Tang Dynasty good brother-in-law

Chapter 935 A Day and Night of Meditation

African cassava is indeed a grain, one of the world's three largest potatoes.

And in later generations at least one billion people will depend on cassava as their main food, and [-] million of them will be in Africa.

"I have tried to use cassava, beans, and a small amount of salt, meat oil, etc. to make new food, which was well received by [-] slaves, and they even praised me as the most benevolent duke in the world."

"Eight, eighty thousand slaves..." Dugu Shura was stunned.

"This doesn't count the [-] excellent slave soldiers and the [-] excellent slave craftsmen." Liu Mu explained cheerfully.

Dugu Shura never imagined that Liumu had so many slaves.Immediately asked: "Where did you come from?"

"These slaves are the payment for the goods. You know that there is limited space on the ships back to Datang, so we can only ship them back slowly. Right now, most of them are in the ports of Djibouti and Mogadishu. There are very few slaves here in Spice Bay. There are only 2 slave soldiers. With more than [-] miners."

Dugu Shura had a feeling that as long as Liu Mu left Datang, countless people would be there with a terrifying aggressiveness.

Dugu Xiuluo said: "I didn't dare to take the saint's letter with me, it was on a boat, and the boat was at the port. I only brought six boats here, the first batch came with two battalions, and the other eighteen boats went to Djibouti. "

There are still more than 200 miles away from the port, and Liumu has already traveled deep inland for several days.

Liu Mu is not in a hurry to believe in something, and Liu Mu can probably guess the content, the innumerable things are resources and money.

After accompanying Dugu Shura back to the camp, Liu Mu went to wash and change clothes, but Dugu Shura found that some of the people he brought ran to the kitchen.

Is the food here special.

You must know that even the sailors of the Fusang nationality on the ship have the same food as other people, and the food of the Tang army is excellent.

Dugu Shura also went to the kitchen.

Countless slaves in charge of various diggings washed the soil from the river, each holding a pottery plate with a diameter of one foot, and a pottery bowl was placed in the middle of the pottery plate.

Then the big pottery plate was divided into six, and everyone lined up to eat.

Yellow, white, black, green, light yellow, red, and then a bowl of soup that feels like a lot of meat.

"General, it looks good."

Dugu Shura glanced at the soldiers who were talking beside him and said in a low voice: "This is slave food, you haven't found a soldier's kitchen?"

"It seems there is."

There are soldiers of the Tang Army here, who are also considered slave soldiers.

Dugu Shura believed that the food in the soldiers' kitchen must be good.

It happened that Liu Mu had finished washing and changed his clothes and came to find Dugu Shura. Dugu Shura asked Liu Mu, "What is this?"

Liu Mu carefully looked at the mouthfuls of the cauldron and explained to Dugu Shura:
"Grated black beans with crushed brown rice, then cassava paste, boiled peas, I don't know what the yellow ones are, the light yellow ones should be bananas, roasted bananas. Then a few oranges, speaking of this orange I have already rewarded the steward of the kitchen, and the slaves are very happy with how much this orange refreshes the meal. I don't know what kind of broth the last bowl was."

Dugu Shura repeatedly exclaimed and said to Liu Mu:
"It looks very good, and it feels delicious. It is much better than the food in the army when we first started the army. The orange is a fruit, right?"

"There are infinitely many, countless fruits here." Liu Mu was talking about wild fruits. With his tens of thousands of people, for this continent, wild food alone is enough to feed millions of people.

What's more, Liumu is still arranging people to continuously transplant and graft this kind of fruit trees on the East African plateau, as well as cultivate farmland, herd and so on.

Regular soldiers had better food than slaves.

However, Liu Mu divided the food into three classes. The excellent soldiers ate the top-class food, while the low-class soldiers ate only a little better than the slaves.But with rice.

There is not much rice in Liumu, the fields here mainly grow wheat, and the rice has to be transported from Lingnan.

The meal prepared for Dugu Shura is the general's first-class meal.

"You don't seem to have opened a small stove alone?" Dugu Shura was surprised.

"My eldest brother-in-law said that you have to learn to share joys and sorrows with soldiers. I can't eat the meals of the lower ranks with the soldiers, but at least 50 people eat the meals of the upper ranks. Then this is also called sharing the joys and sorrows."

Liu Mu's explanation is not sophistry, and Dugu Shura can also understand it.

What's more, Liumu has always had a grading system for soldiers and generals. If a certain regiment ranks last in each competition, all the soldiers of this regiment will be demoted by one class for food, and the military officers at all levels will be demoted by one or two classes.

On the contrary, the best regiment will be promoted to a first-class meal.

Dugu Xiuluo saw that there are more than 20 kinds of fruits alone, which are more abundant than Indochina Peninsula. He was surprised why Liumu didn't build a canning shop here.

A cannery is a very good business.

Dugu Shura didn't understand business matters, and he believed that few people in Datang were better than Liu Mu, so even if he had doubts, he didn't ask.

In the next few days, Liu Mu didn't say a word about the current situation on the Mediterranean side.

Until Liumu saw the letter from Emperor Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty.

After reading the letter, Liu Mu sat alone in his study for a whole day, not allowing anyone to enter the study, even if Dugu Lan wanted to see Liu Mu, he was refused.

There was no particular secret in the letter, it was just...

Liu Mu was frightened by Li Shimin's plan. In the next five-year plan, Li Shimin's requirements for Datang's material supply will be increased by five times.And to achieve such a huge supply of materials, especially the output of steel, the required investment is an astronomical figure.

There is also a joint name of Shangshu Sheng in the iron box.

Eight words are specially used in this above table, the crime lies in the present, and the merit lies in the future.This directly shows that Li Shimin's current large-scale plan is the same as Emperor Sui Yang's canal construction, which requires countless coins, countless manpower, and material resources.

This resolution will definitely not be enforced.

However, Li Shimin still hopes that Liumu can support him, and a sufficient number of iron oxen, iron donkeys, and fire fish can replace at least 20 to [-] servants.Then, the next thing is the coins you need.

Li Shimin would like to see the opening of the train from Luoyang to Chang'an.

Liu Mu took out the above form from the Ministry of Industry in the iron box. According to the calculation of the Ministry of Industry, the 30-mile railway from Luoyang to Chang'an requires more than 30 bridges like the Jing River, and many seemingly small rivers , for the smooth passage of trains, bridges must be repaired, and the amount of cement needed for only more than [-] bridges...

The data given by the Ministry of Industry is terrifying in the eyes of Shang Shusheng.

In Liu Mu's eyes, this amount of cement and steel bars is fart. As long as there is enough money to repair the steel workshop and cement workshop, these consumptions are not too much at all.

However, according to the estimate given by the Ministry of Industry, it will take eight years to complete the [-]-mile railway.

As for the cost, the preliminary forecast should be around 450 million.

(End of this chapter)