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Chapter 231 Moon Cake
Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Li Chaosheng was very satisfied with the appearance of the mooncakes sent to Li Chaosheng by the supply and marketing cooperative in the city.

The Supply and Marketing Cooperative is a special department set up by Li Chaosheng. Its role is very simple. It is to control the sales of in-demand items in Lantian County. The in-demand items include condiments such as sugar, refined salt, and soy sauce, as well as cloth, meat, and egg milk.

Since the economic situation in Lantian County is still a planned economy, the above-mentioned things are not rich, so they need to be controlled. If anyone is greedy, they can use various bills issued locally, plus gold and silver to buy, and the price is cheaper than outside the county. many.

For example, if you want to eat meat, you have a meat ticket, and the meat ticket requires you to work in a position arranged in the county, and then the quota will be distributed. For example, if you want to make a new dress, you also need to go to the reservoir in the county, or Other departments work, so that they can be issued with tickets. With the distribution tickets, it will be very cheap for you to go to the supply and marketing cooperatives to buy things.

At least it is much cheaper than the free market in Lantian. For example, if you buy the big carp in Lantian provided by the Fisheries and Breeding Department with the fish ticket of the supply and marketing cooperative, it is much cheaper than buying it directly in the market. They are all rich people.

Only wealthy households will go to the market to buy full-price Lantian big carp.

And the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching. In ancient China, there were only three major festivals, namely, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the Spring Festival.

Due to the rapid development of society in modern times, many festivals have lost their charm. For example, few people eat zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival, and even less people eat moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

But in this era, it is a very luxurious thing to eat moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Li Chaosheng still attaches great importance to this. Some people say that the custom of eating mooncakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the period of Zhu Yuanzhang. It is said that Zhu Yuanzhang put a note of important military information in the sesame cakes on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and later evolved into eating mooncakes. Liu Bowen also wrote a poem: half like the sun and half like the moon, once bitten by a golden dragon.

But if you go back seriously, eating mooncakes on Mid-Autumn Festival can be traced back to the Zhou Dynasty, and eating mooncakes existed in the Tang Dynasty, but at that time it was not called mooncakes, but called Hubing. According to historical records, people at that time ate Hubing, And there are fillings in the Hubing, which are walnuts and sesame seeds.

Take a look, isn't this a moon cake?
The real origin of the name moon cake is likely to come from a poem by Su Dongpo: "Small cakes are like chewing the moon, with crisp and glutinous rice in them."

Anyway, in the Chinese nation, the origin of eating mooncakes on Mid-Autumn Festival can be traced back a long time. I remember that there is a passage in the cross talk that talks about the origin of mooncakes, which even dates back to Shangtang.

The supply and marketing cooperative prepared the moon cakes for Li Chaosheng to see. This year, the supply and marketing cooperative has only two kinds of moon cakes, one with bean paste filling and the other with five kernel fillings.

Among them, the price of Wuren stuffing is much higher than that of red bean paste, because there are peanuts, walnuts, sesame seeds, almonds and melon seeds in Wuren stuffing.

In addition, I don’t know who felt that the color was monotonous, but there were two red and green strips made of shredded radish, which reminded Li Chaosheng of his childhood memories.

The fillings of the two mooncakes are determined, and then the mold is engraved. The words are engraved on the mold, which means family reunion, all the best, and there is a line of small words Lantian Supply and Marketing Co., Wuren/Dousha.

Li Chaosheng agreed with this, and at the invitation of the supply and marketing cooperative, he made the first mooncake in Lantian County. The process is very simple. First, a ball of dough is made into a dumpling wrapper, and then the five kernel fillings prepared in advance are wrapped in it. , and then form a dough. At this time, there is a mill made of bamboo. Throw the dough into it and flatten it.

The day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, a large number of mooncakes were ready. In addition to selling a large part of them at the supply and marketing agency, Li Chaosheng also distributed mooncakes to all members of the army. Each person had a half catty of mooncakes and a catty of sugar. It's the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The white sugar is produced by the Lantian Sugar Factory, and the main raw material is sugar beets. This year, Lantian County has planted [-] mu of sugar beets, which can basically meet the sugar needs of Lantian people, and of course it is the minimum demand.

However, Li Chaosheng did not dare to expand the scale of sugar beet planting. In the development blue book of Lantian County, Li Chaosheng made repeated orders to ensure the safety of the staple food first. As for the rest of the cash crops, he must not compete with the staple food.

Corn and sweet potatoes are the real sons of Lantian County. Wheat and sorghum are godsons. As for beets, they are raised by the stepmother.

The moon is thick during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and passers-by on the road are full of smiles.

It's a pity that people outside the Lantian Pass sell their children and daughters for rice porridge.

This is the psychology of Lantian people. People’s happiness is all compared. If you eat lobster, you are happy if others don’t. I have, people have my essence, this is happiness.

Don't talk about why you should base your happiness on other people's misfortune, because people are all in comparison, no matter what class or policy, human nature is to compare, and no one can be an exception.

Lantian people are now full of happiness. Move a small bench to the base of a big tree, take a piece of sweet and fragrant moon cake in your hand, take a bite, look at the moon in the sky, and chat with the people around you. This year's harvest, looking forward to a better life in the future, of course, we can never avoid talking about the situation of outsiders.

This is the same as people chatting about Laomei and Ukraine when they have nothing to do nowadays. This is not considered as a kind of cultivation of national honor. Anyway, the people of Lantian now have an indescribable sense of honor to outsiders.

Moreover, their recognition of Lantian County has reached the highest level. Now if someone says they want to deprive them of their current life, change them to a county official, and continue to live in Ming Dynasty, they will definitely fight each other with a hoe. Zun said well, you have to guard your own happy days.

There are very few soldiers in Lantian County, the regular army is only 5000 people, and the militia is only 8 people, but if the army really wants to trample on Lantian County, the farmers in Lantian County are soldiers, and they can rush out of the farmland spontaneously , holding a hoe to fight the enemy desperately, defending his hard-won happy life.

Li Chaosheng has been emphasizing one sentence. This sentence is called "Golden the country without the danger of mountains and rivers, and prestige the world without the benefits of military revolution. Then neither of these depends on it. What we rely on is the people, that is, the peasants."

What does it mean to be a soldier for all the people? In Lantian County, this is for all the people to be soldiers.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the big guys are waiting for the crops in the field to mature. Looking at the corn cobs, there are smiles that cannot be concealed on the faces of the old farmers.

There is hope for this little day.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Bai Shoumin found Li Chaosheng, and gave Li Chaosheng the latest information from BJ City. There was only one thing in the information, Yuan Chonghuan died, and he was cut to pieces.

The time of death was August [-]th in the third year of Chongzhen.

Asking to be killed after autumn, this is the Ming Dynasty, no, it is a thing that the entire feudal dynasty likes to do, they seldom make a decision, most of them wait until the autumn to slaughter, and they have to wait until [-]:[-] noon, when the sun is the last When it is fierce, it is said that this can make the souls of the dead not live in peace, nor can they come to the world for cholera, which is the cruelest punishment.

It is a kind of punishment that wants you to live in peace in both the yang world and the underworld. Li Chaosheng sneered at this, feudal superstition.

"At ten o'clock in the morning on August [-]th, Yuan Chonghuan set off from the Baihumen Gate of Fusi, Beizhen with six Jinyi guards. When he arrived at Xishikou at ten o'clock quarter past, all the people had arrived. There was a huge crowd of people at the scene. He is a traitor and a traitor, and he will die a bad death."

Bai Shoumin read the information to Li Chaosheng, and Li Chaosheng listened silently.

"At three o'clock in the afternoon, the outside of the execution ground was already blocked. The supervisor announced the operation. The executioner covered his whole body with a fishing net and cut his flesh inch by inch with a small knife. Every time a piece was cut, the people in the audience threw silver coins on the stage. The meat was given to the people in the audience, and the people ate it raw, and they didn’t feel like cursing in their mouths, what’s more, when they ate it with rice wine, blood flowed from between their mouths, like purgatory on earth.”

"After a while, Yuan Chonghuan's flesh was exhausted, and his head was hanging on the flagpole. In a few days, the head was going to be sent to the Nine Sides to warn everyone. However, that night, his head disappeared. We are currently investigating."

Bai Shoumin read the information again, with a little sigh on his face, and Li Chaosheng also sighed, a generation of famous generals fell. Although Yuan Chonghuan had many controversies, his credit is indelible. Although he likes to brag, he lost his life by bragging , wronged or wronged.

At this time, Bai Shoumin looked at Li Chaosheng and said, "Master, although I have never seen Yuan Chonghuan, but from the previous information, he should not be a collaborator or a traitor, otherwise he would not rescue BJ City at night. Can't the common people see it? If you kill it, you kill it, why do you want to eat its flesh?"

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng looked at Bai Shoumin and said with a smile: "The common people are ignorant and can be fooled. The right to speak is in the hands of a few people. As long as you guide them a little, they will naturally become enthusiastic."

Don't talk about Yuan Chonghuan, even if the emperor didn't like me that day, arranged a meal for me, and killed me, the people would rob me for meat.

"Ah this..."

A look of disgrace appeared on Bai Shoumin's face, but Li Chaosheng smiled and said, "But people in Lantian don't know how to eat it, because they have seen me and know who I am."

"What Yuan Chonghuan is not smart about is that he hasn't joined the people for a long time, and the people don't know who he is, so he is naturally at the mercy of others, and he is what he is said."

"And I often inspect the people. The people have seen me and know me. Now they say that I am collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country. They must not believe it, and they will tear the mouth of the person who speaks. This is why I have always emphasized that you should mingle with the people. People can’t get out of touch with the people, otherwise accidents will happen.”

Li Chaosheng said, followed by a sigh: "Actually, the common people are very smart. Some of them know that Yuan Chonghuan was wronged, but they still scold Yuan Chonghuan. There is no other way. There must be a place to vent. The common people are at home No one was recruited and no trouble was caused, and suddenly the Tartars came in."

"Then storm into your house, kill your elderly parents, rape your wife and daughter in front of you, chop off the head of your underage child, kick it as a ball, and then watch you suffer, howl, and do nothing Inhuman ridicule, can you not hate the Tartars?"

"The Tartars ran away, leaving you with a dilapidated home, and you have nowhere to vent your anger. You may not believe it when you hear that Yuan Chonghuan is collaborating with the enemy, but he, Yuan Chonghuan, did not stop the Tartars, so he will be charged with Yuan Chonghuan body, otherwise they will go crazy, this tone must be released!"

"Actually, the common people don't hate Yuan Chonghuan so much. What they hate is the incompetent Daming, the princes who sit in the court and sit on the table, but they dare not vent to them. They can only hate in their hearts, so whether Daming is an upright official or a corrupt official. Whether they are capable ministers or mediocre people, as long as they are killed, they all come to applaud, they hate this Daming who can't protect them, they hate Daming who only knows how to suck their blood!"

Li Chaosheng was very excited when he said this. He also hated those bastards in Daming. An official cannot protect the people under his rule. What kind of official should he be? To expect the common people to recite their kindness is nothing short of idiotic.

Li Chaosheng looked at Bai Shoumin at this time and said: "Shoumin, if one day I can't protect the people under my rule, and the people in Lantian want to kill me, I will open my hands and let them kill me. I deserve it. Don't the people who died in vain feel wronged?"

"Since Yuan Chonghuan promised to pacify Liaodong in five years, even if he couldn't do it, I would still be convinced that he nailed the Tatars to Liaodong, but he shouldn't rule out dissidents. Isn't Mao Wenlong wronged when he died?"

Li Chaosheng said bitterly: "If Mao Wenlong didn't die, the Tatars would not dare to be so unscrupulous when they entered the customs this time, because Huang Taiji took everyone away, and Mao Wenlong took his subordinates to invade and steal from Pidao. At that time, Huang Taiji was on both sides of the head, he was concerned about one thing and lost the other, whether he could hit BJ City was a problem, why did he drive straight in like now, with countless casualties."

"Is Yuan Chonghuan wronged?"

Li Chaosheng stared at Bai Shoumin at this moment, Bai Shoumin was shocked by Li Chaosheng's aura at this moment, he was stunned for a long time and said: "It seems that there is no injustice."

Li Chaosheng sighed and said: "It is said that he was wronged, he was wronged, he did not cooperate with the enemy, that he was not wronged, he was not wronged, he did not do what he should do, in fact, Yuan Chonghuan did not kill him for the crime of collaborating with the enemy and traitorous country, but It is not wrong to kill the big officials of the frontier without authorization and cause the Tartars to invade, but as for Ling Chi's execution, it is over."

Li Chaosheng commented on Yuan Chonghuan's death in this way, and when Yuan Chonghuan died, the officialdom of Ming Dynasty was shaken, especially the big officials in the frontiers, there was a sense of sadness when the rabbit died.

It is said that after Hong Chengchou got the news, he didn't eat all day and night, but was locked in the room. When he came out, a strand of white hair appeared on his temples.

But Liaodong lost Yuan Chonghuan, Zu Dashou and others were all sad, and the morale of the army was slackened. The generals gathered together to discuss. Think twice before acting.

(End of this chapter)