The Rise of the European Emperor

Whether it's a war or a big voyage, logistics is very important. If the logistical supply is insufficient, the army will collapse and the crew will be destroyed. All ambitions will come to nothing.

At the same time, an important feature of logistics is convenience. In the course of the war, the rhythm is very fast, and there is no time to slowly knead the dough to make food. So, how to come easily and quickly.

For this reason, the military food of later generations includes convenient foods such as compressed biscuits, canned meat, canned vegetables and fruits, and instant noodles.

These foods are easy to eat and easy to transport. These two characteristics are also important indicators of military food. The reason why Marin worked so hard to get canned food, compressed biscuits, and even dehydrated vegetables packaged in oil paper bags was based on the important principle of "easy to eat and easy to transport".

However, the canned food of this era is not the same as the canned food of later generations of the army. In later generations, the cans of the army are mostly aluminum cans, which are easy to carry and not afraid of collision. In this era, Marin can only make cans in glass bottles, which is inconvenient to carry.

Therefore, Marin turned his attention to dehydrated vegetables packaged in oil paper bags. After all, oil paper bags are very convenient to carry. Like the backpacks of later generations of girls, there are many bags of snacks.

For example, soldiers and crew members of the North Sea Kingdom can now put a few bags of compressed biscuits and a few bags of dehydrated Chinese cabbage in their backpacks, and they can last for several days. Moreover, these two foods can be eaten by soaking them in water. If the ordinary schoolbag of later generations is filled with compressed biscuits and dehydrated vegetables, it is estimated that it will last for a month. After all, whether compressed biscuits or bags of organic vegetables, are very light and easy to carry. This is the biggest reason why Marin strongly advocates the convenience of carrying food in oil paper bags.

What's the point of being easy to carry? It may mean a lot less to the crew. After all, cabin space is actually huge. But for the army, the significance can hit the sky.

The most important meaning is that the army with compressed biscuits and bags of dehydrated vegetables can carry out raids lightly!

Yes, raids are possible! Compressed biscuits and bags of dehydrated veggies are so lightweight that a single backpack can hold a month's worth of food. As long as you carry a backpack, you can let an army launch a long-distance raid without waiting for the baggage troops to transport food and grass!

You must know that the troop transporting food and grass is composed of strong people, and their marching speed is very slow. After all, they have not received the physical training that the regular army of Beihai Kingdom often runs 5 kilometers. Sometimes, in large-scale military operations, in order not to starve, the regular army soldiers can only wait for the civilians.

Although the Beihai State's cargo troops used a lot of light unicycles, the overall marching speed was still dragged down. If each person carries a backpack of compressed biscuits and bags of dehydrated vegetables, the regular army soldiers can temporarily leave the baggage units and move forward lightly. As long as they can ensure that the baggage units can catch up in a month, they can launch a quick attack.

Marin vaguely remembered that when the special forces of later generations set off with compressed food in their packages, they could leave the main force for a long time. Of course, those special forces have strong ability to survive in the wild and dare to eat anything. But compressed biscuits are still their main food. Eating everything is only when there is no other way to do it like Master Bei.

However, eating Chinese cabbage raw is really not a wonderful feeling. Although Europeans are more used to it, Marin is not used to it. He remembered that when later generations eat vegetable salads, it seems that tomato sauce is always put...

"Yes, tomato sauce! If possible, I will serve tomato sauce for the crew and soldiers in the future. The dehydrated Chinese cabbage leaves soaked in water, dipped in tomato sauce, looks good..."

Of course, this is only a long-term plan. After all, the Marin colony is only now experimenting with tomatoes imported from Mexico. Wait until you can brew tomato paste in large quantities, it is estimated that some will wait. But the European natives of this era don't care about those, because they grew up eating raw vegetables. They dare to eat raw onions like onions, let alone Chinese cabbage with a weaker taste?

The reason why Marin chose to use Chinese cabbage as dehydrated vegetables,

Cheap for no other reason!

This is food for tens of thousands of troops and tens of thousands of sailors. The taste is not important, the cost is the most important. The yield per mu of Chinese cabbage in later generations was as high as 5,000 to 10,000 catties. Marin used the Ming Dynasty varieties. After applying three fertilizers, the yield per mu was also three or four thousand catties, and the cost was very low. So, it is the best military vegetable.

As the size of the army grows, spending becomes a very important issue. If the cost is not well controlled, an army of tens of thousands of people is estimated to be able to make a big country poor. That is to say, Beihai Kingdom has enough food, especially food, under the various golden fingers of Marin. Otherwise, Beihai Kingdom would not be able to support so many troops. Haven't you seen a top-level power like France, usually raising ten or twenty thousand people? No way, European food is too expensive! In a country with cheap food like the Ming Dynasty, the number of troops is often hundreds of thousands. It took hundreds of thousands of people to quell a Yaomin uprising. Putting it in Europe, you can't afford to consume food alone...

Marin remembers that before the introduction of advanced agricultural technology from the Ming Dynasty by the Dutch in the 17th century in Europe, the size of the army was generally at most tens of thousands, unless it was a multinational coalition. Otherwise, it is difficult for a country to bear the food consumption of tens of thousands of troops. The only exception is the "Thirty Years War" China Leinstein's army, which reached a scale of 100,000 people.

However, in order to feed this 100,000-strong army, Germany paid a heavy price! Wallenstein had no money or food to feed the 100,000 army, so the food and drink of the 100,000 army depended on robbery. The practice is called "devastating the four wilds to support themselves". Wherever the army passed, the grain was robbed, and the animals were all killed for meat. Then, a large number of German peasants starved to death. This army fought from the south to the north, and it also brought serious disaster to the German region. Many civilians starved to death because they were robbed of their food... And this army of 100,000 people was also called "Ma Dabeard". Wallenstein's locust "The locusts pass by, but nothing grows...  

Only Marin, a traveler who has mastered modern agricultural technology, can feed tens of thousands of troops in this era. When it comes to the number of standing armies, Beihai is actually the first in Europe.

But because the 60,000 troops were scattered in the North Sea and England, their strength was greatly weakened. If they were to join forces, even France would be afraid.

Of course, it's also a good thing he didn't put the army together. If so, the German princes would not mind uniting with France to clean up Marin. That's why Marin thought about hiding soldiers abroad. He put 30,000 or 40,000 troops on the mainland, and in fact, he had reached the limit of the patience of the German princes. If you add more troops, even a fool can see his ambition, and he may be preempted by the princes.

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But in any case, Marin will definitely not use only 30,000 or 40,000 people to fight the German religious war that will compete for the world in the future. In that case, if you attack, the homeland will not be safe.

His plan is to gather 100,000 troops at that time and have a life-and-death confrontation with the princes. If they win, they will occupy the Little Germany in northern Germany and establish a new Germany in advance.

Therefore, he is now making this dehydrated vegetable, in fact, is preparing in advance for the future army of 100,000. The troops and horses have not moved, and the food and grass go first. Food and grass for an army of 100,000 is not a small amount. Moreover, storage and transportation are also big problems.

The compressed biscuits, vegetables, and even milk powder, grilled dried fish, and dried meat in oil paper bags are all prepared for the use of 100,000 troops in the future.

With an army of 100,000 people, Marin has nothing to fear even if he faces the coalition forces of German princes and France in the future. But now, he can only secretly accumulate soldiers and horses, secretly engage in logistical preparations, and look forward to the day when it erupts...

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