Before Li Mingda could walk a few steps away, he saw Xiao Baoer running from a distance. At this time, Xiao Baoer was already twenty years old and taller than Li You. His skin had turned into bronze because he had been exposed to the sun on the sea for many years.

"Baoer...!" Seeing Xiao Baoer, Li Mingda shouted. When he saw Li Mingda, Xiao Baoer also smiled very brightly.

"Yizi... Go to the dock quickly..."

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

Then Xiao Baoer laughed and said, "Whaling Team, this time I caught another whale. Didn't you say you want to see the whale? Now, you can see that it has not been dismembered. It's really too big, just like a mountain."

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

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

"If there are whales, I want to go too... I don't know how many cans of whale meat I ate, but I haven't seen the real whale before. Alas... Wei Zi, wait for me, I'll take your carriage, let's go see it together." As he said that, Li Yan also chased after him, wanting to ride Li Mingda's carriage to see the whale together.

Whale hunting has always been the largest money-making industry in Dengzhou. There are many treasures on whales, which everyone knows, especially whales' oil, which is a good fuel.

Killing whales can add a lot of jobs in Dengzhou. Not only whalers, Li You also established three canning factories later, which provided hundreds of jobs.

Many people will be surprised that this canned food could also be produced in ancient times?

This is really possible. Canned food, as an effective means of preserving food for a long time, is recognized as an important invention by Europeans at the turn of the 189th century. It was first applied to the French logistics reserves under Napoleon at that time. It soon became popular in European countries and became an important part of modern military food, and was also very popular among the people.

The principle of canning is actually not complicated. It is to steam food at high temperature first, then quickly place it in a closed container to seal the air. The material of the container is either glass or tinplate. The cans made in this way are very long and can be stored for several years or even decades in an environment where temperature and humidity are more suitable.

In fact, similar techniques were developed in ancient China very early. In the agricultural encyclopedia of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, it was written in the Southern and Northern Dynasties that it recorded the method of marinating meat pieces with salt, mixing flour and putting them into clay pots, and finally encapsulating them with dense mud. The food stored in this method can not be damaged every other year.

Although there is no mention of treating canned food at high temperatures, the book also mentions many methods of preserving food such as pickling, refrigeration, and drying at that time, and many of them are still used in today's daily life.

However, the ancient ceramic pot sealing process did not seem to have been continuously developed, and it was not used on a large scale in the army. What is the reason?

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

This method is most suitable for dealing with various meat foods. Whether it is domestic animals such as pigs, cattle, sheep, or poultry such as chickens, ducks, and geese, it was not common for ordinary people to enjoy it in ancient times, and it also required a large amount of precious salt. If a few senior generals consumed a small amount, it would be too heavy to provide tens of thousands of troops.

The court at that time probably did not think it was necessary to provide such expensive food to the lower-class soldiers.

But these unnecessary factors are different from Li You. Li You can hold whale meat in the can, a small hill of whale. To be honest, if you don’t make canned food, you really don’t know how to eat it. Instead, it makes it into canned food and then sell it to various places. The correct way is to make it.

Let’s talk about salt. This salt may be very precious to other places, but in Dengzhou, Li You’s salt field method was established for the production of salt, so it’s not possible in other places. However, Li You’s Dengzhou can make canned whale meat without any scruples.

These canned whales are very cheap and are very suitable for ordinary people. Whale meat actually tastes good, so ordinary people are happy to buy them.

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"Wow..." Along the way, Li Mingda, Li Yan, Li Heng and Li Jue finally arrived at the whale slaughtering site. At this time, a huge blue whale was dragged into the slaughtering site with a gantry crane.

With that huge body, the human being is as small as an ant under the body of this whale.

"This is too big..." Li Yan shouted in shock: "How did this be hunted? As long as this big guy moves gently, our ship will be swept into the sea...?"

Li Yan was very incredible, but Li Mingda on the side laughed and said, "Brother Six, this is the power of our Dengzhou..."

As soon as the two of them finished speaking, they saw that the whale was dragged down. Then a group of workers walked into the slaughter ground with a big knife of more than one person. One of the middle-aged bald men stabbed the whale's abdomen with one knife.

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

However, the people standing in the slaughter ground did not dodge, but laughed loudly. The laughter was more or less terrifying. Then the whale blood flowed to the sea with the drainage ditch. As the people in the slaughter ground began to cooperate with each other, cutting the whale's back and entering the whale's body, while the others used their seeds to peel off the whale's blubber and skin.

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

It took about eight hours to complete a blue whale. Of course, Li Mingda, Li Yan and others could not watch it for eight hours. Basically, within thirty minutes, a few people were unable to bear the bloody smell of the slaughter ground, and they followed the group of people and left.

At this time, Li Xiang happened to come over. Li Xiang is Li Jiancheng's eldest son. Li Xiang is now seventeen years old and is now in the slaughterhouse for managers. Since his aunt and sixth uncle came to his slaughterhouse, Li Xiang of course also wanted to take everyone to visit the treasures in the slaughterhouse.

So what is the whale's baby?

Everyone followed Li Xiang curiously into the treasure house of the slaughter ground.

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Chapter completed!