That night, Shi Yong ate ten steamed buns and a pound of mutton by himself, and the last one to lick the juice from the basin.
This is how much the five people in Beacon Tower ate!
Although Zhao Muyun ensured that everyone had meat for every meal, with such limited family resources, he couldn't make too much money!
Therefore, Zhao Muyun stipulated that each person should have two steamed buns, two taels of meat, some pickled vegetables and radishes, and a bowl of meat soup for one meal.
In this way, nutritional combination can help everyone recover their physical strength after high-intensity training.
You should know that this year there was a flood in Hedong Province in the summer and a locust plague in the autumn, which caused a sharp drop in grain harvests and left people starving everywhere.
The Dayin court allocated grain and fodder from Jiangnan to provide disaster relief.
But officials take advantage of this to enrich themselves and deduct money at every level. How much will be left for the victims?
Even though Shuozhou Prefecture was a frontier prefecture responsible for border defense, the soldiers' rations and pay were withheld. It was common for grassroots soldiers to not have enough to eat, let alone meat!
Nowadays, if you keep giving people something delicious, they might even put on a colorful piece of clothing for you.
Zhao Muyun allowed everyone to eat meat, which was a world of difference compared to the hard days of eating white porridge and pickles.
Everyone was already so grateful that they almost put Zhao Muyun on the shrine and burned incense every day.
Now, this newcomer Shi Yong actually ate so much, who wouldn’t feel pained?
How long has it been since this animal last had meat?
In other words, the reincarnation of hungry ghosts has never eaten meat.
Everyone looked sideways and cast contemptuous glances.
But seeing that Zhao Muyun didn't care, they didn't feel comfortable turning the table over in public, but they were secretly thinking about how to teach this kid a lesson during tomorrow's training.
Zhao Muyun thought Shi Yong was just hungry, so he patted his shoulder and told him to eat more.
"The Yanqingdun Beacon Tower is really great, Zhao Tou, you all are so kind to me, I didn't come to the wrong place!"
Shi Yong burped, looking very satisfied.
After dinner, before it got dark, Zhao Muyun gave everyone a literacy class.
"This word is 国, everyone read it with me, GUO-GUO..."
Shi Yong was surprised. He didn't expect that people could read and write in the beacon tower.
He looked like an inexperienced person and was immediately looked down upon by the other soldiers.
That’s nothing. Their Sergeant Zhao can even teach everyone to sing songs!
As the crowd recited like parrots, the Yanqingdun Beacon Tower gradually sank into darkness.
The lifeless lamp on the watchtower swayed in the night wind, echoing with the faint lights of beacon towers such as Guiyidun, Anyuandun, Huangshabao, and Douzilingbao in the distance.
On quiet nights, they are always guarding the lights of thousands of homes in Dayin.
......
In just three days, Shi Yong fully felt the "enthusiasm" from his companions at the Yanqingdun Beacon Tower!
First, the five-mile weighted cross-country run was upgraded to a five-kilometer round trip. On the first day, everyone worked together to pull Shi Yong apart. Then, they did push-ups and military stance...
Each of them gave their utmost effort, unleashed their potential, and taught Shi Yong a hard lesson.
The meat from Yanqingtai Beacon Tower is not so delicious!
And Zhao Muyun seemed to understand why the other beacon towers didn't want Shi Yong.
Damn, it turns out this guy is such a big eater!
Although the amount of meat was limited to two taels per person the next day, Shi Yong still ate ten steamed buns in one go!
If you don't give him food, he will cry for food!
This made Mr. Li and Mr. Zhang, who were cooking, complain bitterly.
This made Zhao Muyun seriously suspect that Zhong Dahu had deliberately deceived him!
Could it be that because he received a lot of rewards, they arranged for a guy with a big appetite to come over?
I thought I had found a good opportunity to work for an honest farmer's son, but...
However, although Shi Yong eats a lot, Wang Tiezhu, Xiao Wu and others also deliberately make trouble for him during training.
However, he did not fall behind. Every project was completed according to the specified quantity, and the completion was better every day.
It's a good seedling!
Come on, just eat it if you can!
I hope that when I go to the battlefield in the future, I will have an extra brave soldier under my command!
In a room in the beacon tower, after listening to Han Zhong's training report, Zhao Muyun shook his head with a wry smile, and then continued to fiddle with the crossbow in his hand.
Last time, the compound bow he had secretly made showed its power, like a sniper, suppressing the battlefield.
He shot and killed a bronze-armored Tartar, an iron-armored Tartar, and three leather-armored Tartars in succession, which made the silver-armored Tartar even more frightened.
This also made Zhao Muyun deeply aware of the influence of bows and arrows on ancient battlefields.
Throughout history, nomadic peoples on the grasslands have relied on the powerful mobility of horses and the precise long-range strikes of bows and arrows, while most agricultural civilizations can only adopt passive defense.
The Great Wall was built and beacon towers were erected just to prevent the nomadic people from moving south.
Before the advent of firearms, if one wanted to make these nomadic people kneel down and sing the song of conquest, the only way was to develop more powerful cavalry and sharper bows and crossbows.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty mobilized the whole country to form a cavalry of 100,000. With the continuous attacks of Wei Qing and Huo Qubing, he dealt a heavy blow to the Xiongnu and sealed the Wolf's Lair. Later, Dou Xian of the Eastern Han Dynasty drank water from the vast sea and engraved a stone on Yanran Mountain.
The Tang Dynasty, led by Li Shimin, the strongest carbon-based creature in the seventh century, the governor of Asia and the Heavenly Khan, had many generals under his command. Li Jing, Li Ji, Su Dingfang, Xue Rengui and others successively led troops to attack the Turks and successfully controlled and conquered the grassland.
Among them, the Tang Dynasty's horizontal sword, Mo Dao, Ming Guang armor, mounted archery compound bow, and individual crossbow played an important role in the war to conquer the Turks.
In the era that Zhao Muyun lives in, Dayin was militarily strong in the early days of its founding, and had nearly 100,000 powerful cavalry, which crushed the nomadic peoples in the north and pushed the border line all the way to the Daqing Mountains.
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