Chapter 2057: Three Kinds of Rations and Arguments

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In fact, in normal times, no matter how much Marin likes these loyal young warriors, he would not give them maple syrup biscuits. Mainly, these days, Marin often arranges them for long-distance training.

Specifically, learning and adapting to long-distance raids on horseback, that is, rapid marching. It even reached the intensity of a forced march. In this case, soldiers are physically exhausted and it is also a test of willpower. Its strength is no less than that of wartime. In addition, Marin needs the loyalty of these young soldiers who hold the secret of the slug, so he puts sugar biscuits on their horses. Changing to an ordinary spearman, Marin would not be so polite.

But the problem is that in the future, when the teenagers in Beihai grow up, the main body of the army will definitely be these children who have received military education in school since childhood. They are not mountain people who are willing to endure hardships recruited from the southern mountains, and they have high material requirements.

Maybe for a while, there will be no objection to the fact that the Junior Guards can enjoy sugary cookies at practice. But after a long time, it is inevitable that there will be complaints, which will affect morale.

Therefore, there is no rush right now, but in the long run, the treatment of ordinary troops will definitely need to be improved. In particular, when a war breaks out, morale determines victory or defeat, and there must be no sloppy.

Now, relying on secrecy, Marin can still live a good life of suppressing opponents with technology. But other countries are not fools. Once they see the brilliant achievements of Beihai's technological suppression, they will definitely try to steal technology. At that time, the difference in weapons between the two sides will be very small. Then, everyone still has to fight for morale.

And if the Beihai army had a supply of sucrose all at once during the war, and the opponent could only eat black stick bread with dirt, stones and sawdust all at once, then the difference in morale would be huge...

It is said that Napoleon was invincible in Europe, and the food he gave soldiers was enough to make other countries ashamed. Marin had spent some Western history in his previous life and knew that Napoleon's army had a high meal plan. According to the regulations, the daily meals for French soldiers in Napoleon's army are - 1 pound of bread, 4 ounces of meat (1 ounce = 28.35 grams, 4 ounces is 113.4 grams of meat), 2 ounces of dried vegetables, 2 ounces of vinegar, 1 ounce of Brandy wine.

This standard was also a good meal in the 19th century. At least, ordinary people can't eat such a good food. Only in this way can the morale of Napoleon's army be high.

This was the standard in the 19th century, and it was even higher in the 20th century. During World War II, there were as many as 23 types of food for the U.S. military, and meat could be eaten for every meal. There's also chocolate, Coca-Cola and chewing gum. It is said that American soldiers carry chocolate and chewing gum with them, as well as Coca-Cola. Not to mention the U.S. military, even the strongest devils in the powerful countries at that time carried candy with them. Therefore, when we watch anti-Japanese war movies, there are often devils pretending to take out candies and say "kids, si, si, si, si"...

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, although China's economy had been difficult until the 1980s,

But there is no shortage of military supplies. For example, the 761 compressed dry food used in the counterattack, in addition to wheat flour and sugar, also contained vegetable oil, whole milk powder (at that time, the fat-containing thing was a good thing), glucose and refined salt.

It can be seen that in addition to rice noodles, sugar, oil and salt are indispensable in military rations. As for milk powder, it depends on the production capacity. In this day and age, it's still a bit extravagant...

In fact, Marin's currently planned military ration allocation can make soldiers all over Europe feel jealous. For example, sugar-sweetened biscuits, which are sweet foods that are rarely eaten by the nobles, soldiers don't have to think about them. And grilled dried salted fish is meat after all! As for the bagged dehydrated vegetables, European mercenaries in this era depend on the weather. In spring and summer, you can get fresh vegetables to eat. In autumn and winter, wanting to eat vegetables is a luxury.

Not to mention ordinary mercenaries, even those officers, except those from the great nobles, and officers from ordinary low-level nobles, can't eat candy all the time during the war...

As for the supply of sugar, Marin thought about it and decided to supply cane sugar instead of maple sugar. Maple sugar seems to be easy to obtain right now, but it is based on the fact that a large number of people are drawn from the sugar maple trees in March and April every year. But at that time of year, there are only a limited number of people who can be sent out to draw maple syrup. Therefore, the production capacity of maple syrup will definitely be affected in the future.

In this way, if you really want to supply a large amount of sugar, Hai has to rely on the sucrose squeezed from sugarcane to keep enough.

For this reason, Marin gave a special order-the colonial army who was capturing the Taino on Haiti, captured the locals, and completed the isolation observation. After confirming that there was no syphilis, they were sent to Cuba to grow sugar cane. The 300,000 Taino people who were originally intended to be transported to the east coast of the North American continent were allocated 100,000 to Cuba Island. In this way, the sugar cane production on the island of Cuba can be guaranteed. In the future, the soldiers of the Beihai Kingdom will also be able to carry candy with them like devils, and say "Miximixi" when they see children... Ahhhh, it's buying people's hearts. Meanwhile, show off a wave of...

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However, when the generals were solicited, Marin's proposal was opposed by the officers. Similar to what Marin thought, the officers felt that this treatment was too amazing.

There is nothing wrong with grilling dried salted fish in bags. Salted fish is not a rare thing, and ordinary people can eat it. Although dehydrated vegetables are a novelty, they are only vegetables after all, not a rare thing.

Cookies that can be sweetened are just too showy...  

You know, for now, the officers in the barracks have not been able to provide a stable supply of sucrose. The market price of sucrose today is 1 shilling and 6 pfennigs per pound. This is the price in the North Sea country. In other countries, the price of sugar is at least 2 shillings per pound, and it is more expensive in Eastern Europe. And 2 shillings are equal to 24 pfennigs, which is 8 days' salary for soldiers...

If this is left to future generations, according to the low salary standard of 100 yuan per day, it is equivalent to 800 yuan per catty, which is dozens of times more expensive than ribs...

Even if each soldier only consumes 1 pound of sucrose a month, the market price of 10,000 soldiers can reach 20,000 shillings, which is 4,000 gold coins. The cost is too high...

You know, Beihai has an army of 60,000 to 70,000. Moreover, the generals present vaguely know that Marin may expand its army to 100,000 in the future. On such a large scale, if the sugar alone costs 40,000 gold coins a month, how can the logistics be supplied?

Even though Marin explained that after the 100,000 indigenous people on Hispaniola were captured to help plant sugar cane, there would be no shortage of cane sugar, and everyone still felt it was too extravagant. After all, they are all the standard natives of this era, not the rich and noble era where Marin, who is used to seeing later generations, can urinate sweetness. In their eyes, soldiers eat candy every day, what a luxury!

Besides, it is indeed a bit extravagant for 100,000 indigenous serfs to grow sugar cane. It’s also good to grow something else, such as sisal, tea, or grain, so why produce so much sugar cane? Is it true that sugar cane is used as cabbage?

Everyone has been arguing for several days, until the sugar ship sent back by Cuban Governor Tara brought back a message...

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