The road to national restoration that began at the end of the century - #56 - Chapter 56 Valentina’s additional comments

In fact, speaking of rice…the Japanese and Mai people did not eat rice 1,000 years ago.

It was after the Japanese and Mai people fled from the north and brought them to the southern island group to establish their country. They saw a large amount of wild rice on each island and began to study how to eat rice.

After all, wheat and millet, the former staple foods of the Japanese people, are not suitable for large-scale cultivation in the Crurod Empire, which is now located in a tropical island group. Therefore, now, the main staple foods of the Japanese and Mai people are rice and cassava. The wheat, millet, and sorghum they originally liked to eat have become supplementary staple foods or food currencies for foreign trade.

After all, so far, most races around the world eat wheat. Some countries have even publicly made exaggerated claims that wheat is the king of food.

However, among these intelligent races, the pig-headed man is absolutely unique. This race has a symptom called “rice poisoning”, so much so that in the past, a northern human priest made an on-the-spot investigation and directly wrote in a travel book that their warriors were energetic and could gallop with swords. On the battlefield, farmers can work hard and tirelessly mainly because they eat brown rice.

What is brown rice?

Whole-grain rice obtained by unprocessing or less processing of rice after hulling, and rice from which even the bran has not been removed.

Why eat rice with such bad taste?

Very simple. In the past, in the Akitsu Empire, farmers and lower-class warriors lived in poverty, lacked food, and even suffered famine due to natural disasters. They did not dare to grind finely and cause waste, so rice bran could be used as food to satisfy hunger.

As a result, the Akitsu Empire entered modernization, social stability and production technology progressed, especially rice farming technology continued to improve, and the people’s living conditions improved. As a result, especially warriors and businessmen, as well as high-ranking officials and nobles, began to switch to rice with a brighter appearance, whiter rice, and generally a better taste than ordinary rice – polished rice.

Therefore, this 1,800-year history has been passed down, forming the unique rice worship of the Akijin Empire. As a result, everyone in this empire has been taught to value rice since childhood. They have been taught that rice is nutritious and beneficial to health, and that rice and the dishes based on it, that is, traditional food, represent their racial spirit.

Therefore, these pig-headed people who attach great importance to inheritance pass on the awareness that rice is much higher than other crops to one generation after another. At the same time, they attach great importance to rice. No matter what they eat, if they don’t have a bowl of rice, they will always feel uneasy. They will even be extremely enthusiastic about how to steam delicious rice to other countries. meal.

Of course, such persistence makes the black-haired kobold very painful.

Obviously he also eats rice, but in the opinion of the pig-headed man, servants should not eat the rice that only the best people are entitled to eat. In other words, the pig-headed people of the Akitsu Empire used rice to rise, and they also used rice to force other races that also eat rice to ban rice.

Because this is their historical heritage spirit that cannot be tarnished by any other race.

Unfortunately, when the Akitsu Empire had diplomatic exchanges with the Krurod Empire in the past, the Krurod Empire ignored the pig-headed man’s feelings and completely ignored the pig-headed man’s evil idea of ​​trying to get the Japanese and Mai people to eat wheat again. .

Especially a certain pig-headed man openly proposed that rice is the exclusive right that pig-headed people can enjoy!

To the people of the Crurod Empire, such a concept is simply a bastard statement that makes no sense. What you want to eat has to be approved by you disgusting-looking pig-headed people? Do you really think that the guns of the Japanese and Mai people are just decorations?

In this way, the pig-headed men of the Akitsu Empire have been unable to make the Krurod Empire change their eating habits. In the end, they can only attack their own ruled areas and the servant countries. Only the upper class can eat refined rice, and the middle class can eat it. Rice, the rule that low-class people are not allowed to eat any type of poured rice is thoroughly enforced.

This is the fundamental reason why Dayang had to attack the black-haired kobolds, trying to separate them from the rule of the pig-headed people, and promote the outbreak of armed infighting and even a full-scale civil war between the black-haired kobolds and the pig-headed people.

Moreover, the black-haired kobolds are an intelligent race with a “good” tradition of plundering in history. Their ability to exterminate tens of millions of members of the tribe in the Eastern Continent speaks for itself.

Therefore, once the anger of the black hairs is ignited, they can burn the pig skins into roasted pigs one after another.

What’s more, the traditional concept of pig-headed people worshiping rice and despising wheat not only greatly offends the black-haired kobolds, but also other kobold races will not give the pig-headed people a good look. At the same time, the human forces in the northern continent also have members who have been eating rice for 1,500 years. The pig-headed people’s style is destined to not end well.

Especially the group of human pirate prisoners captured in the Western Province, they are a group of guys who have been eating rice for countless generations. Therefore, Dayang needs their help to see how capable they are at rescuing their companions who are in “awake sleep”.

Valentina: “In this way, I can coordinate with the Western Province. We can even let these prisoners use the weapons we produce to carry out our plan.”

Dayang: “Oh, you started asking for money from them so soon? Aren’t you afraid of losing all your money?”

Valentina: “There is such a thing as a loan in the world.”

Upon hearing this, Dayang smiled. Indeed, collecting future money in advance is not a bad thing. In short, he still has friends who have opened an arsenal. There is still a certain investment value in equipping these prisoners with something to return to their hometown.

at the same time……

Pierre: “Mylin, are you sure you can use this?”

Mailin: “What’s the difficulty? Isn’t it just stuffing the cannonball into the muzzle?”

Listening to Mailin’s answer, Pierre, who went out to engage in cold-blooded combat, felt uneasy.

But…boom!

When the first 60mm-caliber mortar shell flew out from the muzzle and exploded directly at the pig-headed camp at the foot of the mountain with a large throwing angle, Pierre didn’t say anything and immediately helped. Carry the backpack with the shells on your back.

As for Mailin, he even carried the 60mm mortar away by himself. For no other reason than to carry out this kind of attack, if you stay in the same place all the time, the enemy will definitely lock your position as quickly as possible.

Not to mention escaping by then, the scouts probably wouldn’t even have time to scream, and it wouldn’t be surprising if they were directly smashed into pieces by the pig-headed wave energy cannon.

More importantly, they are scouts, not assault troops, and there is no need to fight to the death with the enemy. At the same time, the 60mm caliber mortar was designed and put into production for portability from the beginning.

Even if the accuracy of a small long-range cannon carried by a single soldier is somewhat uncertain, it is still profitable to blow up six or seven pig-headed men with one shot. Anyway, after the artillery fire, these scouts ran as fast as they could, and there was absolutely nothing wrong with hiding in the mountains and forests as much as possible.

Although the power of the air force is very important in mountain operations, the mountain environment is complex and infantry must be relied upon to conduct ground operations. Otherwise, the large number of caves and even underground tunnels that appear in the mountainous environment are perfect places for our and enemy troops to hide.

Even if there is definitely no way for vehicles to go up the mountain, the better response for the Krurod Empire is to use transport planes to lift cannons.

In the end, however, the mountain infantry was always the most decisive factor. Anyway, Pierre also knew that in fact, not only his scouts, but also several scout troops were doing exactly the same thing as him. After all, if they don’t take advantage of the opponent’s rest and give the opponent a few more sudden attacks, then their attack on the mountain will become very strong.

When the time comes, it’s still a question of whether the troops guarding the mountain can hold it. And Pierre himself believed that it was absolutely impossible to kill all the pig-headed men. Five or eight people died every day, which means more than 150 people died in a month. If there are more than 100 soldiers in a company, each one can do this…