Seeing Qin Chuan come out, Sheng Xuanhuai said with a smile on his face: "Ming Hong, I haven't seen you for a few days, but you are getting more and more energetic, and people are in good spirits at happy events, this seems to be true!" ”

Qin Chuan knew that this was Sheng Xuanhuai making fun of him, and he didn't mind, and Zhang Shiheng, who couldn't help but be overjoyed, nodded, and pointed at the foreigners behind Sheng Xuanhuai suspiciously. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Master Shan, why did you bring so many people?"

Sheng Xuanhuai tried his best to hide the excitement in his heart and said: "Ming Hong, I went to the capital yesterday, in accordance with the instructions of Lord Zhongtang, made a special trip to the emperor and the queen mother to present our Aurora brand canned food, the queen mother and the emperor praised you, and when I came back, according to the instructions of Zhongtang, I went to Dongjiaomin Lane to visit the envoys of various countries in Beijing, in addition to conveying the invitation of Zhongtang, inviting them to observe the school reading of the martial arts academy tomorrow, and by the way, I also sent them a few boxes of our canned food, and recommended it to them. ”

"Who knows, these foreign envoys tasted our canned food, and they all thought that the taste was very good, much better than that produced in Europe. Only they don't believe that the shelf life of our canned food is 24 months, and they think that canned food, the best food made in Europe, will not exceed two months. If they really want to keep it for that long, they are willing to recommend it to the navy and army of their respective countries. ”

"In order to let them see our cannery, I invited them all to Tianjin early this morning, and the carriage was about to fall apart along the way, hurry up and hurry, just entered the concession, and changed to a sedan chair and a foreign car without stopping to come directly to your cannery."

Canned food, which is easy to preserve, can attract the attention of the ministers of these countries, which is really a bit unexpected for Qin Chuan, but after thinking about it carefully, he is relieved. At a time when technology is not yet very developed, the field rations of the armies of various countries are very monotonous, especially the navy, and they stay on the ship for a month or two, and they can only eat fresh vegetables and meat when the ship is docked to replenish the port, and it would be much better if he had this can.

Sheng Xuanhuai turned around and pointed to the foreigners behind him and introduced Qin Chuan.

Among the ministers who came were British Minister Plenipotentiary Dou Nale, French Minister Glau, German Minister Klinder, Italian Minister Raj, Russian Minister Geers, American Minister Gu Sheng, Austro-Hungarian Ferner, Japanese Minister Keisuke Otori, and so on.

Although Qin Chuan did not have a good impression of the envoys of these Western powers in the Qing Dynasty, especially the British Minister Dou Nale, the Russian Minister Gers, and the Japanese Minister Norisuke Otori, he still shook hands with these ministers one by one with a smile on his face.

However, it was not these three people who made Qin Chuan feel unhappy, Dou Nale, Gels and Otori Keisuke all looked gentle and elegant when greeting Qin Chuan, Otori Keisuke was even more enthusiastic and polite, but the German minister with a beard on his face, Klinder, was very arrogant, which made Qin Chuan very disgusted.

Because of Clinde, Qin Chuan was not in the mood to pay attention to the other foreign bank managers, and Sheng Xuanhuai did not introduce them one by one, but just urged Qin Chuan.

"Minghong, you still take us to visit the whole process of making this can, start with your slaughterhouse, I still have something to report to Zhongtang when it's over."

After Sheng Xuanhuai finished speaking, regardless of whether Qin Chuan was willing or not, he had already stepped into the door of the slaughterhouse first.

Sheng Xuanhuai went in, Dou Nale, Geers and other ministers also followed and walked inside, Qin Chuan had no choice but to catch up with Sheng Xuanhuai and lead the way to the workshop.

The people in the courtyard who were chasing cattle and pigs saw two officials and a large group of foreigners coming in, and they all hurriedly hid to the sides. The smell in the yard was complicated, and Sheng Xuanhuai, who was already familiar with this place, hurried across the yard to the backyard.

The backyard is a slaughterhouse, now that the weather is good, the slaughtering of livestock is outside, it should be that the pig is being slaughtered in the back, and the terrible howl of the pig dying suddenly sounded in the backyard, and this sound made Qin Chuan's heart tense.

Hurriedly turned back to look at those foreign ministers, but didn't see any special reaction, the ministers didn't seem to hear this terrible howl, and they were still looking around with interest, Qin Chuan felt a little at ease.

Qin Chuan secretly thought in his heart, thinking that at this time, these foreigners did not have an organization such as the Animal Protection Association of later generations, but that scene was always a little cruel, not to mention others, even Qin Chuan himself was a little uncomfortable to look at. Qin Chuan hurriedly stepped forward and stretched out his hand to grab Sheng Xuanhuai.

"My lord, slaughtering livestock is the same everywhere, you don't have to go to the backyard, aren't you still in a hurry to go to Li Zhongtang, do you think we will start from the processing workshop?"

Sheng Xuanhuai listened to Qin Chuan's reasonableness, turned around and said a few words to the British Minister Dou Nale in English, Dou Nale nodded and agreed, and took the lead in following Sheng Xuanhuai into the processing workshop.

As soon as the workshop was tightened, there was a strong strange smell in the bloody atmosphere, and the ministers and managers of the foreign bank hurriedly took out handkerchiefs to cover their noses, only Sheng Xuanhuai and Zhang Shiheng did not cover their noses, on the contrary, these two people seemed to smell the breath of white flowers and silver, and the smiles on their faces were even bigger.

"Mr. Qin, you smell so strange here, what is sprayed here?" The German minister, Klinder, frowned and asked Qin Chuan loudly.

Clinde's question was obviously also what the other ministers and the managers of the foreign bank wanted to ask, and these people were staring at Qin Chuan and waiting for his answer.

Without waiting for Qin Chuan to explain, Sheng Xuanhuai said proudly to Clinde: "Mr. Clinde, this is a new disinfectant invented by Mr. Qin, spraying this disinfectant in the workshop is to prevent the meat from being contaminated... ”