food?" ”
Liu San smiled and said: "Young master, you forgot that it is now March, and it is April, this field is full of animals looking for food, and we are in the river, we can fish, just weave a few nets, weaving nets and fishing, I am an expert, when I was in my hometown, I learned to fish with my father since I was a child, are you still afraid of not eating?" Besides, we can also dig up wild vegetables, which can also solve some of the problems, and you can rest assured, we will definitely not go hungry! ”
After hearing this, Qin Dong couldn't help but pat his head, and secretly said why he didn't expect it, the number of his subordinates is not large, only a few hundred, and he doesn't have to buy bulk grain, so many people can take the hunting and fishing and digging wild vegetables to survive the famine, and immediately said with great joy: "Uncle Liu, this matter is left to you, you go to Agula and ask him to cooperate with you, find some old people and women, you teach them to weave nets and fish, and let Su He send some cavalry to hunt nearby, all hares and other things, stock up some food and we will go on the road, Rest for three more days, and be sure to catch some fish and catch some prey within three days! ”
Liu San said happily: "Okay, young master, I'm going now, you hurry up and eat!" ”
After the order was issued, the camp began to get busy, Liu San organized a part of the old people and women who had nothing to do, and weaved fishing nets in this era, generally using hemp rope fiber items, or old clothes and torn clothes, cut into thin strips and then kneaded into ropes and weaved, and there were no extra clothes in the camp, only animal skins, sheepskins and cowhides, and it was too heavy to weave fishing nets with these skins, so Liu San took some people to the nearby woods to peel some bark and come back to take its fibers and dry them and weave them into fishing nets, because there were many people, Under Liu San's guidance, more than a dozen nets were woven in one day.
The next day, hundreds of people were dispatched to the camp to fish by the river, the Huns were nomads, and they only knew how to herd horses and sheep, when did they fish? This is very new, so many people follow the river to see the excitement and see how Liu San led his old people's team and women's team to fish.
At the beginning, the fishing team was rusty, and the results were not large, only a dozen catties of fish were caught in the morning, but in the afternoon the results were expanded, and more than 200 catties of fish were carried into the camp.
For dinner in the evening, everyone was given a large grilled fish, and everyone was very happy, many people here have never eaten fish in their lives, and the first time they ate fish, it felt so delicious.
Roasting is the most primitive means of human planing food, Europeans in this period are basically using this method to make zuò food, such as bread, but this method makes the nutrient utilization rate of food is not high, Qin Dong eats barbecue every day, baked dough is almost tired of eating, so these barbarians were taught to use frying and boiling methods, these methods of making zuò food made the Huns very surprised, the original food can still do this.
In this era, Europe did not use iron pots, basically used clay pots, because they did not use stir-frying, iron pots did not appear, their food only used baked, whether it was bread or meat, they were roasted, in addition to boiling soup, eating vegetables on raw wild vegetables, at most put in the soup to cook it, the bread of this period was not as soft as later generations, hard and strong, it needed to be broken and then put in the soup to stir into a batter before eating, otherwise it was difficult to swallow, so soup has always been very important in the European diet, and continued to later generations.
Qin Dong has eaten fish for the first time since he came to this era, and it is boiled fish, it is very delicious, eating a mouthful of meat and drinking a mouthful of fish soup, it is really delicious. There is also cooked horse meat, which is not tasty, too coarse, and has a sour taste, and there are too few ingredients, and the fishy smell is too strong.