Although robbing Hua Shigang is more short and fast than making canned meat to make money, robbing this kind of thing is not the right way after all!

Lei Bao has been busy calculating the technical parameters of the giant Kong Ming lantern recently, so the speed of calculation is slightly faster, and after coming up with a rough answer in his heart, he excitedly reached out and stroked the short hair on his head, and said, "Ahh The Sprinkle family said that a few days ago, they heard that Da Lang was making Zhuangzi in Macheng, and there has been no movement until now, so he was ready to make such a living. If you can really sell millions of cans of canned meat this year, how many cows, sheep, chickens and pigs will have to be slaughtered! Zhuangzi is really small, and it really can't be done! ”

Instead of disturbing everyone's thinking, Lei Leopard's deviant thoughts fell into a series of problems caused by the emergence of a new food such as canned meat.

First of all, people who are close to the army, such as Lei Bao and Sun Li, naturally know that Yao Rong's analysis is correct, in fact, it is not only the border army, but now even if it is the forbidden army and the box army, most of the time there is only corn supply, here is that corn is not two kinds of millet and rice, but the "millet" that refers to it, that is, millet.

It is well known that only when a crop is widely cultivated among the people and reaches a state of surplus, this grain can become the main military food. From the pre-Qin period to the Northern Song Dynasty, corn was the most suitable grain variety in the Central Plains of China. Due to the production conditions at that time, rice did not gradually become a staple food until the Southern Song Dynasty, and most of it was imported from Vietnam and Southeast Asia.

During the period of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, the strange man at that time made a mistake in his article "On the Precious Su Shu", on the issue of the guarantee of military food supply, put forward the conclusion that "with a million armor, and the dead millet can be defended", and pointed out that "the Su is the king, and the government is the main business" for the military supply of the Han Dynasty.

The reason why Wei Qing and Huo Qubing were able to "attack the Xiongnu 90,000 miles in the north" back then was naturally based on the fact that their own soldiers could eat enough, and they were still stable enough to eat every day, otherwise how to pursue them when they were hungry?

In addition, millet as the main military food has another advantage, that is, it has a very good storage resistance, generally speaking, unhulled rice can be stored for about five years at most, and unhulled corn can be stored for at least ten years.

Ancient times? The transportation conditions are backward, and the garrisons in remote areas will inevitably encounter the situation that they cannot be supplied for a long time, so the time of grain storage is also very important.

Among them, the "Tang Liudian" volume 19 Sinong Siyun: "Fan Su branch for nine years, rice and hybrids for three years." After three years of storage, it consumes one liter and two liters for more than five years.

That is to say, it is clearly stipulated that corn must be stored for at least nine years, rice and other grains for three years, and the loss of corn and other grains should be controlled at about one liter per three years, that is, one-tenth of it.

Then there is the sideline food in the army, meat, vegetables, fruits and vegetables have always been the treatment that only middle- and upper-level senior officers can enjoy, and it is simply a luxury for ordinary soldiers to eat fresh vegetables and meat. Take today's Da Song Dynasty as an example, unless there is a certain supply during the New Year's holidays, you have to find a way to raise it yourself on other days.

However, even if it is a New Year's holiday, meat is very little, the main official meat of the Northern Song Dynasty border army, the vast majority of which is a kind of processed food called "cat" and "preserved", the so-called "catfish" and "preserved" are actually pickled fish and pork and mutton, the difference is that most of the "catfish" is the traditional urn jar pickling process, but also divided into wet and dry catfish.

(PS: The various snacks that are popular today are actually dried fish, which is the original dried fish that is not flavored with chili peppers and spices.) ）

And "preserved" is the dried meat, so it is called dried meat, the production method is much simpler, the cow, sheep, roe deer, venison into pieces, soaked in blood water, soaked in salt and pepper (pepper) into the flavor and then dried in the shade, and finally there is a trick is to use "wooden sticks to beat lightly, in order to make solid".

However, even such a thing, even in the economically developed Northern Song Dynasty, it is not something that can be eaten casually, but only during the New Year's festival or before the decisive battle or after a big victory. When going out to fight and march, the spies who are the vanguard can also hunt part-time at night and give everyone a tooth sacrifice, while the troops stationed in the city fortress are much more miserable.

There are also vegetables and fruits, not to mention it, just think about it, you know that this thing is absolutely only enjoyed by high-ranking officials, even middle-level officers are not allowed to study.

Therefore, after listening to Yao Rong's analysis, everyone also thought of a question that Yao Rong should not know yet, that is, Huang Dalang made not only canned meat, but also canned fruit!

Therefore, to say that this secret recipe for making canned food is really worth millions of dollars, it is really not bragging!

In everyone's thinking, Uncle Yao put the wine and food in a hurry, and when he went to the table, he also listened to Huang Dalang's instructions to put on a charcoal stove, and then saw Huang Dalang break the wooden cork of a can of meat with the words July 17 and put it on the charcoal stove, but after a while, he heard a squeaky sound in the jar, and a strong smell of secret Dongpo meat diffused.

Yao Rong looked at the packaging mark on the jar in surprise, and then got up and fished out a piece of black-skinned red meat from the jar, the soft and glutinous braised pork came up, smelled it, tasted it and screamed, and couldn't help nodding and applauding.

After he ate it, everyone also came to taste it, and naturally found that the taste of this canned Dongpo meat that had been left for a long time was naturally several times better than that of the freshly cooked one.

(PS: I also like to go to the supermarket to buy canned braised pork to eat, and I want to choose at least half a year to eat, the taste is simply ...... Summer insects can't talk about ice! ）

After everyone had eaten some wine, Yao Zheng remembered that they had all gone astray just now, and the tricky thing now was how to deal with the aftermath of Wang Xin's gang, so he brought it up.

Huang Dalang was not in a hurry: "This matter is difficult in three aspects, the first is how to hide people's eyes, but this deputy envoy Wang did it for us, but there is no need to worry, after cleaning up the front yard, he will labor Zhu Gao and Zhang He's two brothers to do some tricks first, and then the cousin took the yamen to catch the neighbors and let them go, just say that there are snitches to commit the crime." ”

Everyone thought it was a good idea, so they agreed!

Huang Dalang continued: "The next thing is to destroy the corpses and destroy the traces, as I said before, Wang Xin and others are officials and soldiers when they are alive, and they are a pile of stinky meat when they die." Originally, I also thought that I would simply transport the corpse quietly outside the city, or strip off my clothes and destroy the gold seal, and throw it into the river, but then I thought about it, how could this Tong Taiwei want to be with it, it doesn't hurt that the thirty soldiers are gone, and a deputy envoy of the Privy Council has quietly disappeared, and he will definitely make a big move, so I have such a ...... Such a plan can extinguish the trace of this matter! ”