C3448 A mouthful of gritty rice (2/2)

Needless to say, this was an officer who had quickly become an officer in the army's literacy class!

”Reporting to Your Majesty! ”I recorded the names of the best soldiers in today's training exercise. The first one to do three exercises in a row can record a rank 1 merit …”

”Here are the families of every soldier. There are people, land, and health... ”My poor brothers, we will gather some money to buy some rice noodles for their families!”

The more Zai Chun saw, the more serious his expression became.

What was gratifying was that a soldier who did not know a single word could actually write in the army! Furthermore, the entire imperial guard army's system was very strict, they did not lose the ability they had learnt in the Ryukyu, Ma Ming and the rest had put in great effort.

The most important part of Xiao Letian's new army was the regular class meeting system. Almost every day, there would be a comprehensive review and meetings, whether it was war or not, the army would understand every single soldier's mood and thought.

This was a very clever and terrifying idea of a military rule. The commander of a huge army of tens of thousands of men could know the mental state of every single soldier under his command as long as he wanted to.

This was a huge advantage that the Middle Age's army did not have!

They were not lost, Ma Ming, San Bao and the rest remembered all the military rules that the new recruits from the Ryukyu had cultivated! Furthermore, Tongzhi was glad that he placed his army in Fuzhou, in the Wuyishan.

Of course, the people here were poor and backward, but because of poverty, they could maintain the purity of their troops. If they were to send New Imperial Army to Beijing or Jiangnan, they would have already been corroded a few years ago.

In the territories that Zuo Zongtang had managed, there were still rules!

Although he was happy, he was worried about the soldier's family situation as recorded in the notebook!

Some of them were the only son of their family, while some of their parents were blind, while some of their sisters were widowed. More than half of the soldiers didn't have any permanent property, not to mention paddy fields and dry fields, they didn't even have an acre of land.

Listening to Xie Ting's introduction, in those few months when spring had turned green and yellow, just him alone had been collecting food for the sixteen soldiers, and it was hard for them to turn the tide in their homes!

Closing the notebook, Tongzhi returned the Emperor over to Xie Ting and did not say a word.

He raised his head to look at the military pot. The flames under the pot were already very small. The red charcoal was licking the bottom of the pot, releasing a rich fragrance of rice and meat.

”You haven't eaten yet? ”Let us see what's good to eat …” With that, Tongzhi opened the pot, and with just that one action, Shen Baozhen and the others' hearts were already in their throats.

The white mist filled the air, Zai Chun blinked his eyes and sized up the place, and then he saw a pot full of Dachshund Rice!

Beneath the pot was cooked white rice covered with more than a dozen sausages. At this moment, the fat of the sausages had already permeated into the rice grains, and the aroma of meat and rice assaulted his nostrils.

”Haha, there's meat to eat!” ”I still remember that there's a bonus wine?”

”Yes!” ”Yes, Your Majesty!” Xie Ting hurriedly opened an empty cannon case. Inside, there were a few bottles of rice wine, and Zai Chun tasted the cheapest rice wine that had a small mouthful of the milky white wine.

Shen Baozhen quickly said, ”The rice wine over here is still pretty good. It's not strong, and the fragrance of the rice is rich …”

Zai Chun smiled faintly and put down his wine cup without saying anything, ”Give me a small bowl of rice …” Forget it, I'll make it myself! ”

Tongzhi took the shovel and the lunchbox from Ma Ming's hands and filled one piece into the lunchbox.

After eating two bites of the bamboo chopsticks, he won the prize. With a ”ga beng” sound, he bit onto the sand!

The surrounding soldiers were all watching with rapt attention. The little emperor's pro-army stance had to be continued! This scene had to be acted out perfectly!

I'll endure it! Tongzhi made up his mind and gulped down the gritty rice!