The industry of making glass is actually very simple, nothing more than quartz sand, dolomite and soda ash, and there is a glass factory in Zhou Zhongying's hometown of Xiting. When he was fine before, he also ran to see the excitement.

Speaking of which, he was able to enter the blue eyes of the Marquis of Yingchuan, and it was not because of the encounter with the armory. Perhaps, in the mind of Hou Ye, he is a person who knows all things, right? If something is good, it will be effective. After coming down, Zhou Zhongying also got a few idle books such as "Heavenly Creations" and read them in one go, and then went to the factory to investigate. In the end, because I really couldn't figure it out, I just did.

As for how the glass in Yangzhou Town is fired, he will also look at the general situation, and he can't say what the specific temperament is.

Anyway, these raw materials are thrown into the blast furnace in an old way, burned with coking coal, and the ore is melted into a bright red liquid, poured into a mold, and waited until it cooled

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It's a pity that the glass burned out of Yangzhou Town is so black and swarthy that it is purely glazed lumps, ugly to death, and useless at all. Unlike the glassware bought by the rich and noble from overseas, it is as pure as crystal, which is simply a treasure.

It is said that after the glass was burned, the Marquis of Yingchuan was very disappointed, and scolded the foreign craftsmen in charge of the matter and deducted their money.

However, if the glass blast furnace and clay crucible are built, and the things are burned, if they are not used, it will not make the silver of the white flowers go down the drain.

Later, I didn't know how Hou Ye pondered, so he asked people to cast molds, and got a group of craftsmen to blow a lot of these glass bottles with pipes, which were used to make cans.

He added sugar and salt to some fruits such as plums and peaches, put them in bottles, boiled them in boiling water for half an hour, plugged them tightly with corks while they were hot, and finally sealed them with wax, saying that they could ensure that the food inside would not be bad for a year and could be used to make military rations for the troops.

After the canned fruit was made, the logistics department used its brains to successively rectify the canned vegetarian dishes, such as pumpkin, sweet potato, water chestnut, and white waterf...... Hou Ye said that if a person does not eat vegetarian food for a long time, he will get sick, especially during the war, he can't see green for ten days and a half months, and the troops have no combat effectiveness.

For this kind of canned food, the army is very unimpressed, saying that Jianghuai is rich and has a mild climate, if you want to eat vegetables, you can just pick a handful in the field, what is not? The logistics guys are simply playing the piano, how much is a dish, is there a penny, is it worth the trouble of sealing it in a glass bottle? In this way, the cabbage has become the price of meat.

Later, the boss explained that the Ningxiang Army did not stay in Jiangnan all his life, and sooner or later it would have to fight to the north, or even to Liaodong. The troops are all in the late autumn, when the north is cold and snowy, and by that time you will know that it is important to have a bite to eat.

In order to appease the grievances of the soldiers, the logistics department invited many skilled cooks from Yangzhou to make a lot of meat. For example, braised pork, back pot pork, bean stewed pork...... Everyone thinks that these masters who have been invited with a lot of money are really unreliable, and I will make such dishes!

However, everyone was about to vomit when they ate salted fish, and now that they finally see the meat, they are very satisfied.

And these things are cooked food, which is very convenient when eating, just open the lid and dig it with your fingers

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It turned out that the big men in the logistics department would not make everyone happy for too long, and soon, the logistics department began to complain, saying that these meats were not easy to eat, especially in this war era, and the price of meat was surprisingly expensive.

I don't know which of the ghosts who lack virtue came up with a bad idea, and purchased a large amount of taro, that is, potatoes, from Fujian. Zhou Zhongying had never seen this kind of thing before, and then he turned through the book for a long time, and only learned from the "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration" written by Xu Guangqi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites of the Chongzhen Dynasty and the scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, and the second assistant of the cabinet, that this thing was introduced to China from overseas during the Apocalypse, and was first cultivated in North China, Beijing, Tianjin and Shandong, and then gradually spread to the south.

The south is full of paddy fields, so naturally it is impossible to grow such things. However, there are quite a few in the mountainous areas of Fujian and Jiangnan.

This thing is delicious, the yield is also large, no matter where you choose, as long as you plant it, you can have a lot of harvest.

After the potatoes were brought back, a few cooks boiled them, mashed them into a puree, and then coagulated them with spices and meat, and they looked bright red and delicious.

Hou Ye also personally named this kind of thing luncheon meat, saying that it is eaten at noon, and it is the best to replenish physical strength.

At the beginning, everyone was still eating hard, saying that this food was good, and it was more fragrant than the food in the restaurants in the city. Recalling the days when I ate stinky salted fish all day long, it was really a heaven and an underground.

The problem goes back to the old men in the logistics department, these guys don't seem to be happy with everyone. On the grounds of saving, the content of meat in luncheon meat was gradually reduced, from seven potatoes and three potatoes to five potatoes without meat, and now, only four potatoes and six potatoes remain. In order to maintain the physical fitness of the soldiers, the old men kept adding sugar to the luncheon meat, and later this luncheon meat became slimy **** yellow, instead of the bright meat red at the beginning, which made people unappetizing at first glance.

The most damn thing is that the logistics department really thought about adding salted fish to luncheon meat, saying that pork is not easy to get, and the annual catch of the sailor is so large, it is difficult to throw away all the fish that have been caught.

This is simply the anger of people and gods, and in the end, Hou Ye also felt that adding salted fish to luncheon meat tasted too bad, which was really bad for morale, so he stopped it. Later, he made a kind of stuff called bean drum fish, which was barely accepted by everyone as a side dish for luncheon meat.

Luncheon meat was still very good when I first started eating, and everyone ate it vigorously. But adults only eat this thing for months, and the gods can't stand it. Later, everyone wanted to vomit when they saw luncheon meat, and their disgust even exceeded that of the original salted dried fish

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As a quartermaster, Zhou Zhangmu really knows too well what canned luncheon meat is all about.

Every time the supplies were handed down by the top and the soldiers came to collect them, everyone felt as if they were being tortured. The cans were piled up in the house, and no one paid any attention to them.

Luncheon meat, damn it, isn't it fake meat, isn't it more refreshing to ask the guy to kill a pig than to eat this thing? Canned fruit, I'd better go buy fresh! Canned vegetarian food, what is that?

Therefore, unless the troops are marching long distances or camping, no one wants to touch such a thing.

Of course, there is one exception----- canned cherries---- cherries are delicious and difficult to plant, cherries are too squeamish, the shelf life is only a few days, it cannot be transported, and no one sells it in the market, and many people in the army have never eaten this kind of thing in their lives. It is a good idea to store it in a can.

However, the glass bottles used to make cans are so bad, dark and opaque, you don't even know what's inside. In order to distinguish them, the logistics department burned the iron seal red, and directly branded "luncheon meat", "bean drum fish", "peach", "cherry" and "radish" on the cork...... Turnip...... Can the be canned too?

The south of the Yangtze River is damp, and after the canned food has been stored for a long time, the cork will inevitably become moldy or something, and the brand on it has become blurred. At this time, you have to rely on luck when you open a can.

An experienced soldier picks up a mouthful of can, shakes it, and can tell exactly what it contains.

At this moment, when they heard Zhou Zhongying say that they wanted to eat canned food, everyone was bitter.

"What's the matter, let you eat canned food, damn it?" The team was annoyed and shouted, "Brothers, if you don't eat something, you won't have the strength in your body." If you don't have the strength, you can't break through the encirclement. If you can't break through the encirclement, you won't be able to return to the army to complete the day's mission. Eat, fuck, this is an order? ”

On this business trip, everyone brought a lot of canned food, but so many days have passed now, and no one has touched this thing.

The team picked up a mouthful of cans, took out a knife and picked it up, and picked the cork open.

Inside was a black mush, and it turned out to be luncheon meat.

Although he was already so hungry that his heart was close to his back, when he saw this meat, the team still felt a stirring in the five hearts, and almost spit out the mouthful of sour water in his throat

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He screamed in his heart: Damn, it's luncheon meat, why isn't it fruit, why isn't it fruit?

Several soldiers also looked uncomfortable and looked at the captain with sympathetic eyes.

Team Zheng: "Look at what, the fragrance is tight, eat!" ”

He stretched out his fingers and dug a lot of meat, stuffed it directly into his mouth, and didn't dare to chew it, so he swallowed it directly.

Only then did the soldiers endure the grief in their hearts and pry open the cans one by one, and they couldn't stop praying in their hearts: ten thousand fruits, ten thousand fruits.

It's a pity that God didn't hear their prayers and opened more than twenty mouthfuls of canned food, except for luncheon meat.

Zhou Zhongying was also annoyed, he knew when he came out, so he asked the experienced soldiers in the barracks to choose it first, thinking that he didn't need to eat this kind of junk food on this business trip.

After taking a few bites, he felt that his mouth was full of cold, greasy tofu-like items, and Zhou Zhongying felt uncomfortable for a while, and he couldn't stand it anymore.

"Sir, what is this?" A childish voice asked timidly.

Zhou Zhongying turned his head to look over, and it turned out to be the group of baby soldiers he met on the way before, "It's meat." ”

"It's meat!" The sound of swallowing saliva sounded one after another, and dozens of pairs of eyes were green.

Seeing that the faces of those children were pale with hunger, Zhou Zhongying felt sad for a while, and handed over the canned food: "Give it to you!" ”

"Thank you, thank you, thank you." The kid in front of him snatched it and poured it into his mouth.

"Don't worry, eat slowly."

"I still have it here." The team is handing the luncheon meat to another child.

"I have it here, for you." Other soldiers, like Amnesty, did the same by distributing cans to children.

Zhou Zhongying's lips moved, wanting to say something, but in the end it was just that.

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