Captain Philip was most satisfied with the food on the Han Navy ship, and after eating the food on the Han warship, he realized that the thing he had eaten on the ship for decades in the past could not be called food at all.

Today's breakfast was rice porridge with a bowl of beans and a bowl of onion and meat foam soup. It is nutritious and delicious, whether it is rice, peas or onions, it can effectively prevent scurvy.

In comparison, in the past, on Philip's ship, breakfast was almost always the same oatmeal. For lunch and dinner, it's either boiled corned beef with crackers, or poached marinated pork with crackers.

Occasionally, there will be a few small pieces of cream and already stinky cheese, and only the occasional bowl of bean soup will be able to get a tiny amount of vitamins.

Other than that, there was hardly anything else to eat.

When Philip told everyone about this, Zhou Hong, Li Cang and other teenagers were still full of disbelief. Most of them were the concubines of landlords or merchants, and they used to have a good family background. Now the food on the ship, they think it is very ordinary, and it can't even be compared with the school in Qingdao.

And what the ship's deputy said, they can believe.

"Don't believe it, I used to run the ocean, and sometimes I couldn't see the land for months at sea, and I didn't have any supplies at all, so I relied on what I carried on the ship. Not to mention food, even water will stink over time. ”

"At that time, the water we drank on the boat would be boiled and stored in wooden barrels. But even so, in less than a month after going to sea, the water in the barrel will become smelly and green. ”

Zhou Hong looked surprised, "Then what do you do?" ”

"We carry wine that is easier to keep." Philip said this, a little triumphantly.

In the early days of going to sea, each sailor would be given a few pounds of beer every day to quench their thirst. By the time a month had passed, the beer was almost gone. It's almost gone. At this time, we have to drink water again, and the water is already full of green algae, and it has become smelly and sticky, so we all mix rum in the water. The daily ration of rum was mixed into the drinking water to mask the smell and green color.

"If you drink alcohol while sailing, how can you sail and fight when you are drunk?" Li Cang asked. There is an iron law in the military regulations of the Han army. It is forbidden to drink alcohol, unless it is on vacation, but in wartime or non-vacation, it is strictly forbidden to drink alcohol in the army, even for officers.

He couldn't imagine that the crew members who sailed in the sea drank every day and drank rum after beer.

Philip smiled, "None of them get drunk." ”

"Is it fake?" Zhou Hong asked.

"Pretty much." Philip laughed, "The rum rations are rationed. Therefore, even if the sailors had wine to drink every day, they usually had to mix it with water and drink it, unless someone could bear to drink the stinking water and left the rum to drink alone, otherwise they would not get drunk at all. ”

"And at that time, although we would ration wine, it was strictly controlled and quantified. Anyone who dared to bring alcohol on board privately was severely punished. Since you are an officer, if you are drunk on duty or on duty to drink. will be severely punished, and if it is an officer student, then it may be kicked out of the navy directly. ”

Zhou Hong suddenly felt that the onion soup and white rice porridge in front of him were also delicious, and he couldn't believe that those people were decent navy or a group of poor sea prisoners.

It's just that he doesn't know it. Although many maritime powers in Europe have powerful navies, this kind of life on board is still not the most terrifying.

After all, compared to the dark food on the ship, many sailors had not been able to eat it before.

In Europe at that time. Serious citizens are seldom sailors, especially seagoing sailors. Most of the sailors on the ocean-going ships were landless peasants, unemployed vagrants, and they did not even have enough to eat.

Therefore, as soon as the captain docked his ship, the first mate would take the boatswain and the marines to the prison near the port, and take away all the traitors or ruffians, thieves and robbers, and beggars and outcasts in the city.

This is like in the Chongzhen period, natural disasters continued, the imperial court levied more taxes, and the government did not provide relief, so the people had to flee the famine and become homeless, in order to have a stutter, not to mention the conscription to eat the severed head of the army, and even for a steamed bun to join the peasant army and rebel.

Therefore, no matter how bad the food on the ship is, at least there is still something to eat.

However, the poor food on the ship was mainly due to the difficulty of supply. Many ships often only call at the port once for a long time, and the other is that it is difficult to preserve the food on board.

Fresh vegetables will spoil in a few weeks at most. At this time, you can only eat potatoes and turnips, but you can't eat potatoes and turnips for too long, and in the end, you can only eat those pickles or biscuits that are easiest to preserve.

On the pie called navy bread, there are often weevils, and this little thing, from the captain to the sailor, is ignored. Because there are so many of them, people even joke about them a lot.

Even the sailors concluded that black-headed maggots were not as bitter as weevils to eat......, as cold and fat, as weevils tasted

Because there were so many bugs, the sailors even came up with some clever tricks, they put the biscuits in a bag, and then put a fish in it, so that the maggots would crawl out of the biscuits and climb onto the fish, and when it was time to eat them, they would throw away the fish, and there would be fewer bugs in the biscuits.

However, for Philip at the beginning, the most terrible thing was not that there were bugs, but that even such terrible food was often insufficient.

The scariest thing is the cured meat. The cured meat, Philip used to give it the nickname "Salt Bone" because it was salty and hard and bone-like.

Some sailors once described it as having been placed in wooden barrels from the beginning of God's creation, and when it was boiled, you could smell it like the smell of an Egyptian mummy.

There are even sailors who use it as a pipe, and it smells like meat when smoked.

Philip's ship had cured meats for thirty years.

They discovered that the corned beef in the barrel had been filled thirty years earlier, and that one of the pieces of beef was so hard that one sailor even carved it into the shape of their ship, polished it with sandpaper, and nailed it to the beams of the battleship. Later, during the battle, it even smashed through many skulls that ignored its existence, but it glowed like mahogany.

Many people hate and even fear this food, but for the quartermaster department, ocean voyages, except for cured meats and biscuits. There is no better food.

However, a captain like Philip was better off than sailors, and he was even able to buy some food out of his own pocket to improve his life when he was on the sea. For example, buy a few sheep in partnership with the officers, or buy some hens to come on board, keep the sheep in the bilge, and keep the hens in the cages of the dinghy.

You can even bring some wine on board, and occasionally entertain the officers and doctors who disembark in the captain's quarters. Contact, contact under the relationship.

However, he has also been on the battleship of the Han Navy for two years, and Philip is very satisfied with the food on the battleship of the Imperial Han Army. From the beginning, it was relatively simple, but now, it is becoming more and more abundant.

Even on a long voyage like today, you don't have to worry about eating those horrible foods.

The biggest guarantee of food on a warship is canned food, and all kinds of canned food are available. Vegetables, fruits, poultry, eggs, fish, and meat, such sealed canned food for a minimum of one year. It can be up to more than three years. In addition, there are ham, bacon, sausage and other easy-to-preserve objects, plus potatoes, radish, onions, taro and other easy-to-preserve objects. Let them sail without docking for three months.

Even the chef and chef's assistant on the ship are professional, and they are not temporary cameos for any sailors. The cooks carefully arranged the food on board, as well as a specially formulated recipe, which was developed by the Navy's logistics department, according to which the food supply was rationed.

Three meals a day. It is guaranteed that it will not be the same within a week. In particular, the ratio of fruits and vegetables is ensured.

The boaters will also catch some catches in their free time to improve their food.

The chefs on the ship are very professional, even the cooking is also very professional, cooking on the ship is a technical job, and the wind and waves have an impact on the stir-frying. Second, in case of bad conditions, the oil in the pot is easy to fly out, which is very dangerous.

Therefore, on the current Imperial Navy ships, the pots used for stir-frying are also special, which is a vertical cylinder with a diameter of about one meter, which is more convenient for cooking, and is much safer. You can also make all kinds of pastries, even if you encounter strong winds and waves, it is no problem.

The combination of canned food and easy-to-preserve fresh food made the life of the officers and men on board much better. Philip was even more satisfied with this, and in his words, the first few decades had been spent in vain.

Beef stew with potatoes, roasted pork with dried bamboo shoots, and fish boiled with taro, there is a delicious dish every day, and it can be repeated seven days a week. Even the most terrible problem of clear water was not a problem, and this voyage, after starting from Yinqi, first sailed north to the coast of Korea, and then made a replenishment there, replenished with drinking water and some fresh vegetables, and then sailed along the coastline to the mouth of the Heilongjiang River.

Sailing along the coastline is a great way to avoid storms and to stay on the shore at any time.

Moreover, not only is the food on the Wenzhou very good, but he is also very leisurely as a co-captain. Although this was a long voyage, sailing in the East China Sea, there was no hostile situation at all.

Japan did not have a navy at all, and the small fishing boats were mainly concentrated around Edo.

In the East China Sea, even fishermen's fishing boats are rare, and North Korean and Japanese fishing boats are mostly fishing in the waters near the sea, so they dare not come so far.

During the day, the fleet sailed very smoothly, Philip supervised the work of the sailors, taught the cadets some experience and knowledge, and in the evening, usually the officers and the doctors on the main ship of the navy cadets would have dinner together, and everyone chatted while eating, and by the way reported their work and exchanged feelings.

The doctor of the Wenzhou has a transcendent status on the ship, and he is a frequent guest at the captain's banquet, and he must be there every time. When sailing or fighting, in the event of injury or illness, this is the only one who can be counted on, so he is as detached and respected as the teacher on land.

After dinner, the cadets were going to their shifts again, from eight to twelve in the evening, and from twelve to four in the evening, which was two shifts at night.

However, the captain is not on duty at night, and there are officers on duty, unless there is bad weather or an enemy situation.

Last night, the first shift was Li Cang's five teenagers on duty, and this evening, it was Zhou Hong's turn to be on duty. (To be continued.) )