The news of Jian's entry into the Koujing Division has already come, and people everywhere are panicking, as long as they are dexterous, they will try their best to hide in the city. It's just that the news from the first two days, hiding in the city does not seem to be very peaceful, on the fifteenth day of July, Jianyu broke Baodi, killed Zhao Guoding, the county governor, looted a good county seat, and drove all the men and women in the city away.

When Pang Kui heard the news, he sighed very emotionally, Baodi County, he had been there in the first half of the year, but it turned out to be a bloody place where Jianyu was rampant!

Pangjiazhuang is a small village in the southern suburbs of Gyeonggi, and Pang Kui is the poorest tenant in this village, because he is poor, so he has no family, and he is in his thirties, but he still lives a life where the whole family is fed without hunger - but the number of times he eats is really not much, he can count it by raising his hands.

In normal times, he relied on domestic help, and occasionally acted as a porter. He himself felt that in this small village hidden in the wilderness, he was a figure who had "seen the world", but he was still shocked when this group of people came to the village a few days ago.

He had never seen such men and horses, nearly two hundred rode into the village, but neither killed nor plundered, Pangjiazhuang is a small village, they could not find a place to live, so they set up camp at the head of the village, just asked the village for some wood, and even gave money!

As for rice and noodles and the like, they paid a high price to collect from the village, and the people in the village were a little embarrassed, so they killed a sheep last night and sent them to them, but although they smiled at the sheep, they gave them gifts back. According to Pang Kui's estimate, this gift is sold in the capital, and the price can be worth three or four sheep!

Occasionally, there are people in fresh clothes or angry horses or small hats in green clothes who come here to look for them, but the smell of brocade clothes and guards on these people can be smelled from ten miles away Pang Kui.

The people who are related to Jinyiwei are so kind...... This always makes Pang Kui feel that there is a conspiracy.

His life experience had accustomed him to thinking from the point of view of conspiracy, and Zhang Dajia next door scolded him twice in the morning, that must have known that he had eavesdropped on the movement of their couple's bed last night, and the bearded crutch of Qianzhuang blew his beard and glared at him, which must have been thinking of driving him to herd sheep for free, and if anyone treated him better, he wondered if the other party had taken a fancy to his belongings and wanted to kill him for money - although all his possessions were only an old sheepskin that could be exchanged for a few pennies.

Pang Kui looked at these people who were always smiling carefully and curiously, and the strangest thing about him was that these guys in their twenties were full of smiles every day. At this time, the world is shaking, even in the vicinity of Jingshi, the people are struggling to make a living, and it is really difficult to laugh out loud.

"Would you like to have some too?"

While he was thinking about it, he suddenly heard this voice ringing in his ears. He looked sideways and saw Huo Yan's smile. Huo Yan held a strange glass jar in his hand and stretched it out towards him. The mouth of the jar was open, and there was a smell of meat coming from inside, which made Pang Kui salivate.

Seeing that he was still a little hesitant, Huo Yan smiled and said, "I have been scratching you for a few days, even if I am talking about apologies." ”

No matter how much suspicion he had, Pang Kui couldn't resist the temptation of food, he swallowed, tossed his stomach full of conspiracy theories aside, and half-grabbed the glass jar.

He thought it was a glass jar, but it was actually a glass jar from Xinxiang. Since the advent of the glass smelting method, it has been used by the imaginative craftsmen of Xinxiang in any place they can think of, including replacing the previous clay pots to make cans. In addition, unlike the salted fish pieces that were simply marinated and preserved in the past, there are many varieties of canned food in Xinxiang, from meat to vegetables to fruits.

For example, the canned mushroom chicken that Huo Yan handed to Pang Kui is one of them. Its manufacturing method is very simple, the boiled shiitake mushroom chicken is packed and placed in a steam environment for high temperature sterilization, and then corked and the edges are sealed with wax. It has a shelf life of up to six months, making it ideal for use as a marching meat.

Yu Guozhen is also promoting a wide variety of canned fruits, and is also researching tinplate, preparing to further launch canned tinplate. At present, his canned fruits are selling quite well in Nanzhili, especially the unique fruits in the south, such as lychee and porot, which are sold by him in Jinling, Yangzhou and Suzhou and Hangzhou with the trademark of "Concubine Smile".

A canned piece of meat sells for 30 yuan, and a canned fruit sells for 40 yuan, which is not a price at all for a person who is willing to listen to a storytelling for ten taels of silver. And since the canned food can be enjoyed immediately, and can be used as a gift, it is the glass jar, which can also come in handy in the future, so when the first batch of canned food began to sell in May, 60,000 cans were sold in just one month, and Hugh saw that the profit behind this figure is only about 1,200 taels, which is just because of the lack of production capacity of Xinxiang. By June, this number can at least be doubled, Yu Guozhen asked the girls on the Qinhuai River in Jinling City to do a survey, Jinling City alone, the saturated sales volume every month, should be about 100,000 cans.

Add up the total market of Nanzhili, at least 300,000 canned food per month, if Xinxiang can completely fight this market, it is a net profit of 6,000 taels per month, and there are more than 70,000 taels a year!

Expanding it to other cities, Yu Guozhen can be sure that the canning workshop can bring him more than 100,000 taels of income a year. And the cost of making a Huwei B-type musket is only about two taels of silver!

Such a large profit, under the arrangement of assembly operations, only needs about 30 of his labor, and most of them only use women.

What's more, the canning workshop can also bring huge military value, at least it greatly reduces the loss of large troop transportation, and also saves the cost of buying fruits, meat and poultry on the spot.

Pang Kui had seen Jiawei eat this can, he didn't have a spoon, so he used chopsticks to clip out the chicken and mushrooms inside, seeing him gobbling up, Huo Yan couldn't help but feel a little proud while laughing.

He was in the third phase of Jiawei, and Chongzhen followed Yu Guozhen for six years. Like Tian Boguang and Ji Yan, his hometown is also in Denglai, so just over three years ago, when he was fifteen years old, he was no different from the numb and obscene man in front of him.

"But now it's different, I'm completely different from him. He is still numb and does not know how big the world is, but I am ...... I'm an official in the New Xianghu Guard! ”

He was thinking in his heart, but there was a sound of locks behind him, this rhythm was blowing the emergency assembly order, Huo Yan's face changed slightly, and he turned around and ran back towards the camp.

"Open and pull out, there is finally news, a team of Tartars has come out!" When he returned to the camp, his superiors faced him and shouted, "Get your queue in order!" ”

Although with the fall of the eunuchs, the factory guards are no longer as sharp as they were at the beginning, but they still have a certain amount of control in the vicinity of Kiki. Therefore, in the news transmitted to Yu Guozhen, the team that was approaching Shunyi from Baodi to the west was the Horqin Mongol detachment that had taken refuge in Jianyu, and its leader was the Zhengbai Banner Mongolian Gushan Ezhen Yibai.

This person was quite active in the battles of Pochangping and Baodi, and he was always the outpost. His troops were also the most brutal, with no military discipline, and he was repeatedly fined for undisciplined military discipline.

It was for this reason that when he was ordered to return to his division and march westward, he ignored Azico's order that he was just bluffing, and plundered villages along the way, slaughtering the old and weak, and killing his surname, not even paying attention to the distance of his own army from Azigo more than sixty miles.

After the emergency assembly whistle sounded three times, Tian Boguang came to Yu Guozhen: "Officials, there are one hundred and seventy-one people in the Qinwang Volunteer Brigade, and there are one hundred and seventy-one people, please give an order!" ”

Yu Guozhen closed his eyes slightly, and then pointed to the northeast: "Target, Yibai Division, go!" ”

This time, the target he chose to attack was still not the headquarters of Jianyu, but the Horqin Mongols who had taken refuge in Jianyu. Although Ibai himself was a Zhenglan banner, he commanded the Horqin Mongols.

When they left the camp, Huo Yan looked at Pang Kui standing at the entrance of the camp in a daze, still holding an empty canned bottle in his hand, looking at them stupidly.

Huo Yan waved his hand to him to say goodbye, but Pang Kui ran over as if he had discovered something, and handed the bottle in his hand back to him: "Master Jun, your glass bottle!" ”

"I'm not a military master, I've got this can for you." Huo Yan patted the backpack behind him very generously: "I still have this, to be honest, I eat this every day, and I'm a little tired of eating." ”

"Heavenly ...... Eat this every day? Pang Kui's tongue curled.

He had never eaten such a delicacy, but in the eyes of these weird-looking Qinwang Yiyong, these were things that he was tired of eating every day!

In order to solve the problem of the taste of canned meat and vegetables, Yu Guozhen has put some thought into it, for example, using kelp to extract MSG. MSG has greatly improved the taste of canned food and nourished the appetite of people like Huo Yan, but the production of kelp algae in tropical waters is close to none, so the kelp that Xinxiang needs today comes from imports, and those vermilion ships and smuggling ships from the Wa Kingdom, in addition to the products of the past, dried kelp is also an easy cargo to sell in Hoi An.

Such a source determines that the production of monosodium glutamate is very limited, and at present, it is only a priority to ensure the supply of household sanitation, and a very small number of them flow into the market of Tan Xiang and Hoi An, and the price is also surprisingly expensive, far exceeding the equally important white sugar. But now Yu Guozhen has a stronghold in Qingdaokou, Jimo, and he plans to use it as a base to harvest and buy kelp for boiling monosodium glutamate. At that time, there will be one more property to make money for him.

"We're leaving, man, take care." Huo Yan said with a smile.

Ponqua watched the team pass in front of them, and the horses did not run, so they were not fast. He hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth.

What else is there to think about, the village is an old man, and it is impossible to eat that delicious chicken all at once, for a bite of meat, what is the point of selling people's lives?

Thinking of this, he quickly chased after him. He had been wandering around outside the Huwei camp for the past few days, so he also knew that Yu Guozhen was the one who decided this team, and he did not hesitate to run in front of Yu Guozhen and stop the horse.

Then, he landed on his knees and knelt down: "Childe, I want to go with you, I don't want anything else, I just want to be able to eat that...... Can! ”

The word "canned" came out of his mouth with a slump in his mouth, but it was the first sound that came to be known as "canned grenade population plunder tactics" by history buffs.

(To be continued)