PFC Chapter 310 The real gap is only more than 1000 million jin. We can still fill it by tightening our
Chapter 310 The real gap is only more than 1000 million jin. We can still fill it by tightening our
The three of them came to the regiment headquarters, Ding Wei also hurried over from the market, and even Xing Zhiguo participated in the discussion. It was the impending food crisis that made these backbones feel tremendous pressure. A food gap of 20 to 30 million yuan could not be easily filled.
Lin Zhenhua had wanted to rescue more disaster victims before, but he had not expected that there would be such a huge food gap. In addition, he thought that only 100,000 or 200,000 disaster victims would be accepted, but now the number has doubled. All previous plans have to be overturned. Just arranging for hundreds of thousands of people to settle down is a huge project, and the management involved is really a headache.
After everyone arrived, Lin Zhenhua cleared his throat to attract everyone's attention. He did not speak directly, but gestured to Duan Peng outside the door. A few minutes later, the monk and Duan Peng brought in the meal for five people. The meal was very simple without any fish or meat. Each person had two big sweet potatoes, a steamed corn bread, a black-faced steamed bun, and a bowl of pickles. Each person also had a bowl of millet porridge.
As for white flour buns, don't even think about it. They can only be eaten during festivals. In movies and TV dramas, eating white flour buns on weekdays is all a lie. This is when the year is good. If the year is bad, you have to chew tree bark and eat wild vegetables. However, after Lin Zhenhua came, he really never tried it. He just ate wild vegetables at most.
"Today we will eat and talk at the same time. I have been flying in the sky for a whole day and have consumed a lot of energy. My stomach has been growling with hunger for a long time. If you don't let me eat enough, I won't be able to think of any good ideas!"
"To be honest, our food supply has not been very good these days. We have already started to save money before the food crisis broke out. In my opinion, if we want to solve the next food crisis, we can only start from two aspects: one is to find ways to increase revenue, and the other is to find ways to cut expenditure."
"Let's talk about saving money first. I know Lao Zhao wants to save more food, but now the soldiers have to do physical training every day. If they don't have oil in their stomachs, they won't be able to hold on. If we want to solve the oil problem, we can only do it from two aspects. One is to put more oil when cooking, and the other is to let the soldiers eat meat."
"Compared to adding more oil, I feel that it is more difficult to feed the soldiers meat. There are many mountains near our base, but we can't hunt much prey in the mountains. Even if we clear several mountains, we can only get tens of thousands of pounds of meat at most. On average, each person can't even get one and a half pounds of meat. It takes a long time, not to mention that there are many dangers in the mountains. It's really unreliable."
"As for raising meat for the soldiers, it seems very difficult at the moment. According to what I learned before, our independent regiment has a total of 60 pigs, including 36 large pigs and the rest are all piglets. After fattening up in autumn, a pig weighs only 100 kilograms, and a large one weighs only 200 kilograms. Even if we slaughter them all at once and distribute them to each soldier, we can only get one kilogram of meat."
"As for the 30-odd sheep, six old cows, and more than chickens and ducks we raise, we can't rely on them. The sheep's milk and chicken and duck eggs should be used to feed the seriously injured, and the six old cows should be used to grind tofu for the kitchen staff. As for slaughtering them for meat, that would be truly draining the pond to catch the fish. We must never do such a stupid thing!"
"Since the problem of eating meat cannot be solved, we can only solve the problem of eating oil. According to what I have learned just now, the raw materials that can be used for oil extraction in our base are soybeans, peanuts, rapeseeds, and cottonseeds. The stock of soybeans, peanuts, and rapeseeds is not very large, and soybeans are also used to make tofu. This means that the only raw materials we can really use for oil extraction are rapeseeds and cottonseeds, which are our main oil extraction materials."
"There is not enough rapeseed. Even if we increase the purchase volume, it is still a drop in the bucket for the upcoming gap. The only thing we can really think of is cottonseed. We have purchased a lot of cotton before and got a lot of cottonseed. In addition, the autumn cotton will be harvested soon, and we will get a lot of cottonseed by then, which is just right for pressing cottonseed oil for consumption."
"Plus, cotton seeds are not valuable. We can send people to buy them in advance. After all, cotton seeds are not among the materials blocked by the Japanese. We can buy more cotton seeds before the Japanese pay attention. This will solve our edible oil crisis and give the soldiers some oil in their stomachs."
"In fact, even our staple food, corn, can be used to make oil. But now we don't even have enough food to eat, so how can we use it to make oil?"
When Li Yunlong and his companions heard for the first time that cotton seeds could be used to extract oil, they were all delighted. They normally did not put any oil in their cooking. In addition, most of the time they did not cook at all and only ate pickled vegetables. As a result, the soldiers had no oil in their stomachs. Hundreds of soldiers had fainted during training due to malnutrition.
Li Yunlong said with a happy face: "College student, you are really a smart guy. Before, we only thought about using soybeans, peanuts and rapeseed to extract oil, and we didn't know that cottonseed can also be used to extract oil. Cottonseed is not valuable at all. Let's purchase more cottonseeds in the next few months and store them, and extract the rapeseed and peanuts on hand into oil to supply the current needs."
"After the Zhangjiazhuang market is closed, we will press the cotton seeds into cottonseed oil. This will not only solve the oil crisis, but also prevent the news from leaking out in advance and the Japanese from patching it up in advance."
"As long as the brothers have enough food in their stomachs, they will consume less food. More importantly, they will no longer suffer from malnutrition, and they can keep up with normal training without any problems. This is really killing two birds with one stone!"
Zhao Gang also smiled, and then agreed: "Before, the soldiers had no oil in their stomachs, so they consumed a lot of staple food, but we didn't have enough food, so we could only limit the amount. But once the soldiers have oil in their stomachs, they can eat up the food that was not enough before, and the malnutrition situation can be significantly improved. This is really a matter of one thing leading to another. As long as the problem of eating oil can be solved, many problems can be solved easily, and we can also save a lot of food. This is indeed a good way to save money."
Ding Wei also breathed a sigh of relief. He had been thinking about ways to save money these days, but he could not come up with a good idea. If he cut the soldiers' rations, it would be tantamount to killing the goose that lays the eggs and bringing about his own destruction. However, squeezing the cotton seeds, which are of little use, into oil to eat is indeed a good way to increase revenue and reduce expenditure.
"This college student's method is very good. It not only increases the source of income, but also reduces expenditure. Tomorrow I will arrange a group of people to buy cotton seeds. As for the market, we will not join in the fun, in case the Japanese find out in advance and obstruct our next purchase operation!"
Xing Zhiguo also thought that this method was very good. He had been busy training soldiers these days and found that many of the recruits were malnourished. Although the food in the team was better than at home, it was still limited. After all, the independent regiment was not well-off, and it was quite difficult to feed so many people.
"I have no objection to this. The training of the new recruits is proceeding in an orderly manner. It is estimated that in another month, the second batch of recruits will be able to form a real army."
Seeing that no one objected, Lin Zhenhua ate the steamed bread in his mouth, drank a mouthful of millet porridge, and felt his throat better before continuing, "Next, let's talk about the real source of income. There are five ways to get our food. The first is to buy it at the market, which needs no elaboration. The second is the autumn grain, which will be harvested soon. We can use what we have to exchange for some surplus grain from the people, which is also a source of income."
"The third source is the land cultivated by our independent regiment. There are tens of thousands of acres of land planted with soybeans, black beans, corn, and sweet potatoes. If all are harvested, we should be able to get four to five million kilograms of food. When the next season comes, we will reduce the area cultivated for corn and increase the area cultivated for sweet potatoes. The yield of sweet potatoes is very high. Only by planting sweet potatoes on a large scale can we solve the future food crisis."
"The fourth source is from Ping'an County. The secret transportation line we established has been destroyed by the Japanese now. It will take quite some time to rebuild it. This channel has been blocked for the time being and can only be used as an emergency measure. It is simply impossible to purchase large quantities of food from this transportation line."
"The fifth source is the air transport line that is about to be opened. Previously, we have been focusing on rubber and have not considered using this transport line to transport food. Now we must put it on the agenda. I am afraid that this will be an important source of food for us for a long time in the future. I am not exaggerating, I am telling the truth."
"The influx of hundreds of thousands of disaster victims means we have to hold out until next summer's harvest season. Spring and autumn are better, after all, there are wild vegetables to dig. Once winter comes, even if we want to dig wild vegetables, there is nowhere to dig. Hundreds of thousands of people have to eat horse biscuits, which is not a small number. Add to that the problem of food storage, and it is also a huge problem. This is why I let the compressed biscuit factory work day and night."
"Molded food is inedible. Let's process more compressed biscuits. Even if they taste bad, it's better than starving to death. According to the current transportation capacity of our independent regiment, we can airlift 16 tons of cargo each time, which is equivalent to kilograms. It takes three days to go back and forth, which means we can get 90 kilograms of compressed biscuits a day. Although it is a drop in the bucket for hundreds of thousands of people, compressed biscuits have a strong sense of filling. One kilogram can be used as three kilograms. This means that we can get another kilograms of food a day, which is kilograms a month. What's more, this is a long-term business."
"Although there have been some interruptions in the middle, we can still obtain 1000 to million kilograms of food in eight months. So, Lin Ling, all in all, our food gap is only more than million kilograms. We can think of a way to fill the gap when the time comes!"