Why is sugar hard currency in times of war?

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Release time: 2021-07-09

Summary: Hard currency in the gold standard period refers specifically to gold, in the contemporary refers to the international personal credit is good, the face value is stable, foreign exchange prices are upright situation of the loan currency. Because the level of inflation in countries around the world is not the same, the surplus situation and its foreign exchange supervision leniency level is not the same, when a country... Details>>

Hard currency in the gold standard period refers specifically to gold, in the contemporary refers to the international personal credit is good, the face value is stable, foreign exchange prices are upright situation of the loan currency.

Because the level of inflation in countries around the world is not the same, the surplus situation and its foreign exchange supervision leniency level is not the same, when a country's inflation is low, the surplus trade surplus, the country's loan currency face value relative to the stability, foreign exchange prices are upright. In the international financial system, it is customary to call it hard currency. For example, the US dollar is an international hard currency. After that, hard currency became a description, meaning is essential.

And in war, hard currency, in addition to gold and oil, there is also sugar. Sugar is the hard currency of the war, is a strategic material. Many people may not take this term seriously. You think that weapons, grains, medicines, clothes, and edible salt are strategic materials. Everyone understands that white sugar is a good thing, which seems unrealistic.

Excessive consumption of white sugar can cause obesity and will continue to cause a lot of insulin glargine metabolism, resulting in low blood sugar.

In modern society, sugar seems to be a harmful thing.

Food production suppliers will take "low sugar" and "less sugar" as the norm of diet collocation.

Parents earnestly warned their children to eat less white sugar. Authoritative experts also said that white sugar is very harmful and should not be eaten as much as possible.

Especially when diabetics, but also to the sugar content of the food category to avoid.

 

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Therefore, we don't understand why white sugar becomes "hard currency" and strategic materials in the face of war. Strategic materials refer to these chemical substances and materials that have key effects on demand-side reform and national defense security during the war.

Contains key industrial products, agricultural products and minerals.

According to the production and processing depth, it can be divided into four types: raw materials, raw materials, semi-finished products processing and product output.

To put it simply, strategic materials are divided into two categories: one is soldiers and daily necessities that ordinary people can't leave; the other is chemical materials that troops can't do without in the arena.

The first category of strategic materials is indispensable to everyone's daily life.

For example, such as edible salt, grain, etc.; the latter is war-related semi-finished products, such as steel, motor gasoline, diesel engines, cotton wool, laminated glass, medical equipment, traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine.

The more we are in the battle, the more we must supplement vitamins, eat, drink and dress well, so that we can have the strength to fight and kill monsters.

Without grain and clothes, even if the weapons are good, the fighting ability will be discounted, and the daily tasks assigned by the superior leaders will not be carried out.

Therefore, in the face of war, strategic materials must be stored and transported to the Allies by all means.

In the Battle of Changjin Lake in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the career of soldiers in the 9th regiment was due to the lack of warm cotton suits. Many soldiers were unable to withstand the ultra-low temperature that had not been encountered in decades, and different levels of freezing occurred. In turn, 30,000 people lost their fighting ability, which is sad.


 

And ordinary people like to eat and drink, people are iron rice is steel.

Without grain and daily necessities, not only will the war not be carried out, but social development will also be turbulent.

 

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Careful people will find that the supply of materials for the United States to support the former Soviet Union in World War II includes velvet blankets, military boots, alcohol, cotton wool and grain, which are all treasures that defeated the German Nazis. In addition, a class of strategic materials have an immediate relationship with them. For example, steel can be used to produce firearms, heavy tanks, aircraft carriers, ships and cruise missiles. Gasoline diesel engines for vehicles, airports and heavy tanks cannot leave. They are quasi-strategic materials.

France and Japan were often defeated in World War II. Apart from the injustice of the war they started, there was also a loss of strategic materials such as oil and steel.

In the case of the Stalingrad War, when the Sixth Army of Paulus stood out, it was because the heavy tanks had no gasoline and diesel, and the distance between them and the Manstein who rescued him was only tens of kilometers. The whole army was destroyed.

In 1942, the German Nazis said at that time: "If I cannot obtain the oil of Maikopf and Grozny, I will have to finish this war.

Aluminum profiles, non-ferrous metals and armor steel are indispensable for the production and manufacture of airports, heavy tanks and top weapons and equipment. They are also key strategic materials and life-threatening things.

For example, after Stalin broke out in the Soviet-German war, he asked the former Soviet envoy to send a message to President Roosevelt: "Help me 30,000 tons of aluminum, and I will get this war".

Foreigners in order to better resist the expansion of the German Nazis, very smart, did give the former Soviet Union 26,000 tons of aluminum profiles.

The use of aluminum is understood by many people, and the production and manufacturing of airports cannot be separated from it.

However, aluminum and oil are all precious resources, and why is it a strategic material for the seemingly bland white sugar? White sugar is indispensable to daily life, and at this stage in our country's total output is about 10.7 million tons, which is enough to show the necessity of white sugar.

 

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Sugar, like edible salt, vegetables, fruits and whole grains, are all daily necessities for everyone and are indispensable for maintaining life.

The body must ingest 10 to 30 grams of sugar every day in order to maintain all normal basic metabolism. If there is too much exercise such as physical work and sports competitions, the demand for white sugar is higher, and 50 grams of sugar must be ingested.

Usually people eat things, such as wheat flour, corn, millet cell phones, with a certain amount of sugar, even if you don't take sugar immediately, it is not easy to have any harm to the body.

But if the battle is imminent, the necessity of sugar is revealed.

Since transport lines and post-processing plants are the overall targets of the other side's crackdown in the event of war, the production, manufacture and delivery of food will undoubtedly be jeopardized.

And in the smoke-filled Allied forces, it is unlikely that the soldiers will make the necessary meals as usual.

As a result, food shortages are inevitable.

At this time, white sugar suffers from pro-gaze.

In World War II, Britain supported the former Soviet Union in 780000 tons of canned meat, 730000 tons of sausage, unsalted butter, 360000 tons of baby milk powder, cheese and egg powder. There are also 670000 tons of sugar.

In 2000, it was clearly put forward that the kinetic energy of diet in our country's households should be emphasized with reference to the intake. The daily kinetic energy of adult male light and medium energy employees must be 2400-2700kcal * (calories); Women's light and medium energy employees must have a daily kinetic energy of 2100-2300kcal.

 

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White sugar is a high-calorie food ingredients, each 100 grams of white sugar which also has 400 calories of heat.

And white sugar body digestion and absorption fast, in the absence of food, only a small amount of sugar must be ingested, people's kinetic energy can be immediately filled.

For example, 50 kilograms of wheat candy can fill the kinetic energy of 150 warrior occupations a day.

If it is rice or wheat flour, it must be at least 200kg.

When it comes to the role of sugar, can't help but think of the little story of Shangganling.

In the Battle of Shangganling in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Gao Shouyu, a soldier of the Chinese People's Volunteers, fought alone with grenades and blasting cylinders from dawn to evening, defeating the Korean army six times.

In the middle of this, because of the ban on the war gathered by the Korean army, he could not get all the assistance. In one day, he ate the three sugar cubes produced by the Chinese nation delegation in the bag and adhered to the particularly important camp 6.

Sugar can also quench thirst. The compressed dry food distributed by the Japanese army is filled with a certain amount of red, green and green sugar beans. This kind of sour, sweet and sweet sugar beans can continuously stimulate the salivary gland of people to metabolize saliva in addition to giving heat. Even if you eat compressed dry food all the time, you don't need to look for water to drink.

It is not difficult to see that in the arena, sugar can give full play to the effects that other foods cannot give full play to at a critical juncture.

Sugar and sugar products, in addition to their small size, are conducive to transportation and carrying, and have the advantage of long shelf life. The meals made by everyone can be moldy for many hours in summer and cannot be taken. The shelf life of birthday cakes is about a week. The shelf life of cakes such as French buns is about three months.

The storage period of white sugar seems to be more. Generally, the storage period of white sugar is 18 to 36 months, and the storage period of soft white sugar is longer than that of white sugar.

 

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Even in the high temperature and high and low temperature natural environment above 30 ℃, the shelf life of all kinds of gum-doubting soft candy can be 12 months, and the shelf life of candy can be more than 10 months.

The shelf life of tableted candy/polished sugar is critically affected by environmental humidity, and the shelf life can be 18-24 months when the packaging is well sealed.

Sugar also has an advantage, that is, its small size, does not occupy the area; the same volume, the kinetic energy of sugar is higher.

Assuming that the transportation line in the face of war is disconnected and the food supply cannot keep up with it, the food products suppressed by yeast, wheat tooth sugar and glucose water have high calorific value, small size, more convenient transportation and greatly reduced storage freight volume. And this kind of sugar products are also very good to bring and store, so they are essential strategic materials for troops all over the world.

Although the total output of white sugar in our country is very large, just like cotton wool, it usually needs sufficient reserves to be carefree.

As early as 30 years ago, the Ministry of Commerce of China professionally promulgated the "Trial Measures for the Management of National Sugar Reserves" to store white sugar in order to be prepared.

In 2002 and 2006, cold damage occurred in Ganshu, and the production volume dropped sharply. Millions of tons of state-owned sugar were put into the market, which immediately stabilized the price of sugar.

If you think that the effects of white sugar are limited to consumption, then you are very wrong; white sugar or the key raw material for the production of alcohol.

After sugar is heated, sugar paddle is produced, which can then be used to produce alcohol. Alcohol is first and foremost the key chemical raw materials and additives. According to a certain proportion of alcohol, the quality of gasoline for vehicles is of high quality. It is commendable for China, which is in a state of war. This makes sugar very precious and generally subject to supervision.

 

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Many people are unfamiliar with the word alcohol. In fact, its common name must be widely known. It is alcohol.

Alcohol can be used in the arena to reduce fever for soldiers with injuries or colds and fever. Alcohol can be sterilized and disinfected when wounds are solved.

At present, the production of microbial fuel ethanol in China is about 2.6 million tons, which is not as good as one tenth of that in Britain. The demand for medicinal ethanol is 900000 tons per day, and it will be even higher in the face of war.

Although white sugar is not the only raw material for the production of alcohol, it is the key raw material for the production of alcohol.

White sugar must be added to food and drinks. Restaurants and households should add sugar when cooking. White sugar must be used to produce alcohol. White sugar has too much effect in daily life. When war breaks out, sugar with high nutrients, small size and long shelf life may be supplied with rare materials and become hard currency.

For example, in Japan during the Anti-Japanese War, the price of white sugar was soaring, and the price increase was beyond imagination.

Compared with the 1934 level before the war inflation, the price of white sugar in the black market of the end of the war had already increased 400 times. According to newspaper reports at that time, the suzerain of Japan's tokugawa branch and the military representative stationed in Mitsubishi's shipbuilding industry could not afford white sugar.

The price of Japanese meals has only increased 46 times, and meat has only increased 75 times, which shows how critical sugar is to a country and a home.

Even if there is no war, if we catch up with natural disasters and famine, sugar will become hot cakes and hard currency.

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