Next, while the ship was unloading, the Viscount of Surrey told Lawrence and another Viscount about the issue of food reserves on Green Island.
"In order to ensure the safety of food supply, we once considered stockpiling a large amount of food, but after many discussions we found that there was neither money nor enough storage space on the island to complete this task."
"More importantly, the harbor quality on our island is relatively poor. In winter, there may be strong winds or ice floes. Once a ship carrying grain encounters these things, it may take several days to dock, so the shore will
There is a food shortage."
"The situation is better for the big ships that bring food to the island, but it's more difficult for the small ships that distribute food from the big ports to the various territories."
"In my impression, many territories further north have the experience of starving themselves while watching ships outside the harbor without being able to unload their cargo. Even after a big cold wave came five or six years ago, even ours
The large settlements nearby have been hungry for a long time.”
Obviously, for the sake of efficiency, the food transported into the island from outside the island is often unloaded at ports around large gathering areas, and then sent to various territories from these ports through some offshore ships.
The biggest advantage of this delivery method is that it can distribute these materials to everyone in need in the shortest possible time, which is the best from an efficiency perspective.
But the corresponding problem is that safety issues are very obvious during transportation: these small offshore sailing ships resist, and Song Ying often fails to deliver goods on time.
Not to mention land transportation, even if the cost issue is not considered, the sparse number of reindeer-pulled sleds and the long transportation process are basically impossible to meet the needs of the island residents.
What's even worse is that these reindeer actually consume a lot of food in the process of transporting items. This level of consumption is almost impossible for Green Island, where every grain of food is very important.
things to accept.
"Like us over there, almost all transportation relies on sea transportation." The baron who came with the team nodded deeply with emotion, then looked at Baron Surrey and asked.
"You just said that in order to solve these food safety problems, you ordered a large amount of oil and sugar from us. Can you tell us how you use these oil and sugar?"
At this time, Lawrence also looked at the Baron Surrey with doubtful eyes, because he could not see what was better about replacing the original grains with oil and sugar.
Yes, these two things are indeed much larger in calories than cereals, but to be honest, these things are just some food additives. These things alone cannot fill a person's stomach. If you want to be full, you must have
Other food intake will do.
"Because we found that if people eat food that contains more oil, water or sugar, their need for grains will be significantly reduced."
The Viscount of Surrey stated the simple conclusion he came to through observation. "Compared to those large-volume grains, both sugar and these vegetable oils are much smaller in volume, and they are easier to store."
I have to say that the Viscount of Surrey's statement is indeed reasonable, because Lawrence knew that if a person consumes a lot of sugar and fat, then their consumption of things such as cereals will naturally be greatly reduced.
The principle here is very simple, because everyone’s daily caloric consumption is fixed, and the unit caloric value of both sugar and fat is much higher than that of grains.
The same is true for preservation issues. Preserving various foods on this cold and dry northern island is much simpler than in the tropical areas where Lawrence is located.
Compared to the original grains, sugar can be stored for a long time in a dry, cool and dark environment. Even the fats and oils shipped by these merchants by ship are palm oil, which is the best preserved among vegetable oils.
Of course, compared with those shelled grains and sugar, the shelf life of palm oil is indeed shorter. However, it is not a problem to store it in the local specially dug light-proof low-temperature cellars for one or two years, and this is not a problem for the island.
It's enough.
It is because of this thought that so many people on the island invariably ordered a large amount of sugar and oil from the islands in the southeastern sea area of the Star Sea represented by Lawrence.
And this kind of business is also a very good business for various islands in the Star Sea. Although the current shipments of each company are not large, after reading Lawrence's analysis report, they all think that this market has great potential.
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Different from the usual trade where the Star Sea lords sell various materials with n hands in the middle, although the direct sales of these origin-origin users need to pay freight, the selling price is also significantly lower than the market price. But even so, every transaction
The profits obtained by each company are also higher than before.
Obviously, for most businesses, it is indeed a better thing for both buyers and sellers to have no middlemen to make the difference. At least both parties can get more benefits.
"Oh, by the way, we also brought a few chefs this time." Just as the cargo was almost being loaded and unloaded, the baron who came from the Sea of Stars pointed at a man in a windbreaker who stepped off the ship.
"We spent a lot of money to hire this chef. He has mastered the skills of adding fats and sugars to various diets——"
It was obvious that these nobles from the Sea of Stars attached great importance to this transaction. So they even hired professionals to help them market their goods, and this approach had an immediate effect.
"This is simply great!" Viscount Surrey suddenly showed a happy expression. "Not many people here have seen these specialties from the tropics in the past. You can help us hire chefs who are good at this. It really helps us.
Very busy."
When all the cargo on the ship was unloaded, the local specialties that had been gathered at the port began to be delivered to the ship.
In addition to deerskin and deerskin, local specialties include some sealskins, otter skins, spices, oils and bones of fish from certain cold zone areas.
The last two things were purchased by Lawrence, because he found in previous experiments that this world has one thing in common with the previous world, that is, the medium-sized fish oil that lives in the cold zone contains a lot of nutrients. So he needs these
Stuff used to make some medicines.
To be precise, Lawrence plans to use the deep-sea fish oil in these cold zones to make some health products, and then sell them to rich people to make a lot of money.
The reason why he has this idea is also very simple, because when selling medicines on the island before, he only maintained a modest profit, so now he needs to let those medical institutions make more money.
As for the reason why the profits of drugs are not high, it is also very simple. It is because as the extraordinary level increases, Lawrence begins to be affected by Baize's bloodline in many places.
As a divine beast of the good camp, Bai Ze's blood naturally caused the overall camp of Lawrence, a bloodline warlock, to shift in the direction of good.
It may be because Lawrence's bloodline was obtained through Jianmu, so he is not like some bloodline masters who unknowingly change their tendencies in this regard under the influence of the bloodline.
But a very bad fact is that Lawrence also learned from his blood that if he did something that was contrary to Bai Ze's blood, his extraordinary level would stagnate or even regress significantly.
And driving up the prices of these life-saving drugs is obviously something that goes against Bai Ze's nature.
Considering that this world is a world where extraordinary power belongs to itself, Lawrence naturally chose extraordinary power between extraordinary power and worldly money.