The meat in the fine willow camp is full of aroma and the wine is mellow.

The soldiers of the various armies who returned from victory returned to their respective camps, and the Xiliu Camp was the largest military camp near Chang'an City.

A number of troops and horses were stationed here, including the Yulin Army.

Most of these Yulin soldiers are elders in the family who died in the war or were disabled and discharged, and then the sons and nephews of the Wuxun family who are not qualified to inherit the family business, or the sons of good families carefully selected by various counties.

They enjoy the best treatment in the army, and they have a few more buckets of rice and a few catties of salt than the officers and soldiers of other armies.

Naturally, when fighting, they also rushed to the front line and suffered the greatest losses.

With the large-scale popularization of the three-piece cavalry set in the Han army, the Huns, who had never heard of what was called a patent, naturally used it in the fierce war with the Han army.

As a result, the combat effectiveness of the Hun cavalry has also been greatly improved.

When the previous expedition to Hexi and the defeat of the right part of the Xiongnu, the losses of the Han army were actually very large.

After all, no matter how well-equipped he was, he was beaten off his horse, and his bones were broken and his tendons were broken.

In particular, the Yulin Army, which was charging forward in every battle, finally returned, and its battle loss rate was almost half.

This kind of battle loss rate is unimaginable in the era of cold weapons.

Fortunately, they have paid so much for Dahan, and Dahan has not failed them.

When I returned to the camp, I saw rows of large iron pots, the coal fire in the stove below, the aroma of meat in the iron pot, and the large pieces of beef and mutton were constantly tumbling in the rich soup.

In the old days, this was definitely the sergeant's favorite thing.

But this time the troops were sent to the right of the Xiongnu, and the other booty may not be much, but the cattle, sheep and horses were captured to the extent that they are too many to count.

There are so many of these animals that they can't be brought back, so they are slaughtered along the way, so they naturally kill and eat all the way, and they are really enough to eat so far.

can eat enough beef and mutton in this era, except for the royal relatives and nobles, that is, these soldiers who went out to conquer the fortress.

It doesn't matter if they have eaten enough meat, Li Yunze also prepared the most popular military funds for them.

An altar was piled up, like a hill of fine wine.

There is nothing more popular with a sergeant than a hearty training session or a drunken sleep after a terrible battle.

In the camp, the military Sima shouted to the soldiers, "The Son of Heaven has an order, drink happily today, and there is no return if you are not drunk!" ”

Dahan was forbidden to drink before.

There is no reason, the only reason is that wine needs to be made with food, and the food of the Han is not enough to eat, so he has to ban alcohol to save food.

The wine of this era, which is undoubtedly grain wine, is not like that of later generations, it is all technology and hard work.

There are really countless people who have been arrested for secretly drinking.

Now it is different, with the great increase in the national strength of the Han Dynasty, the grain output and surplus are also increasing rapidly.

When there was enough food, Prohibition naturally disappeared, and no one mentioned it again.

But even so, alcohol is still in demand.

Because to brew one pound of wine, you need at least three or five pounds of grain.

And that's not even counting the cost of raw materials, labor and other aspects.

Add in taxes and merchant profits, and the price is really numb.

There is no tax on simple grain, and if the grain can be processed into wine and sold, then it will be taxed.

Dahan's current financial expenditure is almost entirely supported by state-owned enterprises and business taxes.

Even if it is a well-paid Yulin Army, if he wants to drink while resting, he needs to weigh his wallet.

Now that you can drink openly, it is still in the barracks where alcohol was absolutely forbidden in the past, so what are you waiting for, just go up.

Groups of sergeants lined up according to their respective tunshiwu, and stepped forward to receive a jar of wine from the hands of the military commander.

When the mud seal was opened, the rich flavor of grain suddenly overflowed.

There is nothing to say, just hold the wine jar and drink bitterly, and the firehead soldiers will put the rice bowl full of large pieces of beef and mutton and broth on the ground in a basin and eat it at will.

It's just that the Yulin Army doesn't eat much meat, but those pickled vegetables make them have a great appetite.

Not only the Yulin Army, but also not only in the Xiliu Camp, almost all the military camps inside and outside Chang'an City are like this.

After a full meal and drink, the sergeants who finally completely relaxed basically fell asleep.

Even if he had entered the territory of the Han Dynasty before, and even came to the outside of Chang'an City, the psychological oppression caused by fighting outside for a long time still existed.

To put it simply, it is what battlefield stress disorder was said to be in later generations.

It's not about the body, it's purely mental.

The psychological tension left on the battlefield between life and death cannot be effectively eliminated by fierce fighting.

Now, there is indeed a noticeable improvement.

A small number of non-commissioned officers, who had not yet drunk, burped back to their respective barracks and were about to lie down on the couch to rest, but they were stunned to see that wooden boxes were placed on their respective beds.

They stepped forward in surprise, and when they opened the wooden box, they saw that it was full of copper coins.

Jun Sima, who didn't drink alcohol, said with a smile, "This is a reward from the Son of Heaven, each person starts with 10,000 yuan, in addition to the wartime allowance calculated according to the number of days, and the military merit reward calculated according to military merit, you can at least get tens of thousands of dollars alone." ”

Tens of thousands of dollars are really not small money.

According to the price of the Han at this time, the most expensive beef is only forty or fifty yuan per catty, and the price of a bucket of wine is about the same.

A good meal at the wine shop, eating and drinking is enough for dozens of dollars.

This is not over, and the military Sima beckoned to the smiling crowd, "Pick up the copper coins and look down." ”

In the Han Dynasty, copper coins were not a penny, but money.

In other words, according to the weight and shape, a copper coin represents different values, some as five coins, some as ten coins, and some even as a hundred coins.

For example, the famous god of war Sun 100,000 once made a straight 5,000 yuan!

The intuitive description is that these copper coins can be regarded as currencies of different denominations in the modern world.

Xiaoyaojin God of War Sun 100,000, just don't want a Bilian to scrape, and directly use the copper coin of 5,000 yuan to collect and scrape the people's fat and people's ointment.

No matter how much you get a copper coin, a copper coin is just a copper coin, and it can't be a gold coin.

A copper coin can be worth 5,000 yuan, and the people are forced to exchange it, isn't this a direct robbery.

When Li Yunze did currency innovation, he used the gold coins of 10,000 coins as an anchor.

There is no silver below, it is directly when one, when five, when thirteen kinds of copper coins of different sizes and copper content are not the same.

If you don't use the silver, it's not that you don't want to use it, but that you don't have to use it.

The silver reserves of the Han Dynasty were not even as good as gold, and the real large-scale use of silver was only after the large-scale inflow of silver mined from the silver mines of Fuso Mexico and other places during the Ming Dynasty.

Since then, the world's silver has been frantically flowing to Middle-earth, exchanged for tea, porcelain, silk, rhubarb, and other goods.

This trade surplus lasted for hundreds of years, until the-stirring sticks brought in something sinister

In the midst of the uproar, the people who struggled to open the copper coin saw the silk under the copper coin.

There were ten silk silks under the chest, and each box contained this number.

Although it is only the cheapest kind, it is not as expensive as Su Lian or even silk, but a silk silk is worth at least seven or eight hundred yuan, and the better quality is also worth a thousand yuan.

I have to say that Li Yunze's reward this time is definitely very heavy.

Tens of thousands of dollars worth of goods are really not a small amount.

You must know that even the soldiers of the Han Army who returned with the wounded and sick are at least in their early 30,000s, and their rewards alone are worth more than one billion dollars.

At this time, the financial revenue of the Han Dynasty was only billions of dollars a year.

And that's not even counting the pensions for the war dead and disabled.

In the past, there was no such thing as a pension in the army, and after you died in battle, you can let your nephews and nephews continue to eat in the army, which is considered a grace.

This thing was made by Li Yunze.

As long as they were killed or injured in the war for the Han Dynasty, the beneficiary could receive a pension from the imperial court that lasted for decades.

It's not like those companies that don't pay for this, don't pay for that, but they use the emperor's credibility as a guarantee.

For the soldiers of the Han army, this is undoubtedly a huge motivation and backing, and they are naturally willing to die on the battlefield for the Son of Heaven.

From the soldiers who were full of excitement on the silk and copper coins, this kind of touch is really better than coughing cough, and the touch is really good.

But that's not all.

Jun Sima spoke again, "The Son of Heaven has given a holiday, and each person is thirty days. If you have a family, you can go home now, and there are sheep and cattle prepared for you outside the camp to bring home. If you don't have a home, you should start a family, and the Son of Heaven has prepared a house for you and others in the third phase of the new city, which can be said to be a fine gentleman."

Speaking of this, Jun Sima said with a smile, "The Son of Heaven said, the women you brought back from the Xiongnu will also be handed over to you." When the time comes out of the camp, I will choose my own people. ”

"Ugly words are ahead, don't be a wife."

The soldiers, who had not yet drunk, happily dragged the boxes out of the barracks, brought their horses to bring the boxes, and then smirked happily at the comrades who were still asleep on the ground, and then left the camp beautifully.

Li Yunze gave more than a billion worth of goods, especially felt that he was not worthy of the soldiers' efforts.

Just add a few more physical rewards.

Grain or something, with the use of three fertilizers, the use of quyuan plows, the use of cocoon carts, the use of water wheels, etc., the production has skyrocketed and is no longer worthy of reward.

Therefore, it is the cattle and sheep that are given to the Shaofu herding horses.

The ones that Huo Qubing and they captured were directly left in the four counties of Hexi and distributed to the Han people who migrated in the past, half ploughing and half pasture, after all, if they traveled thousands of miles to Chang'an City, it would cost too much and lose too much, and it would not be worth it.

In addition to raising horses, the horse herding superintendent also raises cattle and sheep.

Cattle are mainly used as an important labor force for arable land, after all, compared to ploughing horses, the roughage that cattle eat is difficult for horses to eat.

Cattle are easy to feed and have great strength, and it is natural for cattle to replace horse farming.

As for the sheep, it is purely for the sake of raising and eating.

In pork. Oh, in this era, it is still difficult to eat the meat called bi, especially when you like to eat in the dry toilet all day long, everyone hates them as dirty, so sheep is the most popular delicacy.

Li Yunze prepared a cow and ten sheep for every sergeant who came back from the expedition.

Cattle are brought home to be cultivated, and sheep are eaten or sold at will.

In addition to the cattle and sheep, there are the Hun women who were brought back.

The soldiers who left the camp led the horses in one hand, and the horses carried chests full of copper coins and silk silks.

Holding the ox in one hand, the ox carried on its back the booty collected from the expedition, wrapped in large bags and small bags.

Behind him was followed by the Hun woman, driving the sheep to follow.

The slightly drunk soldiers looked at the red glow in the distance and exhaled softly with comfort.

"It's good to be home."

(End of chapter)