Villager of Daming

Chapter 867 Starch refuses continuous price increases

"I want to give good things. The soldiers liked the bamboo cans before, but unfortunately there were too few. Only the generals and the wounded can eat them."

Sun Keyi, Minister of the Ministry of War, touched the tin tray and talked about the situation during the fight against Helin.

In fact, other sergeants can also eat canned food, but many of them eat one, pour the canned food into a large pot and heat it, and the flavor will be in the soup.

There is basically not much jelly in the cans, the meat is tightly stuffed, and the transportation cost is too high, so the value must be reflected.

No matter how you put oiled paper, apply glue, or smear tung oil inside the bamboo tube, it is still not as good as a tinplate can.

Bamboo tube cans are easy to store in cold conditions. In hot locations, the meat inside will ferment, and the bamboo tube itself cannot withstand too much pressure.

Liu Ren, another minister of the Ministry of War, followed up and said: "Soldiers eat meat to be strong. Now that the Ming Dynasty has more meat, at least it can be supplied to the army. If there is not enough pork, chicken will be used, so bamboo rat meat will do."

"Bamboo rat meat is not just cheap, it's expensive! Now Huimin Pharmacy in Yingtianfu, Ningguofu, and Taiping counties use bamboo rat meat as medicine.

When bamboo rats are raised in more places with bamboo in the future, the people there will have an additional medicine.

We think chestnut chicken is the best, or beef. Unfortunately, there is less beef, so we can’t kill it casually.

Chicken is meat, chestnuts are called...yes, carbohydrates, let’s remember, they are the staple food. If you eat a can of chestnut chicken, you can eat both vegetables and rice. "

Zhu Yuanzhang first refuted the issue of bamboo rat meat. Bamboo rat meat is more expensive than beef.

It is very difficult to catch bamboo rats in a bamboo forest. You cannot find many in a bamboo forest. Despite their strong reproductive ability, bamboo rats can easily die if they are not artificially raised.

Just like wild bamboo fungus is difficult to find, wild ones have to face various dangers.

The most suitable one is actually canned chicken. The braised chestnut chicken made in Xiaqiu Village is really delicious. There are no bones in the can, just chicken legs.

When filling bamboo cans, press hard inside, and it is difficult to pull the cans out when eating. The most convenient way is to split them.

The chief took over: "Your Majesty, there is actually a way to make it by using starch and some minced meat, and adding salt. You will still feel full after eating it. It tastes good when you first eat it. I will ask someone to bring it and take a look. ."

Children in Xiaqiu Village ran out to get lunch meat, which was filled with spices, minced pork and minced chicken.

The food was brought in, cut into small pieces, and everyone pierced it with toothpicks to eat.

"It tastes good." Hu Weiyong clucked his lips and commented.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded: "It's very delicious. Which one is better than this or canned food?"

"Of course canned food is better. A lot of starch is used in it. When it comes to starch made from wheat, in many cases, wheat is not as good as protein.

This thing has the flavor of spices, which is okay when you first eat it. If you eat too much, you will get tired of it. Its cost is a quarter of that of canned chicken.

Starch extracted from wheat is far less expensive than meat, as you can tell by looking at the prices we sell. "

The director felt good when he first started eating luncheon meat, but he couldn't eat it even after a few meals.

There is indeed meat in luncheon meat, and it also has many spices. It is better than stuffed meat. It is suitable for some people and can be sold as cooked food.

After hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang ate another small piece, tasted it carefully, and shook his head: "The batter is not as good as canned meat. We are not short of meat. Soldiers who eat meat don't want this. We have learned before that the soldiers said canned fish is also delicious. Can it be put in the same iron as this horse or something?"

"According to His Majesty, there were canned fish in oil, canned fish in water, and canned fish with black bean sauce. Today at noon, we are eating fish made with cherry sauce. It is sweet and sour."

The director came up with a new way of cooking fish. Last year I made cherry jam, and this winter I have some greenhouse cherries, all fresh.

In another month, the cherries will mature one after another. Buy more, the people will make money, and the village will use them to make jam. There are no tomatoes now, let alone potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn, otherwise they would be used to make starch.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded: "We are waiting to taste it. Canned hairtail fish is also fine. It can be eaten by the soldiers. The fish bones in the can are all crispy. Our pressure cooker is better."

After the matter was settled, Zhu Wentian took his friends into the laboratory again. He had no time to cook, so he left it to the village.

Now that tinplate is available, the mold for pressing is very simple. The shell is made first and then sealed.

But there is no canning technology, the cans must be opened either with a knife or with a special can opener.

Cans of luncheon meat used to have a key to turn, but other cans cannot be opened from the middle.

The chief went to lead some people to make a batch of cans first, while others used cherry sauce instead of tomato sauce to cook the fish, using a pressure cooker to crisp up the bones.

Zhu Wentian thought it was good. The various nutritional values ​​of cherry jam were equally high. At that time, no one wanted to use it because of the high cost.

Tomatoes are tomatoes. One acre can produce a lot. When ripe, green ones will grow. And whether it is herring, sardines, or mackerel, fish is cheap anyway.

Comparing cherries with tomatoes, how much should they sell for? If it’s too expensive, no one will buy it; if it’s too cheap, you’ll lose money.

Cheap fish are used to make cans. In fact, tuna is not expensive except for the standard king after each catch. This was stirred up by the Japanese pirates. Now the Japanese in the Ming Dynasty do not take tuna seriously.

No one in the canning industry takes sablefish, and the price is too high.

……

At noon, everyone saw several kinds of cans made of tinplate, including can openers, that is, can openers.

"Do you have to use this thing? I think it would be the same if I just cut it with a knife."

After Zhu Yuanzhang waited for the chief to open the can with a can opener, he felt that the small tool was not as good as a knife.

Then he picked up the cut cover and carefully scratched it horizontally with his thumb: "Yeah! It's sharp, and it's a hundred cents per can. I think it's cheap. Can they make this thing?"

Zhu Yuanzhang forgot about the can opener and thought about the price. He discovered that the lid of the can could be used as a mirror.

"I also think it's cheap, at least all the time." Hu Weiyong expressed his support: "Do the Yi people buy cans? No, it's about status! It's about status!

To be honest, if I didn't know Xiaqiu Village, I could have paid hundreds of dollars for this can shell, without the contents inside. It's just an empty shell.

What is it made of? Just like a glass mirror, we now understand that it is the silver mirror reaction.

The thing in front of us is called electroplating. We understand electroplating. What is plating? How to plate? If you don't sell ten guans, you can eat canned braised pork on the vast sea. It's delicious! Canned fruit, sweet! "

Hu Weiyong raised prices twice. From his own perspective, the things in Xiaqiu Village were amazing.

If it were a piece of wood and a skilled craftsman could carve something beautiful, he felt that he could not do it, but it was understandable.

The technology of Xiaqiu Village is to create things that don’t exist, such as electric lights. What’s going on?

There are also steam engines, which can replace livestock. Sailboats have sails and are blown away by the wind. Steam engines boil water.

The more people don't understand, the more terrifying it is. Is it expensive to sell a can for ten pieces?

(End of this chapter)