"Your Majesty, Jianlu has moved his capital north to Yuanhui City by Heilongjiang River. ※%," Cao Duan, the general of the admiral outside the pass, reported to Liu Jun.

When Liu Jun heard the news, he was drinking milk tea, not fresh milk from cow and goat milk, but milk tea made from milk powder.

Milk powder is actually not a high-tech product. It is recorded in the travel notes of Marco Polo, Italy. The Mongolian cavalry of the Yuan Dynasty brought milk powder as military rations when they were fighting. It is said that the Mongolian general Mongolian Yuan skillfully dried it and made it into a powder-like milk powder that is easy to carry for military purposes. During long-distance marches, milk powder is easy to carry.

It is also convenient to eat. Take about half a pound of pounds and put them in the carry-on skin, add water and hang it on the saddle. When the horse runs, the milk powder will shake and dissolve in the pot, and finally become porridge-like for consumption. During combat, it can quickly replenish physical strength on the horse's back, and pair it with Mongolian meat floss and jerky meat, which is actually the most convenient, easy to carry and nutritious dry food.

It is said that a Mongolian cavalry only needs to carry a pot of water, a piece of beef floss, and a bag of milk powder to survive on the horse's back for several months.

Milk powder and meat floss were the secret weapons that the Mongolian army swept the world back then.

Now the Han Dynasty has been loyal to Mongolia, and Liu Jun also enfeoffed the Mongolian princes, and the grassland has become a part of the Han Dynasty. The livestock industry includes both traditional livestock transactions and fur. However, Liu Jun believes that meat products and dairy products should also be included.

In Chifeng, the court received a large number of livestock brought by the Mongolian leaders, many of which were sold to the Central Plains as a livestock for farming and transportation. The remaining ones were directly slaughtered, and the cattle and wool could be used for textiles, meat could be made into air-dried meat, meat floss, and can be made into canned meat.

In this era, transportation is difficult and food preservation is even more difficult.

Therefore, if you want to eat grassland beef and mutton, you either drive the cattle and sheep directly to the Central Plains to slaughter them. Or you can only eat dried or marinated meat.

You can send cattle and sheep to the Central Plains, and the journey is long, and you can easily die and lose weight.

The air-dried beef and mutton always have a worse taste. Therefore, Liu Jun directly built a canning factory in Chifeng, put it in jars, cooked and processed the meat, and then passed through the steaming process, and then sealed the can with mud or wax, just like sealing wine.

In this way, the meat products can be stored for longer. This seems mysterious. In fact, the key is two points: sealing and sterilization.

This is the same as sealing wine, but after an extra steaming process, it will sterilize in high temperatures, which can keep the canned food for longer.

After sealed packaging and strict sterilization process, the sterilized food can be kept in a vacuum state, preventing the entry of external pollution, preventing bacteria and other bacteria from growing again, and keeping it under normal temperature conditions will not deteriorate.

In this way, there is no need to drive cattle and sheep from all over the world to the pass, but slaughter it directly outside the pass and process it into canned food. People in the Central Plains can also eat fresh beef and mutton.

In addition to making meat floss, dried meat and canned meat, Liu Jun also established a dairy factory, the most important of which is the milk powder factory, which can process these beef, sheep and horse milk into milk powder. It can be preserved for a long time and become an extremely valuable commodity. Others include cheese, milk skin, milk tofu, etc., which are also excellent commodities.

Whether it is a wool textile factory, a leather factory, or even a canning factory, a milk powder factory, the imperial court can obtain stable returns from the grassland.

The Mongolian princes grazed and hunted, providing cattle and wool, cattle and goat milk, cattle and sheep skin, and even cattle and sheep, while the imperial court purchased these raw materials for processing.

In the end, the people of the Central Plains could buy these products from the grassland, sweaters, leather jackets, blankets, canned food, milk powder, meat floss, etc., and even cows, horses, camels, etc.

Mongolian princes and Mongolian herders were able to sell these raw materials and livestock, and then buy oil, salt, tea, wine, cloth and iron tools from Central Plains merchants.

Both sides have achieved convenience in life, and the court can also impose another tax in the process of production and transactions, and even collect tariffs when the items pass.

It can be said that this is a win-win situation.

The fighting and killing are too technical. The grassland is so big that the Han army cannot kill them all, and they cannot be wasted after the killing is over. We can't kill the grassland herders, and then move to the Central Plains people to graz.

Liu Jun thinks it is better to get what they need. Using a large network of economic interests can also keep them connected.

Now the first batch of factories have been established, and canned food and milk powder have also begun to be produced. Liu Jun himself has tried these new products himself. The taste is very good, with less industrial flavor, but more original flavor.

Liu Jun believes that when these new products win reputation and open up channels, they will become emerging industries. At that time, wealth will come and exchanges between the grassland and the Central Plains will be closer.

When these industries become bigger and stronger, both the grassland people and the Central Plains people will be inseparable from each other.

"Sit down and say." Liu Jun personally brought Cao a cup of milk tea.

When I was young, I was together as the Thirteenth Taishang Insurance Company of Xiwan, but now my relationship is a bit distant.

"Try this milk tea." Liu Jun said with a smile.

If Cao Duan, the general of the empire, ignored the five golden tigers on his shoulders, he was actually just a young man in his twenties, just like the emperor.

It’s just that the ruler and his subjects are in charge, which makes him dare not be as good as before.

"Thank you for your gift of tea." Cao Duan picked up the milk tea and took a big sip.

"What are you anxious about? Taste slowly and taste the taste." Liu Jun was a little amused when he saw his attitude of drying his mouth. He was not giving poison, so he was using it like this.

Hearing the emperor's orders, Cao Duan slowly began to savor.

"How about it?"

"The taste is good. The milk is milk, not horse milk. The tea should be made in Sichuan. The milk and tea are mixed together and the taste is very mellow." Cao Duan said slowly.

Liu Jun poured him another cup, "You try this cup again."

"This cup is horse milk."

"Yes, that cup was milk just now, and this cup was horse milk, but don't you think there is anything wrong?"

"What's wrong? I don't think so, it's normal."

"Haha, let me tell you that the milk used for these two cups of milk tea is not fresh milk, but milk powder." Liu Jun told him.

"Do you use milk powder? But I think it tastes very positive, it seems to be a little better than fresh milk, with less fishy smell."

Liu Jun was very satisfied with this reply. He himself felt that the milk powder had less fishy smell than fresh milk and had a better taste.

"Since you say that, it means that our milk powder will have a lot of promise. If you want to drink milk in the future, you will no longer have to raise a cow. We can set up a milk powder factory on the grassland, collect the freshest milk from the herdsmen, and then process it into milk powder and transport it back to the Central Plains. In this way, whether it is Beijing, Nanjing, Luoyang, Xi'an, or even Guizhou, Sichuan, you can still drink cow and goat milk from the Sai Shang Grassland."

Cao Duan followed and smiled, saying nothing.

He actually felt that the emperor was a little unemployed. It was the time of war when the Mongolian princes defeated Korqin and the Jurchens went north to Heilongjiang. At this time, shouldn't the emperor be more concerned about whether he should send troops to Liaodong?

Liu Jun reached out to wipe off the milk foam from his lips.

"Why, the soldiers are already impatient?"

"When you go back to your majesty, the soldiers all feel that the time is good. Korqin is defeated, and the Jurchens' final arm is broken. Now our army should take this opportunity to launch the battle to restore Liao, break through Liaochen in one fell swoop, and recover the land of Liaodong."

However, Liu Jun did not answer his question immediately, but said lightly, "It's November soon."

Every November, the Liaohai Sea begins to freeze, let alone the rivers in Liaodong.

In the north, Shenyang, Harwen and other places, there will be even more ice and snow. At that time, water will turn into ice, and the snow in the wild will be as thick as half a person.

In the 13th year of Chongzhen, Liu Jun conquered Liao and fought all the way to the city of Chenyang. In that winter, they basically spent the winter in the castles outside Shenyang.

Liu Jun has a deep understanding of the winter in Liaodong.

"Winter is coming, and it's time to withdraw the troops."

"Retract the troops? Now?" Cao Duan was surprised.

He was the admiral outside the pass and hoped that the court could recover Liaodong as soon as possible. In this way, he, the admiral outside the pass, would be so serious.

"The war must be fought again, but it is the Mongolian coalition of princes who have wiped out the four Korqin troops, and then this year's battle will be over."

"Your Majesty, we will not attack Liaochen and regain Liaodong?"

"Of course, Liaochen will fight, and Liaodong will definitely be regained. We must not only recover Liaodong, but also the entire Nuergandusi, but not now." Liu Jun said slowly, "We should not be anxious when using troops to fight. If we are anxious, problems will be easy. When fighting, there must be time, place, and people. At present, winter will soon begin. Liaodong will be in icy and snowy weather, and this time is not conducive to our war."

"Besides, we are not ready for a battle to restore Liao without fighting an unprepared battle. Although the court has made a lot of preparations this time, this preparation is prepared for the powerful submission of the Mongolian tribes. Even our plan is to conquer the tribes in the south of the desert. Even Korqin is not in our plan."

Until now, the tribes in the south and north of the desert surrendered, and the only four tribes in the Korqin who surrendered late were also destroyed by the court, which was a good situation beyond the expectations.

But this does not mean that the court may continue to attack eastward.

He looked at Cao Duan who was a little disappointed and smiled, "Don't worry, Liaodong has no feet. If you don't fight this year, we can fight next year."

If you fight one year later, the situation will not get worse, but will only become more beneficial to the great man.

By next year, the weaker the Jurchens will be, and the stronger the strength of the big man will be.

Besides, the Mongolian tribes have to be stable first.

Dorgon moved the capital to Heilongjiang at this time and avoided fighting. It was obviously because he wanted to preserve his strength. The Han army could not chase all the way to Heilongjiang. So since it could not destroy the main force of the Qing army, there was no need to forcefully attack Liaochen.
Chapter completed!