"My lord, the soldiers in the combat sequence will consume 2 catties of food a day, 200,000 people can eat up more than 400,000 catties of grain in a day, and there are hundreds of thousands of people who have more people, even if their food is maintained at the minimum food and clothing line, a civilian man will consume at least one catty of food a day, and the entire army will take an extra day, which is the consumption of more than one million catties of food, and we really can't resist for long!" Casio tried his best to persuade with a melancholy face, the army went out to fight for grain and grass first, and now France has gone through several years of war, where can it still withstand a long-term supply of millions of catties of grain a day?

Casio still calculates the consumption of grain transported nearby, and if the grain is transported from a farther area, it is normal for this consumption to be multiplied several times......

The food of the marching army in this era was different from that of later generations, and all kinds of non-staple food were very scarce and expensive, and it was impossible to supply them to soldiers as they did during World War I and World War II.

In later generations, an ordinary adult man will eat at most 6 taels of staple food a day, but in the era of lack of non-staple food, if you want to ensure sufficient physical strength, you can only rely on a large intake of staple food to maintain, there is no so-called high-energy food in this era, and there is no variety of canned meat, and the consumption of eating without eating vegetables is very large.

Therefore, Casio's statement that a soldier eats two catties of food a day is really not an exaggeration, but a real data.

Civilian servants do not need to go to the battlefield, and it is not a big problem to work hungry, but if the soldiers are hungry, there will be a big problem.

On the battlefield, a soldier's physical strength and strength are a very important statistic.

"Casio, I naturally know the problem of food, but food is not ammunition, and many of the areas we fight in are populated, as long as my army is not in a no-man's land, will I still worry about not having enough food?"

Casio looked stunned: "However, we just fought dozens of battles in northwestern France and Belgium last year, and most of the cities have been requisitioned by us, and we can't squeeze much oil and water to feed the army."

After all, the Republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands is a sovereign and independent country, and it is not possible to conquer them in a few days, and the time spent on the road alone will not be short, as long as the Dutch shrink up and clear the wilderness, and drag on for a month or two, we will face the dilemma of running out of food, and no matter how loyal and brave the soldiers are, they will not be able to fight without food. ”

"Yes, it is true that it is not possible to collect enough troops to occupy the Republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands according to the normal method of requisitioning food, but the rations and stocks of several million people should be enough to supply the army to carry on the war."

Lin Haoda's calm tone made Casio feel cold, and he naturally understood what the 'rations' in Lin Haoda's mouth meant.

Ordinary poor people do not have much rations, and if they want to meet the needs of an army of 200,000, the knife will inevitably fall on the heads of urban residents and those rich households, and this time it cannot be an ordinary apportionment, but a complete robbery!

Only by doing so will it be possible to supply the food consumption of the army!

It's just that it was not easy for the French to stop rebelling against Lin Haoda's rule, and if they made this kind of desperate plan to offend the rich and the poor again, wouldn't it be a failure?

After all, Lin Haoda is now the chief consul of the French Republic, and is no longer a warlord leader who is afraid of chaos in the world, and the French who constantly create wealth with energy sources are a hundred times stronger than a group of desperate mobs who have been robbed of their last rations.

They don't have to worry about not having an army, but fighting a war is not just a soldier, at the level of Lin Haoda, the war competition is the consumption of national strength, and the comprehensive war system at most exempts Lin Haoda from the consumption of training soldiers, and in terms of the quality of the army, Lin Haoda stands in front, but it will not fall out of thin air Countless materials to support Lin Haoda to fight for a long time.

Unless Lin Haoda leads a group of tireless undead armies who don't need any supplies, even if it is a robot army, there is energy and logistics consumption......

"My lord, if we use the previous method again, the rear that has just been stabilized, I am afraid that a large-scale uprising will break out again, those French civilians will not be able to grab much food, if the knife falls on the rich, we will really be the enemy of the whole world......" Casio asked suspiciously, he knew that his boss would definitely think of this problem, otherwise he would not have accepted the surrender of the Danton faction and the Girondists, let alone agreed to cooperate with the French bourgeoisie, and the so-called golden youth puppet army would not have appeared.

"Casio, the European countries are numerous, the national composition is complex, although the French Revolution shouted the slogan of fighting for the rights of all the poor, but in fact, the French really shed blood for their own nation, they pursue the rise of their own nation, and safeguard the interests of the French sans-culottes, not for the Germans, Belgians, Dutch, Italians and other nations of the poor to launch a revolution, the so-called export revolution is nothing more than to make trouble for the European countries, I hope they don't have the energy to meddle in the internal affairs of France and help the French nobility and royal family to recover.

In Europe, ethnic discrimination and estrangement are quite serious, the Prussians once cheered for their Frederick the Great, boasted of being the superior of the Germanic people, looked down on the Austrians, and also looked down on the Saxons, Bavarians, Hesses, etc., who also belonged to the Germanic blood, not to mention that these countries ostensibly held high the banner of national harmony, but in fact from the nobility to the commoners, the discrimination of large countries against small nationalities has never disappeared!

Together with the two ethnic groups that belong to the same country, they can be divided into three, six, nine and so on, not to mention the various ethnic groups in different countries?

Casio, you must know that I am not a European, my skin color, appearance and even religious beliefs are incompatible with the natives, they will not recognize me as a foreign ruler, let alone support my rule over them, and now the submission of the French is only fear of my cannons and bayonets, the French are bleeding too much, and the cold of being killed is crawling at my feet!

In the face of such a ruled, I naturally will not devote myself to promoting the common prosperity and unity of any nation, if all the white people are united and fraternal, I, the foreign ruler, will be restless.

Therefore, we must not only vigorously maintain the national independence of Europe, but also create a lot of national hatred, and I cannot give up the right of dictatorship, and if I want to really tie the French or the rich class of the French nation to my chariot, I naturally want to let them taste a little sweetness. ”