"Old Song," Long Qian called out to Song Jinguo, "the management of your big canteen must be improved." ”

For Long Qian's endless new terms, Song Jinguo, like other backbones, was used to it, and understood that Long Qian was dissatisfied with the food in the big house.

Except for the small room set up next to the infirmary, there is currently only one large room in the whole army responsible for three meals a day, including more than 100 captive soldiers, and in many places due to food shortages to maintain the ancient two-meal system, the captive soldiers are also given the treatment of three meals a day, Song Jinguo, the chief logistics officer, has an opinion, if it were not for Long Qian to open up a trade route and constantly buy back grain from the mountain to replenish, the original inventory would have been exhausted long ago. Therefore, Long Qian raised the issue of the quality of food in Dahuofang, but Lao Song disagreed.

"Captain," Lao Song is one of the few people in the cottage who sticks to Long Qian's old name, which also shows his relationship with Long Qian, "Let's just have this little belongings, you let me make a rice cook, I can't do it." ”

"I can't say that it's a rice cook. Didn't Chi Chunxian and Jiang Yun continue to purchase according to your requirements? Long Qian motioned for Song Jinguo to sit down, "The troops have a lot of training, and the physical strength of the soldiers must be able to keep up." It's not just a matter of having a full stomach. I think you have too few dishes, too few variety, and too little quantity, and besides, the staple food can at least add some variety. It's not like it's a nest head and cornmeal flatbread every day, right? ”

"Everyone wants to eat white bread, but there is so much wheat, how can you eat bread all at once? Even the landlord under the mountain can't do it. As for the dishes, you go and ask everyone, now you eat meat for two days in three days, and you have bought twelve fat pigs alone, and you have eaten two horses. ”

Song Jinguo felt aggrieved, these days, his main energy is this big kitchen. According to Long Qian's proposal, a few small plots of land were opened in the spring and some vegetables were planted, and now these vegetables have been eaten. But because there was a small kitchen for the sick and wounded, the food in the big kitchen was really poor. Some injured and sick people who could have been "discharged" pretended to be sick and did not want to leave because they coveted food from the kitchen.

"You, you're really a little rich," Long Qian glanced at him, "I'll tell you, even a small canteen, there are many things that need to be improved." The army's food is a major issue involving the stability of the army's morale and the enhancement of its combat effectiveness, and it is absolutely impossible to save money and trouble. If you have to use your brains, you must also improve the level of your firehead army, you can't just watch the skills of the combat soldiers improve day by day, but you have been standing still here. In this way, I will transfer Sun Juan and Zhang Hongcao to help you, and the brothers are practicing vigorously during this time, and the nutrition must keep up. ”

"I don't think the captives should have been fed so well." Old Song was sullen, "You don't know how expensive firewood and rice are if you don't belong to your family." ”

"Recently, there are captives willing to join the army, I heard?"

"That's nature. How nice are we to them? Don't beat or scold, and the food is still full. Grandma's, not only is she full, but even the owner of the cottage is stirring spoons with them! How can there be such an army in the world? If it were me, I would also like to join our Mengshan Army! ”

"But we don't pay salaries, as far as I know, Yuan Shikai's new army never owes salaries. Moreover, we claim to be an army, and in the eyes of the court, we are thieves. Those captives, why are they willing to join us? Have you thought about it? ”

"Fuck, they lost the battle, they became our prisoners, and if they didn't kill them, they had already burned Gao Xiang for eight lifetimes. Still want military pay? Commander, you haven't paid a penny yet. ”

"Old Song, to tell you the truth, I have been staring at those people for a long time, let's not beat or scold them, don't abuse them, just let them do some work, just hope that they themselves will propose to join our Mengshan Army. I don't value the 100 centaurs, someone has already raised the same opinion as you, in short, I think I'm too soft-hearted. But you don't understand the meaning. ”

"Commander, you think far, I don't understand. I'm thinking about helping you take care of the stall of eating and drinking__"

"It's not easy. Especially after our team has expanded. Long Qian squinted his eyes and looked at the sun overhead, the sun of late spring was shining on his body, he had already felt the breath of summer, the mountains were verdant, it was the best season of the year, "Old Song, you have to understand, running a canteen is a big logistics issue." It's not just a matter of feeding everyone, it's a science. You have to think carefully about how to save money and make everyone eat well, eat clean and comfortable, and how to solve the problem of separating canteens in the future when the army expands. Now it's just three or four hundred people who are messing around, and they can't finish a meal for half an hour, so how can it be done? In case we enter the battlefield, the enemy allows us to spend so much time eating? Look at the messy, dirty, and too many places to tidy up in the cafeteria. You'll have to give me a good look at it. ”

"The cottage is just that little belongings. Moreover, there are fewer people__"

"Hehe, you old Song," Long Qian smiled, "It's not a problem of lack of manpower, it's a management problem." You've got five guys now, how many more do you want? Well? ”

"Originally, you said that you would set up a room according to the company."

"Yes, that's going to be the way it will be done. The company is the most basic unit. But not now, there are only fifty or sixty people in each company, and there is no need. In the future, you will be the head of the logistics department and the head of the logistics department, and you will be in charge of the whole army's grain, straw, medical and transportation affairs, and there are many things to do and great power. You have to use your brains, summarize a few rules for the canteen, and help each company run its own canteen in the future. Got it? ”

"I think it's a little unbearable now__ everyone is always complaining."

"If the food isn't of high quality, you can't blame people for complaining, can you?"

"It's easy to eat well, but it costs money."

"You know that it's right to save money, and in the future, when we have a better life, we also need an old picker like you to manage money. I never blame you for saving, but you have to spend what you deserve. Those oil, salt, sauce and vinegar are necessary to improve the quality of meals, and the cottage itself does not produce it, so it has to be bought, and it cannot save money. ”

"Buy at a high price, lose to death__"

"If you don't buy it at a high price, what else can you do? Robbing? The surrounding big households may not have much salt in store. The salt should be sufficient, and the vegetables should be sufficient, isn't it arranged for the lightly injured to pick wild vegetables? There are wild vegetables all over the mountains, why not add a few dishes for Lu? It is the staple food, you also have to increase the variety and patterns, northerners eat a lot of noodles, just pasta can make more than 100 kinds, how can you be a kind of big cake? Order a recipe so that everyone knows in advance what to eat at noon and what to eat at night. Got it? ”

"Need a recipe? We're not opening a restaurant."

"Hey, you old pick. Ever heard of it? If you want to keep a man's heart, you must keep his stomach. Be sure to use your brains to make everyone's food well. In the future, the food of our Mengshan Army will surpass that of restaurants. In addition, Long Qian looked at no one around, "You just need to know the way, we can't keep trapping the cottage." Let's train our soldiers to a certain level, and we will go out of the mountain! So, don't pity your noodles, it's enough for a month, let's train elite soldiers, it's not to trap Mengshan, I'm not Sun Dewang. ”

"Oh, then I'm relieved." Song Jinguo summed it up in his heart, and with the current inventory, there is no problem with eating it with an open belly for a month.

"You go to Sun Juan and Zhang Hongcao now, and say that I want them to go to the big room to help for a few days. Show me your hand in the evening. ”

"Done."

"The main thing is to clean up the house. Recently, I have started to formulate regulations that will also be included in the management of the house. ”

In the evening, everyone ate hot noodles. The salt is enough, and the wild vegetables are fried because of the lot of oil, and they are also fragrant. Due to the sudden increase in everyone's appetite, the room was blinded all of a sudden, and the meal was twice as long as usual.

Long Qian left Lao Song and Sun Juan, Zhang Hongcao and others who came to help.

"Yes, the delicious food is the greatest reward for you. Sister Sun, there are fewer and fewer things in the small cafeteria, so you two can come over and help for the time being. The first is to help Lao Song add more variety to the staple food, and the second is to do a good job in the hygiene of the big canteen. Look at your canteen, I said it was a pigsty, and some people believed it. It has to be like a small canteen, clean and spotless. ”

"Cheng, the commander loves everyone, and we will do what the commander orders. It's just that there is a shortage of seasoning, and I hope the commander will send someone to buy some back, the more the better. Sun Juan replied crisply.

"We're in tough conditions right now. I don't want to clash head-on with the officers and soldiers, and everyone has to overcome difficulties, but I will send people out of the mountains to buy. Sister Sun, you make a list to explain to Lao Song, he is an old rough man and doesn't know how to do it in the canteen. ”

Sun Juan was a little proud. During this time, in order to take care of the injuries and illnesses, all the good things were left to the guy's room. Because Long Qian has been eating in the big cafeteria, everyone has no opinions, but feels that Long Qian is benevolent and righteous. This is especially true of those who are injured or sick.

"Food is not a trivial matter, I told Lao Song in the morning, the truth is very deep, and there are many practices. These days, we have to see meat at once. The next thing is like this, it is best to get pork and mutton, it is really not good, organize a team to hunt, we have a lot of cottage talents, hares and pheasants, they are all good things. I'll arrange this. In addition, every five days, just five days, the big canteen should improve a meal for everyone, which is called a meal. ”

In the past, cottages would also have dinners, usually because they went out of the mountain to let the horses get things back, but not all. Sun Dewang naturally knew how to motivate the military, but he couldn't lead by example, so the effect was discounted.

"In the future, we still have to raise pigs, chickens, and run our own farms, so that those disabled brothers can take care of them, and I will gradually arrange this aspect. You also have to use your brains, and the general requirement is to let everyone eat well and eat cleanly. For example, to drink boiled water, the large canteen must ensure the supply of boiled water, which is not good for heat preservation, but also has a supply of cool boiled water. ”

Long Qian has always asked his subordinates to drink boiled water instead of raw water, the reason is not to get sick. However, this discipline was not implemented well, and as the weather became hotter, the officers and men who were stinky and sweaty in the drill preferred to drink the mountain spring in the drums. Long Qian is already working on formulating relevant regulations, and is preparing to include regular bathing, shaving of head and not drinking raw water.

After Long Qian vigorously rectified the large house, the officers and men felt with satisfaction the benefits brought about by the rectification: There were more varieties of staple foods, such as steamed buns (mainly vegetable filling), flower rolls, full heads, cakes, and noodles. At noon and in the evening, there was also horse broth, which greatly satisfied the officers and men who were diligent in drilling.