Chapter 061

The canteen of Hot Spring Town is not only the canteen of the officers and men of the Ning Navy, but also the canteen of all military households in Hot Spring Town.

This is the landmark building of the hot spring town, and it is also a new canteen that has just been built and put into use for less than a month and a half.

In terms of appearance, this is like a large rectangular box, with a triangular roof on it, neither carved beams and painted buildings, nor a number of immortals and beasts set at the end of the roof ridge and ridge, this is actually more like a huge wooden shed, when it was first built, this canteen did not even have four walls, only a huge grass shed.

With the cold weather, the original wooden shed was added with a wall made of red bricks on four sides, and the top of this grass shed was about two zhang high, which was higher than the city wall of the town fort, but it was really out of the dignity of the government.

This is mainly because Cheng Shijie in order to save money, can be an excellent craftsman who carves beams and paints, the salary needs to be very expensive, and also needs good wood, and Cheng Shijie's pursuit is simple and practical, although the traditional craftsmanship and architectural style are very atmospheric and beautiful and high-grade, but the problem is that all this needs money.

Under the restriction of the two principles of saving money and practicality, we can only do it, and the so-called good steel needs to be used on the blade.

It is very spacious, and can accommodate more than 600 military families and their families in the hot spring town at the same time, a total of more than 2,500 people to eat.

Looking at the huge canteen, these Ning Navy Navy recruits were stunned for a moment. The huge canteen has twelve straw mats made of wheat straw and straw to block the wind chill outside.

When I lifted the straw mats and entered the cafeteria, I saw five or six hundred long tables, with long stools on each side of the table that could seat three people at a time. When they arrived, there were thousands of people waiting in a long line to eat.

Cheng Shijie originally thought that he could save a certain amount of sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn seeds in the spring of next year, but it wasn't until he came to the canteen in Hot Spring Town that he found that the porridge in the canteen was actually made from sweet potatoes, aged rice, pumpkin, broad beans, peas, soybeans and other grains.

Cheng Shijie pointed to the sweet potatoes in the big bucket and said, "How can there be sweet potatoes here?" ”

"Isn't this a sweet potato?"

Zhou An asked a little puzzled.

"Whatever the name is, where did it come from?"

"I bought it, and some of the soldiers grew it themselves!"

"Planted?"

In Cheng Shijie's impression, he remembered that sweet potatoes and corn should have been planted on a large scale in the Qing Dynasty, and the greatest credit for the so-called prosperous Kangqian era was because sweet potatoes, corn and potatoes were introduced to China with high yields.

After Zhou An's explanation, Cheng Shijie's discoveries were made as early as more than ten years ago, potatoes and sweet potatoes had begun to be planted in Shandong, as well as corn. took the lead in planting these crops, but was actually forced by Ma Zheng of the Ming Dynasty.

Shandong is one of the concentration of horse households in the Ming Dynasty, many farmers are forced to raise horses, but horses need a lot of food, to eat 12 to 15 catties of hay every day, but also need to eat a certain amount of concentrate, but with the development of a large number of fields in Shandong, it is very difficult to feed the tasks assigned by the imperial court to horse households.

Later, these people found that corn stalks and sweet potato seedlings are good feed, especially sweet potato leaves cut off a stubble, just like leeks, soon another stubble will grow, and these sweet potatoes do not pick the ground, inferior fields, dry fields, can be planted, and do not need to spend a lot of effort to serve.

However, the yield of these sweet potatoes is very amazing, from the end of May of the 21st year of Wanli (1582) sweet potatoes began to be introduced to Fujian, and soon spread to the north.

Some displaced people and fugitives secretly grow sweet potatoes in mountainous areas, forests, river beaches, and even landlords' fields. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the weather was cold, crops could only be planted in spring and harvested in autumn, ordinary wheat, soybeans, peas, broad beans, sorghum, millet, rice, the landlord all knew, but the sweet potato landlord did not know, and thought it was a long weed.

Even if they find that the tenants cut the sweet potato seedlings to eat, they will not care, and when the crops in the field are finished and the fields are empty, the tenants will secretly dig up the sweet potatoes at night. Although the steward of the farm is known, the steward who is settled by the tenant will also turn a blind eye.

Those who know about it will know, and those who don't know will always be kept secret, sweet potatoes are the food of the untouchables and tenants, and the rich will not eat them at all, and they do not bother to eat them.

Cheng Shijie finally understood, and had to admire the cunning of the peasants.

The food of Ning's naval soldiers is not abundant, because Cheng Shijie clearly knows that these soldiers have been hungry for a long time, and their gastrointestinal functions have deteriorated.

Of course, Cheng Shijie doesn't have so much meat for the soldiers to eat now, even if it is the infantry unit of the Ning Navy, their meals are mainly bread, steamed buns, and multigrain porridge.

Chen Ermao looked at the porridge in the big bucket of rice that was about to bottom out, and suddenly became a little anxious, in the Dongjiang Army, if they eat, they are actually robbing, there is no way, there is too little food.

Chen Ermao has a wealth of experience in how to grab food, and he said behind him: "Brother, the meal is almost gone!" ”

More than 500 people from the Ning Navy's naval division rushed towards the window where they were cooking.

"Don't squeeze, don't squeeze!"

Seeing the chaos in the ranks, the experienced veterans picked up their whips and struck them on the heads and bodies of these officers and men of the Sailor Division, who were wearing thick cotton clothes and would not be injured.

After a chaotic fight, order was restored.

"You guys grab a fart, the food is enough for you to eat, our garrison adults have stipulated, the officers and men of the Ning Navy will supply unlimited meals every day, even if you can eat five catties of food in one meal, it will be enough!"

With dozens of buckets of steaming multigrain porridge, steamed buns, pots of noodles, and rice served, and seeing that there was still so much rice, these sailor soldiers quieted down.

Chen Ermao finally took his turn to eat, just when the instructor of the Ning Navy was maintaining order, his lunch box was knocked out, and he was stepped on a few times, fortunately, these wooden lunch boxes are of excellent quality, and they have been stepped on by dozens or hundreds of big feet, but they are not broken.

Chen Ermao was not too dirty, he directly wiped the lunch box with his hand, and hurriedly handed it over: "Full!" ”

"Put an end to food waste, if you can't finish eating, you will be beaten!"

Chen Ermao smiled slightly: "Don't worry, I can finish eating!" ”

Chen Ermao's lunch box contained four spoons of sticky multigrain porridge, as well as cabbage and pickles.

Suddenly, Chen Ermao saw the steamed buns and asked, "Can you still ask for steamed buns?" ”

"Of course, if you want to eat steamed bread, there are steamed buns, if you want to eat noodles, there are noodles, there are also rice, and there are unlimited supply!"

Chen Ermao didn't believe the man's words, he used chopsticks to insert three steamed buns, a few bites, and when he sat down at the table, one steamed bun was finished.

In order to eat more, Chen Ermao was not afraid of being hot, and the multigrain porridge scalded his teeth, and he still ate quickly.

The sailors and soldiers of the Ning Navy began to eat, and the movement was simply earth-shattering, as if hundreds or thousands of pigs were eating frantically.

Chen Ermao made three meals in a row, and he rolled his eyes directly, until in the end, he wiped the vegetable water of the pickles clean with steamed buns, and he didn't even have to brush the lunch box.

The instructors did not eat with the sailors, and the fifty instructors were very conscientious in their whips and patrolled back and forth in the canteen.

Chen Ermao thinks that these instructors are doing this too much, what kind of world is it now, and they dare to waste food, when they are in the Dongjiang Army, if they can eat such a full meal, even if they are made to fight hard with Jiannu, they are absolutely unambiguous.

As for wasting food, it is even more impossible, and they can't eat such a meal a year in the Dongjiang Army.

Cheng Shijie did not engage in any equality between officers and soldiers, and the food conditions of officers above the sentry commander were much better than those of ordinary soldiers. In this era, the people and soldiers did not mean to be equal, and the officers were treated better than ordinary soldiers, and they took it for granted, and only by letting them be equal would their enthusiasm be discouraged.

This is like an enterprise, if there is no performance appraisal standard, if all are paid equally, who is willing to improve technology, who is willing to sweat to improve production efficiency? I don't even have the heart to be a manager, the greater the power, the greater the responsibility, and the higher the risk.

The general manager of a company will go in more than a hundred kinds of dereliction of duty, and a cleaner, even if he does not work for ten days, will be dismissed, this is the gap.

The officers received a lot of military salaries, good treatment, good housing, and good food.

There are two kinds of soup, such as good white rice, white flour steamed buns, and noodles, and there are three kinds of dishes they eat, namely stewed pork with cabbage, stir-fried pork with radish, and a bowl of sweet and sour lotus root and haggis soup.

"With this meal, I have decided, I will sell this life to the garrison!"

Li Fang was sweating profusely, and now their treatment is better than that of the generals of the Dongjiang Army.

Li Zhixiang glanced at Li Fangdao and said, "Don't you want to go to General Shang?" ”

"Hehe, isn't this a little brother mouse!"

Li Fang looked at Li Zhixiang and said, "Third brother, I heard that we have five taels of silver every month, and that is ...... a year Sixty taels? ”

"Ben has a total of ten taels of silver a month!"

Li Zhixiang said earnestly: "You collect your heart, use your heart in the right place, Ning Haijun will be rewarded with ten taels of silver for beheading, strive to make meritorious service as soon as possible, earn hundreds of eighty acres, and take the mother over!" ”

Li Fang lowered his voice and said: "Third brother, I know that there is a stronghold of a group of pirates, they have been operating for several years, and they should have a lot of family resources, do you want to tell the garrison, let's have a black ......."

"The farts are black and black, our officers and soldiers, this matter must be reported to the garrison immediately!"

Cheng Shijie sighed in his heart when he heard Li Fang and Li Zhixiang's advice, and the centripetal force of the organization was formed.

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