Freezing three feet is not a day's cold, and dripping water through stones is not a day's work.

Weather: Sun but not hot

Style: The northwest wind is blowing, and the face hurts

Location: Lan County Mansion

Time: In the winter of the ninth year of Hongwu, about 3:10 p.m. on December 17

Characters: Lancheng Wang Zhu Di, Lanzhou Wei Commander Mu Ying, Hezhou Wei Commander Ning Zheng, Lintao Wei Commander Sun De, Gong Changwei Commander Wu Yan, Jing Yuwei Commander Luo Rujing, Navy Right Guard Commander Wu Mai, County Lieutenant Liu Jiang, County Cheng Ma Chen

Temperature: about twelve degrees

Environment: Straight chimney burns coal blocks and bricks next to the stove

Staple food: Dead lamb noodles

Dishes: Dead lamb, bitter and bitter vegetables, fried shredded potatoes, shallots

Soup: alfalfa carrot soup, egg soup, bone broth

Zhu Di never dreamed that as a native of the Northwest, the first time he came to the Northwest after crossing would be a cold winter.

There is no snow in the clear sky, the north wind blows the wild cheeks like fire, the mud walls do not block the cold air, and the stove burns charcoal to return the soul.

Unexpectedly, the first meal in the northwest turned out to be a dead lamb dough made from a ewe and four newborn lambs who had been frozen to death in the past three days.

One goat was brought by Ning Zheng, the commander of Hezhou Wei, and the four dead lambs were two from Lanxian, one from Lintao, and one from Gongchang.

"Come on!"

"Don't dislike it, this is already the best food we can come up with!"

It was the county lieutenant Liu Jiang who started cooking the mutton noodles, holding a hot porcelain bowl and lightly placing it on Zhu Di, who was closest to the stove C.

Zhu Di saw that Liu Jiang's snot had fallen an inch and almost fell into his bowl, and the latter hurriedly grabbed the bridge of his nose with his right index finger and thumb and threw the snot on the ground, and then ran it twice with his foot, covered by the soil and couldn't see anything.

You can see it.

Mu Ying also has a look of disgust with him, and that disgust is directly manifested in any expression of his facial features.

"Hahaha." Ning Zheng not only did not comfort him, but also continued to talk about this topic: "Your Highness, General Mu, when you stay for a long time, you will find that the snot in this ghost place can't be broken. ”

'Are you polite?' Zhu Di swallowed and foamed, holding chopsticks and looking down at the mutton noodles that looked okay, he seriously suspected that Liu Jiang of the dog day had already put his snot into that big pot, not just his bowl.

But Sun De, who couldn't wait for a long time, took a big bowl and ran to the stove to fill a bowl, swallowed it hotly, and didn't forget to sigh while eating, "We can be regarded as enjoying the blessings of His Royal Highness, thanks to the fact that a few lambs have frozen to death in the past few days, otherwise you won't be distressed to death if you slaughter a goat." ”

'Are you polite?' Zhu Di twisted his head and squinted his eyes, and stared at this stout man with a green face, his snot was too much, and he said that it was dead lamb.

I beg you to take care of the prince's emotions, clean on the surface, and then again, in order to catch the wind and wash the dust for His Royal Highness, a goat and four lambs were specially slaughtered.

You guys are really talking like this!

"Your Highness, don't dislike it, hey, when I first came here, my subordinates couldn't imagine that there was such a place in the world, but after two years, I finally got used to it." Wu Yan was still quiet, waiting for Liu Jiang to come over before chewing slowly.

"Where is General Wu from?" Zhu Di asked.

"Returning to His Royal Highness, a native of Lishui, Zhejiang, followed His Majesty for twenty-five years, followed the Northern Expedition of the Duke of Wei for the first time, and followed the Song State to destroy Hexi for the second time, and earned a commander." Wu Yan replied in detail.

"Gongchangwei commanded 5,600 troops, with 5,000 households under his jurisdiction, and the cavalry was half-mounted."

"Among them, there are more than 1,000 cavalry southwest horses, more than 500 Shandan horses, more than 500 Tibetan horses, and more than 1,000 Mongolian horses."

"The Northern Yuan of the dog day doesn't give us time, in another three or four years, we can replace the southwest horses that are not suitable for plateau warfare."

"Your Majesty is in Hejian, Shuozhou, Kaiping and quickly raising horses, and buying war horses in Tibet and other places through private businessmen, if you can wait a few years, you can all replace them with northern war horses."

"This is the case with the other guards?" Zhu Di looked around again and asked.

"Back to His Royal Highness, Lao Sun, Lao Wu, they are all about the same, the situation of Jing Yuwei is better, how can we have five thousand war horses, most of them are Mongolian horses." Luo Rujing went back while eating, and the two did not delay.

Mu Ying also nodded: "Lanzhou Wei is similar, three thousand cavalry, four thousand foot soldiers, more in number, Lanzhou avant-garde is one hundred and twenty miles west of Lan County, Qinchuan, there are 1,500 horsemen." ”

"There are thousands of Gaolan households and 1,000 foot soldiers inside, and there are 1,000 cavalry of Dongchuan 1,000 households along the northwest of the Yellow River."

"There are 500 cavalry and 1,000 foot soldiers in the Zhenyuan Guard, 1,500 foot soldiers in the Lanzhou Guard, and 1,500 foot soldiers in the Zhenyuan Guard."

Mu Ying finally gobbled it up, holding the big porcelain bowl and seeming to let go of the diaphragm in her heart, a piece of mutton bone was sandwiched between her head, stuffed into the big porcelain bowl, and three chopsticks of bitter and bitter vegetables, fried shredded potatoes, and shallot vegetables.

As he spoke, the dough in the large porcelain bowl about the size of the basin was halfway down, and then he stopped and instigated the bones:

"If His Highness builds a mansion next year, His Majesty's suggestion is to build it on the south side of Zhenyuan Bridge, close to Zhenyuan's guards."

"Next year, let's see!" Zhu Di's stomach was growling, and the nine people present, except for him, all began to eat, and the food was very fragrant, and he was really hungry when he saw it.

I had no choice but to eat.

took a bite lightly, and couldn't help but light up, and said lightly: "Hey, it's not bad!" ”

Seriously, it's pretty good.

Slightly spicy, slightly sour, salty, the dough is strong and does not melt in the mouth, there is no hernia in the lamb, the meat is not fat, and the entrance is soft.

It's not that he's hungry and feels fragrant, it's really good.

"Our Lanxian mutton noodles can be praised by the prince, and they will definitely be famous through the ages!" Liu Jiang praised.

"This must be a great delicacy that has been passed down through the ages!" Zhu Di forgot the unpleasantness and gobbled it up.

I don't think the food of this era is so bad.

The Chinese food system developed in two eras, the Song and Ming dynasties.

The famous dishes that were well-known in later generations, such as Sichuan cuisine and Hunan cuisine, also originated from these two generations.

What Sichuan pepper, vinegar, oil, soy sauce, cumin, salt, ginger powder, and even heavenly spices made from Sichuan pepper, ginger, star anise, green salt, etc.

Whether the meal is fragrant or not depends on the seasoning.

It's no accident that there is such a delicacy.

Bitter herbs and shallots are wild vegetables, bitter herbs grow in the fields, shallots grow in the mountains, grow in summer and autumn, and are pickled in brine after picking.

When the bitter and bitter vegetables are eaten, take them out and add vinegar chili powder, and stir with pepper powder, and the taste is still good.

Shallot vegetables are pickled with heavy salt, and they have to be filtered with water several times when they are fished out, which has a strong salty taste, but also has a unique flavor.

Autumn harvest potatoes naturally can't be put in such a cold winter, but they can survive a winter by digging four or five meters deep in a cellar.

Alfalfa seemed to him to be pure grass, food for cows, sheep and horses, and the devil knew how it became a soup.

Egg soup and lamb bone soup are the most valuable of them all.

"Lord Wang, the main crops in Lan County are potatoes, wheat, sorghum, corn, barley, soybeans, flax, lentils, etc., 5,000 quintals of wheat, 2,000 quintals of sorghum, 3,000 quintals of corn, 1,000 quintals of flax, 5,000 quintals of soybean barley, and 10,000 quintals of lentils."

Liu Jiang followed the introduction, mainly giving a brief introduction to the situation in Lan County.

The entire Lan County has become Zhu Di's fief, and the county decree of Lan County has actually existed in name only, but the imperial decree still has to be handed over to the county government, and taxes also need to be collected by the county government, and punishments, water conservancy, etc. are also managed by the county government.

The reason why it was reported to Zhu Di

It is because the future taxes of Lan County will be to feed the entire palace.

But listening to Liu Jiang's words, Zhu Di's heart naturally chuckled.

Before he came, his self-confidence was that he had a rare experience of smoothing beyond hundreds of years, believing that as long as there were people in his fiefdom, he could make the people in the fiefdom worry about food and clothing, and he could make Lanxian the first city in the northwest.

There was a drought in the northwest, and he knew that there were no less than ten crops that could be grown on this land, and there was a very good harvest.

But now, wheat is there, sorghum is there, corn is there.

In addition, after the autumn harvest, people here also plant lentils in the fields to make autumn food.

If he did not consider the development of a tractor, there were plows, ploughshares, harrows, hoes, cocoons, etc., and he knew a complete set of agricultural tools.

The quyuan plough doesn't seem to be very popular, the columbian plough is a bit outdated, the pickaxe, the shovel is also available, and even the fan car, water mill, and sickle are also available.

Thousands of years of farming life in China, except for the industrial age and the explosion of science and technology, this is already the pinnacle of agriculture.

"Don't say it, celestial phenomena are really accumulated by experience."

"Once I went to lead a team of men and horses to Yongchang to inspect, but when I arrived in Liangzhou, a fist-heavy rain fell down......"

After eating and drinking, he began to chat and brag, Luo Rujing was full of admiration and bragging, and the objects of the bragging were Zhu Di and Mu Ying, who had never been to the northwest.

The specific content has nothing to do with celestial phenomena, it has to do with clouds.

Liangzhou is Wuwei, which is still in a vacuum zone, and the guards located in the Lanzhou area form a military deterrent to Liangzhou, Yongchang, Dunhuang, and Jiayuguan, and the defire Chibu located in the north also forms a military deterrent to this area.

This creates a territorial vacuum, and no one can actually control it.

Of course, what Luo Rujing said has nothing to do with this topic.

It's a fun fact.

When Luo Rujing arrived at Wuwei, the sky was covered with dark clouds in less than an hour, thunder was raging, and a fist-heavy rain fell from the sky, and the ground turned into a country in a few minutes.

Then Luo Rujing wanted to take shelter from the rain in Wuwei and Pingzhai, where there are more than 20 authentic northwest farmers.

However, on the way, Luo Rujing met a few farmers who were watering the mountains and rivers, because Luo Rujing ran every three or five times, and the farmers were very familiar with Luo Rujing, so they pointed to Jinshazhai Road, twenty-five miles away in the northwest:

The general does not have to retreat to the Heping Village to take shelter from the rain, but walk in this direction for about fifteen miles, and the rainstorm will be gone, and he can continue to patrol when the time comes. ’

Of course Luo Rujing didn't believe it, he looked up at the gloomy sky, fifteen miles he urged the horse to arrive in less than ten minutes, how could it be raining here and there was no rain on the other side.

The peasant reassured again and again, and Luo Rujing was stunned when he urged the horse to gallop fifteen miles northwest with an attitude of disbelief.

A clear rainfall line, he rode a war horse, there was no rain on the side of the head of the war horse, and the buttocks of the war horse were smashed by the raindrops the size of a fist.

Luo Rujing, who had just arrived, felt that he had met a fairy, and braved the torrential rain to turn back, ready to invite the fairy, but when he arrived at Hepingzhai and met an old fairy in a village.

Later, after the wind and rain stopped, Luo Rujing learned that the Great Northwest seemed to be full of old immortals.

For this.

Luo Rujing reported the matter to Feng Sheng, who had also served as the commander of the Shaanxi Metropolitan Command, and Feng Sheng organized a magical experience of the guards and generals going to the old gods to learn immortal arts.

"Hahaha......"

There was a burst of laughter from the small county office, and Ning Zheng slapped the table roughly, laughing wildly: "As a result, Your Highness guessed what, until now Lao Luo has not learned this magical immortal art, last July Lao Luo went north to Shandan, and also encountered heavy rain, thinking that he had learned immortal art, and judged that he could leave the rainstorm range twenty miles northwest." ”

"As a result, I ran to Zhangye in one go, and I couldn't see the tail of the rainstorm, and the bastard who didn't believe in evil was ready to see for himself how the immortal magic didn't work, and walked in the direction of Jiayuguan."

"As a result, it was a day beyond the return to camp, thinking that Lao Luo had encountered an accident, Jing Yuwei notified Lanzhou Wuwei and sent someone to find the goods, we were all ready to dispatch, but the news came that the goods were lost in the heavy rain, and only after the rain stopped meeting the team looking for it."

"Is there any immortal art to observe the heavens?" Mu Ying couldn't help but ask beside her.

"General Mu, where is there any immortal art, it is just the experience summed up by the old farmers who have been in the northwest for decades and rely on the sky to eat, watching the clouds and knowing the rain falling." Liu Jiang said with a smile.

The authority of the county commander of Lanxian County is not less than that of the commander, but the grade is not as good as that of the commander.

So.

Zhu Di has nothing else to say.

Although there is an element of braggart and exaggeration in it, this is also what really happened.

He didn't have that kind of ability.

Today is a meeting of senior generals in Lan County.

The main thing is to take a look and get familiar with it, as the prince who is resident in Lanzhou, this kind of movement will be extremely frequent in the future.

Zhu Di was familiar with the military layout of the Lanzhou Sixth Guard.

The reason why it is called Lanzhou Liuwei, rather than the Weiwei under the jurisdiction of the Shaanxi Buzheng Division, is because Lanzhou is one of the nine-sided important towns set up by Lao Zhu in Saibei.

That is, the famous nine sides and eleven towns of the Ming Dynasty and the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty.

A north defense line that starts from the Yalu River in the east and reaches Jiayuguan in the west, is vast and thousands of miles, faces each other, and the guards are interconnected.

And also for Ning Zheng and Sun De, this is a meeting to understand Zhu Di and explore the bottom.

Because Zhu Di has the power to dominate the six guards of Lanzhou, nearly 40,000 soldiers and horses.

If they are really arrogant and unreasonable, they disobey Zhu Di's order, which is to disobey the holy order and lose their heads.

It doesn't matter if Zhu Di is nine years old or not, it's just the power that the prince should enjoy.

There is no holy decree that they should obey the orders of the king of the blue city, but the king of the blue city orders them to give them orders stubbornly, whether they listen or not, this is a very serious problem.

Leaving the fate of Hexi in the hands of a prince who had never left the palace, who had never seen a war, who was only nine years old, or who was about to be ten years old, they were terrified.

However, they were very satisfied with the results of this trial.

Wu Yan took the initiative to tell Zhu Di about Gong Changwei's situation in detail.

Zhu Di did not make any valuable comments.

This shows that Zhu Di has not yet commanded the idea of Lanzhou Liuwei to make a big difference in Hexi, so they can rest assured.