A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 84
Fuqiang City, also known as Yongning City.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, when it was still called Ji County, it was still the Governor of Liangzhou.

Fuqiang once had a name called Cucumber County. The cucumbers here are very famous. It is still hot in July, and the small town in the Weihe River Valley where the army gathers has limited supplies.

Fortunately, Chai Shao took special care of the hospital camp, and supplies were given priority to them every time.

A cart of juicy cucumbers was sent to the hospital camp of the Xingshu Gourd Silver Needle Banner. The person who delivered the vegetables was not from the camp logistics, but directly from the military caravan. A person jumped on the carriage and gave Huaiyu a deposit with the list. , and moved down two willow baskets.

"This basket is cucumbers that were just picked in the morning. They still have thorns. They are very crispy and refreshing. This basket is cold melons, and there are some purple eggplants, green taro, and okra," the man said, and lifted them from the carriage. A bucket of fish comes down, and they are still alive and kicking in the water. There are carp, grass carp, wheat ear crucian carp, lentin salmon, stick flower fish, and silly gobies.

That big bucket of miscellaneous fish must weigh more than ten catties.

"This fish is fresh enough."

"Specially reserved for the manager."

They were all acquainted, so Huaiyu asked someone to come over to unload the truck and move cucumbers, while evaluating the fruits, vegetables and fish that came with the caravan, "These are all good, I want them all, how much?"

"These are all sent to the manager, how can we collect money." The man smiled, "The last time our caravan was infected with the epidemic, it was all thanks to the manager to save it."

"The last time you came to me for medical consultation, you also paid for the consultation fees and medicines. How can I take your things for nothing?"

After some refusals, the businessman had no choice but to accept the money from Huaiyu and drive away.

Huaiyu whistled and called Ma Zhou to come over and put two watermelons in the well to cool down, then clean up the fish, and make nutritious and delicious fish soup for sick children and students at noon.

There are not many sick children in the sick children camp. Most of the slightly injured soldiers have been discharged from the hospital and returned to the camp. Only some seriously injured and disabled are still recuperating. These people basically want to say goodbye to the army. Originally, Chai Shao planned to let the local government accept these injuries. Soldiers recuperate, go to Qinzhou or even Longzhou to recuperate.

But these wounded soldiers are now reluctant to leave the Fuqiang sick children's camp. Before Huaiyu came, many wounded soldiers died every day, and some of the minor injuries became serious injuries. The camp was bleak, but after Huaiyu came, the place changed drastically.

The death rate in the battalion for sick children was astonishingly low. Slightly injured soldiers rarely got worse, and many seriously injured soldiers turned to safety. The wounded soldiers who were waiting in line to have their limbs amputated got better under Huaiyu's medicine, and most of them kept their limbs.

Staying here is at ease, and the food is not bad. Wu Huaiyu personally wrote the menu for the sick children's camp. The meals were nutritious, and many wounded soldiers became white and fat.

Don’t worry about the shortage of doctors and medicines, don’t worry about the worsening of injuries, even some old diseases and hidden diseases, Mr. Wu can help to treat them, eat delicious food, and take part in the literacy class organized by Mr. Wu when you are free. Learn medical knowledge, even if you really have to leave the army in the future, you will have more ways to make a living.

The Fuqiang Hospital Camp completely overturned Tang Jun's traditional understanding of the sick children's camp.
No one wants to leave before fully recovering.

The conditions in the wounded camps in local prefectures and counties are generally very poor, so knowing that they are very close to the Turkic people, no one is willing to leave and go to the rear.

"Ma Jishi, eat fish again today?"

"Well, it's fresh from the Wudang caravan."

"Then today is a lucky day."

The wounded soldiers walking in the ward greeted with smiles when they saw the big bucket of fish Ma Zhou mentioned.

Huaiyu is actually quite comfortable in the camp now. He basically goes around the wards and training classes every morning, and then goes to Chai Shao to participate in the military meeting. In fact, he just goes to listen to the news, and finally does a routine Reporting, he can't give any real praise to the staff for the real war decision-making. Although Chai Shao often asks him for opinions, Huaiyu usually seldom talks nonsense.

He stays sick every day, and he doesn't understand the outside situation, so how can he talk about wars on paper.Although he once reminded Chai Shao that he wanted to prevent Jieli Khan from breaking into the Guanzhong Plain, Huaiyu couldn't give a reason for this. In the end, he was ridiculed by a group of battalion generals who didn't understand military affairs, saying that now Longguan Xiaoguan The gate was guarded tightly, and Jieli couldn't fly to Longshan Mountain. After that, Huaiyu seldom talked nonsense.

Most of the time every day, he is sitting in the clinic, just like opening an expert clinic. Not only the wounded soldiers from the sick camp come to the clinic for follow-up consultation, but also many officers from the camp, and even Qin Wei and other places come to visit. Officials, merchants and people from all over the world came to ask for a doctor, and occasionally a leader of the Qiang tribe, Mu Qingyangzi, would come in the name of an expert.

Huaiyu is now famous in Longyou, everyone calls him an expert, and some call him a master, countless people lined up to ask a doctor, some even came from Qizhou and Jingzhou.

For this reason, Huaiyu can only see a limited number of doctors every day, let them queue up for registration, and limit the number of numbers a day. Except for soldiers in the camp, other people outside the army can only see a small amount, and the consultation fee is very expensive, but still can't stop those people from believing he.

Touring camps, participating in conferences, and seeing doctors, the daily schedule is so full that he almost forgot that he was on the front line.

In his short free time, Huaiyu also insisted on practicing riding and shooting. The Vajra Kung Fu and Longevity Kung Fu taught to him by the old Taoists have not been neglected.

He can even hold his breath in the water for 3 minutes now, which is a great improvement. He used to be up to 1 minute, and more than five years of practice have brought about qualitative changes.

He is now very proficient in using the long spear to use the barnacle, and the continuous stabbing with the long spear has surpassed the level of ordinary spearmen.

Even his riding skills and archery skills can only be regarded as mediocre, even far worse than that of ordinary government army cavalry.

Qin Qiong's 24-style gold mace, Gana Sashou mace, he has already practiced very proficiently. He also bought a pair of pretty good four-edged double maces in Fuqiang City, and he has already practiced to be able to dance with both hands.

Fan Xuanfu gave him the horse-cutting sword, and Huaiyu often practiced it, but unfortunately he didn't know how to do it.

Practice martial arts every day, and your body will become stronger and stronger.

Now that he is wearing dozens of kilograms of Mingguang armor, he can adapt to it.

"What are you like?"

Huaiyu lived with Ma Zhou and others in a small courtyard in the Sick Children's Camp, which was originally owned by a businessman.

Chen Xing came back and saw Huaiyu was tending the land in front of the alley again, looking at some green crops growing there and asked, those things looked strange, "What kind of medicinal material?"

"It's vegetables."

"vegetable?"

Chen Xing looked at the few yellow seeds Huaiyu had planted, and it took ten or so days for them to grow leaves. "What vegetable is this?"

"Chili," Huaiyu carefully handled the small piece of chili.

Chen Xing used to be in charge of procurement in Li Jing's family's outer courtyard, but he had never heard of the name chili, but the Chinese language is magical, and he thought of chili as the combination of hot pepper and pepper.

"Very spicy pepper?"

In the palace of the concubine in the Han Dynasty, pepper and mud were used to paste the walls. It is said that it has a special heat preservation effect, and even has the good meaning of having more children in peppercorns. Therefore, there is an idiom called the favorite of the pepper house.

"Or pepper?"

The pepper is pungent and expensive.

Generally speaking, the Chinese call pepper refers to Zanthoxylum bungeanum, and pepper is a foreign thing.

"Pepper is neither pepper nor prickly ash. The pepper seedlings will bear fruit when they grow up, but they are not small black and red seeds like prickly ash pepper, but green or red like carrots, and they eat the pulp instead of the seeds."

"Is this chili delicious?"

"It's very spicy, much more spicy than cornel, especially when it's cooked and dried."

Chen Xing was confused when he heard this, "Then this chili is planted for its spiciness and is used instead of cornel, but why do you want to eat it so spicy?"

"Because the spiciness is delicious, like mutton with pepper, beef with cumin, it's the soul."

"Spicy is delicious, I don't like it." Chen Xing shook his head, he felt that people who like spicy food are just as strange as people who like bitterness.

"How long will it take you to eat this chili?"

"It's been ten days since the plant was planted and the leaves grew here. It takes at least one month from the leaves to the flowering buds, and it takes about two months from the flower buds to the mature picking. However, peppers have a long flowering period and can bear many fruits. , grow while picking, and can be eaten for a long time. It is a bit late to plant, but it can still be eaten."

Chen Xing pointed to Huaiyu's small vegetable garden, "All yours are peppers?"

"And potatoes, corn, tomatoes, etc."

"These are all vegetables too, are they spicy or bitter?"

"It's all delicious, just wait until you grow up and mature, and you'll know it once you try it."

Looking at those tender seedlings, Huaiyu was full of anticipation. Although he had been planting in Zhongnan Mountain for a few years, he could be regarded as a small expert in agricultural planting. These seeds were even cultivated by himself, not the sterile seeds of the seed company, but he It is also uncertain whether they can adapt to the climate of the Tang Dynasty.

The early Tang Dynasty should have been a warm period, with a warmer, wetter and more rainy climate than later generations. The Weihe River Valley where Fuqiang is located is also a typical agricultural belt, which is more suitable for crop production. It seems that it was not until the end of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties that it turned into a cold period.

During the warm period, Tubo on the plateau rose to become a tyrannical empire, but after the cold period, Tubo also declined, and even the Tang Dynasty collapsed and perished.

Although he doesn't know how long the war will last, or how long they can stop the Turks in Qinzhou, Huaiyu still planted these seeds. He hopes that Chai Shao and the others can stop the Turks here, just like he took the original Take the potato slices that will be fried small potatoes and bury them in the soil, hoping that they will grow vigorously and bear fruit.

Loosen the soil and fertilize.

After finishing these tasks, Huaiyu took some fresh vegetables to pick and wash.

"Set up the pot, light the fire, and stir-fry!"

Huaiyu asked a blacksmith to order a few iron pans, authentic frying pans, not the flat-bottomed deep iron pans that integrated frying, frying, and stewing in the homes of the nobles in Chang'an. It is a dish-shaped thin iron pan that heats quickly and is very convenient. stir fry.

Chen Xing quickly went to light the fire, Huaiyu's stir-fried dishes have always been loved by everyone.

Today there are purple eggplants, as well as okra and cucumbers. I make hand-patted cucumbers, and then I have a braised eggplant. This okra is actually different from the slippery okra of later generations. The okra in the Tang Dynasty is actually called winter amaranth. .

When it grows up, it will bloom small purple flowers. The seedlings or tender stems can be eaten, and the old leaves can also be steamed with flour. Intestinal, laxative effect.Treat diseases such as lung-heat cough, heat-toxin diarrhea, jaundice, constipation, erysipelas.

(End of this chapter)