0372 Carrots & Canned Food (2nd Shift)

There are not a few people in the Tang State who support sending troops now, and the superficial reasons are very legitimate, saving the people in the world.

Wen Yi is not a fool, how can he believe this kind of nonsense. The real reason is none other than those few, revenge, returning to his hometown, and glorifying his ancestors......

Fortunately, his prestige was high enough, and the majority of the people supported the continuation of farming, and the radicals were only a minority.

In addition to the population data, there was also a box containing crop seeds from the West.

Among them, the most important thing that Wenyi attaches the most importance to is the carrot, which is known as the little ginseng, and everyone basically knows how high its nutritional content is.

Rich in trace elements such as carotene and vitamins, it has a miraculous effect in the treatment of night blindness, and is also the best ingredient for infants and young children to supplement nutrition.

The origin of this thing is in the Afghanistan region next door to China, but unfortunately it was not introduced to China until the Song and Yuan dynasties, and it was not taken seriously.

Since the crossing, Wenyi has been trying to find ways to improve everyone's dietary structure, desperately engaged in breeding in the Tang Kingdom, encouraging everyone to raise sheep, chickens, ducks and geese, and letting the people in charge of the prison breed dairy cows.

This kind of policy is easy to say for small countries and widows, but it will be more difficult to do it when the world is unified.

In the 90s of the 20th century, China's vast rural areas were still in a state of serious shortage of meat, eggs and milk, and it was only gradually popularized in the 21st century.

Wen Yi was not arrogant enough to think that he could achieve the freedom of meat, eggs and milk in ancient times.

The most effective way is to find nutritious crops that can replace the role of meat, eggs and milk to a certain extent.

Protein can be replaced with tofu, and the technology of making tofu has been around since the Han Dynasty, but it has not yet been popularized due to the lack of promotion.

Wenyi has summed up a set of the simplest techniques for making tofu, which has been vigorously promoted.

Protein alone is not enough, other trace elements also need to be supplemented, carrots are the best ingredients. Nutrient-rich, high-yielding, easy to store, and can be grown in all terrains.

He spent a lot of money and spent several years, and he didn't know how many times he changed hands in between, and finally got his hands on this thing.

The only pity is that the planting time of the first half of the year has passed, and we can only wait until the end of the year.

Even so, he was very happy looking at the ten catties of carrot seeds.

Not only is this stuff nutritious, but the carotene is also very stable and not easy to destroy, making it suitable for canning.

At the end of the twentieth century, someone found a batch of canned carrots from the First World War, opened them and found that the carotene had hardly changed and could still be eaten.

And the help of canned food for the Great Voyage is too great, and it can save countless lives.

For example, scurvy, which was once regarded as a curse of the devil in the previous life, was actually caused by a lack of vitamin C.

Although the vitamin C content of carrots is not very high, it is still no problem to meet people's normal needs.

As for the technology of making canned food, it is far from being as complicated as everyone thinks, and even so simple that people can't believe it.

People with strong hands-on skills often make canned fruits during the fruit harvest season, and there is no difficulty at all.

The method is very simple, select half-raw and somewhat hard fruits as raw materials, cook them and put them in bottles - glass bottles, porcelain bottles, iron cans.

Then add a certain amount of sugar, put the bottle in boiling water and heat it for more than a quarter of an hour, and close the lid while it is hot.

Finally, take it out and put it in a cool place, and a vacuum environment will form inside the bottle. The shelf life is generally more than one year, and if it is a carrot, it can be stored for I don't know how many years.

Moreover, canned fruit is also an effective way to preserve clean drinking water, and anyone who knows a little about the ancient voyages knows how rare clean drinking water is.

At that time, people used urine to wash clothes and drink spoiled and smelly water...... Crews usually mix rum with water to neutralize the strange smell of drinking water.

The technology of making canned food has long been popularized in the Tang Kingdom, and now a batch of food will be brought with them on sea voyages.

It can be said that the pre-technology of Tang Guoda navigation has almost been prepared, and it is only the environmental factors that are missing.

But their research on canned food has not stopped, and what is now being studied is the preservation method of canned meat.

There is also the study of containers, porcelain vases and glass bottles have a disadvantage, fragile. It's OK to put it on a boat, it's very inconvenient to carry it on land, it's better to use an iron can.

Ordinary iron cannot be used yet, because ordinary iron is easy to corrode, and it is best to use tinned iron, which is commonly known as tinplate.

The technology of tinning metals was mastered by our ancestors as early as the Shang Dynasty. The technology has been quite mature until now, and there is no need to carry the technology of future generations.

In fact, the tin plating technology of later generations really could not be transported, because electroplating was widely used after the twentieth century......

Now it is not a technical issue that limits the development of canning, but the production of steel.

Therefore, it is not for nothing that steel production is used to measure the strength of a country for a long time.

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The overall situation in the world is still in a stable state, and the Jin Kingdom is singing and dancing behind closed doors; After the Yan State was defeated in its attack on Luoyang, Murong Ke's plan to trap the enemy was even more firm.

Under the threat of Yan, Qin also became honest, and Fu Jian and Wang Mengjun continued to recuperate and carry out local reforms.

Liangguo is quite lively, today he kills him, tomorrow he kills him again, and even the monarch has become an ornament. It's just that their strength is too weak, and no matter how chaotic they are, they can't affect the overall situation.

In fact, the Tang Kingdom is not really peaceful, mainly on the side of the Unu Island.

Chai Ben said: "This year, we have sent troops to eliminate five forces that are hostile to us, citing the disappearance of soldiers and the looting of caravans. ”

"A total of more than 90,000 enemies were killed, 130,000 women and young children were captured, and more than 40,000 young and middle-aged slaves were captured. Some of these young captives were sent to Luzon, and some were sent to Hainan Island. ”

Wen Yi nodded and said: "Yes, there are a lot of Mao and Japanese slaves, and the speed of consumption is not fast just by relying on their cannibalism, so we have to do it ourselves when necessary." ”

"And doing so can also train the combat effectiveness of our army's officers and men, killing multiple birds with one stone. But remember not to strike too often, so as not to arouse their hatred. ”

Chai Ben said: "Yes, we will control the frequency within a reasonable range. ”

Chen Xiu said on the side: "You can support those who are brutal and murderous, arrogant and lascivious, and who like pleasure...... Suppress the wiser leaders as much as possible......"

Zhao Zhengzhi said: "We are already doing this, and in recent years we have planned several rebellions and supported six brutal people to take power. ”

Wen Yi was very satisfied with this progress, the higher the efficiency of eliminating the Japanese slaves and the Mao, the better, and he did not have any psychological pressure.

If something is good at the top, it will be very bad at the bottom, and those people under his command are also killing in different ways.

And it's not enough to kill, but also to maximize all their labor. Young children are captured and reformed from an early age, and women are captured and born to give birth to children, and young and strong are slaves.

The total population of Unu Island has dropped from five or six million at the beginning to less than four million.

It has been reduced by two million in five years, and the efficiency is naturally far inferior to that of the FΓΌhrer, but it is not low.

After everyone left, Zhao Zhengzhi came back and reported one thing alone: "We will go to Kuye Island and Ezo Island to discard the corpses infected with the plague......"