The underground battlefield in Jinling has its own secret office to take charge, and Xu You did not pay much attention. After the last severe injury, even if the outer marquis recovered a little, it was just a scabies and was not worth worrying. When they figure out their activity rules, they could give the Northern Wei Dynasty a big gift at the appropriate time.

In the next period of time, the people who were recommended, recruited and selected gradually gathered from all directions in Jinling, and all the subordinates of the General's Mansion were in place. Fifty percent of them were aristocratic families, 30 percent were poor scholars, and 20 percent were shrewd and powerful commoners selected from the army. These commoners could only condescend to the position of Assistant. Although their abilities may be stronger, they were of low origins, which was the original sin. If Xu You had not insisted, it would be almost impossible for him to go directly to the military hub of the General's Mansion, the empire's military hub.

This ratio is not the best, and Xu You is not satisfied, but he can only achieve this at present. At least the children recommended by major families are talented and have no corpse positions.

On the day of Wuchen, it is sunny, and it is advisable to sacrifice, pray for blessings and discuss matters.

Xu You was wearing red purple clothes, with flowers, insects, algae, fire, pink rice, fuchsia, and fuchsia, which were called Qizhe. He wore a crown on his head, a golden bulb, a cicada, a marten rat tail as an ornament, a mysterious jade on his waist, a cross-body jade on his waist, a cross-body jade sword on his face, and a seat was raised in the middle of the hall, and the left and right were separated from the hall. Thirty-two assistants bowed and shouted to the general.

He did not make a long statement, but said a few simple words: "...I am familiar with some of you, and some are not very familiar with them. However, if you can enter the palace, you are all heroes of the world. In the future, you should work together and be brave to serve, take on the responsibility of defending the territory and calming the people, resist the enemy outside, intimidate the thieves and rebels inside, and be loyal to the duties..."

After that, Xu You had a one-on-one conversation. In addition to his old acquaintances, three more people attracted his attention. One was Yu Teng, the son of Secretary Yu Bai, and the nephew of Shangshu Ling Yu Teng. He was from a family and was in his early twenties. But somehow, he was extremely mature and steadfast. When Xu You asked him questions, he often wanted to answer them in the first half of the day, but he was concise and pointed to the core. After answering, he shut up immediately and refused to say a word.

The other is Wei Bairong, a poor family in Kuaiji. His family died in the Bai Thief Rebellion. After wandering in Qiantang, he joined the Cuiyu Army and entered the Tiger Quintang for seven phases of training. He made many military achievements in the Qingxu battlefield and was good at responding to changes. He was always quick and wise. He was recommended to Lu Bozhi by Qi Xiao and became a subordinate of the general's mansion. He was completely opposite to Yu Teng. Every time Xu You asked a question, he blurted out without thinking. Although he could not be perfect, he was already a bit like a coordinated overall situation.

Another one is Cai Xi, the official of Jin Cao. Jin Cao was in charge of internal and external treasury, and it was very important to measure things. Originally, Ji Qinghe was the suitable candidate for Jin Cao. However, when Lu Bo left Fengying, Ji Qinghe needed to stay and cooperate with Han Baoqing's work, so Zu Yan recommended Cai Xi. Cai Xi was a disciple he accepted many years ago and was quite economically talented. Xu You had a deep conversation with him and confirmed that this son would no longer be under Ji Qinghe. He would have a good experience. In the future, he might not be one of the alternatives to the Ministry of Revenue Department of the Ministry of Revenue.

Tan Zhuo and Lu Bozhi were both leaders. Adhering to Xu You's will, he governed the General's Mansion with military law. He seldom hit Mao every day on time. Those who do not meet the three-way drum will open the rebels and leave the mansion and report to the court without any comments. He also streamlined the cumbersome discussions, handling and feedback regulations of the court's offices, implemented vertical management, divided responsibilities to others, and did not shirk responsibility, and clearly defined rewards and punishments. This newly born military mansion will soon be perfectly operated.

He Ru led the military officers to join the army, followed the old examples of Cuiyu Army, and used sand table deduction, arranged troops, calculated the enemy and our forces, plus various factors such as weather, terrain, people's hearts, river transportation, etc., to formulate multiple strategic and tactical plans. Xu You went in and out of the Inner Dynasty and discussed the use of troops with An Xiulin and the ministers of Taiwan. This time, the war against Xiliang was a battle to destroy the country. How to mobilize superior troops to form a thunder strike, and still have the spare time to deal with possible interference from the Northern Wei Dynasty, which became the most concerned issue of the Inner Dynasty.

It was not until early December that the Korean Discussion finally reached a consensus, and decided to mobilize 30,000 Qingxu, 100,000 Central Army, 30,000 Yangzhou, 50,000 Jingzhou, 20,000 naval troops, 20,000 Liangzhou and Yao Jin, 20,000 people under the command of Liangzhou and Yao Jin, totaling 250,000 people, claiming to be 800,000, and four routes to expedition to Liangguo.

The 250,000 regular soldiers, plus auxiliary soldiers and servants, consumed astronomical food and grass every day. Although the Chu State's national strength was so strong that the treasury was full, strategic cities such as Nanyang, Xiangyang, Shouxian, Hanzhong and Pengcheng were built with regular warehouses, it was also stressful to ensure sufficient supply of such a long front. In order to reduce the depletion of logistics supply, Xu You spent all day in the Hujia and foreign soldiers, and summoned old knights who had been with the army for more than ten years, and summoned chefs with outstanding pasta skills from the city, preparing to imitate later generations to create some convenient methods for making military rations.

For example, the Ming army's perforated sesame cakes are crispy, salty and fragrant, with small holes poked in the middle, and are strung with ropes to facilitate the soldiers to carry and eat, which is very popular among the Ming army. Xu You once read Liu Bowen's "Multiple-Ability to Relieve Things" in the early Ming Dynasty. It is very clear that two kilograms of white flour are added to a cup of fermented juice, and mix them into dough, and then embedded a piece of soft noodles on top and place them in a warm place to wake up. When holding the noodles, mix them with warm soup. When fermenting, add dry noodles and pour in warm water to mix them evenly. After the wake-up tablets, you can pick up the agent and steam it.

The biggest problem here is fermentation juice. The ancient dough fermentation technology went through about five stages. The first is the white cake method in the Eastern Han Dynasty, using wine to mix noodles with dough; the second is the cake fermentation method in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, using glass slurry and rice to make porridge, obtain cake fermentation, and then used for dough; the third is the fermentation method in the Song Dynasty, which is equivalent to fresh yeast in modern food additives; the fourth is the alkali fermentation method in the Yuan Dynasty, which is mixed with fermentation, salt, alkali and warm water, and mixed with white flour, and blended into dough, which is equivalent to dry yeast in modern food additives; the fifth is the fermentation juice fermentation method in the Ming Dynasty, which is equivalent to liquid yeast in modern food additives.

If you want to make perforated sesame cakes, you must make the noodles well, otherwise it will be dead noodles. You can only make soup noodles and dough that people often eat at the time. They cannot be stored for a long time and transported for a long time, and they cannot be carried by marching. Xu You knew that using grapes can be used as liquid yeast, but the specific proportion, appropriate temperature and storage time required tests. So when he expressed his thoughts, Hou Changmin, the owner of a time-honored restaurant in Jinling, laughed and said: "The perforated sesame cake mentioned by the General is somewhat similar to the dreamer..."

“Dream?”

Xu You had never heard of it. After Hou Changmin explained, he realized that the so-called dreamer was to use the hairy noodles to knead them into a huge circle, fry them in the pan, fry them golden and crispy, and take them out to dry them. When you go out for a long trip, you can hang them in the carriage. When you are hungry, take them down and eat them for a few bites. After eating, you will hang them on it. However, this thing is too crisp and it will be broken when touched. It is not OK to serve as military rations.

But with the example of dreams, it is not difficult for everyone to understand the sesame cake described by Xu You, especially Hou Changmin is very interested in liquid yeast and is eager to make it quickly.

In addition, in the Ming Dynasty, the chefs dehydrated and dried the cooked rice and made it into dry rice. When they soaked hot water during meals, they could eat steaming food, which could shorten the meal time to the greatest extent and was quite practical during emergency combat. However, this convenient rice appeared as early as the Han Dynasty and was called "embarrassed rice" at that time. It was not a rare thing. What needs to be studied now is how to improve the shelf life of dried rice and add appropriate salt and side dishes.

Eating rice alone cannot guarantee that the soldiers have enough physical strength and desire to fight, and they must be combined with reasonable side dishes to adjust the taste. Xu You's idea is to use soy sauce and pickled vegetables, mix three liters of fermented black beans with five liters of salt, mash them into a paste, make it into a cake shape, expose it to dry, peel the size of a fingernail when eaten, which is enough to meet the seasoning needs. The advantage of this is still that it is easy to carry, and it is more hygienic and beautiful than the usual vinegar cloth and salt cloth, and the cost is also lower.

After solving the problem of rice, cakes, salt and vegetables, if possible, Xu You also wanted to provide meat. Of course, meat cannot be guaranteed to be available every meal, nor can it be guaranteed to be available for all combat divisions, but at least there must be heavy infantry like Bashandu and special combat troops like Zhenhai?

This is easy to deal with. Xu You directly copied the practice of the Mongolian army, killed a scattered beef for food, and air-dried hundreds of kilograms of beef for one month. The weight will be significantly reduced after dehydration, producing about 100 to 20 kilograms of jerky. Then put the beef in a dried beef bladder bag, which is easy to eat when carried with you, rich in nutrition, and the most rare thing is sufficient calories.

In addition, there was an old military chef who proposed to imitate the noodles invented by Han Xin and Wei Wang Bao in the battle between Han Dynasty and Han Xin and Wei Wang Bao. He was an expatriate who escaped from the north. His ancestors lived in Hanzhong for generations and learned the skills of noodles. However, Jiangdong did not eat noodles much, so he hadn't made them for many years. If he hadn't heard Xu You find a way to find food that was convenient to carry, he wouldn't have remembered it.

The noodles can be regarded as the earliest instant noodles in China. They are probably made of buckwheat and wheat. They are cooked into several mature large noodles and can be eaten after rinsing. The specific methods have been lost in later generations. In fact, the shops selling noodles in Shaanxi are all modified and re-created fakes. Xu You was immediately overjoyed when he heard that this person had his own ancestral skills.

After several rounds of brainstorming together, Xu You quickly set a decision, with Hou Changmin fully responsible for the research and development of military rations, assisted by the households and foreign soldiers. This working method directly broke people's inherent cognition and implemented the principle of professional people doing professional things. The general's house, which is usually high-ranking, became the role of providing services and support.

Tan Zhuo, who was dissatisfied with Xu You's incompetence at the beginning, was completely convinced when he received a report from Hu Cao. He privately told Lu Bo: "In the past, Emperor Xuan (Sima Yi) advised Cao Rui to say, 'In the past, the soldiers were hungry and lustful; the woodcutters were not hungry after being cooked after being cooked. Moreover, when they went deep into the enemy's territory, they could not get through, and the food was far away, which was a big taboo for marching'... Now, if you follow the general's plan, you can hold three dou of dry food for several days, which can greatly alleviate the pressure in the rear, and you can be called a good strategy!"

Lu Bozhi smiled and said, "This is nothing to the general. I heard that Mr. Zuqi built two new boats in Tiangongfang. Whether it is transporting troops or grain, it is faster and more stable than these ships today. It seems that he was able to take shape by following the general's advice."

Tan Zhuo sighed: "The general is really a god!"

Xu You, known as a god, met Wu Shan's confidant sent by Ming Yushan in the inner room. He sent Wu Shan's secret letter, saying that there was something wrong with the Buddha Sect, Zhu Wulu wanted to take people back to Jinling to meet the saint, reopen the gate of the Wu Zong Mountain, and had a dispute with some monks. He hoped that Xu You would tell me how to solve it.
Chapter completed!