I was engaged in infrastructure construction in the Han Dynasty [Transmigration Book]

Seeing that Liu Tan was full of energy after he finished speaking, Huo Guang immediately began to think about whether he had said something wrong.

He is not afraid of anything else now, but he is afraid that Liu Tan will be excited. When he is excited, it means that he is causing trouble again.

Before he could ask, Liu Tan said with a smile: "The captain's idea is good. It is indeed more convenient to make military rations."

After hearing this, Huo Guang was relieved at first, and then a little confused, no, it's not like Liu Tan's style not to mess things up.

It has to be said that Huo Guang really knows Liu Tan, because Liu Tan is already thinking about how to make simple, convenient and delicious military rations.

Liu Tan has also seen the helmet cake mentioned by Huo Guang before. It is basically a dry cake, or it is flattering, and it is hard. So this helmet cake actually has another name, stone cake, which is similar to the kind of later generations. The cake on the stone is different. This simply means that it is as hard as a stone.

However, in Liu Tan's perception, the military rations of the later generations he has seen are basically well-matched, with vegetables, meat, rice, and even fruit and chocolate. The level of luxury is probably beyond the imagination of people in this era.

However, this kind of thing is impossible to produce in this era. With Liu Tan's status, it is a luxury to eat some fruits and vegetables in this poor place, let alone configure it for soldiers.

So he can only start from other places. The simplest military ration is probably compressed biscuits.

He didn't want to do the hot pot and the like before, things were too unstable.

Thinking about fighting a war, the opposite side cut the bag of quicklime and water with a knife, and then the whole person was surrounded by water vapor in an instant. Isn't this destroying the atmosphere?

Of course, if you want to make compressed biscuits well, one of the most important points is that you need oil, otherwise the compressed biscuits produced are actually no different from stone cakes.

It seems that there is no need to worry about the oil. After all, Liu Tan has just harvested a large number of cattle and sheep. The cattle and sheep after a winter may not be very fat, but there will always be some grease.

Liu Tan doesn't ask for the same taste as the later generations, but only wants to be stronger than now, which happens to be used for this expedition. Since this city is said to be a transit station, it is not so close to Jieguo, and the march has to go a day or two.

However, just like before, he didn't know what the formula was, so he needed to find out a little bit by himself.

Well, things like fighting have nothing to do with him. He has already decided to let Li Buyan and Wei Buyi lead the troops. As for Huo Guang, he doesn't seem to have any interest. Jiang Chong can join in the fun, but he can't be appointed as the main general. .

Oh, in fact, the main general is still Liu Tan, but he is willing to be a puppet.

Liu Tan let them study where it would be better to rob the country, while he turned around to study military rations.

This time he felt that Huo Guang's expansion of his mansion was too prescient. According to his own previous arrangement, there was basically no other space except a place to sleep and receive guests.

And now he has not only a garden but even a kitchen.

When Liu Tan asked someone to bring beef, mutton and noodles made from yellow rice to the kitchen, the two cooks inside hid in a corner and shivered.

In the past, when Liu Tan studied and ate, he always ordered him to go on, and at most he just tried it. Where did he go to the kitchen in person?

But this time because the cook he brought out before him was unfortunately injured, and was shot in the butt by an arrow, and he hasn't been raised well until now, let alone cooking, so his cook is temporarily joining the army. selected from.

The cooks in the army know how to cook everything. It is really difficult for them to cook some delicate dishes. Thanks to Liu Tan's non-aggressiveness, otherwise, he might not be able to stay for a day.

Therefore, when making new things, Liu Tan can only come and give pointers in person. Of course, it is impossible to do it. First of all, the first step of lighting a fire will stump him.

The flour made from yellow rice was a little rough, so Liu Tan had to ask someone to make a small stone mill, and then asked someone to make a gauze with thin threads to sieve, and re-grind anything that could not pass the sieve.

In fact, this is only the first step. The compressed biscuits of later generations actually use puffed grain powder, which is compounded and extruded with whole grains as raw materials.

Now Liu Tan only has yellow rice in his hands, so he only tried this method.

As for extrusion and puffing, if there is a machine, then the high temperature and high pressure of the machine can quickly produce such puffed powder. When it comes to Liu Tan, it can only be done by hand.

Basically, there are only three steps, heating, cooking, puffing, and the sterilization step in the middle is not that Liu Tan wants to omit, but he has no conditions if he does not omit it.

Originally, Liu Tan was worried that after heating and steaming, these yellow rice noodles would condense into balls, but he didn't expect to be worried for nothing.

It's just that these steps are easy to say, the most difficult thing is to squeeze this process.

To what extent is it extruded powder?No one knows, not even Liu Tan himself, but he can be regarded as a leader among male college students if he knows the concept of puffed powder.

At the beginning, Liu Tan used a stone trough similar to that used for making cakes, but he did not expect that it would have no effect other than scattering the squeezed dust.

Liu Tan touched his chin and found that if he really wanted to squeeze it, he had to be in a confined space, so that these rice noodles could not escape, so that they could be honestly squeezed into the shape he wanted.

And it doesn't seem easy to achieve the results he wants just by relying on human brute force.

So Liu Tan thought of a manual noodle press in later generations. The structure of this noodle press is very simple, just a cavity, and there is an extruder on it that can be pushed by a screw.

The focus was on a screw-propelled extruder. Liu Tan subconsciously wanted Miao Rui to call all the craftsmen over and tell them that there was more work to do.

But when he got out of the kitchen, he remembered that he was at the border now, and his craftsmen hadn't been brought out this time, so... no one was available.

Liu Tan stood at the door feeling melancholy for a long time, and finally ran to Huo Guang to ask for a carpenter.

Don't even think about blacksmiths. The military has strict management over blacksmiths, and such people have no skills. Their role is to repair damaged weapons.

Thanks to the great toughness of the trees on the Gobi, Liu Tan finally chose wood, and then made a drawing for the carpenter to make a spiral push extrusion tool according to his drawing.

Not to mention, the carpenter also tried his best to get Liu Tanqing's eyes.

Finally, in order to be able to heat the high temperature, the barrel made of bronze is equipped with a wooden threaded pusher.

But wood doesn't last long, especially the form of thread wears faster.

In addition, in order to form the effect of high-temperature extrusion, the bronze barrel was directly thrown on the fire and baked, which also had a certain impact on the wood.

Liu Tan looked at the extruder, which had turned black, worn out and cracked after only one cylinder of expansion powder was squeezed, and felt a little bad all of a sudden.

If this continues, the cost is too high and there is no way to promote it!

When Huo Guang came over, he saw Liu Tan dressed in yellow rice, staring blankly at the unintelligible shape of wood and a bronze bucket.

The corner of his mouth twitched and he walked over and said, "Your Highness, the date of the expedition has been negotiated."

Liu Tan stood up and patted the yellow rice noodles on his body and asked, "When?"

Huo Guang: "Three days later."

Liu Tan was shocked: "So fast?"

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