Troubled Times: Start with 800 Dead Soldiers

"Just chop it off. Anyway, I can't even get enough to eat. So what if I chop my head off? If I had enough to eat, who might have won just now!"

Xiong Hui, who was holding him firmly, said: "You still don't accept it, right?" "

"I, I,,, I haven't had enough to eat, so it doesn't count!"

After listening to him stammering, Su Xiale said: "Huo, you have such a loud voice, but your accent doesn't sound like someone from Qingzhou or Dengzhou. Where are you from? I hear your accent is... Like someone from Gwangju?”

(Guangzhou: the name of the state capital during the Song Dynasty)

"So what, I, Tao Zongcai, am unlucky. I will die as soon as I die. I want our brothers to have a full meal before I die. The eight of us have not eaten for two days."

"Wait a minute, what's your name, Tao Zongcai?"

Su Xia suddenly remembered that there was a character in "Water Margin" named Tao Zongwang, who was also a big man. Prosperous! fiscal! Doesn't this combination bring wealth? Could it be that he has a brother named Tao Zongwang!

(Tao Zongwang: Water Margin character, he is the only hero of peasant origin among the heroes of Shuibo Liangshan. He is good at farming and building houses, and has infinite strength)

Thinking of this, Su Xia hurriedly asked: "Big guy, don't even think about eating enough. Boy, do you have a brother named Tao Zongwang?"

"Yes, yes, so what?"

"Okay, Xiong Hui, let him go, big guy, I recognize your brother!"

The big man who was pinned to the ground straightened his neck and asked: "Do you know my brother?"

"Your brother Tao Zongwang, and your name is Tao Zongcai. You two are from Guangzhou and were born in Tianhu. Isn't that right?"

The big man was shocked: "Hey, it seems that you,,, you are capable, you really know my brother."

"Your brother, like you, likes to use shovels. He may be a bandit in Huangmen Mountain now, but I don't know the details. I saw him two years ago."

Tao Zongcai stammered: "Look...it seems, come on, come on, have you really seen my brother? You are so familiar with us."

After talking about this, Su Xia suddenly changed the subject and asked sternly: "Tao Zongcai, since you are a farmer, why do you get into the business of blocking people on the road?"

Tao Zongcai stammered what to say, and a minion who followed him said:

"We are all from the same village as Brother Zongcai. There was a famine in our hometown. We were working as farmers here and farming in our hometown, but the landlord insisted on taking us in to pay for food. Then there was a drought.

The imperial court wanted to donate flowers and stones again. The emperor just wants to see it for himself, but he still wants us to pay for it? We had no choice but to go out to beg for food. Now that we can’t even beg for food, we simply planned to rob here, but we didn’t want to meet you for the first time. "

(Hua Shi Gang: The name of the transportation in history that was specially used to transport exotic flowers and stones to satisfy the emperor's preferences. During the reign of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, he was ordered by the emperor to search for rare cultural relics in the southeastern region. Wherever the transportation team passed, local people had to supply money, grains, grains, etc. Civil service; even bridges were demolished to allow the fleet to pass, and the people suffered terribly)

"Tao Zongcai, is he right?"

"Yes, that's it!" Tao Zongcai stammered and finished speaking.

Su Xia laughed loudly and asked Xiong Hui on the side: "Are those cooking cakes we brought from the county still there? Let them eat these first."

After Su Xia finished speaking, the sergeants under her hurriedly delivered the cooking cakes they carried with them to these people.

The big man had obviously been hungry for too long while waiting for these people. At this moment, when he saw the cooking cakes, he wolfed them down like a starving man. It looked like he was really hungry.

Xiong Hui and several soldiers shook their heads helplessly as they watched Tao Zongcai and others eating.

Xiong Hui said: "Why don't you thank my shopkeeper quickly!"

Tao Zongcai, who almost choked, looked at Su Xia and said, "Thank you, thank you, shopkeeper, thank you, shopkeeper."

These few people, such as Su Xia and others, actually ate all the dry food that Su Xia and others had for several days. Tao Zongcai, in particular, had an astonishing appetite! Almost one person ate ten kilograms of pancakes!

Su Xia was also a little stunned. After these people had eaten and drank enough, Su Xia asked: "Okay, okay, let me ask you guys, do you want to have a full meal in the future?"

"Think about it!" "I can't even dream of it."

"A few minions were talking about it.

Su Xia asked again: "Okay, you will follow me from now on and I will ensure that you have enough to eat every day. Are you willing?"

Tao Zongcai looked at his fellow villagers, then at the big cake in his hand, and nodded vigorously.

Tao Zongcai's arrival on the island gave Salmon Island another capable general, but Xiong Hui was a little puzzled by this.

When they returned to the island for dinner, Xiong Hui asked Su Xia: "Sir, these people are like beggars, starving themselves to death, especially Tao Zongcai. One person can eat as much as seven or eight people. What's the use of being on the island?"

Su Xia then said: "This man is very good at farming and working. When we want to cultivate land and build houses here, as long as there are enough taverns, enough meat pipes, and free food, he has endless strength." ."

Although Xiong Hui didn't see Tao Zongwang's use for a while, Li Gaosheng, who was in charge of the island's construction and civil engineering, was very proud. He proudly told Su Xia that this guy named Tao Zongcai was definitely a good worker, and he was harder than others every day. He worked an extra two hours, and the workload of one was as much as that of ten. The brothers under him also worked harder than others.

After hearing Li Gaosheng's high praise, Xiong Hui said: "Sir, I have to admire your vision. Although Tao Zongcai can eat, he has also added a lot of labor to our island. It seems that his subordinates were short-sighted before. ”

Su Xia, Xiong Hui and Li Gaosheng were eating in the house. Smiling Tiger Zhu Fu and Sun Sihe hurriedly walked into the meeting hall. Zhu Fu said first: "Sir, Sun Sihe and I have been racking our brains these days to make cups. , developed a new thing. Sun Si and his brothers proposed to use the roller blowing process to successfully create a transparent cup. Although the shape is not very beautiful, we polished it a little and it became almost the same. We have tried this embryo. It can be filled with hot or cold water, and the shape is crystal clear.”

Xiong Hui and Li Gaosheng, who were eating, took the cups and marveled.

Su Xia took a quick look and understood that this was just an ordinary glass cup in modern times, but in ancient times, it was not easy to make and it would definitely sell for a good price.

After all, what is rare is more expensive.

Su Xia could guess how the glass in front of her was made. According to the current technology, the molten glass was first placed in a furnace with a temperature as high as 1500C to melt them into a thick slurry, and then a hollow metal blowpipe was used. Blow air to form glass balls from the glass slurry.....

Come to think of it, the "roller blowing processing method" proposed by Sun Sihe should be the same, and it is almost the same.