"Now even as a guest soldier, I can eat enough every day, which is much better than back then. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" In the barracks, Cao Wenzhao said while eating, the food on his table was the same as that of ordinary soldiers, and it was far worse than before, but Cao Wenzhao's mood was much better than at the beginning.

"What General Cao said is to talk about the ...... As soon as they heard that they were going to fight in other places, the soldiers were all unwilling. Another general replied that after the status of military generals in the middle of the Ming Dynasty was greatly reduced, civilian officials strengthened their control over the army, and one of the ways they came up with was to control the army's food, of course, whether this was to facilitate their corruption or really to control the army's actions is not known to outsiders.

According to the rules formulated by the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty, the food of the guest army on the march should be supplied by the local government, and the government will not send the food directly to the army, saying that it is afraid that the generals will be greedy for ink, but they will arrange for the local people to make food, and then send local soldiers to serve according to the population; In this way, it not only increased the burden on the local government and the people, but also easily exposed the number of troops, and the most important thing is that the civilian officials are even more likely to be greedy for ink.

If that's the case, it's okay, anyway, for the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, there will always be food that is embezzled, as long as they can eat on time, whether it is military corruption or civilian corruption, it is the same for them; But soon the clever civil officials felt that there was no need to feed the troops on the march, and according to their words, the soldiers could not walk when they were fed, so that the speed of the march would not be greatly reduced. This seemed a bit inappropriate, and in order to solve the problem, they quickly added a policy that the local government could only provide two meals a day for passing guests.

However, after a period of implementation, these civilian officials found a loophole, that is, if the guest army marched fast, passing through two cities in one day, wouldn't it be possible to eat four meals? How can this work? Hurry up and add a patch right away: the troops who arrive that day will not be allowed to eat, and the soldiers will only be allowed to eat after staying in the local area for a day.

These civilian officials were undoubtedly clever, and their keen eye found all the loopholes in the policy, and they dealt with them so that these soldiers never had a chance to take advantage of them again; I have to say that if they had this mind when dealing with business, I am afraid that the Ming Dynasty would have destroyed Jiannu, eliminated corrupt officials, and unified the world, so why would they make the country look like this? These officials are not unintelligent, they are just using their cleverness in the wrong place.

As a soldier, of course, you can't fight hungry, so from then on, no matter how urgent the situation is, the Ming army will walk unhurriedly, striving to be able to eat one day in two days; But even so, the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty are not without a way to deal with it, in the original history, when the emperor Taiji entered the customs to besiege the capital, those stupid civil officials in order to save some food, desperately made senseless transfers to the army of those who came all the way to King Qin, and let them come and go in several cities around the capital, in order not to let them stay in a certain city for a day, so as to save this meal.

However, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are not Gundam, they can beat the world without eating, they worked hard to rush to the capital to protect their king and those civil officials in the capital, but they couldn't even mix a mouthful of food, and they didn't agree to it, so the Qinwang army broke out a large-scale mutiny, scattered all the way to rob the state and county, and sprinkled a handful of salt on the Ming to make matters worse, and many states and counties were corrupted because of this, Li You really didn't know what to say. Therefore, when he was marching in Bianliang, he said that the power of logistics supply was withdrawn from the civilian officials and handed over to the governor's office of the five armies, and finally got rid of this dilemma, so that Cao Wenzhao and the soldiers under his command could eat without interference, and the marching speed of the army was greatly improved.

"Alright, let's not talk about that." Cao Wenzhao interrupted the complaints of these generals, and always said in the army that these are not good things, "Can you get there tomorrow?" Now that Jiangnan has become a pot of porridge, don't delay the important things ordered by His Majesty. ”

"We will arrive at Wuqiao tomorrow, and we are marching much faster than planned, so we can't delay." Shen Tai, the general under his command, said lightly that it was almost unimaginable for them to rush from the capital to Wuqiao in such a short time, thanks to the new logistics supply policy and the hard training of the soldiers on weekdays.

On the second day, the army arrived at Wuqiao, they did not enter the city, but found a place outside the city to camp and prepare to eat and rest, and also sent a general with a small team of soldiers into the city to prepare to buy some fresh vegetables, this grain or something can be brought by themselves, but there is no way to buy vegetables, so they are all along the road according to the price.

In the past, when they first left Beijing, it was relatively smooth, but the further south they went, the more difficult this method became, and the local gentry often tried to use this opportunity to blackmail them, raising the price of vegetables extremely high, and the logistics officials did not dare to buy vegetables at high prices, for fear of being charged with corruption, so the further south they went, the less opportunities these soldiers had to eat fresh vegetables.

Today is no exception, after a while these people came back dejected, they encountered the blackmail of the local gentry again, Cao Wenzhao did not want to do much, comforted them a few words and ordered people to start cooking, because now Li You requires all the soldiers in the army to eat together, so although those soldiers have some complaints, but see that since Cao Wenzhao is also treated the same as them, he still put down his dissatisfaction.

But Cao Wenzhao rushed to Jiangnan as soon as possible, and didn't want to cause trouble, but trouble found them, and when the camp was having dinner, a high-spirited house slave came to the camp gate, and came down with a few men to find trouble with the army.

"I am the family of Lord Wang, and you dare to insult my family in the city today, I want to seek justice from the general of your family." Anyway, I'm going to rush in.

The Wang he said was Wang Xiangchun, a cadre of the Donglin Party, this Wang family is amazing, it is a big family of the fifth Jinshi, and has been a high-ranking official such as Shangshu and the inspection envoy, Wang Xiangchun has been a Nanjing official examiner, and his brother Wang Xiangjin's official position is higher than him, and no one dares to provoke him locally.

"Kill those who trespass into the barracks without a military order!" But the army in front of him was no longer the Ming army of the past, and he immediately warned loudly.