After the friendly exchange between the two leaders, the parade still has to continue, and as a local leader, Yun Chu naturally followed the leading group to review the army.

For this group of government soldiers, it is too rare to see the prince once in this life, but when Yun Chu followed behind the prince and Xue Rengui and prepared to be the background board, Yun Chu suddenly found that the eyes of the government soldiers below looked at him obviously more hotly than the eyes of the prince and Xue Rengui.

In the military parade, of course, Yun Chu had no room to speak, but he just followed the generals of the Sixteenth Guard to salute the soldiers of the government, even if it was over.

There is no difference between the ancient leaders inspecting the barracks and the leaders of later generations inspecting and visiting the barracks.

It is nothing more than to check the clothing, accommodation, and food of the government soldiers, and routinely ask the government soldiers who have just arrived at the barracks whether they are satisfied with everything in the barracks and whether they are homesick.

Of course, the soldiers are also very obedient, even if they were trained by Xue Rengui very badly, and many people were trained to death, everyone's answer was still very satisfied, satisfied with General Xue, satisfied with the general, satisfied with the captain, satisfied with the captain, satisfied with the regiment commander, satisfied with the brigade commander, satisfied with the team ......

Yun Chu listened very carefully and saw it very clearly, if the previous satisfaction was of the nature of basic exercises, then satisfaction with the food in the barracks was really satisfaction from the heart.

In order to make the soldiers more satisfied, Yun Chu asked the wild yak from the prince and asked the man to kill the cow and serve tonight's dinner, which was regarded as the prince's reward to the soldiers.

No matter how big the cow is, it can't satisfy the appetite of tens of thousands of people, no way, just like what Huo Quzhi did in Jiuquan, the cow was slaughtered and boiled into broth, maybe enough for each person to share a bowl.

Lunch, naturally, was eaten in the military camp in the imperial city, the food was good, Yun Chu got a bowl full of pork dishes, and two large bowls of millet rice.

That is, there is only one more chicken in the prince's plate, and the rest is the same standard as Yun Chu's meal.

At Yun Chu's signal, Li Hong came out with his dinner plate and went straight to the room of the soldiers in the barracks.

At this time, it was time for the soldiers to eat, the boiled cabbage in the cauldron, the boiled onion in the cauldron, the cabbage in the cauldron, and of course, the millet in a larger pot with grits made of black flour added.

"The food in the Chang'an barracks has always been good, at least, all the salt used here is salt, and I don't eat much sauerkraut, salt vegetables, vinegar cloth is not used, they are all fresh vegetables, and what is even more rare is that the army eats three meals a day!"

Yun Chu took a look at this general who could say that pig food was a delicacy, and felt that this guy might be a talent.

The amount of meat, vegetables, and grain purchased in the imperial city military camp every day is actually counted, and it is also a priority guarantee for Wannian County and Chang'an County.

Obviously, in the priority protection list, there are 20 pigs, 50 sheep, 500 catties of fresh fish, 2,000 catties of tofu, 100 catties of various colors, even if it is expensive pepper, there is a supply of 50 catties.

However, in the food of the soldiers, Yun Chu did not find any meat stars, so he dug a mouthful of vegetable soup with a big horse spoon and tasted it, and found that except for the salty taste, it was spicy, and there was no other taste.

However, after looking at his bowl full of meat and vegetables, he also understood where the good things that Chang'an City supplied to the army were.

One bowl of vegetables, half a bowl of meat, the meat is fatty and greasy white meat, and the vegetables are peppers, onions, and cabbage fried in meat oil.

Li Hong smiled and tore the chicken in his hand into small strips of meat and threw it into the cauldron where the soldiers ate.

He poured his bowl of almost all meat into the cauldron and stirred it, and then dug himself a large bowl of rice that could no longer distinguish the contents.

Yun Chu naturally did the same, while talking to the government soldiers with a smile, he kindly asked where the people came to join the government soldiers, and also asked whether they married their mothers-in-law and whether they had children.

The crown prince Li Hong took his bowl to a camp of government soldiers, ready to dine with the government soldiers.

Of course, Yun Chu had to follow closely, but he only dug up a big bowl of millet and black flour grits rice, and made a lot of oil and spicy seeds from Xue Rengui's big tent on the grits, which made his bowl of rice seem to be covered with a layer of red flames on the black mountain.

At this time, it seems very inappropriate to say that people who are generals are corrupt and deduct the rations of government soldiers.

His ability to eat with the soldiers on the battlefields of Liaodong and the Western Regions does not mean that he has the right to demand that all the generals be the same as him.

When the army is outside, it is a money-making machine, and when you return to Chang'an, you can only give what you eat.

At least, here, although the food is not delicious, it is enough.

Li Hong likes to go around watching the soldiers eat, and when he sees that some of the soldiers have finished eating, they will put the food they haven't eaten into the bowl of the soldiers, and at this time the young soldiers will be grateful to tears, but Yun Chu knows that Li Hong's mouth has always been very picky, and if he wants to eat the pig food here, it is better to kill him.

"The villain is a soldier from Yanzhou, in Yanzhou, the villain's family background is also considered a high-class family, but it was not until he came to Chang'an that the villain ate a whole year's dry rice for the first time, and it was enough, not to mention, there were endless vegetables and vegetables......"

"Huh? Yanzhou also belongs to the Guanzhong region, since it is said to be a high-class family, why don't you even have dry rice? ”

Although Li Hong is not the kind of master who can say why he doesn't eat minced meat, he grew up playing in Jinchangfang, and he can't remember anything when he was a child, and he doesn't have any memory of hunger in Jinchangfang since he can remember.

And the people of Jinchangfang were also the lowest class of people he could contact at that time.

The government soldier who spoke was also an elderly government soldier, and hurriedly explained: "Two meals a day, eat dry when you are busy, and drink porridge in your spare time. ”

Li Hongdao: "The upper households are like this, so how should the lower families live?"

Why don't they go to work and earn some wages? ”

The old soldier sighed and said: "For a whole year, I have been scratching and eating everywhere every day, just feeding my stomach, I have already exhausted all my strength, how can I have extra strength to make money, besides, there are not many ways to make money in Yanzhou......"

Yun Chu knew that the old soldiers were hiding what they were saying, that place in Yanzhou was vast, but there was no water, and if you planted some food, you would rely on the sky to eat, which could not be compared with the rich Chang'an.

There was no way to compare before, and now, there is no way to compare, in Yanzhou, the vast majority of people are just alive, only in Chang'an, they feel the joy of being a man for the first time.

The people of Datang generally do not leave their homes, and many, many people have never left their homes hundreds of miles away in their lives.

The only people who can leave home and come to Chang'an are local businessmen who have a lot of business, and then there are the soldiers who come to join the government.

Chang'an, which Yun Chu is used to, is heaven for them, a real paradise.

Li Hong finally stopped talking, and tried hard to eat two mouthfuls of the soldiers' meals, although his face was flushed, he finally ate it.

Xue Rengui is obviously very dissatisfied with the current food and use of the government soldiers, not that the food of the government soldiers is not good, in his opinion, it is too good, too good.

After many government soldiers came to Chang'an to participate in the meeting, they fattened up, and what this group of people were most concerned about all day long was when to eat, what to eat, and what they were most looking forward to was the festival, because, as long as the festival was over, there was meat on their plates!

Xue Rengui himself started from the big head soldiers in the Zhenguan period, and he always thought that he should take a group of hungry wolves to fight, rather than a group of fat pigs to fight.

The income of the soldiers must come from the battlefield, from the capture, from the enemy's head, not from the hard work.

Li Hong felt that what Xue Rengui said was very reasonable, but after personally tasting the food of the soldiers, he felt that no matter how bad it was, it was a little inhumane.

And Yun Chu's view is very different from Xue Rengui's, he thinks that in the situation where gunpowder bombs and fire oil bombs have appeared, the brains of the soldiers should be more important than cruelty, especially the cruelty like Xue Rengui, which is squeezed out of poverty.

He even thought that if he was allowed to lead an army that was well fed and could read some words, and equipped according to his wishes, killing Xue Rengui and his subordinates would be as easy as chopping melons and vegetables.

Xue Rengui didn't agree with this at all, and clamored to pull out an army to compete.

In this regard, Yun Chu scoffed.

Li Hong, who returned to the East Palace, informed Xu Jingzong of what happened in the barracks today, and informed Xu Jingzong of the difference between the rich and poor armies between Yunchu and Xue Rengui.

Xu Jingzong turned a blind eye to the dispute between Yun Chu and Xue Rengui, but said to Li Hong gloomily: "What is Yinggong going to do? ”

Li Hong didn't hide it either, and told Xu Jingzong that Yun Chu had some conjectures about why Ying Gong did this.

After Xu Jingzong listened, he sighed lightly and said: "The sun is twilight, and he is perverse, it seems that Li Ji does not have many days." ”

Li Hong said puzzledly: "When King Gu saw Yinggong, he saw that his face was ruddy and energetic, so it shouldn't be enough." ”

Xu Jingzong sneered: "Li Ji is good at medicine, and he once compiled the "Tang Materia Medica" and "Pulse Meridian", which belongs to the famous doctor who I think is very hidden in the Tang Dynasty, and he should have a very accurate grasp of the quality of his body.

This old horseman has always cherished feathers, and now he will do such a thing that everyone expected, there is only one reason, he is about to die.

With his old scheming, when planning a thing, he never expects immediate results, but calmly lays out and plans carefully.

If the plotter is large, it will take at least five years to achieve something, and if the plotter is small, it will take three years.

Therefore, the old man deduced that the remaining life span of Li Ji's old man would definitely not exceed five years.

The old man is also very curious now, what is this old man going to do? ”

Li Hong said in surprise: "Ying Gong is old, Xu Jingye is ambitious and talented, he shouldn't be able to make any big deals, you still help Gu Wang think about the dispute between Yun Chu and Xue Rengui, right?" ”

Xu Jingzong looked up at Li Hong and said, "What kind of illusion made His Highness look down on Li Ji so much?"

Is it because he has been closed all these years, or is his head full of gray hair that makes His Highness think that this person is too old to be useful? ”

(End of chapter)