Chapter 56: Valentina's Additional Comments

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

It was after the Japanese fled from the north and brought it to the southern islands to establish a country that 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 staple food of the Japanese, were not suitable for large-scale cultivation in the Krurod Empire, which is now located in the tropical islands. Therefore, now, the staple food of the Japanese is mainly rice and cassava. The wheat, millet, and sorghum that they used to like to eat have become supplementary staple foods or food currencies for foreign trade.

In any case, so far, most races in the world eat wheat. Some countries even publicly put forward exaggerated statements such as wheat is the king of food.

However, among these intelligent races, pig-headed people are definitely unique. This race has a symptom called "rice poisoning", so much so that in the past, a northern human priest conducted a field investigation and wrote in a travelogue that their warriors were energetic and could wield swords and gallop on the battlefield, and the farmers could work hard and tirelessly, mainly because they ate brown rice.

What is brown rice?

Whole grain rice obtained by husking rice without processing or less processing, and even rice bran is not removed.

Why eat rice with such a bad taste?

It's very simple. In the past, the Akitsu Empire was poor because farmers and lower-class warriors lived in poverty, lacked food, and even suffered from famine due to natural disasters. They did not dare to grind finely and waste, resulting in rice bran being used as food to fill their stomachs.

As a result, when the Akitsu Empire entered modernization, social stability and the advancement of production technology, especially the continuous improvement of rice farming technology, the living conditions of the people were improved. Therefore, especially warriors and merchants, as well as senior officials and nobles, began to eat rice with a brighter appearance, whiter rice, and generally better taste than ordinary rice - polished rice.

Therefore, this 1,800-year history has been passed down, forming the unique rice worship of the Akitsu Empire. As a result, every citizen of this empire has been taught to value rice since childhood, and has been taught that rice is nutritious and healthy, and that rice and the dishes born on it, that is, traditional food, represent their racial spirit.

So these pig-headed people who value inheritance have passed on the consciousness that rice is far higher than other crops to generation after generation. At the same time, their great feelings for rice have led to the fact that no matter what they eat, if they don’t have a bowl of rice in the end, they always feel uneasy in their hearts, and even enthusiastically promote to the outside world how they steam delicious rice.

Of course, such persistence makes the black-haired dog-headed people very painful.

Obviously, they also eat rice, but in the eyes of the pig-headed people, servants should not eat rice that only the upper class are qualified to eat. In other words, the pig-headed people of the Akitsu Empire rose with rice, and also used rice to force the races that also eat rice to stop eating rice.

Because this is their historical heritage spirit, and no other race is allowed to taint it.

Unfortunately, when the Akitsu Empire and the Krulod Empire were conducting diplomatic exchanges in the past, the Krulod Empire ignored the feelings of the pig-headed people and their vicious idea of ​​trying to get the Japanese wheat people to eat wheat again.

Especially when a certain pig-headed person openly proposed that rice is a privilege that only pig-headed people can enjoy!

But such a concept is simply an absurd and ridiculous statement in the eyes of the people of the Krulod Empire. Do you have to get approval from you disgusting pig-headed people for what you want to eat? Do you really think that the guns and cannons of the Japanese wheat people are decorations?

In this way, the pig-headed people of the Akitsu Empire have never been able to change the eating habits of the Krulod Empire. In the end, they could only start with their own ruling areas and vassal states, and thoroughly implement the rule that only the upper class can eat refined rice, the middle class can eat rice, and the lower class is not allowed to eat any type of rice.

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

Moreover, the black-haired dog-headed people are an intelligent race with a "good" tradition of looting in history. The fact that they have the ability to exterminate tens of millions of human members in the Eastern Continent alone can explain everything.

So once the anger of the black-haired people is ignited, they can burn the pigskins into roasted pigs one after another.

Moreover, the traditional concept of the pig-headed people worshipping rice and despising wheat not only greatly offends the black-haired dog-headed people, but other dog-headed races will not look at the pig-headed people well. At the same time, the human forces in the northern continent also have members who have eaten rice for 1,500 years. The style of the pig-headed people is destined to have a bad end.

Especially the group of human pirate captives captured in the Western Province, that is, a group of guys who have been eating rice for who knows how many generations. Therefore, Dayang needs their help to see how capable they are to rescue their companions who are in "awake sleep".

Valentina: "In this way, I can coordinate with the Western Province. We can even let these captives use the weapons we produce to implement our plan."

Dayang: "Oh, so you start 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 about stuffing the cannonball into the muzzle?"

Listening to Mailin's answer, Pierre, who had gone 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 trajectory, 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, it is estimated that their group of scouts would not even have time to scream, and it would not 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...