Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1495 Increase
Dinner was a meal that was beyond the expectations of all the students.

For most people, this is something they have never eaten.

For Wen Yuan, this is something he has been eating until his eyes turn green.
"Eat canned food???" Gao Shiyu was stunned for a moment, "Is this what we're going to eat tonight?"

"What else? What do you think you're going to eat? Get a camel, put a sheep inside the camel, put a chicken inside the sheep, and put a quail inside the chicken?"

"No? I remember we have a big budget."

"Okay, if you want to eat, I can call you over right now. But you need to dig a tandoor to roast this kind of thing. I wonder if there's some living Buddha who is willing to dig a tandoor for everyone, and then move the camel in to roast it for everyone to eat. By the way, it takes about seven or eight hours to roast it once."

Roasting meat in a naan pit is essentially a slow roast, and Shangluo actually eats it often. In Yangzhou, the New World, because of its extremely rich agricultural resources, it is popular to eat this kind of large piece of meat. This is a change from the method of roasting duck in a stewing oven. Like roasting duck in a stewing oven, it is slowly roasted at medium temperature without open flames. Although it looks like roasting, it is actually cooked with the moisture of the ingredients themselves, and the fat melts and penetrates into the meat during the long stewing.

He knew it would be delicious, Yingtian roast duck was made this way, very delicious. But it was too slow - that's why Yingtian roast duck is sold at the cooked food stall, not next to the oven. Because few people would make roast duck on the spot, they would prepare it the night before, roast it all night, and then sell it on a cart with other marinated food when they set up the stall during the day.

This was just a roast duck. He estimated that even if they started roasting something as big as a roast camel as soon as possible, they would not be able to eat it until tomorrow morning, and everyone would have to go hungry during this period.

In this icy and snowy place, a hungry person may not survive even a night.

Therefore, today's dinner must be something that can be eaten immediately, and it must be filling and delicious - that is canned food. The canned food of the Jinyiwei is military rations, which, as the name suggests, is food eaten during marches.

"Eh? Didn't you say there was a dining car?"

"Yes, isn't that a dining car? That dining car is a dining car for heating canned food - in fact, it is a big steamer. As long as you boil water, you can heat up a whole car of canned food."

"Okay." Gao Shiyu wasn't that picky. It was okay to eat canned food. He ate that at home anyway.

However, Shangluo had said before that there were delicious foods here that couldn't be found anywhere else, so he was somewhat looking forward to it. He didn't expect that it was just the canned food we eat every day.

"Looking at you like this, you must think that I'm giving you ordinary canned food - but this is not an ordinary canned food."

"Really? There are actually different cans? For example?"

"For example, canned food for special needs banquets."

"Oh~~" The two of them opened the large iron barrel of packaging. Gao Shiyu thought the packaging was very impressive as soon as he saw it.

After these large iron barrels were taken out of the oil paper package, they were also wrapped in small oil paper packages. After removing the two layers of packaging and opening the large iron can, the contents of the "special banquet cans" were inside:
Roast duck. A whole roast duck is soaked in brine and can be eaten right away.

This is a short-shelf-life can of roast duck specially made by the imperial kitchen. It has a shelf life of only 20 days and must be eaten within 20 days, but the taste is very authentic, just like the roast duck sold on the street.

This thing is useless in Yingtian because there are stalls selling roast duck everywhere in the streets and alleys.

But next to Lake Baikal where there are no roast duck restaurants, this whole duck opened in the snow and ice brought an extremely shocking effect: this is a normal diet in the field, and it can be obtained right out of a can.

"So this is what it looks like. So how do you eat it?" Although Gao Shiyu stayed there for a while last time, this was the first time he saw roast duck by himself.

“Just eat it.”

"Don't you need to heat it?"

"Eat it hot when it's hot, and eat it cold when it's cold."

Although the roast duck has a layer of frozen fat floating on it because of the cold weather, you don’t have to eat roast duck hot. The roast duck sold in delicatessens is a cold dish—although there are some special roast duck shops where you can buy fresh roast duck that has just come out of the pot, and those roast ducks have crispy skin. But if you don’t catch it in time, you will only get the roast duck as a cold dish.

That’s okay, it tastes just as good cold.

"Just be careful about one thing - this thing can't be heated at all. Don't be afraid that it will feel greasy if you eat it cold. It may be greasy, but you can't taste it. This is because when it is stewed in the stewing oven, all the fat is stewed and melted."

"Can I ask why the heat can't be turned on?"

"Because when the duck meat is roasted, the bad smell is also melted away - that is, the duck smell. When you reheat it, all these smells come back. So if you must eat it hot, heat up the marinade and pour it over the cold duck."

"Wow" Gao Shiyu swallowed his saliva. To be honest, he usually doesn't want to eat this thing that much, after all, it's just an ordinary duck. Shuntian also has roast duck, and there are both hanging oven and stewing oven.

But here on the shore of the icy Lake Baikal, having ready-to-eat roast duck right out of a can is a heavenly enjoyment.

"What's that next to it?"

"Salt duck - salted duck is a real canned food. It's not short-shelf-life. You can eat it for half a year. Next to it are canned braised pork elbow and canned braised fish."

"Wait, why are they all in one piece?"

He discovered the key point. Whether it was chicken, duck, fish or pig's trotters, the canned food was all "original" without any cuts. It looked the same before it was put into the pot, and it remained the same after it was put into the can, without any cuts.

This is actually very troublesome. Even if it is a cold dish like roast duck, you can't eat it directly when you get a whole one like this, unless you hold it in your arms and chew it.

But in this icy place, serving such a large table of complete banquet-level dishes is the embodiment of morale. This banquet can immediately pull people back from the icy world to the civilized world and complete their spiritual rest. This is also the essential need provided by the meal.

Humans are advanced animals, not only do they have physiological needs, but they also have spiritual needs. If we ignore spiritual needs and only focus on physiological needs, then people should not eat these colorful dishes, but should directly eat mealworms or fried crickets, dried earthworms, cockroach gel, etc. These things are much more efficient than roast duck.

But people can't just eat these. In addition to feeding their bodies, they also need to relax their minds. Because as a higher life form, the human brain is overloaded with information received all day. The more information, the more spiritual enjoyment is needed beyond the purely physical attributes. Humans are also a kind of Dementor, born to absorb souls to survive.

These intact banquet cans undoubtedly encapsulate the soul of the banquet into the cans, and then preserve them as much as possible on the picnic table in the snow and ice.

"Should we cut it up?" Gao Shiyu asked. "If we have to cut it, we have to wait until everyone has seen it. Also, there are side dishes over there. Go ask a few people to bring some vegetables over. It would be a bit of a waste to serve all these banquet food directly, so we can add some side dishes like cabbage, carrots, onions, etc."

Although it was only the first day, after working hard for half a day, I was able to eat a combination of meat and vegetables that looked very natural in the snow. This was a treatment that others could not even imagine.

For example, Phaethon didn't dare to think about these things.

"You guys, this is too extravagant."

"Didn't you know that we have such canned banquets?"

"Although I know about it, I've never seen it. Wow, I can actually bring it here to eat."

"It's not expensive, it's just a bigger can."

"It's not the price that's extravagant, but the act of equipping a soldier with this video. The Romans wouldn't equip their legionnaires with this, let alone the technological barbarians."

Phaethon and Shangluo are unpacking. This time, not only are the meals canned, but the rice is also canned. When eating, just open it and add some water to boil it. It is much faster and more convenient than cooking with raw rice directly.

Thanks to the excessive strategic delivery capabilities, the meal in front of us was also fully equipped. All the steps were just heating and adding side dishes, and that was about it. Even the lazy "students" who didn't know how to cook could get a meal that at least looked decent after all the hard work.

Ten o'clock in the evening, after dinner, on the surface of Lake Baikal.

"By the way, how long have you been here?"

"The drill has officially begun. Wen Yuan's matter has made some progress. We have arranged a meeting with the Shaqi Research Institute in two days. You will be in charge of the matters here."

A bridge of the submarine was exposed on the ice, and Shangluo and Phaethon were standing next to the ice hole created by the bridge.

He didn't plan to sleep tonight, firstly because he didn't leave room for himself in the tent, and secondly, he was afraid that if he fell asleep, someone's tent would be blown away and he didn't see it, which would be a lot of fun.

He really wanted to bring everyone here for a training exercise, but being thrown into the snow in the middle of the night was not a training exercise, it was a severe punishment. After all, this was not a normal place, and the Royal Army generally would not station heavy troops in the snowy fields. They were students, not soldiers, so it was enough to just show some respect here, and there was no need to really use body temperature to resist the temperature.

But he didn't sleep, but found something interesting by the lake -

A Baikal seal lay on the ice in front of him, lying on its belly.

Two hours ago, when Shangluo dispatched the submarine to Lake Baikal as an operation base, the submarine that drilled out of the ice created such a big hole in the ice for disaster relief.

Although this was a disaster for the fish in the lake, it was a miracle of life for the seals on the shore. Many seals gathered next to the ice hole.

Some seals are quite fierce, some are very well-behaved as if they have been tamed. Some are just patting their bellies and calling "oooooo", as if they are also enjoying the moon.

The seal's belly was so bouncy that he couldn't help but pat it. Every time he patted it, the seal would make a "oh" sound, as if he would have good luck if he patted it more.

"By the way," Phaethon asked, "the seals here have actually been domesticated to some extent, right?"

"I don't think they can be domesticated. Look at the seals around you. Their movements are random and there's no pattern. They obviously hum when they're happy. But maybe there are tourists coming here often."

[No, maybe. I checked and there are quite a lot of tourists here. It seems that because tourists often interact with seals, these seals feel that being with people is a pleasant thing for them.]

People have magical hands. Whether it is massage or visiting a patient, as long as you can find human hands to help, it will be a great blessing in your life.

"Ah, in this situation, I want to recite a poem."

[Please start, I have already made a record. ]

"This... Little North Sea. The North Sea is small. There are seals on the Little North Sea. They jump up and down when you poke them."

"Good poem." Phaethon began to applaud. "I suggest it be included in the textbook."

The lake was generally quite calm except for the seals. Shangluo looked at the camping site from afar, and had put away the writing board in his hand. He had already finished his score.

"So, Phaethon, overall, what do you think of us students?"

"For now, I can't fully rest assured about what's going on here. It's just setting up a tent, which is the most basic thing."

[However, they are able to achieve this in such a short time, so they learn very quickly. ]

"I think it's mainly because the props we matched are more considerate. These ground spikes are actually snow tent ground spikes. If we were just given ordinary ground spikes, anything could happen here. It's only right that we take more precautions here."

[You are really enjoying yourself by tormenting your classmates in various ways. Many of them will lose several pounds today.]

"I would like them to be thinner, for the sake of everyone's future and the vital role this experiment will play in the future."

[Rather than this, I would like to ask, how do you plan to use the lighthouse system? Now you give the order, and the preheated lighthouse system can be set off. Are you planning to directly use magic to infuse them? ]

"I have a better option. Rome can rest assured that I will not provide them with unlimited supplies this time. Moreover, the scale of this event is large, and it is not very realistic to infuse all magic into everyone in a field environment at once. I have a simpler plan. We just need to see if it can be implemented in tomorrow's queue training."

The minimum requirement is to be able to execute the tactical actions of the line infantry normally. It is enough to be able to execute it, and the time is not important. The rest can be left to the lighthouse system.

(End of this chapter)