"Dad, I wonder if the rice is delicious recently?"

Cao Chong was wearing a blue dress, his head was wrapped in silk, and he held a feather fan in his hand, which looked like a literary style.

Behind Cao Chong was Zhuge Liang in Confucian uniform. Zhuge Liang lived a little comfortable life in Cao's camp these days and had nothing to do. The most was to go back to the Huang family and make friends with his father-in-law Huang Chengyan. Cao Chong had followed him several times, but there was really not much fun playing chess, so Cao Chong stopped going after that.

Compared to the communication between these literati, Cao Chong prefers to go to the army to see what the soldiers of this era look like.

Usually, what Cao Chong saw was Cao's army wearing armor, so the iron sword of Cao's army was Cao Chong's deepest impression of this Cao army. However, when he arrived in Cao's camp and ate and drank with these soldiers, Cao Chong's definition of this army in his heart had changed.

Cao Chong used to graduate from a police academy and also served in the military service. Although he knew that the food during the Three Kingdoms period was definitely not as good as the food he did when he was in the military service, he did not expect it to be so bad.

The emperor is not short of hungry soldiers, the army is dispersed without food, and the army will be able to move food and grass before moving. China has many aphorisms about the importance of military rations. No matter when and where, soldiers can only wear heavy equipment and fight with heavy equipment. Although China is a big cooking country, those varied dishes are patents of wealthy and noble families, and ordinary soldiers cannot enjoy them. The food in the military camp is "monotonous".

The distant ancestors of the Han people in China were semi-nova and semi-fishing and hunting nations, but since they entered the Central Plains from Qinghai, Gansu, their population has gradually increased and they have begun to develop primitive agriculture.

In the Shang Dynasty, the field hunting was a major source of military rations. The scale of field hunting in the Shang Dynasty was very large, and hundreds of wild animals could be obtained by dispatching thousands of people at a time. Oracle records that one field hunting, and merchants obtained 451 deer.

The scale of hunting in the Zhou Dynasty was even larger, and King Wu of Zhou once hunted tens of thousands of wild animals. It was precisely because of this that the Shang and Zhou dynasties continued to expand their territory and gradually expanded their territory to many provinces such as Shaanxi, Henan, Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, and Anhui.

After the half-agricultural and semi-animal families during the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, the Han people officially became an agricultural nation after the Warring States Period. Grains and cereals and some vegetables of low quality became common people and the main diet of the army.

Soldiers who are hungry or malnourished cannot fight in armor.

During the Three Kingdoms period, the army's diet was a bit of porridge and water in addition to dry food.

Because before the Song Dynasty, generally cookware was crockery, and there were very few iron pots. Coffeeware was most suitable for cooking porridge, but not for cooking.

The military food in the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties cooked millet porridge, and there were few vegetable porridge. Vegetable porridge needed to add various wild vegetables, wild fruits, and beans to the porridge, and meat porridge that needed to be added, so naturally there was no way to talk about it.

When the army reached the meal, it set up a pot to cook the porridge. However, the porridge was very thick and called it thick.

Among Cao's army, the staple food of the army is millet.

Cao Chong looked at the bowl of millet porridge with half water and half porridge in the hand of the veteran in front of him, and had to sigh in his heart.

If you can’t even eat enough, how can you fight?

The veteran was the troops of the four counties in Jingnan. This army was originally from Changsha County. It used to be private soldiers from aristocratic families, but now it is under the jurisdiction of Wei Yan. Wei Yan is naturally from Cao Chong.

The veteran did not see the expression on Cao Chong's face. He looked at the corn porridge on the bowl, and then looked forward at the wild vegetables and porridge cooked in the pottery pot. The wrinkles on his face squeezed out a bright smile.

"Neither, the food of the villain is very delicious, and I have never been hungry now."

When Cao Chong listened to the soldier's answer, he felt no pleasure in his heart, but instead became much heavier.

This is the soldiers of this era!

The soldiers of this era, when marching and fighting, were nothing more than surviving their lives. In fact, they did not think about the fact that they were granted official positions. The so-called wife and children were an unattainable thing for them, but surviving their lives was the most important thing at the moment.

Their visits to the army mainly because they have gone bankrupt. The fields they have been assigned from the country in the initial stage of the dynasty have been annexed by the powerful and powerful families. If they do not join the army, they will become a dry bone on the road.

He was starved to death!

The veteran was holding a bowl of water porridge in his hand, but he was as happy as a child. It was not because this bowl of rice porridge was different from other rice porridges.

But because before, he couldn't even drink this kind of rice porridge.

The dynasty collapsed, and the soldiers could not even drink millet porridge. You can imagine how depressed the lives of those civilians would be.

If the soldiers have no food to eat, they can go and rob, but if the people have nothing to eat, what can they do?

Go and grab it?

Of course no, they can only sell their children and daughters. If there is a noble person who wants it, even the wife can sell it.

This is the life of ordinary people in this era. In this period of competition among heroes, behind these countless heroic stories, is the tragic blood and tears of these ordinary people!

Huh ~

Cao Chong breathed in his heart, scooped out half a bowl of rice porridge with a paint bowl, put it on his mouth and blew it, and tilted his head and drank it down.

The rice porridge is tasteless, and Cao Chong is in the prime minister's mansion. Such rice porridge is naturally tasteless in Cao Chong's mouth. Cao Chong felt a little uncomfortable after drinking half a bowl. It is hard to imagine that these people live on it.

Cao Chong had a conversation with the veteran. At first, the veteran was a little afraid of Cao Chong, but after talking too much, he had eaten in a pot, and the veteran said more and more. From the veteran's mouth, the life of the soldiers in this era gradually unfolded in front of Cao Chong like a scroll.

This veteran was originally a military cook. Later, because he killed one person in a battle, he was promoted to a gang leader and had several people under him.

As a military cook, a veteran can kill people because the chef of this period was not exactly a chef.

In this era, when fighting, the accompanying chefs act as chefs to cook for soldiers when they are leisurely in war. When the battle becomes tense, they have to throw away their kitchen knife, pick up their weapons and go to the front line to fight, which can barely be considered temporary combat power.

Cao Chong came through time and was a noble young man. He only slowly realized the ugly side of this era these days, and after knowing it, Cao Chong felt a little heavy in his heart.

While getting along with Zhou Buyi and others, Cao Chong thought about how to get the throne of prince and how to gain more power. However, when getting along with these soldiers, Cao Chong felt that it was a very good thing to survive.

Competing with heroes?

hehe!

It's just a joke!

Cao Chong stood up and walked straight into his tent, and Zhuge Liang and others naturally followed closely.

Cao Chong gently exhaled a breath of turbid air to calm down his emotions.

"Mr. I used to work in Liubei Camp. I wonder if Mr. I know how his soldiers eat?"

Zhuge Liang naturally knew what Cao Chong wanted to know, but even if he knew, he could only shake his head in his heart.

"The food on Uncle Liu's side is much worse than that on Cao's camp. Especially now that Uncle Liu is in Jiangdong and relies on Jiangdong to help him, although Sun Quan would give Uncle Liu the food and grass, the quantity is definitely insufficient."

Cao Chong nodded, and he naturally knew that Liu Bei's food was not as good as him. He asked this just to make his thoughts firmer.

The heroes competed, the warlords fought in a melee, but the people were innocent...

Let me end this chaotic world!

Cao Chong's eyes flashed, and his military orders flew down. After an hour, the white tent on the spot disappeared, and the army rushed towards Xiakou like a group of ants.

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Chapter completed!