Chapter Seventy-Three: Preparing for the Northern Expedition

As mentioned last time, Liu Hou dragged Zhou Xue, Buqi and others to the canteen to eat, which surprised everyone.

This kind of civilian food is not very delicious, Zhou Xue and Zhao Tong both frowned, eating very hard, after all, they are all children of rich and noble families, and they have not suffered much since they were children. But I didn't want to be too rude in front of the prince, so I had to eat slowly.

Liu Hou has eaten a lot of food and clothes over the years, and his mouth has been a little tricky, but he ate a lot of this kind of big pot rice at school in his previous life, although now there are a little less vegetables and a little less meat, but he can still swallow it.

Bu Qi was most emotional, this prince was so close to the people, and the lord Sun Quan, whom he admired and respected very much, was really not a scum compared to this prince. In vain, he was so loyal to him, and he did so many hurtful things for his great cause, and now that I think about it, it's really not worth it.

What is Mingjun? This is called Mingjun. Fortunately, I have to meet such a Ming Jun, it is really God's eye-opening. Under such a Ming Jun, are you still worried that you can't show your ambitions?

Bu Qiu picked up the chopsticks, just pulled out a mouthful of rice and chewed it in his mouth, before he could swallow it, Liu Hou suddenly remembered something, his face changed, and he hurriedly shouted to Bu Qi:

"Step adult, hurry, quickly vomit the rice, quickly vomit, vomit it out."

Bu Qi was very puzzled, he was very hungry now, and it was the time when he needed to eat, why didn't this prince give himself food? It's not such a punishment to punish yourself, is it?

However, seeing Liu Hou's anxious look, he still chose to listen to the prince's words and obediently spit out the half-chewed food in his mouth onto the table.

Liu Hou saw that he spit out the rice, sighed, and said, "Fortunately, you spit it out, and it almost made a big mistake." ”

Everyone was nervous when they heard him say this, could it be that the prince found that these meals were poisonous? Everyone stopped continuing to eat and looked at Liu Hou nervously, waiting for him to explain.

Zhou Xue even asked the question directly: "Prince, are these meals poisonous?" ”

"These meals themselves are not poisonous, but if you eat them, they will be almost poisonous."

"What's the reasoning?"

"The reason is very simple, because Master Bu has been on hunger strike for a few days, and people who have been hungry for so many days can't eat immediately, otherwise they will die if they eat."

"Why?" Zhou Xue asked like a curious baby. The others also looked puzzled.

"Because after not eating for a long time, the stomach and intestines will become very weak, and at this time, if you suddenly eat something hard, the stomach and intestines will not be able to digest it, and it will hurt the stomach.

Also, the most important reason is that the liver is also weak because of long-term hunger. An important function of the liver is detoxification. When the liver is weakened, the reading function also becomes weak. ”

"But the food is not poisonous, we don't eat it every day and we don't see poisoning." Zhou Xue was puzzled.

"The food we eat is strictly poisonous, and we don't think it's toxic because the liver helps us get rid of it.

People who haven't eaten for a long time have weak livers and can't perform normal detoxification functions, and it is easy for people to be poisoned or even die. ”

"Is it that scary?" Zhou Xue didn't believe it very much.

"It's really terrible, some people have nothing to eat for many days for some reason, once they are rescued, they eat desperately, and as a result, they don't starve to death after so many days, and they die after being rescued.

There are also people who, by accident or whatever, have been buried in the ground for a long time. Living in a dark environment, the eyes are adapted to the darkness, and once someone rescues them from the ground one day and sees the light, their eyes are immediately blinded by the light outside.

This is actually the same principle, because the eyes are accustomed to the darkness and are not able to adapt to the light that seems normal to us for a while. ”

"What then?" Zhou Xue asked again.

"Then you have to adapt slowly, step by step, so that the body has a process of adaptation. Didn't I give in to adults drinking a lot of sugar water and salt water before, and that was the first step of adaptation. These liquids can revive the stomach and liver of the step-up.

Now it's time for the second step, which is to drink some gruel. After drinking the gruel for a while, there is no problem before eating noodles, and if there is no problem, you can eat normally. To put it bluntly, it is to give your own body a slow process of adaptation. ”

Hearing Liu Hou's explanation, everyone understood. "But what if there is no porridge now." Zhou Xue asked.

Bu Qi also looked at Liu Hou with a very anxious look, before he was subjected to a huge spiritual impact, he didn't feel hungry, but now his heart knot has been solved, and he was aroused by the smell of rice, and he suddenly felt hungry, so hungry that his hands trembled a little, and his heart was like being scratched by a cat.

"Go and ask if there's a sick meal." Liu Hou waved his hand and motioned to the soldiers at the table next to him to do something. Soon, the soldier came back and reported that there were two sick meals in the canteen, porridge and noodles.

So the poor Buqiu had to go and make a bowl of gruel, and everyone ate the simple meal, and he didn't even have to eat the simple meal, and his stomach was so hungry that he had to drink the tasteless gruel.

Lingnan was pacified, and he also accepted a capable minister like Buqi as his subordinate, Liu Hou no longer had anything to worry about, he stepped up the army, and prepared to go north to crusade against Sun Quan.

He appointed Fei Yi to temporarily replace the Lingnan Assassin Shi, and reported this appointment to the imperial court for Liu Bei's approval. Of course, the appointment of the assassin is Liu Bei's right, but he can still mention a name.

It is of great use for him to come all the way to attack Lingnan, of course, he hopes to keep his own people here to help him watch, if there is a cat and a dog who doesn't know the so-called, and Lingnan is a mess, wouldn't it be a waste of his own efforts.

The reason why he made great efforts to conquer Lingnan was that it had a warm climate and abundant water sources, which were suitable for growing food crops. He planned to build this place into his own private granary, and use the abundant production here to raise a strong army.

In the past, his troops had to buy military rations, and they often needed to smuggle them back from Wei and Wu through Jingzhou. It was always troublesome, unsafe, and easily constrained by Wei and Wu.

He has always hoped to have a grain production base, but unfortunately there are many mountains in Shu, and the production of the Chengdu Plain was basically taken away by Liu Bei, and these outputs were not enough to be used as military food for the Shu army. If it weren't for Liu Hou's Ministry of Industry in recent years, which exported a large number of goods, earned back countless money, and smuggled back countless grains, Shu State had been using troops on such a large scale, and it would have been unable to support it a long time ago.

After having Lingnan, his worries were finally hopefully solved. Grain crops are grown twice a year in the central and northern parts of Lingnan, and some areas in the south can even be harvested three times a year.

This is equivalent to double or triple the annual yield of those areas in the north that are cropped in one year. Such a state is equal to two or three states in the north, how can Liu Hou be unhappy.

However, it is a pity that the population of Lingnan is too sparse, and most of them are barbarians, it is not easy to govern, and many barbarians do not know how to farm, so if you want to make Lingnan produce a large amount of grain, you must drive these barbarians out of the mountains and forests and teach them to farm, which is a long way to go.