Great Tang’s Talented Little Landlord

Cheng Yaojin elated a glass of cold beer, and after another loud hiccup, he was very satisfied.

He looked towards Li Wangyou with a tangled face again, and gave another heavy blow.

“Ziyou, Im afraid your youngster hasnt calculated how much food and equipment are needed to supply 150,000 troops? Ill tell you this way. I wont mention the heavy equipment such as ordnance, armor, tents, and others. Grain and grass is an astronomical figure.”

“I am a Great Tang soldier. When I set out, I bring my own dry food for five days, and the rest will be supplied by baggage. Each soldier eats two liters of rice and 150,000 troops. This item alone needs three thousand shi for food every day. If a four-wheeled Carriage weighs 30 shi per car, it will take a hundred cars to supply the army for a days consumption.”

” My Great Tang is not short of mules and horses, and Ziyou. You can make these four rounds of Carriage. Otherwise, even if Your Majesty wants to conquer Gaochang Kingdom, it will be difficult to do. Just maintaining the armys heavy food and grass is a big problem.”

“But even so, if the army wants to pass through the desert, it still needs to be transported by camels, mules and horses. The camel bears three stones, and the horse mule fights five with one stone. Ziyou, your youngster, calculate how many animals are needed to supply the army. “

“And how many horses and millet are needed for so many animals? Have you ever calculated it? And the transportation of these grains and grass, the loss on the road, what is it?”

Cheng Yaojin’s this remark made Li Wangyou even more speechless.

This is really not knowing, I was shocked.

Its no wonder that Li Er didnt order Hou Junji to attack the Western Regions until the 13th year of Zhenguan. In fact, it was because of the difficulty of logistical supplies.

Li Wangyou didn’t even know that in the 13th year of Zhenguan, the 150,000 army that conquered the Western Regions actually had only seven to eighty thousand soldiers, and the others were all heavy soldiers in charge of logistics.

Now it’s a little different.

At least because of Li Wangyou’s horseshoes, Great Tang’s war horse and horse elimination rate have all dropped sharply.

Therefore, the Tang Army has a 150,000 army, almost everyone rides on horseback.

Even infantrymen rely on horses to march, and they dismount to fight only when they are facing each other on the battlefield.

As a result, the marching speed of the army can be increased a lot, but subject to the barrel theory, it will always be dragged down by the baggage.

The soldiers and horses have not moved, the food and grass go first. This is a necessary condition for the army to march and fight.

Li Wangyou was depressed by Cheng Yaojin this remark. He couldn’t help but grabbed the glass and fiercely took a sip of the drink.

He was paralyzed, he thought that Li Er was a conscience discovery,

But he didnt expect, this unscrupulous uncle actually dug such a big hole for him, and he She jumped in stupidly.

He Li Wangyou doesn’t understand the military affairs. Can Li Er understand?

Li Er knows how long it takes for the 150,000 army to reach Gaochang State.

Even so, Li Er actually asked Yu Shinan to tell him hypocritically that he could return to Ch_ng’n to visit…Bah, this old fogey is so bad!

The more Li Wangyou thought about it, the more angry he became. He didn’t need Cheng Yaojin to persuade him to drink. He just took a cup after another, and drank boring wine.

Cheng Yaojin didn’t try to comfort Li Wangyou either. For Old Yu gangsters, he would be very kind if he didn’t hit a person when he’s down.

“Ziyou, dont worry about your youngster. A woman gives birth to a child, and its not the worst thing. Look at Laozi, my aunt gave me that many babies, and Im not like you. I was nervous.” Cheng Yaojin drank the wine while joking with Li Wangyou.

Li Wangyou rolled his eyes silently, really too lazy to talk nonsense with the old gangster.

Cheng Yaojin pointed to a dish just delivered by the servant girl and said: “Come on, Ziyou, try the bacon made by the chef at Laozi’s Mansion. It’s great to serve with wine. It’s not Laozi. Bragging, in Chang’an City, bacon is worse than Laozis mansion, but thats not the case. Even the Shangshi Bureau in Your Majesty Palace is not as good.”

Cheng Yaojin The words make Li Wangyou shine.

Bacon?

Immediately, he slapped his forehead sharply.

He has also been confused recently. Why did he forget about the general food?

Great Tangs military rations are mainly millet and livestock.

These unprocessed millet and livestock are difficult to transport and not easy to eat.

Even due to transportation and productivity problems, ordinary soldiers can at most guarantee the staple food of millet. As for non-staple food, there are almost only two kinds of miso and pickles.

In fact, since ancient times, China has also had rations that are easy to carry.

For example, the dry food brought by the Han army is called embarrassment.

The so-called embarrassment is fried rice noodles. The five grains are fried and mashed for easy carrying. It is equivalent to later fried rice and fried noodles. When eating, grab a handful and put it in the mouth, and send it underwater.

Soy sauce, salted fish, bacon, and various pickles provide the daily salt required by soldiers.

There are also fast foods such as rice balls and noodles, but in most cases, the military still cooks millet or porridge for eating.

The range of rations for later generations will be very large.

In order to do the hemisphere experiment, Li Wangyou can use the vacuum package to preserve the food after he has made the air pump.

After cooking the food, seal it in a bamboo tube or earthen jar for long-term preservation.

In addition, foods like luncheon meat and instant noodles are not difficult to manufacture. Even Li Wangyou can learn Qi Jiguang’s manufacture’s military rations, light cakes.

These military rations can not only be manufactured in Chang’an City, even if they are the army of the West Expedition, they can also obtain local materials and manufacture military rations.

The direct manufacture of millet and livestock into military rations that are easy to store and transport can minimize the transportation volume of grain and grass.

Thinking of this, Li Wangyou almost wanted to get up and leave, go back to Dingzhou Village to have a good discussion with Su Changqing, and immediately start the military ration manufacturing.

In any case, Li Wangyou now needs to find a way to reduce the transportation pressure of the army’s logistics.

Only in this way can he increase the marching speed of the army, so that he can rush back to Chang’an City within eight months.

However, it is still not enough to make rations that are convenient and quick to store.

To pass the Tengger Desert, the army must abandon the four-wheeled Carriage and replace the camel team and mule and horse transportation.

From Dunhuang County to Gaochang State, there is still more the 2000 li journey. If only the camel team is used, it will inevitably slow down the march.

When Li Wangyou traveled in later generations, he also rode camels in the desert. Although the camel has good endurance, the speed is not much different from that of an adult walking.

Relying on the camel team to transport the baggage, and slowly swaying two thousand miles to Gaochangguo, the day lily was really cold.

Li Wangyou is absolutely impossible to rush back to Chang’an City before the beauty boss produces.

Thinking about this, Li Wangyou feels anxious.

He wondered to himself whether there is a way to make the four-wheeled Carriage pass through the desert.

Li Wangyou naturally understands that the four-wheeled Carriage cannot pass through the desert because the wheels are too narrow and the pressure is too high.

The solution is also very simple, that is to widen the wheel, increase the force area, and reduce the pressure.

But Great Tang does not have Rubber, let alone Rubber tires.

If a wooden manufacture is used for a wheel that is so large, its weight alone can make the horse unable to drag, let alone through the desert.

As for the crawler and so on, don’t even think about it. The technical difficulty is more complicated than Rubber tires, and it is not something Li Wangyou can handle. What’s more, the iron track, the weight, I am afraid that horses and camels can’t move.

A Tengger Desert has become a roadblock…