Chapter 151 Alcohol and Land
"Hua Zijian!" Chen Xi roared angrily.
"Military Advisor! What do you want me to do for you?" Hua Xiong fell out from the corner with an embarrassed look on his face. For people like them who could use internal energy outside the body, it would not be a big problem to hide in a corner or even hang on the ceiling.
If they wanted to hide, Chen Xi would be able to find them without using his mental power.
But this time, Chen Xi not only mobilized his mental power on a large scale, but also called him out by name. He was directly kicked out by the group of shameless accomplices behind him.
"You went to steal wine again!" Chen Xi's voice couldn't help but rise octaves. Although it wasn't much, this was the fourth time this month.
Li Ru said nonchalantly, "It's just a little bit of alcohol, why is Zichuan making such a fuss?"
It definitely wasn’t because Hua Xiong and the others secretly stuffed him a few jars of wine. To be honest, it was very strong and nice.
"I've warned you!"
Chen Xi was extremely crazy. Although food was not a problem, it would take time to make alcohol.
The allied forces outside the Great Wall attacked the city every day, and he finally found some free time to make alcohol.
As a result, he finally made some alcohol for disinfection and healing, but it was lost every other day. At first, he thought that the general could not help but take it secretly, so he gave him a small warning.
As a result, the second and third time, he found that everyone in Hulao Pass was involved except Gao Shun.
"Ahem, cough, cough, Zichuan, please mind your manners. Your alcohol is indeed good, but it consumes too much food. You should produce less." Li Ru said with a bit of heartache. People from Liangzhou don't have the concept of wasting food.
There were too many days of hardship, and Li Ru sometimes complained that Chen Xi was too wasteful of food, wasting it every day.
Countless amounts of grain were consumed to produce just a tiny bit of wine. Although it tasted good, it was indeed a huge waste.
"Wenyou!" Chen Xi was furious. He originally thought that it was a group of warriors who were messing with him, but he didn't expect that there was a dark hand behind it.
"Ahem, ahem, Zichuan, don't get excited. The wine is indeed good, but it's against nature and you'd better not give birth." Li Ru felt a little scared when Chen Xi stared at him, and he couldn't help but say righteously.
Chen Xi suddenly calmed down and scratched his head in confusion. He had clearly given Li Ru the price list, so why did Li Ru think so?
"Oh! I forgot to write it!"
Chen Xi hammered his hand and suddenly remembered that he wanted to write it, but he forgot about it when he was visiting the brothel!
"Hehehe" Chen Xi smiled awkwardly. "Wait for me a moment!"
After saying that, Chen Xi laid on the table and wrote furiously. He wanted to give Li Ru a reasonable explanation, otherwise with Li Ru taking the lead, this wine stealing incident would not be settled.
Although everyone respected him, as a military strategist who changed career paths, he had no authority at all .
"Here, Wenyou, take a look at this. This is the questionnaire I made before." Chen Xi handed Li Ru a scribbled draft.
"Price list?" Li Ru struggled to decipher the cursive writing on the draft.
To be honest, it was the first time he saw such a huge difference in a person's appearance, and whether he was good or bad depended entirely on his condition.
He had seen Chen Xi's calligraphy, which had form but no spirit, but it could still be considered good calligraphy.
But when Chen Xi's laziness strikes, the cursive writing he writes is even more crude than wild cursive writing.
"It's a price list for war losses and war gains. For example, how much resources and soldiers Zijian is worth. If we fight the coalition of princes and pay Zijian in, even though the gains are greater than the losses, in the long run, our losses are not worth it."
Chen Xi glanced at Hua Xiong and gave an example of him.
Li Ru nodded repeatedly after listening to Chen Xi's novel speech, which indeed made sense.
Hua Xiong is the current leader of the Xiliang Army. If Hua Xiong is sacrificed in the attack outside the pass, it would be a bit of a loss.
But if you lose a third or fourth-in-command like Li Jue, that would be barely acceptable.
If one or two of Lu Bu's subordinates, Hao Meng, were to be sacrificed, that would be a relatively normal phenomenon.
"Not bad, not bad. From this perspective, Zichuan, using food to treat the veterans is indeed a good deal ."
Li Ru nodded. He understood Chen Xi's meaning a little bit. He was also an expert in military training. If he could exchange a thousand stones of grain for an old soldier, it would indeed be a good deal.
You have to know that a veteran has to go to the battlefield at least two or three times and experience several battles. If he is not strong enough, he will not be able to adapt to the rhythm of the battlefield.
"Yes, we are not short of food at the moment. If we can save a few veterans, it will naturally be a very profitable deal." Chen Xi said proudly with his hands on his hips.
Although he had wanted to complain about this broken world for a long time, it was okay that the land did not need to be rotated. It directly raised the agricultural civilization's desire for land to a higher level.
But it also answered the doubts in his heart. He had felt something was wrong a long time ago.
Let’s not talk about why the people in the Central Plains were living in poverty, nor why the Central Plains expanded so much for no reason.
He was already shocked by the fact that the Eastern Han Dynasty, with such poor productivity, could feed more than one billion people. In later generations, the country was able to barely have enough food and clothing thanks to a variety of high-yield crops and the emergence of saints who worked for the country and the people.
How could the Eastern Han Dynasty afford to support so many people? It's too exaggerated.
Later, when discovered that the fields in the Central Plains did not require crop rotation and seemed to always remain at the same level.
Even if you apply farmyard manure, its fertility can only be maintained for once. If you do not continue to apply fertilizer next time, the land will return to its original condition.
This relieved the pressure on the common people, gave them more free time, and led to a large number of idle people learning various skills.
In the village Chen Xi visited, everyone practiced martial arts, and the strongest village chief had reached the level of internal energy.
Originally, Chen Xi was worried that Guo Hao's creation of various high-yield crops would damage the land, and he also wanted to popularize some knowledge about soil fertility. Unexpectedly, the strange world directly cut out all the content in this regard, which was outrageous.
Looking at the matter-of-fact looks of the people around him, Chen Xi felt confused for the first time about the knowledge he had mastered.
Do I have a fake encyclopedia in my hands?
No, it's not my fault, it's the world's fault.
But it must be said that this common sense is indeed good news.
Chen Xi could already imagine the grand occasion after the development of the Northeast. When some land of fish and rice, Suzhou and Hangzhou, was developed in the future, the food shortage in the entire Central Plains would be solved!
As for natural disasters, they were nothing compared to his talent in protecting the country.
As for man-made disasters, haha, did you see the tough guy Lu Bu beside him?
Blowing up meteorites with bare hands in the wild is a piece of cake. I heard that he has inexplicably mastered flying recently, and he is becoming less and less like a human.
