Chapter 1658： Food processing industry

In fact, the price of eggs in Beihai is already very cheap. Because food was abundant 10 years ago, Beihai has more chickens and eggs are naturally cheaper. After all, raising chickens is very food-intensive.

In other countries lacking food, raising chickens is a luxury. But let the chicken go to the wild to find food and eat, there is a meal without a meal, the chickens are hungry and malnourished, how can they lay eggs normally?

Just like London, now a dozen eggs are worth 2p. Hundreds of years ago, a penny could buy 2 dozen eggs, but later because of the price increase and the silver content of the silver coin was reduced by half, the price of a dozen eggs soared to 2 pennies, which is equivalent to more than one penny silver coin of the previous group value. point.

Beihai is currently rich in food, so it is a pity to feed wheat bran to chickens. The wheat bran is nutritious enough, with some earthworms being fed from time to time, and the reed chicken has a high egg production rate. When the number of reed chickens is up, it is estimated that the price of eggs in the North Sea country will be reduced to two dozen or three dozen eggs per fenny, so that all citizens can afford it.

This is the advantage of having more food. If there is more food, the wheat bran will be wasted and used to feed pigs and chickens. If there is little food, these wheat bran iron will be mixed into dark bread and used as treasure. At least, wheat bran is also food, which is much stronger than the added wood chips, soil and stones.

But in this era, food is hard to sell. why? Because rich people do not lack food, such as nobles and rich businessmen. Needless to say, the nobles have fiefs at home. The rich businessmen will not eat as many breads, as long as they are full. And those poor people who cannot eat enough, want to buy food but have no money ...

Only commercial countries such as Spain and Venice, which have large populations and poor agriculture but do not lack money, will spend a lot of money to buy food.

But the by-products produced by grain are different, such as eggs, which are very popular. Because, even for ordinary people, you can buy a dozen eggs and go back. Perhaps adults are reluctant to eat, but they still need to supplement their children's nutrition. Several pounds of beef and mutton can't be eaten, and a dozen or two dozen eggs can be affordable for ordinary people. Moreover, a child eating an egg a day can be considered greedy. In addition, sick poor people can also buy eggs to supplement their nutrition. Even cows and horses in arable land can eat eggs to supplement their nutrition.

Of course, the shelf life of eggs is not long, and it is difficult to sell them as commodities abroad. Moreover, the eggs cannot withstand the collision and are easily broken during transportation.

Therefore, Marin thought of a way to process the eggs into chicken cakes, and then put them in a greaseproof paper bag to seal the air and heat it, which can be kept for a long time.

In my previous life, when I was a kid, the old Li Tou in the Marin village specialized in baking chicken cakes. Marin saw him add eggs, flour, and sugar together, stir vigorously, and then put them in a plug-in oven to bake Marin's favorite chicken cake as a child.

At present, although Marin does not have an electric oven, he can find a professional toast master. Then, with simple means, a sweetened chicken cake was made. Even milk-flavored chicken cakes can be made.

Among them, the milk-flavored sweet chicken cake with milk has become one of the most popular snacks in the Orich Palace. Not only a group of children love it, even Angela and Felice often eat a little.

This kind of chicken cake with milk and sugar added is as good as the queen bread that medieval soldiers like to eat. Moreover, because of the addition of eggs, nutrition is more sufficient.

Anyway, now that food is a bit difficult to sell, Marin plans to make all the food except chicken wine into chicken cakes and other non-staple foods, which are vacuum-packed in oil paper bags and sold to countries. After being insulated and heated, the chicken cake is not bad for at least a few months and is very suitable for sale as a commodity. Moreover, the price is relatively high.

For example, a 250-gram bag of milk chicken cakes costs less than one fenny, but in the European market, it can be sold for 3 fenny bags. Even if the wholesale price is at least 2 fenny per bag.

Moreover, the sales of milk cakes are very popular. And Marin also gave the milk chicken cake the "Queen" brand, reminiscent of the famous "Queen White Bread" in the Middle Ages.

However, this milk chicken cake is a high-end product that nobles and rich merchants can afford. Although the sales are hot, it is only popular in the aristocratic circle and the rich merchant circle. As for the civilian population, it is unbearable. Because, a bag of 250 grams of milk chicken cake is not enough. And the value is more than the average person's daily salary. I do n’t have much money at home, I will never buy it. At most, occasionally buy a bag to get rid of it.

If you want to fully roll out, you have to rely on low prices. Therefore, Marin launched another kind of food processed food-biscuits.

Originally, Marin planned to launch milk sweet cookies that are common in later generations. However, if a lot of milk and sucrose are added, according to the cost of this era, it seems to be a bit higher, and ordinary people can't bear it.

So, Malin thought about it and came up with another kind of biscuits-salted biscuits ...

The cunning Marin added 30% green onions when making cookies, and also added some salt and yeast powder. Such biscuits are very conscience in later generations. Because, in later generations, the price of onions is higher than the price of grain.

However, in this era of Europe ...

Right now a pound of rye in Germany is worth 1 fenny, and green onions ... a fenny can buy several pounds ...

Therefore, Marin is absolutely a profiteer! Replaced a lot of flour with 30% onions. However, because the craftsmanship is good. As a result, it tastes very refreshing, and it has a refreshing feeling of pancakes covered with green onions, which is very suitable for Europeans of this era.

Then, a pound of onion-flavored salty biscuits, the cost is just like a fenny. However, a pound of onion-flavored salty biscuits sold by Marin costs 1.5 Finney ...

This profit may not be comparable to the profit of maritime trade. However, for the grain processing industry, it is absolutely profitable.

Moreover, only 1.5 fenny bags, ordinary people can afford it, the taste is still very good. So it sells very well.

In particular, sales are better in places with higher food prices, such as England and Spain. The price of food in England was as high as 1.5 pence per pound. The price of this onion-flavored salty biscuit is almost the same as that of food. It is very popular.

As for Spain, where food prices are higher, it is more popular. Because buying such biscuits not only saves money and is delicious, but even if the biscuits are mixed with 30% onion leaves, it is much better than wood chips and dirt. For Spanish civilians, this is food of conscience! In addition, this kind of biscuit also carries salt, so you can save the cost of buying salt ...

However, there is a place in Spain where Marin has a headache-local people like to use Malawi copper coins to buy onion-flavored biscuits. But this copper coin was recognized in Spain. After leaving Spain, other countries do not recognize it. In international settlement, gold and silver are hard currencies ...

No way, Marin had to send a group of spies ~ www.novelhall.com ~ to exchange all the Spanish Malawi copper coins into gold and silver coins before bringing them back to China.

If he didn't know the low price of copper in the East, Marin might have accepted Spanish copper coins. However, Marin knew that the copper prices in the Ming Dynasty and India were relatively low. Therefore, the copper coins must depreciate significantly in the future. Therefore, he refused to accept the copper coins and insisted on converting the Spanish copper coins into gold and silver coins before shipping them back.

However, what Marin did n’t expect was that he tried to sell the onion-flavored biscuits from the grain processing industry, which was made by the grain processing industry. Because it was convenient to carry and not easily damaged, it was even designated as military food by the rich Spanish military The large amount of purchases made Marin make a fortune.

Spain is now joining forces with Portugal to grab the Venetian spice business, so there is no shortage of money in hand. Spices are shipped back from India and can always be exchanged for more gold and silver from European countries. Therefore, the Spanish are not short of money. It is not surprising that the sealed packaged onion-flavored salty biscuits that Marlin has both the functions of food and salt supplementation were seen by the Spanish military in the province.

Even later, the Spanish crew fell in love with this onion salty cracker. Because it is difficult to cook on board, and the food is easy to spoil. And Marin made this kind of biscuit that is easy to keep and delicious, and it is indeed very suitable for the crew to carry and eat.

In this way, relying on the grain processing industry, Marin sold off a lot of the accumulated Chen Liang, and also made a lot more than selling grain alone, exchanged a lot of cash, and solved the problem of money shortage in the North Sea ...