The road to national restoration that began at the end of the century - #126 - Chapter 127: Refined Rice is Like a Soul

“Well…this polished rice is bright in color, white and clear, and is the finest polished rice. This is what our warriors from the Akijin Empire should eat most…”

Compared to Ken, who was so poor that he tried to borrow money but saw that the captive was unwilling to do so, Eiji, who was still stationed on Puluo Island, tasted what he thought was the best bowl of breakfast as always – topped with White rice with umeboshi mixed with raw eggs.

As a standard citizen of the Akitsu Empire, and a general who unified the world for the Akitsu Empire, Eiji must eat rice for three meals a day.

Especially the polished rice that has been carefully ground and every grain of rice has a bright white luster.

Since ancient times, the samurai class of the Akitsu Empire and even higher-level nobles have used polished rice as their daily food. At the same time, it is forbidden to boil such food into rice porridge. Such food is only eaten by civilians from poor backgrounds or patients with physical problems.

He Eiji is a standard samurai, a general who guards Puluo Island. No matter what time of the day, it is absolutely unacceptable to eat without polished rice.

As for those wheat eaters outside, they are all low-class, slaves destined to kneel under the banner of the Akitsu Empire.

In short, when Eiji picked up the chopsticks and stirred the raw eggs, chopped prunes, and shiny rice in his bowl, the aroma of soy sauce hidden under the raw eggs came to his nostrils.

I have to say that this is how you should eat refined rice when you wake up in the morning.

How can idiots and barbarians from other countries understand such delicious food?

How could they possibly understand the Akitsu Empire’s steamed rice if they only knew how to stew, roast, and fry?

Moreover, steaming rice like this does not waste too much fuel, and their Akitsu Empire has a special rice cooker.

Pour in an appropriate amount of polished rice, then a certain amount of water, then activate the button and let the rice cooker start steaming…

Just like this, a bowl of fragrant and polished rice came out in 5 minutes.

If the warriors of the Akitsu Empire want to win the war, polished rice is the most fundamental spirit!

However, while Eiji himself was eating breakfast, he couldn’t help but feel extremely anxious about the war in the south.

The Japanese and Mai people had already set foot on Bisayan Island, causing at least 30,000 casualties on the empire’s side.

What’s even more frightening is that the Japanese and Mai people of the Krurod Empire have their own mecha troops, and the fighter planes flying in the sky are no longer the “old guys” using traditional fire weapons.

All are advanced gadgets using beam weapons.

Although in terms of light weapons, the military and police of the Krorod Empire did not use similar beam weapons; but in terms of actual combat situations, the Krorod Empire would be like the Akitsu Empire sooner or later.

Of course, right now…it’s impossible. Moreover, it is impossible for the Krorod Empire to be able to carry out large-scale changes in one go like the Akitsu Empire back then.

The Krorod Empire was a country built on an archipelago. The large number of islands caused its armies to be stationed scattered in the past, so it has been slow to change its equipment.

But even so, the weapons and equipment of the Crurod Empire are not that backward. Especially the 9×40mm rifle bullet currently used by the Crurod Empire. This bullet is powerful enough to make every infantryman in the Akitsu Empire feel what it means to be shattered to pieces.

One 9×40mm rifle round.

At least so far, Eiji has never heard of a soldier who doesn’t know magic who can easily survive the severe pain without causing an explosion-like wound after being shot.

At the same time, what worries him even more is that it is said that the Rimai people in the south, in addition to habitually “cleaning” the remains of every Akijin Empire soldier, began to raid Akijin in reverse, not knowing whether it was because they were hungry. Food for the Imperial soldiers.

Eiji himself is very troubled by this.

Depriving the soldiers below of food is definitely a recipe for death, even if the soldiers are allowed to requisition food on the spot – seizing food by force.

However, there is a very big risk here.

The Japanese people in the past deliberately tampered with the food and mixed it with various poisonous and harmful things, causing hundreds to thousands of people to die from food poisoning.

For this reason, this is what Yingsi eats and drinks now. He will never ask for locally produced products and will always ship them from the mainland.

There is no other reason than to ensure safety.

The soldiers who died because of food and drink issues really shouldn’t, let alone deserve it. In the same way, this is naturally the last thing a soldier who deserves to die on the battlefield should do.

Although Eiji himself eats rice with chopped plums and raw eggs just to satisfy his need to leave his hometown, he always feels that the food in his hometown, and even the ingredients produced there, are the best in the world.

Then again, the Rimai people eat the dry food of their pig-headed people… This is definitely a very bad thing.

The meaning of the Rimai people is very simple, they just want to make the Akijin Empire poor.

As we all know, the emperor has no shortage of hungry soldiers.

Every soldier who dedicated himself to the Akijin Empire must not fight on an empty stomach.

Otherwise, sooner or later, the soldiers below will use cold shots to seriously “tell” every upper-level official the consequences of not having enough to eat.

Therefore, when giving food to the soldiers, as long as it can ensure that the soldiers have sufficient combat effectiveness, there can be no hesitation and must be generous.

Even if the soldiers under his command only have prune rice at most, they don’t even have raw eggs or bacon.

and……

This is still based on the fact that the black-haired kobolds basically have nothing to eat, forcing them to work hard on how to collect it on the spot.

But do black-haired kobolds have the need to eat good food?

They are all a group of cannon fodder sent by His Majesty the King in exchange for money, no, to be precise, in exchange for economic support from the Akitsu Empire. Their life and death begins from the moment they leave the Takagi Kingdom, and it will never be something they can dominate.

For this reason, he often sent black-haired kobolds to the most dangerous areas to deal with the Japanese and Mai people’s counterattack. But he also knew that the black-haired kobold would definitely not obey his own arrangements.

He had even “tasted” the bullets from the black-haired kobold, but the other party’s shooting skills were not very good and he did not hit himself.

Therefore, Eiji’s attitude towards the untrustworthy black-haired kobolds has always been to send them to the most dangerous places so that they can die as quickly as possible.

After all, he didn’t believe that the Japanese and Mai people in the south would look good on these guys who liked to loot and massacre civilians to show their violence.

You must know that the Japanese and Mai people used to adopt a policy of casually shooting everyone who entered the country illegally. In addition, the Krurod Empire was originally a country that allowed people to legally hold guns. In the past, if some missionaries from foreign countries or extremely fanatical believers dared to come to the territory of the Japanese and Mai people to conduct illegal preaching, it would be the lightest bullet to take, and it would not be surprising to be chopped into pieces.

Because according to the Japanese and Mai people’s own laws, these illegal immigrants are things that should not exist on the Japanese and Mai people’s territory. Then if you kill these non-existent things, it is equivalent to you not having done any non-existent behavior at all. In other words, if you kill something that does not exist, you have done nothing and naturally you have not broken any laws.

In short, since I don’t know when, few missionaries from all over the world have dared to secretly come to the territory of the Japanese and Mai people to preach. Even if famous church forces came to engage in trade in an aboveboard way later, they would not allow any type of missionary activities.

Otherwise, they will be killed without mercy. Therefore, the black-haired kobolds, who also have fanatical religious beliefs, will definitely not have a good life in the hands of the Japanese and Mai people.

But for now, after breakfast, Eiji felt that he was full of energy.

Polished rice is the source of strength for every citizen of the Akijin Empire and the soul of every pig-headed man! Those who eat wheat, whether bread or noodles, are all low-class slaves. As for making porridge with rice or wheat, that’s a disease!

How can a good samurai be called a good samurai if he does not eat steamed and refined rice?