Guan Yu went out for more than half a month and recruited more than 6,000 refugees. This number was actually very different from the number of refugees who came to seek refuge after hearing the news after the sentries were sent out to spread the news.

Adding two to one, in less than a month, the number of refugees who were recruited totaled more than 10,000.

What is the concept of ten thousand people? If the quality of these ten thousand people is not taken into account, and if children and adults, regardless of gender, old or young, are given a sharpened piece of wood or a bamboo pole, then there will be less than six or seven thousand troops at once.

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If we were more ambitious and only selected strong men from the refugees, we would be able to select at least three to four thousand young and strong soldiers.

Liu Xuande has not yet recruited troops from the refugees, but because he has recruited so many refugees, he has this manpower. If there is an emergency, such as a powerful force leading troops to harass, or the state government sends people to conquer because they have seized the powerful people's food, then

, the rebel army can immediately expand from hundreds of troops to thousands of troops overnight.

Regardless of whether it is among the people or the government, no one in Zhuo County can control the rebel army.

Another day, the 21st of May, Guan Yu did not rest for a whole day. He returned yesterday and immediately led his troops out again today.

This time, Guan Yu to the south of Zhuojun was cleared, and the stubborn enemies that had been explored in the north, east, west and east for so many days were eliminated one by one.

On the main road, we sent Guan Yu off.

Li Mengxi, Liu Bei, and Zhang Fei watched Guan Yu go away.

After Guan Yu walked away, Li Mengxi scratched his head and encountered an unexpected question.

There is not enough alcohol, or rather, there is not enough wine.

For more than half a month, Zhang Fei's family's wine collection was used to distill the alcohol, which amounted to more than a hundred jars of wine.

During this period of time, Li Mengxi and military doctor Tian Bu worked together, steaming in the morning and steaming in the evening, and evaporating the alcohol when necessary. They finished making Zhang Fei's wine, and not a single jar was left.

Although a lot of high-quality alcohol evaporated, because Guan Yu was indispensable for his campaign, and because tens of thousands of refugees arrived, alcohol was an excellent disinfectant. With so many refugees, there were so many skin ulcers, sores, wounds, and wounds.

Suppuration and other trauma can all be treated with alcohol. Li Mengxi clearly knew that high-strength alcohol would be very effective.

Therefore, alcohol has become a panacea.

There are so many people, more than 10,000 people. Even if one out of ten needs alcohol, it is still a thousand people needing alcohol. If a patient uses two liang of alcohol, then a thousand people need to drink alcohol, which is two thousand liang, which is more than one hundred kilograms.

liquor.

The distilled alcohol is simply not enough.

Because Li Mengxi had used up all the wine stored in Zhang Fei's house, Zhang Fei was a little unhappy, so he had to pay someone to buy more wine.

This time, Zhang Fei was cautious and bought more than a hundred jars of wine from various places. Zhang Fei hid half of it, and the remaining half was used to bring disaster to Li Mengxi.

According to ordinary water wine and late Han Dynasty brewing technology, it should be a low-alcohol wine such as rice wine. From rice wine to alcohol above 75 degrees, it needs to be distilled more than three times, and even quicklime must be added. The proportion of alcohol produced is about 75%.

Eight jars of rice wine can produce a jar of alcohol with an alcohol content of over 75 degrees.

More than fifty jars of wine, divided by eight, means that only four or five jars of alcohol can be distilled.

Regarding the evaporator, the new evaporator is equipped with a water-cooling casing, dual cooling of the water-cooling casing and the condensation tank, and the evaporation efficiency is pretty good.

Li Mengxi combined his shallow knowledge and improved it several times. The final evaporator finally had strong practicality and could be used for a long time until conditions were mature.

Another factor that restricts the production of alcohol is not technical issues, but raw materials, alcohol.

Zhang Fei's family's wine collection was used up in no time, so Zhang Fei went to buy some more wine. The productivity in the Han Dynasty was obviously not enough to produce large quantities of wine, and now the economy is bad, food is precious, and few people are making wine.

There is no shortage of raw materials yet, but in the near future, the source of water and wine will become a problem.

For Zhang Fei, wine is more important than food. He can live without eating for a day, but if he doesn't drink for a day, he will feel exhausted.

Zhang Fei only understands so much about wine.

In Li Mengxi's view, wine is an extremely important strategic material.

Li Mengxi didn't know much about medicine in the Han Dynasty, but he must have thought that with the medical technology of the late Han Dynasty, there were few products with a stronger bactericidal effect than alcohol.

Alcohol can only reduce infection mortality by 10%.

What is the concept of ten percent? A hundred wounded veterans can live ten more lives because of alcohol.

Ten soldiers who have fought hundreds of battles are worth far more than just some alcohol.

On May 21st, when Guan Yu was walking forward, he saw a group of hungry and cold refugees behind him. This group of refugees had walked an unknown distance, and when they reached the foot of Zhuozhou City, they were almost unable to hold on.

The haggard yellow scarf soldier at the head walked directly under the Liu-shaped banner, threw the knife in his hand on the ground, and then went to the porridge shed to receive the porridge as if he knew the process very well.

If anyone pays attention, they will notice that this yellow scarf is a familiar face in recent days.

In other words, he was the first to inquire about the news.

After days of observation, the spies felt that the recruitment did not seem to be a forgery, and they no longer had any scruples. The yellow scarf refugees who were hiding in some ditch came directly to surrender early in the morning.

The Yellow Turban refugees lined up to receive the porridge. They were so hungry that they wolfed down the porridge and drank from their bowls.

Everything is thoughtful.

There are enough bowls, the bowls are very clean, and the porridge is also added with cold water. The temperature is not hot or cold, so you can drink it directly without burning your mouth. It is just right.

Adults and children all share a bowl of porridge, so it doesn’t matter if there are too many children in the family, there won’t be enough portions.

There are even dedicated people keeping an eye on it, just in case any parent favors sons over daughters and refuses to let their daughters drink the porridge.

While the Yellow Turban refugees were queuing up to receive porridge, a man on a horse dressed as a hawker stopped four or five steps to the side of the porridge shed and blatantly looked at the porridge-giving situation.

Li Mengxi noticed this guy and thought to himself that you, a spy, are so bold and public.

Normally spies would just hide and observe secretly, but this guy even led the horse over, just like visiting the vegetable market, looking at this porridge shed, that porridge shed, one by one.

He couldn't order this guy to be arrested, and he couldn't stare at him for fear of scaring him away. He had to pretend to ignore him, which made Li Mengxi uncomfortable.

Li Mengxi was waiting at the medical window (referring to the dozen or so doctors stationed outside the city), waiting for the refugees to finish receiving their porridge, so that he could use alcohol to disinfect those who needed it.

I didn't want to see that spy, and that spy came over with his horse so shamelessly.

The spy walked up to the doctors' table and glanced around to see whether the medicines or medicine jars and other items the doctors had on hand were there.

"If I'm not mistaken, this is a place for medical treatment."

The middle-aged spy looked at the old man in front of him, "Can I stay here for medical treatment?"

On the side, Li Mengxi couldn't bear it anymore, "This is to treat the Yellow Turban refugees. You are not a Yellow Turban and are not here to surrender. Why are you joining in the fun?"

The spy didn't take it seriously and laughed at Li Mengxi.

"Oh, if someone is a Yellow Turban, if he comes to surrender, will you give him medical treatment?"

"Yes!" Li Mengxi looked at this person and replied in a deep voice.

"How much does the medicine cost? How much does it cost?"

"Not a penny!" Li Mengxi replied simply and neatly.

The spies were a little surprised when they heard this.

"Then you're not at a loss?"

"I'm quite wealthy, can't I?" Li Mengxi looked at the spy with a subtle look.

The spy was stunned, looked up and laughed.

Then, Li Mengxi watched him leading the horse into the city.

Is this detail so bold?

Li Mengxi could tell that although this man was dressed as a hawker, he didn't have anything in his robe. Moreover, this man was strong and powerful, and he was sitting on a tall horse, which looked good.
Chapter completed!