The Great Ming Dynasty Dominate Overseas

Chapter 988: Cheap consumables

Seeing his unkind expression, Lei Haihai Academy, who was in charge of food in the barracks, hurriedly said: "Report sir, this is carried out in accordance with the food standards issued by the Ministry of National Defense!"

"Oh!" Li Laiheng's face was slightly stern, and he didn't say much.

Lei Hai led him to the officer’s restaurant for a meal, where the environment was more comfortable and the food seemed normal: dry roasted crucian carp, potato stewed chicken nuggets, vinegared potato shreds, vegetable stir-fried rape, three fresh soup, the staple food was rice, and A banana.

There are meat and vegetables, nutrition and fruit after a meal, which is the standard for the Southeast Army.

Everyone had a meal, found a place to sit down, and ate, Lei Haihai Academy explained: "Our soldiers here believe in Hinduism, so the food is vegetarian and there is no meat!"

"How to guarantee the physical strength of the soldiers without meat?" Li Laiheng asked.

"The staple food tube is full, and the tube is enough!" Lei Hai said: "Cook a lot of rice, enough pancakes, plus potatoes to provide enough energy!"

"As for those beans, they are equivalent to plant meat!" Lei Hai explained: "That's chickpeas. Indians like to eat them."

He asked him to get some chickpeas from the soldier's restaurant outside to invite the officer to taste it. It was the first time that Li Laiheng saw chickpeas. The shape of the seeds resembled a chickpea.

"It tastes good!" Li Laiheng praised.

Lei Hai said: "The main reason is that the seasoning is good."

As far as he remembered, it seemed to be added coriander seeds, salt, mango, pomegranate seeds, red pepper, cumin, black pepper, black salt, fenugreek leaves, cloves, mint, nutmeat, cinnamon, adzuki bean, coriander, Doukou and so on.

"Sure!" Li Laiheng said immediately.

He still knows the prices. Spices such as cloves and bean spice are now valuable. When the value is high, a ship of spices shipped back to Europe is a ship of silver!

The army is willing to feed the Indian soldiers, but it really is not to abuse them!

Of course, the spices given to the Indian soldiers are leftovers and cannot be eaten every day. They are only available during the New Year's and festive seasons. When there are chickpeas, they are just ordinary curry.

The commander came today and specially arranged food for the Indian soldiers. Speaking of which, they still entrusted Li Laiheng's blessing.

"So what about their field rations?" Li Laiheng asked by the way.

"Hot food is crepes, cold food is our hard biscuits!" Lei Hai introduced.

Hard biscuits are universal, and they are really ubiquitous.

"There are potatoes!" Lei Hai said: "It saves water, fertilizer, and energy. It is good for planting and storage-resistant. The leader asks the logistics base to promote the cultivation of potatoes."

Speaking of the promotion of potatoes, it is not far away. It is native to the Andes of South America. In the middle of the 16th century, potatoes were brought to Europe from South America by a Spanish colonist. At that time, people always admired the beauty of its flowers and regarded it as an ornament.

Europeans finally found it to be edible. In 1650, potatoes had become the main food crop in Ireland and began to spread in Europe.

When it spread to China, Yan Changwu, who controls the sea route, was overjoyed when he saw it.

Others don't know the benefits of it. As a traveler, would he not know the three auspicious treasures of China: the benefits of "potatoes, corn, and sweet potatoes"? !

So the three auspicious treasures got the treatment they deserved, and they were planted everywhere with the expansion of the Southeast Army.

Li Laiheng naturally knew it when he was training with the military department, especially remembering clearly that he was very impressed with the way sweet potatoes said: "That stuff is good, we use it to feed pigs in our country!"

Whenever possible, the Chinese will not eat potatoes, corn, and sweet potatoes as staple foods. Potatoes are fried into fries and they are good for cooking. Potato beef is a famous dish; corn is delicious as a snack, and it is made of pork bone corn. Carrot soup is very popular. As for sweet potatoes, dried sweet potatoes are used as snacks. Some people like to eat it for breakfast to make the stomach comfortable.

And here, the Indians regard potatoes as a treasure, one of the important staple food!

"Indian soldiers don't eat vegetables very much. Even if they do, they are made into vegetable puree. They are unpalatable and the fruits are too expensive, so we let them drink brick tea so that they can pass stool." Lei Hai said very well. really.

Brick tea is actually made of inferior tea leaves and tea stalks. The cheapest tea, the tea made is bitter and astringent. As long as the Chinese have a little condition, they will not serve it.

In spite of this, Indians have never had such a delicious drink before, and they drink it correctly.

Seeing the commander's attention, Lei Hai introduced all the way, when it comes to snacks for soldiers, they are snacks. Snacks are the first of the Southeast Army. They are rare or even unique in the Chinese dynasties. They are left in the Ming army and are insufficiently supplied. They can't even eat rice. Dreaming of snacks?

Even in the world, there is no military that is steadily incorporating snacks into the military's supplies, but the Southeast Army has done it.

The leader believes that snacks can slow down the tension of the soldiers, and can also replenish physical strength. He is influenced by the US military. The Coca-Cola culture of the Yankees has traveled all over the world. Coca-Cola is a kind of snacks, as well as the chocolate of the US military. , Has become a cultural symbol.

Similarly, the Chinese jumping deer toffee has become a cultural symbol of the Chinese nation!

"We Chinese have toffee and beef jerky, and the Indian soldiers give them feed!" Lei Hai said.

"Feed?" Li Laiheng made a heavy exclamation mark!

"It's what you used to feed the horses, sir!" Lei Hai said, and Li Laiheng understood immediately.

The horses they ride are often pulled from large sacks to feed the horses as feed in the supply. What is it?

Bean cake and peanut cake. Bean cakes are fried with soybeans and crushed into the residue after deep-fried. They are irregular in shape and piece by piece.

Peanut cake is the residue of crushed peanuts and fried oil and then pressed into the shape of a grinding wheel, with a hole in the middle.

There are two types of peanut cakes, one is the residue of raw peanuts after frying in oil, and the other is the residue of fried peanuts after frying in oil. Bean and cooked peanut cakes are very fragrant, but raw peanut cakes are not dripping Therefore, raw peanut cakes are not provided to Sanguo, but bean cakes and cooked peanut cakes can be used as feed for war horses, and can also serve as snacks for Sanguo people. They do two things with one stone and are very popular with Sanguo people!

They packed bean cakes and peanut cakes in military satchels and took a bite when they had time, feed!

what? Don't eat!

Okay, we have beef jerky. Would you like Sanguo?

Can't blame us for not giving it to you!

Li Laiheng felt a little dizzy, so that's okay!

It is cheaper to raise Indian soldiers in this way. The cost of raising one Chinese soldier can raise five Indian soldiers. It is no wonder that four of the five divisions of the army are Indians. This is not a cheap consumable!

Li Laiheng did not dare to say this, while Lei Hai preached: "We are pretty good!"

When he talked about recruiting ~lightnovelpub.net~, the recruiting scene was very popular, because Indians are not rich, and they have at least a bite to eat when they enter the army.

"Their civilians worship the great gods. They eat only one meal a day and don't eat meat. They eat as gods. We are humans. We have three meals in the barracks. There are snacks, free uniforms, and daily necessities. We serve as soldiers here. It's so much better!" Lei Hai said lightly.

The Southeast Army recruits foreign soldiers and does not adopt the method of equal pay for equal work. It will not say that the Chinese have so much money, and the Japanese also have so much money. Instead, they adopt a method that foreign soldiers are higher than their home country’s civilian wage standards, which is equivalent to the Chinese being a formal worker. Foreign soldiers are temporary workers, so the salary is naturally different.

Even so, the treatment of foreign soldiers is much better than in their home country.

If you want the same salary, then try to get the account book.

For Indians, if they get a Chinese hukou, they can raise their ranks and become Kshatriya, a winner in life!

We Chinese do not treat three pots lightly, really!

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