Qiming 1158

Chapter 538 I Will

Today, the peasants of Yanyun have just been liberated.

Although the pressure on them has been relieved a lot, and the exorbitant taxes have also been exempted a lot, but they are not rich enough to eat three meals a day.

It would be better to say that not only farmers in Yanyun, but also farmers in Hebei and Shandong could not do it. Two meals a day is still the mainstream at the bottom. In the Liberation Army, only the army has implemented three meals a day ahead of schedule due to operational needs. .

The vast majority of farmers still maintain the habit of two meals a day. They eat breakfast in the morning, which is also called a big meal, and dinner in the afternoon, which is also called a snack.

As the name suggests, the meal in the morning is relatively rich, because after eating, you have to go to work and give birth. If you don’t eat a little more, you will soon be hungry and you will not be able to work.

The second meal was a little simpler, because it was close to sunset, so I ate this meal just to avoid going to bed hungry. After eating, it was basically sunset.

The peasants did not have the conditions and habits for nighttime entertainment, and they could not light the lights, so they went back to sleep when the sun went down.

In fact, the habit of two meals a day was the standard etiquette until the Qing Dynasty. There was no such thing as three meals. Even if the ruling class wanted to eat several meals, the main meal was only two meals in the morning and evening. Exceptional snacks, or snacks.

Of course, even with the development of social productivity after the Song Dynasty, the urbanites in some big cities could afford to eat three meals a day, but that was only a privilege for wealthy people above the urbanites.

The vast majority of people still maintain the habit of two meals, and they are not even full.

Someone like Su Yonglin who added one meal to the army to make three meals a day is really a big deal. Some old gentry who just joined the Restoration Army were shocked when they learned that Su Yonglin gave the army three meals a day.

So many troops can have three meals a day?
How rich is Su Yonglin?
How clean is the inside of the Restoration Army?

Can you really implement three meals a day to the end?
It can be seen that letting soldiers eat three meals a day is inconceivable to the upper class.

Having said that, although there are still two meals a day, a lot of changes have taken place on the dining table of Yanyun farmers.

For example, the amount of grain has increased. For example, there are wheat cakes to eat. You don’t have to drink thin gruel with few grains of wheat all day long. At least you can eat enough.

Knowing that Yanyun's production has been greatly damaged, Su Yonglin began to send people from the grain reserves in Hebei and Shandong to go north to support Yanyun from the end of May, helping the people of Yanyun to survive this period of hardship until the autumn harvest.

If there is still a problem in the future, he plans to use the gold and silver seized from the Jurchen dignitaries to do grain trade on the border of the Southern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty, collect grain from the Southern Song Dynasty, and then transport it directly to the land of Yanyun by sea to alleviate the grain shortage. .

Although there is a lot of gold and silver, but they cannot be eaten as food. If there is a real shortage of food, you must exchange these things for food. Food is the most important thing.

Fortunately, it seems that Yanyun is not short of food.

Although there is nothing special about the peasants' dining table, once they have salt to eat, and secondly they won't be hungry, they can already make them feel happy.

On this day, Su Yonglin did not bring Zhao Xirui back to Zhongdu for dinner, but had a meal at the village peasant association under Lu Hua's arrangement.

Many households learned that General Su, who gave them salt and grain, was coming. They were so excited that they ran over to see Su Yonglin. Su Yonglin smiled and greeted the farmers, asking them about their living conditions, and inviting them to come and eat together.

The meals were simple, rough wheat cakes, simple salt pickled vegetables, and salt soup with a glance at the bottom of the pot, and then nothing else.

Zhao Xirui looked at the wheat cakes in the bowl and the inexplicable salt pickled vegetables. After a while of preparation, she brought the wheat cakes to her mouth. After taking a small bite, an indescribable taste filled her mouth. She couldn't help frowning.

She looked at Su Yonglin and found that Su Yonglin was holding a bowl while eating cakes while talking to the farmers, with a warm smile on his face, and the appearance of eating cakes was very fragrant, and he ate them in big mouthfuls, as if he was eating some delicacies from the mountains and seas.

She lowered her head and thought about it, feeling that as a wife, she couldn't hold back her husband, so she bit her head and ate the wheat cakes and salted vegetables with salt soup, and there was nothing left.

It was unpalatable, really unpalatable, so unpalatable that it needed to be sent down with salt soup to swallow it.

After eating, Zhao Xirui could not help but sigh, this day is really not a life that ordinary people can live on, the farmers are really suffering.

And Su Yonglin was still talking to the peasants, talking about the setting sun, and then left the village on the way home after the peasants reluctantly said goodbye.

On the way back to the Central Capital, Su Yonglin asked Zhao Xirui how the meal was just now.

"pretty good."

Zhao Xirui thought about it for a while, but said it anyway, not saying it was unpalatable, worried that Su Yonglin would be unhappy by saying this.

In the end, Su Yonglin didn't think so.

"Very good? No, it's obviously very unpalatable, and I still feel uncomfortable even now."

Su Yonglin smiled and said what Zhao Xirui said.

"what?"

Zhao Xirui was surprised, she didn't expect Su Yonglin to say such a thing.

Su Yonglin nodded simply.

"Yes, it is very unpalatable, rough, and difficult to swallow. If you keep eating this, it will be a nightmare. I can't imagine how uncomfortable it will be to eat this thing all the time."

Zhao Xirui said in surprise, "I thought you wouldn't say that."

"Why not, unpalatable is unpalatable, delicious is delicious, just tell the truth."

Su Yonglin said, "Chicken, duck, fish, and seafood are better than these rough wheat cakes and salted vegetables. This is a fact. I have nothing to say. I just sigh that this is the only food that the common people can eat. .

Even before that, they couldn't even eat such food, they could only eat thin porridge like water, and even really could only fill their stomachs with water. They couldn't eat anything better, they could only eat these rough food to fill the stomach.

So, this will make me feel sad, and even more puzzled, why do you have to be a wealthy family to eat big fish and meat, while ordinary people can only eat bran and pharynx?Why can't they eat big fish and meat? "

Zhao Xirui didn't expect Su Yonglin to think like this.

After being silent for a while, Zhao Xirui asked the biggest doubt in her heart.

"Why do you think so?"

"Ok?"

Su Yonglin looked at Zhao Xirui in confusion.

Zhao Xirui asked more directly.

"There are many people who have seen the suffering of the world, and there are many poems and articles I have read that describe the suffering of the people, but why are you the only one who thinks this way and takes action? Yong Lin, why did you do these things? "

Zhao Xirui stared at Su Yonglin to get his answer.

Su Yonglin pinched his chin and thought for a while.

The answer is very clear, because he has seen the greatest and most magnificent undertakings in human history, and he has seen people who can live well without the rule of emperors and generals who were born noble.

He knows that the wheel of history rolls and has its inertia, but since he has come, he has seen it, and he has to fight for it.

In another time and space, in the dark old age, there were some people who defeated an enemy that was a thousand times stronger than the enemy he faced, defeated all the impossible, and achieved incredible feats, and he was fascinated by it.

Therefore, he also wants to declare war on all the impossible, and cut a bloody path from the countless impossible.

He has been shaken. When facing Wanyan Alin and Wanyan Liang, he has left a retreat for his loved ones, preparing to let them leave here and fight for a chance if they fail.

Then he went to meet his destiny without looking back, and won.

So he no longer doubted, no longer hesitated, no longer wavered.

Then he looked at Zhao Xirui and gave his answer.

"There is no road in the world. There are many people who walk, so there is a road. Since no one has walked this road, I would like to be the first."

Having said that, Su Yonglin looked at Zhao Xirui again and extended a hand to her.

"Would you like to go down with me?"

Zhao Xirui lowered her head, looked at Su Yonglin's hand, and raised her head again, looking at Su Yonglin's eyes full of hope.

She couldn't help but put her hand in Su Yonglin's palm.

"I am willing."

(End of this chapter)