As the day draws to a close, night falls, and soon it becomes completely dark.

Outside Julu City, Liu Xuande held a torch and walked back and forth. It seemed that he had been waiting for someone for a long time.

After a long time, there was the sound of horse hooves.

Liu Xuande looked attentively.

After a while, the sound of horse hooves approached.

Liu Bei saw the visitor clearly, and the visitor also saw Liu Bei.

"Haha! Brother, I'm back!" After hunting, Zhang Fei saw Liu Bei waiting, laughed loudly, and jumped off his horse.

Zhang Fei had a rabbit on his waist and a pheasant on his neck, tied with a straw rope.

After taking down the prey, Zhang Fei happily showed off to Liu Bei, "Look at the rabbit I killed! Where is the second brother, where is Xi'er? Let's stew the meat and eat it."

Liu Bei also felt happy when he took the prey from Zhang Fei.

"Yun Changxi'er hasn't come back yet, I'm waiting too." Liu Bei said.

Zhang Fei was stunned for a moment, "It's dark and midwinter today, where did they go?"

Liu Bei told Zhang Fei that Guan Yu and Li Mengxi had gone to find a place to build a military camp. They went out in the afternoon and have not returned yet.

Zhang Fei scratched his head, "I'm really busy." Zhang Fei muttered.

One word "busy" is enough to say everything.

On this day, the third day of the twelfth lunar month, half a month after the end of the Yellow Turban War, the eight-day confrontation between the Zhuozhou Army and Huangfu Song ended. The Zhuozhou Army handed over Zhang Jiao to Huangfu Song. On the first day after the incident ended.

The Yellow Turban War ended half a month ago.

But Zhuozhou Army's own affairs only ended yesterday.

After understanding the matter, the Zhuozhou Army immediately became busy without rest for a day.

I don’t know what is going on in the world at this time and what the other heroes of the Han Dynasty are doing.

But in one day, the Zhuozhou Army dispatched a hunting team of a thousand people, devised a strategy to cut off food and raise money, dispatched a logging team, a fishing team and a carpenter team totaling more than a thousand people, and the Zhuozhou Army's personal soldier system began

Strictly, Guan Yu and Li Mengxi who were out of town preliminarily determined the topography of the place where the Zhuozhou Army would set up camp. On the same day, the Zhuozhou Army and Navy decided to start setting up the camp from this day on.

There are so many things, none of them are important.

Zhang Fei brought back a lot of prey, including rabbits, pheasants, hedgehogs, magpies, wild boars, as well as eggs that Zhang Fei dug out from many bird nests by climbing trees, and a nest of young magpies.

The little magpie was hairless and chirping. Zhang Fei held a small handful of wheat grains in his hand, held the grains in his hands, stuffed a grain of wheat into the bird's mouth, and fed them one by one.

Zhang Fei listened to all Li Mengxi said about the method of storing and gathering grain.

The chicks are not fully feathered and have not even a bite of meat.

However, whether you use small insects or earthworms, you can feed the little magpies to a big size without consuming any food. Each big magpie will have at least two taels of meat.

Isn't this the breeding method? Isn't this just raising a lot of game for one or two months?

The magpie's feathers were plucked, cleaned, sprinkled with some salt, inserted into branches, and roasted over fire. It was delicious.

This is the reason why Zhang Fei wants to raise birds. On the one hand, Zhang Fei wants to bring a small gadget for Li Mengxi to raise and play with. The other reason is that Zhang Fei is very shrewd in his calculations. Zhang Fei already understands.

A nest of chicks can get several kilograms more meat by digging up earthworms and raising them for a month. It's profitable, so why not?

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Hunting can indeed yield good harvests. Today I hunted during the day and at night, I caught a lot of wild animals, the bulk of which was a wild boar, a male and a female. In total, it was estimated that there was more than 180 kilograms of meat.

With a harvest ahead of him, Zhang Fei no longer complained about going out to work without a day off. Instead, he was glad that he went out today. If he had waited until tomorrow, he would have lost several hundred kilograms of meat.

Liu Bei was stewing meat in a urn, and Zhang Fei was holding a bird's nest in his hand. Liu Bei went to get firewood, and he followed. Liu Bei went to fetch water, and Zhang Fei followed. Wherever Liu Bei went, Zhang Fei followed, and everyone was spitting and croaking.

Guala talked about hunting during the day.

Liu Bei smiled quietly and listened.

After that, the water was added to the vat, the meat was put in, salt was sprinkled, and the meat was stewed for a long time.

Beside the fire, Liu Bei and Zhang Fei gathered around to guard it.

Liu Bei said casually, "Third brother, you go out hunting, and thousands of people go out with you to eat and sleep in the open air. If you catch a prey, don't rush back and take it back, and keep it to reward everyone."

If there’s too much meat, it won’t be too late to send it back.”

Zhang Fei raised his head and glanced at Liu Bei, "Isn't hunting to collect food? I have food with me, why eat meat? The meat is sent back and used as food."

Liu Bei put a piece of new firewood under the pottery urn, clapped his hands, and smiled helplessly, "You. If you eat the meat, isn't it equivalent to saving food? It's the same."

Zhang Fei disagreed with Liu Bei's view. He glared, "How can meat be the same as grain? We eat meat, but they can eat grain!"

Liu Bei looked at Zhang Fei who didn't listen to the advice and opened his mouth, helpless.

Liu Bei's original intention was to persuade Zhang Fei that every time he hunts, he should keep a part of the prey to encourage everyone. What is motivating everyone? Merits and rewards. Whoever hits the prey with one arrow and kills the prey may as well give him a rabbit leg.

It doesn't take much, like pig ears, to keep your morale high.

On the contrary, if the prey is hunted, no matter how much or how little, no one is left alive, no one will say anything about it, but they will not complain in their hearts.

Liu Bei worked hard like this.

But what did Zhang Yide say? Zhang Yide said, of course, wild animals must be brought back to his brothers to eat. Why should those soldiers eat meat?

Zhang Fei treated his soldiers harshly.

Liu Bei persuaded him with sincerity, "Third brother, we will hunt again tomorrow. No matter how many prey there are, you keep half to reward everyone..."

"No!" Zhang Fei refused directly.

Liu Bei was completely helpless against Zhang Fei. Liu Bei, who couldn't laugh or cry, had to change his strategy to persuade him, "Third brother, why did Xi'er give you pen and ink when you were leading the troops to hunt?"

You are going hunting here, not just for ordinary hunting, but for military hunting!

It’s called military hunting, and it’s like eating in the army!

If you have merit in the army, you will be rewarded, but if you don’t reward your merits, how can you talk about hunting in the army?"

Seeing that Zhang Fei was impatient, Liu Bei continued to persuade, "It's just some meat, why should we cherish it?

Being stingy and unwilling to give up, the soldiers treated him passively, so the hunt was not strict. A rabbit escaped today, and a wild boar escaped tomorrow. The loss was more than a thousand catties of meat.

If you are stingy with ten pounds of meat, you will lose a thousand pounds. This is a small loss but a big loss. How is it unwise?"

"Listen to my words. In the future, when hunting, half of the meat will be left as a reward to everyone. If you don't listen, ask Xi'er, and Xi'er will definitely think so..."

"Chengchengcheng!" Zhang Fei looked impatient, "I'll just leave half of the meat!"

Zhang Fei couldn't stand Liu Bei's endless chatter.

"...It's already late, why aren't my second brother and Xi'er back?"

When Zhang Fei said this, Liu Bei couldn't help but become worried.

"Yun Chang has brought a guard, so nothing will happen." Liu Bei said to himself, saying that it was okay. Liu Bei raised his head and looked outside the room, with a worried look on his face.
Chapter completed!