Others couldn't help but smile when they heard this. Chen Xi's loss, that is, just listen to it, is the same as the amount reported by Chen Xi. Just take a look and listen. Whoever believes it must have something wrong with their brains. Loss, I'm afraid.
It’s not about doing accounts!
"The so-called loss means that you didn't make the money you could have earned." Chen Xi rolled his eyes and said, "What do you think is the most valuable thing about a sheep?"
"Of course it's meat." Jiang Gong threw the last piece of milk skin into his mouth and answered Chen Xi's question casually, and everyone else relatively agreed with Jiang Gong's answer.
"Actually, the answer is not meat." Chen Xi curled his lips and said.
It seems that mutton is the most profitable business. In fact, when raising sheep, the most profitable thing is not mutton, but goat milk and wool. Incidentally, it is precisely because of this demand that sheep are divided into two categories: dairy sheep and sheep.
, the former mainly produces milk, and the latter mainly produces hair.
Of course, the animal husbandry of the Han Dynasty has not yet been so clearly classified, but even so, the output of dairy products will not be smaller than the output of selling meat. After all, the mainstream in the Central Plains is goats, although it is far inferior.
Dairy goats of later generations, but this thing is of the same origin.
Therefore, in terms of milk production, the sheep raised by the Han Dynasty were very advantageous. However, because there was no way to process goat milk, Chen Xi had to reluctantly give up this industry.
After all, pure milk without any additives can only be stored for about one day below 4c. Even if it is made into fresh cheese, the shelf life will not exceed seven days.
Therefore, Chen Xi could only watch helplessly as an industry with a net profit of more than 3 billion yuan was wasted. After all, it is absolutely impossible for the current garbage logistics industry to sell Northland's fresh cheese on a large scale within seven days.
Send to Chang'an.
The milk produced by a goat in a year can even be worth more than the price of killing and selling meat. This is because the goats of the Han Dynasty are not truly high-quality dairy goats. The truly high-quality dairy goats can produce fifteen times more than themselves in a year.
Weight of milk, killing sheep for meat? Why bother! Isn't it bad to sell milk?
This is why Chen Xi went to Liu Yu and introduced a group of old herdsmen from Karasuma to engage in cheese research. This thing is really very profitable.
If Chen Xi really didn't understand cheese making, Chen Xi would have mastered it himself.
Think about it, there are ten million sheep in northern Xinjiang. According to the normal situation of dairy goats in later generations, they can produce one thousand kilograms of milk a year. At present, all the sheep in the Han Dynasty are garbage, so there is no need to separate male and female. Each one can produce an average of one thousand pounds of milk per year.
Producing one hundred kilograms of cheese and then making it into cheese at a ratio of ten to one is equivalent to one hundred million kilograms of cheese.
Chen Xi bases his price on the ground and calculates it at ten cents per kilogram, which is also one billion dollars.
In fact, on the one hand, if a sheep only produces a hundred kilograms of milk a year, it is better to kill the sheep and eat the meat. On the other hand, Chen Xi cannot cut this thing down to ten cents unless it is a festival.
One pound, after having this thing, the variety of food can be increased.
So from a certain perspective, this thing has a lot of uses in the food industry, and if you eat this kind of thing, as long as it tastes good, you really don't have to worry about not being able to sell it.
So Chen Xi estimated that if he just messed around like this, his annual net profit would be around 3 billion yuan. Of course, the most important thing is that this industry also requires a lot of manpower, and what Chen Xi likes most is this kind of industry that requires a lot of manpower.
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Let the people have work as much as possible. As long as there is work, society will be stable.
"Actually, if we raise sheep in northern Xinjiang for the purpose of eating meat, it would be a big loss." Chen Xi shrugged and said, "The output of wool textiles is almost the same as the output of meat, especially the output of sheep.
After the new sheep breeds were introduced from Rome, if they were raised in separate groups, the woolen output of those Moflan sheep would definitely be greater than the meat they eat."
"This kind of thing still depends on population cultivation." After completing the control experiment and learning that Liu Bei and others had arrived, Jiang Qi quickly changed his clothes and rushed over. When he heard Chen Xi discussing this issue, Jiang Qi accepted it smoothly.
One sentence.
Jiang Qi has this understanding of population domestication and cultivation. After all, when he first raised bees, he had done population optimization and differentiation cultivation. He also introduced this concept and tried it when raising sheep, and the effect was good.
However, due to raising too many, there are always some other species mixed into the large army, and Jiang Qi has no good solution for this.
The head sheep can manage the flock, but the scale that the head sheep can manage is also limited. In a large ranch, two or five lambs will even jump over their own fence and go to eat with the sheep of other groups next door.
"Manager Jiang, please excuse me." Chen Xi bowed slightly to Jiang Qi. From other people's mouths, and even from Chen Xi's mouth, it was said that the Beidi Ranch is one of the largest ranches in the north. In fact, there are accurate data.
Chen Xi knew that this ranch was really the largest.
Jiang Qi's management level is a little hard to describe, but his technical ability is indeed very strong. In fact, as a guy who has gone down in history through beekeeping and animal husbandry, his strength is not outrageous.
"Where." Jiang Qi touched his beard, smiled and saluted, and then saluted everyone in the group one by one.
Jiang Qi is interested in becoming an official, but unlike some official fans, this guy knows that he is not the material. As a nominal manager like this, he only needs to do what he likes to do.
Everyone will listen to your opinions, and that’s enough.
Therefore, Jiang Qi has always been very satisfied with Chen Xi's arrangement. He likes this kind of life very much, especially when he wants to study population optimization. He can really invest a lot of manpower and material resources in this kind of research. Who would have done it for him in the past?
If there are sheep of the same flock, let him study them.
"Captain Jiang, go to the wild field in the northwest and bring over a group of deer." Jiang Qi seemed to be in a good mood and turned to greet Jiang Gong.
Jiang Gong was overjoyed when he heard this. He had done a lot of damage to Jiang Qi's deer. After all, compared to sheep, deer were a great supplement. Earlier, he didn't know that those big-antlered deer, red deer, etc. were raised by Jiang Qi in a free range.
Jiang Gong went to catch deer every now and then.
Later I found out that Jiang Qi had raised this deer, so I felt too embarrassed to catch it often. I picked up a deer after ten and a half months, but Jiang Qi usually couldn't tell. After all, the deer there were free-range.
Although I eat a lot of Jiang Qi’s green stock, it’s really not domestically grown.
"Follow me, everyone." Jiang Qi made a gesture of invitation, and then said while leading the way, "The food here is very different from that in the south. It is quite rough. I hope you nobles will not blame me."
Chen Xi rolled his eyes when he heard this. He had already thought about what Jiang Qi meant by roughness. He was probably not roasting whole beef or roasting whole lamb, something that was impossible to have in the south.
"Is the way of eating very rough?" Han Xin asked curiously. Along the way, the ranch gave Han Xin the feeling that it was not the prosperity of Chang'an, but a different kind of prosperity. This made Han Xin quite interested in Jiang Qi's so-called roughness.
Somewhat curious.
"Yes, it is indeed a coincidence that you all are here. Some food is just coming out of the oven. After several years of experiments, the level of roasting in this area has reached far beyond Chang'an." Jiang Qi
Said confidently.
As soon as these words came out, everyone looked at Chen Xi, because the person present who is most qualified to represent the highest level of cooking in Chang'an is Chen Xi. After all, whether he can cook or not, put aside, Chen Xi really knows how to eat, and he is particularly good at eating.
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Chen Xi nodded silently. Even the cooks in their family had small arms and legs and could not cook this level of cooking. He knew with his feet what Jiang Qi meant by roasting, either roasting a camel or roasting a whole cow.
At least Chen Xi couldn't do this kind of thing in his backyard.
In fact, not to mention Chen Xi's backyard, even Liu Tong wouldn't do this kind of thing. This is entirely a matter of understanding and geography.
"Then I'm going to try it." Liu Tong is also very interested. Not only is the eunuch of her young master's family not only invincible in the world, but he is at least as good as Chen Xi's cook.
Dishes that are beyond the scope of Chen Xi’s backyard preparation are not allowed to be tasted.
"Cow or camel?" Chen Xi asked Jiang Qi in a low voice as he walked in.
"We can't make cows and camels right now." Jiang Qi didn't have any doubts about Chen Xi's guess as to what they were cooking.
In fact, Jiang Qi also knew that in his large Northland ranch, not to mention the consumption of mutton, it was really outrageous that more than 2,000 cattle a year were included in the loss. Ten years ago, just this consumption, this group of people
Afraid of being beaten to death.
Therefore, when Jiang Qi returned to Chang'an before, regardless of whether other people knew it or not, he told Chen Xi the truth. It was true that he did not resell it, but that it was all eaten by regular employees of Beidi Ranch.
Jiang Qi himself did not expect to eat so much. There may be people from the Central Plains who went north to participate in the management and construction of large ranches who had never eaten cows. When they learned that cows were edible in this ranch, they were all curious and ordered cows.
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So he ate 2,400 cows in a year. It was all thanks to Jiang Qi's good work, and Chen Xi's reasonableness, saying that eating beef is a natural thing for those who raise cattle and pasture, and they don't care about it, and Jiang Qi's skills
The staff didn't think too much, so they just brought these words back, and then the group of people continued to eat the cow.
It is precisely because of the accumulation of a large amount of experience that Northland Ranch has truly completed this top-notch and most shocking barbecue method.
When several macho chefs entered the main hall carrying a whole roasted, crispy and tender beef, everyone present except Chen Xi was stunned.
The alluring aroma and the shocking sight made Liu Tong and others stunned when they saw this kind of thing for the first time. Indeed, they had never eaten such shocking things.
Even at this moment, what came to mind in the minds of Liu Tong, Liu Bei, Bai Qi, Han Xin and others was - Barbecue, it is really amazing that it can be grilled like this.
