bookandnovel Chapter 249 Pure Addiction
Chapter 249 Pure Addiction
Summer June 29th.
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Although there was still one day left in late summer, Richard was already starting to feel anxious.
After waking up early this morning, I kept thinking about it:
What are some things left undone this summer?
Is there enough food stored in the warehouse?
Are all the required artisan products complete?
Each season has its own crops, and once the season is over, you have to wait another whole year.
Just like a strawberry.
Although we eventually managed to get the seeds, once the opportunity was missed, it was gone forever, and we could only wait until next year to plant them.
This matter has become the biggest knot in his heart, and it makes him feel restless and anxious whenever he thinks about it. Perhaps this is why he is so anxious right now.
In order to avoid repeating the same mistake, he planned to take a stroll through the mine today and carefully examine the various types of artisan food available.
Im carried a stack of inventory statistics and followed behind, reporting the quantities as needed.
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The second level of the mine.
This floor is stocked with finely milled wheat flour, and the air is filled with a rich aroma of wheat.
The thirty-acre space was filled with all kinds of wooden shelves.
The frames were made from leftover boards from the previous roof demolition; they're very sturdy and can be considered a reuse of materials.
The shelves were neatly stacked with burlap sacks, each one bulging.
Richard strolled slowly past a row of shelves, reached out and pressed a bag, and said without turning his head, "Report the number."
Im quickly opened the booklet.
"20 million kilograms of ordinary wheat flour, 2 million kilograms of silver star flour, 500,000 kilograms of gold star flour, and only 80 kilograms of iridium star flour."
Richard nodded.
The reason why the reserves of ordinary wheat are so large is entirely due to the fact that the current rate of population consumption cannot keep up with the rate of production.
The consumption of life quality is quite exaggerated, especially those thousand unicorns, who are practically a bunch of walking gluttons.
To help them advance to the next stage as soon as possible, they are fed only the highest quality food, which amounts to hundreds of thousands of kilograms a day.
As for the rarest Iridium wheat, it can only be supplied to the Imperial Guard and Chiffon Castle. It would be good if there were any left to hoard.
Fortunately, wheat is a double-cropping crop in summer and autumn, so there's no need to worry for now.
A few days ago, I spent over 1,300 gold coins to expand my farmland by 200 acres.
After completing the delivery of more than a dozen grain orders and having sufficient funds, we will expand by another 500 mu, causing production to surge by another order of magnitude.
At that time, we can even mix in a small amount of Iridium wheat and add it to the feed to feed the unicorns.
As for ordinary wheat, if there is a surplus, it is brewed into beer to prepare for future international trade.
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After taking stock of the staple food on the second floor, Richard continued down to the third to sixth floors, where the items became more varied.
Various fruits and vegetables cannot be stored for long periods of time, unlike wheat, so these shelves are filled with various artisan foods.
First, there's corn.
This is also a summer and autumn crop, and there are three ways to store it:
The first method is to naturally sun-dry and dehydrate the corn, then grind it into corn grits, which can be used to make porridge, or finely ground into corn flour, which is also excellent for making pancakes.
The second method is to make cornstarch. First, grind the corn into a pulp, then filter it with fine gauze for a long time and let it stand to settle. Finally, bake the wet starch to remove the moisture, and you will get a white and delicate finished product.
Corn starch has a wide range of uses; it is indispensable for thickening sauces, coating batter, and deep-frying.
By mixing wheat flour in a 1:1 ratio, you can fry chicken, shrimp, and everything else.
The last use is as cooking oil.
Refined cooking oil was definitely a luxury item. Depending on the quality of the oil, the price per kilogram sold outside ranged from fifty copper coins to one silver coin.
Cooking oil is particularly durable and almost never spoils, so nearly one million bottles of corn oil have been stockpiled.
One bottle weighs one kilogram.
However, Richard doesn't plan to sell it too expensively, just twenty copper coins a bottle, focusing on high volume and large sales.
This isn't Earth, where you can eat a kilogram sparingly and it will last a whole year. If you sell it cheaper here, people can consume it more quickly.
We didn't stockpile the Silver Star and Venus Star ones, but we have over a hundred bottles of Iridium Star ones, mainly for Mr. Richard's enjoyment.
In addition to corn oil, truffle oil and sesame oil have each been stockpiled in quantities of 100,000 bottles.
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Besides cooking oil, the next step is all kinds of pickled vegetables.
Radishes and cucumbers are the most abundant, not only are they crisp and crunchy, but they also have a refreshing and tangy flavor that cuts through the richness of the meat. Taking a bite after eating grilled meat is incredibly addictive!
There are nearly a million bottles of each type of pickled vegetable, packed tightly together. You can faintly smell the salty and savory fermented aroma even through the glass bottles.
In addition, there are various dried goods and spices that have been dried and dehydrated:
The stockpile contains approximately 500,000 kilograms of each of the following: dried sesame seeds, black pepper, thyme, rosemary, etc.
Spices are a luxury item, and most people wouldn't buy too many because they couldn't possibly consume them all.
Cooking oil is fine; you can add a spoonful when stewing a pot of vegetable puree. But would you dare add a spoonful of black pepper?
Is this because he's rich or sick?
Earl of the Wolf buys two bottles of black pepper, which he usually just sprinkles on bread or steak for seasoning, and it lasts him for more than half a year.
Therefore, there was no need to hoard spices excessively; he never even considered selling them, but rather giving them away as gifts.
Especially in the military, distributing a few kilograms of these items as a holiday bonus is not only practical but also prestigious.
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Next up are fruits.
Fruit is the most difficult thing to preserve; it is extremely easy to mold and rot.
In this era, there were no industrial preservatives, so the normal way for ordinary people to process food was to make it into dried fruit or snacks.
Even if processed into juice or jam, it is prone to spoilage and must be consumed as soon as possible.
However, after being processed by artisans and their equipment, there is no possibility of spoilage, and it can be stored for a long time.
However, Richard prefers alcohol to fruit juice, especially watermelon juice, which is quite different from eating watermelon directly.
But disliking something and having it are two completely different concepts. Besides, things he doesn't like are almost always rare finds outside.
Moreover, the key to stockpiling things is having a wide variety of products and categories; otherwise, you'll feel restless and always feel like you're missing something.
Therefore, we need to stock up.
We also stocked up on nearly 100,000 bottles of each type of fruit juice and jam.
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The wine cellar is located below the mine.
No doubt about it.
Filling a mine shaft with a type of liquor is a basic task.
Right now, all we can stockpile are blueberry wine and mead, one million bottles of each. Once autumn arrives, we can stock up on seven or eight more varieties.
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After descending several levels of the mine shaft, Richard finally breathed a sigh of relief.
In fact, there are certainly more artisan foods that can be produced than these. Truffles, cheese, honey, mushrooms, and so on are produced almost all year round, so there is no need to hoard them.
Looking at the dazzling array of goods on each layer of the mine's shelves, Richard felt an intense sense of satisfaction!
It has nothing to do with how much it can sell for; it's purely an addiction to hoarding.
Perhaps it's due to ethnicity, or perhaps it's a natural desire ingrained in our genes.
Regardless of social status, all humans need food. The feeling of seeing enough food to fill a mine is truly wonderful.
It's a pity that we still lack many varieties, such as potatoes, peppers, rice, tomatoes, and so on.
Richard sighed softly.
That's all there is to it this summer.
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