In the early morning, the valley has the feeling of birds singing and flowers.

There are bare mountains all around, and there are even birds chirping in flocks and chirping together.

"Wow"

With a bang,

Then flocks of sparrows began to fly away.

A few large birds flew in the sky, hovering in the air.

Yao Shan was a little curious, he had seen an eagle, and the sound of the chirping was definitely not like this.

But what kind of bird is this big bird? It can make a crow-like call.

The sparrows had apparently flown away from the big bird!

"In our place, that's called old wow!"

A grinning General Li walked out and handed him a sea bowl.

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It's Zhenzi noodles, Xu is from Zhongzhou to take care of Yao Shan, so there is only half a bowl in this sea bowl.

Noodles, noodles, a bowl of noodles.

The way to eat in the north, this bowl first drinks soup and eats vegetables, and then adds the rice halfway through the meal. This is the authentic way to eat the cheeks.

Even in restaurants in the Northland, as long as they sell noodles, it will be the same, and it will not change for thousands of years.

However, for Yao Shan, it is estimated that he will not add more, but half a bowl looks like he is a little stingy. However, I heard General Lin say that he only ate half a bowl of fried firecrackers yesterday, which made General Li feel distressed, he came from the era of starvation, and this waste of food is not good.

So when I was eating today, I deliberately asked the man to scoop only half a bowl.

When he came over and handed it to him, he said politely: "Eat first, too much, not enough to add more, today's, add two catties of pork belly, taste, it's all meat, look, I asked them to dig more for you!"

Yao Shandui smiled, and frowned when he took it.

General Xu is Li felt that digging half a bowl for him made him feel a little stingy, so the top layer of this cheek was deliberately dug up with meat, almost all over.

It is said that the people of the Northland are not happy without meat!

But Yao Shan, who eats rice, doesn't say that he has a small appetite, and even he can't eat meat.

Despite this, the enthusiasm of General Lee can still be felt, how can this be refused?

didn't say much, took the dishes and chopsticks, and planned to find a table and chair to sit down and eat noodles.

But when I looked around, I frowned again.

There are no tables, chairs and benches around, right?

Look at General Lee,

He came over and squatted on the edge of the watchtower, elbowing the big bowl and eating!

Orthodox Northlanders eat noodles.

Squat to eat!

"Eat?"

You can't refuse kindness, especially when he eats so deliciously!

Yao Shan could only follow the customs of the villagers, and came over to squat down and eat with General Li.

You can also talk while eating.

It is said that the most famous of this noodles is Qishan noodles, but on the right side, because it is a trade route of the Silk Road, trade is frequent. As a result, the floating population is also extremely large.

A variety of snacks and gadgets have been circulated in this Hexi corridor, and they have slowly integrated into the lives of the locals over the years.

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The people's top priority.

Hunan cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Shandong cuisine, here also blend with each other and develop with each other, the common people love to eat Sichuan cuisine, but also the fat but not greasy braised pork, to satisfy hunger. Occasionally, I get a chicken, and all kinds of things are added to it to stew in a pot, which is called stew, and it is necessary for the New Year.

It's the same with the noodles.

Many people ask what is the difference between Hexi's Zhenzi noodles and Qishan's Zhenzi noodles?

It is generally said that it is on the noodles, but General Li does not think so, he said, the biggest difference between the noodles in Hexi and the noodles in Qishan is the noodles!

Xifu's Zhenzi noodles are located in Longdong, where the water quality is mostly nourished by the Yellow River, so the grain yield is high, and the noodles made are also tough and refreshing. However, the water quality here is mostly glacial meltwater, because a large amount of land has been barren due to years of war, and often the grain has begun to be harvested before it is fully ripe, resulting in a slight gray flour grinding, and the texture and flexibility are far inferior to the Guanzhong area of Longdong.

Naturally, the noodles that come out of life will not have the effect there, so Hexi people love to eat two kinds of noodles, one is called rubbing fish roe, and the other is called pulling noodles and seeds.

Rubbing caviar is actually short noodles, and after forming the dough, stretching it, cutting it into thumb-length segments with a knife, and then kneading the dough into a fish-like shape by hand, hence the name of caviar rubbing. In fact, this kind of pasta is similar to the fried cannon, and the pasta used in the fried cannon is a section of pasta similar to fish roe.

After living well, you need to wake up for a period of time to let the noodles ferment, and then you can have better flexibility and pull the noodles very long. However, the noodles in Hexi are indeed not as good as those in Longdong, and it is impossible to pull a noodle very thinly, so the noodles on this side will generally be very thick, and the noodles taste very strong.

Hearing that General Li was very familiar with this food, Yao Shan was curious, and couldn't help asking: "General Li is very familiar with this stove? Brother Ling also runs a restaurant, so he should be very familiar with this business, right?"

"The ancestors handed it down, don't hide it from Mr. Yao, Xiyong's military service is every household, our old Li family, just me and my younger brother, if it weren't for me, it would have to be my younger brother!

"Oh, I see. ”

Dajian has a lot of conscience compared to Xiyongke, and the conscription is a conscription system, that is, through recruitment to conscription, those who join the army will have a good income, according to the most basic recruits, as long as they enlist in the army, the annual military salary is at least twenty taels of silver, which is more than eighty percent higher than the way to make money outside.

For example, if a family of five, two old husband and wife, and three children below, if a son joins the army, the family's annual field tax will be reduced by fifty, that is to say, if the family has to pay one or two cents of silver for five acres of land this year, then if it is a military household, it only needs to pay six cents of silver.

Not only that, Dajian will also take great care of the military households, if it is a family of three, the old couple will have a son under their knees, and the son will join the army, then Dajianjun will give the old couple a glorious family title, exempt the old couple from all conscription, and every year the government will reissue them five taels of silver as a reward. If the son dies in battle, the government will also take care of it, such as arranging some simple work for the elderly, so that they can spend their old age in peace.

These things are unthinkable in Siyon.

Xiyong not only has to participate in military service, but even if he participates in military service, there will not be many preferential policies, but after many years, some subsidies will occasionally be issued to the families of military soldiers, but these subsidies are better than nothing, and they are only a few taels of silver.

Of course, this year has begun to improve, and military families who have died in battle will receive an extra two loads of food every year. Military personnel also began to pay additional subsidies, although not much, but it is a good start.

"If General Li also opens a restaurant, it must be full of guests!"

General Li, who was eating noodles, couldn't help but glance at Yao Shan, stunned for a moment, and then smiled and said, "Haha, yes, but to be honest, since I became a soldier, I don't really want to open a restaurant!"

"Huh?"

I didn't expect General Li to answer like this, Yao Shan looked at him.

According to his understanding, Xiyong's strict military service system, in fact, most people in the army should not want to be soldiers, but want to go home as soon as possible!

Although he knew that the military salary of Xiyong's soldiers was the same as that of Dajian, and the lowest class also started at twenty-tael, but that was also the year with the support of Dajian that there was such a generous treatment, two years ago, after that Dajian actually reduced his aid to Xiyong in the past two years, Xiyong should be overstretched in terms of military salary, so that Liu Ba has been disarmed three times in two years, reducing the original 300,000 to less than 200,000, and the most important thing is that now the right has not been peaceful, and the war of the general Liu Yingqi on the Western Front has been endless, which also greatly consumes Xiyong's national strength。

According to rumors, there were rumors of arrears of military salaries last year, which led to a mutiny in one of the troops of the Central Guard, and nearly 3,000 people were killed!

As if to see Yao Shan's thoughts, General Li rarely raised his thick eyebrows, and said with a naughty look: "A single filament does not form a thread, a lonely tree does not form a forest, it is covered in iron, and a few nails are hit." ”

"Huh?"

"Hehe, haven't you heard a word?" General Li showed a thief smile and said with a smile: "Follow the young marshal to have meat to eat!"

Yao Shan: "......"

I almost forgot about this stubble, yesterday I patronized and drank the jujube tea, and as soon as I praised General Li's tea, General Li couldn't help it, and gave him all his good things to eat, and this meal was in the middle of the night, but I forgot that when General Li joined the army, he followed Liu Tingyu to fight! And Liu Tingyu is also a famous war commander in Xiyong, and what he is most talked about is his sentence of raising war with war!

What does it mean to feed war with war?

Liu Ba didn't allow them to loot, so Liu Tingyu changed his eyes, and instead of robbing the beaten cities, he sent people to the door to ask for donations, so that those high-profile families would have money to contribute, grain to pay, someone to give people, and meat to meat.

Under the guise of this, in fact, it is extortion, these cities have just been beaten, and the security is not good, so it stands to reason that a curfew should be implemented.

But Liu Tingyu is very confident and does not engage in any curfew.

The result?

These rich people refused to donate money to him, and they were robbed one after another at night, and even encountered robbers who took advantage of the fire to rob, all kinds of names, and even some bandits from Wolongling! Isn't this?

Everyone knows it, but there is nothing they can do about him, don't say anything else, just these people under Liu Tingyu's hands, they are all masters of the arts, who can stop it!

Besides, at that time, the northern land was full of Zhumen wine and meat, there were frozen bones on the road, the rich and rich were oily, and the wine pond and meat forest were in the wine pond every day, looking for fun.

The poor who have no money are just clear water sticks and batter every day, and their hungry chests are attached to their backs. I have long hated those rich people, and I heard that the young marshal not only had no heart to resist when he came in, but he was even enthusiastic to help and lead the way to deliver news, which was very affectionate!

Why?

Send a letter to someone who will give you two catties of meat and silver, who doesn't want this?

When he heard that this kind of extortion did not scold Liu Tingyu, on the contrary, he also applauded, and when he saw the fundraiser going to the door of a family's house, he immediately ran out and told the official family how much land, how much silver, and how many women this guy had!

And many people even went directly to Liu Tingyu and joined his account, not to mention the young man's strong labor, or the old man who bravely moved forward and threw the old woman to join the army. The young marshal also did not refuse to come, and took them all in. Later, even women came to join, and the young marshal actually accepted it, which can be called a shocking group of old men.

Later, it was spread that the common people called Liu Tingyu's practice of robbing the rich and helping the poor!

In fact, not many people know about this matter in Dajian, but Yao Shan happens to be the small sect master of Zongqing Mansion, and he is one of the people who is specifically responsible for cooperating with the Dajian Imperial Court, so he has heard of it.

He knows that although Liu Tingyu followed Li Chengzhong's black armor army after becoming famous, he was only a partial general, and he led less than 5,000 horses, but according to Dajian's internal intelligence, the mixed troops under his command were at least more than 30,000 people, and the logistics baggage troops could not be counted, because those people didn't even wear military uniforms, and they usually looked like ordinary people, men, women and children, if they didn't pay attention when they walked on the road, they thought they were fleeing people!

These people also created a miracle at that time, and actually captured Chen Liang, the king of Nanchen who fled from the city, and his guards alive.

When the troops besieged the Northern Wei Dynasty, Liu Tingyu's 30,000 people surrounded the Northern Wei Dynasty garrisoned by 80,000 people, but according to the Northern Wei people, before Li Chengzhong came, there were at least 100,000 people besieging the Northern Wei Dynasty!

The Cao family was not beaten down, they were really scared to death.

Of course, they don't know that the common people from all over the country came to Liu Tingyu's military camp to wave their flags and shout at him, and each person had two taels of silver!