Chapter 9 Mystery Buyer, Wild Yellow Croaker
Wang Changguang continued: "That mysterious big man, I want to buy this firewood kiln blue lotus bowl at a high price, and he invites you to go to the Bund Peace Hotel tonight to have dinner. ”
Han Zhou said: "Okay, thank you Senior Wang, I will definitely arrive on time." ”
Wang Changguang said: "Bring the lotus bowl, you need to inspect the goods in person." ”
Han Zhou said: "Okay." ”
I got up, wrote a shower, washed my head.
Hit LOL and drop silver from gold.
The new version of LOL has updated the mythical equipment system, and there are also a number of bugs. Han Zhou plays jungler, encounters a leopard girl, and punishes any wild monster in seconds, including big dragons and elemental wurms. When Han Zhou was level 9, the leopard girl was already level 15 and couldn't fight. Playing with Shan Nuo, he encountered a weapon master who could infinitely electric fans, and his head was knocked off.
Angry and don't want to play anymore.
In the evening, drive to the Peace Hotel.
Peace Hotel is a landmark building in SH City, located at No. 20 Nanjing East Road, HP District, Shanghai, which is the first modernist building in the history of modern architecture in Shanghai, with the most distinctive nine-language characteristic suites and many unique restaurants, banquet halls, multi-function halls, bars, rooftop sightseeing gardens, etc.
Both buildings at the intersection of Nanjing East Road in Shanghai are called Peace Hotel. Built in 1929 by Jewish businessmen, the North Tower of the Peace Hotel was originally named the Chinachem Hotel. Designed by Chicago School architects at the time, it features a green copper-sheathed roof at an altitude of 77 meters. The exterior wall is made of granite stone blocks, entered by the revolving hall door, the lobby floor is paved with milky white Italian marble, and the top bronze openwork chandelier is luxurious and elegant, and has the reputation of "the first floor in the Far East".
During the period of the Republic of China and the Republic, there were countless celebrities who stayed in the Peace Hotel, such as General Marshall, Situ Leiden, Lu Xun, Song Qingling, Chaplin, George Bernard Shaw, Hua Luogeng, boxing champion Muhammad Ali, etc.
Speaking of which, Albert Einstein once came to Shanghai in 1922 and stayed at the Pujiang Hotel, not the Peace Hotel. During this trip, Einstein wrote down his impressions of the Chinese in the Far East:
"Industrious, dirty, and sluggish".
"The Chinese do not sit on stools when they eat, but squat like Europeans when they relieve themselves in the jungle. (disturbed by the "exuberant fecundity" of the Chinese at that time) It would be sad if one day other races were replaced by the Chinese. For people like us, the mere thought is indescribably frustrating. ”
"Chinese women are no different from men (i.e., Chinese women are also industrious, dirty and sluggish), and I don't understand why Chinese women attract Chinese men to have children with them. ”
Einstein not only "discriminated" against Chinese, but also against RB and Indians, with statements such as "China, RB and Indians have natural intellectual deficiencies".
It is undeniable that Albert Einstein was a great scientist, and it is also true that Einstein, like many arrogant Westerners of his time (and still today), had a systematic condescending discrimination against the race of the Far East. The people of that era, in the Far Eastern environment at that time, inevitably had the limitations of the times, and we do not agree with Einstein's views, but it is somewhat understandable. But until now, there are still many Westerners and even natives who still echo these racist remarks, and they are really brainstorming.
When you come to the Peace Hotel, there is already a special person to pick you up.
Received the private box, opened the door, a table, set up with cutlery, two chairs, by the window.
An old man who was obedient waited for a waiting, smiling gently at Han Zhou.
Ershun was sixty years old. Confucius said, I have five out of ten and am determined to learn, thirty and stand, forty and not confused, fifty and know the destiny of heaven, sixty and obedient, seventy and do what I want.
The old man nodded and said, "Hello, little comrade, I am Wang Baochuan." ”
Han Zhou said: "Hello, I'm Han Zhou. ”
Wang Baochuan said: "Sit, put the box aside." ”
In the box was the firewood kiln blue lotus bowl.
Wang Baochuan saw this at a glance, but he was not in a hurry, and he had an idle and calm temperament of a superior, which made Han Zhou feel like a spring breeze.
The two of them are ready, the dishes are served, and two bowls of rice are served.
Slow-cooked and fresh, two rouge-like delicate braised pork, a plate of green vegetables.
In the middle of a pot of fish, creamy yellow soup.
Wang Baochuan said: "Come, eat first." Pickled fresh, braised pork, seasonal vegetables, are all ordinary local dishes, this taste is okay, you can try it. ”
Han Zhou ate all three, and it was really good, really good.
Wang Baochuan said again: "This home-roasted big yellow croaker uses a three-pound wild yellow croaker in the East China Sea, I have always loved it, you can also try it." ”
Han Zhou scooped up some soup and fish, the taste was thick, the meat was as white as garlic cloves, no thorns, the meat was firm, and the soup was thick and mellow, which was a pure taste that he had never experienced.
Han Zhou said: "It's delicious." ”
Wild big yellow croaker, he knows, the slightly heavier ones, are not bought directly - but for auction. In 2016, someone auctioned 4.1 catties of wild large yellow croaker at a transaction price of 29,800 yuan, which is really sky-high.
Wang Baochuan smiled slightly: "Nowadays, there are very few wild large yellow croakers, and the market price is very precious. But for most of the last century, this was not the case. ”
He explained slowly.
It turns out that the large yellow croaker was originally a common fish species along the coast of China, which is very widespread and is a civilian diet that everyone can afford.
There was an old news on the Internet, saying that the poor people in Shanghai could not afford to eat during the Republic of China, so they had to satisfy their hunger with hairy crabs in Yangcheng Lake, but in fact, the same is true for large yellow croaker, and it is even more scarce now.
Why is wild yellow croaker endangered?
First of all, the big yellow croaker, as a creature, has a very funny (non-malicious) setting.
The large yellow croaker is a totoaba family with two otoliths in the skull.
In response to this, clever fishermen have invented a special method of fishing: knocking.
Knocking, that is, knocking on the bamboo pole, makes a loud sound, which resonates with the otolith in the skull of the big yellow croaker. resonated, and the fish fainted. It's miserable.
Generally, the two big fishing boats in the middle (called the male and the mother) spread the net, and then use twenty or thirty small boats to form a semicircle in front of the big boat, each small boat has 3 people, one person rocks the oar, and the two people beat the bamboo pole tied to the boat gang, making a huge chorus, and the sound wave is transmitted into the sea, causing the otolith resonance of the yellow croaker, resulting in coma and death, the fleet gradually closes, and the faint fish are driven into the net opened by the big boat, and the net is exhausted.
The year 1974 was an important time node.
More than 2,000 pairs of large purse seine sailboats, mighty to the wintering grounds in the unsuspecting large yellow croaker fish to carry out a large round of fish, the Zhoushan fishery large yellow croaker production soared from 100,000 tons to 168,100 tons, creating the highest record of domestic large yellow croaker production.
The huge output, oversupply, could not be sold, and the price fell to five or six cents per catty.
Later, ZF came forward and called on everyone to come and eat "patriotic yellow croaker", which promoted a wave of consumption and sold it.
The peak of production has dealt a fatal blow to the large yellow croaker population in the East China Sea.
Since then, the spawning grounds of large yellow croaker such as Zhoushan fishery have collapsed, and it is difficult to form fishing floods, and in the following years, they have been depleted step by step.
Nowadays, it is difficult for wild large yellow croaker to form a climate.
It's a shame.
Although there is artificial breeding technology.