Liu Che stood in a wooden house, watching streams of golden juice flow out of the wooden shelves and into large buckets.
Liu Che couldn't help but applaud.
"Thank you for your hard work, sir..." Liu Che held the hands of several ink masters and craftsmen who had completely turned into craftsmen and their whole bodies had become dirty, and thanked them.
Although, the thing in front of him was incredibly low-tech.
It only took the writers about ten days to complete it.
But this thing has filled a gap in human history!
This is the first oil press in the world.
Its advent announced that the history of human dependence on animal fats is gone forever!
Therefore, although its technology is quite primitive, the oil extraction power also comes from a huge stone that is lifted up, relying on manpower and rope traction to extract oil through pressure.
The oil extraction efficiency is not even comparable to that of later generations of fully automatic oil presses.
Probably the home-made oil presses that Liu Che had seen in "A Bite of China" in his previous life were several times more sophisticated.
At present, this kind of oil press is inefficient. Even one such oil press per day may not be able to squeeze out a stone of soybean oil.
But for this stone soybean oil, it requires three big men to work together and divide their work.
In the Han system, one stone equals one hundred and twenty kilograms, which is almost equivalent to thirty kilograms in later generations.
In other words, on average each labor force can only produce ten kilograms of oil...
But Liu Che is still very satisfied!
With the future technological transformation and development and the movement of large-scale oil extraction, this efficiency should be able to increase!
What's more, the emergence of this technology is equivalent to turning waste into treasure, turning the soybeans in the Han Dynasty that could only be used to feed livestock into yellow-orange gold!
The extracted soybean cake can also be used to feed livestock. The effect is even better than that of pure soybeans!
Not to mention anything else, this alone can generate tens of millions of dollars for the Han Dynasty regime.
As for the cost of oil extraction?
It seems that apart from manpower, the biggest expense was the millions spent on buying soybeans at cabbage prices last year when Guanzhong’s grain protection price was implemented.
Well, there was a bumper harvest in Guanzhong last year, and even corn fell within the protective price range set by Liu Che. This forced the Shaofu to activate a food protection mechanism to stabilize food prices. Soybeans, a crop that is not protected and is not valued,
In a good year, the price is really appalling!
Liu Che only asked the Shaofu to spend about four to five million yuan and got hundreds of thousands of dan of soybeans.
The average price of soybeans per stone is less than 20 yuan...
Last year, a stone of Cuo Gao from the Han Dynasty could be sold for ten or fifteen yuan!
This is really a bargain!
It’s no wonder that farmers refuse to plant crops like soybeans and wheat unless they leave the land fallow.
But this gave Liu Che a big advantage!
The soybeans collected last year, plus the soybeans stored in the past treasury and collected from taxes, the Han Dynasty currently has about two million shi of soybeans in various official warehouses in Guanzhong. Aocang in Luoyang also has almost one million shi of soybeans.
in stock.
Originally, these beans had no other use except as feed.
Now, it has become a trump card in Liu Che’s hand!
The Mohists and craftsmen didn't think so much. Facing the emperor's encouragement and praise, they were just giggling.
After all, scientists and craftsmen are far away from politics, and they don’t have big brains to think about too much.
Liu Che walked out of the wooden house with his hands behind his back and called Wang Dao to his side. He said: "Tell the young master to bring 300 oil presses first. Before spring this year, I want to see the young master have 300 oil presses in Shanglin Garden."
machine, and then ask Cen Mai to allocate one million dollars to Mo Yuan as funding for the improvement of the oil press..."
With 300 oil presses, given Shaofu’s ability, it won’t be a big problem.
However, the young government will probably be scratching its head when it comes to arranging oil pressing workers and related labor for drying soybeans, cooking and making bean cakes, and pressing oil.
The Shaofu has a lot of labor force, and all the prisoners and criminals in the Han Dynasty are under the control of the Shaofu.
But there are many places where people are needed!
Just looking for Liu Che's mausoleum and the subsequent mausoleum project would probably take up half of the manpower of the Shaofu.
However, the emperor's words are the golden rule, if it can be done, it must be done. If it cannot be done, it must be done by finding a way!
Liu Che clenched his fists and breathed a sigh of relief.
Soybean oil, in the eyes of others, may just be an extra source of wealth.
But in Liu Che's eyes, it is a nuclear bomb!
Very simple!
Liu Che has decided that in addition to supplying the imperial palace, all the oil extracted by the Shaofu will be supplied to the army as military supplies!
And priority will be given to supplying the Great Wall Garrison and the Northern and Southern Armies.
The current soybean inventory is enough to squeeze out the oil needed to supply the Han Dynasty army for a year.
With sufficient fats and oils, the soldiers' nutrition can be guaranteed!
More importantly, Liu Che can also tell the soldiers through this matter: The oil you eat is sent by me.
In the Han Dynasty, there was no better way for every soldier to feel the king's favor than this.
In this way, no one has greater influence in the army than Liu Che.
No matter who wants to make a fuss about the army, the soldiers will not mess around with him.
It's just that...
"It seems that there are some models of the Three Fat Empires..." Liu Che laughed at himself: "The Songun policy... However, in the 21st century, the Songun brainwashing policy belongs to a backward feudal system. In this BC, it seems to be the earth's
The most advanced system!"
But that’s what I thought.
Because the Han Dynasty did not have the foundation to play the military-first policy, nor did it need to play the military-first policy.
"No!" Wang Dao nodded.
Liu Che looked at him and said: "Over there at the Xiuyi Guards, tell me to go down and keep an eye on the Guandong County. If anyone wants to cause trouble, don't be lenient!"
There are endless funny things about the Han Dynasty.
There have been at least a dozen cases in the past fifty years where a dozen or so people with a few pieces of armor would dare to raise a flag.
Even the descendants of Zhang Liang and Xiao He were so stupid that they poisoned political or love rivals...
As for the clan, princes and kings, there are even more funny people.
Liu Che never had any hope in the intelligence of these guys.
Apart from other things, Lujiang King Liu Bo and Liu Che felt that it was a time bomb that might explode at some point.
It’s better to keep an eye on it!
"No!" Wang Dao nodded knowingly, he naturally knew what to do.
Today's Xiuyiwei is also gearing up, waiting to handle a big case to sacrifice the flag and let the world know how powerful Xiuyiwei is!
"Your Majesty, Cheng Zhengying and Zhuo Wangsun, two relatives of the state, have arrived in Chang'an. The servants have placed them at the bus station to await the edict. Would your Majesty take the time to go see them?" Wang Dao thought for a while and reported quietly: "In addition, King Yankang
We are about to arrive in Chang'an. Your Majesty, would you like to ask all the princes to pay their respects to the two empress dowagers of the East Palace first?"
"Oh, Zhuo Wangsun and Cheng Zhengying are here..." Liu Che looked into the distance and said, "Go ahead and make arrangements. I will summon you at the Greenhouse Hall tomorrow and order the two Jieyu to get ready and reunite with their relatives..."
"As for the princes of King Yankang..." Liu Che thought for a while and said: "The princes come to the capital and pay greetings to the East Palace. This is the system, and it will be the same this time..."
