Huang Shaozhou's family set off from Shanghai by boat on December 24, and after arriving in Taiwan in five days, they ushered in the Gregorian New Year in this unfamiliar environment.

Speaking of the New Year, in fact, there is no festive atmosphere under the rule of a certain force.

Most Ming people don't have much feeling about the Gregorian New Year, and Huang's family is no exception.

Committed to the development of the economy, the traversal is about to inherit the habits of the old world, originally not very cold to the New Year, to this day the old men do not even give the workers a holiday - the Spring Festival let's talk about it, I didn't let you 997 is already very merciful, what kind of bicycle do you want?

Master Huang's family unknowingly entered the New Year.

1630 was undoubtedly a year of rebirth for Master Huang. In the first few days of the year, Mr. Huang not only cured his foot disease, but also underwent IVF surgery.

After the test results came out half a month later, the Huang family cried with joy, the embryo was successfully laid into bed, and Mrs. Huang began to officially enter the pregnancy state!

And at this point in mid-January, the delegation to the northern Qinwang had not even had time to recruit cavalry, but had just settled in Tianjin.

After learning that the master's "seed" has been settled down, the older pregnant woman Huang Xie is now only left to wait for a month or two, and the pregnancy reactions such as vomiting and nausea will appear one after another, and at that time, it is time to take care of the fetus.

In this era, even for young and strong women, childbirth is a ghostly gate. The proportion of women who die in childbirth can scare future generations of obstetricians and gynecologists to death, let alone older pregnant women, and they are first-borns.

For a woman of Huang Xie's age, if there was no traverser, then even if she was pregnant, she would not have been able to give birth in the seventeenth century - if she was lucky, the mother and child would live, and if she was unlucky, she would have two lives.

Therefore, it is necessary to rely on the crossing of Zhong Dong Dean has already said that there is a high probability that Huang Xie will be given a caesarean section at that time, anyway, it is impossible for her to get pregnant again.

Regarding caesarean section, Mr. and Mrs. Huang, who have already tried miraculous gout surgery, are not worried about it. And what bothers the husband and wife is another derivative question, who will be born?

Since this time he came to seek medical treatment and achieved the best ending, then the next step must be to expand the results of the battle Master Huang still has several young concubines in Hangzhou, wouldn't it be beautiful to have seven or eight children with him in one go? This old Huang family is no longer afraid of having no queen.

But that's not how it works.

It was the seventeenth century, when supplies were scarce, and many high-end resources, including the doctors themselves, were unique and scarce.

The doctors of Chihkan General Hospital, including a halfway monk, a total of four people, are busy to death every day, and it is impossible for them to have so much spare time to wander around the Huang family.

In addition, the number of consumables for some surgeries is also limited, and it cannot be used on a family.

So Dong Qiang clearly told Lao Huang to help him do two more embryo surgeries at most, no matter how much he wanted, this is the sadness of the seller's era, the product is not enough, and the customer can't buy anything with silver.

So a new round of tearing broke out in the Huang family, and in the remaining four-room concubine room, Master Huang naturally wanted to marry the two young girls who entered the door. And Mrs. Huang has never had a good impression of the two fox spirits, so she tends to "rank seniority" and allocate places according to the "entry" time.

This kind of entangled housework has always been unreasonable, so between the lord and the lady, it is inevitable that after several rounds of war, the conclusion can be drawn.

In the following days, in addition to daily quarrels, Lao Huang was not idle.

First of all, the two families surnamed Huang, who lived in the same hotel, checked out on the same day after saying goodbye to each other.

Huang Zhicheng and Huang Juren moved directly to the most scenic traversal community - they have already been put together, so there is no need to live in a hotel anymore. The smart Comrade Zhong Xiuxiu has now begun to enjoy the fruits of the revolution, living in a villa, chasing American dramas, and watching "Kung Fu" by the way.

Hangzhou Master Huang's side bought a small wooden building near the main courtyard at a high price. There are a lot of rooms in this small wooden building, and people can be arranged, and wives and concubines can live here in the future.

In the following time, Mr. Huang, who had slowly recovered from his foot injury, not only started exercising every day according to the doctor's instructions, but also ran around the kiln area on crutches every day, feeling the great source of industrial society on the spot.

At this time, Fang Tangjing, who was sent to Guangzhou on a business trip a few days ago, also sent back the first letter.

He has already visited the colleagues introduced by Nanwang, and also went to the Guangzhou New Area Management Committee to register, which is now in the demolition stage, once the land transaction is released, he will pick a suitable lot to take it as soon as possible.

After Mr. Huang read the letter, he immediately replied, asking Fang Tangjing not to rush back, to go around over there, just like he was doing research here, and to find out the situation in Guangzhou Mansion first.

After the front foot and Fang Tangjing were connected, the back foot ran south.

Hurriedly took the old man out of the door, rented a carriage, and Nanwang urged the coachman to rush to the kiln area.

"What's so urgent?" Master Huang asked after getting into the car.

"Master, the canning factory is officially running, let's go and have a look, if it is done, we will hurry up to the Ministry of Commerce to register and negotiate!"

"Oh, then I'm going to have to check it out."

Canned food, a commodity, could have been produced a long time ago in terms of the industrial capacity of the public. Whether it's tinplate, food processing and sterilization, or bottle sealing, these are not difficult.

The reason why canned food was not produced in the early stage was mainly because there was no demand for troops, and the troops were basically operating in the periphery, and they could be supplied in time whether it was on the island or in the area under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty, so the project of canned food, which was not a high priority, was shelved.

There is also a secondary reason for this, and there is not enough sugar.

Sugarcane is a fertilizer and soil-intensive crop. In the first two years of crossing Zhongdeng Island, the main crops were used to feed the immigrants, and there was no spare energy to tinker with sugar cane.

Before that, the local sugar consumption was basically all transported from Fujian and then juiced on the spot.

The situation did not change until the second half of last year. When the large quantities of potatoes, corn and sweet potatoes were ripe, the traversal finally relieved themselves of the food problem and began to have the spare energy to sow some sugar cane fields.

Recently, the canneries were officially launched, also because of the above two conditions changed - the cavalry stationed in the north needed canned food, and the local sugar cane was also ripe.

When Mr. Huang and Nanwang rushed to the newly opened canning factory in the kiln area, not only the people who came to inspect, but also some other well-informed businessmen were already conducting research at the production line at this moment.

Naturally, the canning production line in the kiln area could not be as high-end and automated as later generations. Whether it is food cooked in a large pot or a variety of semi-manual tinplate packaging lines, they are full of a strong black workshop taste.

However, although the equipment is rudimentary, it can still be assured in terms of hygiene. Workers in clean uniforms and hats are meticulously completing the process in front of them according to the procedure.

At present, there are not many varieties in the cannery, mainly lychee in sugar water, orange in sugar water, tempeh fish, and tomato sauce fish.

The raw material sources of these four canned foods are very simple, lychee and orange Fujian is the main production area, not to mention the other miscellaneous fish pieces, and there are many in the cold storage.

After carefully visiting the production line, Mr. Huang found that compared with other large factories in the kiln area, the requirements for equipment are not too high. In addition to some cauldrons, there are boilers used to sterilize steam, as well as some small sheet metal and encapsulated machine tools with small volumes.

In this way, it is theoretically possible for Mr. Huang to open a factory in Jiangnan.

After the visit, Mr. Huang bought a bunch of newly rolled cans from the factory, and then returned to his small wooden building with Nanwang.

After pulling the delicate small iron ring on the top of the can, opening the thin tinplate lid, pouring the four dishes into the bowl and tasting them separately, and then Master Huang gave a thumbs up on the spot, "If the fruits and dishes in this can really survive the years, it will be a big business." ”

"That's the case, adults will never smash their signs." Nanwang smiled and held up a small white paper sticker on the pale yellow metal jar to the old man's eyes.

This blank sheet of paper is the product introduction, with some simple information about the origin, ingredients, expiration date and factory code of the canned food printed in small black letters.

After seeing the string of small words with a shelf life of "two years" written on the white paper, Master Huang closed his eyes and thought for a while, then opened his eyes and asked, "How to raise this deal?" ”

"First go to the Chihkan Government Affairs Hall to register and declare the capital verification, and then negotiate with the people from the Ministry of Commerce."

"Then hurry up."

At the same time that Mr. Huang came to the door of the Chihkan District Government and handed over the application for a partnership to open a canning factory in Hangzhou, several other application forms with the same content also appeared on the desk of the staff of the Ministry of Commerce.

The content of these application forms is basically the same, except for the factories in Hangzhou, Fuzhou, Guangdong, in short, these well-informed businessmen from all over the world are generally more optimistic about the canned business.

You must know that travelers in this era can usually only eat dry food on the road, and if there is this kind of canned food, it will be a good thing for the middle class and the rich who are away from home.

The traversal crowd is also happy to see this. If the canning factory is opened in a place like Hangzhou, it can not only absorb all kinds of fruits and grain raw materials on the spot, but also recruit workers on the spot, and save the high freight from Taiwan to the port, which can be said to kill multiple birds with one stone.

So Mr. Huang, who handed in the application, soon started negotiations with the Ministry of Commerce.

Since Mr. Huang's details had already been grasped by the Intelligence Bureau in advance, the Ministry of Commerce saved the troublesome capital verification and background investigation process, which led to the acceleration of the negotiation process.

In the end, Mr. Huang successfully reached an agreement with the Ministry of Commerce, and in the near future, the two parties will cooperate to open a canning factory in the Shanghai Port Industrial Zone, with the registered trademark "Meilin".