Chapter 2057： 3 armaments and controversy

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In fact, as usual, Marin would not give them maple syrup biscuits no matter how much he liked these loyal young warriors. Mainly, these days, Marin often arranges them for long distance training.

Specifically, learning and adapting to a long-distance raid on horseback is a rapid march. Even reached the strength of the forced march. In this case, soldiers are physically exhausted, which is also a test of willpower. Its strength is no less than that of wartime. In addition, Marin really needed the loyalty of these young soldiers who held the secrets of the unique bullets before putting them on the horse with sugar biscuits. Marin wouldn't be so polite when he changed to an ordinary spearman.

But the problem is that in the future, when the teenagers of the North Sea country grow up, the main body of the army will definitely be these children who have received military education in schools since childhood. They are not hard-working mountain people recruited from the southern mountains, and they have high material requirements.

Maybe for a while, there will be no objection to the juvenile guards being able to enjoy sugared biscuits during training. But after a long period of time, complaints will inevitably affect morale.

Therefore, we are not in a hurry at the moment, but in the long run it is certainly necessary to improve the treatment of ordinary troops. In particular, when a war breaks out, morale determines victory or defeat, and there should be no sloppyness.

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

And if the North Sea State army has a supply of cane sugar during the war, and the opponent can only eat black bread with dirt, stones and sawdust, the morale will be very different...

It is said that Napoleon was invincible in Europe, and the food provided to soldiers was enough to make other countries ashamed. Marin spent some Western history in his previous life, knowing that Napoleon's army was well paid. According to regulations, the French soldiers in the Napoleonic Army receive a daily meal allowance: 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 Brandy wine.

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

This was the standard of 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 US military, and meat was eaten at every meal. There are also chocolate, Coca-Cola and chewing gum. It is said that American soldiers carry chocolate and chewing gum, as well as Coca-Cola. Not to mention the US military, even the strongest devils in the powerful country at that time, soldiers also carried candy with them. Therefore, when we watch anti-Japanese war movies, there are often devils who pretend to take out candies and say "Children Misimisis"...

After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, although China’s economy had been difficult until the 1980s, there was no shortage of military supplies. For example, the 761 compressed dry food used in the counterattack, in addition to wheat flour and white sugar, also contains vegetable oil, whole milk powder (at that time fat is good), glucose and refined salt.

This shows that, in addition to rice noodles, sugar, oil and salt are indispensable in military rations. As for milk powder, it depends on production capacity. In this era, it's still a bit extravagant...

In fact, Marin’s current plan for the allocation of rations can make soldiers all over Europe feel jealous. For example, sugar-sweetened biscuits, which are sweet foods that little aristocrats rarely can eat. Soldiers don't need to think about it. And grilled salted fish is also meat! As for bagged dehydrated vegetables, European mercenaries of this age are watching the weather. In spring and summer, you can get fresh vegetables to eat. In the autumn and winter seasons, it is a luxury to want to eat vegetables.

Not to mention ordinary mercenaries, those officers, except for those from great nobles, and those from ordinary low-level nobles, they can’t afford to eat candy during the war...

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

In this way, I really want to supply a large amount of sugar, and I have to rely on the sucrose squeezed from the sugarcane to stably manage enough.

For this reason, Marin specifically ordered the colonial army that is capturing the Taino on the island of Haiti, arresting the locals, and completing the isolation observation. After confirming that there is no syphilis, they will be sent to Cuba to plant sugar cane. The 300,000 Taino people who were originally intended to be transported to the east coast of the North American continent were first distributed to the island of Cuba. In this way, the sugar cane production on the island of Cuba can be guaranteed. In the future, the soldiers of the North Sea country can also carry candy with them like a devil, and they will say "Missimisi" when they see a child...Ah, it's to buy people's hearts. At the same time, show off a wave of...

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

Baked dried salted fish in a bag is nothing, salted fish is not a rare thing, and ordinary people can eat it. Although dehydrated vegetables are fresh things, they are just vegetables after all, not rare things.

Sweetened biscuits are just too beautiful...

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

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

In time, each soldier only consumes 1 pound of sucrose in a month, 10,000 soldiers, the market price of sucrose consumed every month can reach 20,000 shillings, which is 4000 gold coins The cost is too high...

You know, the North Sea country has six to seventy thousand troops. Moreover, the generals here vaguely knew that Marin might expand his army to 100,000 in the future. On such a large scale, if the sugar consumption 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 sugarcane, there was no shortage of cane sugar, and everyone still felt that it was too extravagant. After all, they are all aboriginals of this age, and it is not the age of wealth when urea urea can produce sweetness from a person like Marin who is used to later generations. In their eyes, the soldiers eat sweets all at once, so extravagant!

Besides, the 100,000 indigenous serfs all planted sugarcane, which is indeed a bit extravagant. It’s okay to plant something else, such as sisal, tea, and so on, as well as grain. Why produce so much sugar cane? Do you really use sugarcane as a cabbage seed?

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

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