The river is called Nineteen Rivers because it has nineteen bends.
Except for the source, the narrowest part of the river is several miles, and the widest part of the river is hundreds of miles.
After walking westward along the Nineteenth River for a day, everyone finally came to the first destination. The cannery, hydraulic forging workshop, blast furnace, new cement factory, and glass factory are all located in this area.
After all, there are abundant water resources here.
And after going down the river for three days, get off the boat and then walk north for four to five days to reach the Northeast Protectorate, and walk south for three days to the Southeast Protectorate. If you keep going down the river, you will eventually pass through Chen Guo and enter the sea.
Apart from the need to be careful of all kinds of strange things in the water, I have to say that this is a good place.
If another north-south canal is opened in the future, if you can go up the river to reach Lancheng, or even go further north, and go south to reach the southern region, then this place will be really amazing.
And judging from the map, this kind of planning is completely achievable.
The premise is that Dayao's maps that are so far away are reliable.
In the past ten or eight years, this place may exist like the Pudong New Area, and at worst it will be the Xiongan New Area.
Before arriving at the cannery, you can see some people fishing along the river bank.
The way they fish is very unique.
A group of people squatted by the water's edge tens of meters apart, stretched their fingers into the water, and held a barbed spear in the other hand.
Every once in a while, someone can see someone retracting his hand like lightning and sticking out the spear. When the spear is retracted, he can see a big fish weighing several tens of kilograms struggling hard on it.
The next step is easy, first tear off a piece of meat from this fish, then put it into the water, and just wait there with a spear.
Along the way, Ren Baqian saw at least a thousand people doing such things by the river, and from time to time, he could see a crocodile being pulled out of the water by someone piercing its mouth with a spear. The aquatic resources in this river are too rich. With such a simple and crude method, one person can catch at least several hundred catties of fish a day.
When large carnivorous fish in one place are hunted in large numbers, it will soon be populated by large carnivorous fish in other places.
I don't know how many years of accumulation make this river seem to contain endless resources.
Ren Baqian and the Empress stood by the river for a while and watched, the two figures stood side by side by the river, and the others waited at a distance.
"This is the treasure house." Ren Baqian pointed to the turbulent river in front of him and said, but it's a pity that Dayao didn't make good use of it.
There is no pressure at all to feed hundreds of thousands of people with the food produced in this river alone.
This is mainly because Dayao people don't like to eat fish, because there are fish bones, which is a very troublesome thing for Dayao people who are used to eating meat.
However, it is still a good choice to use a pressure cooker to make cans and make military rations.
When the production volume comes up, it can be put on the market.
"In the future, two canals will be opened to directly connect the north and the south. Whether it is transportation or traveling, it will save a lot of manpower and material resources." Ren Baqian told the empress about his imagination. As for the manpower to open the canal, of course it is Yunguo.
Now Ren Baqian has already booked several new jobs for Yunguo people.
Including road construction, including opening canals, including mining...
"Let's not talk about the treasure house, as far as I know, the new military camp has a lot of resentment towards you." The empress said leisurely while looking at the river.
"Why?" Ren Baqian asked in confusion, he had never had any dealings with the new barracks.
"They have been eating fish for two months. They served as soldiers to eat meat, not fish..." The empress felt a little funny. There were two batches of recruits with 40,000 recruits. If you want to find the most annoying person , it must be Ren Baqian.
It was because of one of his ideas that they had been eating fish for two months.
They can still accept a meal once in a while, but now they eat these things every day. It is conceivable how much their resentment is. Now the recruit camp can be said to be full of complaints.
There is no way for Ren Baqian to spread his hands. After all, Dayao is not rich in food now, and it is good to eat some. The victims of the war in the north are still grazing.
Those village victims in the north who were affected by the war saw the ruined fields after returning.
The animal husbandry in the north is worse than that in the south. In many cases, they supplement some meat by selling vegetables from the fields in the market.
And the crops being grown on those fields were destroyed, and they only had to dig wild vegetables and a small amount of meat to barely fill their stomachs.
Although you can't starve to death, you can't eat enough.
According to them, it is eating grass.
But it's better than eating dirt.
It will take at least a few months before it can return to its pre-war appearance.
The next group of people arrived at the cannery first.
The so-called canning factory is not big, just a few big sheds with more than a thousand people.
There were piles of firewood all over the yard, as well as a lot of fish waste.
You can see the plume of smoke rising from the cannery from a long distance. The fish caught from the river is stewed almost 24 hours a day, stuffed into glass jars as tall as one person, and then covered with animal skins. , sent to the new barracks half a day away.
When he got closer, he could smell a very strong stench.
A few hundred meters away from the high-temperature cooking is the place where the other party's fish waste is. There are a large number of fly-like creatures in this area, and people can startle it when they walk around.
Seeing this situation, Ren Baqian frowned.
Dirty, messy, poor! disgusting.
Can the things made in this way be eaten
"Is this how you feed the recruits?" Ren Baqian frowned and asked the person in charge of the cannery who came to greet him.
The man looked at the empress, then at Ren Baqian, with a strange expression on his face: "That's right!"
"Are you willing to eat?" Ren Baqian asked back.
"I eat this every day!" The man still didn't know what Ren Baqian was going to say.
Ren Baqian looked at that person's innocent face, and was so angry that he didn't know what to say.
"It's for eating, can it be cleaned? Let's not talk about cleanliness, let's make it clean anyway?" Ren Baqian said with a heartbroken heart.
"You can do whatever you say, my lord." The man finally came to his senses,
Although he felt that Ren Baqian was making a fuss over a molehill.
People in this era have completely different standards of hygiene than modern people.
Just like the third brother who wipes his butt with his left hand and eats with his right hand is absolutely unacceptable to people in most countries.
Next, Ren Baqian and others stayed here for three days. Ren Baqian formulated a whole hygiene system for him, including that everyone must wash their hands when handling these ingredients, and those fish wastes must be pulled far away every day. It is strongly recommended that vine curtains be used around all sheds to keep those flies out.
Although when Ren Baqian left, the things Ren Baqian asked for hadn't been done here, but he must come back when he is ready to come back.
After all, this is Dayao's first food processing factory, and the health regulations must be established, and everything will be handled in accordance with this in the future.
Next, everyone went to the hydraulic forging workshop. There was a row of wooden waterwheels by the river. As the waterwheels rotated, the bearings drove two giant hammers down and hit the iron plate below repeatedly.
The loud noise makes it difficult for others to hear even if they shout at a close distance.
"Your Majesty, this thing is so trouble-free. A craftsman can wield a 30-jin hammer for half an hour at most before he has to rest. But this thing can be used for twelve hours, driving two 50-jin hammers to beat continuously. Taiwan can be compared with nearly a hundred people." The official of the Ministry of Industry who manages the hydraulic forging workshop said with joy.
Here, there are a total of six such waterwheels, and they are still under construction.
For them, this hydraulic forging is a pioneering work, and the effect is exciting enough.
The iron plates hammered every day can be turned into weapons in a short period of time to equip the army and help Dayao win the unfinished war.