Rokuzaburo Shiraishi wiped the sweat off his face and said in a broken official dialect: "The chef is definitely not a problem, for such a big customer, of course Rokusanen will provide door-to-door service, and there is no need to charge any fees." What I want to confirm is, is it really one hundred and fifty copies? And is it every day? ”

"No, I think there was a point just now, I didn't make it clear, not one hundred and fifty servings, but one hundred and fifty people, not every day, but three meals a day, so the correct number should be four hundred and fifty."

Luck hit Shiraishi Rokuzaburo like a big rock, leaving him unsure of whether it should be happiness or pain. Why, exactly? Why does this Mr. Gao Yi take such care of him? This question really made him entangled.

"I must stress that the rice used must be polished rice imported from Japan, and this point is not allowed to be falsified, and the clause of a penalty of 100 will be included in the official contract text."

Is this it? A trap? Let yourself hoard a lot of rice, and then the contract is annulled, so that you suffer a lot of losses, and thus go bankrupt?

"Of course, the prison can pay in advance for the money needed to import rice, but it is necessary to import the best polished rice."

Okay, I know, it must be for Rieko or Hanako, when this Mr. Gao Yi came to dine, Rieko went out to toast, and her daughter Hanako also took the other party's photo to sign.

"You can rest assured that the rice we bring in will be the best in Japan." Rokuzaburo Shiraishi replied in a trance.

Gao Yi nodded, contrary to the Japanese government, the credibility of Japanese businessmen is still trustworthy. The reason why he found this Liusanyuan was because they were the only ones who had imported refined rice from Japan.

Japanese rice polishing is a good thing that can make 200,000 people suffer from beriberi. In the upcoming Russo-Japanese War next year, more than 200,000 Japanese army will suffer from beriberi, of which 27,000 will die, and the total number of Japanese soldiers killed in battle will only be 47,000, which means that beriberi alone will increase the death rate of the Japanese army by 57 percent.

Beriberi is not athlete's foot, it first makes people swelling of the lower limbs, then numbness of the limbs, then muscle atrophy, heart hypertrophy, walking disorders, gastrointestinal disorders, pleural, abdominal cavity, pericardial effusion, impaired consciousness, and finally makes people either severely comatose or die of heart failure.

The cause of beriberi is a lack of vitamin B1, which is mainly found in the outer skin and germ of seeds, rice bran and bran are abundant, in addition to yeast and lean meat, vitamin B1 is also abundant.

Therefore, beriberi is actually a very rare disease, the poor will naturally not get this disease if they eat bran vegetables, although the rich people eat refined rice noodles that are ground to the point of only the rice core, but eating chicken and meat can also get enough supplements, and the middle-class families eat both coarse grains and meat, so they will not get it.

It is only in a country like Japan, which is reckless in its military forces, that Yu Li could not let its soldiers eat meat, and Yu Qing could not let them eat coarse grains, so he could only refine and refine the military rations and let the soldiers eat dumplings to their fill, so that hundreds of thousands of beriberi patients could be created.

In fact, as early as 1882, the Japanese naval doctor Kanehiro Takagi discovered that beriberi was only prevalent among sailors who ate dumplings, but that naval officers who had a noble diet never got the disease, so he solved the problem by adding meat and milk to the sailors' diet. But for a large army, it is not so easy to improve food.

And in 1886, the Dutch doctor Christian . In Indonesia, Aikman has actually discovered through comparative experiments that rice bran is a good medicine for beriberi. It's just that the flow of information in this era is unusually slow, especially on this unpopular subject, which is not well known to the general public, and even after seventeen years, the whole East is still ignorant of Aikman's conclusion.

Gao Yi was also thinking about how to deal with Huang Jinrong's group of people a few days ago, and when he occasionally looked through the prison log of the concession and saw the beriberi record, he found that beriberi at this time was actually regarded as a disease caused by neurotoxin, and it was considered to be contagious.

This kind of information asymmetry gives Gao Yi a huge space for maneuverability. Since he has already given the Huang family a spoonful of stew, he is not ready to let them out again and continue to bring harm to the world. You know, he now sees Shanghai as his own land, and he doesn't think about sharing his power with anyone.

"Vegetables can only be made with white radishes and cucumbers, and they can only be pickled. Remember that after the white radish and cucumber are cut into strips, they must be soaked in water for a long time before they can be made. In addition, only salt and sugar are allowed, and other condiments are not allowed. ”

Gao Yi continued to put forward his demands. Vegetables such as white radish and cucumber are inherently low in vitamin B1 and are further lost after prolonged soaking and pickling in water.

Deep-sea fish such as salmon contain thiaminase, which can break down and destroy vitamin B1. Originally, if it was eaten raw, the destruction effect was the greatest, but considering that the Chinese did not like to eat sashimi at this time, Gao Yi asked to cut the fish into 1 mm thin slices, so that in 90 degrees of water, blanching the fish for 1 second will be cooked, and the enzymes contained in it will not be destroyed.

As for why you can only use sugar, salt, wasabi and plum juice for seasoning, instead of soy sauce and vinegar, it is because the soy sauce at this time is naturally brewed from soybeans, and yeast and soybeans are rich in vitamin B1; Vinegar, on the other hand, is made from grain and also contains vitamin B1.

"Pickled radishes and cucumbers? There's no problem at all, the dishes in our Liusan Garden are all pickled by ourselves. ”

"Ah, do you want to cut it and soak it in water? The taste will be affected. If you insist on doing so, then you can't help it. But how long does it take to soak? ”

"Do you want to soak for a day? 24 hours? If you're sure you want to do that, then the shop will have to comply. ”

Shiraishi Rokuzaburo held a small notebook and carefully recorded the terms and conditions of Gao Yi. He noticed that all the terms were easy to set, and the warden sat there as if he were a clay sculpture of wood.

Sure enough, all these decisions were made by this Mr. Gao Yi, Rieko, Hanako, you are in danger.

"Do you still have Japanese rice in stock? How long is it enough for 450 servings? ”

"If it's just rice, the store has half a year's stock, 450 servings, and it should be able to last for half a month."

"How many meters do you count?"

"If it is counted as two in China, it is three cities and two, and it is calculated according to the amount of food for an adult."

"This is not enough, at least half a catty, well, according to six taels, each meal must have six taels, that is, two hundred grams of metric. If the prisoners do not feed them, they will rebel. ”

"Understood, one serving is six cities and two rice." Shiraishi recorded it in the notebook again.

"In this case, your food stock will only be enough for a week, how many days will it take to order rice from Japan?"

"After sending a telegram, the rice can be transported to Shanghai in five days at most."

"Very good, if possible, the two of you will sign the official contract this afternoon! Mr. Wilson, please advance the first month's payment to Shiraishi-san so that he can have money to procure the raw materials. Shiraishi-san, please start serving meals to the prison as soon as possible, preferably tomorrow. Gao Yi spoke to Wilson and Shiraishi in English and Mandarin respectively.

"Do you want to sign a contract today?"

"Of course, there's nothing to delay. What, what's the problem? ”

"No problem at all!"

I'm sorry! Rieko and Hanako can only sell you for money! But Ah Hui should be very happy, after seeing this Mr. Gao Yi that day, Ah Hui was very enthusiastic at night, oops, thinking about such a shameful thing, how could he react?

"Gao San, Wilson San, please take care of me in the future!"

Shiraishi Rokuzaburo suddenly stood up, bowed deeply, and almost hit the coffee table, which startled Gao Yi and Wilson.

******

At six o'clock in the morning of August 13, Huang Jinrong was once again awakened from hunger, and only drank a bowl of rotten gruel last night, and his front heart had already been attached to his back. Fortunately, when I opened my eyes, I saw the dawn in my eyes. The sun is out, will breakfast be far away?

Sure enough, the prison that delivered the food came, and "Galeng Geleng" was the sound of the wheels of his cart rolling on the floor. Not to mention how nice it sounds.

Huang Jinrong ran to the door of the prison cell, grabbed the iron railing above and looked out, only to see that in addition to the cell and his small cart, there was also a white police officer in black skin behind him.

"Amulin, what are you going to eat today?"

The person who asked was Fan Guangtou, who lived opposite Huang Jinrong, his fame was much more famous than Huang Jinrong in Shanghai at this time, and he was registered on the board of directors of the Ministry of Industry, but in the board of directors he was called "Fan Jiadu", which was a homonym for his bandit name Fan Guangtou.

Huang Jinrong and Fan Guangtou were held alone on the fourth floor, and the entire floor was just the two of them.

"Invite Nong to eat rice today!" Amulin replied in a loud voice. is worthy of Amulin, and he didn't restrain himself at all because he was followed by a police officer.

"So good? Eat rice in the morning, don't lie. ”

"What are you doing?" Amulin stretched out his thumb and pointed behind him, "Who knows how to fight?" Allah's new warden. The warden has already said that not only will you be invited to eat rice this morning, but you will be invited to eat rice every day and every day! ”

As he spoke, a piece of breakfast in a wooden box was handed to Huang Jinrong, and he opened it to see that there were three fragrant rice balls inside, and there were several slices of red and white meat on them, which were the meat of the salmon fish, which he knew.

"Whoa!" Amulin handed over another bowl of soup, the soup was thin and watery, but there were a few pieces of fish floating in it.

Huang Jinrong took this soup and rice, but he didn't dare to eat it for a while, how does this look like a severed head rice.

But Fan Guangtou on the other side had already eaten it regardless of it, and he was drooling when he heard it. In the end, he couldn't help it, so he simply closed his eyes, picked up a rice ball and took a bite of it.

It's so fragrant, the rice grains gently knock into the teeth, and the sweet rice milk inside bursts out, mixed with the sour and salty sauce poured on it, and he can eat even a hundred of such rice balls. Eating and eating, Huang Jinrong's tears flowed. He vaguely felt that the new warden was watching him through the fence, but he didn't pay any attention to it, just ate the rice balls in his hand without distraction.