"Your Majesty, Jianyu has moved the capital to the north and headed to the city of Yuhui on the side of the Heilongjiang River." Cao Duan, the commander-in-chief of the Guanwai Admiral, reported to Liu Jun.

When Liu Jun heard the news, he was drinking milk tea, not fresh milk goat's milk, but milk tea made with milk powder.

Milk powder is not actually a high-tech product. There is an account in the travelogue of Marco Polo in Italy that when the Mongolian cavalry of the Yuan Dynasty was fighting, they carried milk powder as military food. It is said that the Mongolian general Meng Yuan skillfully dried it and made it into a powdered milk powder that was easy to carry and used as a military use. When marching long distances, milk powder is easy to carry.

It is also convenient to eat, each time you take about half a catty and put it into the leather bag you carry, add water to hang it on the saddle, when the horse runs, the milk powder will shake and dissolve in the pot, and finally become porridge for consumption. It can quickly replenish physical strength on horseback during battle, and with Mongolian meat floss and jerky, it is the most convenient and nutritious dry food.

It is said that a Mongol cavalryman only needs to carry a jug of water, a piece of beef floss, and a bag of milk powder to survive on horseback for several months.

Milk powder and meat floss were the secret weapons of the Mongolian army that swept the world.

Now that the Han Dynasty had received Mongol allegiance, and Liu Jun had also divided the Mongol princes, the steppe became a part of the Han Dynasty, and the livestock industry included both the traditional livestock trade and the furs. But Liu Jun believes that meat and dairy products should also be included.

In Chifeng, the imperial court received a large number of livestock brought in by the Mongol chieftains, many of whom would pick the strong ones and send them to the Central Plains as livestock for cultivation and transportation. The rest is slaughtered, the wool of the cattle can be spun, the meat can be made into air-dried meat, it can also be made into meat floss, and it will also be made into canned meat.

In this era, transportation is difficult, and food preservation is even more difficult.

Therefore, if the Central Plains wants to eat grassland beef and mutton, they must either directly drive the cattle and sheep to the Central Plains for slaughter. Either you have to eat air-dried or cured meat.

Cattle and sheep can be sent to the Central Plains, the road is far away, easy to die and easy to lose weight.

Air-dried beef and mutton always taste worse. Therefore, Liu Jun directly built a canning factory in Chifeng, used a clay pot to hold it, cooked and processed the meat, and then passed through the steam link, and then sealed the mouth of the can with mud or wax like sealing wine.

In this way, meat products can be canned and stored for a longer period of time. It seems mysterious. In fact, the key is two points, sealing and sterilization.

This is the same as sealing the wine, but after an additional steaming link, it is sterilized at a high temperature, which can make the canned food last longer.

After sealed packaging and strict sterilization process, the sterilized food can be kept in a vacuum state to prevent external contamination from entering. It prevents the regrowth of bacteria, etc., and does not deteriorate when stored at room temperature.

In this way, there is no need to drive cattle and sheep all the way to the customs, and they are directly slaughtered and processed into canned food outside the customs. The people of the Central Plains can also eat fresh beef and mutton.

In addition to making meat floss, dried meat and canned meat, Liu Jun also set up dairy factories, the most important of which was a milk powder factory, which processed the milk of cows, sheep and horses into milk powder. It can be stored for a long time and become an extremely valuable commodity. Cheese, milk skins, and milk tofu are also excellent products.

Whether it's a wool mill or a tannery. Even the establishment of canneries, milk powder factories, etc., enabled the imperial court to obtain stable benefits from the grasslands.

The Mongol princes grazed and hunted, providing cattle wool, cow and sheep milk, cow and sheep skins, and even cattle and sheep, and the imperial court purchased these raw materials for processing.

In the end, the people of the Central Plains were able to buy these goods from the grassland, sweaters, leather coats, blankets, canned food, milk powder, meat floss, etc., and even cattle, horses, camels, etc.

The Mongol princes and Mongol herdsmen were able to sell these raw materials and livestock, and then buy oil, salt, tea, wine, cloth, ironware and other industrial and commercial goods from the merchants of the Central Plains.

Both sides were provided with convenience, and the imperial court was able to collect another tax in the process of production and trading, and even collect customs duties when goods passed through the customs.

It's a win-win situation, so to speak.

The fighting and killing are too untechnical, the grassland is so big, and it is impossible for the Han army to kill them all, and they can't be wasted after killing. You can't kill the grassland herdsmen, and then move the Central Plains people to graze.

Liu Jun felt that it was best for each to take what he needed, and use a big net of economic interests to also catch them.

Now the first batch of factories have been established, canned food, milk powder has also begun to be produced, Liu Jun himself also tried these new products, the taste is very good, less industrialized taste, but a little more original taste.

Liu Jun believes that after these new products have won the reputation and opened the channel, they will become an emerging industry, and then the financial resources will roll in, and the exchanges between the grassland and the Central Plains will be closer.

When these industries become bigger and stronger, both the grassland people and the Central Plains people will be inseparable from each other.

"Sit down and talk." Liu Jun personally poured a cup of milk tea for Cao Duan.

When they were young, they were both the 13th Taibao of Xiwan, but now the relationship is a little estranged.

"Try this milk tea." Liu Jun said with a smile.

Cao Duan, the general of the empire, if he ignored the five golden tigers on his shoulder, he was actually just a young man in his twenties, just like the emperor.

It's just that the monarch and the ministers are normal, so that he doesn't dare to be as before.

"Thank you, Your Majesty for tea." Cao Duan picked up the milk tea and took a big sip at once.

"What are you anxious about, taste it slowly, and taste the taste." Liu Jun saw that he was going to dry up, and he couldn't cry or laugh a little, and he didn't give poison, he used it like this.

Hearing the emperor's orders, Cao Duan slowly tasted it.

"How?"

"The taste is very good, milk is milk, not mare's milk, tea should be tea from Sichuan, this milk and tea are mixed together and boiled, the taste is very mellow." Cao Duan said slowly.

Liu Jun poured him another cup, "You try this cup again." ”

"This cup is mare's milk."

"That's right, that glass was milk, this cup was mare's milk, but don't you think there's anything wrong?"

"What's wrong? I don't think so, it's normal. ”

"Haha, let me tell you, the milk used in these two cups of milk tea is not fresh milk, but milk powder." Liu Jun told him.

"Is it milk powder? But I think it tastes very good, it seems to taste better than fresh milk, and there is a little less fishy smell. ”

Liu Jun was very satisfied with this answer, and he himself felt that milk powder had less fishy smell and tasted better than fresh milk.

"Since you say the same, it means that our milk powder will be very promising. In the future, if we want to drink milk, we don't have to raise a cow anymore, we can set up a milk powder factory on the grassland, collect the freshest milk from the herdsmen, and then process it into milk powder, and then transport it back to the Central Plains. In this way, whether it is Beijing, Nanjing, Luoyang, Xi'an and other places, or even Sichuan and Guizhou, they can also drink milk and goat milk from the Saishang grassland. ”

Cao Duan smiled and didn't say much.

He actually felt that the emperor was a little unprofessional, but now it was the time of the Great War, the Mongol princes broke Horqin, and the Jurchens went north to Heilongjiang, at this time, shouldn't the emperor be more concerned about whether he should send troops to Liaodong?

Liu Jun reached out to wipe the milk foam off his lips.

"Why, the soldiers are already impatient?"

"Back to Your Majesty, the soldiers all feel that the time is good now, Horqin is defeated, and the last broken arm of the Jurchen is gone. Now our army should take this opportunity to launch a battle to restore Liao, break through Liaoshen in one fell swoop, and recover the land of Liaodong. ”

Liu Jun didn't answer his question immediately, but said lightly, "It's November soon." ”

Every year in November, the Liaohai Sea begins to freeze, not to mention the rivers of Liaodong.

Further north, Shenyang, Harwin and other places are even more icy and snowy. When the time comes, the dripping water will turn into ice, and the snow in the wild will be as thick as half a person high.

In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Liu Jun conquered Liao, all the way to the city of Shenyang, and that winter, they basically stayed in those castles outside Shenyang.

For the winter in Liaodong, Liu Jun has a deep understanding.

"Winter is coming, and it's time to collect troops."

"Collect the troops? Now?" Cao Duan's big accident.

He is the governor of Guanwai, and he very much hopes that the imperial court can recover Liaodong as soon as possible, so that he, the governor of Guanwai, can be regarded as such a thing.

"There will definitely be another battle, but that is, the alliance of the Mongol princes will sweep away the four parts of Horqin, and then this year's battle will be over."

"Your Majesty, we won't fight Liaoshen and recover Liaodong?"

"Of course Liaoshen will fight, and Liaodong will definitely recover. We not only want to recover Liaodong, but also the entire Nuer Gandusi, but not now. Liu Jun said slowly, "You can't be anxious to fight with soldiers." If you are in a hurry, it is easy to have problems. To fight a war, there must be a good time, a good place, and a good people. At present, winter is about to begin, and Liaodong will be icy and snowy, and this day is not conducive to our war. ”

"Besides, if we don't fight an unprepared battle, we are not ready for a battle to restore Liao. Although the imperial court has also made a lot of preparations this time, this preparation is to subdue the Mongol tribes, and even our plan is only to conquer the Monan tribes, and even Horqin is not in our plan. ”

Up to now, the southern and northern parts of the desert have surrendered, and the only one who surrendered late, the four tribes of Horqin, have also been destroyed by the imperial court, which is a good situation beyond expectations.

But this does not mean that the imperial court may continue to attack eastward.

He looked at Cao Duan, who was a little disappointed, and smiled, "Don't worry, Liaodong has no long feet, if you don't fight this year, we can fight next year." ”

If you fight a year late, the situation will not get worse, but it will only become more favorable to the Han.

By next year, the strength of the Jurchens will only get weaker, and the strength of the Dahan will only get stronger.

Moreover, the new fall of the Mongolian tribes must first stabilize it.

Dolgon moved the capital to Heilongjiang at this time, avoiding war without fighting, obviously with the intention of preserving strength. It is impossible for the Han army to pursue all the way to Heilongjiang at the moment, so since it is impossible to eliminate the main force of the Qing army, there is no need to forcibly fight Liaoshen.

Prepare well for the previous year, and it's not too late to fight next year when everything is ready. (To be continued.) )