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And a new sky appeared.

Maybe it’s because I just talked about the Skeleton King Yuan Shu and his Honey Water Soldier City Empire.

So the new sky screen is also about sugar.

……

A huge sugarcane plantation appeared in the picture.

A large number of black people work there.

The scene changes, and the sugarcane has been harvested, loaded into ships and shipped far away.

[Today we are going to talk about something that can be found everywhere in life, seems ordinary, but is actually super important - sugar. 】

[An extremely important strategic material! ]

[When the concept of "strategic materials" is mentioned, people often think of oil, rare earth or food. ]

[Many times, we would not think that sugar is also a strategic material. ]

[You may think of sugar as a condiment on supermarket shelves, at best linked to obesity and tooth decay.]

[However, history and reality have repeatedly proved that the strategic value of sugar is in no way inferior to these traditional strategic resources. ]

[The power of sugar is far beyond imagination - it has triggered 32 wars, destroyed 17 ancient dynasties, and even directly promoted the great geographical discoveries and the Industrial Revolution. ]

[300 million black slaves turned into dry bones in the sugarcane plantations, but the profit created per hectare of land was 30 times that of European estates.]

[Arab merchants exchanged sugar for an equal weight of silver.]

[Venetian merchants even launched a "Sweet Crusade" to fight for the right to trade sugar. ]

[In medieval Europe, royal families carved sugar into castles and armor as works of art to show off.]

[The first steam engine was not used in a coal mine, but in a Liverpool sugar factory.]

[The earliest stock exchange was born because of sugar futures. ]

【The first marine insurance policy covered a sugar ship.】

[The King of France had to hold a piece of candy in his mouth before he died - in that era, owning a sugar cellar was a better indicator of national strength than owning a treasury.]

……

Outside the sky.

Jin Dynasty.

Shi Chong saw the Western nobles and businessmen on the sky curtain going crazy for sugar.

Especially the dignified Western emperor.

But he showed off a plate of candy.

A look of deep contempt was revealed.

"Sugar? It's really something interesting."

"If this business is done well, you can make a lot of money."

"But is just a plate and a few boxes of sugar worthy of the emperor's attention?"

"Why is he like Emperor Wen of Wei?"

"Not so good, the kings and emperors of the West."

"In my Golden Valley Garden, there are two whole warehouses of sugar from the south!"

"If this were sent to the West, wouldn't it be exchanged for several large boxes of gold?"

"It seems that I, Shi Chong, will still be a wealthy man even if I go to the West."

"Don't bring shame to the Jin Dynasty!"

[Sugar mania reached its peak in 1493, when Columbus secretly hid sugarcane seedlings in his cabin during his second voyage, a move that completely rewrote the world map.]

[This white crystal that permeates the blood vessels of human civilization has always been writing a unique strategic narrative in multiple dimensions such as war, economy, and technology. ]

[Why is sugar listed as a strategic material? 】

[There are many tricks behind this! ]

[From the perspective of bioenergetics, sugar is the most basic guarantee for human survival. ]

[The human body's absorption efficiency of sugar is irreplaceable - compared to proteins and fats that need to be broken down, glucose can be directly delivered to cell mitochondria through the blood to complete energy conversion. ]

[The amount of glucose metabolized in an adult's body every day is equivalent to 450 grams of refined sugar. ]

[During high-intensity military operations, the calorie requirement for soldiers can exceed 800 kcal per hour.]

[During urgent and arduous military missions, the calories in the compressed biscuits simply cannot be converted in time.]

[The most direct way is to hold a piece of candy in your mouth or drink some sugar water to instantly increase your blood sugar. ]

[Because sugar is the only life fuel that can skip the digestion process and directly recharge cells. ]

[Sugar was very useful in the military during World War II.]

【The most arrogant and generous American military. 】

[Chocolate accounts for 18% of a soldier's rations.]

[Type D field rations are chocolate bars wrapped in sugar, and 80% of the space in the pilot's survival kit is filled with fruit candies.]

[This is not because American soldiers love sweets, but because each gram of sugar can provide 4 calories, but the volume is only one-third of that of compressed biscuits. ] [The concentrated sugar cubes carried by Soviet pilots can maintain their effectiveness at minus 40 degrees Celsius. ]

[These battle examples verify the military value of sugar as an "instant energy pack."]

[The core ingredient of modern special forces' emergency energy gel is still a molecularly modified maltose derivative. ]

【But this is just the primary form of sugar. 】

[You may not know that when white sugar meets certain chemicals, it will show amazing destructive power. ]

[For example, potassium permanganate, a common disinfectant tablet in hospitals. ]

[When mixed with sugar in a specific ratio, it can burn violently with just a little spark. ]

[What's more, this mixture releases a large amount of gas when it burns. If it is placed in a sealed container, it will turn into a homemade bomb in minutes.]

[According to calculations, one ton of sugar can be converted into 0.6 tons of TNT equivalent explosives after simple processing.]

[Nazi Germany made V2 rocket fuel from sugar beet waste.]

[Guerrillas in some parts of the Middle East are also using "syrup" made from sugar and fertilizer as rocket propellant, which can increase the range by 40%.]

[Those homemade rockets you see in the news that are trailing white smoke and rising into the sky, the fuel tanks may be filled with white sugar that costs two yuan per pound in the supermarket.]

[The tricks in the incendiary bombs are even more chilling. ]

[Pure gasoline burns too quickly. If you pour it out, it will burn out before you can hurt the enemy.]

[But if you add sugar, the burning time can be extended by more than three times! ]

[Just think about it, the sticky syrup wrapped in flames adhered to the armor, and it couldn't be extinguished by water or sand. ]

[How many tanks have been turned into iron coffins by this "hellfire" with added sugar? ]

[Sugar also shines in the medical field. ]

[On a battlefield with a lack of medical care and medicine, sprinkling sugar on wounds can both inhibit bacterial growth and create a hypertonic environment to promote healing. ]

[A solution with a sugar content of more than 100 grams per 50 ml can achieve a bacterial cell wall separation rate of 92%. ]

[American medical soldiers in the North African battlefield during World War II always had bags of powdered sugar in their first aid kits, which could be eaten.]

[It can be used as half a bottle of disinfectant at a critical moment. 】

[Medical staff used the sugar in fried noodles to treat the wounded, which reduced the infection rate by 37%. ]

[The freeze-dried glucose powder equipped in modern field hospitals can be stored for ten years without electricity supply. This stability makes it a core reserve material for disaster emergency response systems.]

Outside the sky.

Three Kingdoms.

Zhuge Liang seemed a little surprised to see other uses for sugar.

In fact, sugar can quickly replenish energy and make people full of energy.

Zhuge Liang knew it.

Since the Northern Expedition began, Zhuge Liang has been in charge of the military, domestic governance and foreign conquests, taking care of every detail.

The load and pressure on the body are indeed great.

Sometimes, Zhuge Liang felt dizzy and light-headed when he stayed up late to study military strategies and handle government affairs.

There will also be a bowl of sugar water.

You will feel much better after drinking it.

"It was not until I drank sugar water that I understood why Yuan Gonglu wanted to drink honey water in the end."

"Indeed, a bowl of sugar water is a great supplement for a person."

"I know that sugar can provide what people need."

Zhuge Liang picked up the bowl of sugar water in front of him.

He took another sip.

“But I didn’t expect that.”

"Sugar can actually be used to make explosives like those of later generations?"

“Can it be used for medical purposes?”

"If I can figure out how to make explosives out of sugar, then the Han Dynasty, with its gunpowder technology, will no longer have a problem conquering cities in the north."

"But what is fertilizer? What is potassium permanganate?"

"I always feel that the more I understand from the sky, the more I don't understand."

Zhuge Liang couldn't help feeling a little disappointed at this time.

"Let's study the medical value of sugar first."

"It's also a big deal to be able to reduce infection and increase the recovery rate of the wounded."

“Where does the large amount of sugar come from?”

Zhuge Liang couldn't help but examine the map hanging on the wall.

The sight slowly shifted from the north and south of Qishan to the Nanman and Jiaozhou regions... (End of this chapter)