Due to the quick availability of funds, several factories under the Macdonald Foods Company under Clark's charge were built soon after another. The first to be completed is the feed mill and a large pig farm. Thousands of pigs can be raised here at one time. It is completely different from the way ordinary people raise pigs. In this pig farm, there are very strict management measures. First of all, any person entering the pig house must first be disinfected to avoid bringing in pathogenic bacteria. Because once a large number of intensively raised pigs are infected with a disease, it is very difficult to control.

Secondly, the feed used by the pigs in this pig farm is all provided by the feed factory under the company. And never allow the use of other foreign feed. The pens of the pigsty are also regularly disinfected. To prevent diseases in the pigs, Shi Gaozhi added a lot of sulfonamides to the feed with an extra conscience.

However, it is not only sulfonamide that is added to the feed. The special feed also includes a series of the latest achievements of the McDonald Chemical and Pharmaceutical Company.

First, the simplest additive is copper sulfate. Adding copper sulfate to pig feed, in the early growth stage of pigs, adding copper sulfate to feed can increase the daily weight gain of pigs by more than 8%, and the utilization rate of feed can also be increased by more than 4%. As for some other additives, well, there are some names, which may be very familiar to a person in the 21st century. The most famous one is probably clenbuterol hydrochloride-this is the well-known thin Meat essence, but Scrooge's purpose of adding this to pigs is still different from that of later generations. What later generations valued more was that this thing could increase the lean meat rate of pigs, but what Scrooge valued most was that this thing could accelerate the growth of pigs. In later generations, if the means are not limited, the time from birth to 110 kg for a piglet to be slaughtered can be compressed within three to four months. In this era, due to the selection of pig breeds and other facilities, such a speed is impossible to achieve, but Scrooge still hopes that the time for live pigs to be slaughtered can be compressed to less than half a year. Therefore, things like growth promoters will naturally receive attention.

Of course, the pigs grown from clenbuterol hydrochloride will have many side effects if eaten. But Scrooge wasn't worried about that. First of all, people in this era eat a limited amount of meat every day. Compared with those who eat more meat than vegetables every day in the 21st century, their total intake is quite limited. So, no big problem. Besides, even if there is a problem, with the level of medical care in that era, can the problem be found? Anyway, Scrooge himself wouldn't eat that stuff, so what are you afraid of?

If these chemical methods are used, the effect is not amazing. The first batch of live pigs only took 163 days to reach the slaughter weight, and the slaughter went smoothly. To commemorate this miraculous achievement, the pig farm originally called the No. 1 pig farm was also renamed the 163 pig farm.

Of course, large-scale centralized breeding has a lot of advantages such as low cost and fast slaughter, but the risk of this kind of pig farm is not small. The biggest risk is that the herd of pigs is too dense, and the population density of pigs is too high. Once a disease occurs, it is easy to cause a large number of deaths. In particular, the current antiviral drugs are still very limited under these conditions. Therefore, in that era, it was difficult for those who dared to do this without going bankrupt.

But Scrooge is different, he has a way to deal with this situation.

Generally speaking, if a pig raised by one person gets sick and dies, it is very difficult to dispose of the dead pork, because the difference between dead pork and live pork is too great, especially when it is put together with healthy live pork in the market. A dead horse that can't even distinguish between leeks and wheat seedlings can tell at a glance that there is something wrong with this thing, and there is no cold storage at that time, and the meat of dead pigs still smells, that is, as long as the IQ is not lower than the blowfly, it will not be indistinguishable. Therefore, even if such meat can be disposed of, the price will be extremely low. In the end, I still have to lose money.

But Scrooge is different. Even if the pigs he raises die of illness, they don’t need to be dragged to the market to be sold at a low price. They can be sent directly to his food processing factory to process canned spam.

Speaking of canned Spam luncheon meat, at that time, it could be regarded as a high-tech product, and a series of new technologies by McDonald Chemical and Pharmaceutical Company was applied to it.

The first is the dyeing technique. If you use serious fresh meat to make this thing, the cost will be too high. Therefore, Scrooge’s spam is mainly made of some suspected meat, um, mainly starch, Offal, suet, and some meat that is not very good, or some meat that is not very good to sell directly (well, you know). These things were finely ground in a meat grinder, and they were all finely ground, so no one could see what this thing was originally. However, there are still many problems, the first is the color problem. The twisted stuff from these messy things doesn't have the bright and attractive red color of authentic fresh meat twisted things, which requires dyeing with chemicals.

Many things can dye these mixtures red, so what to use to color spam? A dye suitable for coloring spam must have the following characteristics. First, the cost should be low, production and storage should be convenient, and it cannot be as good as a medieval purple dye. Secondly, the color should be good-looking, and the durability of the color should be good, and the color cannot be completely changed after just ten days. What? Do you say security? Don't worry, it's fine if you don't eat it to death. So after careful research, experts from McDonald's Chemical and Pharmaceutical Company unanimously recommended to Scrooge a red dye called 1-phenylazo-2-naphthol.

This recommendation surprised Scrooge, because this dye has a more familiar name in later generations, called Sudan Red. However, this thing did perfectly meet the previous requirements, so Scrooge did not express any objection. He just followed the example of the sages. After signing and agreeing, he washed his hands and said in a low voice: "It is not a crime to shed this man's blood." I."

Solving the problem of color is only the first step of the Long March, and the next step is the problem of taste. If it's just salt or something, the taste of spam is not very good, especially after using some not-so-high-quality meat, the smell of this thing is, um, it's disgusting.

The solution is also simple. First, cook at a high temperature, then use activated carbon to absorb, so that most of the bad smell can be removed, and then use a masking agent. So all kinds of spices, mainly spicy spices, were thrown in, and the abnormal taste was covered up.

Then there's the matter of taste. At this time, Spam, because there is too much starch in it, tastes like no meat at all. So, another invention of MacDonald Chemical & Pharmaceutical Company, which had a far-reaching impact, especially in the East, was put to use. This kind of thing is called monosodium glutamate, which is the MSG that people in later generations are familiar with. This is also one of the few food additives invented by McDonald Chemical and Pharmaceutical Company during this period, and Scrooge himself is willing to eat it.

After these methods are used, especially after the MSG is used, Spam tastes delicious, at least when he just ate it.

The last problem is the problem of preservation. This is simple, just add sodium nitrite directly. Not only anti-corrosion but also help to fix the color. Of course, the dosage should not be too large. It's not good to put people down directly. However, the cans are strictly sealed, and the requirements for preservatives are not too high.

Since Spam's raw materials are mainly starch, offal, suet, or something. So its cost is much cheaper than its real meat. It tasted meaty. Later, after Spam was launched in large quantities, some people who couldn't afford meat would often use Spam to satisfy their cravings. After the war broke out, he also became one of the most important rations for the federal army.

It was towards the end of 1860 when the first jar of Spam was released. In November of this year, the results of the US presidential election finally came out. The Republican candidate, Lincoln, won an undisputed landslide victory. Although none of the southern states voted for Lincoln, Lincoln was elected president of the United States of America by a landslide with the support of the northern states. His election, in a sense, means the end of the Virginia dynasty that has ruled and influenced the United States since North America's independence. (When the United States was first founded, successive presidents were from Virginia, so this period was called the Virginia Dynasty.) He ushered in a new era in which the political influence of the North had been completely suppressed. to the South. Lincoln was still able to be elected with an absolute majority of votes without getting even a single Southern vote, which meant that the South's political influence on the United States had shrunk to the point where it was not worth mentioning.

Many years ago, when the United States first became independent, the South had the upper hand both in terms of population and economy. At that time, the South dominated the United States politically. Later, with the rise of the North, the North, and the South were able to fight against each other. Later, although the North gained the upper hand, the political power of the South should not be underestimated. At least, although the South did not succeed enough, it still had more than enough to fail. Among other things, the North tried to raise tariffs many times, but it just couldn't be done under the opposition of the South. But now, Lincoln's high votes were elected, which shows one point, that is, according to the rules of the game of the United States, the political influence of the South will not only fail but even fail. Southerners felt that they could no longer guarantee their rights through the rules of the game, and the "tyranny of the majority" was right in front of them. Therefore, seceding from the Union has become the choice of some southern states. However, this is like several people playing mahjong. Someone in front has been winning all the time, and when the luck of the opponent starts to improve and he starts to draw, he backs the table and says he can't play anymore. How can that work? From the perspective of the North, the Southerners have taken advantage of Nami in the North for many years by taking advantage of low tariffs. Now if they say they want to secede from the federation, how can it work? Thus, before President Lincoln had time to officially take over as president, the Civil War was imminent.