"Uncle, I don't know if the recent food is delicious" Cao Chong was dressed in green clothes, his head was wrapped in silk, and he held a feather fan in his hand, which really looked like a literati.
Behind Cao Chong, Zhuge Liang is dressed in Confucian clothes, Zhuge Liang is still a little comfortable in Cao Ying's camp these days, and he has nothing to do, the most, he still goes back to Huang's house and plays chess with his father-in-law Huang Chengyan to meet friends, Cao Chong has followed up a few times, but there is really not much fun in playing chess, and Cao Chong will no longer go after that.
Compared with the communication between these literati, Cao Chong preferred to go to the army to see what the soldiers of this era were like.
Usually, what Cao Chong sees is the Cao army in armor, so the iron sword of the Cao army is Cao Chong's deepest impression of this Cao army, but when he arrived in the Cao camp and ate and drank with these soldiers, Cao Chong's definition of this army in his heart has changed a little.
Cao Chong used to graduate from the police academy and also served in the military, although he knew that the food during the Three Kingdoms period must not be as good as the food he had during his military service, but he didn't expect it to be so bad.
The emperor did not send hungry soldiers, the army was scattered if there was no food, and the soldiers and horses went first before they moved the grain and grass.
China has many aphorisms about the importance of military rations.
No matter when and where, only when and where a soldier eats and sleeps well can he have the ability to march and fight in heavy equipment.
Although China is a big culinary country, those varied dishes are the patent of wealthy and aristocratic families, and ordinary soldiers cannot enjoy them, and the food in the barracks is just two words "monotonous".
The distant ancestors of the Han Chinese were semi-nomadic, semi-fishermen and hunters, but since they entered the interior of the Central Plains from Qinghai, Gansu Province, the population gradually increased and began to develop primitive agriculture.
In the Shang Dynasty, hunting was a major source of military rations.
The scale of the Shang Dynasty's field hunting was very large, and hundreds of beasts and animals could be obtained by dispatching thousands of people at a time.
The oracle bone inscription records that during a field hunt, the merchant obtained 451 deer.
By the time of the Zhou Dynasty, the scale of hunting was even larger, and King Wu of Zhou once hunted tens of thousands of wild animals at one time.
Because of this, the Shang and Zhou dynasties were able to continue to expand their territory and gradually expand their territory to Shaanxi, Henan, Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, Anhui and many other provinces.
After the half-farming and half-pastoral life in the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, after the Warring States period, the Han nationality officially became an agricultural nation, and cereals and some vegetables of low quality became the common people and the main diet of the army.
Hungry or malnourished soldiers cannot fight in armor.
During the Three Kingdoms period, the army's diet, in addition to dry food, was some porridge and water.
Because before the Song Dynasty, the general cooking utensils were pottery, and there were very few iron pots.
Pottery is best for cooking porridge and not for stir-frying.
The food of the army of the Xia Shang Dynasty was boiled millet porridge, and there were few vegetable porridges, and the vegetable porridge needed to add all kinds of wild vegetables, wild fruits, and beans to the porridge, and the meat porridge that needed to be put into the meat was naturally impossible to talk about.
As soon as the army arrived at the meal, they set up a pot to boil vegetables and porridge to drink.
It's just that the porridge is very thick and called thick.
In Cao's army, the staple food of the army is millet.
Cao Chong looked at the bowl of millet porridge in the hands of the veteran in front of him, and had to sigh in his heart.
If you can't even eat, how can you fight The veteran was the army of the four counties of Jingnan, and this army was originally from Changsha County, which used to be the private soldiers of the family, but now it is under the jurisdiction of Wei Yan, and Wei Yan is naturally Cao Chong's person now.
The veteran didn't see the look on Cao Chong's face, looked at the corn porridge on the bowl, and then looked forward at the wild vegetable porridge boiling in the clay pot, but the wrinkles on his face squeezed out a bright smile.
"Noble, the villain's food is very delicious, and now I am not hungry."
Cao Chong listened to the soldier's answer, and there was no pleasure in his heart, but a lot heavier.
This is the soldier of this era The soldiers of this era, marching and fighting, are nothing more than life, in fact, they don't think about those things that are crowned with officials, the so-called wife and shadow son, for them, is an unattainable thing, and life is the most important thing at the moment.
They came to serve as soldiers, mainly because they were bankrupt, and the fields they received from the state in the early stages of the dynasty had been annexed by the powerful of the family, and if they did not join the army, they would become a dry bone on the road.
Starved to death The veteran was holding a bowl of water porridge in his hand, but he was as happy as a child, not because this bowl of rice porridge was different from other rice porridges.
It's because before, he couldn't even drink this kind of rice porridge.
The dynasty collapsed, and the soldiers couldn't even drink millet porridge, so you can imagine how depressed the lives of those civilians would be.
The soldiers have nothing to eat, so they can go and rob them, but the common people have nothing to eat, so what can they do Go grab it Of course not, they can only sell their sons and daughters, and if there is a nobleman who wants it, even the mother-in-law can sell it.
This is the life of ordinary people in this era, in this period of competition between the heroes, behind the countless heroic stories, is the tragic blood and tears of these ordinary people call Cao Chong exhaled in his heart, scooped out half a bowl of rice porridge with a lacquer bowl, put it on his mouth and blew it, and raised his head to drink it in one gulp.
Rice porridge is tasteless, Cao Chong is in the prime minister's mansion, such rice porridge is naturally tasteless in Cao Chong's mouth, Cao Chong is a little uncomfortable after drinking half a bowl, it is hard to imagine that these people live on it.
Cao Chong and the veteran had a wordless conversation, at first the veteran was still a little afraid of Cao Chong, but after talking too much, and eating in a pot, the veteran's words became more and more, from the veteran's mouth, the life of the soldier in this era, like a picture scroll, gradually unfolded in front of Cao Chong.
The veteran turned out to be a cook with the army, but because he killed a man in a battle, he was promoted to the rank of captain, and there were several men under him.
The veteran, as a cook with the army, can kill people, because the cooks of this period are not exactly cooks.
In this era, when there was a war, the accompanying cook, when the war was leisurely, acted as a cook to cook for the soldiers.
As soon as the battle becomes tense, you have to throw away the kitchen knife, pick up the weapon and go to the front line to fight, which can barely be regarded as a temporary combat force.
Cao Chong crossed over, he is a noble son, for the ugly side of this era, in these days, slowly know, and after knowing, Cao Chong's heart is a little heavy.
In getting along with Zhou Budo and others, Cao Chong thought day and night about how to get the position of the prince and how to grasp more power, but when he got along with these soldiers, Cao Chong felt that it was a very good thing to be able to live.
Compete with each other hehe It's just a joke Cao Chong got up and walked straight into his tent, and Zhuge Liang and the others naturally followed.
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Cao Chong gently exhaled a breath of turbidity, which could be regarded as calming down his emotions.
"Mr. used to work in Liu Bei's camp, I don't know if Mr. knows how the food of his soldiers is" Zhuge Liang naturally knew what Cao Chong wanted to know, but even if he knew, he could only shake his head in his heart.
"Uncle Liu's food is much worse than Cao Ying's food, especially now that Uncle Liu Huang is in Jiangdong, relying on Jiangdong to help, although Sun Quan will give Uncle Liu Huang food and grass, but the quantity is definitely insufficient."
Cao Chong nodded, he naturally knew that Liu Bei's food was not as good as his own, and he asked like this, just to make his heart a little firmer.
The heroes are competing against each other, the warlords are fighting, but the common people are innocent Let me put an end to this chaotic world Cao Chong's eyes flickered, and the military orders in his hand flew down, and an hour later, the white tent in the same place disappeared, and the army was like a swarm of ants, marching quickly in the direction of Xiakou
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