However, there is also the most extreme method. The most extreme method actually shortens the manuscript, making people curl up to sleep, and compresses the space utilization to the limit.

Li Mengxi has also discovered that during the inspection, not all tents had their manuscripts swept away, but in many tents the manuscript mats were spread out next to each other on the ground.

This shows that many people also failed to think of this, which shows that the utilization rate of military accounts has not been fully explored.

Assuming that we had specifically emphasized that all the manuscript mats should be rolled up to be short, then it is estimated that the entire army can sleep more than a few thousand more people.

Sweeping up the manuscript, is this the limit of compressed space utilization?

No, Li Mengxi also thought of a more extreme method.

A more extreme method is.

[Ask all the people to sit cross-legged, covered with quilts, leaning on each other back to back, so that they can sit and sleep soundly.

In this way, one bunk can sleep three people, and the bed utilization rate is tripled.】

It must be super uncomfortable to sleep sitting up, but no matter what, it's uncomfortable and you can fall asleep.

Does sleeping while sitting up maximize bed utilization?

Not really, far from it.

In fact, if he had enough time and prepared enough, Li Mengxi thought of the canopy bed he used to sleep on when he was a student, with one person on top and one person on the bottom. A small room could sleep four, six, eight, or even sixteen people.

Nowadays, when there is an extreme shortage of sheltered houses from the wind and rain, if there are enough bunk beds, then the current limited number of tents can be enough to provide everyone with a place to shelter from the wind and rain.

From here, Li Mengxi thought more. He thought that if he could save the cost of living as much as possible, whether it was building a military camp or going to farm in the future, it would be best to use canopy beds.

Because the biggest cost of living is the house.

There is no need for a canopy bed. A small thatched hut can accommodate as many people as possible. Four straw mats can be spread in one room to sleep four people.

With the canopy bed, eight people can sleep comfortably.

If you go a little further and make the partition between beds very narrow, a three-layer canopy bed is not impossible.

In this way, the extra cost is only the cost of the bed, but the cost of the room is saved.

With canopy beds, one room can sleep sixteen people, but without canopy beds, one room can sleep four people.

There is no doubt that the use of canopy beds has saved three houses and at the same time increased the cost of canopy beds.

But no matter how you calculate it, the cost of a wooden bed is much lower than that of a house.

People's livelihood needs, food, clothing, housing and transportation.

When it comes to housing, Li Mengxi unexpectedly found the most cost-effective way to live.

[The method of saving living costs with bed frames can reduce living costs by two to three times or even more.]

Continuing to patrol the camp, the villagers frequently greeted each other with greetings on the road, and Liu Bei and others responded with smiles one by one.

Suddenly a cry sounded, "The whole camp is changing quarters! Every team is ready!"

The entire battalion changes campsites, and each team prepares!"

The cavalry was ordered to run through the camps, shouting and shouting.

The originally peaceful camp became commotion.

The people who were sleeping in the tent got up when they heard the call, hugged their own bedding and went out.

After everyone in the tent had left, the captains of each team were guarding the tent curtain door.

Then, the next group of people who wanted to stay came forward one by one and handed the small piece of cloth they held in their hands to the team leader for inspection.

It was probably the turn of the people with the triangular pieces of cloth to check in. Li Mengxi saw that the cloth pieces in the hands of the people staying in the accommodation all around were all small triangles.

The handover was completed in a short time. The handover process was very fast and very efficient.

After the people who had slept well came out of the tent, they wrapped themselves in quilts and put their manuscript mats on their heads to protect them from the snow. They had to wait in the wind and snow for sixteen hours before it was their turn to rest in the tent next time.

On the other side, under the porridge sheds scattered throughout the camp, the cooks began to call and the hot water was boiled.

Then, the peasants lined up and went to the porridge shed to get hot water with the small pieces of cloth in their hands.

The small pieces of cloth given to the civilian husbands in advance are important vouchers. They need cloth pieces to take turns sleeping, and hot water must be received in turns according to the cloth pieces. Because firewood is also very tight in the army, there is no way to supply unlimited amounts of hot water.

The hot water supply cannot keep up.

The advanced way to keep out the cold is, of course, to eat enough high-calorie foods, but now there is a food shortage in the military. Without enough food, the only option is to generate hot water.

Fortunately, there is enough hot water pipe.

Although the peasants who have not yet had their turn to stay have to wait for sixteen hours in the cold wind, the hot water supply can provide one bowl of hot water for twenty minutes, which is equivalent to drinking hot water without sweating.

Go down and get another bowl of scalding hot water.

There were over a hundred thousand people, 90% of whom were in ragged clothes, with yellow faces and skinny muscles. These poor people depended on hot water to survive. Those who did not have a campfire would consume too much firewood and could not afford a campfire.

Li Mengxi coordinated all manpower and material resources and worked hard to come up with a supply method, which indeed stabilized the situation.

If left alone, or by any other method, it is estimated that hundreds of thousands of people would have frozen to death by now, and they would not freeze to death. It can even be said that there is not a single person who has actually frozen to death. Hundreds of thousands of people, heaven

It was so cold and supplies were in extremely short supply, yet no one froze to death.
Chapter completed!