674 Sugar Production The Japanese Commander-in-Chief’s Conspiracy
Taking into account the background of the first team, Kong Jie cannot start the plan to sell 50,000 fried chickens yet.
There is no way. With such a large population, the supply of meat is already very scarce. How can there be any extra chicken to make fried chicken?
If Kong Jie really dares to do this, the brigade commander will probably come over immediately to say congratulations and fortune.
Good guy, the other groups don’t even get to eat meat, so your independent group is starting to harm the chicken?
How many people can you feed fried chicken? It takes a lot of oil and trouble.
It's better to cook it into chicken soup. Everyone can eat meat and drink soup. Add some side dishes. One chicken can fill the stomachs of several soldiers.
Of course, drinking soup is definitely more nutritious than eating meat.
But at least you can still taste some meatiness.
When life becomes rich in future generations, if you ask people to leave the fragrant meat instead of eating it and go to drink soup, I think people will jump up and scold you.
So speaking of it, eating meat and drinking soup can be said to be a helpless act when meat is scarce.
A chicken is stewed back and forth for three to five days. In the end, even the chicken is almost melted in the pot, and I am willing to drink a few mouthfuls of soup every day. This is called eating meat.
Kong Jie thought that after John returned to China and opened up the purchase channels for white-feathered chickens, he would get a large amount of chicken ingredients from John. At that time, he would find a way to start his 50,000 Fried Chicken King sales.
road.
What Kong Jie wants to start now is the fifty thousand special drink.
"I just want to create a drink specially made for our first team. This drink can also have different functions, either to reduce internal heat or to quickly replenish energy. Sugar is definitely indispensable.
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Throughout the Anti-Japanese War, sugar could be said to be hard currency.
It is an important military material necessary for both China and Japan.
The reason is, to put it bluntly, sugar, a military material, can not only replace food to a large extent and effectively replenish energy consumption for soldiers, but also has many uses.
It is an essential energy source for the human body. After the soldiers' high-intensity training, if there is a little sugar supplement, it will be extremely effective in replenishing the physical energy of the soldiers who have been violently consumed.
Sugar can also be used in drinks.
It can even treat complications caused by some soft tissue infections. High-concentration sugar water has a local hypertonic effect and can reduce soft tissue edema.
Secondly, sugar can also be used as industrial fuel.
As a snack used by soldiers to entertain and replenish energy after combat.
In addition, due to domestic climate reasons, the Eighth Route Army's rivals, the Little Devils, are not suitable for growing sugar beets, the raw materials for sugar.
This has resulted in Japan’s domestic sugar production being quite low.
If the Japs' troops want to get a supply of sugar, most of them have to rely on imports.
After the Sino-Japanese War broke out, the Japs occupied a large amount of land in China. In order to increase sugar production, they even set up some sugar-producing factories in China and selected some areas suitable for the climate to grow sugar beets, sugar cane and the like. p>
But even so, demand still exceeds supply.
At present, where Kong Jie's independent regiment needs sugar, it mainly focuses on nutritional rations that can quickly replenish energy for the soldiers.
In addition, it is not easy to purchase a large amount of controlled sugar resources from enemy-occupied areas and Kuomintang-controlled areas, so sugar is also an urgently needed material in the first detachment.
It is basically impossible for the soldiers to eat two pieces of candy when they are fine.
This is also the situation that Kong Jie has always wanted to change.
Now he is preparing to create a drink belonging to the detachment, which requires a lot of sugar. Kong Jie can't wait any longer.
After calling Dong San to the detachment headquarters, Kong Jie directly asked about the progress of purchasing sugar beet and sugar cane raw materials.
As the main raw materials for sugar production, sugarcane and sugar beets, as long as these two types of raw materials are sufficient, the sugar production process itself is not complicated.
Some of the factories in the detachment Kong Jie used were also capable of mass-producing sugar.
Kong Jie remembered that beets are cold-resistant and like warmth, so they are suitable for planting in soft soil rich in organic matter.
The main planting areas in China are mainly distributed in XJ, Inner Mongolia, HLJ and other places.
XJ and HLJ, Kong Jie will not consider it for the time being, but through killing the tiger's mouth, finding a way to contact Inner Mongolia, purchasing some sugar beets, or opening up some farmland to grow sugar beets, this channel is still feasible.
As for sugarcane, it prefers hot and humid conditions. It is mainly distributed in Yunnan, Hainan, Guangdong and other southern places, with tropical or subtropical monsoon climates.
Not long ago, Kong Jie sent out multiple caravans under the name of the wealthy businessman Kong Wuwan. Xie Baoqing's migrant workers' group was responsible for expanding business channels to Yunnan and other places, purchasing food, and dealing with the disaster victims that the first team continued to receive.<
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This approach is also feasible.
Before leaving, Kong Jie told Xie Baoqing to find ways to purchase some sugar cane from Yunnan and other places.
Back to the present, Dong Sanhui reported: "Reporting to the leader, Inner Mongolia was the first to return a batch of sugar beets, estimated to be about two thousand kilograms."
Kong Jie nodded and made a rough calculation: "Based on the ratio of four kilograms of beets to one kilogram of sugar, we can produce almost five hundred kilograms of sugar."
"How prepared are the factories and sugar technicians?"
Dong San replied: "Don't worry, Captain, there are a few old masters in our detachment who have worked in sugar mills before. They have old skills in making sugar. They can make sugar water and sugar cubes. In addition, the factory needs
Some of the sugar-making equipment are relatively simple, and the repair shop has already prepared them."
The process was not slow, and Kong Jie nodded with satisfaction.
This means that we are not far away from selling our 50,000 special drinks nationwide and even around the world.
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Zhongtiao Mountain area.
Just when Captain Kong was thinking about how to produce sugar and make his own 50,000 special drink at the detachment base.
After Yoshio Shinozuka, the commander of the Japanese First Army in Shanxi, applied for reinforcements from the Kwantung Army, the Kwantung Army brigade, which went south from the Northeast region to the Nakatiao Mountains, rushed to the Nakatiao Mountains area under the leadership of the captain Nobuya Uchida. At the headquarters, Yoshio Shinozuka and Chief of Staff Kitagawa reminded Uchida Shinya that the Eighth Route Army in Nakatiao Mountain was well-equipped and had abundant ammunition, and was not easy to deal with.
It’s just that Uchida Shinya didn’t seem to take these warnings to heart.
"American semi-automatic rifle?"
In the brigade headquarters, when discussing how to deal with the active Eighth Route Army troops in Zhongtiao Mountain, Nobu Uchida, the captain of the Kwantung Army brigade, snorted disdainfully and said:
"It's just a waste of bullets. With the elites of our army, all of them are special shooters. They can kill the enemy with one shot."
"Sir, just based on the information passed to us by the Zhongtiao Mountain troops, the Eighth Route Army active in the mountains still has a lot of artillery, including American 60 mortars, and even some larger caliber ones, similar to the 80
One millimeter, eighty-two millimeter mortar."
The Japanese adjutant on the side reminded.
Uchida Nobu also nodded, but the confident smile on his face did not diminish at all:
"Based on the logistics supply situation of Tubal Road, even if they have artillery on hand, the number will not be too many."
"You and I have dealt with the Northeastern Anti-Alliance Forces in Northeast China. We should understand that the most important point in a confrontation in the mountainous area is who is exposed first."
"We want to deal with these Tuba Road hiding in the mountains and rashly march in to sweep them away. Our army is in the open and the enemy is in the dark. The Eighth Route Army can use the artillery fire and ammunition at hand to make a sneak attack. Naturally, we will not gain an advantage. This is also stupid for the First Army.
The reason why we still can’t capture the mere Tuba Road in Zhongtiao Mountain.”
The adjutant smiled. The Uchida Brigade had participated in many operations to wipe out the Northeast Anti-Japanese Resistance Forces, and had rich experience in fighting guerrilla forces in mountainous areas.
"Sir, what you mean is that we can continue to learn from the experience of dealing with the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
On the one hand, we use our troops to move forward and compress the living space of the Eighth Route Army in Zhongtiao Mountain.
On the other hand, find a way to break through from within, obtain sufficient intelligence, identify the hiding places of these Eighth Route Army troops, and then send teams to secretly encircle them and carry out encirclement and suppression?"
"Yes, this is an effective approach that is both internal and external." Uchida Nobu also nodded.
The adjutant hesitated and said: "It's just...Sir, there are many traitors and traitors in the Anti-Union team who are not determined. It can be said that a large part of the reason for the failure of the Anti-Union lies in those betrayed traitors.
But I heard that the Eighth Route Army troops are monolithic. Our army wants to infiltrate, disintegrate, and instigate rebellion from within. There don’t seem to be many successful cases in this regard."
"Can this method be used to deal with the Eighth Route Army in Zhongtiao Mountain?"
Uchida Shinya said confidently:
"No pool of water is absolutely clear. Even if it is a clear pool of water, it will become muddy if we stir it up."
"Flies don't bite seamless eggs. The Eighth Route Army may be monolithic, but I heard that there were originally many nationalist guerrillas in the Zhongtiao Mountain area. Their will is not as strong as those of the Eighth Route Army. Otherwise, where would we have come from?
Imperial Alliance Army?"
"Judging from this, these Eighth Route Army troops active in Zhongtiao Mountain will definitely be mixed with some members of the National Army guerrillas."
"If we use these former National Army soldiers as a breakthrough point, we may not be unable to penetrate into the Eighth Route Army."
"Once we successfully infiltrate, the terrain of Zhongtiao Mountain is long and narrow, and the area is not very vast, let alone the vast woodland in the Northeast. We can easily locate the hiding place of the Eighth Route Army and eliminate the target in one fell swoop."
"Hi, sir, you are wise!" the Japanese adjutant praised sincerely.
Then, the two old devils planned a specific infiltration plan with stern smiles on their faces.
The Japanese adjutant said: "During this period, based on our intelligence, we have determined that the villages in the central part of Zhongtiao Mountain, mainly Qingshan Village, must have had contact with the Eighth Route Army troops."
"Sir, we can send plainclothes special agents who have dealt with the Anti-Japanese Alliance many times to sneak into these villages and wait for the opportunity to contact these Eighth Route Army troops and break in."
"Then try to contact and instigate the former National Army soldiers among them."
"In addition, there has been a lot of news in the county recently, saying that the Eighth Route Army is willing to accept the Imperial Army's troops at any time and safely return the Imperial Army to the original national army. This has caused many Imperial Army soldiers to feel panic and even have the tendency to surrender to the enemy privately.
.We may also be able to use this to disguise some teams and defect to the Eighth Route Army."
After hearing this, Uchida Nobu nodded in agreement and said: "Xinxi, you immediately start arranging this matter. The plainclothes team sent out has learned some of the local villagers' habits and customs in advance, and they have been trained before trying to infiltrate. Be careful."