Utopia

"Brother, have you heard? Those black-haired guys went to the south to burn, kill and rob again."

"Alas! They are like this, they can't change. And after robbing, these black-haired guys also deducted and beat us. Where did the injuries of our two brothers come from?"

"Whip. Those black-haired guys are too greedy and don't regard us as warriors."

As one of the people of the Orchid Republic, Jin Mingyang shook his head again and again after listening to his brother's words.

They, the gray-haired dog-headed people, don't know since when, they have been oppressed and suffered by the white-haired and black-haired people.

Like this kind of life of running out to rob, although it is basically the gray-haired dog-headed people who charge forward, specializing in fighting on the front line and guarding the rear.

But at least three-quarters of the proceeds obtained by the gray-haired dog-headed people need to be handed over, and after the handover, the superiors are still unhappy in various ways, always thinking that the gray-haired people are dishonest, and they must be whipped repeatedly before they are willing to hand over the treasures they have collected.

As a result, Mingyang and his brother had visible scars from various whippings over the years.

Obviously, Mingyang was glad that he was now a citizen of the Orchid Republic. Although the Orchid Republic also had a compulsory military service system, the treatment was definitely not comparable to that of the Guangwu Empire.

What's more, when the two brothers were soldiers, they were forced to join the army at gunpoint. They were very reluctant, but the guys in the upper class, especially the white-haired ones, often did not have to serve in the army.

Secondly, corporal punishment. The two brothers were a standard case of veterans beating new recruits and abusing new recruits. On the contrary, in the Orchid Republic, although there were many cases where officers were so angry that they cursed, the army explicitly prohibited corporal punishment.

And the officers scolded the soldiers... Many times it was because the soldiers made various mistakes.

There is a saying that is very popular in the Orchid Republic: you will be scolded and sweat more in peacetime, but you will not shed blood and sacrifice in wartime.

With this sentence, Mingyang felt much more comfortable.

And the treatment of soldiers in the Orchid Republic is not bad.

The state-sponsored meals are a hundred times better than the Guangwu Empire, where you have to pay for equipment and cook for yourself. Not to mention being a soldier, even a new soldier has a monthly salary of 3000 yuan. You should know that in the Orchid Republic, that is a big bag of flour that is enough for him to eat for three days!

The last point is why he would rather settle in the swamps of the Orchid Republic and study how to grow rice, and never be a bandit soldier in the Guangwu Empire.

The Orchid Republic is the first country that does not regard gray-haired dog-headed people like him as slaves, but as normal citizens.

He is willing to farm in a place with hot springs in the country but a cold climate in the whole country.

It is better to be a civilian in peacetime than a soldier in troubled times.

The life of a bandit soldier is really terrible. There is no fixed time for eating, no fixed place to live, and life is in danger every moment. Instead, the job that does not get any respect and is discriminated against is not suitable for him, or even for every gray-haired dog-headed man who yearns for freedom.

So, Mingyang shook his head. He did not regret living with his companions in the cold climate of the Orchid Republic. On the contrary, he felt that the caravans of all kinds passing by from time to time, as well as the neighbors of various races, gave him a lot of warmth.

I hope that those gray-haired dog-headed fellows who are still struggling to survive under the discrimination of white hair and the beatings and scolding of black hair can wake up.

You have to decide your own destiny.

"Bette, let me ask you a question. Do you think the dinner of the people in the Orchid Republic..."

"There are many varieties. The dog-headed people are still interested in cooking. But we don't need to try their barbecue, at most we can taste what their pickles taste like."

As the night fell, Bet tasted his dinner with the members of the embassy.

Compared with the meat and vegetables in the Orchid Republic, the members of the embassy, ​​as a vegetarian race, of course just made a few jokes.

But it must be said that as a multi-ethnic republic, the diet and related types of the Orchid Republic have been continuously enriched as these races brought their own unique ingredients and cooking methods.

In this regard, Beth himself couldn't help but sigh that if a country's cuisine has developed, it means that the country's national strength has been significantly improved.

Of course, this does not include some countries that have invented various unacceptable horrible dishes due to past famines.

For example, the roasted rat meat in the Old World is one of the horrible dishes that the inventor's family has despised for generations.

"Pickled vegetables? You have to thank some dog-headed people for having chili seeds, otherwise... just pickled vegetables soaked in vinegar..."

"Don't, don't mention this to me. Ambassador, when I was still in Eri, I tasted a pickled melon myself, it was so sour that I almost jumped up."

"Who invented it? Pickled melon, this is the first time I've heard of it."

"In the north of the Iron Fist Empire, at the border with the Jingnan Federal Republic, the blond and blue-eyed humans there don't know if their sense of taste is impaired and they need this thing to enhance the flavor. Anyway, after I ate it for the first time, I was very suspicious whether the blond and blue-eyed humans were a group of freaks with abnormal physical development, just like the conservative nobles of the Iron Fist Empire said."

"Hehe..."

After Beth said this, the members of the embassy couldn't help laughing. But it's not hard to understand this matter.

After all, many of the blond, blue-eyed, white-skinned humans in the eastern part of the Old World are descendants of captives who were constantly conquered by the Iron Fist Empire in the past. Strictly speaking, they are different from the people of the Iron Fist Empire.

Therefore, the blond people were relatively short of seasonings in the past.

Especially salt and sugar, two very important strategic resources.

For this reason, these human groups, who were despised by the Iron Fist Empire at the time as blond savages, invented various technologies for pickling and fermenting grains.

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It's just a pity that compared with the chefs of the Iron Fist Empire, the skills of these "savages" are obviously not up to standard, and the dishes they make are even more difficult to swallow.

At this point, such horror dishes have been popular in the Iron Fist Empire due to a movement called "protecting traditional characteristics", so some horror dishes naturally appear in some corners, specially to entertain some diners with extremely strange tastes.

Obviously, such a hard-to-swallow dish will definitely not be liked by the mainstream people in the world. However, because of its wide source of raw materials and simple processing and production technology, this kind of dish has always been something that the poor people who can't afford to eat good food have to swallow...