The road to national restoration that began at the end of the century - #127 - Chapter 128: Processing Grain

However, while Eiji thought that polished rice was the most sacred and the most important and even fundamental food for pig-headed people, Marietta was busy settling accounts.

The dry food sent back from the frontline troops arrived in Sugui City, and because of her poor arithmetic skills, she was temporarily called back to help by the Chamber of Commerce under Mike’s name.

Mike: “I said the soldiers on the front line are going too far. Why are all the things they send back home filled with pickled radishes? Are there also candies? And this bean paste… Can’t they guys try the taste of miso soup?”

Just as Mike said, the pig-headed people of the Akitsu Empire are an intelligent race who value polished rice and prepare related side dishes, meat and soup based on the polished rice.

However, when the dry food packets on each pig-headed man were seized, the front-line soldiers sent all the things they didn’t like to eat to the rear.

Marietta: “Grandpa Mike, I even have dried fish, seaweed, and this canned salted fish here.”

Mike: “I…Oh, these picky eaters. Dried fish…why are you bringing this back? Can’t they just put the dried fish into the miso soup and eat it together?”

Speaking of this, Mike was also very helpless.

The Krolod Empire is an archipelago country located in the tropics. It has abundant fishery resources. Basically, no one will take the initiative to eat dried fish until the mountains and rivers are exhausted.

In the same way, salted fish that are often available in other countries outside are not very popular in the Crurod Empire.

Although this canned salted fish is now available in military cans, the soldiers in the army basically don’t like it very much.

The upper-level officials of the Ministry of National Defense also kept canned salted fish in the army’s logistics food list because of its shelf life.

In short, for now, the soldiers would rather eat fresh fish and eat as much fresh fish as possible. Naturally, the soldiers disliked salted fish, dried fish, etc. as much as they disliked it.

Even in actual battles, front-line troops basically have no access to fresh fish.

Unless they are navy officers who have served at sea for a long time, they have the ability to catch fresh big fish every day.

Therefore, Marietta watched the front line send back a large warehouse full of salted fish or dried fish, and she could only lament that the soldiers were really naughty.

Of course, just because the soldiers on the front line are naughty does not mean that the people in the rear are also naughty. Especially now that the country is in a relatively difficult period, the social production order that was finally restored has ensured a seemingly good start.

At least everyone can eat a little fuller.

Under such circumstances, Marietta naturally had nothing to say and directly listed all the salted fish and dried fish in the warehouse as test items. As long as it is not expired, moldy, or toxic or harmful, it can be used for people outside to eat.

After all, these are edible things.

The taste is not very good, and it does not hinder everyone’s basic physiological needs of drinking water and eating.

Then there was seaweed and bean paste. Marietta didn’t know what to say about these two things.

As for herself, she is completely acceptable.

But this is just herself and some relatives and friends.

If nothing else, Zelen, the current Emperor of the Crurod Empire, doesn’t like bean paste, let alone miso soup, a soup made with soybean paste.

To borrow a word from himself, it was too salty.

no way.

Bean paste itself is a fermented product of soybeans pickled with salt. The saltiness is 100% certain.

Therefore, the Akitsu Empire in the north and its servant kingdom Takagi Kingdom would not simply drink miso soup, but would add some seaweed or other dried vegetables and pickled radish to drink it together to dilute the salty taste.

But here comes the problem. The soldiers of the Crurod Empire already dislike the salty canned meat they eat. How about another salty soup with the same strong taste?

The soldiers will curse.

So this is why the soldiers plundered all the pig-headed vegetables and kept them for themselves, right?

In the same way, seaweed is a product that has been seasoned and added with oil, salt and other seasonings. Its salty taste is also one of the things that soldiers don’t like.

But fortunately, the soldiers didn’t eat it. Fortunately, the children of the Crurod Empire liked it quite a lot.

At worst, you can just cut the seaweed into shreds, stuff it into rice, steam it together or stir it before eating.

The taste is still very good.

But the next thing that gave her a huge headache came: polished rice from two warehouses.

Preliminary statistics put it at a ton…

It has to be said that although polished rice is very exquisite and can definitely feed a lot of people, what is a ton of dry polished rice wrapped in sacks?

Didn’t the front-line soldiers dislike the fact that they had captured too much polished rice and thought it was not delicious, so they sent it to the rear?

According to what she heard from Zelen, today’s soldiers of the Krorod Empire eat a mixture of rice, bread, canned meat and canned soup.

Generally speaking, a bunch of edible things are compressed into a can, and then the soldiers open dry food bags and cans of a certain color or a certain type according to regulations to solve the problem of eating.

So Marietta knew that even if the soldiers were not happy, if the military rations were too delicious, the soldiers would eat too much and consume extra food.

Even though there are many people outside who say that it is better to die from hunger than from starvation, but this depends on the food supply situation to have a rough judgment standard.

As a result, the unpalatable military rations naturally became the consensus of most of the soldiers and civilians in the Krurod Empire, and a fact that everyone could personally experience in real life.

Mike: “Marietta.”

Marietta: “What’s the matter?”

Mike: “Don’t ship these refined rice separately. It’s better to bring more pickles… no, pickled cabbage and other things to the people.”

Marietta: “Don’t sell it?”

Mike: “If it’s other arms, weapons and equipment, or other inedible things, I will consider selling it directly. But food is different. As long as we are not dead bodies, we can’t sell food easily. What’s more, there are not many people we can sell to now. Among them is a very rich man, and that is a rich man who is not short of food.”

When Marietta heard it, she knew that this rich man was definitely not someone else, but the Negan Empire.

Every city and even village in this country will have a large number of granaries. As for how much food is in these granaries, this is a matter that the Negan Empire has classified as a state secret.

Anyway, the Negan Empire is not short of food. Even until now, there is enough food to be exported, thus turning it into a large amount of national foreign exchange income. Therefore, selling food to this country is out of the question. Moreover, the foundation of their modernization is to vigorously develop their own agriculture to enhance their own industrial strength, so that industry can in turn nurture agriculture and improve the level of agricultural development.

Marietta: “Then… I will call the transport team now?”

Mike: “Call them, and then you say my name, they will understand quickly.”

Marietta: “Yes.”

Compared to Marietta’s phone call, Mike couldn’t help crying in his heart.

When he was the Prime Minister of the Paou Republic, he didn’t know how much food was plundered by the bastards of the Akitsu Empire. As for the food in front of him, he didn’t need to ask, he would never believe that these foods were 100% transported from the mainland of the Akitsu Empire.

Nine out of ten are definitely the results of local grain collection.

Now… Although they are still continuing to plunder the Krurod Empire’s food, these guys won’t be able to continue jumping around for long.

He has heard that the Akitsu Empire has had many conflicts with its servant brother, the Takagi Kingdom, and there are armed forces in the Takagi Kingdom that are resisting His Majesty the King now. Although these resistance forces are basically raindrops that can’t stir up much waves, it takes time to completely calm down such ripples.

If the Akitsu Empire is willing to send more troops to the Takagi Kingdom to thoroughly quell the rebellion, it is estimated that the rebels of the Takagi Kingdom will not survive for more than a few months before they are all tied to pillars and bombarded one by one with cannons…