Chapter 836 The Emperor's Will Cannot Be Violated

It has been more than 20 years since Chen Han founded the army, and all aspects of the army have their own set of rules and regulations.

The military pay and allowances of each branch and position in the army, and the food treatment of each branch and position in the army, are all rigidly stipulated.

It is written in black and white, one by one, clearly.

From the Chen Family Army to the Fu Han Army, and from the Fu Han Army to the National Defense Army, the name of the army has changed several times, and the logistics supply standards and specifications of the army's officers and soldiers have also undergone several changes.

For the army soldiers in peacetime, the daily rations are: 1.2 jin of rice [720 grams], or 1 jin of flour [600 grams], 6 liang of vegetables [360 grams], 2 liang of soy products, 2 liang of meat/aquatic products/seafood, 1 liang of pickles, 5 qian of cooking oil, 1.5 qian of salt, one egg per day, one apple per day, or other fruits are calculated separately. This standard is neither high nor low, but it can definitely meet the needs of soldiers' daily military training and activities. When encountering field training, acting, marching and fighting, the supply standards will be adjusted according to the situation. For example, meat/aquatic products/seafood are replaced with canned meat, and the weight is also increased by 20%.

Chen Ming has pointed out many times that the supply standards of the National Defense Army cannot only meet the calorie needs of soldiers for daily exercise, but also take into account nutrition. The serious lack of nutrition supply will generally reduce the physical reserve level of soldiers.

- To put it in a common saying, people will not have energy and will not grow strong if they don't eat meat! Training alone cannot really solve this problem.

However, meat products in this era are really difficult to supply in sufficient quantities, and they cannot be compared with the developed breeding industry in the 21st century. Chen Ming is already satisfied if they can be comparable to the German army standards during World War II.

Of course, this kind of food may be higher than the living standards of ordinary people. Two taels of meat dishes a day, even though the living standards of Chinese people have greatly improved in recent years, there are still many people who cannot meet this standard. In other words, many ordinary Chinese people, millions of ordinary people, have not yet developed the "luxury" of eating meat every day.

However, compared with nutritional satisfaction, don't ask too much for taste, especially when fighting in the field, the standards for military supplies have always been: easy to carry, easy to eat, not easy to spoil, and rich in nutrition. Fresh ingredients can only be used for nearby attacks on the battlefield, and many of them are products of food processing factories. Such military food is enough to make many food processing factories of this era dizzy.

The only thing that meets this requirement is canned food. Whether it is used to store meat or to store biscuits, it is the best tool in today's era. But glass canning bottles are an option that no one will consider, so the only thing left is tinplate iron canning bottles. Explain that it is easy to preserve, but the cost of doing so is not low.

A considerable part of China's tin and iron production is spent on this. In a sense, it solves the mismatch and incoordination between China's steel production and social and economic development.

Compared with the steel demand for China's economic development in this era, the output of China's steel industry is a bit too high.

Such a result balances the development of steel metallurgy.

Military canned food uses tinplate, and it really has a long shelf life and is easy to store. But some military canned food is too much about "nutrition", heavy in oil and salt, and the taste is very unpleasant. When soldiers eat this kind of canned meat, the most common way is "secondary processing". One can of canned food can make a small pot of soup, put some vegetables in it, put vegetable dumplings or rice underneath, which is a good way to eliminate it.

Zhu Pingan accompanied Shen Yuan and his party, visited all the workshops from beginning to end, and then entered the warehouse.

In terms of hygiene, Zhu Pingan's factory is indeed not a problem. What really attracted Shen Yuan and his team's attention was the machine in a workshop.

It was like a flat windmill, with traces of heavy grinding on the edges of the blades, which looked very sharp. The machine was driven by a steam engine. When the workshop door was opened, a rumbling sound of rotation came from inside. It was definitely mechanized production.

This is a new project developed in Zhu Pingan's factory, which is sausage.

To mix meat and stuffing, a steam engine is used instead of manpower. A steam engine is more powerful than ten people, and can adjust the speed and blades, so that the speed is uniform from beginning to end, so that the meat stuffing and auxiliary materials can be beaten finer and more uniformly. Then it has to go through a process of air drying and smoking, and it can be made into a long-lasting dry sausage.

The workshop was filled with steam, and Shen Yuan did not smell the fragrance, but instead smelled an indescribable smell that could not be described in words.

"What is being mixed here is the meat stuffing."

Zhu Pingan pointed to a device that looked and shaped like a cement mixer in later generations. It was driven by a belt on the axis, and under the kinetic energy of the steam engine, it was stirring hundreds of pounds of meat stuffing in the pot.

"This machine was produced by our Dalian Machinery Factory. It first grinds the meat, then dices it, and finally makes stuffed meat. The meat is evenly ground, and the auxiliary ingredients and seasonings are also mixed evenly. Of course, starch is added, and then salt, spices and various seasonings are added."

As Zhu Ping'an was talking, he saw two workers carrying a basket of green shredded leaves and putting them into the blender.

He didn't need Shen Yuan to ask, he said, "This is basil. It has wind-repelling, aromatic, stomach-strengthening and sweat-inducing effects. Europeans use this thing as a seasoning. Basil is mixed with oregano, ground pepper and sage and added to sausages, sauces or jams. The taste is very mellow.

We don’t have sage here, so I’ll try it with oregano and ground pepper first. If it tastes really good, I’ll go look for the sage. "

Zhu Ping'an is not good at gossiping and making clichés, but when it comes to the ingredients, effects, and sources of this food production, he is very clear-cut.

Shen Yuan waited in front of the mixer until the meat filling came out of the oven. As a result, the color of the meat filling made him feel a little uncomfortable. It was not bright red. To be honest, the color made him want to vomit: "This meat color Why is it a little white?"

"Sausages? All the miscellaneous scraps were used." Zhu Pingan's answer made the smart man vomit blood after hearing it, but it was really the truth.

Sausage is this virtue. Unless it is eaten by the nobles, the best quality meat is minced and seasoned. But the sausages made by Zhu Pingan's factory cannot be delivered to the mouths of nobles. They are eaten by immigrants and mud-legged people. A lot of fish oil and grease were added!

Zhu Ping'an estimated that even the army would not like these things.

But this makes him 'save', doesn't it?

Just like the seafood cannery in the south, there is a small factory next to the big factory that specializes in processing scraps.

For example, when Zhu Ping'an Factory produces compressed biscuits, the sea bone meal and fish meal mixed in are specially produced by small factories.

Sea-bone meal contains not only fish bones, but also shrimp shells and even crab shells. This stuff is not meant for human consumption, but when added in small amounts to compressed biscuits, it is 'rich in nutrients'.

And is all fish meal made from fish? Tiny fish bones are also included.

There are also dried shrimps, a lot of low-grade fish, and even some fish intestines. Anyway, just wash and dry it, then simply pickle it, and then dry it, and the peculiar smell will be gone. Then they were smashed and mixed together, and even the ghosts couldn't tell who was who inside.

Zhu Pingan, like thousands of food processing factories in China that suffered disasters at this time, underwent an unprecedented health inspection in the next half month. Not only the food quality of the factory is inspected repeatedly, but also the hygiene of every detail of the factory is inspected repeatedly.

Zhu Ping'an was helpless. Although he dared to swear to God that he did not pass off inferior products, this time the inspections by the Quality Supervision Bureau and the Health Bureau were too strict. The emperor's will cannot be violated. In today's China, everyone knows that national security and other departments are spread all over the country, so who dares to do nothing?

I don’t know how many people were cursing the damn culprit deeply at this moment.

Especially the bosses of the food processing plants who were cut off from their supply and demand qualifications by the Logistics Department as if to scare the monkeys, hated that unknown person, the person whose name they had never heard of a month ago, with deep hatred. If the culprit had not been beheaded by the emperor's order, he would have been crushed into ashes by these hopeless factory owners.