Ming Dynasty: Teaching The Prince Dragon-Slaying Skills At The Beginning

Chapter 455: Peanuts That Already Exist [Please Subscribe, Please Subscribe In Full]

After thinking silently for a moment, Zhu Yuanzhang looked up at Yan Changqing and asked with interest:

"Are you planning to invent or create something that will become a rigid demand item for the common people?!!"

"Although the upper limit of market profits for rigidly demanded items is large, it is not easy to become items that are rigidly demanded by the people!!!"

After listening to Yan Changqing's talk about "rigid demand items" and "elastic demand items", the difference in market profit ceiling between the two.

Zhu Yuanzhang knew that most of the things invented or created by Yan Changqing were related to the "rigid needs" of the people.

After all, it is necessary to create 10 billion profits, if you want to achieve the requirements through "elastic demand for goods".

This means that Yan Changqing needs to invent and create at least 166 items, similar to the glass that was able to earn 60 million yuan!!!

Even though Yan Changqing was a Saint, Zhu Yuanzhang did not think Yan Changqing had such ability.

After all, Saint is still a human being, how can he be so outrageous~!!!

Therefore, if you want to create 10 billion profits, you can only start from the "rigid needs items" of the people.

In order to become a "rigid demand item" for ordinary people, on the one hand, it must be closely related to the daily necessities of life, food, housing and transportation [tenth aspect], the price cannot exceed the acceptable range of ordinary people.

Zhu Yuanzhang thought for a long time, but he didn't expect anything to meet such a request.

So Zhu Yuanzhang was very curious about what Yan Changqing was going to invent and create to make it a "rigid demand item" for the common people.

Looking at Zhu Yuanzhang with a curious look on his face, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di, etc., and the little guy Zhu Xiongying.

Yan Changqing smiled and reached out from the drawer under the podium to take out a glass bottle with a diameter of about a palm's width and a height of a palm, which contained fried peanuts.

Then according to the number of people present, he took out ten ceramic jade plates from the drawer again, and then roughly divided the peanuts in the glass bottle into ten parts and poured them on the plates.

In the end, he kept one plate of peanut kernels for himself, and then distributed the other nine plates of peanut kernels to Zhu Yuanzhang, the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Fang, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di, and nine other people including Zhu Xiongying.

"Try it, this thing alone may bring tens of billions of profits to Your Majesty!!!"

After saying that, Yan Changqing threw a peanut kernel into his mouth and chewed it a few times. Suddenly, a crispy, salty and fragrant taste overflowed in his mouth, making people unable to help but chew a few more times before swallowing. .

Below, Zhu Yuanzhang, Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, as well as Zhu Xiongying, all imitated Yan Changqing when they saw Yan Changqing slightly closing his eyes on the podium to enjoy the delicious peanut kernels. Twist a peanut kernel and put it into your mouth.

Bar chirp, bar chirp, bar chirp....

Suddenly, the small conference room was filled with the sound of chewing.

After a while, Zhu Yuanzhang, the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Chong, Zhu Gang, Zhu Di and other princes, as well as Zhu Xiongying, opened their eyes one after another.

Zhu Yuanzhang said with a hint of satisfaction:

"The taste of this product is quite good, whether it is eaten with porridge or eaten with wine!!!"

"What's the name of this thing?!!"

Yan Changqing looked at Zhu Yuanzhang and smiled lightly:

“The day I named this thing——Peanut, the predecessors called it ‘Chitose’!!!”

Many people believe that peanuts were introduced into China from abroad during the Ming Dynasty (1530 AD).

But this is not the case. In fact, my country is also one of the origins of peanuts.

In 1958, two carbonized peanut seeds were discovered for the first time at the Yuanshi social site in Qianshanyang, Wuxing, Zhijiang. They were determined by carbon 14 to be 4700 ± 100 years old.

This proves that peanuts existed in my country during the Neolithic Age, and the oldest peanut relics discovered so far in South America are more than 1,000 years later than our country.

Even without mentioning the discovery of Yuanshi social ruins, my country already had records of peanut cultivation and planting as early as the Han Dynasty.

However, it was not called Peanut at that time, but "Qiansuizi". This name was recorded in the "Sanfu Huangtu" of the Han Dynasty.

In addition to the records of peanuts in the "Sanfu Huangtu" of the Han Dynasty, the "Dianhai Yuhengzhi" compiled by Tan Cui and others in the Qing Dynasty also mentioned the use of peanuts in the Song Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty. It's time to start planting.

But on the one hand, the scale of cultivation is relatively small, and not many people know about it.

On the other hand, although the people at that time occasionally used it to squeeze oil, most of the time they just used it as lamp oil, and they still did not realize its importance.

So when Yan Changqing got the name of the farmer Saint Shennong two years ago and established Wanmin Agricultural College.

When even asking the old farmers he summoned if they had ever seen or grown peanuts, he also collected peanuts through Ming official channels.

As Yan Changqing Saint Shennong, Yan Changqing had already obtained the peanut plants in less than half a year.

After more than a year of cultivation and planting, there is now a large peanut field at Wanmin Agricultural College.

The peanut kernels they eat now are part of this year's peanut harvest.

After hearing Yan Changqing's answer, Zhu Yuanzhang nodded slightly, tapped his index finger on the plate, looked at Yan Changqing with a half-smile and said:

"This item is sold as a snack, and it should be liked by many people!!!"

"However, if it is only sold as snacks, it shouldn't be considered a 'rigid demand item' for the common people, right?!!"

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"After all, people can buy some snacks or not buy them!!!"

"So, what are its other uses?!!"

Yan Changqing replied calmly:

"Extract oil."

Just two words made Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes look serious.

Zhu Yuanzhang sat up straighter, looked at Yan Changqing seriously and asked:

“What is its oil output ratio?!!”

The oil yield ratio of soybeans currently on the market is about one pound of oil per pound of soybeans.

If the oil production ratio of peanuts is comparable to that of soybeans, then it means that there is another kind of oil on the market again, and it is still an oil that can be purchased by ordinary people!!!

In the current era of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, oil is also a rare thing.

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The oils currently on the market are generally divided into two categories, namely animal oils and vegetable oils.

Animal oil is related to livestock, and livestock also means meat.

In this era where even three meals a day is a problem, only a small number of people can afford meat.

There are fewer people who can afford meat, which means fewer livestock are slaughtered, and naturally less animal oil can be produced.

Once anything is missing, it means it is precious!

The same is true for animal oil, so most people cannot afford animal oil.

Vegetable oil can be divided into sesame oil, which is sesame oil. Generally, only civil servants and military generals, noble marquises, subordinate officials, gentry, wealthy households, and landowners can afford it.

Then there are sesame oil pressed from flaxseed and soybean oil pressed from soybeans. These two are the oils that ordinary people eat.

However, even so, whether it is sesame oil pressed from flaxseed or soybean oil pressed from soybeans, the price is still a bit expensive for ordinary people, and there is also a shortage of supply in quantity.

So if peanuts can really squeeze out oil, and the oil extraction ratio can be comparable to soybeans.

So with the current huge demand for oil among the 60 million people of the Ming Dynasty, this kind of peanut oil will definitely not worry about selling!!!

By then, Zhu Yuanzhang is not sure whether peanut oil can create tens of billions of profits.

But what Zhu Yuanzhang is sure of is that once the oil extraction ratio of peanuts can match that of soybeans, it will definitely be able to create profits of hundreds of millions of dollars, and it will be a steady stream of profits of hundreds of millions of dollars in the long term!!!

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