.Eleven, the austerity in the inflation era Chiang Zhong                                                      �

It has been almost three months since the Giant Bear Legion came to Edo Port in Japan. Although Feili is not the kind of playboy who has been spoiled since childhood, she still feels a little difficult to adapt to the living environment of this Far East island country.

The endless plum rain weather is nothing. The rainy season in tropical forests and the storms on the sea are much more terrifying than this; the high temperature and heat in the midsummer are not particularly difficult. After all, in the previous expedition to the Mazka continent, even the scorching hell in the equatorial area was persisted; as for the frequent earthquakes at the end of three days, when it began, Feiri was still a little scared. He was often scared to run out of the house with his butt naked in the middle of the night. But over time, he gradually became numb. After all, the temporary headquarters he chose for himself in the camp of the Shogunate New Army was a very solid fortress-style building. The common and frequent small earthquakes could not be destroyed.

What really made him feel unbearable was the terrible food supply in this place.

It may be difficult for some people to adapt to using white rice instead of bread and potatoes. Feili, a time traveler, is very used to eating. Brown rice that has not even been cleaned from the shell is indeed not easy to swallow and hurt the throat, but at least the officers can eat refined rice. The recipe does not contain milk, butter, milk, and other dairy products, which is not too devastating.

The problem is that the side dishes here are really bad. Every day, there are sea fish, minced vegetables, kelp, miso soup or sauce soup. Even fresh vegetables are rare and delicious, and there is no decent cooking oil. Therefore, most local dishes are steamed or cooked, either the clear soup is light and tasteless, or too much salt or mustard is sprinkled. People's taste buds are always under the severe impact of "ice and fire",

In addition, some foods everywhere in the world seem to be no different from other places, but in fact, they are still very good at taking grilled fish as an example. They are different from other places. Japanese-style grilled fish does not break the fish's belly and clean the internal organs. The appearance looks browned and crispy, which is very attractive, but when you bite it, the stomach, blood, bitter gallbladder, and even feces are exposed, which really makes people vomit.

However, locals seem to like this very disgusting and perverted tone," as Feili saw it with her own eyes. Some restaurants with high-end appearance actually use "Jinlisheng" as their signature dish. Although the name "Jinlisheng" sounds very rich, it actually uses the feces of underage girls as raw materials, and is cooked and fried with various precious seasonings. It also has to be made into various craftsmanship shapes according to strict procedures. Finally, it is wrapped with a layer of gold powder and served on the table for some dirty rich guys to enjoy.

No matter what gimmick the store uses to package it, or even give it a magnificent reputation like "Golden Lisheng", it still cannot cover up the essence of eating shit." As an outsider, Feili is really impressed by the unique creativity of the Japanese island country in terms of diet. But he is completely unacceptable: he has to sigh that the perverted people of this island country are unlimited and can even eat so many tricks to eat shit!

As for the supply of meat, it is even more tragic. "According to the traditional customs of Japan, although the locals are so perverted that they regard eating shit as enjoyment, they follow the local Buddhist precepts and deleted versions. The Buddha, who never eats any four-legged animals, only said that he should quit meat and drink. He never said that he could not eat shit. Naturally, there would be no pork, beef, mutton and other things for sale in the market.

Although poultry such as chickens and ducks are edible, the scale of feeding is generally relatively high. In this war-torn period, it is even more expensive to sell in a large amount of goods, and it is difficult to purchase in large quantities. Even if you occasionally get a few chickens and ducks, Feili, who is considerate to the subordinates, is usually reluctant to roast the meat directly. Instead, he ordered the kitchen to put it in rice porridge and make a large pot of chicken and duck meat so that as many people can slightly satisfy their cravings.

Also, eating raw seafood is popular in this place, such as sashimi, sea cucumber, raw snake, etc. However, these people from the Giant Bear Legion came here after a long and painful ocean voyage. At the beginning, the stomach and intestines were generally weak.

Then, everyone was not sure about the details at the reception banquet, and they ate more seafood. At least half of the people started vomiting and diarrhea that night, and it took several days to recover, and thus they developed a serious fear. Many people never dared to eat outside again.

What's even worse is that it is because of the poor gastrointestinal resistance of these foreigners or the supply of infresh and inferior seafood at the banquet. Soon afterwards, some people were diagnosed with severe parasite diseases, which is a carbuncle that is difficult to heal with the magical technique. In essence, the magical technique is to stimulate and boost the vitality of the human body and add self-repair of the human body. It is good to use it to heal the trauma, but if it is used to deal with parasites, then if one is not done well, it will become to increase the vitality of the human body and the parasites at the same time. If you want to configure alchemy potion, it is difficult to obtain various raw materials in this place far away from Western civilization.

Therefore, Feili could only frown and search for some local doctors, asking them to use herbs to kill soldiers with insects. She didn't know how effective it was.

Such a terrible diet made some soldiers who had suffered from stomach and intestines and suffering from the stomach and intestines and had already begun to miss the mashed potatoes from the past few days. Overall, Feili thought that her adaptability was quite good. Since sashimi, raw clams and other things were difficult to digest, she cooked them all and drank them. Some of the more weird local neck dishes, such as neck locusts, sweet ginger buds, were swallowed with their eyes closed.

But only the locals like natto that they like to eat for breakfast, but he doesn't dare to put it in. The sticky, wet semi-fermented rotten soybeans can also pull out many long white silks. It also emits a irritating and weird smell like fresh garbage. If you want to eat it directly into your mouth, some Yongfeili, who needs to be determined, usually can't help vomiting before this.

But the newly recruited local recruits in the legion seemed to like this thing very much, until they could not eat without natto. So no matter how much he protested, Hei Dao Ren had to purchase a lot of natto every time he purchased the goods, and he enthusiastically advised Feili to try his best to eat it, saying that eating more natto is good for health, can prevent cerebral thrombosis, hypertension, etc., a series of elderly people, such as Kuang Shanxunshu, mustard umbrellas.

What's more, after becoming the elected Goddess of Magic, although he was still a candidate, Feili's body was no longer a mortal body. Apart from trauma, toxins and curses, there was no need to worry about any disease.

So, this time, seeing that Hein Kuroshima didn't listen to him and bought so many nattos without authorization. Feili, who was already full of upset due to heavy bleeding in clothing, couldn't help but burst out.

But Hitomi Kuroshima's face was also full of bitterness.

There is no way, sir, Beizhi knows that you hate eating natto, but there is really nothing to buy on the market now. I just went to see the black market. Apart from this little kimchi, radish and taro, only natto can be afforded

The haggard-faced Dongfang pseudo-girl sighed to Feili with the bitterness of the four-plate cart of vegetables alone, which cost the entire army's daily meal budget. Now we have 6,000 soldiers and 2,000 prisoners of war, with a total of 8,000 mouths to eat, and even the soup is too small to make such a small item. If I don't buy more nattoes that are cheap for the time being, what else can I do? I can't let the soldiers eat with salt water!" Okay, I admit, you did it right. I just called love bad and spoke a little recklessly.

After a long silence, Feili finally waved her hand dejectedly. "Since the number of vegetables is so short, how do you plan to arrange the food?"

"This" seems to be the most efficient soy soup, and put a few more bottles of soy sauce in it. Then, with Natto, the poor families in Edo Castle have always lived like this. Of course, they can't even drink soy soup now, so they have to completely replace the dishes with salt.

Kuroshima Hito scratched his head and smiled bitterly to make a suggestion, "So, I specially made some soy sauce this time and came back

Oh, drink more soy sauce, I am not afraid of myself.”

After stretching my neck and looking at the two large tanks of soy sauce on the cart, Feili couldn't help but sigh slightly. He nagged quite depressedly, "Anyway, my body is not only whitened in my skin, but also seems to be because my work pressure is too great recently. I just turned silver and white. I just need to accumulate a little more melanin." But the dark elf female warriors in our army are going to be miserable. Originally, my skin was black and numb. If I try my best to drink so much soy sauce, I'm afraid I won't see it at night.

"Isn't this just right? Their job seems to be scouts and assassins!"

Hearing his boss's nonsensical complaints, Hitomi Kuroshima didn't know how to proceed for a while, so he had to casually talk about another news to change the topic, "By the way, in view of the recent financial tension, the shogunate is preparing to close the Edo Zoo and dismiss the staff. All of the colleagues who had passed by Huizen have lost their jobs, which looks very pitiful. It just so happened that our army's mission of recruiting 1,000 new recruits was still not completed yet. Huizen recruited them all without authorization." There were only a dozen people in total. I specifically reported to you here.

So, then accept them all! Anyway, it’s not that bad for a few jobs."

Feili waved his hand casually with no interest. "However, I hereby declare in advance that before passing the assessment or making meritorious contributions, no matter who you are, you must start from the bottom! Even your old colleagues cannot be taken care of!"

"What's going on" I naturally understand, and I will never make any mistakes.

Kuroshima Hito rubbed his fingers with a dry smile, but because of this, there was good news. This time, when he was facing an unemployment crisis, he was able to re-employment so quickly. My old colleagues were very moved, so they planned to take advantage of their positions to use their positions to bring the remaining animals in the zoo to the military camp as a gift for everyone.

Uh? What good news and a meeting gift is this??”

Feili blinked strangely, and her forehead was full of question marks, "Our officers and soldiers should have long been over the age of enjoying visiting zoos, and our financial resources are not as rich as possible to raise a bunch of rare birds and beasts at will.

"Sir, your thinking seems to be a little wrong. But there are more than a dozen tons of fresh meat!"

Kuroshima Ren rolled his eyes helplessly and depressedly, then calculated the accounts for Feili with his fingers. As far as I know, even though some of them had been divided privately and some were run away due to poor management, at least there should be many hippos in the zoo, giraffes, bears, sika deer and peacocks, as well as a large group of turtles and two dolphins in the aquarium. "Oh, by the way, there is also an elephant! This is enough for all of us to comfortably hold a barbecue conference for several days! Well, maybe some left. Make it into bacon and store it."

Looking at his boss's eyes that suddenly shine, Kuroshima Hito grinned proudly, "Even if you search the entire Edo, there is probably nowhere else to get so many meat. Sir, do you think this is not the best gift for meeting?"

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Out of a beautiful yearning for the barbecue conference, Feili's eyes shone with no grace and saliva was flowing, and the resentment that the wallet was about to bleeding significantly seemed to have dissipated a lot inadvertently.

The good news that Hitomi Kuroshima brought him was more than this. When he heard that Feiri was deeply troubled by the extremely high price of clothes in Edo Castle, the oriental lady immediately patted her breasts and said that she had a related way and might get a batch of bargains.

The cheapest clothes cost 6 guan per set? Well, if they are freshly made new clothes, they are indeed worth the price. This shop is not very cruel to slaughter customers. However, if any kind of clothes has to be spent at this price, most of the poor in Edo Castle will probably have to live a life. When I was in the zoo city management team, my monthly salary was only 5 guan, so it was already considered a high income in this city!"

Kuroshima Hitomoto sighed and rubbed his forehead, telling Feili about his past life experience of poverty and thrift, and how to post a sarcastic film on the Japanese O8 Old Sun Book, Qi Yu, and Chengli's experience of making official goods. "Facts 10. From the perspective of my country's geographical area, the climate is not suitable for growing cotton. Most cotton cloths have to be sold overseas, so the price is naturally very expensive. The price in Edo is the highest in the country, so local citizens will never dare to buy new clothes casually unless there is anything festive or their family is very generous.

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Danger: In addition to the number of words, I would like to talk to readers about some recent reading insights.

In the past two days, my friend recommended me to read a book about the decline of Sparta. I feel that the late Sparta was really awesome. It is really different from the Sparta spirit in the movie, a bit similar to the deteriorated version of the miniature Roman Empire.

Many people know that Spartan male citizens have to undergo harsh military training since childhood and live a collective life. The whole country is a large barracks. However, unlike the modern state's conscription system that includes food, accommodation and allowances, the Spartans accept the costs of military training, living expenses in the military camps, and the expenses of purchasing weapons, all of them have to be borne by each family. If the training is not over yet, the family will not have money to pay tuition and accommodation. No matter how brave and good at fighting, this unlucky person is to be disqualified from his citizenship!

It feels quite like the "Fifty Cent Party who brings your own dry food"                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

At the same time, the commerce and trade, the maritime overlord Athens, had a far more economic income than Sparta and was in the most glorious golden age. But the problem is that in order to build Athens into the most beautiful city in the world, Periclei built many major projects from BC to BC, the Parthenon, the pure gold statue of Athena, the Port of Piraeus, and other major projects. He spent too much money on public buildings, sculptures, and paintings, and the purchasing power was about the same as the current $10,000!

That year, everyone's productivity level was very poor. Three geese ten thousand dollars was calculated as the price of food. And Athens was just a city, not an empire. No matter how rich the government was, it could not spend so much money in a short period of time. As a result, Pericle embezzled the public vault of the Delos League, almost angering the Greek allies. Everyone saved so much money to resist Persia. The military expenses stored in Athens were all turned into houses and statues in Athens. Do we think we were fools or cash machines?

Other city-states could not stand it and planned to recommend a powerful city-state that was not so extravagant to be the new leader, so they chose Sparta to fight the Peloponnese War. They felt that the Spartans hated art, lived a collective life, did not engage in construction, had no pleasure, and could not spend money. They were the younger brothers, at most they only had to sponsor some weapons procurement fees, which was better than the endless construction of houses and statues by the Athenians.

Unexpectedly, when Sparta defeated Athens and became the boss and asked for protection fees from his younger brothers, he actually charged more ruthlessly than the Athenians. Indeed, Spartan men who live a collective life could not enjoy it. But Spartan women were not restricted and had to spend too much when they had the opportunity. However, the Spartans did not do business, so the money was filial to their younger brothers. Allies did not have to bear the project payment for houses and statues, but they had to pay for Spartan women's jewelry, luxury clothing and high-end cosmetics. The expenses of these things have been bottomless pits since ancient times, so the oppression became even heavier.

What's even more strange is that Sparta itself was gradually destroyed by the influx of wealth. First, the wealth of all Greece flowed to Sparta, which immediately led to terrible inflation. Secondly, due to the unreasonable distribution system, the dividends of war were taken away by the upper class and became private wealth. As prices soared and currency depreciated, the wealth of lower class citizens was severely shrunk.

As a result, the gap between the rich and the poor was widening, and more and more families could not afford the training fee for their children, so they could only let them return to farm and lose their citizenship. At the end of the Peloponnese War, Sparta had estimated that there were about 10,000 citizens, about 14,000 Spartan warriors. After more than a decade, when the gay men of Thebes' "Sacred United" rose to rebel, the number of Sparta's civilians decreased to Susaka.

Others went bankrupt and were demoted to border residents, and even became slaves in debt.

Then, Sparta was successfully analted by Thebes. He lost his position as the boss, and the filial piety from allies was gone, but the upper-class powerful people had already been raised to have a bad appetite and were unwilling to live a hard life. What should I do? I could only scrape my own people, and then Spartan citizens and bankruptcy. By the time of Alexander the Great, this city-state had completely fallen to the second-rate level, and the emperor even disdained to conquer their warriors.

After this, Sparta also reformed several times. He wanted to reverse the momentum of continued bankruptcy of citizens. The Romans at this stage were to build professional troops, but the Spartans did not expect to do so, insisting on self-paid civilians. Therefore, the reform failed and the national strength continued to decline.

In the era when Hannibal was rampant in Italy, there were only one citizen of the land in the entire city-state of Sparta. There were also strong people when the hot springs were closed! Now there are only one hundred and five left, what else can I send to you

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What's even more sad is that such 150 Spartan warriors broke out a protracted civil war. In the past, Hilo slaves fled or separatisted the border and independent, and even attacked the Spartan city-state itself. Finally, when the Romans fought, Sparta had completely degenerated into a small ruined village, which surprised the Roman generals.
Chapter completed!