495. Grassland Camping 2

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It was dark, and there were bonfires everywhere in the camp. The soldiers worked in small teams to cook. Everyone gathered around the campfire and heated naan bread with bayonets. One can of lunch meat per person.

Yang Fan never eats this stuff, he is tired of it. But Lin Yueru and Xiao Niangpi like to eat it. They both thought it was delicious.

Yang Fan thought for a while but still didn't tell them that it was all animal offal and starch, and the flavor was all added to the spices. Total junk food.

The key is that spices are a good thing in this era, and there is no way to tell them about it.

In addition to naan bread and canned luncheon meat, there was also a large pot of vegetable soup. You fill a large pot with water, pour in a bag of dehydrated vegetables, and then throw in soup stock such as soup stock. Add seasonings such as oil, salt, and pepper.

These dehydrated vegetables are all transported here. Modern frozen dehydrated vegetables, as long as they are soaked in water, will immediately return to their original state, with the color, texture, and taste restored very well. The nutrients are also fully retained.

Soldiers like to drink vegetable soup very much. In this era, vegetables are seasonal. Yang Fan's soldiers can eat all kinds of vegetables all year round. They are all dehydrated vegetables.

Each team also has a daily ration of one pound of chili oil, which is the favorite of the officers and soldiers. Now that the grassland has begun to get cold, chili oil is added to the soup, which makes the whole body warm.

Chili oil is unique to Yang Fan's system. After all, chili peppers are still in America.

The farms where Yang Fan grows peppers are all enclosed with high walls. After harvesting, the seeds are removed, and then the cheapest palm oil in modern times is used to fry it into a pound of chili oil and sell it in a small tinplate bucket.

This is an exclusive monopoly business. It is sold in supermarkets and costs one or two silver dollars for a small bucket.

In addition to canned meat, there is also bacon on the ship. After all, there is no refrigeration equipment, so it is difficult to preserve fresh meat.

Although there is no fresh meat to eat. However, there is also pork head delicacy that weighs fifty kilograms per iron bucket. This is similar to canned food and has a shelf life of 6 months.

Yang Fan has now put into tinplate production and started large-scale production of tinplate.

With tinplate, the canning industry can develop.

Tinplate is not a high technology, it is just tin plating process.

Tinplate originated in Bohemia in what is now the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The area has been rich in metals since ancient times, has advanced technology, and knows how to use water power for machine manufacturing. It has been producing tinplate since the 14th century.

We are now in the period of great famine in the late Ming Dynasty, and the situation will not ease much in the next twenty years. Food that can be stored and transported for a long time is extremely important.

The climate on land is now bad, and food production has plummeted.

But the ocean was not affected, and in this era there were no tens of millions of tons of trawlers fishing every year like in later generations.

There are many fish resources in the sea. Whales even occasionally appear in the Yellow Sea, and the East China Sea is full of fishing grounds.

Now that we have steam engines, developing offshore fishing is no longer a problem. There is nothing difficult about the trawler. The key is that it is difficult to preserve catches, and dead fish will smell bad in just one day.

Especially deep-sea fish, they die when they come out of the water and quickly rot and deteriorate.

Therefore, it must be processed immediately, the internal organs removed, and salted for preservation. Once ashore, it is transported to a canning factory and made into tinplate cans.

After high-temperature sterilization, different cans can have a shelf life of half a year to two years. In this way, it can be transported over long distances to the interior of the Ming Dynasty. It can greatly alleviate the problem of food shortage.

Yang Fan's pig heads, trotters, offal, and fat are all purchased from abroad. These things are very cheap abroad and cost only a few dollars.

But these were good things from Daming, and they were directly made into tinplate cans by Yang Fan, with a bucket of fifty kilograms. Open and eat.

Today's military supplies include a lot of boneless, canned pig head meat, canned pig's trotters, canned sewage, etc.

The fat meat is refined into meat oil and used as barreled military supplies. At the same time, the fat meat frozen in the underground ice storage is sold in supermarkets to supplement the oil shortage in the capital and territory.

Now Beitang Shipyard is busy building clippers and warships and has no time to build fishing boats, so there is no large supply of canned sea fish. But in the near future, canned sea fish will definitely be on the market.

However, in normal times, meat is not given to the officers and soldiers. After all, when going on an expedition, the water flow must be steady and the supplies used sparingly.

After all, there is no place to thresh grass and grain on the grassland.

Generally, only for lunch every three days, each person will be given 2 taels of pork head meat and 1 tael of white wine.

Usually, each person has a small box of lunch meat for dinner every day. It is used to ensure enough calories. Junk food like lunch meat is very high in calories.

In the evening, after dinner. The cooking class will also boil water in a large pot, throw in a large piece of tea cake, and make tea. Tea is provided to supplement vitamins.

Yang Fan's army has a strong water supply and a special cooking cart. It is very convenient to boil water for cooking. Using honeycomb briquettes as fuel has long-lasting firepower and long burning time. Basically, the fire is not extinguished 24 hours a day. It is usually sealed and a windmill is used to quickly blow up the fire.

Honeycomb briquettes are resistant to burning and do not need to be used too much. Moreover, there is a special boat in the fleet that pulls briquettes, which is very convenient for boiling water and cooking.

The steam ship only takes two days to travel between Duolun and Zunhua, and it can be transported at any time, so it can be used freely.

Even before going to bed, everyone can have a small basin of hot water to soak their feet. If you have blisters on your feet, you can also treat them so as not to affect tomorrow's march.

At this time, there was a small kang table in the cowhide gold tent. Yang Fan was sitting on the north side, with Xiao Niangpi on the east side and Lin Yueru on the west side. In ancient times, the east side was respected, so Xiao Niangpi wanted to do the east side. This was something that could not be done carelessly. Ancient rules and hierarchies were very strict.

Yang Fan, Xiao Niangpi, and Lin Yueru had sauerkraut, white meat, and blood sausage hot pot for dinner. Yang Fan likes to drink delicious pickled cabbage soup. Served with dough cookies, it is his favorite.

If you flatten the steamed sticky bean buns and fry them into golden pancakes on both sides, it will also be delicious.

"Master, this pickled cabbage seems to be eaten the way the slaves eat it." Xiao Niangpi said while sipping the pickled cabbage soup.

"Well, yes, this kind of sauerkraut is Liaodong sauerkraut, which is different from the southern sauerkraut. Add water to this sauerkraut and cook it with the cooked and sliced ​​pork belly. It is a perfect match and super delicious." Yang Fan drank the soup. While saying.

At this time, the maids placed the freshly cut blood sausage on the hot pot. Then roast the dried chilies on the side. Rub the roasted crispy dried chili peppers with both hands, and they turn into powder and fall into the soup.

This is Yang Fan's favorite way to eat it. Blood sausage must be tender to taste the best. Combined with roasted and dried red chili powder, it is absolutely delicious.

Xiao Niangpi and Lin Yueru drank, and the tips of their noses were sweating. The pork belly is boiled and sliced ​​and simmered in pickled cabbage soup. It is not greasy at all and is super delicious.

The three of them were sweating from eating.

At this time, Zhang Geda walked in. Said: "Master, there is news about the Mongols. The Mongols are gathering a large army and are heading towards us. They are preparing to besiege the city and call for reinforcements."

After hearing the military situation, the three of them put down their bowls. Yang Fan asked: "How many people have they gathered? Is there any news about slave creation?"

"To tell you what I'm saying, the Mongols left more than 20,000 cavalry to besiege the city, and the remaining 50,000 people are rushing towards us. They will probably be here tomorrow morning. There is no further news about Jiannu."

Yang Fansi took advantage of Buyan Ahai's letter to Huang Taiji, saying that he would send at least 5,000 elite troops to support them. He didn't know how many people Huang Taiji would send.

But Yang Fan is not worried. This time he went out with all his troops and was fully prepared. Even if the offensive force is insufficient, the defense is more than sufficient.

If nothing else, just spending a month here with them would kill them.

"Send the order, let the soldiers have a good rest tonight, be on guard, have extra meals tomorrow morning, and prepare for the battle."