Chapter 650: Balance between military and civilian use
Amidst the sound of shovels rubbing against a large iron pot, a large pot of fat clams with dogwood sauce was fried.
Zhu Wentian was reluctant to use dogwood oil and fry the clams in their shells. The oil would remain on the shells and be thrown away.
It is not suitable to add dogwood powder. Dogwood sauce is a sauce with dogwood powder added. The amount of dogwood powder is small.
Seasoning powder like Shisanxiang is used for stir-frying with Cornus officinalis sauce, which ordinary people cannot afford now.
Cornus jam and cornel oil are made from Evodia, not Dogwood. Both types of Cornus are medicines. Dogwood has many producing areas and high yields, while Evodia is relatively rare.
The pot is filled with peppercorns, garlic slices, ginger slices, green onion segments, and a lot of coriander. If the clams are replaced with pork tenderloin, it will be spicy shredded pork.
No one says not to eat any seasonings, such as those who don’t eat coriander and those who don’t eat garlic.
Unless someone is allergic to this, not eating it means not giving Zhu Yuanzhang face.
The wild yellow clams are big, and the small ones are thrown back and continue to grow. These are not from the nearby seaside, they are found diagonally opposite.
The local area conducts border trade with Korea, Jiulian City.
Previously, he said that the Jurchens should join the trade there, but Zhu Wentian disagreed and insisted on opening a separate border trade with the Jurchens at Dingliao Duwei.
The Jurchens wanted to trade with Goryeo, but the Ming Dynasty did not care and did not directly participate.
So this kind of yellow clam, whose scientific name is Green Willow Clam, is not easy to obtain. It has to travel a long way and must be kept fresh during transportation.
"The ministers tried it, and found that there was only one boat, which was kept in Xiaqiu Village for the people in the palace to eat."
Zhu Yuanzhang told the ministers that you couldn't buy it, so Xiaqiu Village gave it to them. When the army went there to trade with Goryeo, they found someone to dig them up.
As soon as he introduced it, everyone immediately felt that the fried fat clams smelled delicious. They could smell it without eating it.
Yellow clams are larger, thicker and more delicious than flower clams and white clams, and are also more expensive than both.
"Your Majesty, I ate one. It tasted very good. Do you have more?"
Hu Weiyong ate one and said to Zhu Yuanzhang that he would not call him Long Live anymore.
"Ling'er, give Zuo Cheng an extra portion." Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the little girl.
"Okay." The little girl filled another plate for Hu Weiyong and put it on the table.
"Your Majesty, I want it too." Tang He saw that there were more than a dozen of these small dishes in one plate. He was enjoying himself when he was about to run out, and he was anxious.
"Are you so anxious that you didn't even notice that our two-thousand-stone boat is gone? We'll fill it up when it comes back and send it home to you.
That's all for now, we have to Give it to the people in the palace to try. The last time the clams were brought back, it was a small boat with 500 stones, not much.
People have to eat, and they need seawater to raise clams. The speed is slow, and the clams will die. I have to throw it away again.
If you follow the ocean current and add sails and oars, it will take ten days and a half to travel the three thousand miles of water. Let me tell you.”
Zhu Yuanzhang refused and asked Tang He to wait for the steam engine to come back. That shipquick.
And to explain, now is the warm current of the Yellow Sea in autumn. Ships will run against the warm current immediately after leaving the Yangtze River estuary, but there is no need to worry about the reverse flow of the ocean current.
Because the southeast monsoon and south wind are blowing now, raise the sail and it will be blown there by the wind.
After such a short period of countercurrent, we immediately entered the northward upflow area of the Yellow Sea Warm Current to the east.
The southeast monsoon and ocean currents push the ship at the same time, and coupled with the power of the steam engine, it can travel a hundred miles in an hour.
When we came back, the ocean current just made a half-circle along the northern shore, still pushing the boat, and lowering the sails on the boat could reduce wind resistance.
Or you can adjust the sail. The crosswind is also wind, and you can also borrow power.
The most time-consuming thing is to find someone to dig and clean the mud, and then it can be put into the bamboo baskets brought one by one, and sea water is brought up every hour to flush it so that the clams can touch it. to water while cooling down.
It was a boat with a displacement of 2,000 kilo. Because of its high speed, there was no need for oarsmen. It could bring back 1,500 kilo of yellow clams by removing coal, fresh water and other loads.
"Now you know how powerful steam engines are," Zhu Yuanzhang concluded.
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Tang He wants to say that we will lead the team back from Helin , that is, twenty iron boats with steam engines. We rushed all the way and almost died of exhaustion. How could we not know about steam engine ships?
The ministers were surprised. Your Majesty has to learn so carefully to learn things now. There is no need to transport yellow clams by yourself, and you have to worry about the wind and the flow
Hu Weiyong was in a low mood, and was slightly worried. What he told His Majesty was whether he could eat yellow clams in the future, but His Majesty just left the clams. Give yourself some yellow clams.
This is to show that you are good to yourself. This is to tell others that you are taking food from the harem's mouth, and the emperor has to give it.
If I had known better, I would not have tested it. What should I do now
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"Your Majesty, according to what I said, the yellow clams will be sent back in four days."
Zeng Lu knew that the big ship went out the day before yesterday. According to the time, it should take six days to make a round trip.
Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at Zeng Lu, "You have to look at the tide. Sometimes there is a strong tide in the area, which can bring tens of thousands of stones of yellow clams ashore. Eat them quickly, they will no longer taste good when they are cold."
Zhu Yuanzhang After saying this, he picked out a piece of clam meat and threw it into his mouth, chewing it deliciously.
At this time, the moon reached its zenith, the sound of the music gradually became smaller, and finally there was only a pipa playing, and the dancers moved slower.
Following this came the sound of whooshing and booming, and fireworks sparkled in the sky.
A quarter of an hour later, the fireworks disappeared, the music became louder, and the dance rhythm accelerated.
“In this way, steam engine ships are most suitable for transporting seafood. Jiulian City is too far away, but Suzhou Prefecture and Songjiang Prefecture are close, and Zhejiang Prefecture is not too far away.
If you take fresh food If live seafood is sent back, the seafood in Nanjing will not beIt would be so expensive and more people would be able to eat it.
At present, the seafood transported through the Rouge River still takes too long and the cost is high, so it can only be purchased by restaurants and brothels. ”
Another imperial censor, Chen Ning, spoke. He wanted to eat seafood, but now he can only eat river fresh food. River fresh food is cheap, and the price of seafood is hundreds of times that of river fresh food.
He is a royal censor. The doctor can't find any way to get money, so he can only rely on His Majesty's rewards and occasionally eat seafood.
"Chen Yushi's words are wrong. Steam engines and ships are most suitable for transporting troops and fighting at sea, Damingshui. The division used steam engines and ships to fight enemy ships at sea. Only the Ming Dynasty attacked the opponent, and the opponent had no ability to fight back. "
Xu Da didn't agree with Chen Ning's remarks. Why are you so greedy for such a good thing just to transport seafood to you?
"Don't argue. If you want it all, bring it to clean up first. For Japanese pirates, a small boat is enough to run close to the coast, and a large ship can be hung far behind the Japanese pirate's escape vessel.
Waiting to find the island where the Japanese pirates were hiding, and then sending a large army to deal with it, this was the top priority of the Ming Dynasty in maintaining the safety of the people.
Transportation cannot stop, build more ships, free up the labor force of trackers, and let trackers do other things, or follow the ships. "
Zhu Yuanzhang stopped two people who wanted to continue the debate. Military and civilian purposes do not conflict. One stabilizes the sea area and the other promotes the economy.
Li Chang saw the opportunity and said "Your Majesty , we need to build a large factory, and the place next to the Qinhuai River is good. ”
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