Chapter 2721: The Late Arrival of Shi Shenghuo

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At the seaside pier, a former nobleman was carrying fish. After he was a little slower than others, the person in charge of overseeing the work whipped him down.

The noble screamed but did not dare to stop. He stopped and started beating to death.

He speeds up, crying to pass others and avoid being targeted.

The other former slaves and civilians worked normally, neither too fast nor too slowly, but they didn't get beaten.

Only the nobles and priests enjoyed special treatment. Ten steamboats went out to fish, while others felled trees and dried the wood.

Steam engine ships burn dry wood, which has low calorific value and can always sail.

There are no coal mines nearby, and the Panama Canal is not connected. Otherwise, we can go to Colombia's Guajira Peninsula to mine coal.

If you don’t want to go there, there is coal in Mexico, or you can go a little further south and go to Ecuador.

The nobles and priests who were beaten in the city-state of Priestess did not escape the fate of working. The beaters knew the rules and could not break bones, leaving only flesh and skin injuries.

The nurses applied medicine, briefly bandaged it, and worked to avoid the wound opening. They sat there processing the fish and waiting for it to dry.

Captured slaves are the most obedient. They know that the fish they catch will turn into food. The more they catch, the better, and they can still eat it.

The overseers are all priestesses. They hate the nobles. You bullied us in the past, and it is our turn to deal with you.

"When will the injustice be repaid?" Yao Chong looked at others being beaten through binoculars and shook his head.

"Yes! We should eradicate the root cause to avoid being retaliated against again." Li Yi agreed.

"Is this what I mean?" Yao Chong absolutely cannot admit this kind of thing.

"Then you mean... let it go?" Li Yi was surprised.

"Let it go? What will we eat if we let it go? The fish must be handled well, eh? What kind of fish did they put away? Is it delicious?" Yao Chong couldn't even say let it go.

"Sardines." Li Yi didn't believe that Yao Chong didn't recognize him.

"Oh, sardines are good, your canning is good, but you need tinned iron."

Yao Chong naturally changed the topic to industry, or food.

Li Yi let him have his way: "Sardines are small and have spines. They are not as good as large fish. They are all meat. Fortunately, we Tang Dynasty people can eat any fish.

Small fish are best canned, or stewed and then allowed to cool before eating.

Steaming in a pressure cooker is also an option. Deep-frying wastes oil and is fried in dough. "

"How do they eat?" Jiang Jiao asked from the side.

"It's stewing in an iron pot. It tastes good only after you clean it up. Otherwise, it will be fishy and smelly, and you will be beaten. When it cools down after stewing, there will be fish jelly."

It was impossible for Li Yi to fry fish for a large group of prisoners. At most, he could use tomatoes to make canned sardines with tomato sauce in a pressure cooker.

He felt that the canned mackerel was not as delicious as the sardines. The simple-packed cans cost more than ten yuan each. The two kinds were almost the same.

If you switch to the hardcover version, the sardines are all tender meat, but the taste of the mackerel is incomparable.

But some people think mackerel is good and say it has thick meat.

"Proprietor, here we come. One of the four city-states that has formed a group is fast. It is still twenty miles away and there are no scouts."

Ling Sansan warned, come on, the enemy doesn't know how to send scouts.

Li Yi stopped looking and turned to go to the war room, followed by other ministers.

The image returned by the drone showed a team of more than 5,000 people rushing on the road.

They carried things on their backs, threw spears with stone-tipped wooden handles, and had feathers on their heads.

Judging from their expressions, they were tired but excited, as if there were free eggs that they needed to come and get.

"That's too much!" Li Dan was angry, what do you think we are?

"It looks like we need to cook more, otherwise there won't be enough food."

Li Yi frowned, the captives had to be fed.

The people on the screen didn't know who was shouting what. Soon the people in the team were waving their weapons and shouting, and the march speed increased.

Su Ting smiled: "Afraid of not dying fast enough, we will forcefully march when we see the place?"

"I'm probably worried that others will take away the benefits." Lu Huaishen considered it from the other party's perspective.

"Forget it, it's almost noon, so it's time to have dinner."

Zhang Jiuling felt that this group of people had good physical strength and could work.

A group of people who brought their own dry food and traveled a long distance rushed twenty-five miles at the last moment and took two hours.

This speed is extraordinary!

With five miles left, they stopped rushing. They mainly saw the buildings here and found no one else, so they were puzzled.

Judging from their behavior, they decided to take a break and at least eat something.

They opened their backpacks made of leaves and branches and took out food.

Corn kernels, pottery pots and prepared dry branches were dug to build a stove. Some people also went around to find dry main branches and grass.

Then some began to pound the stones, their weapons made of flint and obsidian.

You can make fire by drilling wood or knocking flint against each other.

It is better to have iron. When flint and iron are struck together, the sparks produced are large.

The fire sickle is based on this principle. It takes a piece of iron, strikes the stone, and has tinder.

The Mayan civilization was in the Neolithic Age, and life was like this, and it did not develop well in the end.

Seeing them lighting fire in such a primitive way, Bi Gou took out a box of matches from his sleeve.

A beautiful wooden box with exquisite carvings and dark wood. It is gently pushed open to reveal a special matchstick and match head.

Then push the two places outside the box to reveal the match skin in the middle.

He took out a match, struck it a few times, put it back, and closed the matchbox.

"It was all the same in the beginning. UU read books www.uukanshu.net until matches came into being, and lighters were just something to play with."

Bi Gou turned the matchbox in his hand and thought of the past.

Once the fire was extinguished, even in the imperial city, you still had to knock stones and drill wood.

When alcohol lighters appeared, the imperial city and the rich used them first. The imperial city got them for free, and others had to buy them, and then they had to buy alcohol.

The alcohol was stored in a porcelain bottle. When using it, the lighter alcohol evaporated, so I filled it with a little and lit it.

Later, matches were available and sold to the people of the Tang Dynasty at cost price. Every family had a box of matches, but they didn't necessarily use them, so they kept them properly for emergency use.

Usually, the original method was still followed. There were places in Chang'an City and Luoyang Palace where people could get fire at any time.

Otherwise, there were few people cooking, and it was not easy to get a fire.

There were people guarding the fire in the village. When the villagers needed to cook, they went to borrow fire, and the firewood had to be delivered to the guard.

The army's supply of matches was endless, and they were exported. They were expensive. After collecting 80% tax, they had to collect 200% tariff.

The price of matches in Lijiazhuang has also increased by dozens of times. Lijiazhuang pays the luxury tax, but does not pay the customs duty, which is paid by others.

Seeing Bi Gou taking out matches, everyone reached into their sleeves. They now have pockets on their clothes, including the ones on the left and right sides of their inner pockets.

The matches are all placed in the sleeve pockets, which are convenient for taking out, and they are used to taking things out of their sleeves.

Li Longji looked at his own matchbox, which was made of jade: "It's just this thing, who would have thought how complicated the craftsmanship is? What about yours, brother Yi?"

Li Yi looked at others, put his hand in the pocket of his white coat, and took out the cheapest matches.

"Brother Yi, why is yours this?" Li Chengqi also has a jade matchbox.

"Because it's light, the wooden one I put in is also heavy, and the jade one is heavier."

Li Yi despised other people's matchboxes. I made it for you, and you carry it with you?