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"Hey, kid, it's done."

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"What's that?　What's finished, old man?"

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I made it two years ago and found that it has remained edible without spoiling. The experiment was a success.

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"Oh, really? Are you sure it hasn't gone bad, old man?　I don't want you to get a stomach ache from eating preserved food."

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"Yeah, no problem. But I have a feeling that someone with the Barca surname can safely eat it with [Poison Disable] even if it's a little rotten."

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"Maybe so, but preserves are not only for those with the surname of Barca. Well, now that you mention it, I'd like to have a taste of the finished product.

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　While I was working in the town of Fontana on a project to improve the land in the kingdom, an old man came to me.

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　The old man has also gained the ability to use the transfer stone, thanks to the military reforms that have made him the head of the family.

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　Therefore, we decided to jump to Vulcania as soon as we heard the old man's report.

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　The old man's report was about the food preserves that he had been studying for a long time.

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　This preservative food was something I had been thinking about for a long time and wanted to make.

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　Originally, the cold winter makes it difficult to secure food for the winter season.

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　Even if it is not, most foods can only be eaten when they are in season, since there are basically few ways to preserve them for a long period of time.

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　This is also the reason why we do not want to move the army in winter unnecessarily.

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　Nevertheless, as soon as I built Vulcania, I used Fontana's magic [ice spear] to build a refrigerated warehouse.

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　This had a proven track record of extending the shelf life of food.

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　But even so, it would only be enough to extend it for one season at most.

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　I wanted to be able to preserve food for a longer period of time, or at least to be able to eat it year after year.

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　So, I decided to recall useful information from the memories of my previous life.

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　One of the preservation methods they used was successful this time.

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　It was an excellent method to preserve food for several years in an edible state by simply opening a can of canned food.

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Yes, it tastes strong, but it's good. It's edible, old man."

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"How about this one, kid? This is the pickled fruit you were talking about. It's sweet.

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"Mmmm, sweet. I'm sure Lilina will love this.

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"It hasn't lost its flavor since it was packed in the can years ago, and it hasn't gone bad. The taste hasn't changed since the cans were filled a few years ago, and they haven't gone rancid. We can put this to practical use.

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"I like it. This could be used for preserving food for disasters or for military use."

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　Me and an old man opening and tasting a canned food at a laboratory in the southeastern district of Vulcania.

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　The Vulcanian canned food has been successfully delivered to my stomach, where it has been stored for several years without any problems.

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　It took a long experiment to reach this point.

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　In the beginning, there was no stable source of metal in Barca to make canned food.

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　This led him to research bottling at first.

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　Although this bottling method was successful to some extent, the bottles were inevitably heavy and easily broken due to their characteristics.

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　This may be due to the fact that glass has not been commonly used in this region until now.

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　Even though I have been making glass with magic since I was a child, people in this world, which does not even have windows, did not even have the common sense to know that glass is easily breakable.

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　This was especially true for the common people.

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　Maybe it is because the tableware was basically made of wood.

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　They did not understand the obvious fact that if a glass bottle is dropped from a hand and hits the ground, it will break.

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　Otherwise, many bottles were broken by the shaking of the carts during transportation.

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　Even if bottled food was made as a preserved food in Barca, if it was to be used as military food, the soldiers, who probably came from peasant backgrounds, would break the bottles all over the place.

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　Therefore, he decided that it would be better to make canned food without the risk of breakage.

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　It was also significant that a mine had just become available in Baito's territory.

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　With the prospect of acquiring a certain amount of metal, he began to experiment with canning in earnest.

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　Canned foods are sealed in metal cans.

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　However, the food in the can may damage the metal.

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　For this reason, it was necessary to investigate what kind of metal would be less susceptible to damage by actually making canned food.

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　Apparently, tinplate plated with tin on steel seemed to be the best.

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　This was just as well, since tin was also found in the mines in Baito's brother's territory.

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　Then they made cans and filled them with food.

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　The food in the cans was cooked and ready to eat, and the cans were sealed.

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　By doing so, the food can be preserved for several years because it is free from putrefactive bacteria.

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　Just to be safe, we used [Wash] for both the cans and the food, so they should be kept clean.

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　Even so, there were many mistakes at first.

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　There was an accident in which a can was damaged and exploded.

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　But we still managed to succeed in this way.

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　By the way, in my previous life, I often saw small cans, but the cans I made in Barca this time are big cans like a 1-ton can.

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　These cans are easier to make and can hold a lot of food.

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　The reason for this decision was that the larger cans would be more convenient for stockpiling in villages and towns, or for use by the military, rather than for personal use.

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　Also, I wanted to make the pull-tab type easy to open, but the technology is not yet available.

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　For this reason, we had a can opener made for the purpose.

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"All right, let's make the cans official for now. Let's experiment to see if we can increase the variety of dishes.

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"Okay. We'll also need more people to make canned goods. If this becomes more popular, fewer people will starve to death."

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"I hope so, but it won't happen for a while. Hand canning seems to take a lot of time and effort to make. Then maybe it would be better to have them made outside of Barca."

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　I thought about making a profit by keeping the manufacturing process of the finished canned food secret.

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　However, there was also the problem of the surprisingly small number of cans that could be made by hand.

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　If so, it might be a good idea to have them made in other places as well.

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　It would be better if the canned food is used for military purposes as well.

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　Thus, the production of canned food was started on a large scale in the Kingdom of Fontana.

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　With this, a more stable means of obtaining food was established than ever before.

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