After unlocking the material space, I raised my younger siblings in a farmhouse.

Chapter 390: Swapping a Shotgun for a Cannon

The soldiers who used to muddle through and do things perfunctorily suddenly seemed like different people. They began to devote themselves to training with all their might.

The reason why they worked so hard was not to be able to enter the top 50 in the competition. After all, this goal was too far away for them. They just didn't want to lose to the new recruits who had just been recruited, so as not to be the ones who were eliminated.

As for the new recruits, their enthusiasm for training is even higher. They came here with great ambitions, eager to show their skills and realize their ideals and aspirations.

Therefore, everyone threw themselves into the training with all their might, wishing to use all their strength just to achieve excellent results in the first assessment and thus become famous in the military camp.

In this atmosphere where both new and old soldiers strive to be the best and are unwilling to fall behind, military camp training can be carried out in full swing.

Lin Chuyi once came to the scene in person and carefully observed the soldiers' training conditions. She was very satisfied with the good condition shown by everyone.

After that, she turned her attention to the food problem of the city defenders. High-intensity training means a lot of energy consumption, so the soldiers' food must be nutritious enough, otherwise, during training, the soldiers' physical strength will not be able to keep up, and their health will also be affected.

After careful observation, Lin Chuyi found that the food conditions of the Lanzhou defenders were the best among the three provincial capitals, but this "good" was also relative.

The daily staple food of the soldiers in these three cities was either sweet potatoes and potatoes, or old rice porridge with pickles. The only difference was that the Lanzhou defenders provided them with slightly more food, so that each soldier could get an extra potato or sweet potato at each meal.

In addition, the city garrison will receive additional subsidies, which will ensure that everyone can eat at least two meals of meat a month. However, how much meat each person can eat in the end, and whether they get large or small pieces of meat, will depend on the specific local conditions.

Lin Chuyi looked at the three meals a day standards of these soldiers and shook her head helplessly. She made a prompt decision to reform the three meals a day standards of the city defenders and required the three major state cities to improve the food standards of the city defenders.

The soldiers' food intake cannot be restricted. They are allowed to eat and take as much as they can, and as long as there is no waste, they should be provided with as much food as they can eat. The food given to the soldiers must be the new food of the year. Old rice or moldy rice cannot be used as a substitute for good food.

In addition to ensuring that the soldiers are well fed, they must also eat well. Soldiers responsible for cooking are arranged to study cooking skills at a vocational college for a period of time, learn various cooking methods for common dishes, and enrich the soldiers' daily menu choices.

In addition, it is necessary to ensure that the soldiers can eat meat at least once every three days to replenish their daily consumption.

The first few requests were relatively easy to solve, but the one about eating meat was the only one that made the officials feel very embarrassed. Although the number of soldiers defending the city was not too large, it was definitely not too small.

If this standard is followed, the amount of meat needed to be supplied to the city defenders every month will not be a small number.

With the gradual implementation of Lin Chuyi's policies, the silver in the government treasury continued to decrease, and it was probably difficult to bear this huge expenditure.

After Lin Chuyi learned about the concerns of several prefects, she did not regard this as a big deal. As the saying goes, "If the mountain does not move, the water will move", "There are always more solutions than problems". Since the government office could not afford the expense, she changed her mind to solve the problem.

The meat is for the soldiers to eat, so let the soldiers raise it themselves. Anyway, the defenders have nothing else important to do except daily training and rotation.

Instead of letting them do nothing and form cliques and small groups, it is better to let them devote their spare energy to agricultural activities such as reclaiming wasteland, planting crops and raising livestock.

This would not only satisfy the soldiers' need for meat, but also make full use of their time and labor. Strength lies in numbers. In this way, not only would the cultivated land area of ​​the three states be expanded, but the grain grown in the land could also be directly supplied to the defending troops as reserve grain.

The large amount of waste such as straw and vines produced after the harvest of these grains can also be sent to specialized feed processing plants for processing and converted into high-quality animal feed, effectively solving the problem of livestock breeding.

This self-sufficient and recycling model not only saves costs and avoids waste of resources, but also helps alleviate the local difficulties in insufficient supply of military and political materials. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

The more Lin Chuyi thought about it, the more he felt that this was a good idea. He immediately made the decision and quickly conveyed the order to the three state capitals within his jurisdiction.

At first, when the soldiers heard Her Royal Highness the Princess asked them to take time out from their intensive training to reclaim wasteland, plant crops and raise livestock, they complained bitterly. It felt like they had swallowed a whole grain of Coptis chinensis, and the bitter taste spread from the top of their heads to the bottom of their hearts.

However, when they received their generous salary on time and in full every month, tasted delicious meals, and personally felt the pleasure and satisfaction that came with being well fed and well drunk, the dissatisfaction and resentment in their hearts immediately disappeared.

When they ate the food they had planted and harvested and the pork they had raised, they felt an indescribable complex emotion. They could not express this feeling accurately in words, but could only sigh deeply, "It's so delicious!"

By personally experiencing the process of growing and raising food, they deeply understand that every bite of food is hard-earned. Therefore, they are full of awe for food and cherish it even more.

Without the need for repeated reminders from the kitchen chefs, they will consciously practice the "Clean Plate" campaign and will never waste even a grain of food.

After the food problem of the defenders was properly solved, Lin Chuyi turned his attention to their equipment.

Almost all of the equipment they are currently using is old and outdated. These equipment were either once used by other regular armies or second-hand armor that has been eliminated and discarded.

As for the weapons, they were even more disgraceful to the eyes. It was common for the blades to have gaps, and they were covered with marks from being scratched and chopped by various sharp weapons. Some were even severely twisted and deformed.

When the enemy really attacks, wearing such armor and carrying such weapons to fight the enemy on the battlefield is no different from committing suicide.

Although there were several iron mines in Lin Chuyi's space, if she wanted, she could arm the city defenders from head to heel in less than a day, but she couldn't do that.

Not to mention how she could take out so many sophisticated equipment in public, not only could she not explain the sources of the equipment, but she would also be accused of plotting rebellion by court officials.

She would not sit idle and create trouble for herself. Since she could not get the equipment from the space, she could only ask her cheap "grandson" directly for it.

Lin Chuyi always does what she says, so she appeared in front of the emperor again and almost scared the emperor to death.

Lin Chuyi didn't waste any time talking to the emperor. She directly asked him for 15,000 sets of the latest weapons and equipment. She didn't take the emperor's things for free. In exchange, she gave the emperor a bunch of industrial machine designs, as well as armor and weapon designs, and a complete training plan she had developed for the soldiers.

The emperor was overjoyed and immediately agreed to Lin Chuyi's request. It only took one month for the new equipment to be delivered to every soldier in the three states. The soldiers were greatly encouraged and trained even harder.

In a flash, several years passed, and the soldiers in the three states were replaced one after another.

According to the normal three-year service period, the soldiers of the city defense army should have been replaced every three years. The reason why it was changed to a replacement every year was because the emperor took away all the soldiers trained by Lin Chuyi to train other troops.

Not only did they transfer the people away, but they also sent batch after batch of troublemakers who were difficult to manage to Lin Chuyi.