Zaichun was filled with mixed feelings when he had eaten a bite of gravel rice! When did the emperor suffer this crime? The most difficult thing he suffered in his life was to train in Xiao Letian's recruit camp.

It was really hard and tiring at that time. Standing in military posture, practicing marching, shooting, running, fighting... I sweated for four or five bowls every day!

But putting the hard work aside, the food is really undeniable!

The Ryukyu New Army is famous all over the world for food. The Prussian soldiers envied it. They had enough meat, eggs, fish and vegetables and fruits every day, and they could relieve greasiness. Zaichun's appetite was cultivated there.

The Head of State really doesn't give the soldiers gravel rice. Anyway, Zaichun has never eaten sand once!

Today, he tried his best to show his personal attitude, but unexpectedly, this was just the beginning. Then another piece of gravel won the prize. The crackling sound made Shen Baozhen next to him hear it.

I endured the two bites of sand, but I put a small bite of rice on my face anyway, but I never expected that there would be a third or fourth reward later!

Just like this, a ball of rice the size of a child’s fist, Zaichun ate five bites of gravel, and now he couldn’t stand it!

"Which bastard is this the rice purchased by the quartermaster? Why is there so much sand? Bastard!"

The emperor was furious, and Shen Baozhen and other civil servants knelt down all over the ground, "Your Majesty calm down, I will die!"

This scene was awkward. All the civil officials knelt down. Will the general kneel down? Will the soldiers kneel down? But long live said that the new army abolished the kneeling ceremony!

Zai Chun was angry when he saw Xie Ting and others about to bend his knees, "My personal army should not be kowtowers, all of them stand at attention!" All the soldiers next to the fire stood at attention and stood as standard military supplies.

"I ask you, why is there so much sand in this rice? Do you eat these foods every day?"

Xie Ting was stunned. He was shocked and couldn't react. "Ah? Long live... Isn't it normal to have sand in this rice? Where is there rice or no sand?"

"How about I pick it for Master Long Live..."

Not only Xie Ting was confused, but the other soldiers were also confused. They were all mountain people in poor mountain valleys. If you could eat white rice, you would have burned incense and worship Buddha in your previous life. There were also sweet potatoes for rice all year round.

To be honest, these bitter soldiers have never eaten new rice without sand!

When Shen Baozhen saw that these soldiers couldn't understand, he hurriedly stepped forward and kowtowed and said, "Long live the anger, this matter is wrong! It has nothing to do with the military officers..."

"Long lively, I am very anxious. The 30,000 troops gathered in the Mawei and there was no time to transport rice and grain. I asked my subordinates to buy it temporarily... It must be that my subordinates had a problem!"

Let’s take the blame. If Shen Baozhen doesn’t take the blame now, he will have to kill the new army’s military officer!

Emperor Tongzhi spit out the stones in his mouth, and his whole mouth was sour and numb. He took a few deep breaths, "I'm sorry to you... Come on, choose two of my vegetables to send to my brothers..."

"Let's check back and check this grain merchant who delivers rice! It's so unreasonable..."

Emperor Tongzhi ate several bites of sand on his first stop during his inspection. Thanks to his travels abroad and living among the people for several years, the emperor's bad temper changed a lot in the past, otherwise he would have to kill people on the spot!

After leaving Xie Ting's bonfire, Emperor Tongzhi kept persuading everyone to check the soldiers' food. It was precisely because of the discovery that Zaichun's attention was 80% focused on the soldiers' rice cooker.

The second bonfire is not sausage rice. There is a pot of boiled meat soup next to the steamed rice. Three empty canned beef are thrown aside, and the soldiers threw a lot of wild vegetables in it.

This is reasonable. The soldiers felt that the beef and wild vegetable soup were accompanied by white rice mixed with sand. They all felt that they were extremely happy this day, so don’t forget to drink wine!

But Zaichun counted and said that ten people should be given ten kilograms of wine, and five small wine jars of two kilograms per jar, but only three were seen.

"What's going on? Four kilograms of wine are missing? Check it! Keep checking for me..."

Then, basically every dinner by the bonfire had different degrees of shortage. One pound of wine per person was definitely insufficient. White rice was mixed with sand, and the meat was getting smaller and smaller.

Some were divided into a few sausages, some were two pieces of bacon, and some were dried salted fish common to people along the coast!

Do you think this salted fish is considered a meat dish? It is also considered a meat dish, but after being air-dried for a long time, it must be insufficient oil and water, which completely cannot reflect the emperor's mood of the soldiers in the banquet.

Gradually Zai Chun stopped talking, and he seemed to have discovered a pattern until he opened the tenth marching pot and finally found that there was no meat!

"No more? No meat, no egg, no salted fish? Let me see what it is...haha, kumbu tofu soup?"

"Hahaha... It's great, it's really good to eat tofu, tofu is better than meat!"

Zai Chun finally understood what was going on. It turned out that he wanted to act for the soldiers, and the whole soldier was also acting for him!

During this picnic for the entire 30,000 army, only the soldiers closest to their tent for dinner were assigned better food. The quality of the food was getting worse and worse with the soldiers who were getting farther and farther away from them!

After understanding this, Zaichun accelerated his pace to the deeper mountains. Countless soldiers stood up and saluted along the way, while the civil and military officials behind the emperor looked pale and as if they were dead.

Finally something happened. Zaichun walked out three miles... Thirty thousand troops were camping in an area, and the range was too large.

When Zai Chun got here, tears suddenly fell down. A squad of soldiers were eating sweet potato rice in a pot!

The white rice mixed with sand is cooked with sweet potatoes and some corn kernels, while the bowl next to it is black pickled vegetables, which are common olive vegetables for poor families in the South China Sea area!

"Just eat this? You just... just give my soldiers this! Just eat this?" Zai Chun snatched the shovel from the soldier's hand and dug it into his mouth. He didn't swallow it and almost choked to death.

"I... Is my 30,000 soldiers my beggars by you? Just eat this..."

"I'm dead!" Now Ma Ming and other generals couldn't stand it anymore, and followed Shen Baozhen and others and all knelt down, and they were so dark!

"What I want is not a kowtow bug!" Zai Chun yelled, "What I want is a capable minister who can solve the problem! Are you? Can you solve the problem?"

"Get out of here. From now on, who dares to deceive me for half a word, I will kill his nine clans!"

Emperor Tongzhi, with a blue face, sat on a rock, looking at the trembling and solemn civil and military officials in front of him, "Tell me! To be honest, I may let you go... Don't lie to me anymore!"

"It's thousands of miles away! I've been away from the Qing Dynasty for so long. Will I encounter a lie just after returning to China?"

Now no one knows that it can't be hidden, so Shen Baozhen walked to Zaichun like he was taking off his bones, "Your Majesty... do you want to hear the truth?"

"To be honest... the rice that was greedy for sand was not bought on the ground, but on credit, so I didn't pay at all!"

"The grain merchants in Fuzhou City all know that I am a poor man... They also know that the rice eaters are all big-headed soldiers. How could he give the best new rice?"
Chapter completed!