Villager of Daming

Chapter 650 Balance between Military and Civilian Uses

Amidst the sound of the shovel rubbing against the large iron pot, a large pot of fat clams with dogwood sauce was fried.

Zhu Wentian was reluctant to use dogwood oil and fry the clams in their shells. The oil would remain on the shells and be thrown away.

Cornus officinalis powder is not suitable either. Cornus officinalis sauce is a sauce with added cornel of cornel powder. The amount of cornel powder is small.

Cornus officinalis sauce is used as seasoning powder for stir-fry dishes like Shisanxiang, but now ordinary people cannot afford it.

Cornus jam and cornel oil are made from Evodia, not Cornus officinalis. Both types of Cornus are medicines. Dogwood has many producing areas and high yields, while Evodia is relatively rare.

There are peppercorns, garlic slices, ginger slices, green onion segments, and a lot of coriander in the pot. If you replace the clams with pork tenderloin, it will be spicy shredded pork.

No one says not to eat any seasonings, such as those who don’t eat coriander or garlic.

Unless someone is allergic to this, not eating it means not giving Zhu Yuanzhang face.

The wild yellow clams are big, and the small ones are thrown back and continue to grow. These are not from the nearby seaside, they are found diagonally opposite.

The local area conducts border trade with Korea, Jiulian City.

He had previously said that he wanted the Jurchens to join the trade there, but Zhu Wentian disagreed and insisted on opening a separate border trade with the Jurchens at Dingliao Duwei.

The Jurchens wanted to trade with Goryeo, but the Ming Dynasty did not care and did not directly participate in it.

Therefore, this kind of yellow clam, whose scientific name is green willow clam, is not easy to obtain. It has to travel a long way and must be kept fresh during transportation.

"Everyone has tasted it, and there is only one boat. It is kept in Xiaqiu Village and eaten by the people in the palace."

Zhu Yuanzhang told the officials that you couldn't buy it. Xiaqiu Village asked the army to find someone to dig it up when they were trading with Goryeo.

As soon as he introduced it, everyone immediately felt that the fried fat clams smelled delicious. They could smell it without eating it.

Yellow clams are larger, thicker, more delicious than flower clams and white clams, and are also more expensive than both.

"Your Majesty, I ate one. It tasted very good. Do you have more?"

Hu Weiyong ate one and said to Zhu Yuanzhang that he would not call him Long Live anymore.

"Ling'er, give Zuo Cheng an extra portion." Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the little girl.

"Okay!" The little girl filled another plate for Hu Weiyong and put it on the table.

"Your Majesty, I want it too." Tang He saw that there were more than a dozen of these small dishes in one plate. He was enjoying the meal when it was about to run out and became anxious.

"Are you in such a hurry? Didn't you see that our two-thousand-stone boat is gone? When we come back, we will fill it up and send it home to you."

That's all for now, we have to give the palace people a taste. The last time we brought clams back, it was a small boat with [-] dan, not much.

People have to eat, and sea water is needed to raise clams. The process is slow, and dead clams have to be thrown away.

If you follow the ocean current and add sails and oars, it will take ten days and a half to travel the more than three thousand miles of waterway. Let me tell you..."

Zhu Yuanzhang refused and asked Tang He to wait for the steam engine to come back. That ship was faster.

And to explain, it is now the warm current of the Yellow Sea in autumn. When the ship leaves the Yangtze River estuary, it immediately runs against the warm current, but there is no need to worry about the reverse flow of the ocean current.

Because the southeast monsoon and south wind are blowing now, raise the sail and it will be blown there by the wind.

After such a short period of countercurrent, we immediately entered the northward upflow area of ​​the Yellow Sea Warm Current to the east.

The southeast monsoon and ocean currents push the ship at the same time, and coupled with the power of the steam engine, it can travel a hundred miles in an hour.When we came back, the ocean current just made a half-circle along the northern shore, still pushing the boat forward, and lowering the sails on the boat could reduce wind resistance.

Or if you adjust the sail, the crosswind is also wind, and you can also borrow power.

The most time-consuming thing is to find someone to dig and clean the mud, which can then be put into the bamboo baskets brought one by one. Seawater is brought up every hour to flush the clams so that they can touch the water and cool down at the same time.

It was a boat with a displacement of [-] shi. Due to its high speed, it did not require oarsmen. It could remove coal, fresh water and other loads and bring back [-] shi of yellow clams.

"Do you know how powerful steam engine ships are this time?" Zhu Yuanzhang concluded.

Tang He: "..."

All the ministers: "..."

Hu Weiyong: "..."

Tang He wanted to say that when we came back from Helin, we led a team with twenty steam-powered iron boats. We rushed all the way and almost died of exhaustion. How could we not know about steam-powered boats?
The ministers were surprised. Your Majesty must study in such detail now?You don’t need to transport yellow clams yourself. Why do you care about the wind or the current?
Hu Weiyong was in a low mood and vaguely worried. What he told His Majesty was whether he could eat yellow clams in the future, but His Majesty just gave the remaining yellow clams to him.

Does this mean it's good for yourself?This is telling others to take food from the harem's mouth, and the emperor has to give it!

If I had known earlier I wouldn’t have tried it, what should I do now?
"Your Majesty, according to this, the yellow clams will be sent back in four days?"

Zeng Lu knew that the big boat went out the day before yesterday. According to the time, it should be a round trip in six days.

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at Zeng Lu: "It depends on the tide. Sometimes there is a strong tide in the local area, which can bring tens of thousands of stones of yellow clams ashore. Eat them quickly, they will no longer taste good when they are cold."

After Zhu Yuanzhang finished speaking, he took out a piece of clam meat and threw it into his mouth, chewing it deliciously.

At this time, the moon reached its zenith, and the sound of the music gradually became smaller and smaller. Finally, only a pipa was playing, and the dancers moved slower.

Then came the sound of 'Whoosh~~Whoosh~~' and 'Boom~~Boom~~', and fireworks sparkled in the sky.

A quarter of an hour passed, the fireworks disappeared, the music became louder, and the dance rhythm accelerated.

"In this way, steam engine ships are most suitable for transporting seafood. Jiulian City is too far away, but Suzhou Prefecture and Songjiang Prefecture are close, and Zhejiang Prefecture is not too far away.

If fresh seafood is sent back, seafood in Nanjing will not be so expensive and more people can eat it.

At present, the seafood transported through the Rouge River still takes too long and the cost is high, so it can only be purchased by restaurants and brothels. "

Another imperial doctor, Chen Ning, spoke. He wanted to eat seafood, but now he could only eat river seafood. River seafood is cheap, and the price of seafood is hundreds of times that of river seafood.

As a royal doctor, he couldn't find any way to get money, so he could only rely on His Majesty's rewards and occasionally eat seafood.

"Chen Yushi's words are wrong! Steam engine ships are most suitable for transporting troops to the seaside and fighting at sea. The Ming Dynasty Navy uses steam engine ships to fight enemy ships at sea. Only the Ming Dynasty can attack the opponent, and the opponent has no ability to fight back."

Xu Da disagreed with Chen Ning's remarks. Such a good thing is just to transport seafood to you?Why are you so greedy?
"Don't argue, just use it to eliminate the Japanese pirates first. The small boat can be used to run close to the coast, and the big ship can be hung far behind the Japanese pirates' escaping boats.

Waiting to find the island where the Japanese pirates were hiding, and then send a large army to clean it up. This was the top priority of the Ming Dynasty in maintaining the safety of the people.

Transportation cannot stop, build more ships, free up the labor force of trackers, and let trackers do other things, or follow the ships. "

Zhu Yuanzhang stopped the two people who wanted to continue the debate. Military and civilian purposes did not conflict. One stabilized the sea area and the other promoted the economy.

Seeing the opportunity, the chief said: "Your Majesty, we need to build a big factory. The place next to the Qinhuai River is good."

　I got up early to catch the late market. The farmer got up at five o'clock, and then the power went out. It felt like the whole world was against the farmer.If you still have votes, remember to vote, thank you!

　　
　
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