The arrival of Xu Xiake was like a gust of wind, which caused all the elders to almost rejoice, to say that there are a lot of people among the elders who have not heard of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, but there are very few people who have not heard of Xu Xiake, even if it is really impossible to remember for a while, if someone next to him wakes up, he can immediately resonate - it is the guy who has traveled all over the country!

"Uncle Xu! This cup of kvass is a little brother's respect! A glass was stuffed directly in front of Xu Xiake, who had already drunk a stomach full of kvass - the amount of potatoes harvested by the Committee of Agriculture at this stage was too large for the entire Dongfang Port to digest the potatoes. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info It is important to know that potatoes taste good as a dish, but they consume a lot of cooking oil. This is almost impossible to achieve in the Oriental Port, which is quite lacking in both animal fat and vegetable fat, so the main thing that can be provided to everyone is boiled mashed potatoes. However, boiled mashed potatoes have a relatively light taste, high starch content, low protein content, and are easy to eat and filling, but they are easy to digest, so potatoes are covered with a shadow of "not full".

Faced with the mountains of potatoes that not too many people were willing to eat, Sun Wenbin was also at a loss, until Huang Feihu came over and suggested to him to make some kvass to improve the diet of the elders. In addition to salt soda, there was no suitable drink for summer in Dongfang Port, and salt soda was still available in limited quantities, and the output was too low to meet the needs of the market, let alone export profits. Huang Feihu's suggestion to make kvass was an instant illumination, and these potatoes were starchy enough to be used to make potato kvass. Therefore, the Committee of Agriculture directly provided 10 tons of potatoes to Huang Feihu's food factory to make kvas.

Saying that such a large number of potatoes were sent over, Huang Feihu was so frightened that his mouth couldn't close, and the food factory later had to get a set of potato washing machines, crushers and other machines from the industrial department. These starches are then added to water to make dough, and after heating, glucose is obtained, and these sugars are diluted with water and then naturally fermented to obtain kvass, and then filtered and can be shipped directly out of the factory.

Originally, according to Huang Feihu's idea, a batch of glass bottles was to be ordered for filling, but Gu Qingqian directly vetoed the resolution. Glass bottles from Port Vostochny are one of the most important export products, and if they were to supply kvass bottling, it would be necessary to reduce the export volume of glass bottles, so it would not be permitted. Huang Feihu then proposed to use ceramic bottles to fill, but was also directly vetoed, because ceramics are also export products, and they were still banned from domestic sales by Gu Qingqian, who is like a miser. In fact, Gu Qingqian also has a hard time, glass bottles or ceramic bottles in this time and space can be regarded as luxury goods, and the shell of luxury goods is filled with ordinary drinks such as kvass, how to position the market positioning? Is it a luxury drink or a regular drink? You must know that salt soda is already a semi-luxury product, and now that this kvass is positioned as a luxury product, what are the main products in the beverage market of Oriental Port?

In the end, Huang Feihu had no choice but to choose the lowest alternative product, bamboo tubes, for filling. Although these bamboo tubes are large and small, but the bamboo tubes are easy to come, and the amount is relatively sufficient, many places in Beihai have a large number of huge bamboo, which are sent to Dongfang Port to process a large number of bamboo tubes, so as to be sent to be filled.

Filling with a bamboo tube can be described as a rather maddening thing, the diameter of the bamboo tube is not the same, some bamboo knots are long, some are very short, although they were screened before being sent, but they were used on the filling machine or made Huang Feihu's head almost broken. Due to the different diameters of the bamboo tubes, the guide rail of the filling machine can not be positioned, the bamboo tubes on the conveyor belt are easy to fall down, or overturned directly after being filled, and the filling capacity of the bamboo tubes of different heights is not the same, if the valve is controlled by the timer, then it is easy to happen that the long bamboo tube is not full or the short bamboo tube is directly overflowing, so in the end, only a naturalized citizen can stand in the middle of the production line with a faucet and fill the kvass into the bamboo tube one by one, and then the naturalized worker behind it is encapsulated.

Compared with filling, the packaging is much simpler, because the specifications of the drilling machine drilling in the upper part of the bamboo tube are the same, so the hole diameter in the upper part of the bamboo tube is completely consistent. Therefore, almost all of the cork stoppers used in packaging are oil-paper cork, which is far simpler to make than bamboo tube processing, and cork is not an important material, Huang Feihu did not spend much effort to get a large number of cork stoppers, so that the first batch of 1,000 bottles of kvass quickly put into the Oriental Port market.

Surprisingly, the appearance of Kvass in Vostochny did not set off the waves that the patriarchs expected. In fact, most of the patriarchs themselves didn't like the taste of kvass, this slightly sour fermented drink was not particularly refreshing, and because of the cork bamboo tube, there were no chemicals such as baking soda that produced carbon dioxide in it. The weather in Vostochny is getting hotter and hotter, and if you add gas in kvasli, you might just break the cork in the warehouse. So this drink is just a little sour pale yellow water at best, but fortunately, the price is cheap, and more than 400 bottles have been sold.

Now there are more than 500 bottles left in the warehouse of the food factory, Huang Feihu saw that Xu Xiake was coming, and there was no drink to entertain him, so he directly beckoned people to send the more than 500 bottles to the canteen, and asked the elders to "rinse their mouths", at least let them get used to the taste first, and then they could start selling in the future.

Xu Xiake is now staring at the cup in front of him in a daze, this is a glass, the whole glass is extremely smooth, crystal clear is very rare. He had heard that in the Wu Dynasty, there were advanced craftsmen who could make this kind of transparent cup by polishing the crystal, but the crystal cup was generally limited by the size of the crystal stone, and it was often small to count, and there were often many impurities in the crystal, resulting in a bad look. Even so, those crystal cups are priceless pieces. On the other hand, the cup in his hand, no matter how you look at it, is as transparent as water, and it is filled with an unknown yellow liquid, which looks even more amber, making him reluctant to drink it.

In fact, he still has a small trouble, that is, he has been poured into a stomach by the enthusiastic patriarchs before, and now he is a little anxious, but not only are there male patriarchs in front of him, but there are also many female patriarchs wearing hot pants and tight tops, this kind of dress is serious in him is simply immoral and shameless, and he doesn't know what to do with the little brother who is congested and swollen below.

"Uncle Xu! Come! Drink! Zhang Tao didn't say a word, he drank the glass in his hand directly, and then gently pushed the glass in front of Xu Xiake forward, "Uncle Xu, don't be afraid, as the saying goes, you don't drink when you're young, but this is not wine, this is kvas, there is no alcohol in it, you can drink it casually!" As he spoke, he filled himself with another cup, and suddenly felt a little churning feeling in his stomach, so he hurriedly leaned aside and burped, turned back and drank another glass and continued, "If you want to say what I Zhang Tao admires the most!" It's Uncle Xu! ”

"That's it! Terrific! "That's right!" Several elders next to him were also amazed, and they all held cups filled with kvass in the air.

Xu Xiake hurriedly smiled and arched his hand, "Zhenzhi He De, how can you make the elders love Xiaomin so much?" It's just the first time I've arrived in your realm, so I don't know it, so why do I seem to know all the patriarchs? Zhenxin has doubts, don't vomit and be unhappy......"

Zhang Tao's smile suddenly froze on the spot, he didn't know what to say, could it be that we were hundreds of years later to tell him? It's no wonder that people don't think of themselves as crazy. Xu Xiake saw that this patriarch was spitting on him, and knew that there should be a hidden secret, so he didn't ask any more questions, so he said, "Although this brother is young and promising, he should also be thirty, right?" ”

Zhang Tao nodded, "I'm thirty-five." Xu Xiake nodded, "Yes, Zhenzhi is a few years older, but he is only in his forties, Zhang Gongzi calls Xu someone an uncle, and Xu is ashamed." ”

"He called your grandfather to take advantage of it." There was an elder next to him who smiled, but he was pulled by the elder next to him, and he was silent. Someone next to him handed over a drink, Xu Xiake turned his head to look, it turned out to be a woman, this woman has a good face, a slender figure, and quite tall, with a goose egg face and willow eyebrows, apricot core eyes and a high nose bridge, and the most rare thing is a neat white tooth, which makes his heart skip a beat. The woman held the cup and said, "Xie Mingfang in the construction department of the Lower Oriental Port, Mr. Xu came from afar, I don't know what to do in the Oriental Port?" ”

"The Department of Construction?" Xu Xiake didn't know what this word meant, so he had to answer the question later, "Xu was just planning to travel to Hengshan, but when he arrived at Dehengshan, he followed the caravan to the south and arrived at Demingzhou City two months ago. During his stay in Mingzhou City, he heard from a Medenor astrologer that there was a vision in the south, but he didn't know what he said, so he decided to come in person. ”

"I don't know how long I have been walking from Mingzhou here?" Another woman's voice came out next to her, "I'm Gu Qingqian, from the Department of Commerce and Trade of Dongfang Port, and I want to inquire about the road to Mingzhou." ”

"Well," Xu Xiake nodded, "From Mingzhou to Beihai, there are official roads along the way, and Xu has been very difficult to carry the burden all the way to Beihai, and it took two months to get to Beihai, and after arriving in Beihai, he heard that there is a new city in the south, so he came to visit." However, along the way, the roads were in disrepair, and it would be even more difficult for caravans to travel on the official roads. However, when I arrived at Dongfang Port, the excellent road here made Zhenzhi shocked, I don't know how much time it took to build such a road? ”

"This is not a long time, the roads in the city were built in two months, and the Oriental Port Ring Road and the Anyun Cross Road were built in the next half a year." Xie Mingfang said and turned to Gu Qingqian and said, "If you want to trade with Mingzhou, you must first solve the road problem, and if you want to get rich, you must first build roads." ”

"And so it is!" Xu Xiake resonated with this sentence, "The road is indeed very important!" Zhenzhi's father was lame because the road was in disrepair, and he fell into the river while riding a horse. If there is such a road as the Oriental Port, why is it here? ”

"Yes, yes!" Xie Mingfang finally found resonance here in the natives, and happily pushed Zhang Tao away who was sitting opposite, "You go over, I'll talk for a while." Zhang Tao moved to the side with a helpless face, Xie Mingfang sat down without care, took a sip of the cup and began to pour bitter water, "Whether it is where we come or here, we all think that building roads is a trivial matter, nothing can be done without traffic, and nothing can be said without roads, whether it is urban expansion, transportation of agricultural and sideline products, industrial raw materials and finished product logistics, nothing is useless without roads." ”

Xu Xiake had no resonance with Xie Mingfang's bitter water at all, he didn't understand it at all, and he didn't know how to understand it at all. But there was another thing he was beginning to depress now, and that was that people had three urgencies, which had begun to remind him through his distended bladder. He looked left and right, there were many female elders, and they were all staring at him, and they definitely couldn't solve it on the spot, so he had to quietly come to Zhang Tao, who was drinking kvass boringly, and asked, "I don't know where the thatched house is?" A little anxious under ......"

Zhang Tao nodded, stood up and said, "Please follow me." Xu Xiake hurriedly stood up and followed, leaving Xie Mingfang and Gu Qingqian to discuss the next stage of the road construction budget.

Xu Xiake followed Zhang Tao to a small house, Zhang Tao pointed to the door and said, "Uncle Xu, this is it, go in." Xu Xiake nodded hurriedly and walked in quickly.

Walking into this thatched house, he was taken aback again. At present, this "thatched house" was not at all like any kind of thatched hut he had seen before, there was no large dung tank churned by maggots, and there was no pungent smell of stenching in it, but after entering the thatched house, it was neat and tidy, and there were porcelain plates on the ground -- although the output of ceramic tiles and porcelain plates in Dongfang Port did not reach the level that could be exported in large quantities, it could still be supplied in the "key unit" such as the veterans' canteen. In addition to the porcelain plate, there is something that makes Xu Xiake even more difficult, that is, he doesn't know where to pee. There is a large snow-white porcelain jar inlaid on the ground, this porcelain jar is high at one end and low at the end, and there is a hole at the low end, and nothing can be seen in the black inside. He looked inside, but was shocked to find that this thatched house was so bright, and when he looked up, he saw that there was crystal glass in the wall and window, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, these patriarchs are really poor and extravagant, and even the thatched house can be equipped with this kind of priceless crystal glass, and he has the impression that if this kind of crystal glass can only be installed by wealthy families, it is often only a palm-sized small glass at the top of the hall. He stretched out his hand and touched it, **, thinking in his heart, such a large piece of glass, I really don't know how much silver it will cost to afford it.

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