Chapter 128: Processing Food

However, compared to Yingsi who thought that refined rice was the most sacred and the most important and even fundamental food for the pig-headed people, Marietta was busy calculating accounts.

The dry food sent back from the front-line troops arrived in Sugui City, and because of her high arithmetic level, she was temporarily called back by the Chamber of Commerce under Mike's name to help.

Mike: "I said that the soldiers on the front line are too much. Why are all the things sent back pickled radishes? Candy too? And this bean paste... Can't these guys taste the taste of soybean paste soup?"

As Mike said, the pig-headed people of the Akitsu Empire are an intelligent race that attaches great importance to refined rice, and is equipped with related side dishes, meat and soup on the basis of refined rice.

However, when the dry food bags on each pig-headed person were seized, the front-line soldiers sent all kinds of things they didn't like to eat to the rear.

Marietta: "Grandpa Mike, I have dried fish, seaweed, and canned salted fish."

Mike: "I... Alas, these picky eaters. Dried fish... Why send this back? Can't they put the dried fish into the soybean paste soup and eat it together?"

Speaking of this, Mike was also very helpless.

The Kruro Empire is an archipelago country located in the tropics, with abundant fishery resources. Basically, no citizen will take the initiative to eat dried fish unless they are exhausted.

Similarly, salted fish, which is often available in other countries, is not very popular in the Kruro Empire.

Although this canned salted fish is included in the current military canned food, the soldiers in the army basically don't like it very much.

The upper-level Ministry of Defense officials also keep canned salted fish in the military logistics food list because canned salted fish is durable.

In short, for now, the soldiers would rather eat fresh fish as much as possible. Salted fish, dried fish, etc., the soldiers naturally dislike it as much as they can.

Even in actual combat, the front-line troops can hardly eat fresh fish.

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

So, Marietta looked at the salted fish or dried fish sent back from the front line, which had already filled a large warehouse, and she could only sigh that the soldiers were really picky.

Of course, the picky taste of the soldiers on the front line does not mean that the people in the rear are also picky. Especially now that the country is in a relatively difficult period, the social production order that has been restored with great difficulty has guaranteed a good start.

At least everyone can eat a little more.

In this case, Marietta naturally has nothing to say, and directly lists all the salted fish and dried fish in this warehouse as test items. As long as they are not expired, moldy, or toxic and harmful, they can be taken to the people outside for consumption.

After all, these are edible things.

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

Then the next is seaweed and bean paste, these two things made Marietta not know what to say.

As for herself, she can totally accept it.

But this is only for herself and some relatives and friends.

Let’s not talk about others. For example, Zelun, the current emperor of the Krulod Empire, does not like soybean paste, let alone soybean paste soup, which is made from soybean paste.

To borrow his own words, it is too salty.

There is no way.

Bean paste itself is a fermented product of soybeans pickled with salt, and it is 100% salty.

Therefore, the Akitsu Empire in the north and its vassal state, the Takagi Kingdom, will not drink soybean paste soup simply, but will add some seaweed or other dried vegetables, as well as pickled radish to drink together to dilute the saltiness.

But the problem is, the soldiers of the Krulod Empire already dislike the salty canned meat they eat, and then a serving of the same heavy-tasting salty soup?

The soldiers will curse.

So this is why the soldiers looted all the dried vegetables of the pig-headed people and left them for themselves to eat, right?

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

But fortunately, the soldiers don’t eat it. Fortunately, the children of the Krurod Empire like it very much.

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

The taste is still very good.

But the next thing that makes her very headache is coming, the refined rice in the two warehouses.

Preliminary statistics are one ton...

It must be said that although refined rice is very exquisite, it can definitely feed a lot of people; but what is a ton of dry refined rice wrapped in sacks?

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

According to what she heard from Zelen now, the soldiers of the Krurod Empire now have rice and bread, as well as canned meat and canned soup.

In general, a bunch of edible things are compressed into a can, and then the soldiers open a certain color or a certain type of dry food pack or canned food according to the 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 cause extra food consumption.

Even though many people outside said that it is better to die of fullness than starvation, it 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 of 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 now, there is enough food to be exported, which can be converted into a large amount of foreign exchange income. Therefore, selling food to this country is a no-brainer. Moreover, the basis 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, I don't know how much food was plundered by the bastards of the Akitsu Empire. As for the food in front of him, there is no need to ask, he will never believe that these foods are 100% transported from 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 for 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 have been armed resistance forces in the Takagi Kingdom that are resisting the current king. Although these resistance forces are basically raindrops that can't make many 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 in 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...