The article "How to Eat Peanuts and Other Uses" has become the hottest news recently.
Only then did people in many areas realize that it was not yet time to turn grass into bandits.
The article "Peanuts" occupies four pages of a full-page newspaper. The first page alone introduces the shape and growth mode of peanuts, with pictures of plants. Many people who are illiterate also carry the newspaper and go to the wild to look for it.
There were not many surprises. As long as the city got newspapers in bulk, they could be found in the surrounding wilderness. Many people finally had a full meal after a long time.
Eating raw is just the most inconspicuous way to eat peanuts.
The newspaper introduced a variety of eating and making methods, with the three most recommended being boiled, baked and peanut butter, each with its own advantages.
Boiled peanuts can effectively enrich the flavor of peanuts. The taste can be customized according to personal needs. They can be used as snacks or as a side dish with drinks. However, cooking them with shells will waste more materials. Without shells, they are easy to cook into porridge, so they are suitable for families with better conditions. Roasting is a simple processing method that can effectively stimulate the aroma of peanuts. Compared with dried raw peanuts, roasted peanuts are not suitable for long-term storage in an open air environment, but they are easier to digest. Peanut butter can be regarded as peanut oil mixed with crushed peanuts. It can be stored in a glass or ceramic jar and can be stored for a long time. It is also more convenient to spread it directly on other foods for consumption.
There are many ways to eat it, but it’s actually okay. After all, there are a lot of foods that can be boiled and baked. However, the following content shows how extraordinary peanuts are.
Peanut shells, which are the skins of peanut kernels, can be used alone to boil water for drinking, at least to give the water some flavor and color.
Peanuts can be pressed for oil, and their oil content is very high. The peanut meal left after the second oil pressing can be used as animal feed, or it can be mixed with water to make fertilizer, and it can also be eaten by humans. Just to preserve the usability of the peanut meal, pay attention to the speed of oil extraction. If the oil is squeezed too fast and the temperature is too high, the peanut meal will become burnt.
Ordinary people only think that this is a sacred thing, but businessmen are much more sensitive, and the word "oil" makes them realize its value.
When food is used as food, it is not particularly valuable. Even profiteers have to consider whether the common people can afford it. Particles as big as peanuts are not suitable for mixing with sand.
But if it's oil, its price is hard to say at certain times, such as when a war breaks out and more torches are needed.
However, although they recognized the business opportunities, not many businessmen took action. Those who wanted to get some oil mostly chose to buy some from people who returned from digging peanuts outside the city.
Businessmen naturally have no conscience, but they also know that if people starve to death, they will have nothing to eat.
Businessmen can immigrate if they have money. However, after immigrating, it is not up to the businessman himself to decide whether he will continue to be a master or be deprived of his property and become a bitch. Without a backing, a businessman cannot even be considered a dragon crossing the river, and his life will be taken care of by local snakes. .
Especially when all places are facing food shortages, total commercial profits will shrink significantly, and the struggle between businessmen and big households will become more intense, even to the point of life and death.
In addition, Peanut is obviously the layout of the Phoenix Kingdom, and the lords also acquiesce. If the move is too big, they may not be able to survive the relocation, and the person disappears inexplicably.
Another important point is that the newspaper mentioned that the storage stability of peanuts is not as good as that of staple food crops with lower moisture content. They are more prone to large-scale mildew when they age. This characteristic also makes them inconvenient for large-scale operations.
Coupled with the wild distribution status of peanuts and the various problems combined, the peanut information disclosed by the merchants "Tianshu Daily" did not show too much fanaticism.
And when they actually saw peanut oil, the businessmen couldn't sit back and ignore it.
Peanut particles are larger. When pressing oil with a peanut coat, it can effectively prevent residues, especially blackened residues, from falling into the oil. This makes peanut oil appear clearer than traditional vegetable oil using the same pressing method.
Appearance is a very valuable factor. Before floating islands, fish oil was often used if possible. This is because fish oil looks better than vegetable oil. In fact, both will produce black smoke when burned, and if fish oil is not processed well, it will leave a fishy smell.
Seeing the quality of peanut oil, the businessmen became more concerned and decided to plant some in the greenhouses and glass greenhouses under construction.
Speaking of greenhouses and glass greenhouses, they are also things that make big shots anxious and love and hate them.
The promotion of two types of thermal insulation planting facilities will return all land power to the hands of the big shots, which seems to be a good thing for the big shots. However, the resources invested are too huge and the future is too uncertain.
Don't know about the Phoenix Kingdom, but the cost for the lords to build a glass greenhouse is outrageous.
Just from the time the glass panels come out of the factory to the time they are installed on the greenhouse frame, the loss rate in this process reaches 60 to 70%, and they will be damaged due to various reasons such as loading and unloading, transportation, etc. To build a 400-square-meter greenhouse, the money invested will not be recouped unless the land is cultivated for more than ten years.
Of course, when food becomes more scarce and prices continue to rise, it won't take that long to recover the cost. Based on current grain prices, it is equivalent to big households paying to buy all the grain for the next ten years in the next period of time.
Even if large households and businessmen are tied together, the cost is still astonishing.
In particular, the big business owners have different views on the life and death of the people. Only a small portion of the money is always contributed, and the pressure is even greater.
Glass greenhouses are already very expensive, and the seemingly cheaper plastic sheets are actually very expensive, because the little devil's fireball can easily ignite it, which means that if you want it to be effective, you have to organize a team to patrol near the farmland, Lord The military also needs to operate on a larger scale, which is a long-term investment. In summary, it is not really much cheaper than a glass greenhouse.
Fortunately, with the blessing of the Emergency Bodhisattva, the lords joined hands to make progress in negotiations with the Phoenix Kingdom and Weng Ji.
Ongji's "Domingo Bank" is willing to support the lord in building a glass greenhouse, which can only be a glass greenhouse, at an annual interest rate of 4%. This annual interest rate is half of the normal loan interest and one-third of the small loan interest. The key point is that there is no real collateral. The only basis for borrowing is the "Lord's Credit". The payment is also the Lord's personal matter. When the time comes, it should be possible to discuss changing someone to be the Lord.
The Phoenix Kingdom's support is much more stingy in terms of scale, but they provide free assistance and pay per head, twenty yuan per person. In other words, if a city with a population of 30,000 gives 600,000, it can only be used to build food growing facilities.
We don't have much money. We can only buy twenty or thirty light trucks, and we can only buy two airplanes. Counting as a greenhouse, twenty yuan is enough to build less than three square meters, not counting the facade.
But it was given for free unconditionally, and it was given to all cities that maintained second-class goodwill records in the Phoenix Kingdom. This was an exaggeration. It meant that tens of millions of Phoenix coins were given to them for free this round, and Wengji coins exceeded one billion.
At the level of lords, some people have realized that money needs to be exchanged for actual assets through the labor of the people. Adding money out of thin air will only push up prices. Fortunately, under the background of food shortage, many people have also realized that this season With no land to farm, this kind of support has given the people a way to survive.
In any case, these two sums of money have greatly eased the financial pressure on local large households.
Compared with the Phoenix Kingdom and the Ongi family, Fatel was really bad, and the envoys put together by the lords were directly driven back.
Fortunately, after several decades, everyone has already seen Fatel's face clearly, and they are not particularly disappointed. It would be better to say that Ongji, who is not well governed in the country, played a role, which surprised everyone even more.
(End of chapter)
