C3449 How dare you deceive me!]

How dare you deceive me

who was eating a mouthful of Sandstone Rice had mixed feelings about it! As the noble son of heaven, when had he ever suffered like this? In his entire life, the hardest thing on him was training in Xiao Letian's New barracks.

At that time, it was really bitter and tiring to stand in the army, practice orthopedics, target shooting, running, fighting … Every day, he would perspire four or five ocean bowls!

But putting all the hardships on the side, the food was really good!

Prussian soldier was full of envy. Everyday, there were enough meat, eggs, fish, pipes, vegetables and fruits to make it better. Zai Chun's appetite was earned just by eating there.

The Head of the Guards really did not want the soldiers to eat gritty rice. had never eaten sand in his life before anyways!

Today, for the sake of displaying his own army, he had risked his life, but he did not expect that this was just the beginning, followed by the second round where he won the prize.

I endured the two mouthfuls of sand. In any case, I just took a small sip of the rice and pretended to eat it, but I never expected that there would be a third or fourth reward later!

In such a small ball of rice the size of a child's fist, Zai Chun had eaten five mouthfuls of sand.

"Which bastard military quartermaster bought this rice?" Why is there so much sand? "Bastard!"

The emperor was enraged, Shen Baozhen and the other officials kneeled down, "Please calm your anger your majesty, your subject will die!"

This situation was quite awkward. The civil officials had already kneeled down to the generals, but were they still kneeling down? Would the soldiers kneel? But Hail personally said that the New Army abolished the kneeling ceremony ah!

Zai Chun looked at Xie Ting and the others whose knees were about to bend, and was enraged. "Our soldiers are not meant to be kowtowing, stand at attention!" All the soldiers by the fire stood at attention and looked like they were in charge of military affairs.

"I ask you, why is there so much sand in this rice? Is that all you eat every day? "

Xie Ting was even stunned, he was so scared that he could not even react "Ah? Long live... Isn't it normal for there to be sand in this rice? Where is the rice and sand? "

"How about I pick some for His Majesty …"

Xie Ting was not the only confused one, the other soldiers were also confused. They were all poor mountain people, to have white rice to eat was already equivalent to burning incense to worship Buddha in their previous life.

To be honest, these soldiers that were suffering had never eaten a rice without sand before!

When Shen Baozhen saw that these soldiers did not understand what he meant, he hurriedly kneeled down and kowtowed, "Calm down His Majesty, this is my fault! "It has nothing to do with the quartermaster of the army …"

The thirty thousand strong army will not be able to deliver any rice and foodstuffs to the horse tail city. It was this official who ordered his subordinates to purchase them for the commoners. It must be one of my men! "

If Shen Baozhen did not come here to take the blame, then he would have to kill the New Army's quartermaster!

Tongzhi spat out all the stone fragments from his mouth. His entire mouth was sore and numb as he took a few deep breaths, "I apologize to you …" "Men, bring two portions of my dishes to our brothers …"

"I need to investigate this grain merchant who delivered rice to me later!" "This is too outrageous …"

Tongzhi ate a few mouthfuls of sand at the first stop of his inspection. It was also thanks to him roaming around the world and living amongst the people for a few years, that the Emperor's bad temper had improved a lot. Otherwise, he would have killed on the spot!

After leaving Xie Ting's bonfire, Tongzhi continued to persuade people to go check out the soldiers' food. Because of the discovery just now, most of Zai Chun's attention was on the soldiers' rice pot.

The second bonfire was not sausage rice. There was a pot of meat soup beside the steamed rice. Three empty canned beef s were thrown to the side and the soldiers threw a lot of wild vegetables into it.

This was also within reason. The soldiers felt that this day was already blissfully happy as beef, wild vegetables and soup were mixed with white rice. Don't forget that they still had wine to drink!

But when Zai Chun counted, amongst the ten people in Class One, he should be given ten catties of wine, and he should be given five small wine jars of two catties each.

"What's going on? Missing four catties of wine? Investigate! "Continue to investigate …"

As they continued down, basically every dinner party next to the bonfire was filled with varying degrees of shortfalls. A single catty of wine was definitely insufficient. The white rice was mixed with sand, and the meat was also becoming less and less.

Some were only given a few sausages, some were given two pieces of cured meat, and some were the common dried salted fish used by coastal families!

Do you think this salted fish is considered meat? It could also be considered a meat dish, but it had been dried up for a long time. It was definitely not enough to express the mood of the soldiers at the banquet.

Zai Chun gradually stopped talking. He seemed to have discovered a pattern, only until he flipped open the tenth military pot did he finally realize that there was no more meat!

"No more?" No meat, no eggs, no salted fish? Let me see what it is... "Haha, Kunbu bean curd soup?"

"Hehehe …" "Good, good, good. Having tofu is really not bad. Tofu is better than meat!"

Zai Chun finally understood what was going on. So he wanted to act for the soldiers, for the soldiers to see.

Only the soldiers closest to his tent had received better food for the entire thirty-thousand-strong army's picnic. Soldiers who were getting further and further away from him would be eating worse and worse!

Understanding this, Zai Chun sped up his pace and went deeper into the mountain. Along the way, countless of soldiers stood up to salute him, but the civil and military officials behind the emperor all had pale faces, as if their mother had died.

Finally, something happened. Zai Chun walked for a good three kilometers … The area where thirty thousand soldiers were camping in was simply too large.

Reaching this point, Zai Chun's tears started to fall. A soldier of the class was eating sweet potato rice around a pot.

The sand mixed with white rice was all boiled together with sweet potatoes and some corn kernels. As for the side bowl, it was filled with dark pickled vegetables. These were the common olive vegetables found in the poor families of South Sea!

"Just this? You guys just... I will feed this to my soldiers! Just eat this? " Zai Chun snatched the spade from the soldier's hand and stuffed it into his mouth.

"I …" Did you train my thirty thousand soldiers to be beggars? "Eat this …"

"I shall die!" This time, Ma Ming and the other generals could no longer stand, and followed Shen Baozhen and the others as they kneeled.

"This Emperor does not want kowtowing bugs!" Zai Chun shouted loudly, "We want capable people who can solve problems! Are you? Can you solve the problem? "

"Get up, all of you! From now on, whoever dares to lie to me will be executed and their entire clan will be destroyed!"

Tongzhi, whose face was ashen, sat down on a boulder. He looked at the civil and military officials who were standing up straight in front of him while trembling in fear. To tell the truth, I might let you off the hook... "Don't lie to me anymore at this time!"

"A thousand miles!" I've been away from Daqing for so long, is it that I'm going to encounter a lie as soon as I return? "

At this point, no one could hide the truth anymore. Shen Baozhen walked in front of Zai Chun as if he had removed all the bones in his body. You want to hear the truth? "

"The truth is... This grain of sand has never been bought, but this subject owes it on credit, and never paid for it! "

"Those grain merchants of the Fuzhou City all know that this official is a pauper … I also know that the ones who eat rice are all big-headed soldiers, how can he possibly give the best new rice? "

"His Majesty! No more money... New Imperial Army has not seen any money for a long time, the salary arrears of the new army has exceeded three months! "