Traveling through Great Qin: Father Qin Shihuang!

I can't eat every day, I vomit after eating, and I feel nauseous in all kinds of ways.

Often after the voyage on the waterway is over, seven or eight people will fall ill, and the rest will lose more than ten catties.

I don't know if the method Zhao Che said is useful, but it's okay to tell those people who are seasick.

But today Zhao Che just wanted to try out the feeling of taking a boat, and only wandered around. There were only Ying Zheng, Meng Yi and a group of guards on board.

So soon the steamer set off.

Sure enough, Zhao Che, who was on a boat for the first time, was still not used to it.

Fortunately, the speed of the ship was not fast, and he was still chewing ginger, so he didn't feel any discomfort.

It didn't take long for Zhao Che to get used to the feeling of sailing, so he came to wander around on the deck.

"Cher, how do you feel?"

Ying Zheng was standing on the deck at this time, looking at the scenery of Daqin in the distance.

Obviously, his self-healing ability is still very good, so what if the ships of later generations are more powerful?Isn't that learned from the previous thousands of years of shipbuilding experience?

No matter how poor the ship of Daqin is, it is the top in the world in this period, and it is also the existence of the ancestor level of later generations. Isn't this something to be proud of?
Seeing Ying Zheng's normal expression, Zhao Che felt relieved.

"Father, I want to go to the cabin below."

"The cabin? It's dark and damp down there. Where are you going?"

Ying Zheng asked with some doubts.

"I just want to see how the power paddles of this boat sail."

"Well, let Meng Yi take you there."

Ying Zheng nodded without thinking too much, and casually gave Meng Yi instructions.

Meng Yi led Zhao Che down the deck, walked through the stairs, and soon arrived in the cabin below.

Sure enough, as Ying Zheng said, the cabin below is completely different from the outside.

In the dark environment, there was a damp and musty smell everywhere, Zhao Che was a little unbearable when he first came in.

But in such a narrow environment, hundreds of people were crowded inside.

These people are all conscripted prisoners and civilian husbands, who are responsible for rowing the boats.

They are the hardest ones on the boat, and it is all up to them to paddle such a huge boat.

But their treatment is very poor. It's not that they are deliberately given the worst food, but the main reason is that they can't keep up with their nutrition.

After potatoes were available in Nanjun, most of the food for the soldiers and the heads of Guizhou here was corn and potatoes as supplementary food, and they could eat enough to eat.

But the problem is that these boatmen have to work harder on weekdays, and coupled with being crowded in such a narrow and humid environment for a long time, their physical fitness is much worse than that of people outside, especially the lack of various vitamins.

Due to the long-term lack of various vitamins and light, a large part of these boatmen were born with scurvy.

Scurvy is caused by a lack of vitamin C. During the age of great navigation in history, scurvy spread extremely widely, especially among sailors, explorers and the army.

Therefore, scurvy was once again the fear of sailors and the evil spirit of the sea for a long time.

Of course, the sailing missions of these sailors in Daqin are definitely not as heavy as those of the seafarers, so they are not scurvy, at most, they are malnourished due to lack of too many vitamins.

For such a problem, it is actually easy to treat, as long as more fresh vegetables, tomatoes and fruits are added to their meals, it can be effectively treated.

"Has tomato cultivation been promoted in South County?"

Zhao Che walked around in the cabin and then came out. When he came up, he asked a question by the way.

"Master Hui, you are the only one who grows tomatoes in the greenhouse in Jingyang, and they haven't been promoted here yet!"

"Are there enough seeds?"

"There are seeds, young master, do you plan to plant them here?"

Meng Yi didn't know what Zhao Che was thinking, so he asked with some doubts.

"Let someone bring some tomatoes from Jingyang. The oars below the cabin, their meals need to be changed. In the future, every meal must have a tomato soup, and there must be a fresh fruit."

"My lord, the food of the Daqin navy is fixed, and it's the same from top to bottom. Why do you have to change the food for these Chengdans? If you feel sorry for them, it would be more appropriate to give them more meat in the future."

Yes, for people who can't eat enough normally, meat is what they want to eat most.

Therefore, in Meng Yi's view, Zhao Che's proposal became a punishment for these Cheng Dans.

"Eating meat is useless. They hide in the cabin all year round and lack sunlight. In addition, most of the food on board is stored in the cabin in advance. It is often replenished every few days or even more than a month. Many of them have deteriorated long ago. Rotten."

"However, there is no way to do this. After all, when sailing by water, if there is no port along the way, it is naturally impossible to resupply."

Meng Yi spread his hands. The ancient people's food storage methods were just so simple. It was fine in winter, but in summer, except for the fresh food that had just been replenished, they would eat spoiled food.

Even Yingzheng couldn't escape this point, at most he could eat some slightly fresher or less spoiled ones.

Zhao Che nodded, he could also understand Meng Yi's difficulties.

"It's better to build an ice cellar under the cabin and store food in the freezer, which will naturally greatly extend the shelf life of the food."

"icehouse?"

Hearing this, Meng Yi shook his head.

In fact, ancient people had a way to store ice, that is, in winter, they built an ice cellar, and then put ice in the ice cellar for storage.

Using the method of underground insulation, coupled with the low temperature of the ice itself, creates a natural refrigerator.

But in this way, it is obviously impossible to completely store the ice cubes. After all, you have to consider the law of energy conservation.

Moreover, the heat insulation in the cabin is incomparable to that in the cellar, so the ice cubes will only dissipate faster if they are placed here.

The amount of ice that Daqin can store every year is limited, which is not enough to support Zhao Che's idea of ​​building an ice cellar in the cabin.

"And what if I could make ice?"

"Make ice? How?"

Meng Yi didn't hear Zhao Che's words all at once.

"Ice cubes can be artificially produced anytime and anywhere, even in summer. As long as there are enough ice cubes, naturally there is no need to worry about consumption."

"An ice cellar can last half a month to a month at worst. We only need about half a month to replace the ice that has melted inside. Naturally, the soldiers on board can eat fresh food."

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