Compared with ordinary soybean oil and rape oil, palm oil will have a poor taste if you stir-fry vegetables directly. This oil has a high melting point, making it more suitable for frying dishes. In later generations, although China imported a large amount of palm oil, it was rarely used for direct stir-frying, and it was used for indirect processing. The best place to play palm oil is KFC's deep-fried chicken thighs, as well as a variety of deep-fried instant noodles, including cream products from the cake shop.

The Ming guests who were at the White Goose Pond Hotel that day also felt this gap personally.

The guests not only tasted a few bites of stir-fried vegetables in palm oil, but also watched the production process of fried chicken thighs and fried rice noodles.

After that, Mayor Ding gave a detailed blueprint for the development of Nanyang commercial plants at the evening tea party.

After the party, the guests left in twos and threes. In the face of the sheer volume of information received today, guests now need to analyze the pros and cons, and everyone has something to think about.

Baiju people are no exception. When he returned to his room, he asked the servant to make a bitter cup of coffee. After frowning and tasting two sips, Bai Juren sat quietly on the cement balcony unique to the new building, looking at the white goose pond under the moonlight in front of him, and even the dotted lights in the direction of the old city of Guangzhou in the distance, and fell into contemplation.

Unlike the rich and noble people who did not understand the practical situation among the guests, Bai Juren climbed up from the lower levels, so he has a clear personal view of the information he has received today.

He has decided to test the waters of palm oil trading.

With the development of social productive forces, although not as delicate as the Qing Dynasty, the iron pot stir-fry in the Ming Dynasty has been popularized. Especially in Guangdong, an area that produces iron, the iron pot in Foshan Town has been famous at home and abroad in this era, so the Ming people are no strangers to the iron pot stir-fry in their daily meals.

In this way, at the promotion dinner today, many people clearly pointed out the problem after tasting the fried dishes in palm oil for the first time - the taste is the same as chewing wax, which is not as good as ordinary vegetable oil.

With this in mind, attention has been focused on traditional crops such as rice and tropical fruits, which seem to be more promising and safer. After all, Mayor Ding's desperate boasting of the fried chicken thighs and cake shops described is a bit ahead of its time in the eyes of the Ming people: fried rice noodles in fried chicken restaurants everywhere, and you can eat mud legs if you want? In the future, it will become a "high-calorie food" exclusive to mud legs...... Want to eat fart?

That's why the palm oil route was snubbed by the attendees.

However, Bai Juren saw a business opportunity from it.

Bai Juren started out as a grocery store, and he knows very well that there is a joint in between: the more expensive things are, the fewer consumers there are.

For example, kerosene lamps and lamp oil produced in Yizhou, although they are good things, they actually do not occupy much share in the current grocery sales network, that is, they are used by merchants to show their strength. After all, there are not many people in a Zhuangzi who can afford to consume such good things.

In fact, the bulk of the grocer's sales are precisely some inconspicuous goods: bundles of hemp rope, stacks of straw hats, baskets of hoes.

Therefore, in the eyes of Bai Juren, this novel palm oil fruit is just a bulk commodity that can be carried out. As for the bad taste...... Joke, he wholesaled this oil for the general public. As long as you can satisfy your stomach, in the words of Lord Ding, it is enough "calories", and if you don't like to eat, you don't like to eat, it won't affect anything.

In this way, the benefits of palm oil are revealed: cheap, abundant, and suitable for the working masses.

Of course, the premise of all this is that the data and visions of Mayor Ding's promotion are true - endless "tropical" land in the South Seas, millions of acres of palm plantations, steel oil mills, giant ships entering the port, and unloading barrels of unloaded barrels of incredibly cheap oil.

However, this point is the least worrying for the Baiju people. But if he had the slightest suspicion of crossing the crowd, he would not sit on the balcony of the White Goose Pond Hotel today. The huge factories in Taiwan, as well as the recent process of dealing with the military and political circles of a certain force, have already made Bai Juren feel the strength and pride of the traversal - with such huge power and wealth, he does not hesitate to cheat him out of his little family property.

This is the crux of the matter: going to the South Seas to pioneer the local masters, such a huge, complex and long-term action, is simply not something that the participants can grasp and control. Since this is the case, then the only way to leave everything to the traversal is to follow the path drawn by others.

In a word, to believe or not to believe?

After thinking clearly about the key aspects of the problem, Bai Juren decided on the investment project before falling asleep in accordance with his habit of betting heavily on big profits: Palm Garden.

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After another night, the guests gathered again in the large conference room of the White Goose Pond Hotel.

Today's meeting is a little more pragmatic, moving from yesterday's general briefings to concrete implementation matters. In this regard, of course, the first is the map: the large-scale general map of the South Seas has been replaced by a large-scale map of the Philippines.

The first departure site will be selected around the Philippines. The nearest distance from the southernmost tip of Taiwan to Luzon Island in the north of the Philippines is less than 400 kilometers, and even from the Taijiang River, it is less than 1,000 kilometers to Manila. With such a close distance, there will be less logistical and military pressure on first-time pioneer organizations, so there is no doubt that an island in the Philippines is the first choice for land reclamation.

In addition, the abundant mineral resources of the Philippines are also the target of public coveting. With copper, bullet casings can be considered, and with nickel-chromium, stainless steel can be used. Even if these quantities are insufficient, it is possible to produce wire and stainless steel coins, which are in dire need of wire at the moment. Therefore, it is one thing to open a plantation in the South Seas, and on the other hand, it has always been one of the purposes of crossing the hidden world.

So today's protagonist has changed from Ding Liqiu to Commander Wang Bowang.

After introducing several islands on the map that were suitable for exploration, Mayor Ding left the stage to Commander Wang. Then Commander Wang came to power and made a report on the colonial operation and the military operation.

This includes not only the current preparations of the pioneer army and navy, but also the war plans with the natives, pirates, and European colonists of the South Seas. In short, the plan is very detailed, the response is very sufficient, and it is enough to fool the group of bright people in the audience.

However, no matter how loud the mouth cannon is, it is not as convincing as it is to do it in a down-to-earth manner. So at the end of today's meeting, Commander Wang released a big satellite that stunned everyone here.

I saw that he drew a circle at a certain point on the map with his whip, and then said seemingly casually: "No, the Japanese general will lead the army to raze this place, so as to test the effectiveness of the recent military training." At that time, all guests can sit down at the lotus stem gate, drink tea and watch the wind...... The quality of my subordinates will be known at a glance. ”