The next day, Xia Ling woke up leisurely in an open hood, and when he opened his eyes, he saw Zhu Zhuqing sitting cross-legged beside him.

"Heavenly Spirit, you're awake! You ...... yesterday"

"Wait, we'll talk about it later, help me open the storage ring." Xia Ling interrupted her weakly, "I have a small white box in that ring, which is about the same material as jade, you can help me take it out." ”

Although Zhu Zhuqing felt a little confused, he didn't say anything and did as he was told.

Seeing this box, Xia Ling hurriedly opened it as if she had seen a savior, grabbed a black rumbling round object and stuffed it into her mouth.

Zhu Zhuqing looked into the box, which was neatly stacked with small black round cakes, a bit like flattened steamed buns, but with an intoxicating sweet smell.

"It's ...... What? Medicine? ”

"Hmm...... This is....... Sugar fire, similar to dry food, sweet, taste? Xia Ling devoured the one in his hand, picked up one and handed it to Zhu Zhuqing, "I made it, it's delicious." ”

The staple food of Douluo Continent is mainly pasta, either the "dry food" made of dead flour cakes or steamed buns, things like fire and baked cakes did not appear at all, and she naturally didn't know them.

Sugar fire is a good thing, with a good taste, high sugar, and high carbs, which is very useful for replenishing physical strength, and is much better than the "dry food" originating in the Douluo Continent.

Moreover, this kind of high-sugar or high-salt food can be stored for a long time under natural conditions, which is a must-have for home travel.

In order to prevent emergencies, after obtaining the Spirit Kitchen Inheritance and a large number of special containers for storing food, Xia Ling immediately exchanged brown sugar and sesame sauce from the system and made a lot of these things.

No, it's going to be used now.

Zhu Zhuqing hesitated slightly, and took a small bite after taking it.

In one bite, the happiness of eating carbs is mixed with the sweet brown sugar sesame sauce, and the layers of soft taste make people feel extremely happy.

"It's ...... Dessert? The kitten asked, tilting her head.

"Well, it's not." After eating seven or eight in a row, and then pouring a large bag of cold water into his stomach, Xia Ling felt that there was something in his empty stomach, and the whole person regained some vitality.

After breathing a sigh of relief, he continued: "It's a staple food, a staple food similar to steamed buns and dry food, made of noodles." What's the matter, it's delicious, isn't it? ”

Zhu Zhuqing nodded, "But ...... Isn't it sweet? ”

In her mind, only expensive and delicate snacks and desserts would be made sweet. Although she has eaten a lot of sweet dishes with Xia Ling for several months, it is still difficult for her to associate this delicious "dessert" with her staple food.

Hearing this, Xia Ling was directly stunned, and couldn't help but sigh helplessly, since he called Douluo Continent, he had sighed too many times.

The productive forces are seriously insufficient, science and technology are backward, and the form of civilization is deformed.

The soul master oligarchs occupy most of the world's resources, but they are not engaged in production, and everything depends on ordinary people for support.

The Heaven Dou Empire alone has been guarded by millions of heavy soldiers all year round, and all the troops are numerous, and there must be nearly 1.5 million troops, to say the least.

That's a hundred and fifty standing soldiers!

Moreover, some of the reckless Star Luo Empires are even worse.

A country with such a large army is simply unthinkable in the ancient dynastic period of the previous life.

Even if the territory is vast and powerful and prosperous like the Tang Dynasty, its standing army is only about 600,000 people; Even the Qing Dynasty, whose population swelled to more than 400 million under the blessing of sweet potatoes and potatoes, was only worth more than a million troops, and it was still a wartime state on the verge of extinction in the late period. (The source is Zhihu, and the party asks to be let go)

In the previous life of China, modern science and technology were extremely developed, with alkaline rice, hybrid rice and other ultra-high yield per mu of food crops, plus chemical fertilizers, large agricultural machinery assistance, and the world's largest population of 1.4 billion.

With such superior conditions, there is only about 3 million standing troops.

And how many people are there in the Heaven Dou Empire? But it can exceed 10 million people! (According to the original book, the total number of people in the two empires is at most five million, and the population here is my second set, so I can't write if I follow the original book)

What is this concept? Less than one in seven people is going to be dragged into the army, and one-seventh of the country's population is one-seventh!

Even if half of these soldiers were engaged in farming, it would be a very terrifying thing.

Generally, this kind of military-civilian ratio will only appear when it is close to the extinction of the country and the species. But now, this is the regular configuration of the two empires.

The peasants engaged in production were already scarce, there were still people engaged in other industries, the nobles had to pay for pleasure, and the empire had to collect a large amount of food taxes to maintain the army.

How can civilians living at the bottom of society eat well? How can food be eaten?

It can be said that the fact that this sick state structure has survived without collapsing is simply a miracle within a miracle.

Farmers don't even have enough staple food to feed their stomachs, so where can anyone grow cash crops like sugar cane and sugar beets?

Besides, although there are wild sugarcane and sugar beets in the Douluo Continent, where do farmers who even have a problem with hunger and hunger? Who would dare to take this risk to try? Even if it is planted, who can it be sold to?

If it weren't for the unreasonable thing like a martial soul in Douluo Continent, which could help increase grain production to a certain extent and the food system soul master could supply some food, I am afraid that a great famine would have broken out long ago.

The soul masters, nobles, lords, and soul masters who have always been high above don't care how the people at the bottom live, all they need is stronger soul rings, more soul bones, and more gold soul coins, that's all.

Counting one ring after another, sugar has become a very rare species in this era. Some of the sugarcane cultivated by the few nobles was not cultivated on a large scale, and the sugar they could provide was extremely limited.

No, even Zhu Zhuqing, a member of the family who can almost be called born at the top of the pyramid, regards the ordinary sugar in Xia Ling's eyes as a delicacy.

This thinking was a little uncontrollable as soon as it diverged, and when he came back to his senses, Zhu Zhuqing had already secretly eaten another candy fire, and was pretending to be casual waiting for his answer.

Whenever she is like this, she will be betrayed by a little red face, which is very cute.

Xia Ling couldn't help but laugh dumbly, but he didn't break it.

"Although it is sweet, the sugar fire is still made of grain. Eat a few in the morning, and you will be strong by noon. Sugar and noodles, that's a perfect match, I'll make you sugar pancakes to eat in a few days. ”

Zhu Zhuqing nodded in agreement, but he was thinking about other things in his heart.

Like what......

"Another one?" Xia Ling saw through her mind and pushed a whole box in front of her.

"Hmmm......"

Hey, little gluttonous cat.

Looking at Zhu Zhuqing, who was eating the sugar fire, Xia Ling couldn't help but sigh with emotion, "In the future, I will do my best to let the people of the whole world eat this delicious sugar fire." ”

"Uh-huh."