A large pot of pork and cabbage stewed vermicelli was placed in the middle of the table. It was steaming with thick oily flowers, and it looked particularly tempting.
Next to it is a basket of steamed buns mixed with grains. This is the lunch of the military division headquarters.
"What's going on, Lao Wang? Didn't I ask the cooking team to prepare an extra meal for lunch today and prepare two more dishes, at least a canned stewed radish? Why is there only one dish?" the commander asked slightly dissatisfied.
The chief of staff said: "Battle Commander Li is a hero of our military division. He has delivered things to the military division more than once. You just use this pot of vegetables to greet him. This also shows that our military division is too stingy!"
Being questioned by the commander and chief of staff at the same time, the cooking squad leader was so anxious that he was sweating profusely and quickly answered.
"Chief, at this time, Battalion Commander Li came to the cooking class to explain that he only asked me to prepare a pork stew with vermicelli!"
Li Hao spoke at the right time: "Commander, Chief of Staff, this one dish is enough, I guarantee you will be surprised!"
“My favorite pork-stewed vermicelli in Independent Camp is that it can be eaten as a vegetable or a meal. It tastes good and you won’t get tired of it after eating it. Otherwise, sweet potato vermicelli wouldn’t have such a large sales volume in Lingqiu!
"
The commander sat on the stool in disbelief.
Li Hao rushed to the front and directly filled the commander with a large bowl of vermicelli with a spoon, then filled a large bowl with the chief of staff, and finally it was his turn.
After taking the first bite of vermicelli, a look of shock visibly flashed across the commander's face, and then he continued to eat the food in his hand with one mouthful of steamed buns and one mouthful of sweet potato starch.
After finishing a multi-grain steamed bun and a large bowl of sweet potato starch, I put down my chopsticks with great satisfaction and burped!
Li Hao also finished eating at this time: "Commander, I'm right, it's delicious and very hungry!"
"Yes, the sweet potato flour is really delicious when made this way!" the commander replied with satisfaction, with a smile on his face.
"Not only can it be eaten as a vegetable, but it can also be eaten directly as a meal. If I eat other vegetables, I can eat at least two of these multigrain steamed buns in one meal, and I can eat three when I'm hungry. But since I got this sweet potato flour
, just one multi-grain steamed bun is enough, saving almost half of the food!"
When it came to business, the commander's face quickly returned to seriousness, and he shook his head and answered.
"For the army, although we can save a lot of food, we also need money to buy sweet potato flour. Whether we can save food overall needs to be carefully calculated!"
"Definitely!" Li Hao replied confidently, full of confidence!
"There were ten people in the headquarters eating just now. Normally, a meal would require at least twenty-five multigrain steamed buns, but just now we only ate ten, which saved more than half of the food and at least four white noodles!"
"And for the big pot of sweet potato flour just now, we only used two kilograms of dry sweet potato flour, and only needed one kilogram of white flour to buy it. In this way, we saved at least three kilograms of white flour for one meal!"
"Although sweet potato flour is delicious, you can't eat it every time. If we only eat one meal a day in the morning, lunch and dinner, ten people can save three kilograms of white flour a day, which is one hundred kilograms a month!"
"If there are more than a thousand soldiers in a regiment, at least 10,000 kilograms of white flour can be saved a month!"
The logistics director's mouth was open with a shocked look on his face, but his mind was not idle and was spinning rapidly to verify Li Hao's analysis just now.
After two minutes, he had to admit that what Li Hao said was true.
"Commander, Chief of Staff, Li Yingying is absolutely right!"
"If we promote sweet potato flour in large quantities in the army and buy it at the price of one pound of white flour and two pounds of sweet potato flour, we can indeed save a lot of food!"
The commander finally recovered from the shock, stared at the cooking squad leader and asked: "Lao Wang, this big pot of sweet potato flour really only uses two kilograms of dry sweet potato flour!"
"I didn't weigh it, but it's almost the same! Two kilograms of dried sweet potato flour after soaking will be at least five kilograms, and it will be even more when it is stewed, which is a big pot!"
The commander analyzed with a serious look on his face: "Ten people eat two kilograms of dried sweet potato flour, one thousand people eat two hundred kilograms, and ten thousand people eat two thousand kilograms!"
"Comrade Li Hao, is there any way you can provide two thousand kilograms of dry sweet potato flour to the military division every day? The military division can buy it with white flour and ocean!"
Li Hao answered confidently: "Commander, don't worry, I'll have it if not two thousand catties, even twenty thousand catties!"
"Lingqiu is mountainous, and a lot of cultivated land is on slopes. Not only is the yield of wheat growing low, but we also have to rely on the weather for food. It's not cost-effective!"
"This year I asked the base area to mobilize the people to plant sweet potatoes on all the slopes. In addition to the thousands of acres of land reclaimed by the troops themselves, a total of 20,000 acres of sweet potatoes were planted!"
"Sweet potatoes have a high yield and are drought-resistant. From 20,000 acres of sweet potatoes, we can harvest at least 20 million jins of sweet potatoes. Commander, you can have as much sweet potato flour as you want!"
"However, it is not cost-effective to buy it with oceans and white flour. I have a way for the military division to make two thousand kilograms of sweet potato flour every day without spending an ocean!"
The commander's eyes immediately became hot.
According to Li Hao's quotation, two thousand kilograms of sweet potato flour would cost one thousand kilograms of white flour, which would cost at least twenty yuan.
Twenty yuan a day, six hundred yuan a month, and more than seven thousand yuan a year.
A year's worth of 7,000 yuan was earned, and the food saved from sweet potato flour was equivalent to nearly 10,000 yuan, which added up to 17,000 yuan. For the Eighth Route Army, which had almost no financial income, it was definitely a huge sum of money.
He stared at Li Hao and asked: "What can I do?"
"Help our sweet potato flour factory sell sweet potato flour to the people and promote it throughout the base area!"
"We have a rule for selling sweet potato flour in Lingqiu. If you buy more than one thousand kilograms of sweet potato flour at one time, you will get ten kilograms for free for every thousand kilograms."
"As long as the commander helps us sell 20,000 jins every day, we will receive 2,000 jins of sweet potato flour for free."
"Hiss, hiss..."
The commander took a breath and shouted: "Twenty thousand kilograms, how is it possible? Even if a division is stretched to death, it can't consume 20,000 kilograms of sweet potato flour every day!"
"Absolutely!" Li Hao answered confidently.
"Sweet potato flour is a good thing for us, and it is an even better thing for the common people!"
"It tastes better than coarse grains, and even tastes better than refined grains when cooked. It doesn't take five kilograms of grains to exchange for one kilogram of dry sweet potato flour, but don't forget that one kilogram of dry sweet potato flour can produce at least two and a half kilograms of water, which can be stewed
Three kilograms is too little!"
"Half a pound of white flour can be exchanged for three pounds of sweet potato flour, and five pounds of miscellaneous grains can be exchanged for three pounds. If they are mixed and exchanged, the people will not only get more food, but also eat better. Why not!"
"A Lingqiu can consume at least two thousand catties every day. With such a large military division, the consumption of twenty thousand catties is the minimum!"
The commander and chief of staff both came from poor common people, and no one knows the lives of common people better than them.
After some thinking and comparison, he had to admit that what Li Hao said was right.
After looking at each other, they both saw determination in each other's eyes.
"Okay, I will help you promote it. I don't know how much it will be promoted in the end!"
Li Hao replied with excitement: "As long as you take action, Commander, it is possible for the military division to sell 30,000 kilograms of sweet potato flour a day!"
"Wait a minute, I seem to have overlooked a question?" The commander seemed to have thought of something and suddenly interrupted.
"I almost got tricked by your kid. You kept saying that if the military branch helps you sell 20,000 kilograms of sweet potato flour, we can get two thousand kilograms of sweet potato flour for free, which can be exchanged for at least 20 yuan in the ocean."
"There are such high profits from sales. Your profit from producing sweet potato flour will definitely be greater. Please be honest and tell me how much you have. Don't discount it. Don't worry, I won't steal it from you!"
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