Chapter 156: Canned Meat
"See His Royal Highness the Acting King!"
At the entrance of the Daxing City Engineering Department, Ping Honggui led the ministers of the Ministry of Industry to welcome Yang Yu's arrival.
"Excuse me!" Yang Yu got out of the car.
Ping Honggui and the others got up.
This is Yang Yu's second visit to the Ministry of Industry, and compared with Yang Yu's first visit, the Daxing Ministry of Industry has undergone earth-shaking changes.
The original dilapidated gate has been demolished and turned into a new red brick gatehouse, and the overgrown courtyard is neatly cleaned, and the red brick road is paved with one color, which looks particularly magnificent.
"His Royal Highness, please." Ping Honggui stepped forward and said respectfully.
Thanks to the support of His Royal Highness the Acting King, if it were not for His Royal Highness the Acting King to draw the drawings of the four-wheeled carriage and build the brick road, where would the Ministry of Industry of Daxing City have today's good days.
Yang Yu walked in front, Ping Honggui led the way, and a group of officials from the Ministry of Industry followed behind.
Before I got closer, I heard a lively voice.
"Your Royal Highness, this is the workshop of the BMW car." Hira said, pointing to a huge construction site in front of him.
On the construction site, hundreds of craftsmen are in full swing.
Today there are two workshops for BMWs, one outside the city, where only the original rough processing is carried out, and the timber is cut into the rough embryos required by the ministry.
The other is here, where the most famous and exquisite craftsmen in Daxing City are gathered, and the rough parts of BMW cars that have been built are pulled in from outside the city, and in the hands of these craftsmen they become fine parts to build the top BMW cars.
"Your Highness is a man of God, and according to your orders, each carpenter is now only responsible for making one part. Nowadays, the speed at which BMW cars are being built has increased considerably. Ping Honggui said sincerely.
At the time when BMW cars were just booming, there was a moment. BMW cars are in short supply, and after Ping Honggui reported the situation to Yang Yoo. Yang Yu proposed the method of assembly line.
Pinghong returned like a treasure, and after practice, it was really accelerated and very successful.
In the past, the Ministry of Industry could only produce 20 BMW cars a day, and even if it worked overtime, it only produced about 50 taels. This output simply cannot meet the needs of the landlords of the family.
Since the implementation of the assembly line method provided by Yang Yu, the speed has increased more than ten times at once.
Some unimportant carpentry can be handed over to some ordinary carpenters, and the real core craftsmen are only responsible for their own best craft, and then hand it over to the workers to assemble.
At present, the Daxing City Ministry of Industry can produce 300 horse-drawn carriages a day, and if it is working overtime, it is not impossible to have thousands of horse-drawn carriages a day.
"Not bad!" Yang Yu nodded with satisfaction.
However, the purpose of Yang Yu's visit today was not for the four-wheeled carriage, but to check the supply of weapons to the Ministry of Industry.
"His Royal Highness the Acting King, please. You're going to visit the weapons workshop here. ”
Yang Yoo followed Ping Honggui to the other side of the Ministry of Works, in front of a sealed warehouse.
"Open the door!" Hirahiro ordered.
"Yes!" The soldier on guard answered, turned and opened the warehouse.
The warehouse door opened, and a strong smell of grease came to my face.
"This grease is necessary to preserve the weapon, forgive me, Your Highness the Acting King!" Hira explained.
"This king is not a delicate man."
Yang Yu said, in order to prove that what he said was true, he pinched his nose and walked into the warehouse first.
When I entered the warehouse, I found that the warehouse was much larger than it looked from the outside, and it was densely packed with military supplies.
The first thing that catches your eye is a mountain of arrows. Stacks of neat stacks. Seeing the countless arrows, Yang Yu nodded with satisfaction, these arrows alone are enough to fight a big battle.
"BMW cars have always used a lot of wood. Every time, there will be a lot of leftovers, and Wechen will collect some wood that can be made into arrows, in case it is not needed. Now that the war is going on, Wechen has ordered the craftsmen to build them all into arrows. Hira explained.
There were too many hard days before Heihiro's return. I can't see a little waste, and now Pinghonggui's thrift has finally played a key role.
"Ping Shilang has a heart. This is a great achievement, this king will definitely report to the emperor's grandfather and ask for credit to Ping Shilang! Yang Yu praised.
"How are the bows and crossbows made?" Yang Yu asked, just having arrows and no bows and crossbows was still useless.
"Ugh! Daxing City lacked ox tendon and sheep horns, and the manufacture of bows and crossbows was slow. Ping Honggui said with a smile.
"This king will speed up the acquisition of these substances." Yang Yu said.
"Thank you, Your Royal Highness, as long as the materials are sufficient, the Ministry of Industry will definitely make enough bows and crossbows in the shortest possible time." Ping Honggui said confidently.
This is not to be Bragging, the BMW Car Workshop has already provided a lot of skilled craftsmen for the Ministry of Industry, as long as Ping Honggui has ordered, these craftsmen who make BMW cars can be transformed into military households that make bows and crossbows overnight.
Later, Ping Honggui showed Yang Yu the manufacturing of weapons and armor, because the weapon and armor manufacturing workshop of the Daxing Ministry of Industry has been abandoned for a long time, it is difficult to recover between one day and two days, and the production is not ideal.
In the lobby of the Ministry of Works, Yang Yu sat in the main seat, and Ping Honggui stood next to him.
"Wechen has disappointed His Royal Highness the Acting King." Heihiro pleaded guilty.
"Ping Shilang doesn't have to blame himself, it's not your responsibility, the Daxing Ministry has been abandoned for ten years, and there are too many skilled craftsmen who have been lost, and many crafts have been lost." Yang Yu said.
"In any case, it is Wechen's responsibility to fail to manage the Ministry of Industry well." Hirahiro blamed himself.
"Weapons and armor can be taken slowly, and the next time you trade with Luoyang, this king will ask Luoyang to provide ten craftsmen with exquisite craftsmanship." Yang Yu said.
"Thank you, Your Highness!" Hirahiro thanked him.
"How's that thing I asked you to do?" Yang Yu asked suddenly.
"Your Royal Highness the Acting King rest assured! Wechen has gathered all the skilled craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry and finally completed the first batch of samples yesterday. Ping Honggui said with a slight smile.
"Pick it up!" Yang Yu said eagerly.
Ping Honggui ordered, and after a while, four people from the Ministry of Works came in carrying a wooden box.
Open the wooden chest. I saw that there were five or six iron cans inside.
Hirahiro stepped forward and picked up the tin can. The tin cans are not large and cylindrical in shape.
Hira removed the wax from the seal on the top of the tin can. Twist it firmly and pull open the tin can.
Suddenly, a rich smell of meat filled the room.
"Your Royal Highness, please see, this is the can you ordered." Hirahiro returned the tin in his hand.
Canned, Yang Yu couldn't help but feel happy in his heart.
As early as when the bandit suppression force was formed, Yang Yu noticed the defects of military rations in this era.
In many cases, soldiers should bring their own dry food when they fight, and sometimes there are too many troops, so they must have special soldiers who transport food, and they have to burn a fire to cook every time they eat.
Poor days. How many wars in history have seized the opportunity to eat, and in this era, there is a shortage of meat in the military rations, and soldiers can often only be treated when they win battles, resulting in a shortage of nutrition for soldiers in the army, and night blindness is prevalent.
There is a lack of meat in the army, and Yang Yu summed up three reasons, one is a more realistic problem, military spending is tight. But now that Daxing City is rich in the world, this problem is no longer a problem.
The second is transportation, which is more convenient than meat. Easy to store and easy to transport, that army also had to carry a flock of sheep to fight. A flock of chickens! What kind of battle is there to fight!
The third is the problem of storage. As long as it is well preserved, there is no problem with storing grain for ten years. And once the meat is slaughtered for five days in winter, it will spoil in one day in summer.
Yang Yu thought about it for a long time. Finally came up with a solution. That's the canned food of the Hereafter.
Canned food was popular in the 80-90s in Yang Yoo's previous life. At that time, there was a shortage of materials, and canned food became a popular gift.
As long as the meat is canned and sealed well, it is not only conducive to transportation, but also can be stored for a long time, canned food is an excellent way to solve the shortage of meat in the army.
"According to Wechen's estimates, a well-sealed can can be stored for two months in winter and more than a month in summer." Ping Honggui said confidently.
Dong Yue took the meaty canned food in Ping Honggui's hand, picked up a wooden spoon and scooped up a large piece and put it in his mouth, and immediately felt that the taste was raw and delicious.
Reluctantly, he handed the canned food in his hand to Yang Yu, his task was to test the poison, not to taste it.
Yang Yu took it, also took a bite, and nodded with satisfaction.
"I believe that this can will be very popular in the army." Yang Yu said with a smile.
"That's it!" Ping Honggui also smiled.
"The last general, those soldiers, thank you to His Royal Highness." Dong Yue said solemnly.
He is a fierce general on the battlefield, of course, knowing that the food in the army is simply miserable, if there is this kind of canned meat adjustment, the soldier's food level will be upgraded by three levels.
"Commander Dong is polite, those soldiers are fighting for the empire, of course this king can't treat them badly." Yang Yu said.
"His Royal Highness the Acting King is benevolent."
Everyone said in unison.
"Ping Shilang, can this kind of canned food be produced on a large scale, the soldiers of the empire are currently fighting, if those soldiers are allowed to eat this delicacy as soon as possible, I believe that their morale will be greatly increased." Yang Yu said.
"His Royal Highness the King of Qiyu, now the Ministry of Industry has sufficient personnel, as long as an order is given, you can work overtime to make it, but the price of meat is not cheap, if it is purchased on a large scale, I am afraid it will cause turbulence in the price of meat." Ping Honggui worried.
If 50,000 soldiers were to eat meat, they would need a lot of meat every day.
"The price is not a problem, the king wants to ensure that the soldiers eat well. You go to the Imperial Bank and withdraw 200,000 yuan as funds, 100,000 yuan for the construction of a cannery, and 100,000 yuan for the purchase of livestock. Yang Yu didn't feel sorry for the money at all, and said directly.
"100,000 yuan purchase, isn't it a bit much, it is estimated that the livestock around Jingzhao County are not enough!" Ping Honggui was shocked, he didn't expect His Royal Highness to spend such a large amount of money.
But think about it, the acting king's shot was not shocking to the world, and a small fight was not worth it at all.
"If there are not enough livestock in Daxing City, you will go to other counties to buy it, and if there are not enough other counties and counties, you will go to Longxi and Qinghai to buy it, in short, give me all the strength to make canned meat, and this king will be of great use at that time." Yang Yu said domineeringly.
"Yes." Hirahiro responded.
Since His Royal Highness attaches so much importance to it, then he will take out twelve points of spirit to do it, just like when he developed the BMW car.
Yang Yu nodded slightly, the war has come, save a little more material at this time, and there will be more security in the future.
And it won't be long before Luoyang is about to be besieged, and Daxing City will take these cans to rescue the citizens of Luoyang, and I believe that it will be a lot of money at that time. (To be continued......)