Master of Thermodynamics

"Betty, open your mouth..."

Vera put a fork in a blue frost fruit, coaxing her little daughter Betty in her mouth, trying to get her to take a bite.

The blue frost fruit is a kind of fruit from another world. Its skin is blue, the flesh is soft and juicy, and has a slight sweet taste. It is similar to the blueberries on the earth, but the size is much larger than the latter. One is worth five blueberries. One point is extremely in line with the characteristics of another world.

The harvest month is the season when the blue frost fruit matures. This kind of fruit can be seen everywhere in the bush. If you wander around the forest with a basket, you can easily pick a basket full of blue frost fruit.

In previous years, this time was the happiest time for the children, because they had the blue frost fruit that they could not finish eating, and it was also a rare time for the common people to have enough to eat.

But this year, the children of Haichao collar generally dismissed Lanshuangguo, and Betty's performance at the moment is typical.

Facing the blue frost fruit reaching her mouth, Aunt Liang shook her head vigorously, refusing to open her mouth, her pair of big smoky eyes just stared at the charcoal-roasted red-head duck.

There is meat to eat, why do you want to eat fruit?

"Betty, listen to mom!"

There was a trace of annoyance in Vera's voice, and she was about to poke Lan Frost Guo in the face of the little girl.

However, Betty was as stubborn as her mother. Not only did she ignore her mother's words, she also pressed her mouth tighter.

Seeing the youngest daughter behaved so resisting, his wife began to get angry, and Frederick hurriedly rounded up:

"Okay, okay, dear, Betty won't eat if she doesn't eat it. There are so many dishes today. It doesn't matter if she eats more meat..."

Vera glared at her husband. She retracted her fork and stopped forcing her little daughter to eat blue frost fruit. Then she reached out and touched her daughter Betty's chubby face, and said with some worry:

"Look at how fat Betty is? How can she marry if she grows up to be a fat girl?"

"God, Betty is just 3 years old!" Frederick said nonchalantly, "My dear, are you worried too early..."

Vera raised her eyebrows and retorted:

"The reason why I did this was also for Betty's health considerations. I heard a civil servant from the Civil Affairs Department said that Lord Lord once said that we must match food reasonably and pay attention to nutrition... uh... balanced nutrition..."

"My lord said that you should pay attention to the combination of thickness and fineness. Don't use white bread baked with flour, but also eat a portion of brown bread..."

"The combination of meat and vegetables is also very important. Don't always eat meat. You must eat more vegetables and fruits. If you only eat meat and don't eat other foods, you will easily get sick..."

"Lord Lord also said that you can't eat too much to eat, it's good for your body..."

Frederick had an expression of "Are you kidding me", he asked suspiciously:

"Really? Isn't it true that the more meat you eat, the stronger your body? Starving is good for your body?"

Vera's remarks simply subverted his usual cognition.

If these words had not come from the respected Lord Lord, Frederick would have said "This is utter nonsense."

For thousands of years, people in all different worlds have agreed with the concept of "the more meat you eat, the stronger your body".

The facts that civilians see in their eyes and hear in their ears are that "meat eaters grow taller, have strong bodies, and live longer", or "civilians who often starve are thin and small, and die very special." It’s even earlier,” I’ve never heard of cases of “eating meat and eating problems” or “starving to live long”.

(By the way, nomads do not eat meat every day. For them, livestock is a precious property and it is absolutely impossible to eat every day. Grain and dairy products are the most common food.)

It's not just outsiders, people on earth have also believed this way for a long time.

However, it cannot be said that this is a wrong concept, on the contrary, it is indeed a correct perception in the social environment at that time.

However, agriculture developed based on modern industry and modern technology, that is, after the rise of "modern agriculture", for the first time since the beginning of the world, the great miracle of "food surplus can be wasted" has appeared for the first time in the human world.

At this time, "the more meat you eat, the more problems you have" and "live long when hungry" has become the correct concept.

From an evolutionary perspective, hunger is the norm in the long evolutionary history of millions of years.

Full?

nonexistent.

Most people can't eat a full meal all year round, and most of the time they hug their belly and cry out hungry.

Therefore, in the hunger year after year, the human body gradually gets used to being hungry.

Fat, the energy-storing tissue, is a special cell that has evolved to fight hunger. The strategy of "building walls and accumulating food" is etched in everyone's genes.

If it is not for future famines, who would be willing to hang a pile of cumbersome fat on his body? Are you tired?

Why is the fat layer of women inherently thicker than that of men? Isn't it because they need to breed the next generation and must store more energy?

Similarly, the various organs in the human body are ridiculously capable of adapting to hunger. Long-term under-eating will result in malnutrition at best. There will be no major problems.

So, what if the other way round is to eat very full for a long time?

The problem will become very big!

Hyperlipidemia, hypertension, fatty liver, diabetes, coronary heart disease, atherosclerosis, kidney disease, infertility, etc., all kinds of unexpected problems have come, and there are more other diseases derived from it.

If the human evolutionary history since the emergence of Homo sapiens is condensed into one day, the time for humans to eat is only 1 second.

In other words, "eat very full for a long time" is actually an abnormal situation.

Your body doesn't know how to deal with the situation of "feeding", it has not had time to evolve a set of mechanisms to deal with "overnutrition".

There is a saying called "starvation is the only way to live long". To some extent, this is the most logical saying.

The internet used to say that "a person can eat about 9 tons of food in his lifetime, and whoever eats it first will die first". This is really not a joke.

Dieting is the best way to keep in good health. It costs less, and the effect is so good. You can't find a way that is more cost-effective than it.

(Master readers, when you see this, don’t you plan to give it a try?)

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However, as a traverser, Renault understands the truth that "diet is to cultivate immortality, and cultivation of immortality can live a long life." Frederick is just a native-born turtle in a different world, of course he would not understand it.

Therefore, Frederick instinctively wanted to question the high arguments his wife had heard from the civil servant.

But as soon as he saw Vera's slightly raised abdomen, he honestly closed his mouth.

Forget it, reasoning with a woman is a stupid thing, and reasoning with a pregnant woman is even more stupid amongst stupid things...

After Vera finished talking about her education knowledge, she pointed her finger at her little daughter.

"Hey, Betty, you have eaten enough meat today, I think you have to eat some fruit..."

Seeing the pulp poking her mouth again, Xiao Gu Liang couldn't help pouting her mouth. She looked at her father for help, but only got a helpless look.

The little girl opened her mouth reluctantly and took a bite of the blue frost fruit.

Vera watched her little daughter hold the pulp in her mouth, and she lingered on swallowing, she wrinkled her face with a pitiful look, and couldn't help but whispered in reprimand:

"Betty, give me a quick meal. Mom is staring at you. You must eat this blue frost fruit today..."

The eldest daughter, Bella, stuck out her tongue, stretched out the fork of the deep-fried black hog beast meat, and consciously changed the direction. She picked up a blue frost fruit and ate it while listening to her mother's rants.

"Is the blue frost fruit so unpalatable? This is something that department stores are buying vigorously. The lofty gentlemen are all eating blue frost fruit, why don't you want to eat this little thing..."

Vera's "acquisition" is a recent sensation in the territory.

In previous years, blue frost fruits were everywhere in the wild, and in many places there were even mountains and plains. There were so many that fools would pay for them.

But this year, the fool actually appeared.

After entering the harvest month, the department store hung up a sign for the purchase of blue frost fruit. The purchase price was as high as 1 copper nar/3 kg, and it was open for collection.

Although the price seems very low, there are so many blue frost fruits that you can pick dozens of kilograms casually. The practice of department stores is no different from sending money.

As a result, driven by money, many civilians, the whole family, young and old went together to pick blue frost fruits day and night, and they could pick tens of thousands of kilograms of blue frost fruits every day, in exchange for more than 30 silver nars.

It is said that a family of civilians has earned as much as 4 Kinnars in just over a dozen days, which has made countless people jealous.

Even Frederick and his wife took advantage of this craze and picked some blue frost fruits in the wild and exchanged them for a few silver nar's pocket money.

Due to the fact that the number of pickers was so large that the blue frost fruits were hardly seen in the wild, all the places where they could be picked were picked.

Frederick suddenly coughed and interrupted Vera:

"My dear, as far as I know, the department store is only buying blue frost fruit instead of the Department of Agriculture. The main purpose of buying it is not to eat, but to make something called ‘canned’."

"Canned food?" Vera turned her head and asked curiously, "What is canned food? Its name is really strange..."

Frederick scratched his head and replied:

"I heard that the blue frost fruit is washed, put in an iron box, and stored for a few months before taking it out for consumption."

"Oh my God, how many months?" Willa was surprised at once, "Will the blue frost fruits go bad? Will they still be edible by then?"

Frederick said with some uncertainty:

"Uh...I think it shouldn't be broken. The masters of the magician in the Rune Research Institute are so smart and can always find a solution... Besides, if the magician can't think of a good way, isn't there a lord? ?"

Vera agreed with the words:

"Yes, there is nothing that Lord Lord can't do."

She seemed to think of something again, and said a little bit staggering:

"Tsk tsk, it's so extravagant that the masters actually use metal to make canned food... Hey, the price of canned food should be very expensive..."

Frederick said a little funny:

"It's okay, as long as the department store starts selling canned food, no matter how expensive the price is, we will also buy a can and try..."

With Haichao's current industrial level, there is no difficulty in making cans. Just pick up a few official magicians from the Rune Research Institute and they can handle it.

In the letter to Angela, Renault only mentioned the concept of "canned food", and then Miss Archon greeted Seth, the director of the Rune Institute.

After half a month, a canning production line was completed, and then a canning factory was quickly established.

This is the efficiency of the tide collar.

This production line includes a magic stamping machine, a hot magic cleaning machine, a magic filling equipment, and a magic sealing machine.

Its production efficiency is extremely high, the entire line only needs less than 20 workers to operate, the maximum daily production capacity is 20,000 cans, and the annual output exceeds 7 million.

The cost of canned food is actually not as high as Vera imagined. On the contrary, its cost is extremely low.

According to ordinary people's inherent concept, steel itself is a high-value material, and after processing it into a product, the cost will be higher.

However, in Haichao Territory, this rule does not hold.

The Sairon Island Iron and Steel Plant has already added 5 magic steelmaking furnaces, and the tonnage is larger than one. The steelmaking furnace with the largest capacity can make 200 tons of steel at a time, and the entire plant has an annual output of more than 8 million steel. Ton.

On earth, 8 million tons is at best a township steel factory, which belongs to the backward production capacity that should be eliminated, but in another world, it far exceeds the sum of the entire human world.

The shockingly huge output, coupled with the high efficiency and low energy consumption of the magic steelmaking method, has reduced the cost of steel to an extremely low level.

How low is it?

The price per kilogram of high-quality steel is-2 copper nars, less than!

To be precise, 1 1/2 copper nars!

This is a price that scares everyone off their chin.

Only in order to maintain profiteering, Renault set the price of steel at 60 copper nar/kg.

That's the case, the price is almost 30% lower than the same quality steel produced by otherworldly turtles.

Cabbage price of steel, plus cabbage price of blue frost fruit, the cost of canned food is of course low in the dust, the cost of each can is less than 3 copper nar.

However, this does not mean that the price of canned food is also low.

The person in charge of the Haichao Chamber of Commerce, the shrewd Mr. Good, had already planned to sell canned food as a luxury item.

He even thought about the sales pitch.

Hey, ladies and gentlemen, would you like to taste the delicious blue frost fruit in the snowy mid-winter season?

Its taste is sweeter than fresh blue frost fruit, but the freshness is not bad at all...

what? Is the price of 3 silver nars/cans too expensive?

No, no, it's not expensive at all!

You have to know that at this time, there can be no second kind of fresh fruit on the market.

Just imagine, if you take out cans at a banquet and let your guests eat blue frost fruits that are absolutely impossible to eat this season, how would the other party feel?

Yes, as long as you buy it, your banquet will become more decent!

Goode has mastered this skill of "flicking customers to pay for the experience" (recharging IQ) invented by Renault.

Especially for nobles and businessmen who are not short of money, this set is very useful. Haichao Chamber of Commerce does not know how much cheap goods it sells at sky-high prices.

A profit of 100 times is just idle, and a profit of 1000 times is not uncommon.