Lu Ming

Chapter 535 Big Satellite

Compared with ordinary soybean oil and rapeseed oil, if palm oil is directly fried, the taste will be poor.This oil has a high melting point and is more suitable for frying dishes.In later generations, although China imported a large amount of palm oil, it was rarely used for direct cooking, and it was used for indirect processing.The most suitable place for palm oil to play is KFC's fried chicken legs, as well as various fried instant noodles, including cream products in cake shops.

The Ming guests who were at the Baietan Hotel that day also felt this gap for themselves.

The guests not only tried a few mouthfuls of palm oil fried vegetables, but also watched the production process of fried chicken drumsticks and fried rice noodles.

After that, Mayor Ding presented the grand blueprint for the development of Nanyang commercial plants in detail at the tea party in the evening.

After the party, the guests left in twos and threes.Faced with the huge amount of information received today, the guests now need to analyze the pros and cons. It can be said that everyone has thoughts.

Bai Juren is no exception.After he returned to the guest room, he specially asked the servant to make a cup of bitter coffee.After frowning and tasting two mouthfuls, Bai Juren sat quietly on the cement balcony unique to the new building, looking at the White Swan Lake under the moonlight in front of him, and even the scattered lights in the direction of the old city of Guangzhou in the distance, falling into deep thought.

Unlike the rich and noble people among the guests who do not understand practical matters, Bai Juren's generation climbed up from the bottom, so he has a clear personal view on the information he received today.

He has decided to try the palm oil business.

With the development of social productivity, although it is not as exquisite as the Qing Dynasty, the iron pot cooking in the Ming Dynasty has been popularized.Especially in areas like Guangdong where iron materials are produced, the iron pots in Foshan Town have become famous at home and abroad in this era, so Ming people are no strangers to iron pot cooking in their daily meals.

In this way, at the promotion meeting dinner today, many people clearly pointed out the problem after tasting the palm oil-fried dishes for the first time—the taste is not as good as ordinary vegetable oil.

After making a judgment, people focused their attention on rice, tropical fruits and other crops that seemed more promising and safer.After all, the fried chicken drumsticks and cake shops described by Mayor Ding desperately brag about them, in the eyes of wealthy men of the Ming Dynasty, they are a bit ahead of their time: Fried rice noodles in fried chicken shops are everywhere, and you can eat mud legs if you want?In the future, it will become some kind of "high-calorie food" exclusively for mud legs. Do you want to fart?

That's why the palm oil route was snubbed by attendees.

However, Bai Juren saw business opportunities in it.

Bai Juren started out as a grocery store owner, and he is well aware that there is a link in this process: the more expensive the product, the fewer consumers there will be.

For example, the kerosene lamps and lamp oil produced in Yizhou, although they are good things, actually do not occupy much share in the current grocery sales network, and they are used by merchants to show their strength.After all, in a Zhuangzi, there are not many people who can afford such good things.

In fact, the bulk of the grocer's sales are just some inconspicuous goods: bundles of hemp rope, stacks of straw hats, and baskets of hoes.

Therefore, in Bai Juren's view, this novel palm oil fruit is precisely a bulk commodity that can be sold in large quantities.As for the joke that the taste is not good, he wholesales this oil to sell it to the general public.As long as you can satisfy your hunger, in the words of Mr. Ding, it is enough "calories". If you don't like it, don't like it.

In this way, the benefits of palm oil are reflected: it is cheap, large in quantity, and suitable for the working people.

Of course, the premise of all this is that the data and prospects that Mayor Ding promoted when he promoted are true-the endless "tropical" land in Nanyang, the palm gardens of tens of millions of acres, the refined steel oil press workshop, the huge The ship enters the port and unloads barrels of incredibly cheap oil.

But Bai Juren was the least worried about this.But if he had even the slightest doubt about the time traveler, he wouldn't be sitting on the balcony of the White Swan Hotel today.The huge factories in Taiwan, and the recent dealings with a certain force in the military and political circles have already made Bai Juren feel the strength and pride of the crossing people-with such huge power and wealth, they will not hesitate to play tricks to deceive him. family property.

This is the crux of the problem: going to Nanyang to pioneer landowners, this kind of huge investment, complicated and long-term action, is simply beyond the grasp and control of the participants.That being the case, then the only thing to do is to leave everything to the people who travel through, and just follow the path planned by them.

In a word, believe it or not?

After thinking about the key aspects of the problem, Bai Juren followed his usual habit of betting heavily to make big profits, and decided on an investment project before going to sleep: Palm Garden.

After another night, the guests once again gathered in the large meeting room of the Baietan Hotel.

Today's meeting is more pragmatic, from yesterday's general introduction to specific implementation matters.Regarding this aspect, of course, it is the map first: the large-scale general map of Nanyang was replaced by a large-scale map of the Philippines.

The location for the first start of pioneering will be located around the Philippines.The shortest distance from the southernmost tip of Taiwan to Luzon Island in the north of the Philippines is less than 400 kilometers, and even from Taijiang, it is less than 1000 kilometers to Manila.With such a short distance, for the first-time pioneering organization, the pressure on both logistics and military aspects will be lower, so there is no doubt that an island in the Philippines is the first choice for pioneering.

In addition, the rich mineral resources in the Philippines are also the coveted target of the crossing.With copper, bullet casings can be considered, and with nickel and chrome, stainless steel can be used.Even if these quantities are insufficient, the wire and stainless steel tokens that are urgently needed can be produced.So going to Nanyang to open plantations is one aspect, and on the other hand, regarding minerals, it has always been one of the purposes of going through the hidden world without revealing it.

So today's protagonist has changed from Ding Liqiu to Commander Wang Bo.

After introducing several islands suitable for development on the map, Mayor Ding left the stage to Commander Wang.Then Commander Wang came to power and made a report on the military aspects of the colonial operation.

This includes not only the current preparations of the pioneering army and the navy, but also the war plan with the natives of Nanyang, pirates, and European colonists.In short, the plan was very detailed and the response was sufficient, which was enough to fool the bright and wealthy people in the audience.

However, no matter how loud the mouthpiece is, it will not be convincing if it is done honestly.So at the end of today's meeting, Commander Wang released a David satellite who stunned everyone present.

I saw him draw a circle on a certain point on the map with a pointer, and then said seemingly inadvertently: "No, the Japanese generals will lead their troops to level this place, so as to test the effectiveness of the recent military training. At that time, all guests can be in the lotus stem. Take a seat at the gate, drink tea and watch the wind. I will know how good my subordinates are at that time."

(End of this chapter)