When Zasuli brought what he said, Liu Mingqi recognized it at a glance.

It's indeed cocoa.

That is, the raw material for making chocolate.

It is said that cocoa originated in South America and is then widely grown in South America, Africa and Southeast Asia.

As for when Ke came to Southeast Asia, another world was probably in the Ming Dynasty, and of course this world was my Great Kang Dynasty.

Speaking of this, Dakang is actually quite lucky.

So many crops that can save the suffering have been greatly alleviated the dilemma of this empire that is about to enter the middle stage.

As we all know, at the beginning of an empire, no matter how hard it is, no matter how many natural disasters or man-made disasters are encountered, there is nothing to be afraid of. Everyone can work together to overcome them.

After all, after experiencing such a miserable end of the dynasty, everyone who survived had enough patience, and the remaining natural disasters and man-made disasters were nothing.

It's like my big man, my Ming Dynasty, etc.

They all quickly recovered and burst into an extremely dazzling light.

However, after the middle of many dynasties, people's tolerance for various sufferings became lower and lower, so they complained and were dissatisfied.

In the later stage, there were various natural disasters and man-made disasters, so this dissatisfaction and indignation reached its peak, thus the saying "Where are kings, princes, generals and ministers" came, and everyone began to rise up and change to a new dynasty.

Dakang is not afraid to say that it is in the late stage, but it is normal for the dynasty to be over 80 years, and it is also normal to go to the mid-stage.

If there were no life-saving treasures like Sweet Potato, it might have been delayed for another twenty or thirty years and could have entered the end directly.

Of course.

Dakang's luckiest thing was that he got Liu Mingqi.

The young man has various knowledge and common sense that has surpassed this era for hundreds or even thousands of years, which has been able to solve many problems and continue to prosper the Dakang Dynasty.

Speaking of things like cocoa, if you say it has a great effect, it can’t be said.

But if you say it is of no use, it won't be.

Coco itself is bitter, and many people don’t know about this.

It just adds a lot of milk and sugar and turns it into chocolate, which covers up the bitterness and leaves only a silky softness.

Zassuri is right, it's a bit like grease.

Moreover, if you want to get a silky and smooth texture, you must carefully sieved and sieved out the impurities in the cocoa liquid as much as possible, so that it can be pure.

Eating too much chocolate will make you addictive, and because of the excitatory effect of cocoa and the soothing effect of sugar, it can make you feel better.

This is only for ordinary people.

For the army, chocolate plays an extremely irreplaceable role.

Why?

Because chocolate contains the highest calories of all foods.

On the battlefield, after a high-intensity and intense battle, eating a piece of chocolate can provide a lot of calories and restore the exhausted body.

Especially in cold places, it is even more life-saving.

So this also shows why Liu Mingqi was surprised by discovering Coco.

From an economic perspective, chocolates must be sold in Europe, and they are born with no resistance to sugary sweets.

From the perspective of national security, giving each soldier one to three pieces of high-purity chocolate can greatly increase their tolerance limits like chicken blood.

Sometimes on the battlefield, you often persist for a moment than others, even if it is just a few minutes, you can win.

Liu Mingqi hopes that chocolate can play such a role in the future.

Didn't say anything.

He immediately placed an order for Zassuri to "should as much as you want" and also paid 100 taels of gold in advance.

Paying a deposit is to give Zasuri the confidence to acquire more cocoa beans.

And the boy was not afraid of Zassuri running away with money.

As long as he dares to run away, Liu Mingqi will issue a bounty and take other people's heads. This is something Dakang merchants often do. Even if they suffer serious losses, they will be punished.

There are too many pirates in the sea who are willing to take on such work, so they are guaranteed to be done properly.

After hundreds of years of doing this, there are too few maritime traders who dare to do this.

Zassuri definitely didn't think so, and a hundred taels of gold was not worth it.

So he happily left with the deposit.

I can't help but arrange this overly young prince in my heart.

cut!

What a fool!

Is this kind of black bean powder water that we poor drink, and I am still so interested in?

Could it be turned into a delicious dish?

This kind of black bean is everywhere in Brunei. On weekdays, melons fall on the ground, but not many people are willing to pick them up.

Now, I can still sell it for money. The price is still twenty cents per kilogram. After a ship is fully loaded, I can load 800,000 kilograms. One trip will make a profit of more than eight thousand taels of silver!

This doesn’t count as buying goods when you come back from Dakang and selling them back to Brunei, this is another income.

I make money back and forth, and this business is done!

Zassuri was too excited and didn't notice that Sadodo, who was behind, was stuffed with another inch of gold by the pillar.

In this way, he made 400 taels of silver!

Transplanting the red devil from the boat, Sadoduo paid only a few big white rabbit milk candies, but now he is still worth 200 taels of silver. He is so moved that tears are about to come out.

If Dazhu hadn't told him not to speak out, he would have knelt down and kowtowed Liu Mingqi a few more times.

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Zasuli was very fast. He took the document from Liu Mingqi, turned around and found two fellow traders whom he was familiar with. He directly booked a fast ship at the boat and headed straight for Huai'an City.

They don’t know the saying “time is money”, but they also know what it means to seize the opportunity.

The Grand Canal waterway, which is more than a few hundred miles long, finally arrived in Huai'an City in the morning after changing the boat twice.

Then, with the documents written by Liu Mingqi, several people successfully met Miao Yan.

When Miao Yan heard that they could sell a large number of century-old trees of good texture, he was immediately interested, but he was not familiar with the business area, so he left it to Sun Rui to deal with it.

After lunch, Miao Yan went to the training ground next to the shipyard to check the training of the five thousand canal soldiers.

No matter how busy the canal transportation business is, Miao Yan will definitely come to the training ground every two days recently and ask about the training status.

The 20,000 Caoshu soldiers were originally very old, weak, sick and disabled.

But after such a period of recuperation, most people have recovered their healthy physical strength.

Now that the Japanese may invade, Miao Yan originally wanted to eliminate the Cao soldiers over the age of 40.

Now, when I saw that these people were physically strong, able to keep up with training, and had a very hard attitude, I changed my mind and let them stay in the training camp.

Well, this is of course, because Miao Yan gives them high subsidies.

Each person has a subsidy of 100 cents a day, and it is three taels of silver per month. This is not the salary of three taels of silver per month that Miao Yan raised to the prison soldiers after he took office. Originally, they should have laughed at them if they could get one tael of silver per month.

Six taels of silver per month is enough for their family to live a life of food and clothing around Huai'an City.

But that's not good.

Miao Yan and they all promised, "The head of a Japanese man costs 100 silver. The disabled person will be in charge of the livelihood of the canal transportation yamen for life. The dead person will be given a pension of one thousand silver. If their children can enter the canal transportation yamen for work, they will never let them die."

Kill a Japanese man for one hundred taels of silver?!

One hundred taels of disabled people will enter the canal transportation office to do things!?

One thousand taels of pension was killed in battle, and the children also went to the canal transportation office to do things!?

Such a crazy reward that is unbelievable, if anyone else said that these old fried dough sticks would only regard him as an idiot and ignore him.

But the person who spoke was Miao Yan, so no one would disbelief.

Everyone knows that if there is still someone in this world who keeps his word, it is not the emperor, it must be Miao Yan!

It is precisely because Miao Yan has such strong credibility that they believe in the reason and are willing to grit their teeth and persist in training.

You should know that Miao Yan saw that there were too many soldiers in the canal and the invasion of the Japanese was imminent, so he ordered the one hundred and thousands of Niu Guards left by Liu Mingqi to increase the training intensity and intensity.

Such training is not easy for normal men in their twenties or thirties to support them, and Miao Yan believes that it is the best way to wash away the sand with big waves.

Even a hundred Qianniuwei instructors think so.

Unexpectedly, most of these people persisted. So far, it has been almost twenty days, and there are still 15,000 people left.

At this time, the protection fees for Zhenjiang and Suzhou have arrived again.

Since this is the case, Miao Yan simply doesn't want to eliminate people. At that time, the number of troops in the army will naturally be better if the number of people is more.
To be continued...