The people live on food, and to recruit refugees, they must have enough food. Feeding 200,000 people on long journeys is even more burdensome – even if you sail from Shanghai or Zhapu, the sea route to Lingao is 900 nautical miles. The sailboat is going to go for 10 days.

It is not easy for even a healthy person to make the journey on a crowded and bumpy sailboat, let alone a group of hungry refugees who have been suffering from chronic malnutrition. Without a nutritious, caloric ration, it is difficult for them to make it to the end of their journey.

Based on their experience of hosting refugees over the past few years, the supply of gruel with vegetables is a food that is more beneficial to the weakened stomachs of refugees. After their stomach and intestines have gradually adapted, they can add protein foods, mainly seafood, to the gruel, which can play a role in strengthening the body.

In the quarantine camp, it is easy to simply use brown rice and sweet potatoes to make porridge or other foods, but ordinary food does not meet the management and nutritional requirements of Lingao, and it is also quite inconvenient in transportation and use. It was quite difficult to cook gruel for a few hundred people in the galley of a cramped ship. There must be simple, easy-to-eat food available.

Hong Huangnan's supply was based on the "pillar operation" that landed in Sanya in the past, which provided enough grass rations to each ship. This series of instant rations has developed very well: there are already three series of twelve varieties. If you count the different flavors and ingredients, the subspecies is a little more. This series is not only completely up to standard in terms of nutrition and calories, but also has a great improvement in taste.

But this Jihua was vetoed by Wude: it was too expensive to distribute grass rations in large quantities. And there were also insufficient stocks of meadow rations, including those stored in army warehouses. There are only 1.5 campaigns in stock. It is also not very reasonable in terms of nutritional structure. Grass rations are high-calorie rations that are used to supplement the large amount of energy expended during the march, so they contain more protein and fat.

Not only that, the human body needs to consume a large amount of fresh water to digest and metabolize protein, which can easily cause thirst, which increases the pressure on the water supply for refugee boats that are crowded with refugees and have limited water storage.

Wu De then handed over the matter to the agricultural and food factories. Let them develop a relief ration specifically for the relief of displaced refugees.

The biggest difference between relief rations and grassland rations is in cost -- compared with the wide variety and complete grassland series, relief rations are more concerned with large-scale and low-cost production under the condition of ensuring energy and basic nutrition.

This matter fell on the head of Xun Suji, who was of course responsible for this as the director of the food factory. Xun Suji got married and started a family, and when he went home, his wife served him thoughtfully, and more importantly, there was no "family fight" between Liu Meilan and Kim Hee-sun. The family relationship is relatively harmonious, the family is prosperous, and the director of the Xun factory not only enjoys the blessings of all people, but also is full of enthusiasm in his work.

Immediately after receiving the task, he met with the people who had been developing the meadow rations to discuss how to make relief rations.

The relief ration meeting was held at the Lotus Root Pavilion of Nanhai Farm. Unlike cafes, this is a deliberately created "rural scene". Compared to the past, the environment around the lotus root pavilion has been deliberately renovated, and the original large pavilion made of bamboo and straw has been renovated into three waterfront pavilions with wooden terraces near the water, surrounded by fruit trees and willow trees. The bamboo fence is covered with green pumpkin vines.

In the meantime, it's a lot like some very carved "farmhouse" resorts in the old time and space.

In addition to the developers and "enthusiasts" of the original agricultural mouth, Bai Duolu also came to get involved. His zeal for relief rations was driven solely by the need to serve as a missionary in Lebanese. The agricultural production in the Li area is more backward than that in the Han area, especially in the Shengli area, which is completely slash-and-burn farming, and the shortage of food rations in the villages is a common phenomenon. The Church often uses the distribution of relief food as a means of proselytizing. As a result, the Lingao Seminary was in dire need of a cheap relief ration.

At the beginning, the people who developed the grassland rations were basically a group of "military ration control", and there were many veterans who sat at home in pajamas and ate the military instant rations bought at a high price, and they were all treasured about what MRE, the British army's 24-hour rations, the French individual soldier's heated rations, and the 06 individual soldier's self-heating food.

Now to develop a relief ration is tantamount to scratching the g-spot of everyone, and many people have come to the lotus root pavilion, some of whom were not on the list of participants, and they have come over in a hurry.

According to the standard for the supply of refugees set by Chen Sigen: the standard of food supply for a refugee when "transported by means of transport" is 1,790 kilocalories per day. It was roughly equivalent to the standard of supply in German prisoner of war camps during World War II, which was able to ensure that people would not starve to death. Of course, refugees are transported by means of transport without practice or work, and there are separate standards for the provision of children, maternity and the sick.

Wu Nanhai suggested: Sweet potato flour should be used as a raw material for rations - not sweet potato starch, sweet potato starch is pure starch, and sweet potato flour is directly ground into flour after slicing and drying. Contains a lot of fiber from sweet potatoes.

Lingao has a large reserve of dried sweet potatoes and sweet potato flour, and Tiandi will promote and improve the cultivation of sweet potatoes on a large scale in Lingao, whether it is a state-owned farm or an ordinary farmer, a large number of sweet potatoes have been produced. It can be said that the supply of raw materials is very sufficient. It has become an important raw material for Lingao food industry.

Outside of sweet potato flour is a small amount of protein. Wu Nanhai recommends mixing a small amount of soybean flour or bean dregs. Leguminous crops are widely cultivated as nitrogen-fixing crops in the new rotation system of Lingao. In addition to the tight supply of soybeans for oil extraction and tofu, the reserves of broad beans, peas, black beans, chickpeas and so on in the grain depot are still considerable.

“…… Add sugar and salt, mix with some dried vegetables, and if you feel that the okara is not enough, then mix with the fish meal zuihou and dry it into pieces. Wu Nanhai said.

Ye Yuming said: "Weishenme is going to be made into bricks? Waste of labor. I don't think it's necessary. Purely for low cost, dried sweet potatoes will be the result – we have a large stockpile, but they are not easy to spoil, and we have hundreds of sacks on each boat, and we distribute some to the refugees at each meal. 500 grams of dried sweet potatoes a day are guaranteed to ensure that you will not die of hunger. It's just that you have to ration some soup: refugees can't eat salt if they can't eat it. ”

He proposed: to make a condiment made of concentrated and dehydrated bricks: a concentrated soup cube with miso, kelp, and dried vegetables.

The miso soup made from this block of soup is a common dish in North Korea and is nutritious, although it doesn't taste very good.

"If you want, you can add some dehydrated vegetables or dried fish to the miso soup to replenish the nutrients. Sweet potatoes have a lot of fiber, so there's no need to supplement things like cellulose. ”

Hong continued to tout his potato flour plan. He has a soft spot for potatoes and has always advocated for the army and laborers to eat more potatoes.

"It's the same solution I mentioned earlier: dehydrated potato flour, animal fat, spice mix. When eating, just add water and mix and cook into mashed potatoes. Potatoes are highly nutritious and can completely replace rice grains. If it can be used to replace the supply of 5,000 soldiers, each person will consume half a kilogram of rice grain per day. If you eat mashed potatoes for one day, you can save 2,500 kilograms of rice per week and 10,000 kilograms per month. This number is very impressive. Refugees, of course, can eat more. I don't think it's necessary to supply protein to the refugees at sea, and to digest protein, you need water, so it's better to add oil. ”

"I still want grease." The representative of the General Staff Dongmen said in the rain, "The grease is not enough for even the patriarchs to eat, and it is returned to the refugees?" Besides, we haven't grown potatoes on a large scale at all. ”

"Potatoes have a short planting period and high yields, and they can be used as vegetables and staple food. Excess potatoes are dehydrated to make potato flour that can be stored for a long time! I have not understood weishenme The agricultural sector does not like to promote potatoes? ”

"Lingao is not suitable for growing potatoes, so let's promote it in the north." Wu Nanhai said. Potatoes are cultivated in the shiyan fields of Nanhai Farm - purely to maintain the provenance, not to promote. In terms of a small amount of planting, the yield is not as high as in the north, and there is no advantage compared with the planted sweet potatoes.

Potatoes have a high yield, but potatoes have a lot of moisture. The actual rate of food gain is greatly discounted. According to the standards of the old time and space, only five catties of potatoes can be worth one catty of rice.

After discussion, the relief ration program decided by Zuihou was named the "Simple Meals" series. The No. 1 simple meal is sweet potato flour "biscuits". In the ration of the same half-catty standard brick containing two cake bricks, there are two flavors mixed and matched in salty, sweet and light. At the same time, the "No. 1 instant soup cube" was also finalized and put into production, which is the "miso soup" that Ye Yuming boasted of. Beans and rice are used to make miso, and only small quantities can be produced due to the limited raw materials. A No. 1 instant soup cube can be used to make miso soup for 10 people.

The Simple Meal Series later developed into a comprehensive xing ration like the Meadow Series. However, it has a relatively small variety. It's just a simple classification by use. In terms of use, it is divided into "on-site relief", "camp relief", "vehicle and ship transportation relief" and "foot relief". Each variety is further divided into winter type and normal type. Each ration has a different caloric and nutrient content.

However, the content of relief rations produced varies greatly from batch to batch. The content of rations is constantly changing according to the different seasons of production, the expansion of the territory controlled by the senate, and the improvement of agricultural production. There are luxury types of brown rice flour and whole wheat flour mixed with ground jerky, and there are also simple types where sweet potato flour is added with sweet potato leaves and fish meal during stressful times. In general, there was no significant difference in the weight, size, energy and nutrient content of each batch of relief rations.