Chapter 334 Extra Thoughts

Paula: "Well..."

Zelen: "What? It's incredible to hear that men in the Takagi Kingdom have to use metal chopsticks and spoons of the same material as their tableware?"

Paula: "Incomprehensible."

Upon hearing what Paula said, Zelen couldn't help but smile bitterly. The black-haired kobolds' hatred of women in the Takagi Kingdom was "stimulated" by the Negan Empire, and even things like tableware had to be "advanced".

To be honest, as far as Zelen himself knows, the intelligent races around the world who know how to use tableware to eat, not those who still grab food with their hands, are divided into two groups.

One group uses chopsticks and spoons, and the other group uses knives and forks.

As a country that can conduct trade exchanges with many countries, the majority of the people in the Krolod Empire can basically use chopsticks, spoons, and knives and forks together.

But because chopsticks can be made of high-quality but low-cost products from wood, and some wooden products can even be given as gifts to distinguished guests, chopsticks are the mainstream tableware in the Crurod Empire.

Change to knives and forks...

Put it this way.

So far, in the world, only knives and forks made of metal can be used for a long time, and wooden knives and forks basically have a short service life. However, tableware made of metal is destined to not be too low in cost.

Even a relatively wealthy country like the United Kingdom of Eri, where upper-class nobles wear gold and silver, cannot guarantee that every household has metal knives and forks. Therefore, in many regions and countries where the quantity of metal products is insufficient and production is limited, the more the upper class elites use knives and forks to eat, the more the lower class people rely on their hands to solve the problem of eating.

At the same time, in countries with highly developed productive forces and strict hierarchical systems, even if you eat food with your hands, you still have to use several fingers to reflect the characteristics of different class origins.

It has to be said that the life expectancy of people in these regions and countries is always low, as low as 28 years old on average.

Gastrointestinal problems and even overall digestive system problems are definitely inevitable.

Of course, in the case of the Takagi Kingdom, the people of this country learned to eat with chopsticks and spoons, thanks to the teachings of the Negan Empire. Otherwise, their hand-grabbing traditions formed in the primitive chiefdom era would have to continue to be passed down for hundreds or thousands of years.

However, the Takagi Kingdom showed no gratitude at all, and its hatred for the Negan Empire grew deeper day by day. Since there is no way to throw away the chopsticks and spoons in your hands and return to the primitive era of grabbing food with bare hands (the cooking method of the Takagi Kingdom is basically to use a large pot to steam the food, isn't it uncomfortable to reach out for it?), the Takagi Kingdom Naturally, black-haired kobold men can only think of using metal chopsticks to reflect their "high-level" status.

But what's the point?

The Negan Empire's series of chopsticks and spoons tableware made of bamboo wood are firstly to save costs, secondly because of the convenience of material selection and processing, and thirdly to prevent the occurrence of metal heat conduction and hot hands.

At the same time, in the Negan Empire, chopsticks are a unique type of lacquerware. Lacquerware tableware is a cultural inheritance for the people of the Negan Empire.

As a result, now, metal chopsticks appear in Takagi Kingdom...

They black-haired kobolds have not considered one thing, that is, how useful these metal tableware can be if they are used in steel factories to make weapons. At the same time, metal chopsticks are significantly heavier than those made of bamboo.

Therefore, in the Crurod Empire, more and more working people are getting themselves a set of wooden chopsticks and spoons, and they don't even keep the chopsticks alone.

You must know that the chopsticks themselves are two small wooden sticks. You can just find two branches and polish them yourself. Therefore, in the army, some soldiers also "imitate" and usually only use chopsticks to eat the food in the box. When it comes time to drink soup or water, they just use their lunch boxes as wine bowls and drink them all in one gulp.

In their eyes, today's exquisite tableware is complicated and superfluous to the point of hindering eating, right?

But Zelen himself actually understood that to save trouble, they used chopsticks to replace other obstructive utensils to ensure that they eat more efficiently.

So this is also the reason why Key still has a long vitality in the Crurod Empire. But nowadays, spoons and forks seem to be "integrated". At least Gamelia, the "madman" who is in a hurry, carries some kind of special tableware with a spoon on one end and a fork on the other.

But this thing is steel tableware, so it is probably not suitable for promotion. Therefore, Natalie and Nathalie improved a metal fork, a small spoon with forks.

However, forks and spoons are still finished products made of metal, which is still inconvenient for many soldiers whose family economic situation is not very good or who are in a hurry.

After all, how convenient is it to just pick up two branches outside and use them as tableware without even processing them?

Therefore, Zelen could only lament that the male black-haired kobolds of the Takagi Kingdom were really looking for trouble and were simply creating extra burdens for themselves.

Modern war is a war of steel. If these idiots insist on arguing about steel tableware, they will definitely make things wrong.

only……

Zelen thought for a while, if everything went smoothly in the Takagi Kingdom, how could it become a slave kingdom for many years?

The biggest deadlock of the Gaomu Kingdom is that their upper ruling elites are completely disconnected from the lower poor masses, so that the lower poor masses not only have no so-called patriotism, but also lack the most basic loyalty. Once the upper ruling elites lack sufficient pressure to control, the lower poor masses are likely to completely release their long-suppressed resistance under the call of certain extreme thoughts, and thus become part of the rebel forces.

In fact, all the roots are in the upper class of the Gaomu Kingdom, especially the first king of the Gaomu royal family, who was not in a legitimate position and completely completed his ambition to usurp the throne through a military coup. As a result, the Gaomu royal family naturally has a strong distrust of every citizen in the country, and is very worried that these citizens will follow suit and launch a military coup for themselves.

Restrict education, monopolize knowledge, suppress thoughts, and abuse the people.

All of this is to ensure that the Gaomu royal family can rule stably.

However, as a foreign emperor, Zelun is not optimistic about the Gaomu Kingdom's incompetence to the outside world and its tough ruling attitude to the inside.

Just hitting with a big stick, without giving the radish people a taste.

Over time, can the lower class people tolerate the upper class elites to continue to rule?

Just a rice issue, Zelun is very sure that there will be more conflicts in the Takagi Kingdom.

After all, the dog-headed people are also a rice race. If there is no rice to eat, it is better to exterminate them. The Orchid Republic in those days successfully developed rice that can be grown in the subarctic through bioengineering research, and successfully made the gray-haired dog-headed people who became part of their own citizens absolutely loyal to the Orchid Republic.

Now it is the black-haired dog-headed people of the Takagi Kingdom. If they cannot solve the plundering of the pig-headed people, it will be the final doomsday of the black-haired dog-headed people.

As for the trivial things like tableware, it is estimated that King Junwu deliberately caused a big dispute in society so that the people's attention will not always be on how to fight against him.

Zelen: "Paula, let me ask you something. If I give you a pair of gold chopsticks, will you be happy?"

Paula: "No."

Zelen: "Why?"

Paula: "I have a pair myself, and it comes with a set of tableware with a gold spoon, a gold plate, and a gold bowl. But it is precisely because of this reason that I often worry that someone will come and steal my treasures. Moreover, wealth should not be lost, and I know this principle better than anyone else. What's more, I am the queen. Except for attending some important occasions with you, when have you ever seen me wearing a crown, a necklace, and other jewelry? The consequence of excessive display is waiting for thieves to come to your door. Even if the thieves fail, you can't be on guard for a thousand days. Once I am targeted by thieves, I feel unhappy."

Indeed, Paula rarely wears a dress and a full set of jewelry to go out. After all, she herself feels inconvenient and uncomfortable.