Unfortunately, we ran out of wine, all of it, literally nothing left.

Zhang Fei didn't believe it, so he went straight into the tent and entered the tent. With Zhang Fei's sense of smell for wine as sensitive as a dog, Zhang Fei sniffed, sniffed twice, and glanced at a tightly covered door in the corner.

The wooden box was in his eyes, and his eyes were gleaming.

Zhang Fei ignored the military doctor's obstruction, pushed the military doctor away, went forward and opened the box, and there was indeed a wine jar in the box.

Zhang Fei picked up the wine jar and left. The military doctor came up and tried to stop him. Zhang Fei was tall and powerful, and he staggered the thin military doctor with just a slight bump. However, the military doctor was still determined to stop him. He refused to give up and began to pull.

Already.

Zhang Fei was annoyed by being pestered. He glared and said fiercely, "What's wrong with me drinking a jar of wine from you?"

The military doctor was unmoved and insisted on asking Zhang Fei to put down the wine.

It's fine if I pour it on weekdays, but now I really don't dare to use alcohol indiscriminately. What if someone is injured or a child has a high fever and doesn't go away? What should I do without strong alcohol?

The military doctor understood emotions and acted with reason, and he talked endlessly to Zhang Fei.

Zhang Fei was very annoyed and said, "Give it! Give it to you!" Zhang Fei had no choice but to return the wine to the military doctor.

Zhang Fei felt unhappy without wine. How to entertain guests without wine, Zhang Fei began to think of other ways.

(Yes!) Zhang Fei suddenly had an inspiration.

Zhang Fei thought of sugar water, that is, maltose. Maltose is usually not eaten as candy, but is given to seriously injured people. Now that there is no wine, he has to use sugar water instead of wine.

He asked the military doctors for two jars of candy, and Zhang Fei went back to pay the bills.

Back at the city lord's palace, Zhang Fei talked about what happened when he was getting wine. He said that the wine was expensive and scarce, so he could only use sugar instead of wine.

Liu Bei was a little embarrassed and a little embarrassed, but Lu Zhi didn't care at all.

Speaking of Guan Yu, the reason why Liu Bei wanted to send Zhang Fei to assist Li Mengxi but not Guan Yu was because Guan Yu had to rely on him to cook.

Guan Yu had finished resting and washed his hands. He brought the kitchen utensils and set up the stove to prepare for the banquet.

At first, it was nothing. Guan Yu just took the kitchen knife and chopped the ingredients.

After a while, the ingredients were prepared and the pot was heated. He poured a spoonful of oil into the pot and added the chopped green onions, ginger and garlic. The oil pot made a sizzling sound. After a while, Guan Yu picked up a big pot again.

A bowl of mutton. Put the mutton into the pot, it sizzles for a while, and then the aroma wafts away.

Lu Zhi, who was chatting with Liu Bei, frequently looked at Guan Yu, who was busy.

Seeing this, Liu Bei smiled and told Lu Zhi about the wonderful uses of the iron pot. He boasted that the Julu dishes were unique and could not be found anywhere else. This made Lu Zhi look forward to it even more.

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Elsewhere, Li Mengxi and Jian Yong, who were in charge of food matters, were much busier.

The grain collection encountered huge resistance, and the people had natural resistance and fear towards unknown new events.

It has been clearly stated that although all the grain will be collected, it will be distributed according to the distribution later. It has been fully explained, but when the grain is collected, the people still cry for father and mother and block it.

Faced with the people who had no access to food and salt, we had to use coercive means to force those people who slept on the food and could not get off the food to hold the food without losing it, forcibly dragged them away and took the food away.

The scene is extremely disharmonious, and to people who don't know the truth, they will think it is tyranny.

In addition to collecting the visible grain, the grain collection team also searched people's luggage. There were many times when grain was found in people's luggage. The small amount of grain hidden by the people was nothing in itself, but it could not be tolerated.

As the grain harvest progressed, the grain was collected bit by bit, and more and more grain was accumulated. At the same time, more and more people became desperate after finishing the harvest.

The best way to deal with it is to immediately distribute the food distributed according to need to everyone after harvesting the food.

But the problem lies in distribution.

It must be distributed according to needs and distributed evenly. You must first know the total amount of food before you know how much it will be distributed.

The problem lies in this [knowing the total amount of grain]. There are tens of millions of acres of land for giant deer. If we want to know all the harvests, wouldn’t it take a long time to weigh them all?

But the problem is that there is not enough manpower, even if there is enough manpower, it will take ten days and a half to weigh the total amount of grain.

Faced with a difficult problem, Li Mengxi had to find clever ways.

Fortunately, Mr. Li went to school and knew that there is a "sampling method" in biology. That is to say, you don't have to actually weigh the yield of each field. You just need to randomly check some samples and estimate the overall yield through the sample data.

Yield.

Li Mengxi used this sampling method to start counting the total amount of grain.

There are 879 people in the camp who have handed over the grain. After an investigation and questioning, statistics show that the total land cultivated by these 879 people is 9833 acres.

Li Mengxi looked behind him and saw that all the grain produced in these 9,833 acres of land was piled up into a hill.

"When someone comes, call them!" Li Mengxi ordered.

The weighing process took a long time, and finally the small mountain of grain was weighed. There were more than 59,800 jins of sorghum, more than 136,000 jins of millet, more than 34,000 jins of soybeans, and 20,000 jins of adzuki beans.

More than 2,000, peas, 193,000, and wheat, more than 628,000. The rest, such as sesame, beans, cowpeas, red beans, millet (yellow rice) and other miscellaneous grains, are very small and can be ignored.

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In total, the total amount of grain in the 9,833 acres of land is more than 958,000 jins. One acre of land only yields 97 jins of grain.

After doing this calculation, Li Mengxi frowned. He was a little surprised. The average yield per acre of land was only so little, which was a bit scary.

Then, after thinking about it for a moment, he more or less understood that it was peas, and peas lowered the grain yield per acre.

Half of Julu's fields were deserted, and many fields were replanted with peas to prepare for emergencies. Apart from growing quickly and producing food quickly, the yield of peas is far less than that of wheat and millet.

According to statistics, the total number of acres of land in Julu is about 16.87 million acres. Based on the average harvest per mu this year, assuming that one acre has ninety-seven kilograms, the total harvest this year is... kilograms, about one kilogram.

120 million catties, and the population of Julu is 520,000.

On average, the average grain share per person is 1,100 kilograms.

Li Mengxi called a soldier and asked him how much food he would need to eat in a year if he had to work in the fields every day.

The soldier thought for a while and said that he would weigh eight or nine hundred catties a year.

I also asked many people, and they all said that if they are not busy with farming, they can eat less, but if they are busy, they will not be able to work even if they eat less.

Eight or nine hundred kilograms will be enough. This will be enough, but it can only be half full.

That's nine hundred kilograms. Li Mengxi finalized the number.

Based on this year's harvest, there are 520,000 people, and each person has 1,100 jins of grain. Each person will be divided into 900 jins, and a surplus of 200 will be returned to the warehouse.

The surplus of these two hundred kilograms is necessary to feed soldiers who are not engaged in production, to raise war horses, and to raise livestock. In addition, there are too many miscellaneous grains this year. A pound of peas is not as good as a pound of wheat to ward off hunger, so after all,

This year's grain harvest is still tight.

After roughly estimating the grain using the sampling method, Li Mengxi looked in front of him, and saw the people sitting on the ground in front of him. After collecting their grain, they seemed to have had their souls sucked out, sitting numbly, quiet and silent.

"If one person is given 900 kilograms of grain, is it enough to last until the next year?" Li Mengxi asked aloud.

The people didn't react for a while and were silent.

"Nine hundred catties, is it enough?" Li Mengxi asked again.

This time, the people understood what was going on, and the emotionally numb people immediately came to life. Many of them stood up directly with excited expressions, and more people started to discuss enthusiastically with a buzz.

"Nine hundred catties! Nine hundred catties is a lot!"

"A lot! A lot!"

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The people were chatting and couldn't hide their joy.

When it's time to distribute the food, there's still another difficulty.

The total grain output may still be estimated, but the types of grain cannot be estimated. What kind of grain is grown in the fields is simply random, and there is no way to count it.

Different types of grain have very different values. How to make it as fair as possible is a problem.

Li Mengxi's first idea was to calculate the total amount of various types of food and then distribute it equally to everyone. However, after thinking about it, it was difficult to calculate the various types of food and this method was not feasible, so he gave up.

The second idea, Li Mengxi thought, since he couldn't tell the difference, he might as well mix all the grains together and mix them up randomly.

In this way, no one has an opinion.

Just do it.

Li Mengxi sent people to get a large number of cloth bags and spread them all over the ground, creating a huge venue.

Then, all kinds of wheat, millet, peas, sorghum, and other messy grains were poured out and poured into a lump. Then someone took a shovel and mixed the grains evenly like concrete.

As bags after bags of grain fell, more and more grains of various colors piled up, and the more mixed they became, the more beautiful they looked. Finally, on a huge mountain of grain, no less than dozens of people were shoveling the grain around with shovels.

The scene was spectacular.

This huge scene of mountains of food, accidentally calmed people's hearts.

The people looked at the mountains of food and felt inexplicably at ease.

When the grain was almost mixed, Li Mengxi grabbed a handful at random. In the handful, there were wheat, beans, sorghum that had not had time to be shelled, millet, and peas. The miscellaneous ones could not be smashed anymore.

It’s almost done.

Li Mengxi ordered the distribution of grain.

Under the restraint of the soldiers, the people lined up in long lines. In front of each row, there were soldiers who were responsible for weighing the grain.
To be continued...