Chapter 302 Scurvy and Canned Fruit

Zhang San smiled slightly and asked, "How many in total?" ”

The little girl counted and said, "A bowl of five cents, you can give three five cents." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Zhang San touched his body, there was only silver in the money bag and no copper coins, Zhang San took out a tael and handed it to her and said, "Here you go, keep the rest for you to buy candy to eat." ”

The little girl took the money and quickly went to find her mother, Uncle Zhao was watching from the side, and he didn't care about it at first, until Zhang San took out a tael of silver, and his eyes lit up and said: "I thank you on behalf of their mothers, good people have good rewards." ”

Zhang San smiled: "Uncle Zhao, right?" Come sit down. ”

Uncle Zhao smiled and nodded, "Okay, just sit down for a while." ”

Zhang San smiled and asked, "What kind of money is the uncle collecting?" ”

Uncle Zhao sighed and said, "What money?" Booth fee, all stalls in the shipyard will be charged a monthly booth fee of 200 wen, which was set by the Guan family at the beginning. ”

Zhang San asked strangely: "The Guan family still lacks this money?" ”

Uncle Zhao pouted and said, "Of course there is no shortage of the Guan family, but this rule was set by the shipyard's chief steward, and the money was handed over to him." ”

Zhang San squinted at Gongsun Sheng and asked, "Why does this new chief steward also collect this money?" ”

Gongsun Sheng looked at Uncle Zhao with a smile, and Uncle Zhao sighed and said, "Who knows? A while ago, I heard that the new owner of the shipyard was mixed with everyone for the past two months, and today I heard that the owner was transferred to the capital by the emperor today as a big official, and a new chief steward was appointed. ”

Zhang San listened carefully, since it was not his own subordinates who asked for bribes, Lao Zhao continued: "Chongyang's father is a boatman of the Guan family, and he died on the ship after getting a plague in Nanyang, leaving behind the orphans and widows of the family. ”

Zhang San looked at Gongsun Sheng, and Gongsun Sheng said: "Third brother, don't worry, I will deal with this matter, and we might as well go after the money has been paid." ”

Zhang San nodded, a few people walked to the house, the woman in addition to borrowing money nearby, and walked to the village, it seems that she may go back to the village to borrow money or take money, and the child only caught up with her mother when Zhang San went away, the two hurried back to the wonton stall, Zhang San and the three of them had already disappeared into the night.

Back at the house, Zhang San arranged for Gongsun Sheng to build a new Qingyu Hall next to the Sailor School, which Zhang San originally planned to get in the academy he bought, but now it seems that these things are gathered together, and it is also easy to manage, as for the land of the academy, maybe it will be used in the future.

As for the mother and daughter, as the saying goes, emergency relief is not poverty relief, and the one or two silver given by Zhang San is enough for them to survive the current hurdle, as for what kind of life they will live in the future, it depends on whether they are willing to work hard. Children will have the opportunity to go to school in the future, and the wonton business will get better and better as the shipyard's population increases.

As for why Zhang San didn't come up with more money, Zhang San's charity can certainly make them live a better life, but this is another kind of unfairness to the people who work for Zhang San, you must know that since taking over the shipyard, Zhang San really hasn't arranged any benefits for the crew.

Zhang San put this matter aside, but Uncle Zhao's ship plague reminded Zhang San that he had not yet dealt with scurvy, and scurvy rarely appeared on ships in ancient China.

There are many reasons for this, some say that it is because there are bean sprouts, pickles, tea and other ingredients to supplement vitamin C on ancient Chinese ships, some say that ancient China lacked ocean voyages, and most of the routes are developed and mature offshore routes, and some say that it is because China has a perfect traditional Chinese medicine treatment system, and Chinese medicine knows how to use vitamin C in many Chinese herbal medicines to treat scurvy.

Zhang San felt that what they said made sense, but Zhang San really had no interest in experimenting one by one, which one was right, Zhang San decided to take a three-pronged approach, bean sprouts and other soy products have long been popularized on the ship, pickles are also indispensable food on the ship now, and tea is a thing whether it is useful or not.

As for the establishment of the supply point, there is no need to worry about it at present, at least the main areas of the activities in the past two years have been fully supplied, and the application of traditional Chinese medicine does not need to worry about Zhang San, Zhang San is now thinking about a new thing.

In Zhang San's impression, many vegetables and fruits are rich in vitamin C, such as oranges, lemons, jujubes, oranges, kiwifruit, hawthorn, these fruits are not easy to preserve, but the preserved fruits or dried fruits can be stored for a long time.

The most important thing is that these things can be canned, Zhang San has always considered doing canned business, for this era, there are very few fruits transported over long distances, and it is a pity that so many fruit resources in the south are not used.

Now there are no conditions for the production of glass jars and iron cans, so Zhang San plans to replace them with black clay pots, which is a mature technology, cork sealing, and then coated with a layer of wax, you can do the sealing, although it cannot be stored for more than a year and a half in later generations, but it should be reliable to store for one year.

This can not only solve the problem of seafarers' nutritional intake, but also make a small profit, this technology is very difficult to monopolize, canned food production and processing must be close to the origin of raw materials, so the confidentiality work can not be solved at all.

Zhang San is more interested in the fact that with the experience of canned fruit production, then the sea fish can be preserved by the third method of salting and drying, and a large number of livestock freeze to death in the north every winter, and weak animals can be purchased in advance in autumn, which are all important raw materials for canned food.

Although it is not easy to transport clay pots, this does not need to be considered by Zhang San at all, it is nothing more than a matter of adding a few more layers of straw. This season, many fruits in the south have begun to be marketed, and it just so happens that the brown sugar purchased by Wu Decai has not yet been processed.

Zhang San took advantage of the time to hurriedly call Wu Decai over, and wrote down the production steps in detail, while explaining to Wu Decai, this thing is very simple, and I saw my family do it when I was a child.

If you want to store it for a longer time, it is nothing more than to increase the disinfection temperature, the high-pressure boiler can not be produced now, the thing is not well sealed, and it will explode if there are cracks, Zhang San got inspiration from the steelmaking heating air, and designed a large cauldron, the water vapor in the pot is transported through the iron pipe, and the iron pipe is heating, so as to increase the temperature of the water vapor.

Although Wu Decai took over the task of managing all the shops in Jiangnan, Zhang San really has no business in Jiangnan now, so Wu Decai has been circling the shipyard except for the shop that collects sugar.

Zhang San handed over the canned food business to him, this thing is well operated, and it is still very easy to bring Zhang San one or two thousand yuan of income within a year, even if the number of people who do this business increases in the future, Zhang San relies on this first-mover advantage, coupled with the brand management that no one else has paid attention to, he can still be the top in the industry.