Demoness, Where Are You Fleeing To?

"Dahao, what kind of vermicelli are these? They're quite delicious."

In a simple tent, Xiao Nanyan sat on a mat and looked at the wooden bowl in his hand in surprise: "I have eaten rice noodles, noodles, and dough, but I have never eaten anything like this. There is actually something in it." Oil flowers?"

He was born in a military household in Henan, and his family was hereditary flag officer, so he had a temporary tent to shelter under the bright sun.

Xiao Nanyan's soldiers could only stay outside and gorge themselves under the scorching sun.

It's not that they don't have a camp, but it's more than three miles away from the battlefield, on a small hill.

At this time, opposite Xiao Nanyan, also sucking vermicelli, was his colleague Chang Dahao, who was also the flag officer.

A team of fire-headed soldiers among their hundred households were all managed by Chang Dahao.

"It seems to be called potato flour. It was made by the King of Fenyang County. The Ministry of War made a lot of effort to send it from the east to comfort the army. As for where this oil flower came from, I don't know. It seems like lard was used? I was very busy today, so I didn’t go to the Huotou Army to see it.”

When Chang Dahao said this, he glanced at Xiao Nanyan with dissatisfaction: "Why are you talking so much nonsense? Why don't you eat your food quickly? Believe it or not, the potato flour in the pot will be gone as soon as you turn around?"

A bowl of potato flour is definitely not enough to fill them up. They have to eat vermicelli soup and two or three large steamed buns. .

However, Chang Dahao knew that Huotoujun was doing it for the first time and was not sure of the quantity. There was still a lot left in the big iron pot, so it was no problem for them, a family of over 80 people, to scoop out half a bowl.

At this time, everyone was eating and drinking wildly, fearing that they would be left behind.

Xiao Nanyan was surprised: "This is made of potatoes? Are you trying to trick me?"

He thought of the potatoes boiled with millet this month, and his expression was quite complicated.

In fact, it's not that it tastes bad. When Xiao Nanyan ate it for the first time, it felt very novel and delicious, but after eating it for a month, he became a little bit resistant.

In the past, millet was served, but since potatoes became available, it is thin millet porridge with potatoes and a little salt, of which potatoes account for 90%.

Xiao Nanyan felt that their grain officer was fooling people, and his subordinates complained to him more than once.

Xiao Nanyan actually knew that the imperial court was quite kind. In the past, in the guard station, even a chief flag officer like him might not be able to take care of everything.

But first of all, they were digging and carrying mud on the front line, which was really physically demanding. Secondly, people were greedy and not enough. It was okay to eat potatoes occasionally, but it was really unbearable to eat them every day.

Xiao Nanyan didn't expect that the potatoes could be made into vermicelli. He thought it should have been like this.

He would never get tired of eating this kind of potato flour for dozens of meals in a row——

Prince Fenyang is so powerful that he can actually invent this kind of food.

"I actually prefer boiled sweet potatoes with millet in the morning. Why not make this for lunch?"

Xiao Nanyan couldn't help but gulp when he thought of the millet and sweet potato porridge he had eaten in the morning.

The sweet potato is very sweet, like sugar, and goes perfectly with millet porridge.

When he took the first bite, his tongue almost fell off.

Xiao Nanyan has never eaten sweets more than fifty times in his life, and most of them were when he was a child.

He felt that the sweet potatoes were much more delicious than maltose.

It is said that the king of Fenyang County also found this product from overseas, so it is called "champion potato". This is because the king of Fenyang County once held the title of champion marquis.

Xiao Nanyan was recalling the taste when he realized that the wooden bowl of the Baihu adults next to him was almost bottomed out. He immediately put his head down and started to devour it.

But at this moment, thunderous cheers came from outside the tent.

"It's a sheep! The food supervisor Qian Shu sent someone to send sheep over, ten of them!"

Several people in the tent couldn't help but look at each other in astonishment, and then Baihuguan immediately stepped out with his sword in hand.

Xiao Nanyan and Chang Dahao couldn't let go of the potato noodles in their hands. They ate them while following closely behind.

At this time, perhaps all the surrounding camps had received sheep, and cheers were heard everywhere, resounding through the sky like thunder.

When Xiao Nanyan walked to the territory of the Huotou Army, he squeezed through the crowd and took a look, and found that there were indeed ten sheep inside, screaming "baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa", and their eyes seemed to be quite frightened.

Xiao Nanyan's eyes suddenly glowed green, but then he looked at Chang Dahao next to him in confusion.

"This is really strange. Why is the imperial court so generous? I used to eat meat once every ten days. How long has it been since? It seems like only two days?"

He thought that if these ten sheep were eaten sparingly, they would be enough for a hundred households to eat twice.

"How do I know?"

Chang Dahao rolled his eyes and walked over to a scribe standing next to the sheep.

That was a clerk from the Qianhu Office above them, who was responsible for supervising grain. As the chief officer of the Huotou Army, Chang Dahao must go over to sign and hand over this person.

At this time, he was inevitably curious: "Lao Liang, why did you send another sheep here today? Didn't you just send five sheep the day before yesterday?"

As he asked, he took the account book from the clerk and found that it had the words "Ten Thin Sheep" written on it.

In fact, those sheep are not thin, they are quite fat. However, this is a common trick used by clerks to avoid disputes.

Chang Dahao did not hesitate to take out the small seal he had with him and stamped it.

"Who are you asking me?" The clerk surnamed Liang said with a smile: "It is said that there will be more later, and it is said that as long as we can attack Xi'an City. From now on, we will send sheep every five days, or ten. I suggest You'd better make 'mutton and potato soup', which saves meat and is delicious. Ten sheep can eat three meals. I ate it twice later, and it was delicious."

Chang Dahao couldn't help but be surprised, wondering why the boss was so generous?

Sixty sheep in thirty days, how much does it cost?

Someone nearby had already heard the words of Liang Wenshi, so the whole camp suddenly burst into wolf cries and ghost howls, and the sound of cheers shook the surrounding area.

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What Chang Dahao didn't know was that at this time in Xuanfu, there was a Weisuo Xiaoqi with the same surname Chang, who was happily walking home with the money he got from selling sheep.

This man's name was Chang Qing. The first thing he did when he returned home was to throw all the seventeen coins in his pocket on his dining table, which also attracted the attention of everyone in the room.

"What is this? It's silver. Is it silver?" Chang Qing's mother-in-law, Mrs. Lu, was surprised and grabbed a bunch of money in her hand.

After getting it, she discovered that the silver-white money was very light and probably not silver.

She looked carefully and found that the top of the coins was "Weixin Tong Bao" and the back was the words "Yipen".

There are also grains of wheat ears on it, and I don’t know how they were carved. The pattern is very exquisite, and there are tooth marks on the outer edge.

There are more than 30 larger coins in this bunch of money, all of which are Weixin Tongbao. The words on the back are 'five coins', 'ten coins', 'twenty coins', and 'fifty coins'.

Lu was surprised: "Is this money? Where did it come from?"

"Of course it's the money from selling the sheep." Chang Qing brushed his beard and smiled: "This is the new money created by the imperial court. I sold three sheep to the imperial court and got a total of thirty-five guan. I used the copper coins I got from selling the animal skins. They were all replaced with this kind. A total of two piercings worth 700 Wen."

As he spoke, he took out twenty more silver coins and placed them on the table.

The three sheep of Chang Qing's family were rewarded by Fenyang County King after he defeated the Mongols in the previous Battle of Datong.

They were originally very thin, but Chang Qing's family spent a year raising them until they were fat. Then they gave birth to lambs and sheared them twice to raise their wool.

Chang Qing kept a young ewe and the half-grown lambs, and the others were sent to the town to be sold.

Raising sheep is actually not a loss. Last year, businessmen from the south came to buy wool in large quantities, and the price was quite high.

However, their fields failed to harvest this year, and Chang Qing had to sell the sheep to reduce the pressure on her family.

"Thirty-five guan? So high?"

Lu was surprised. In the past, the price of a sheep was just over eight taels of silver, which was more than eight taels of silver.

She picked up the coins on the table again and found that they were similar to the money before.

However, there is no square hole in the middle, the pattern is more exquisite, and the words on both sides are replaced by the words "Reformation Silver Treasure" and "One Yuan".

"Is this silver?"

Mrs. Lu weighed it with her hands and found that the silver dollar was exactly one tael. She put it in her mouth and bit it, and found that it was harder than normal silver.

"Official, wouldn't you exchange more of these silver coins? Why exchange these silver coins?"

In the past, during the reigns of Taizu and Taizong of the Jin Dynasty, the imperial court issued a series of banknotes called "Da Jin Bao Chao".

Those are some deceptive things, and in the end nothing can be exchanged.

"You're a woman, what do you know?"

Chang Qing sneered: "There are knowledgeable shopkeepers in the town who say that the fineness of this silver dollar is not enough. It is mixed with other things and is only 80% pure silver. But this kind of money should be made of aluminum. In the past, aluminum powder was so valuable that it was almost worth the price. Than gold.

I don't know what madness the imperial court is this time, but they actually use aluminum to make money. They may regret it in the future. Do you see how bright and pleasing the color is? What's more, our Qianhu Yamen officials have also said that from now on, the Jin Dynasty will only collect this kind of aluminum money when collecting taxes. After three years at most, copper coins and silver coins will be banned from circulation. "

When Chang Qing said this, he looked very proud: "This time the imperial court collected sheep in the town, everyone was more willing to exchange for aluminum money. However, Qianhu Office didn't have much stock of this kind of money. I still used my old connections to exchange Got these seventeen strings."

But what Chang Qing didn't know at this time was that the entire cost plus labor costs for the seventeen aluminum coins produced by the Ministry of Industry of Jin Dynasty did not exceed one dollar.

He had no idea that he was being cheated by the court, and he poured himself a cup of tea smugly: "I have to go to the town in a few days. It is said that the court will send a new sum of money soon. I have to give it to you." All the silver and copper coins at home were exchanged for this.

The official letter from our Qianhu Office said that our family should continue to raise sheep. The more sheep, the better. In the future, the court will collect sheep at a high price. There is also wool, and merchants coming from the south will harvest more this year.

In addition, Qian Shu specifically stated that those sheep that like to eat grass roots should be slaughtered and sold as soon as possible, and those sheep that do not like to eat grass roots should be kept for breeding. This is what Fenyang County Prince personally handed over, saying that he wanted to cultivate sheep breeds. I don’t quite understand, but since it’s the instructions from His Highness the County Prince, you shouldn’t be careless,”

Mrs. Lu couldn't help but feel refreshed. Their twelve lambs had grown to half a person's height. It is estimated that by October, the wool will be harvested once.

In the guard house, those fields have nothing to do with their family. The twelve acres of dry land cultivated privately by the Chang family will be taken away by the court at any time.

Only these livestock truly belong to them.

"Also, UU Reading www.uukanshu.net said that the annual salary issued by the higher authorities this year will be sufficient! By the end of the year, the imperial court may even allocate farmland to us."

Chang Qing drank tea with a calm expression, his eyes shining: "The Prince of Fenyang County has sent a memorial to the court, and he wants to allocate the military fields in the guard house equally to our military households. A small flag like me , you can get hundreds of acres of land.”

When Lu heard this, her hands froze immediately. The silver dollar in her hand fell to the ground with a clang.

Chang Qing continued indifferently: "Although these military fields are not allowed to be bought and sold, half of the food in these fields is our own. It is said that Beizhili has begun to be divided, and it was decided by the Ministry of Punishment of the current dynasty. Shangshu personally presided over it!

I thought that this year's crops would be poor and life would be difficult. But if the court really wants to divide the land, then our family’s life will have to skyrocket. The Prince of Fenyang County is truly benevolent. Not only is he a good fighter, but he also knows how to show sympathy to us grassroots military households. "

At this time, Chang Qing took another deep breath and suppressed his emotions: Then he looked at his mother-in-law and his two underage sons: "You guys go out later and let Qinai know about this. Let everyone be happy too. Also, from now on, the food in the fields must be taken good care of. Since the court is so kind, our family cannot feel guilty!"