Chapter 12 Rice
Jialancheng has a two-story Tianshou Pavilion, which is divided into two cities inside and outside, with stone walls built by stones. Zhengheng originally thought that Zhongshan City was no worse than Jialancheng. But when he saw Zhongshancheng's appearance, he was so shocked that he was sweating. He said that the castle was too proud of Zhongshancheng. At best, it was just a large piece of simple shack covering the earthen mountain. Even the so-called conference hall was airtight, and early spring was like winter. If it weren't for the huge fire pit ignited in the center of the hall, it would have frozen people.
If you want to ask if there is a Tianshou Pavilion in Zhongshan City, to be honest, it is also a two-story Tianshou Pavilion.
But who dares to climb up the cold Tianshou Pavilion hard in the early spring with the biting cold wind, and it would be strange if you stay on it for an hour without being frozen. It is said that it is Tianshou Pavilion, and the more you watch Zhengheng looks more and more like the watchtower I saw in the movies in my previous life, it is about the same size, but it is still a bamboo structure. You can climb up and down with a thick rope up and down, all relying on the strength of your hands. If you are fat, you really can't do it.
Zhengheng felt even more sad that Yeyama Yichao was so amazed when he saw Zhongshan City, just like seeing a treasure, which made him covered in hair.
The other two small cities are not much better. When I saw these, I knew why Zhongshan Fan was worried about the ruins of Jiachang City. Jiachang City is a castle with stone walls. As long as it is slightly rebuilt on the original basis, it can become a solid castle. If Jiachang City is a castle, Zhongshan City can only be regarded as a copycat, or a kind of copycat that is quite poorly made.
Although Zhongshan City was broken, this great victory was undoubtedly like a shot of chicken blood for Zhengheng and his men, and they were very happy for a while.
They did not expect that after just following Zhengheng for more than ten days, they captured Zhongshan City when they defeated Zhongshan Fan. No one of their own side was injured, and the number of warriors reached 87. This could stabilize the pressure in the small Zheduo County, the Xinjian Zhenjing Jing in the city of Yancheng, and other rich people had to circumvent. This undoubtedly greatly expanded their self-confidence, and at the same time, they admired Zhengheng, the new master, much more.
If they had no choice but to choose Zhengheng in the past, then now they are impressed by Zhengheng. In this way, Zhengheng's position in their hearts is much more reliable. Don't you see that Ida Zongheng, who is known as Tsaido, has only built the A Cage City without expanding its territory, and Ida Shinheng is even more difficult to preserve the A Cage City, let alone expand its territory.
They obtained nearly 200 stones of grain from the granary of Zhongshan City. They should have been supported by Xinjian Zhenjing. There were also some gold sand and most of the weapons were spears. They had several weapons plundered from the battlefield, and they had gained a lot.
A huge pottery jar was added to the fire pit, and the sizzling heat rose from the pottery jar, and the fragrance of rice and fish filled the entire hall. In order to celebrate the victory, Zhengheng specially took out a stone of food and fodder to comfort everyone, and asked the farmers under the city to go to Zhafu River to catch more than a dozen unknown big fish and cook them together, and they were given food for them.
Yeyama Yichao and others looked at the sizzling hot pot and were waiting for the fish and rice with green light. They had never eaten a delicious meal of white rice and fish throughout the year.
I usually eat rice with soaked rice and kimchi. I eat rice with more water and less rice. I eat rice with soaked rice that is too salty. I only eat a little bit of slightly thicker rice when I go to war.
Mahiewe and others were even more unbearable. When they saw Nikaido Sajiro take out a rice ball wrapped in bamboo leaves from their arms, the corner of their mouths drooled, not only did they say that, but also tried hard to maintain their samurai image. The more embarrassed they were, the more embarrassed they were.
Mabukie approached Nikaido Nobuhiro's side, his eyes kept glittering green at the rice ball, and asked in a low voice: "Nikaidosan, do you usually eat delicious rice balls?"
Nikaido Nobuhiro shook his head and said, "There is no such good thing? This is the food that Your Highness gave us for two days before he went out of the battle. Each person has six rice dumplings. Do you want to eat it? I will give you half." As he said that, he handed the rice dumplings in his hand to Zhenbingwei in half.
Mabukie swallowed, rubbed his hands and took it solemnly. The green light in his eyes was even more fierce than seeing his enemy. He took a deep breath, picked up the bamboo leaves that Nigayado Sajiro fell to the ground and wrapped them up, and hid them deeply in his arms. He looked around and looked around for fear of being discovered, and pulled Nigayado Sajiro and said something, but he mostly asked about Masaheng.
Zhengheng, who was sitting in the first place, happened to see the true soldiers and guards hiding the rice ball in his arms like a wolf, and was shocked. He didn't expect that the life of the samurai master was so miserable. For Zhengheng, eating rice balls was natural, but he didn't expect that such a thing would happen. Suddenly, when the samurai were distributed before leaving the battle, the samurai's eyes were full of respect and reason to explain. A generous head of the family was always much more pleasing than a stingy family. It was a small ball of rice ball that made the samurai who had no choice but to support Zhengheng had the idea of dying for his confidant.
Zhengheng saw everyone's thoughts, he stood up and said to everyone: "Everyone, let's get to know each other first. If the injured are bandaged, eat fish and rice first, and then go to the city to report the message to let the family feel at ease. Each person brings a bag of food and fodder to send home, so that the family can also have a full meal. Zhenbinge, after the meal, you bring twenty people to comfort the people in the town and let them have a peaceful spring farming. Sajiro, you bring thirty people to Umekawa Courtyard to find Shinhiro. Ichicho, the matter of Matsuyama Castle is left to you, and you will get another group of support as soon as possible to deal with the invasion of Kazura."
After hearing Zhengheng's words, everyone was extremely excited. The orders followed were irrelevant. Anyway, things like appease the people of the town are after meals. What is important is that they can get white rice with fish and get a bag of food and fodder, which makes everyone's mind more active.
According to Masaheng's instructions, the samurai of the former Ida family took out rice balls and introduced and distributed rice balls with the newly joined samurai. The atmosphere quickly became lively.
The newly joined samurai did not eat the rice ball immediately and hid it. After the fish and rice were cooked, Masaheng stepped forward and distributed the rice one by one. This was a good opportunity to win people's hearts. He would not let it go. Each samurai bowl was full of rice with fish.
After the rice was divided, the warriors knelt in the hall, looking at the hot rice, tears in their eyes. They had not eaten such sticky rice for so long, so how could they not be excited?
Zhengheng smiled and said, "Eat quickly, and..." A short sentence finally made everyone's hearts feel warm and grateful.
Zhenbingwei's mouth rose to the edge of the bowl and took a deep breath. The heat choked him and coughed several times before stopping. His snot and saliva fell on the rice. He ate the rice without caring about the reactions of others. While eating, he also praised it as delicious.
Everyone swallowed the rice viciously, chewing it in big mouths, regardless of whether their stomachs could bear it.
Zhengheng understood that the lower-level warriors in the Warring States Period were not used to eating sticky rice and could not digest it, so he ordered people to eat hot soup on the ground with rice. The way to eat this is not much different from soaking rice. Today, the meaning of resting on the way halfway today is similar to eating rice balls with water.
Zhengheng ordered two cans of fish and rice to be cooked. Everyone was extremely satisfied with their stomachs, leaving only the broken bone residue on the ground, which was in a mess.
Then everyone fell to the ground and said, "Thank you for your reward."
Zhengheng smiled and said, "Don't worry, follow me and ensure that everyone can eat the same hot rice as today."
Everyone said in unison: "Greetings to Your Highness, even if we go through fire and water, we will do whatever we want."
Everyone was excited to receive a bag of food and fodder and send it home. They cut down trees to build Zhongshan City and went to Songshan City for help.
But after seeing Zhongshan for a long time, his party fled to the city in a mess, and fled outside the city at night.
In the city of Shin-chan, the lights on the side of the conference hall were swaying. Xin Jianzhenjing was worried about the war between Zhongshan Fanshi and Ida Zhengheng, so he was completely sleepy. Several trusted retainers accompanied him to analyze, and they all felt that Xin Jianzhen had gone through hasty and should not support Zhongshan Fanshi, a person with an ambitious ambition, and what should we do if we raise a tiger to suffer.
Compared to Jialan City, the distance between Zhongshan City and Songshan City is easier to walk and close.
He was talked about too much, and Xinjian Zhenjing also felt that this decision was too hasty. Although Zhongshan Fan Shi was the most powerful person nearby to destroy the Ida clan, he was not the same as him, and he was not his direct subordinate. It would be fine if both sides suffered losses. If he won the Jiaocheng City to a great victory, would it be a backlash?
When Xinjian Zhenjing was just thinking about how to deal with the backlash of Zhongshan Fanshi, a knock on the door of the door close to his retainers was already heard outside the side room: "Your Highness, it's not good. Zhongshan Fanshi was defeated, and Ida took Zhongshan City. Zhongshan had arrived outside the city for a long time to ask for help."
On the quiet night, the voices close to the retainers seemed sharp, and the things conveyed were really scary, and everyone was already scared to jump up like a rabbit.
Chapter completed!