Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 599

The carriage soon arrived at Xiahe Village. Sun Dali was too lazy to think about its name, so this newly established town was called Yiyuan Town. After the construction of the Snow Cake Factory and the Incubation Factory, there was already a big market town here. scale.

As usual, Changsun Wuji looked at the bulletin board of Yiyuan Town first, and the mayor of the town, Gao Yong, also took out all the posted announcements after the implementation of the publicity system, and showed Changsun Wuji to look.

If Changsun Wuji was shocked by the output of Shanghe Village before, then the output of Yiyuan Town as a whole shocked him even more. It not only collected the data of the six villages under his rule, but bigger industry.

For example, the rice cake industry, here, there is a factory with a scale of [-] workers. This factory not only processes rice into crispy, delicious, and rich-flavored snow cakes, but also processes them into various types of rice cakes. Raw snacks.

And if you want to sell these snacks well, you can't just sell them by the catty on the pier. It also needs an exquisite packaging that can preserve the food for a longer period of time and can improve the quality of the food.

Therefore, the Chamber of Commerce also invested in a paper mill in cooperation with the Weinan Paper Mill. The site is not located in Yiyuan Town, but on a hill by the Dongting Lake a hundred miles away, because the hill has a radius of tens of thousands. The paper industry in Yueyang has an annual output value of billions of dollars, mainly relying on these extremely fast-growing reeds as raw materials.

The Weinan Paper Mill provides technology and manpower management, accounting for [-]% of the shares. The Chamber of Commerce provides all the expenses needed for the construction of the factory. Each embankment produces workers. Now the factory has initially started production. In the future, they will not only produce the various embankments to produce Wrapping paper for snacks, and also produce books and paper for learning and office letters.Now, the scale is constantly expanding, and in the future, it will definitely be sold to the entire Shannan Province area.

When Changsun Wuji walked into the snow cake factory, a group of women wearing masks, armholes, and hats were busy, making Changsun Wuji feel like he was in the workshop of a certain factory in Weinan.

With Weinan’s template as a study, the production of the entire assembly line is not difficult. Now there is no oven, and there are more than 30 processes in the process of making snow cakes, all of which need to be done manually. After the cakes are baked by the scone master, there is still a selection process. Since there is no oven with a relatively constant temperature, the baked snow cakes will definitely have some uneven heating. The taste of these flawed snow cakes has not been affected. How much impact, but not beautiful enough, will be selected as welfare food for the local people, or bulk goods sold at a low price by the catty.

Those that are the same size and baked very well will be divided into pieces and packed in paper bags printed with the words "Jiuyuan Snow Cake". Completely dehydrated food like this does not even need to be put in antiseptic bags. Pay attention to sealing and moisture-proof, and you can guarantee that it can be eaten within half a year. Some biscuit foods in later generations that are packed with moisture-proof preservatives can even achieve a shelf life of one to two years.

Since wrapping paper in this era is relatively expensive, this kind of packaged snow cakes is naturally in the high-end market. There are two cakes in one bag, six small bags in a pack, and twenty packs in a box. The weight is less than five catties, put sugar!Rice!Including fire consumption, labor, wrapping paper and other costs, the cost of a box of rice snow cakes is only sixty or seventy yuan. Hundreds of coins, and the sales are hot, like canned fruit, it is a friendly gift for visiting relatives and friends, because the retail price of a pack is only more than ten yuan, and most working class can afford it.

"Try it! Freshly baked rice snow cakes taste better than biscuits made of flour. The round ones are sweet, and the oval ones are five-flavored." Sun Xiangfu picked up some snow cakes that were picked out, Pass it to Changsun Wuji and said.

Changsun Wuji picked up one of the oval pieces and took a bite. Immediately, the crisp chewing sound resounded in the workshop. He nodded repeatedly and said, "It smells like cumin spice, onion, and a little Salty, it’s really delicious, the key is crispy, by the way, are these products sold in my Changsun’s major shopping malls?”

"Of course there is. Just because of the orders from the mall, the big snow cake factories in Jiuyuan County can't make it!" Sun Xiangfu said, and continued to take his eldest Sun Wuji to the workshop. The workshop was very long. There are several production lines for rice cakes alone, passing through this room, and the other rooms are for other foods.

Soon, Changsun Wuji heard a loud "bang", which came from the factory building behind, which startled him, and even looked at Sun Xiangfu and asked, "What's the matter, what happened?" ?"

Sun Xiangfu gave him a reassuring look and said, "No, the workshop behind is making popcorn!"

"Popcorn? You eat it too? How did you make such a big noise?"

"Yes, to be specific, you will know after looking at it that this is also a best-selling product, and the price is even cheaper."

Soon, Changsun Wuji was dragged to the workshop by Sun Xiangfu. As soon as he entered the door, there was another "bang", which scared Changsun Wuji's shoulders.

When he came back to his senses and looked at the people working in this factory building, he saw many old men who were not young, shaking a black iron lump on an iron stove, It seems that it is the sound made by this thing.

In fact, this thing has no technical content. In the nineteenth century, it had already started mass production, but until the twentieth century, in the 90s, it was still widely used by the people in our country. There is no other reason. The rice cracker machine is durable and the popped food is fragrant.

Rice, corn, broad beans, and pine nuts can all explode. Sun Xiangfu also saw the rice in the warehouse and remembered the snacks he had when he was a child, so he drew a picture and asked someone to make it.

He still remembers that when he was young, he looked forward to someone bringing this thing to the village to pop popcorn every year. The rice popped by this kind of popcorn machine was made into hemp leaves, which was the most delicious.

The so-called hemp leaves are a kind of food made by stirring popcorn with freshly boiled maltose, pressing it into pieces, and cutting it into small pieces before the maltose cools. It can also be made with sesame and peanuts. Preservatives, you only need to put it in a jar or a snakeskin bag, and you can eat it for a year.

In the Jinghu area of ​​later generations, every family would make this kind of food as snacks for their children every time the twelfth lunar month approaches. However, in the 21st century, after various supermarkets went to the countryside, few people gradually made it by themselves and spent it directly. It is more convenient to buy food prepared by others with money.

It was also the first time for Changsun Wuji, who hadn’t gone to the mall to take a closer look at popcorn, to see it for the first time. He was stunned for a long time when he saw the magnified white flowers. It is an artifact that can magnify rice. It is hard to stop watching the workers explode several pots.

It wasn't until Sun Xiangfu filled him with a cup of popcorn that he discovered the problem, which was that the weight became lighter.

"Well, this taste is crunchy and a little sweet. Children must love it." Changsun Wuji, who poured himself a mouthful of popcorn like drinking water, nodded repeatedly while chewing.

"That's why we say it is a hot product! Later, we will ask Lingnan to provide us with sugar such as coconut and longan to make popcorn with a slight coconut and longan flavor. Of course, this kind of popcorn Rice crackers are just a raw material for other snacks, let’s continue to look at it later.”

Soon, Changsun Wuji saw the hemp leaves made of popcorn, and after eating a few pieces in a row, he closed his mouth and said, "You are planning to make the snacks made of rice the ultimate!"

Sun Xiangfu nodded and smiled, "Of course, our place will be the place that produces the most rice in the entire Tang Dynasty, and even in the whole world. If we don't magnify its value, wouldn't we be at a disadvantage?"

"I thought that the food produced by the food factory in Weinan had enough names, but I didn't expect that there are so many varieties of food produced by this rice."

Sun Xiangfu continued to lead his eldest grandson Wuji to the back, and said as he walked, "This is the benefit of the prosperity of industry and commerce. It can promote the progress of all industries and magnify the value of the original output. It is precisely because of this With more output, I dare to let the Chamber of Commerce promote local social services such as free medical care, free education, and free pensions. Trouble, then our ability to reproduce will be infinitely great, and only with this infinitely great ability to reproduce can we expand unswervingly without fear of failure until we own the entire world."

"Don't think about victory, think about defeat first. Zhengming, are you not optimistic about His Majesty's strategy for the West?" Sun Xiangfu suddenly mentioned this question, and Changsun Wuji didn't have the mood to continue reading, so he stopped and asked him seriously. road.

Sun Xiangfu also stopped in his tracks, looked back at Changsun Wuji and said, "You should have seen the Three Kingdoms! Cao Cao lost many battles in his life, but why did he become stronger and stronger? Liu Bei, who was sitting in Jingzhou, won all the way, Take Xichuan, take Hanzhong, when the territory is the strongest, it even surpasses Cao Wei, but after the defeat of Yiling, why did the Kingdom of Shu never recover?"

Changsun Wuji was taken aback when he heard the words, and then he thought of something, and said, "You want me to expand outside after Datang has the ability to withstand failure?"

Sun Xiangfu nodded and replied, "Exactly. The reason why Cao Wei became stronger and stronger is because he managed his own internal politics. He expanded farmland, built water conservancy, rewarded farming and mulberry, valued handicrafts, and resettled exiles. The implementation of "rent adjustment" made the economy gradually improve under his rule. Therefore, he could easily recruit hundreds of thousands of troops to fight in the north and south. his foundation.

It can be seen that in the struggle between countries, it is appropriate to be honest and not strange, and the one who can bear the defeat is the strongest.

If my Tang Dynasty takes advantage of the current favorable weather to lay a solid economic foundation and develop a population, even if there are huge losses in the foreign war, your majesty will issue a decree and a million-strong army at any time. Recruit again and continue to mobilize outward until the great unification is completed. This is a safe and highly successful strategy.

If you use tricks and tricks to attack forcefully, even if you win in the end, you will continue to rebel. If you fail, the elite will be wiped out, and it is very likely that you will spit out everything you eat, and you will never recover from it. "

The Tang Dynasty in history was confused by the superficial prosperity and did not concentrate on developing its own foundation, which eventually led to the loss of control of Central Asia after the defeat of the Arabs in the First World War in Talas. He fell down, and later, he was hit by the chaos of Anshi, and he never recovered.

This is all caused by insufficient internal foundation. It is difficult for a person to succeed if he cannot withstand failure, and it is difficult for a country to stand at the top if he cannot withstand failure. After Sun Xiangfu pointed out this truth, Changsun Wuji suddenly With a better understanding of what he had done before, he stood up straight and bowed deeply to Sun Xiangfu.

(End of this chapter)