Chapter 533: Just a different way to defend the country
Ran Qingxuan counted them one by one, not noticing the extremely shocked expressions of the others except Gu Yanchen.
"Sixth sister-in-law, are you kidding me?"
"Did you blow up the Salt Gang?"
The two brothers were amazed at what happened in Yanbang, and even asked in front of the couple more than once who was the god who did this...
After all this time, it turns out that the god is one of our own.
After reacting, Ran Qingxuan gave them an awkward smile.
"When we arrived at Silver Moon City a few days in advance, we accidentally learned that Qi Jing wanted to blow up the dam."
"After discussing it with my husband, I decided to do this temporarily..."
"Then...what was used to blow it up?"
"Take the gunpowder. Qi Jing got a lot of it, and I made some more powerful ones myself. If we hadn't been afraid of being discovered and put it closer, I think both of them would be dead by now."
She didn't think too much about this truth. She would live in the Gu family for the rest of her life anyway, so there was a difference between knowing some things earlier or later.
If you knew it earlier, you wouldn't have to hide it. If you knew it later, you still have to know it.
In short, she didn't care whether it would scare them or not, and just blurted out everything.
But she still had some reservations about the mall.
Because there are too many things involved in the mall, and what they have in front of them is enough for them to digest for a long time.
Gu Yanzong looked at the girl in front of him who was only sixteen or seventeen years old, and sighed that it was fortunate that she was his brother's wife.
With such abilities, I'm afraid she will be able to achieve much more in the future.
Thinking of what she just said, that there is more powerful gunpowder, Gu Yanzong was instantly moved.
"Sister Ran, have you ever calculated how much food there is in total?"
Chang Fang grabbed a handful of white rice and couldn't help asking. Seeing this, Gu Yanzong temporarily put aside what he wanted to ask.
"There are about 6 to 7 million kilograms of rice. Brown rice is a little less, but it is still about 3 million kilograms. White and coarse flour combined are about 5 million kilograms."
"There are also various beans, all together there are 700,000 to 800,000 kilograms."
At first glance, it sounds like a lot, Gu Yanchen, who is more familiar with Beiguan, said slowly.
"There are only 50,000 troops guarding the North Pass now, and the remaining 50,000 are basically distributed in Hancheng and Linxi Pass.
Emperor Mingde also knew that there was a shortage of manpower in various checkpoints, so he turned a blind eye to the matter of secondment. In addition to the soldiers in Hancheng, the food rations of another 30,000 people were temporarily supplied by the court in the next few years.
When there was no fighting at the North Pass, the soldiers could not even eat a pound of brown rice a day. Later they would get one or two steamed buns made of wheat bran and brown flour to fill their stomachs…”
Ran Qingxuan understands these things, but if he wants to mix them together and make steamed buns, how much water does he need to drink to swallow them?
As modern people, she and Qu Feng and others would never eat such things even if their lives were hard.
It is hard to imagine how those soldiers managed to hold on...
"There is a war going on now. Soldiers cannot go to the battlefield hungry. Fifty thousand soldiers must eat at least 100,000 kilograms of brown rice a day, which means more than 3 million kilograms of food a month."
"And that doesn't include the horse fodder. There are only more than 20,000 war horses in Beiguan. Except for feeding them a little more during the battle, they can't even get enough to eat at other times."
"An adult horse needs to eat ten kilograms of grass a day, not including concentrate, otherwise it will eat more."
A conservative estimate is that 50,000 people would consume 1 million kilograms of food per month, and even these soldiers would still be in a semi-starved state.
If she really ate as much as she wanted, the food she had here might not last for a few months.
"I will try my best to find a way to get more food, but the most important thing now is to deliver it to the Zhenbei Marquis."
Gu Yanzong and Gu Yanjing were shocked. They looked around and wondered who in this world would give away such abundant food unconditionally?
And their sixth brother and sister-in-law said it directly, and even felt it was not enough.
"Sixth brother's wife, do you mean to give all the food to the Marquis of Zhenbei?"
Ran Qingxuan looked a little puzzled, and nodded casually, "We are not fighting a war, we need to be well fed to defend ourselves against the enemy."
"But... why?"
In the opinion of the two brothers, there was no need for Ran Qingxuan to do so because it was too risky.
But she chose to open her heart and reveal the secret to the two brothers, and even let them know that she had a lot of food.
You have to know that if such news gets out, the whole world will be in turmoil. At best, she will be treated as a goddess and served by the world.
If you are not careful, you might get yourself into trouble.
Gu Yanchen's gaze never left Ran Qingxuan from beginning to end, because he knew too well the person he had been with for a long time.
“When a country is peaceful, its people are safe; when a country is ruined, its people perish. This saying is never meant superficially.
When the country is in trouble, it is the soldiers who rush to the front line to kill the enemy.
They are the people, and so am I. They use their flesh and blood to defend their country and their families, but I just use a different method. ”
"Good! Good! Good!"
"I thought only the men in my Gu family had such broad minds, but I didn't expect that my sixth brother's wife is not inferior to men."
Gu Yanzong shouted "good" three times, and because of Ran Qingxuan's bold words, he held the wheelchair tightly, with a murderous look in his eyes, as if he was about to go into battle in the next second...
"Sister-in-law, now I really know you. If you hadn't married my sixth brother, I would have wanted to become your sworn brother."
Emotions were running high, and as soon as these words came out, Gu Yanzong instantly felt that having such a brother was a disgrace to the Gu family.
He raised his hand and slapped his brother: "How can you talk to your sister-in-law like that? How can a man and a woman become sworn brothers?"
"Hehehe... This is not too exciting. I will just treat it as Third Brother talking nonsense..."
Gu Yanchen was originally quite arrogant, after all, such a wonderful person was his wife.
Unexpectedly, a word from his third brother almost broke his defense.
"Third brother, how can you say that... Can this be the same?"
Qu Feng and the others were also amused by Gu Yanjing's true nature and laughed out loud. Looking at their expressions, Ran Qingxuan knew that this joke would be hard to get rid of.
Thinking about Duan Yi and the others going back to get the food, it would take at least a month to deliver it to Beiguan.
Ran Qingxuan thought about it and expressed his thoughts.
"The battlefield is changing rapidly. You never know when the Yigui people will attack the North Gate."
"We must deliver this food to the Marquis of Zhenbei as soon as possible. After all, only when the soldiers are well fed can they have the strength to fight the enemy."
"What my sister-in-law said is correct. While the one in the capital has just ascended the throne and his position is still unstable, this move is not only helping the Marquis of Zhenbei, but also helping ourselves."
Everyone knows that once the North Gate is breached, the towns near the North Gate will be the first to suffer.
As Luocheng was the first city near Beiguan, once Beiguan was breached, Luocheng would also be breached.
The situation was urgent, so after taking several people out of the space, Gu Yanchen wrote a secret letter and handed it to Anliu who was left behind.
"This letter must be delivered to the Zhenbei Marquis personally. There must be no mistakes."
An Liu is the only woman in the secret guards, and she is usually the one who delivers messages at close range.
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