Generally speaking, no one will like people who are arrogant and make trouble.

However, Li Mengxi felt that he had to thank those who were more sincere. Without them, there would be no fairness.

For example, today, if all the civilians were indifferent to the fact that there was more meat in the bowl and less meat, then no one would be able to question the distribution method. Then Li Mengxi would not have seen this scene, and would not realize the importance of military ration distribution.

The problem, now, and in the future, as well as in the distribution of all rations, will exist for a long time, and hidden dangers will break out sooner or later.

Fortunately, the army is not all docile, there are some unruly ones.

How wonderful it is to be so unruly and unruly. It is these disliked guys who have promoted the improvement of the system.

No one is at fault in this matter of dividing fish, and it is indeed a serious issue of unfair distribution.

No one was at fault, so Li Mengxi decided not to punish anyone.

He gave the cook an idea. He asked the cook to fish out the fish, mash it, and then stir the fish soup together, so that everyone could have fish to eat.

When the onlookers heard Li Mengxi's idea, they cheered and shouted for justice.

The public mood is so agitated, it can be seen that the division of meat during this period of time is very unfair, and the civilians, husband and army are very angry.

Taking advantage of this, Li Mengxi immediately called the messenger cavalry. He ordered the whole battalion of the messenger cavalry to run around and shout, asking all teams to pound the fish into minced meat and distribute it among the people.

After solving this emergency, walking back, Li Mengxi was still thinking about dividing the fish. He thought that when the fish were taken off the city wall and distributed to each team in carts, they were divided according to the team, and each team was divided.

There were a few fish.

However, the fish are of different sizes and are divided into strips, which makes the distribution unfair. Some teams will still get big fish and some will get small fish. This is still a problem.

After a few minutes, Li Mengxi thought of a solution. He could change the distribution method. He could chop the fish into pieces first, and then weigh each team a few pounds, so that there would be no problem of huge distribution gaps.

However, if you look into it carefully, there is actually a problem. No one wants the fish head. The fish head has less meat, so those who get the fish head still suffer.

To improve it further, all the fish heads should not be separated at all, and they could all be taken to the women's and children's camp to feed the children.

There is a strategy for dividing the fish. The fish meat is loose. After it is cooked, mash it with a spoon and the fish meat will be broken into dregs. It does not matter whether the minced fish meat is delicious or not, it is fair anyway.

But what should we do with the meat?

Li Mengxi realized that if the meat wanted to be broken into pieces and the meat was firm, unlike fish, it would be too difficult to process.

After thinking about it, I returned to the City Lord's Mansion.

Li Mengxi specially set up a large urn, then chopped a lot of fish and poured it into the urn. After the fish was cooked, he took the fish out and mashed the fish meat until it was minced, then threw it into the soup and stirred vigorously.

At this point, Li Mengxi thought that this would make the distribution of each bowl fair, but as a result, he found that the fish meat would sink to the bottom. Even if the fish meat was minced, if he took a spoon to serve it, there would be only soup on top.

A spoonful of the stuff below is full of minced meat. If you can't hold two spoons, the meat will be gone.

The problem was so troublesome that Li Mengxi realized at this time that fish meat is different from millet and rice. After cooking millet and rice, it becomes a pot of porridge with even rice and water, which is easy to distribute fairly, while meat, even if it is chopped into pieces, becomes a pot of porridge.

Minced meat cannot be cooked to the level of millet porridge, the meat will definitely sink to the bottom, and the meat and soup will definitely separate.

It seems that the method of mincing the meat into minced meat is also not effective.

For Guan and Zhang, it was fair enough to pound the meat into mince and distribute it equally to everyone, but for Li Mengxi, this was still not the best.

Li Mengxi was thinking that it would be great if meat could be cooked like millet porridge. In that case, there would be no distribution problem. But the problem lies here, meat and millet are very different.

After much deliberation, Li Mengxi couldn't think of a good way.

On the side, Guan and Zhang were eating surimi. Li Mengxi mashed the fish into pieces and couldn't eat it. He couldn't pick it up. He took a few bites and spit out all the thorns.

Zhang Fei complained that he couldn't eat anything, but there were a few big fish.

Li Mengxi thought about how to distribute meat but couldn't figure it out. There was really no other way. Li Mengxi asked the question to Guan and Zhang.

Guan Yu stopped his kuaizi, thought for a moment and said, "Xi'er, you might as well do this."

“Since it’s difficult to divide the minced meat after it’s cooked, why not just divide it before cooking?

Make minced meat, give each person a spoonful, and then give each person a spoonful of hot water, and the minced meat will be cooked..."

Li Mengxi was stunned for a moment, and then smiled. How wonderful! Making meat as coffee, right? Interesting.

The problem is solved.

Instead of dividing the broth, divide it into meat.

And if you want to divide the meat fairly, you have to make the meat as minced as possible. Why is the minced the better? Suppose there are three pieces in large pieces. That person's three pieces are bigger, and this person's three pieces are smaller. There is a difference.

Big.

A key issue is fault tolerance.

The larger the piece of meat, the greater the possibility of uneven distribution. The difference between pieces of meat is measured in grams. When the meat becomes minced meat, it is the difference between one level spoon of minced meat and one level spoon of minced meat.

, the difference is 0.0 g.

Among the two, the error is a hundred times.

Therefore, in order to ensure fairness, from now on, the military no longer eats large portions of meat and drinks large portions. Large portions of meat are really difficult to distribute.

Li Mengxi knows very well how to make minced meat. He just needs to cut the meat and beat it with a stick, or directly put it into a stone mill and press it hundreds of times, and the minced meat is ready.

Thinking of this, Li Mengxi suddenly realized, yes, since the minced meat has been made, and the meatballs are made, wouldn't it be easier to distribute the meatballs, one for each person?

Furthermore, compared to minced meat, the meatballs can be kept for a long time by frying them in a frying pan.

Li Mengxi was originally worried about what to do if there were so many fish hanging at the top of the city and they deteriorated when the weather got hot, but now he unexpectedly came up with an excellent way to preserve meat.

How long can the breaded and deep-fried meatballs be kept? The answer is, even in summer, the meatballs can be stored for a month. At most, the taste will change, but they are far from spoiled and can still be eaten.

The most powerful and cheapest way to preserve meat is here - fried meatballs.

Thinking of such a good method, Li Mengxi couldn't wait to try it.

It happened that Guan and Zhang were both there, so Li Mengxi brought dozens of kilograms of beef and went to the carpenter's camp to find two large wooden sticks and gave them to Guan and Zhang to beat the beef into minced meat for later use.

Guan and Zhang are so brave that it would be a waste not to play beef balls.

Li Mengxi went to look for white noodles again. There was still some white noodles in the army's inventory.

The last thing you need is oil and a large iron pot. You can just use butter for the oil. You also have a large iron pot, so all the conditions are sufficient.

Li Mengxi remembered where there were stone rollers in the city. He sent people to search around and finally found stone rollers that could be used to make minced meat. There were more than thirty stone springs for pounding rice.

Together, these tools can handle two or three cows a day.

In order to give it a try, Li Mengxi led a group of soldiers to chop a large basket of beef into finger-sized pieces, and then put it on a stone grinder for processing.

It is said that there are two types of stone mills for grinding things. One is two flat millstones, and the other is a circular stone trough. Then the stone mill is placed vertically and rotates around and around like a wheel.

After a round of crushing, Li Mengxi was looking for the second type.

The meat was poured into the stone trough and half a basket was poured down. Then the donkey was hitched to the grinder and turned around. The huge stone roller was turning round and round, and the beef was pressed over and over again, becoming more and more crushed.

Li Mengxi estimated the time. It was only about half an hour, and he found that the beef had been crushed into minced meat.

Looking up, the stone roller is as big as a big table and as thick as a wall. It is normal for such a heavy stone roller to be highly efficient.

After that, I spent the same time pressing the remaining beef. I finally calculated a little and found that a basket of beef weighed 108 kilograms. It took about half an hour to turn all this beef into minced meat.

That is to say, one big stone can be used to make 200 kilograms of minced meat in one hour, and 2,400 kilograms can be made in twelve hours a day.

There are no such big rollers in the city, but come to think of it, the other large and small stone tools combined can't compare to five large rollers. In other words, the pure tool productivity is enough to make 10,000 kilograms of minced meat in one day.

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Li Mengxi returned to the City Lord's Mansion with the minced meat. Then he set up a frying pan, cooked the noodles, and learned how to make beef balls. He took a spoon to scoop out a spoonful of minced meat, threw it into the frying pan and fried it for a while. After the meatballs were set,

, then take it out and put it on the side. After the noodles are layered, throw it into the pot and fry it. This time fry it for a long time until the meatballs are cooked and deep-fried. Take it out and put it aside to control the oil.

Guan and Zhang saw that Li Mengxi had somehow made a lot of minced meat. They asked curiously where the minced meat came from. Li Mengxi said, "It is ground with a big roller."

After hearing this, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei looked at each other, threw away the stick, and quit. There is a roller, so why smash it with your hands? Your tired arms are sore.

Guan and Zhang did something very stupid. The reason why they did this stupid thing is that this is another way to make minced meat. The most indispensable thing in the army is manpower. If you want to produce meatballs in large quantities, you can directly mobilize the manpower.

Get up and give each person a stick, which is enough to process hundreds of thousands of kilograms of beef in one day.

In other words, even if the stone grinder is not enough, it is still possible to make beef balls on a large scale.

After Li Mengxi and a group of soldiers had been busy for a long time, all 108 kilograms of beef were made into beef meatballs. They counted more than 400 meatballs in total.

On average, one pound of beef produces forty meatballs.

Li Mengxi raised his head and calculated silently. There were 150,000 people in the army. If each person divided one meatball a day, that would be 150,000 meatballs. Forty meatballs were one pound, that is, nearly 4,000 pounds of beef.

Ask, can an adult only drink a bowl of porridge and eat only one veal ball a day?

The answer is, in a short period of time, you will not die of hunger.

The problem is solved, the distribution of military rations is no longer a problem. With beef balls, the distribution of meat can be super fair.

If we want to give out one meatball to each of hundreds of thousands of people every day from tomorrow, we need to process four thousand kilograms of meat into minced meat every day. We have stone grinders and other stone tools. If it is not enough, we can still use manpower, and productivity will be lost.

question.

When making meatballs, there is enough oil and there is no shortage of iron pots, but the meat is not sure how long it will last.

Almost all the livestock that can be killed in the army have been killed, and only fish is left in a continuous supply.

As for fish meat, fish meat can probably be made into meatballs.
To be continued...