As the light rain gradually stopped in the past few days, Zhou Huaian rode a new dark horse in the sky, and was surrounded by an army of rumbling cars and horses, marching in the open wilderness south of Chaoyang.

One thousand soldiers in united forces, including all the personnel of the rear battalion, six hundred garrisons, more than four hundred messengers, five hundred large livestock, and more than two hundred carts. At this time, his subordinates had all the strength of this partial division. They were divided into three parts, first, middle and back, and a few cavalry marching against the two wings, and there was a certain lineup and momentum.

There are water network areas formed by rivers and ditches everywhere; it seems that because of the recent war, there are no traces of human activities in the countryside. Even if there are occasionally some people working on farmlands or rivers and canals in the distance, they flee in a hurry after seeing the traces of these troops.

With Chaoyang as the boundary, large areas of sugarcane fields, fruit trees and forests mixed between hills began to gradually disappear; and the scenery and scenes on the road also became quite monotonous rice fields with irregular grids; various rice fields and fish ponds formed by scattered depressions.

The scene of various fishing salt, mulberry and hemp clusters are different from the alluvial plains of the Pearl River Delta where Canton is located; the main agricultural product structure here is still planted with various rice. Its history can even be traced back to the conquered Nanyue people in the Qin Dynasty. As early as BC, the rebel army planted salt-resistant rice breeding and raising fish on the rivers near the mouth of Shanghai.

Therefore, today's Chaoshan area includes early rice - two-ripe late rice, autumn rice - two-ripe bean ripe, autumn rice - two-ripe winter horticultural crops, etc. A complete set of rotational planting (water and drought rotation), intercropping (pearl between vegetables), and intercropping (late rice intercropping sweet potatoes) farming systems have been initially formed;

And make full use of the five sides of the ditches, houses, roads, embankments and other fragmented land to make no land use space abandoned. Effectively utilize natural resources and labor resources such as water, water, water, light and heat to maximize the conversion into various fragmented material output and supplement.

Unfortunately, no matter how hard we work to dig the upper limit of ground force and land output, it cannot change the reality of being heavily exploited and oppressed under the old social system; most people have planted rice for generations, but they can only use taro stews and bran to fill their stomachs and survive all year round.

Just a regular entertainment meal for the public to go to the countryside to collect income can easily make a family that was already crying and barely able to survive, and then sell their children to borrow money or even go bankrupt and flee.

Therefore, after this rebel army and the official army fought back and forth, although they still caused production cuts and poor harvests due to the misunderstanding of farming and farming seasons; but because of the rebel army cleared a wave of wealthy families, wealthy families, and officials and clerks, no one dared or could continue to levy and collect various taxes and labors from them in the short term. Compared with the lives of ordinary people in some villages, they were even better than before.

This is the result of the men he sent to conduct social surveys and agricultural production surveys along the way. Therefore, after Zhou Huaian sent a song and field trip back, there were always more or less courageous young young people coming back, saying that they wanted to follow the Yi army to find a way or make a living.

Although Zhou Huaian understood that this was just a temporary phenomenon caused by the decline of the government forces and the emptied local tyrants, the emptied forces have not yet been filled, it was also a gratifying result and development. There are also various agricultural data collection and species sampling.

"Master Xu...it's getting late."

A voice around him interrupted Zhou Huaian's thoughts and brought them back to reality; but it was the newly-joined lieutenant Su Wuming, who was named "Su Houer" because of the sharp-mouthed monkey cheeks. He saw the other party looking forward with a salivating face:

"Can you make someone start a group?"

Because the number of troops under his command increased this time, he was surrounded by the brigade coach Cheng Dazhi and Laoguan, and the signature "Hengha Two Generals" in the back camp; as it was said that because of a mistake, Wang Pan sent the garrison commander Su Wuming to wait for use in disguise punishment;

In addition, the newly established Rebel Army and the deputy lieutenant Liu Liumao, who was assigned to cooperate, became the so-called four great kings. Of course, Zhou Huaian thought, he would not really treat people as just coming here to receive punishment; perhaps this may not have the intention to secretly balance and restrict his subordinates' strength, but it is reasonable.

But I didn't expect that Su Wuming was so distant that he was also a potential foodie. At least after seeing Zhou Huaian's sophistication and attentiveness in private, he just followed suit and kept hanging around him in the name of "asking for advice", just to have some food and drink while Zhou Huaian was having a meal.

"All right.."

He couldn't help but shook his head and nodded.

"Take up today's wild hunt..."

Then, under Su Wuming's personal escort, a big wild boar with thick mane and bloody mane was loaded on a cart and carried it over. After Zhou Huaian thought about it, he had the corresponding measures to deal with it.

There is no need to stop deliberately and make a mistake. When you are walking, you can use the car-mounted charcoal fire to burn it patiently, and then scrape off the scorched skin to reveal the white texture. Then take off the most fat and thin pig face and cut it into small pieces, put it in a boiling soybean oil pan and fry it and it will be a finished product.

Although the meat of wild boars seems to be old and tidy in the future, it is really an enemy of teeth. They need sufficient heat to braised sauce, stewed soup, or chopped and fried to make it into bacon sauce; but the meat on the head and face part is an exception, especially the two most frequently used parts, the upper nose and lower jaw, which are rich in layers and delicate in taste.

After frying, draining and cooling it, dipping it in salty shrimp paste or self-made sweet spicy sauce, plum sauce, peanut butter and salted egg sauce is a delicious and crispy food that makes people unable to stop when they are taken. In fact, since I passed the lower reaches of Rongjiang River, various wild harvests have gradually become frequent.

Compared with the inland part close to Xunzhou and with considerable development, it is not a good place to be located in the coastal area at the southwest end of the Chaoshan Plain; it is said that in the 14th year of Yuanhe in the Tang Dynasty (819 AD), Han Yu was demoted to Chaozhou. "Xie Shangbiao" says: "The southern border of the state is full of seas and sky, and poisonous fog and miasma occur day and night."

According to the description of the local guide, in the sand embankment naturally formed by various coastal erosion and upstream impact, there are swamps everywhere, wild elephants are rampant, crocodiles are affected, and the environment is quite harsh. It can be said that there are also large areas of land that have not yet been truly developed.

Therefore, on this part of the wild and complicated coastline, it is actually quite limited where humans can live in a place where larger sea boats are suitable for mooring ashore, that is, where several fishing villages and small ports are located;

On the way, Zhou Huaian also truly realized what a wild land of this generation is; it is the pig-porn dragon (crocodile) that appears from time to time in the river and swamp next to the road, basking in the sun, and sways in broad daylight in wild elephants near the farmlands of villages and towns; and from time to time in the mountains and forests, tigers, leopards, jackals and wolves can be seen whistling by.

Naturally, this further firmly cut off Zhou Huaian's last bit of luck in his journey alone.

Of course, these beasts at the top of the natural ecological food chain are frightened, driven away and crushed in front of groups of humans armed, or simply tooth-beating sacrifices to improve the taste of outdoor life.

However, the ingredients that Zhou Huaian admires most are the meat of wild deer. Without any flavor, it is quite delicious just to grill it on the fire or fry it on a red stone slab. After smoked deer tendons, they can be used as snacks; deer blood is also a good tonic and has certain effects on rescuing endangered wounded people. However, the current climate is not easy to preserve, so you can only add salt and pour it into the intestine constellation to make products like blood intestines.

In comparison, the meat of wild goats is a little older, but it is more powerful and chewy. The most delicious among poultry are undoubtedly the bamboo chickens and red-headed ducks that live under the roots of the bamboo bushes. As for the aquamarines, civets, pangolins, badgers, tapirs, boars, deer, etc. that were once included in the precious recipes in later generations, I tasted them one by one.

I just collected more than a dozen unique leathers, such as the original pig dragon (crocodile) leather case that is enviable enough in later generations, as well as leopard skins, bear skins, mattresses, mattresses, etc. that are enough to construct rare and protected animals to shoot.

Just as several people were sitting cross-legged on the special dining cart, the sweet and sweet chewed as a drink, they heard the report from the front; several teams that went out to investigate the enemy situation had been returned one after another.

This time, the troops were sent to attack the port used by the official army to land. Among the three reconnaissance teams, they went to Zhanglinzhai. Both sides of Baishahukou were one step late or were empty. Only the teams were left, but they were found in the Salt Patrol near the seaside.

Although most of the official troops in Chaozhou have been destroyed, there are still a large number of unknown armed personnel gathered there; and from the situation of adventurous disguise and approaching to snooping, although there are no clear flags and signs, the armored equipment held by the other party is not something that ordinary local land groups or village soldiers can be equipped with.

Moreover, they did not seem to have received news that the inland government troops had been defeated, and they continued to collect and distribute money and grain in nearby places, and also charged taxes on passing pedestrians and business travelers, and ransomware. Some even took women back to the station to spend the night in a gallant manner from nearby villages.

Therefore, half of the people were left to continue to monitor nearby, and the rest rushed back to report the news.
Chapter completed!