Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 720 Slaughterhouse canned food!

Li Mingda hadn't walked a few steps away when he saw Xiao Baoer running over from a distance. Xiao Baoer was already 20 years old at this time, taller than Li You, and his skin had turned bronze due to years of exposure to the sea. .

"Bao'er!" Seeing Xiao Bao'er, Li Mingda yelled, seeing Li Mingda, Xiao Bao'er also smiled brightly.

"Si, hurry up to the pier..."

"Go to the pier, what are you doing?" Li Mingda didn't know why Xiao Baoer suddenly asked him to go to the pier.

Then Xiao Baoer laughed and said: "The whaling team, this time caught another whale. Didn't you say that you want to see the whale? Go now, and you can see that it has not been dismembered. It is really too big. Let's go with it." Like a mountain."

"Really!" Li Mingda was so excited that he ran quickly, and then turned around and shouted to Xiao Baoer: "Thank you, brother!"

"Hehe..." Looking at the happy Li Mingda, Xiao Baoer was also very happy.

"There are whales, and I'm going too. I don't know how many cans of whale meat I've eaten, but I haven't seen a real whale yet. Hey, son, wait for me, I'll take your carriage, and the two of us will go see it together. "Speaking, Li Yin also chased after him, wanting to rub against Li Mingda's carriage to watch whales together.

Killing whales has always been the biggest profitable industry in Dengzhou. We all know that there are many treasures on whales, especially the oil of whales, which is a good fuel.

Killing whales can increase a lot of jobs in Dengzhou, not only for whalers, Li You also built three canning factories behind, and these three canning factories provided hundreds of jobs.

Many people will be surprised, can this can be produced in ancient times?

This is really possible. As an effective means of preserving food for a long time, canned food is recognized as an important invention of Europeans at the turn of the 89th and [-]th centuries. It was first used in the French army’s logistics reserves under Napoleon’s command at that time, and soon became popular. In European countries, it has become an important part of modern army military food, and it is also very popular among the people.

The principle of canning is actually not complicated. It is to cook food at high temperature first, and then quickly put it into an airtight container, sealed and isolated from the air. The material of the container is either glass or tinplate.The cans made in this way have a very long shelf life, and can be stored for several years or even decades in an environment with more suitable temperature and humidity.

In fact, ancient China developed a similar technique very early on. It was written in the agronomy encyclopedia "Qi Min Yao Shu" during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Put it into clay pots, and finally seal it with dense mud. The food stored in this way can not go bad every other year.

Although there is no mention of high-temperature treatment of canned food, the book also mentions pickling, refrigeration, drying and many other methods of food preservation by people at that time, many of which are still used in daily life today.

However, the ancient pottery pot sealing technology does not seem to have been continuously developed, and it has not been used on a large scale in the army. What is the reason for this?

First of all, food processed in this way is indeed conducive to long-term preservation and is also very suitable for military use, but an important reason why ancient armies did not use it is that the cost is too high.

This method is most suitable for dealing with all kinds of meat, regardless of domestic animals such as pigs, cattle and sheep, or poultry such as chickens, ducks and geese. A small amount of food for generals is not a big deal, but the burden is too heavy to feed tens of thousands of troops.

And the imperial court at that time probably didn't think it was necessary to provide such expensive food for the low-level sergeants.

But these unnecessary factors are different for Li You. What Li You puts in the can is whale meat, a whale that looks like a hill. To be honest, if you don’t make cans, you really don’t know how to eat them. It is the correct way to make it into cans and sell them everywhere.

Let’s talk about salt again. This salt may be very precious to other places, but in Dengzhou, Li You’s Salt Field Law was established for the purpose of producing salt, so other places are not allowed, but Li You’s Dengzhou is. Canned whale meat without any scruples.

The price of these canned whales is very cheap, which is very suitable for ordinary people. Whale meat actually tastes good, so ordinary people will be willing to buy it.

"Wow!" Hurrying all the way, Li Mingda, Li Yin, Li Heng, and Li Jue finally arrived at the whale slaughter site. At this time, a huge blue whale was dragged into the slaughter site by a gantry crane.

With that huge body, people are as insignificant as ants under the body of this whale.

"It's too big!" Li Yin yelled in shock: "How on earth is this hunted and killed? As long as this big guy moves slightly, our boat will be swept into the sea, right?"

Li Yin was inconceivable, but Li Mingda on the other side laughed and said, "Sixth brother, this is the strength of our Dengzhou!"

As soon as the two of them finished speaking, they saw that the position of the whale had been adjusted, and then a group of workers walked into the slaughterhouse with a big knife as tall as a man. Among them, a middle-aged bald man stabbed the whale in the abdomen. .

Soon the whale's belly was cut open, and a large amount of blood gushed out, directly pouring the middle-aged bald head all over, and instantly the middle-aged bald head became a blood gourd.

However, the people standing in the slaughterhouse did not dodge, but laughed loudly. The laughter was more or less terrifying, and then the blood of the whale flowed into the sea along the gutter, and the people who followed the slaughterhouse began to cooperate with each other. The back of the whale was cut open, and some entered the whale, and others used a knife to strip the blubber and skin.

The workers in these slaughterhouses are like ants, moving out the things in the whale's body one by one, and then decomposing them one by one according to their respective blocks, and then others move these things out of the slaughterhouse.

It took about eight hours for a blue whale to be completely slaughtered. Of course, Li Mingda, Li Yin and others couldn't watch it for eight hours. Basically, within three to ten minutes, a few people were slaughtered. The bloody smell from the slaughterhouse was so overwhelming that he followed a group of people and left.

At this time, Li Xiang happened to come over. Li Xiang is the eldest son of Li Jiancheng. Now Li Xiang is 17 years old and is currently managing the whale slaughterhouse. Since his aunt and sixth uncle came to his slaughterhouse, Of course, Li Xiang also wants to take everyone to have a good look at the treasures in the slaughterhouse.

So what is the baby of the whale?

Everyone curiously followed Li Xiang into the treasure house of the slaughterhouse.

(End of this chapter)