Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1500 Rice
"So, what do we eat now?"

A group of people stared at the rice with their eyes wide open.

Rice, a strange yet familiar word. Rice is something we eat almost every day. Many people present saw what unhusked rice looked like for the first time in their lives.

Now they all know that this is what rice looks like.

"Say, Shangluo," Ge Lun said in a deep voice, "You have been to the agricultural reclamation area in Yangzhou, right? I was thinking, maybe you know how to farm?"

"How can I farm? I only know how to eat. That's all."

Even Shangluo did not expect that the military rations he exchanged were full of rice, and he did not know how to eat them.

The same thing happened with the Northern Army.

It was time to eat. Gao Shiyu and the others gathered around the rice bag. None of them knew how to eat the bag of rice. But they were a little faster than Shangluo - they had already cooked a bowl of rice.

The rice in the pottery bowl was already cooked. Although a lot of the husk had fallen off the rice, revealing the rice inside, most of the rice grains were still inside the husk.

"Who's going to have a bite first?"

"Let me try." Gao Shiyu picked up the chopsticks, took the rice bowl and took a bite -

"Yue~~~~~" He immediately knelt on the ground, "My throat. These rice grains are sliding down my throat one by one! I can't eat this! Water! Give me water!"

This is something that ancient people have eaten before, but it is still too stimulating for modern people.

If they had to eat to survive, then the people here wouldn't be so picky. But they would be fighting soon, and might experience high-intensity confrontation. At this time, they not only had to eat enough, but also had to eat with energy, and have strength after eating. After all, although their fighting power was already guaranteed by strong chemical energy, hand-to-hand combat was inevitable.

If the people here are starving to death, or are choked by rice bran and become weak all over, then it's all over and there's no way to fight.

"If it really doesn't work, why not peel them one by one? Look! I've peeled them!" someone suggested.

"You are just cracking melon seeds! How many grains of rice are there in a bowl of rice? It will take you forever to peel them one by one! It's better to rub them with your hands. No! No, you will only get a little bit after rubbing for a long time. Besides, we have to fight a war! What's the point of rubbing rice here?"

"Is there anyone from Liaodong?" Gao Shiyu raised his hand, "Who knows how to farm?"

"Yes, is there anyone from Liaodong? A military household from Liaodong, please come and save us! How do we eat this thing?"

Although everyone eats rice every day, no one knows how to feed it quickly and in large quantities so that everyone can have a bite of rice while ensuring combat readiness.

"Oh, by the way." Gao Shiyu suddenly pulled the head of the class next door, "I remember you are from Liaodong, right? Doesn't your family also farm?"

"Yes, my family is engaged in farming."

"Great! Tell us how to eat this."

"After drying the grain, put it into the machine for threshing."

"How do you fight when there are no machines?"

"How would I know? My family uses machines to farm, not me. I have 3000 acres of land, how could I possibly use people to farm? Who knows how to husk rice with bare hands these days?"

Gao Shiyu picked up a paper tube speaker and said, "I cough!"

His throat was still sore, but in order to expand the scope of the meeting, he could only shout: "Is there anyone who has a farm? Is there anyone who has less than 100 acres of farmland? Does anyone know how to eat this millet?"

No one answered. There must be people who farm less than 100 mu, but everyone has a machine to thresh the rice. Even if the family farms less than 100 mu, they don’t know how to eat the rice.

Among the 1000 people, the 300 who were not squatting on the outermost tanks were thinking of ways.

The meeting was open and boundless, and the participants were very active - because they were so hungry! The thought that they might only have rice bran to eat today made them even hungrier.

However, like all conferences, there is always an electronic king who stands up and becomes the savior! This time, the savior belongs to the history department.

"Oh! That's right!" A freshman from the history department suddenly slapped his forehead in front of Gao Shiyu, "There is a way! Think about it, people in ancient times didn't have electricity, how did they husk rice? There is a way in history! Cut wood to make pestles, dig the ground to make mortars, use fire to harden them, and let people pound millet - this is also recorded in the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine."

This means breaking a piece of wood to use as a pestle, digging a hole in the ground to use as a mortar, and then using fire to harden the mortar hole. After that, use a large piece of wood to pound the rice, and the rice will come out.

"genius!!!"

"Genius!! Someone finally figured it out! Meetings really are useful!"

"What are you waiting for? Hurry up!"

"Wait a minute!" Gao Shiyu suddenly raised a hand.

"Blind Gao, what are you doing?"

"Everyone!" Gao Shiyu said, "Have you noticed a blind spot? If we can't eat rice, then they can't eat either! So as long as we eat our fill first, can't we rush over and beat them up while they're hungry? Then we'll win!"

"Ah yes!!!"

"Genius! You are a genius too!"

"What are you waiting for? Hurry up! How do you recite it? Cut the wood into a pestle. Who will go to chop the tree first?"

"Stupid! We have a gun stock, and a gun stock is just wood. Just dig a hole!"

"Right, right! Dig the hole first! I worked with my dad before, so I know how to dig a hole! Those from Shift 4, follow me! Dig the hole first!"

"Then I'll go prepare the fuel."

Although Gao Shiyu was not very good at sports, he also went to collect firewood - he couldn't actually see clearly where the firewood was, so he could only walk in the snow with one foot deep and one foot shallow. But at this time, even if he really couldn't see anything, he couldn't just sit there and wait for people to feed him.

As soon as the idea came out, everyone started to move. No one was needed to direct them, and everyone started to do what they were good at.

Above, all of this was transmitted to the satellite's field of view. "Well, very good, very good." Zhu Xianxi nodded with satisfaction, "Great! I told you, our people will definitely be able to complete the mission. The students this year are all very good, just as good as in previous years. Extra points, extra points for everyone."

Although Zhu Xianxi wanted to deduct some points for their laziness and ignorance, they worked together in the meeting, recalled the ancient method of digging pits in the ground to pound rice, applied the records in history to practice, and then everyone showed their initiative and started to work.

This is good. This is exactly the purpose of having everyone out for the exercise.

Military training is meant to unite students to overcome problems and to show young people a good character that can cope with the challenges of the times. In this regard, they have passed the test.

"It's just a little stupid." Lu Huaiyang shook his head. "Don't they have a cannon? The cannon is equipped with a pestle. Can't they just pound the rice inside the cannon?"

"Oh, don't ask for such high standards." Zhu Xianxun waved his hand. "Give young people more opportunities. Look, they have never done farm work before, but now they have already started to think about pounding rice for meals. This is rapid progress. I think they will soon develop from the Paleolithic Age to the Neolithic Age. Their growth is really encouraging."

Zhu Xianxin was very tolerant of this, as he knew that farming was a skilled job - in fact, Zhu Xianxin was the best farmer among all the people present.

Because every first month of the year, as the emperor, he had to perform the ceremony of personally tilling the land. He had a piece of land in the palace, and he would take care of the field whenever he was free throughout the year.

Although it was just a small garden, he really knew how to farm. He personally planted rice, weeded, and harvested the field. He even fermented the fertilizer himself, without letting anyone else interfere. At most, he would call Zhu Ling to do farm work. Of course, he also ate the harvest from the field himself.

He knew that every meal was hard-earned, so he ate very delicious meals every day. Now, these little kids were able to experience a small part of farming work during the exercise, so their trip was not in vain.

"But this question has a correct answer. But by the way, what's going on in Shangluo?" Zhu Xianxi turned the camera over - the corners of his mouth curled up slightly: "Hey."

At the same time, some people in the Northern Army also noticed something unusual. They saw a big fire in the Southern Army's camp, and someone had built a big fire and was burning something.

"Not good!" Gao Shiyu pointed to the south, "They are one step ahead of us, they are already at the third step!"

He cut wood to make a pestle, dug the ground to make a mortar, and used fire to strengthen it, so that the people could pound millet.

Lighting a big fire is indeed the third step. At the last step, you can start pounding the rice.

"No! If we let them eat first and we haven't had a good meal yet, won't we be beaten by them?"

"Oh, that's right!!!" A new idea popped up in the crowd, "Does using fire to strengthen it mean finding a hard container? We have cannons! Aren't cannons containers? Why not pound the rice directly in the cannon? We even have the matching pestle."

"Yeah. Genius!"

"Genius! Genius!"

The times evolved so quickly that we reached the Bronze Age in an instant.

"Quick! Let's go straight to step three. By the time we have our meal, they must still be pounding rice!"

It was exactly as the Northern Army saw. In order to cook, Shangluo lit a blazing fire in the camp. However, what was in the fire was not a pit, but a tiger squat cannon.

The tiger squat cannon was clamped on the rotating shaft and rotated like barbecue, and the contents inside the tiger squat cannon were also stir-fried in high temperature.

"Hmm~~" Shangluo looked at the fire in front of him and glanced at his watch: "It seems to be almost done."

Together with Han Xingzhi, he lifted the tiger squat cannon from the fire, then tilted the cannon sideways and poured the contents into the cotton cloth on the ground - with a whoosh, a whole cannon of rice grains were poured out.

These are not the normal rice, but puffed up like popcorn. The outer husk is also directly roasted and dried, or directly carbonized. You can separate the popcorn from the husk with just a wave of your hand.

"Wow!" Everyone looked at the big pot full of popcorn in amazement, and also looked at the head student of Jiaoyuan: Lin Chengyang.

He was the captain of the team that produced the "Three Packs of King Banana" sponsored by Lanfang Pharmaceutical. They also obtained the admission qualification of the Imperial College and entered the Imperial College at the same time as Shangluo.

"That's amazing!" Shangluo said in amazement, "It turns out this trick really works."

Half an hour ago, when everyone started thinking about how to eat, the people from Jiaoyuan stood up - because they had an idea right away.

"Shangluo." Lin Chengyang brought a tiger squat cannon with his men and said, "This is it! It works!"

“Can this hull rice?”

"No, this can't be husked. But listen to me, this can give us a meal - just now you said to husk it, I actually haven't thought about it yet. But when a person is hungry, the mind immediately starts to clear up. I remembered that we were taught how to eat rice in such occasions."

"You guys taught this?!"

"As for survival in the wild, we have to teach you. After all, Nanyang is a smoky and polluted land, and considering that it is too close to the wild, we have to be well prepared to ensure that there are no mistakes. So, there is a method of how to eat rice directly from the rice grains without a pot."

"Wait, why rice? Is there rice in the wild?"

"It may not be available in the wild, but it is available among the savages. The barbarians in Southeast Asia also grow rice. Then, you don't have to ask why we brought cannons instead of pots. If you go to the barbarians, you have to bring a full cannon, don't you think?"

"I see." Shangluo probably knew how this method came about. This so-called "wild survival" did not seem to be about surviving in the wilderness in the literal sense, but about how to "survive" when surrounded by barbarians.

The method was to put the rice that could be collected in Southeast Asia directly into the cannon and burn it.

"This method doesn't remove the husk directly. But it can make the rice pop. Once the rice pops, the husk will naturally fall off. You can't eat white rice using this method, but you can eat popcorn, or fried rice."

After being roasted over a high fire, the white rice is baked into golden fried rice. Not only is it cooked, but it also looks delicious.

"Tsk tsk tsk." Looking at the fried rice in Shangluo, Zhu Xianxin shook his head, "Let them find the correct answer."

The correct answer is fried rice. In that era, fried rice itself was a kind of military ration.

It takes a lot of time to cook on the march. Today, the army will carry rice in cans, but there was no technology to preserve dehydrated rice for a long time. So in order to let the army eat rice as soon as possible after setting up camp, or to eat in between marches, this kind of fried rice was created.

Fried rice is already cooked. You can eat it directly or eat it with hot soup. Similar to fried noodles is fried flour. Whether it is fried rice or fried noodles, you can add oil, salt and other ingredients to make high-energy military rations.

This is the ration used by the Ming army back then. This rice is used to make fried rice.

He looked at the Northern Army again and said, "It's over, boys. We haven't started pounding rice yet. I'm afraid you won't be able to eat a bowl of rice until tomorrow morning~~"

(End of this chapter)