The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the last day of the Spring Festival. In later generations, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month was called the Lantern Festival. In the Han Dynasty, it was called the Shangyuan Festival. It was also an important festival that required sacrifices.

The altar that had been built for the New Year sacrifices had been left for half a month, and after half a month, it was used again.

After breakfast, Li Mengxi and Guan Zhang went out of the city to check the situation of the altar. When Zhang Fei saw the altar, it was a huge altar, several feet high and more than ten feet long, covered with red and green paving.

They were all made of bright silk. Zhang Fei opened his mouth wide and was extremely surprised.

Zhang Fei complained about such extravagant behavior. He couldn't stand Li Mengxi's enthusiasm in holding silk.

After a round of inspection, the altar was generally in good condition.

As he approached the altar, Zhang Fei was surprised to find that he had thought that the altar was made of earth. Zhang Fei was surprised that a huge earth platform could be built in a short period of time, but when he looked closer, it turned out that it was just a cart underneath.

A built platform.

From this, Zhang Fei saw the new knowledge of military strategy that was born during this period.

If you can use a cart to build a huge high platform, you can also build a hill on the ground during battle, and you can also easily fill in a trench.

Then when it comes to logistics and armaments, a special kind of van, the [Xuanwu Chariot] appeared.

Xuanwu chariot, the cover is surrounded by boards, it looks like a box and is as tight as a turtle shell, and this chariot can be used as a wooden compartment to build a pontoon bridge. It is related to water, so it is named Xuanwu chariot.

This vehicle is a multi-functional vehicle that can be used for transportation, vehicle formation, filling in trenches, building defense lines, and water crossing pontoons. It has a wide range of uses and is extremely practical.

Zhang Fei heard about this magical car and immediately wanted to see it. However, Li Mengxi said that there was no prototype car. Now the craftsman camp is working hard to build the curved shaft plow. The other unimportant things will not be seen until the spring plowing in the next year.

After inspecting the sacrifice, there was no problem with the altar. After the last big sacrifice on this day, Li Mengxi was much more experienced.

The first step is to collect sacrifices and arrange the altar, then to lay out hundreds of seats for the people to worship and worship, then to find a ritual officer to be the host of the sacrifice, and then to find a teaching team to guide and coordinate to make it uniform.

Other than that, nothing else.

It didn't take long and everything was ready.

When the order was conveyed everywhere, within an hour, with flags waving, countless teams gathered on the avenue. When more than 100,000 people were assembled, the long team and the huge flow of people slowly pressed towards Julu City.

The subsequent sacrificial process was very solemn and neat. Zhang Fei's eyes lit up again when he saw hundreds of people kneeling down to worship.

The civilians and soldiers were performing sacrifices, while Li Mengxi and Guan Zhang looked on. Since it was a festival, they discussed whether they should give out more meat or something so that they could have a good meal and look like they were celebrating the festival.

Both Guan and Zhang thought this was a good move.

If he wanted to sell meat, Li Mengxi scratched his head and thought about it for a long time. He had killed more than a thousand animals at once, and hundreds of thousands of people ate that batch of meat a little bit every day, but now they are almost finished.

After much deliberation, Li Mengxi felt that the meat might not be divided enough. Simply, there had been more fish recently.

"Then let's catch the fish." Li Mengxi said.

No matter how small a problem is multiplied by hundreds of thousands, it becomes a big problem.

If more than 100,000 people are given meat, even one tael per person, it will be more than 10,000 kilograms of meat, and all the fish and meat currently stored in the army is only tens of thousands of kilograms.

After that, the military order was issued. Those who were participating in the sacrifice, those who had not yet participated in the sacrifice, or those who had already finished the sacrifice, heard the order from the cavalry and said that they would eat fish today, and the civilians and soldiers were filled with joy.

Under Li Mengxi's instructions, the soldiers took the carts to unload the fish hanging at the top of the city and loaded dozens of carts full of them.

After the sacrifice was over, the fish haulers directly delivered the fish to various campsites.

At this time, Li Mengxi had not realized that a huge distribution problem was hidden in the army.

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Nowadays, the military food is in short supply, and the daily rations are very tight. Now there are two meals a day, one porridge in the morning and broth in the evening. It is impossible to eat full, and I can barely survive from starvation.

During the Lantern Festival, the army distributed a large amount of raw fish, and the quota was much richer than usual. The civilians held bowls of food and waited for the fish to be boiled and divided into portions.

When the fish was finally cooked and it was time to divide the fish soup, something went wrong.

A team of peasant husbands started cooking, and the peasant husbands lined up to get soup. At a certain time, the cook scooped a ladle of fish soup from the urn and poured it into Scarface's bowl, and looked at Scarface absently.

Then he shouted, "Next!"

Scar's face remained motionless. He glanced at the fish soup in the bowl, which contained no fish meat. He suddenly became angry. He held his neck and said, "Where's the fish? Look at what you're serving, there's not even a single fish hair on it!"

As he spoke, the fish soup was poured back with a splash, and he threw the empty bowl at the cook's face. The scarred face said coldly, "Put another bowl in."

The cook immediately became angry, "Damn it!" The cook threw the spoon, rolled up his sleeves, grabbed Scarface's collar, and glared at Scarface angrily, "Would you like to eat it or not! Aren't they all the same?"

I still have to serve you? You are so incompetent!"

Scar's face remained indifferent and his eyes were cold. He threw the bowl to the ground and clenched his fists, ready to fight.

Seeing that a fight was about to break out, people from the same team came over to break up the fight.

People advised, "Isn't fish soup just a soup? How can it be full of meat? Forget it!"

There was also a kind-hearted aunt who had a kind heart. She came over and gently tugged Scarface, patted Scarface's shoulder kindly, and said softly, "Baby, there is a fish tail in my bowl. I'll give it to you to eat."

, don’t let others make noise..."

Sincerity and kindness are the biggest killers. Scarface, who was originally angry, softened a bit. It was impossible to ask for the aunt's fish and meat. Without the face to bully the old and weak, Scarface faltered but still glared at the cook resolutely and said, "

I don’t want other fish. If there is fish in other people’s bowls, I must have fish in my bowl too. I have everything I want!”

The meaning of the words is very clear. Since there is fish and soup, then there must be fish and soup. Why can some eat meat while others only have soup?

Scarface still refused to give in. This guy was usually a thorn in the side, but today he couldn't find it easily. The cook was also angry and refused to let it go no matter how others tried to persuade him.

Not long after, a scolding voice came from behind, "Everyone is doing this! Who is causing trouble?"

Everyone looked back and saw that General Guan and the military advisor were coming.

Li Mengxi heard the noise in the distance, and when he saw the crowd gathering, he guessed that a conflict might have occurred and came over to take a look.

Sure enough, there is a conflict.

Li Mengxi walked over to this side, and other unrelated people had already dispersed. The two involved, a cook and a scarred face, stood nose to nose and faced each other angrily, neither of them giving way to the other.

When Li Mengxi saw this, he frowned and asked, "What's going on with you two?"

Seeing Li Mengxi coming, Scarface accused the cook of not serving the fish. The cook accused Scarface of making trouble. The cook patted his chest and promised that he would never say who should be given more and who should be given less. It is inevitable that one spoon will be too much and the other will be short.

If you don’t believe me, ask who in the team dares to speak unfairly without conscience.

Li Mengxi understood that the two people who caused the incident said that the cook did not catch fish, but the cook said that the division was fair.

Li Mengxi knows very well that rations are related to the most immediate interests and bottom line. It can be said that bastard officers in the army often bully their soldiers to work more. As long as the rations are not misappropriated, this is not a big problem. However, once the rations are distributed unfairly, the bottom line is violated.

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The pawns are used to hard work, so most of them won't be able to tolerate more work, but they will be intolerable if they don't have enough to eat.

Li Mengxi couldn't tell who was right or wrong between Scarface and the cook. He looked at half of the people watching the excitement eating with bowls in their hands. He ordered that all the people in the team who had already filled the fish soup should put their bowls in their hands.

Come and take a look.

Thirty-four people have already served fish soup.

Thirty-four bowls were brought over and put together for a look. Li Mengxi saw that some of these bowls only contained fish soup, while others contained large and small pieces of fish.

Going to the pottery urn again, Li Mengxi saw that there were several large pieces of fish under the fish soup. It seemed that the fish was not chopped very much when the soup was cooked.

Li Mengxi immediately realized what the problem was. If the fish was not minced, how could it be evenly distributed?

Li Mengxi suddenly realized something else. He quickly called the cook and asked, "Before, we divided the meat. When you divided the broth, how did you divide it?"

The cook replied, "Chop the meat and cook it inside. Each person will have a bowl of broth."

Hearing this, Li Mengxi felt more and more that there was something wrong. He widened his eyes and asked quickly, "Then what do you use to chop meat? How big of a piece do you chop it into?"

The cook replied, "If you use a ring-headed knife to chop it, you can chop it into pieces as big as your finger."

really.

Li Mengxi nodded, his expression a little serious. At this time, he realized that a huge problem had been ignored.

It is related to military rations. Military rations can be roughly divided into two types. One is whether it is wheat, millet or rice noodles. This type of military rations is easy to distribute evenly. After the rice and wheat are cooked into a pot of porridge, stir it a few times before serving it, so that each person has a bowl.

The consistency is very uniform and there is no objection to this.

But! Meat, meat is different!

Whether it’s fish or meat, the fish meat is scarce. Now we can’t give everyone a fish and a piece of meat. We can only boil the limited fish meat into soup and share it.

But here’s the problem, whether it’s fish or meat, if you put a spoon into it, one person’s bowl may have a piece of meat, and that person’s bowl will be full of soup. This can’t be solved by stirring it twice, or by stirring it twice.

, it should not be able to hold the meat, but it still can’t.

Li Mengxi knew very well what fairness and impartiality meant to the rebels, and he also knew the risks that would arise if the rations were unfairly distributed. He had tried his best to ensure that the distribution of rations was fair, such as forcing the cook to be the last to serve the meal at each meal and to

Serving your own bowl under the supervision of everyone is to ensure fairness.

But despite all my calculations, I never thought of the additional problems that meat distribution would bring.

The matter is serious.

Li Mengxi reprimanded the cook who felt very innocent. He reprimanded, "If you chop the fish into small pieces and cook it, won't you be able to eat the meat?"

The cook was still aggrieved, "If you chop it into pieces, it will turn into dregs as soon as you boil it..."

Li Mengxi wanted to say that in this place and at what time, ensuring fairness is the top priority, let alone whether it tastes good or not.

After understanding the matter and identifying the problem, the cook did not misappropriate the rations, and Scarface did not get a piece of fish in the bowl, so it is necessary to fight for his rights.
To be continued...