Chapter 43: Canned Fruit
Although the torture hall has always strictly investigated and not slackened off on such people who have deducted military salaries and filled their pockets, and if they catch one of them, they will be dealt with severely, but this kind of thing can always drive some bold and reckless people to stretch out their dirty hands.
Therefore, we must find ways to prevent this kind of thing from happening in the construction of the system, minimize the number of people who pass it, and reduce the possibility of being exploited.
So Yu Xiaotian thought of a method commonly used by later generations of units, that is, under the council hall, open a money bank, but every sea wolf tribe opened a personal account for them in the money bank, and when the council hall allocated the salary to the money bank, the money village directly sent the salary to the personal accounts of the people.
In this way, the link of the transfer of money is reduced, and no one can deduct the salary of the people, and when the people of the sea wolf tribe need money, they can go to the personal account of the money bank to withdraw the silver, and when they do not need it, let the silver or reward silver lie on the account, so as to avoid the situation that they can keep it personally, and carry it with them may be stolen and lost.
Prior to this, whether it was on the ship or in the barracks, there had been cases where the money distributed by the subordinates was not kept well, and was stolen or lost, so that the subordinates no longer carried and kept the silver with them, and this situation was prevented.
This method was immediately supported by the Seawolf tribesmen, and at the same time, it also brought an advantage, that is, the Seawolf Council could obtain a considerable amount of deposits, whether it was used for investment or loans, which reduced the burden of the Seawolf every time it was time to pay.
In the past, when the sea wolf was paid, he had to prepare a large amount of cash silver, and when he was paid, he had to queue up to receive the salary, and a lot of silver was a large ingot, and he had to use special scissors to cut it up, which was very troublesome, and the demand for cash was very large.
But after adopting this method of paying silver or rewarding silver on behalf of the bank, when the sea wolf is paid, there is no longer a need to mobilize a large amount of cash, and the sea wolf people now give the people a good treatment, they can eat, drink, and live, and also pay clothes, and the sea wolf has developed a strict system, and the sea wolf has only four days of rest every month, one day off every seven days, and they have to leave the team in batches, and the rest of the time they have to be on duty or practice on the ship or in the barracks, even if they don't have to go to work at night, they must stay in the camp. So basically there are not many places to spend money.
In this way, the money bank does not need to prepare a large amount of cash, but only needs to prepare a small amount of cash for a limited number of Seawolf people to withdraw.
Therefore, after the introduction of this method, it has reduced a lot of pressure on the cash expenditure of the council hall, and at the beginning of the implementation, the people of the Sea Wolf Department were still a little uneasy, and some people took the time to quickly withdraw the salary as soon as they were paid, put it by their side, or handed it over to their families for safekeeping.
But after a long time, they found that it was boring to do so, and the Seawolf Council Hall paid them cash at any time from the internal money bank, which was inconvenient for them to carry with them, and they were not at ease, and it was useless to hand it over to their families, and they had to find a way to hide it for fear of losing it.
So gradually, there were fewer and fewer people withdrawing cash, and then most of the Sea Wolf tribes simply stopped withdrawing easily, and let the money lie on their accounts, but they felt more at ease.
Some of the Seawolf tribesmen died or died in an accident during the course of their work, and Qian Zhuang would quickly receive the news, and immediately withdraw all the money stored in their accounts, and hand over a lot of money to their families.
Yu Xiaotian also attaches great importance to the diet of the sea wolf people, within the scope of the conditions, try to provide a better diet for the sea wolf people, so that they can get more adequate nutrition, which the sea wolf people are very satisfied, as long as they do things in the sea wolf, they can eat the big stove, and the tube is full, although the food is mostly brown rice, but this brown rice is not adulterated, it is really made of brown rice, and it is also accompanied by vegetables as supplementary food, and the dishes are often changed in some tricks, Even if there is no guarantee that there will be meat or fish or something like that, there are still a lot of tricks, and every two or three days, at least a fish or a meal of meat can be mixed.
When going out on a mission, like a sailor driving a boat to sea, when a soldier goes out on patrol, he eats better, and he can see meat almost every day.
For people who were previously struggling to be half-hungry or even unable to eat at all, they used to not be able to eat meat for a year, but now they are very satisfied with the quality of the food.
But Yu Xiaotian still feels insufficient about this, he came from the later generations, of course, he knows the quality of the diet of the people of the later generations, meat is not a rare thing in the later generations, as long as the average family, eat a meat meal every day, it is not a problem, so that the people of the later generations can get a more adequate supply of protein, and many times you can also eat fresh fruits to supplement various vitamins and trace elements, as for things like green vegetables, it is needless to say, eat in a different way, and I don't like to eat well.
And the ordinary people of this era, there are basically no non-staple dishes to eat, mainly eat some brown rice, but also add a lot of shredded potatoes to replace brown rice, only when they do heavy work, they will eat pure brown rice, many people even dare not eat pure brown rice all year round, the so-called vegetables are only some vegetables grown by themselves, more have to be pickled, reluctant to eat, can only be accompanied by some pickles, and even the people in the mainland do not even dare to eat more salt, let alone nutrition.
Therefore, the people of this era, the source of nutrition is basically some carbohydrates, and the intake of protein is very small, so the people of this era eat a lot of food, and must eat more carbohydrate food to meet the needs of the body, and at the same time, the physical consumption of their labor is also very large, so that many people are always in a state of malnutrition, including children, one by one, the face is yellow and thin, and it is rare to see the existence of fat people, as long as they are fat, they are basically rich people. Ordinary people don't have the possibility of eating fat at all.
For his subordinates, Yu Xiaotian didn't want them to feel a sense of hardship, so in terms of food, he tried his best to provide them with a better diet to ensure their needs, which he can say is doing a good job.
However, in the fleet of sailors, there are still some problems in terms of diet and nutrition, which makes Yu Xiaotian feel very dissatisfied.
In this era, when the ships went to sea, it was easy to say that the fishing boats would return in a day or two, but as soon as the warships went to sea, it was as short as three or four days or as long as more than ten days.
In addition, there are merchant ships of the merchant fleet, not to mention the ships that transport goods to the coast of Fujian, which are short-distance voyages, and there will be no problems, but now many ships are going to Macao or Tainan's Dayuan Hongmao City, and some of the farther ships are going to Manila and Bacheng (Batavia), Vietnam, Da Ni, Ryukyu, Japan and other places, and this trip will take at least a few months or even half a year.
In this way, the quality of the crew's food is worrying, although for the long journey on the road will also stop in some harbors to replenish some food, but it is more difficult to replenish, the variety is not guaranteed, not to mention the freshness.
In particular, those smuggling ships have to operate at sea in the Liangguang area, where there are many pirates, and they are always on the enemy's territory, and it is even more difficult to replenish them, so it is good to ensure fresh water on board.
Occasionally, they can also use the fishing nets prepared on the boats to catch some seafood to supplement their diet, but vegetables and fruits cannot be preserved in the southern sea with relatively high temperatures for a long time.
Therefore, they often rely on brown rice, pickles, and salted meat and fish carried on board to meet their needs, so that the crew members are often severely deficient in vitamins and suffer from various diseases such as beriberi and scurvy.
The biggest enemy of seafarers in this era is not necessarily pirates, their biggest enemy is often malnutrition and vitamin deficiency, many seafarers go to sea for a long time in the absence of medical treatment at sea, will die of various vitamin deficiency diseases, at this time people do not know much about nutritional problems, naturally do not know how to solve the problem.
The crew of the sea wolf naturally had to face such a problem, which affected the morale of the seafarers to a certain extent, making some seafarers afraid to go far away for fear of dying of illness on the way.
So Yu Xiaotian really wants to solve this problem, this kind of thing can be solved with enough canned food in the later generations, but in this era, canned food has not yet been invented, and only pickled food can be used to solve the problem of non-staple food for the crew.
In order to solve the problem of canned food, later generations mostly used tinplate to make canned food boxes, packaging sealed food, or plastic material packaging, or aluminum alloy packaging, but these things do not exist in this era, and Yu Xiaotian's scientific and technological knowledge cannot be solved.
So he can only put his idea on the glass, now his glass industry is developing well, the output of glass products is getting bigger and bigger, in addition to the various glass products for land sales, there is already a surplus production capacity, to help him solve this problem.
But the sealing is certainly not possible with tinplate, but the earliest glass cans also did not have tinplate, and the problem was solved by the use of cork.
So he ordered the craftsmen of the glass field to start trial production of various glass bottles, first by blowing, but blowing glass bottles requires considerable skill, and very few craftsmen in the glass field can reach such a level, so they can only continue to use the mold blowing method for production.
After these glass jars were made, Yu Xiaotian cut some fruits into glass bottles, added some sugar, put them in a steamer basket to steam, and then sealed the bottle with a cork that had also been sterilized at high temperature, so that it could be regarded as a glass fruit can.
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