Wu Qian was somewhat understood by Li Jing's words, but he didn't quite understand.

"The words of the Yanai are suddenly opened, but in addition to the snakes and flints on our Great Black Mountain Island, there are really no other special products."

Li Jing shook his head and sighed: "Added value, what we have to do is what others don't have." Or take what others already have, reprocess it, and add special value, so that no one else can have it and make money. I'm going to show you the way to the Great Black Mountain Island today, you have flint here, so you can organize a mining plant and mine first. Then, the flint is processed into a special product. ”

"What can flint do?" Not only did Wu Qian not quite understand, but also Lin Wei and Zhang Chengzong and other officers of the Great Black Mountain Fort did not quite understand.

Li Jing took out a shining thing on his body, showed it in front of everyone, and then opened the object that was only an inch, and his thumb swirled on it a few times, rubbed it a few times, and there was a splash of sparks, and a fire actually burned in front of everyone.

Seeing the orange flame flickering, everyone was amazed, they had never seen such a fire-making tool before. Fire folds, fire coal, and even fire knives are not so convenient and fast.

"What is this?" Wu Qian swallowed his saliva, he felt that this thing seemed to be the business that Li Jing was going to hand over to them, but he couldn't believe it.

"This price was just made by a craftsman I just found, and it looks magical, but in fact it's just an iron shell outside. Of course, you can also make this shell into steel, jade, gold, silver, and copper. In fact, there are two things that matter, one is the one I rubbed just now, and the other is something that everyone is familiar with. Flint. The other is a small oil bottle inside. The oil bottle was soaked in kerosene with cotton from the Western Regions, and a small fire core was added, and it was done. ”

The lighter is also a new commodity that Li Jing came up with considering the flint resources on Daheishan Island. There are two key things that lighters need, flint and kerosene, which are found on the Great Black Mountain Island of Flint, and even on the Plough Rake Island and the Praying Mantis Island. And kerosene, when it comes to divine fire. Distillate gasoline is needed, and kerosene is just a matter of making it together. It's okay to even use gasoline directly, and even vegetable oil can be used if you want to save trouble.

Compared to the fire fold, the lighter is a huge leap forward. Li Jing believes that if this thing comes out, it will definitely not worry about having no market.

After carefully introducing all the production processes of lighters, Wu Qian and the others were already foaming in their eyes, and their faces were red with excitement. There are such rare commodities, which are not inferior to such things as liquor.

Look at their excitement. Li Jing said in the back: "This lighter workshop can be done by Daheishan Fort, but it is stated in advance. This workshop belongs to the town general's mansion and is managed by the Great Black Mountain Fort, and the workshop workers use the people of the fort. For this commodity, you can build a flint mining team on each of the three islands of Black Mountain, Mantis Island, and Plough Rake Island. In addition, a team of casing blacksmiths can be built, and even the most difficult ones can be assembled by the women of the Hoarding Fort. In short, this product needs a lot of people, which can just solve a large part of the people's labor force and give everyone the opportunity to make money. ”

With a lighter, Li Jingshun can also sell lighter oil directly, and he can make another profit.

Of course, it is impossible for tens of thousands of people on the island to get lighters, and there are not so many people. For the rest of the people, Li Jing simply took out some of the ideas he had come up with during this time.

They are all on the island, and the biggest resource can be said to be the fish in the sea. However, fish are not easy to preserve. In addition to eating freshly, it can only be dried into dried fish, or smoked fish. There is no other way.

People who run boats at sea for a long time fall ill because they can't eat fresh vegetables, fruits, and other foods, and some even suffer from serious life-threatening scurvy. This is a very helpless thing for the crew, Li Jing found that the Dengzhou crew of Datang did not have much to do about it, generally it was necessary beans on the ship, soaked bean sprouts. It's just as rare a vegetable that can be found on a boat, and in addition to that, bring some grapefruit or some other seasonal fruits, but it's also hard to keep for long.

Considering that its own Shamen Army now also has two fleets, often floating on the sea. Many soldiers have reported that it is inconvenient to carry food in logistics, so they can only bring some dry steamed buns or pancakes. It's hot but it's easy to spoil, everyone is marching outside, there is no time, and sometimes they can't even eat a decent meal.

As soon as he thought that the Shamen Army might march and fight in a longer range in the future, this question couldn't help but bother Li Jing. After thinking about it for a long time, he finally thought of canned food. Canned food was a good way to store the goods for a long time with a huge bonus of 12,000 francs from the Napoleonic government.

In fact, it is easy to say, but it is also difficult to say. The canning method is nothing more than to process the food, then put it in a jar, put it all in a pot of boiling water, heat it for 30 to 60 minutes, cork it tightly while it is hot, and then strengthen it with thread or seal it with wax. In this way, food can be preserved for a longer period of time without spoiling. And if you use a sealed clay pot or porcelain bottle, or even use a gourd or bamboo tube to make a container, you can do the same.

In fact, the method of canning food in China was applied to the people as early as 3,000 years ago. The earliest agricultural book "Qi Min Yaoshu" has such a record: "First, cut the livestock meat into pieces, add salt and wheat flour and mix well, and seal the head with dense mud in the inner porcelain." "It's a little different from cans, but it's also approximate.

"Is this really possible?" Lin Wei was a little skeptical. If this method is really feasible and can be maintained for a year or even a year and a half or two, then it will be too effective. "Isn't that how we can handle the fish we catch and canned them?"

"Of course, not only fish can be canned, but also pork, beef, mutton, chickens, ducks, geese, and even wild animals. Even our vegetables and fruits can be canned in this way. With these cans, our fleet crews will be able to eat vegetables on board. When the soldiers marched and fought, they did not have to bother to make a fire and cook, there were ready-made cans. Not only is it easy to transport, but it is also easy to store and delicious. ”

Wang Chong, the new town general of the Little Black Mountain Fort, who was accompanying him, hurriedly said loudly: "This project is handed over to our fort to do, they all have lighters, it is impossible that our little Black Mountain Fort is raised by the stepmother." ”

Seeing Wang Chong's eagerness, Li Jing smiled and said, "Don't worry, this canned food is a consumable food, and it's not too easy to make." I'm willing to bet that even if the whole of Shamen Town were to make this commodity together, there would definitely be a market. If you think about it, there are fresh canned vegetables and fruits, and all the merchant ships in Dengzhou don't have to come and buy a batch. We can make more varieties of other canned food, and some people are willing to buy it. ”

Hearing Li Jing's description of such a good prospect, Wang Chongcai grinned and snickered on the side. The current situation of Little Black Mountain Fort is similar to that of Big Black Mountain Fort, so many people have been relocated to the island at once, and there is not enough land on the island, and he is worried about how to feed so many people, and now this canned product has made him very satisfied. In particular, Li Jing promised him that as long as the canned food in their Little Black Mountain Fort was of good quality, then the Shamen Town Army would order the canned food they produced.

According to the situation grasped by Li Jing, Wang Xianzhi was about to revolt, and according to the development of this situation, the Shamen Town Army, which had now been registered in front of the commander Song Wei and the supervising army envoy Yu Wanrong, could be transferred to Qingzhou and Qizhou at any time to prevent the rebel army. When troops are dispatched, it is difficult to guarantee logistics in terms of logistics. Li Jing didn't believe that the localities would have good logistics to supply them. It's better to get more cans to prepare, and then directly use pack horses to pull the cans to the front line, and have enough food and clothing for yourself.

"Organize more of the remaining young people to go to the sea to fish, pigs, sheep and cattle are not easy to come by, but there are all kinds of fish in this sea, everyone can catch them, and they are caught and processed into canned food. In any case, fish is also a meat dish, which is more than ten times better than the wild vegetables and flatbread on the battlefield. Li Jing said with a smile.

Wang Chong, Wu Qian, and Lin Wei and a group of officers all vied with each other to say that they would soon organize a fishing team and catch as many fish as they could. In the past, I couldn't sell it and eat it, but now I don't have to worry about it, so I can catch as much as I can.

"In addition to making lighters and cans, we can also dry salt." Li Jing simply told the generals around him about the salt pan drying method in later generations. The current salt is very expensive because of the monopoly law of the imperial court, and a bucket of salt costs more than 100 yuan. This salt is almost the same as the price of rice, and it is almost no different from grains like sorghum and millet. People who live by the sea can't afford to eat salt, which is really a cruel practice.

There are now more than 100,000 people in Shamen Town, and Li Jing doesn't plan to spend that unjust money to buy salt at the price of rice.

"This salt pan salt drying method does not require many people, and the output is countless times higher than the current salt boiling method. There is a very good sandy beach on Nantongzi Island, and I think it is a salt pan on Nantangzi Island. It doesn't need to be too big, it's pretty much what we need. "This salt court has always grasped it tightly, and selling more than one stone of illicit salt is a capital crime.

Although Li Jing only planned to supply the Shamen Town Army and did not plan to sell illicit salt, this was a violation of the laws of the imperial court after all, especially now that there was a prison army by his side, it was always difficult to go too far.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Chengye was very happy to hear that there was such a good method of salt production. When I heard it, I didn't care that Li Jing was making smuggling salt, but squinted his eyes and said: "I think that if the salt produced in this sun can really be compared with green salt, it is better to get a few more salt fields and dry more salt." In this way, it can be used by the military and civilians of the town, and the excess can also be used to present to the emperor. ”

Li Jing couldn't help but cry and laugh a little because he didn't forget to get this thing to bring the loyal prison army to the emperor, but since the prison army said so, Li Jing didn't care about it. Anyway, a little sun is also sun, and a little more is also sun. has no capital, as long as a little manpower is traded, if you can really use it to please the emperor, it is very worthwhile.

"Okay, just follow what Zhang Jianjun wants, and show a little more. In addition to supplying the military and civilians of the town, the rest will be used to present to the emperor. "To send salt to the emperor, Li Jing will not be the first one. In history, many envoys and magistrates in the Tang Dynasty sent salt to the emperor, and they sent tens of thousands of stones and hundreds of thousands of stones. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )