At that time last year, the mutton was very cheap. The Gongfu of Changle County collected mutton, part of which was made into smoked bacon like in previous years, and the other part was made into canned meat.

The canned meat tastes tenderer than bacon, and the taste is also quite good. The vegetable shop has to open a few jars to sell every day, and the price is not expensive. However, Changle people's consumption capacity is still a little lower. The ones who can really afford it are a few wealthy merchants and some diners.

"Sister, do you want canned meat over there? I have a little better here." Luo Yong said to Er Niang.

"Yes, how can I not do it?" Erniang swallowed a bite of the meat slices and stir-fried pork stew and said with ease.

This slice of meat is fried with soy sauce, and then mix with some spicy flavor. The taste is indeed good. It’s a pity that this canned meat is rare and white flour is expensive. Even if their cashmere workshop is famous for its good food, they dare not eat it often.

The little ladies looked at the fact that although they were much more elegant than Luo’s rough men, they were all growing. They were hundreds of little ladies who were growing. They had to eat... In short, they were very happy to get some canned meat from Luo’s side.

When they heard that their county was going to deliver canned meat to the cashmere workshop, many of the officers who were eating now showed signs of pain on their faces.

Everyone knew very well that there were so many people in the cashmere workshop that they usually gave three or five jars, which was not enough. This time, at least thirty or fifty jars of canned meat in their warehouse had to be lost.

Seeing that they were so painful, Ernie pretended not to see it. She smiled and still ate her own fried rice noodles. When she was full, Luo Yong took her to the warehouse to get the canned meat.

When the warehouse opened, I saw a big room, and the shelves were filled with canned meat. This was just one of them. Luo Yong said there were two more.

"So many?" Just now, seeing the people outside with a sarcastic look on their faces, Er Niang thought there were not many on their side.

"I haven't had much more, I'll eat it until the winter begins." The canned meat in the warehouses here are mainly for eating by themselves, and the ones they want to sell are placed at the vegetable shop.

"Make more of this winter." Erniang said as she went to carry the canned meat on the shelves.

"Madam, don't be dirty. Let's move it." Several officials coming from behind said hurriedly.

"Take fifty knives with my sister, put them in a ox cart and sent them to the cashmere workshop." Luo Yong said to them, and then said to Erniang:

"I wanted to make more last year, but it wasn't enough Eucommia ulmoides. I almost cut off all my soles at that time."

"Is this batch of Eucommia ulmoide this year about to arrive?" Erniang asked with a smile.

Earlier, Luo Yong told her that he had exchanged the money for selling white cloth last year for Eucommia ulmoides and transported them from Chang'an City to Changle County.

Since a few years ago, Luo Yong and they started planting phonia trees in Xipo Village, making Eucommia glue, and making rubber-soled leather boots, people from many places have planted phonia trees one after another.

Several years have passed in a blink of an eye, and the earliest batch of Eucommia ulmoides has been planted for many years. Gluten can be produced in many parts of the Central Plains, especially in the Qinling Mountains. I heard that many aristocratic families have Eucommia Gardens there, and they are often large hills.

In the past two years, Eucommia ulmoides can be bought in Chang'an. The price is not as expensive as in the early years. It is still expensive. The poor people cannot afford it. At least they have to be a small wealthy family to buy the couple of pairs of rubber-soled leather boots for the husband at home.

In their Longxi area, Eucommia ulmoides are even more expensive. This time, the rubber pads they used to make canned food were also brought by Luo Yong from Changle County.

"I just received the letter two days ago, and said that I also arrived in Liangzhou City, rested in Liangzhou City for several days, and then came with the Zhao family's caravan." Luo Yong replied.

"It would be great if this wooden track could reach Liangzhou City." Erniang said.

If this wooden track can reach Liangzhou City, then the lot of inventory in her workshop will be free of transportation. Luo can also transport the smoked bacon and canned meat made by them to Liangzhou City for sale.

Every winter, the meat price in Changle County is much lower than that in Liangzhou City. Liangzhou City has increased in recent years, and the prices in the city are not expensive than in the Central Plains, but there will never be any mutton in Changle County that is as cheap as the earth when it enters winter.

"It will be done sooner or later." As long as there is no war or turmoil, development is inevitable.

However, in this era, wars always happen frequently, and it is almost impossible not to fight.

On that night, another batch of fine iron was transported from Jinchang City through the wooden track. During the day, the track was very busy and there was almost no time left, so Luo used them to transport goods themselves to most of them at night.

The disciples Luo used to build equipment and needed to use fine iron. The iron in Longxi is quite expensive, and it is much more expensive than Hedong.

"Is this batch of iron good?" Luo Yong also went over and took a look when unloading the goods on the platform.

"Just ordinary." One of his disciples shook his head.

"Let's use it first." Luo Yong himself also knew a little bit, and took a brief look at the batch of goods he arrived tonight with the illumination of the torch. The quality is indeed not good, but the price is not cheap.

"After the wooden track of Yiwu is connected, we will go to Yiwu to take a look." Luo said in the words of the disciple.

"This matter is left to be discussed next year. Do more cotton gins this year, and this iron is enough to use it as a cotton gin." Luo Yong said.

So far from Yiwu to Jinchang, even if they made all their efforts to build the road, it would take at least half a year to repair it. At that time, it was almost time for autumn, and the Turks did not know what month they would come to attack. Luo Yong did not want his disciples to encounter a war.

On the far west of the Arabian Peninsula, Apu finally convinced his tribe and took the tribes who had survived the war to decide to travel through the crisis-ridden Great Food Kingdom and travel a long distance to the eastern country that Apu and his friends said.

The reason why these people were reluctant to agree to go to the Tang Dynasty with Apu was because of the difficult and dangerous journey, and on the other hand, they heard that in that far away Eastern country, these dark-skinned people would be sold by the locals as rare beasts.

However, Ap told them that his master gave him two magical seeds, and that as long as they could plant this food and offer it to the king of the East, they would be protected in that country from the invasion of war and would no longer be sold as livestock.

So they planted sweet potatoes by the Nile River, poured some clear water on the two seeds, and when they sprouted green buds, they grew as long as their palms, they cut them off and inserted them into the soft and fertile soil by the river.

Then soon, they saw the vines sprouting, growing longer and spreading the entire ground. A few months later, they dug out many sweet potatoes from the land. These sweet potatoes were sweet and crispy when eaten raw, and they were sweet and delicious after being roasted. They were also loved by men, women, young and old in the tribe.

However, it is still a difficult decision for many people to leave the land where their ancestors lived for generations and go to a completely unfamiliar country.

If the war hadn't been too frequent and the casualties were too fierce, they might not have made such a choice in the end.

Apu and his father took their tribesmen and walked along the path they came back, but they were detained as soon as they reached the border of the Great Sericulture Kingdom.

This time, even if Apu took out the parchment paper that Hassan gave him before, it would not work. Not only did the people refuse to let go, but they also caught them to work as coolies.

It was not until a few months later that Dashi merchant Hassan used the canned recipe he exchanged from Luo Yong to set up a canned factory in Dashi National University, and gradually became a domestic business giant.

At this time, someone came to flatter him and told Hassan that one of his servants had been detained by another family's forces and were working as a coolie on the border, and told him about Ah Pu and his friends taking out the parchment.

Of course Hassan remembered the parchment. He also intended to continue to establish a good relationship with Luo Yong. The oriental boy was unusual. Maybe they would have other cooperation in the future. If he gave him a favor at this time, it would be very beneficial in the transaction process in the future.

So Hassan asked to negotiate with the family forces that seized Apu and others. That family was not friendly to Apu's family, but now it is different from the past. Apu's family has now continued to produce canned meat and has entered the upper level of the empire. It would be very unwise to have a conflict with them because of a group of slaves.

A few days later, Ap and his men finally ended this painful life of slavery for months. Hassan's men found them, gave them food and clothes, and hired doctors for them.

After this disaster, the few tribal populations left were damaged again. Some people originally followed Apu with anticipation and wanted to go east, but died in pain in this desperate place.

"Can we really go to the East?" When they followed Hassan's caravan and set off again, the tribesmen were filled with uncertainty.

"We will definitely go to the East." Ap told them firmly.

Apu felt very sad for those dead tribe members.

However, their death was not because the path he chose was wrong, but because their tribe was too weak.

Apu's father was already old and had abdicated to him a few days ago.
Chapter completed!