Chapter 1260 Fly for a while
Why do we need to set up a pot? Shouldn't Europeans eat bread?
In fact, that is just a stereotype left by the industrial age. In the mid-nineteenth century, especially in the backward Spanish region, the main food for civilians was still porridge or soup mixed with various vegetables and grains.
And at this time, Franz had to provide relief and win people's hearts, not simply provide food.
Soup and porridge cooked in a big pot can produce food for a large number of people in a short time with the least raw materials.
This kind of big pot meal can also make the most of the existing ingredients, without being restricted by regions and seasons, and is not easy to cause waste.
Here is a popular science, the Spanish can grow rice, and the Spanish can also eat rice.
It is impossible for the Austrian Empire to rely entirely on the transportation of food from the mainland and colonies, and it must have purchased some local ingredients.
And rice is one of the local ingredients, so it is okay to call it porridge or soup.
However, the rice used here is not the expensive Spanish rice used in the later Spanish national dish "Spanish Paella".
Instead, it was some mixed primitive varieties. The rich would not touch these coarse rice, and only the common people would use them to fill their stomachs. The price of the two kinds of rice differed by dozens of times, just like the gap between the rich and the poor in Spain at that time.
Spanish paella is strictly a dish, as famous as French snails and Italian pasta. It is usually decorated with shrimp, crab roe, black clams, clams, oysters, squid, caviar, and served with fine grape wine.
The brown rice eaten by the common people is a staple food, which usually tastes very bad, at least not in line with the requirements of the upper class.
Because of the complex raw materials, soup and porridge can provide more kinds of nutrition, which is incomparable to bread.
In addition, it is simple to make. It only requires the chef to do simple processing and a small amount of fuel to set up a large pot, while bread requires a series of complicated procedures such as baking and fermentation.
If you really rely on making it on the spot from flour, it is not easy to eat this meal.
People who have been hungry for a long time can also digest warm porridge more easily. If they are forced to give them hard biscuits from the navy ships, they will choke to death.
The navy's hard biscuits, legend has it that sailors can use a kilogram of hard biscuits to kill mice, and even use nails to punch holes in the middle and hang them in the cabin.
Finally, Franz did not come here to do charity. Bread can be stored, but if you want to eat porridge, you must come to the place designated by the Austrians every day to get it.
At that time, it will be much easier for Austria to complete the work or to carry out propaganda for some needs.
Doing so can also allow the Spanish to associate this with the charity in religion, and not simply regard it as charity.
Although Spain has been rotten to this extent, in fact, the Spanish are still very proud. Even decades later, the Spanish still have the courage to fight to the death for dignity.
This is done to take care of the dignity of the Spanish, and at the same time to let the Austrians know what they are doing.
No matter how many talented writers Franz hired in the newspapers and how many touching articles he wrote, it would be better to let them practice it in person than to glorify the war as just and sacred.
The church in the Austrian Empire was powerful, so Franz often added shackles to it to improve its control. At the same time, he also often asked Archbishop Rauscher to purify the church.
The priests of the Austrian Empire must not only abide by the laws of the country, but also abide by the church's code and the "principles" that may exist in the Bible.
Once a mistake is made, there will be a special investigation agency within the church, and the government will also conduct regular inspections of the church. In addition, there are secret police who are mixed in to monitor it, and civilians can also report priests.
However, even under such harsh conditions, it cannot stop the shocking corruption and embezzlement cases from happening from time to time within the church.
The identity of the priest is just a tool for lying down and rotting. Many people do not believe in the so-called doctrines themselves. No matter how sacred the doctrines are, no matter how strict the laws are, they cannot stop them from pursuing fame and fortune.
But at this moment, facing the eager and expectant eyes, they felt the so-called "faith" for the first time.
Compared with those smooth and sophisticated priests, those uneducated soldiers from the bottom were much easier to be moved.
Now if you tell these soldiers that Franz is deceiving them, they are no different from the countless foreign armies that invaded Spain before, they are all barbaric butchers.
Then these soldiers will probably beat him up on the spot and arrest him as a spy.
In fact, Austrian soldiers themselves are not very sensitive to the cognition of nation and country, because the composition of the Austrian army itself is very complicated.
Germans, Czechs, Venetians, Lombards, Hungarians, Croatians, Serbs, Poles, Ruthenians, Slovenians, Transylvanians, Saxons, Wallachians, Moravians, Namurians, Jews, Gypsies.
And Germans who don't think they are Germans, Germans who think they are Italians, Italians who think they are Germans, Germans who are obviously Germans but pretend to be Czechs, Czechs who are obviously Czechs but say they are Germans, Galicians who can't tell whether they are Ruthenians, Poles, or Russians.
There are even foreigners, all kinds of Germans, messy Italians, and some weird Irish and French people, who have long been accustomed to it.
In addition, due to the characteristics of bread itself, many civilians who receive gifts are likely to save it for emergency use.
This will bring a lot of trouble. On the one hand, some people will use these breads given by Austria to help disaster victims to disrupt the local economy and cause the price of bread to collapse.
The Austrian Empire is strong and powerful, and it is impossible to be afraid of a few angry unemployed bakers and apprentices.
However, the price collapse of an industry often causes a series of chain reactions, eventually causing a large-scale collapse, and even causing the entire regional economy to collapse.
This is not alarmist, but countless bloody lessons.
The new order has not yet been truly established, and those who are truly weak can't even keep the bread in their hands.
Franz doesn't like to make up for it after making a big mistake. Compared with being moved, he is more likely to be angry.
That is not necessarily the inevitability of history and the cruelty of the times, but also the incompetence and inaction of European officials at the time.
The morale of the Austrian Expeditionary Force was high, but Franz was not in a hurry to attack. He knew that sometimes, in some places, bread was more powerful and more useful than bullets.
Franz needed to let the smell of porridge float for a while
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