The carriage soon arrived in Xiahe Village, and Sun Dali was too lazy to bother with its name, so this newly established town, called Yiyuan Town, was already faintly the size of a large market town after the construction of the snow cake factory and hatchery factory.

As usual, the eldest grandson Wuji first looked at the bulletin board of the town, and the mayor Gao Yong also took out all the posted announcements after the implementation of the publicity system and showed the eldest grandson Wuji.

If it is said that the output of Shanghe Village has shocked Changsun Wuji before, then the output of the entire Yiyuan Town has shocked him even more, it is not only a summary of the data of the six villages under his rule, but also a larger industry.

For example, in the rice cracker industry, there is a factory with 500 workers, which not only processes rice into crispy, flavorful snow cakes, but also processes them into various rice-based snacks.

And if you want to sell these snacks well, you can't just sell them on the dock, it also needs a beautiful packaging that can be stored for a longer time and can improve the quality of food.

Therefore, the Chamber of Commerce also cooperated with the Weinan Paper Mill to invest in a paper mill, the site is not located in a town, but on a hill by the Dongting Lake hundreds of miles away, because the hill is dozens of miles in circumference, are reeds, and the paper industry in Yueyang in later generations has achieved an annual output value of billions, mainly relying on these reeds that grow extremely fast as raw materials.

Weinan paper mill out of technology, out of manpower management, accounting for three percent of the shares, the chamber of commerce is out of the construction of the factory needs to be a spending, each out of workers, now the factory has initially begun to put into production, in the future, they will not only produce the snack packaging paper made by the wall, but also produce books and paper for learning office books. Now, the scale is expanding, and in the future, it will definitely be sold to the entire Sannam-do area.

When the eldest grandson Wuji walked into the snow cake factory, a group of women wearing masks, sleeves, and hats were busy, making the eldest grandson Wuji feel as if he was in the workshop of a factory in Weinan.

There is a template in Weinan as a study, the whole assembly line is made, it is not how difficult it is, now there is no oven, just the process of making snow cakes, there are more than 30 processes, which need to be completed by hand, after the snow cakes are baked by the master of the scones, there is also a picking link, because there is no more constant temperature oven, the baked snow cakes, there will definitely be some uneven heat, these flawed snow cakes have not been affected much in taste, but they are not beautiful enough, they will be picked out, As a welfare food for the local people, or bulk goods sold at a low price.

Those of the same size, baked very well, will be divided into a number, is packaged in a paper bag printed with the words of nine snow cakes, like this kind of completely dehydrated food, there is not even a need to put a preservative bag, as long as you pay attention to the sealing and moisture-proof, you can ensure that it can be eaten within half a year, and some biscuit foods packed with moisture-proof preservatives in later generations can even achieve a shelf life of one to two years.

Because the wrapping paper of this era is a relatively expensive thing, this kind of packaged snow cake is naturally the high-end market, two pieces of cake in a small bag, six small bags in a pack, twenty packs in a box, plus its packaging, the overall weight, less than five catties, the sugar! Rice! The cost of fire consumption, labor, wrapping paper and the like are all counted, and the cost of a box of rice and snow cakes is only sixty or seventy Wen, but when you go to Chang'an, wholesale to traders or to major shopping malls, you can sell it for 200 Wen, and the sales are hot, it is the same as canned fruit, and you can visit friendly gifts, because the retail price of a pack is only a dozen Wen, and most of the working class can consume it.

"Taste it! The freshly baked rice snow cake tastes better than a cake made of flour, with a sweet round shape and an oval flavor flavor. Sun Xiangfu picked up some of the snow cakes that had been picked out and handed them to the eldest grandson Wuji.

Changsun Wuji picked up one of the ovals and took a bite, and suddenly, the crisp chewing sound sounded in the factory, and he nodded again and again, "This is a bit of cumin spices, as well as the smell of green onions, and a little salty, it is really delicious, the key is crispy, by the way, these products, are they on the shelves in my Changsun's major shopping malls?" ”

"Of course there is, just the orders from the mall, several major snow cake factories in Jiuyuan County can't make them!" Sun Xiangfu said, and continued to take the eldest grandson Wuji to the workshop, the workshop house is very long, just the production line of rice cakes, there are several, through this house, the other rooms are other food.

Soon, the eldest grandson Wuji heard a loud "bang", which came from the factory behind him, startled him, and even looked at Sun Xiangfu and asked, "What's wrong, is there an accident?" ”

Sun Xiangfu gave him a reassuring look and said, "No, it's the workshop behind that is making popcorn!" ”

"Popcorn? Also eaten? How do you make such a loud noise? ”

"Yes, specifically, you will know when you go to see it, this is also a popular product, and the price is even cheaper."

Soon, the eldest grandson Wuji was pulled to the workshop by Sun Xiangfu, and as soon as he entered the door, there was another "bang" sound, and the frightened eldest grandson Wuji's shoulders shook.

When he came back to his senses and looked at the people working in the factory, he saw many old men who were not very old, shaking a black lump of iron on an iron stove, and it seemed that it was the sound of this thing.

This thing, in fact, has no technical content, in the nineteenth century, it has begun mass production, but until the twentieth century, eighties and nineties, it is still widely used in our country, for no other reason, this old popcorn machine, durable, burst out of the fragrant thing.

Rice, corn, broad beans, pine nuts, can all be exploded, Sun Xiangfu also remembered his childhood snacks because he saw the full warehouse of rice, so he drew a picture and let people create it.

He still remembers when he was a child, every year he looked forward to someone bringing this thing to the village to pop popcorn, and using this popcorn machine to burst rice to make hemp leaves, which is the most delicious.

And the so-called hemp leaves, is a kind of food made of freshly boiled maltose, stirring popcorn, pressed into pieces, and cut into small pieces before the maltose cools, and can also be made with sesame seeds and peanuts, without any preservatives, only need to be packed in a jar, or in a snakeskin bag, and you can eat it for a year.

This kind of food in the Jinghu area in later generations, every time it is close to the wax moon, every family will make it for their children as snacks, but in the 21st century, after all kinds of supermarkets go to the countryside, few people gradually make their own food, and it is more convenient to directly spend money to buy other people's food.

Popcorn this thing, the eldest grandson Wuji, who hasn't been to the mall for a long time, is also the first time to see it, seeing the rice with white flowers being enlarged, he was stunned for a long time, and thought that this earth-shattering thing was an artifact that could amplify rice, and he just watched the workers burst several pots before stopping.

It wasn't until Sun Xiangfu filled him with a cup of popcorn that he found out the problem, that is, the weight became lighter.

"Well, it's delicious, crispy, and a little sweet, and kids love it." Like drinking water, the eldest grandson Wuji, who poured himself a mouthful of popcorn, nodded again and again while chewing.

"That's why it's a hot seller! Later, we will also ask Lingnan to provide us with coconut, longan and other sugars to make popcorn with a slight coconut flavor and longan flavor, of course, this popcorn is only a raw material for other snacks, let's continue to look back. ”

Soon, the eldest grandson Wuji saw the hemp leaves made of popcorn, and ate a few pieces in a row before he closed his mouth and said, "You are planning to make the snacks made of rice to the extreme!" ”

Sun Xiangfu nodded and said with a smile, "Of course, our future here will be the place where the entire Tang Dynasty, or even the whole world, produces the most rice, and if we don't magnify its value, wouldn't we suffer a lot?" ”

"I thought that the food produced by the food factory in Weinan was famous enough, but I didn't expect that this rice and the food made would have so many tricks."

Sun Xiangfu continued to lead the eldest grandson Wuji to the back, and said as he walked, "This is the benefit of the prosperity of industry and commerce, it can promote the progress of all industries, amplify the value of the original output, and it is precisely because of so much output that I dare to let the Chamber of Commerce promote the local community to do free medical care, free education, free pension and other social services, when our entire Datang people, like Jiuyuan County, are not troubled by such problems as food and clothing, birth, old age, sickness and death, then, our reproductive ability will be infinitely huge, Only with this infinite and huge ability to reproduce can we not be afraid of failure and unswervingly expand until we have the whole world. ”

"Don't think about victory, think about defeat first, Zhengming, are you optimistic about Your Majesty's strategy for the West?" Sun Xiangfu suddenly mentioned this question, and the eldest grandson Wuji didn't have the heart to continue looking, so he stopped and asked him.

Sun Xiangfu also stopped, looked back at the eldest grandson Wuji and said, "You should have seen the Three Kingdoms!" Cao Cao has lost many battles in his life, but why does it become stronger and stronger? And Liu Bei, who sat behind Jingzhou, won a big victory all the way, took Xichuan, won Hanzhong, and even surpassed Cao Wei when the territory was the strongest, but why did Shu collapse after the defeat of Yiling? ”

Eldest Sun Wuji was stunned when he heard this, and then thought of something, and said, "Do you want my Datang to have the ability to withstand defeat before expanding outward?" ”

Sun Xiangfu nodded and replied, "Exactly, the reason why Cao Wei is getting stronger and stronger is precisely because he has done a good job in his internal politics, he has expanded his tuntian, built water conservancy, rewarded agriculture and mulberry, attached importance to handicrafts, resettled the exiled population, and implemented 'rent modulation', so that the economy under his rule gradually improved, so he could easily recruit hundreds of thousands of troops to fight in the south and the north, even if there was the defeat of Chibi, the defeat of Hanzhong, and Wu Shu, he could never shake his foundation."

It can be seen that the struggle between countries should be justified rather than strange, and those who bear defeat are the strongest.

If I, Datang, take advantage of the current favorable year, lay a good economic foundation, and develop a population, even if there are huge losses in the foreign war, Your Majesty will be able to requisition again at any time with an edict and a million troops, and continue to launch outwards until the unification is completed, this is a safe, successful and highly successful strategy.

If you use intrigue and forcible attack, even if you win in the end, you will continue to rebel, and if you lose and lose your elite, you will vomit out everything you eat, and you will become a slump from then on. ”

Historically, the Tang Dynasty was not confused by the prosperity on the surface, and did not concentrate on developing its own foundation, which eventually led to the defeat of Talas to the Arabs, lost control of Central Asia, fell from the position of the world's first hegemon, and later, it was fundamentally affected by the Anshi Rebellion, and has been in a slump since then.

This is all caused by the lack of solid internal foundation, if a person can't withstand failure, it will be difficult to succeed, and if a country can't withstand failure, it will be difficult to stand at the top, after Sun Xiangfu pointed out this truth, Changsun Wuji suddenly had more understanding of what he had done before, and after standing up straight, he bowed deeply to Sun Xiangfu.