In his previous life, Zhang Nan had just returned to his hometown not long after he was not a native master, about 95 years ago, and a very economical imported frozen fish suddenly appeared in the vegetable markets of Yan County.

At that time, Zhang Nan's economic conditions were not very good, and he was still in the initial stage of going to the village to pour out old goods and antiques, even if he brought back a lot of capital, he still had to save money to buy a house, and bachelors couldn't afford to eat too expensive things.

He also loves to eat sea fish, the kind of frozen fish called North Korean fish has a lot of meat, cheap, and does not take the lead, even the internal organs are removed, and it is very affordable, so he bought it at that time.

The braised taste is good, in those years, it is the seafood fish often bought by low- and middle-income people who are not in good economic conditions, and the people of Yan County also call their image "head-killing fish"!

However, at that time, the people of Yan County, including Zhang Nan, always had a question that could not be answered accurately for many years: fishmongers called this headless fish "North Korean fish", but North Korea is quite far away from the Jiangnan region of China, and this fish is still sold quite affordably, is there any money to be made?

If it is not affordable, no one wants it, and Yan County is more than 100 kilometers away from the most famous fishing ports in the East China Sea, and there is no shortage of marine fish.

There are still many people who wonder where these frozen fish without fish heads come from, anyway, it feels that it is unlikely to be North Korean products, and wonder why it does not have fish heads, is there any explanation here?

All kinds of questions, the mysterious "head-killing fish", even the fishmongers can't say why.

It has been sold for several years, and Zhang Nan has eaten it for several years, but this "head-killing fish" is similar to the situation when it suddenly appeared in the vegetable market in the mid-90s, and suddenly disappeared from the market before the arrival of the new century.

came and went in a hurry, but it still left a very deep impression in Zhang Nan's mind.

It's cheap, affordable, has a lot of meat, and the taste is okay, so I really ate a lot.

More than ten years later, a friend invited him to dinner at a high-end Korean restaurant in Shanghai, mainly barbecued meat, and another dish is said to be the very popular fish soup of the Korean nation.

Tofu stewed fish soup is said to be a good thing in a Korean restaurant, and it seems to be quite tall.

As a result, when it came up, Zhang Nan laughed after seeing it...

My friend was puzzled and asked why.

This friend has always had a good family condition, and he has known Zhang Nan for only two or three years, but the relationship is good, and then he heard an answer from Zhang Nan that made him laugh and cry: "20 years ago, there was no money, and if I wanted to eat sea fish, I went to the vegetable market to buy this and take it home to braised it."

Lots of meat and extra cheap!"

Tall?

If it doesn't exist, it's a bargain!

That one is not embarrassed, the truth between this friend is really good and sincere, and what he is boasting about is scum!

However, there are also after-effects of a meal, and it is said that the friend who used to like Korean food has never invited anyone to eat at a Korean restaurant since then.

Treat yourself to eat something good, but it turns out to be a real bargain in the eyes of others, which is called thankless - no way, the families with better family conditions in the Jiangnan area back then really didn't look down on that kind of "head-killing fish".

After that meal, Zhang Nan also figured out something that had been questioned for many years, it turned out that the "head-killing fish and North Korean fish" that he bought for the tooth sacrifice because it was cheap were really imported from North Korea, but the North Koreans called it Ming Tai fish.

After many years of questions, I am still a little curious about what kind of fish it grows, and the name of this "mentai fish" is just a domain name for farming.

Later, I checked it on the Internet, and then I learned that it was a kind of cod, no wonder there was no such fish in the market of Yanxian County for a long time, because its production area is in the cold-water sea area north of the Japan-Benhai and Japan-Benhai.

Zhang Nan doesn't have to work from 9 to 5, he is a good researcher, and he is interested in coming together, and when he is fine, he has a deep understanding of the sudden appearance of "head-killing fish" in the vegetable market in the Jiangnan area in large numbers, and the sudden disappearance a few years later.

Combined with what happened in those years, he came to his own judgment: North Korea at that time was almost insanely poor, and everything was exported in exchange for foreign exchange and grain.

As soon as the Soviet Union collapsed, North Korea cut off one of its biggest external supports, and the bitter days began. North Korea has little arable land, is already short of food and cannot be self-sufficient, and the lack of fertilizers and other materials provided by the Soviet Union is tantamount to adding insult to injury.

Last year, North Korea lost one-third of its grain output due to a large-scale drought!

When the Soviet Union collapsed, life in North Korea suddenly became tight, but now it is good, and it is so hungry that it flies. This year, North Korea has also started spring, and the rainfall is still seriously low, and nine times out of ten it will be another poor harvest year.

In Zhang Nan's memory, that kind of "head-killing fish" is cheap, but at first glance it is always more expensive than food, and in those years, North Korea fell into a terrible state of food shortage and hunger.

But at that time, Zhang Nan still had a question in his heart that could not be answered: counting the freight and the difference between wholesale and retail prices, when the first export is made, will this "head-killing fish" be more expensive than rice and flour?

Seems unlikely.

"People are starving to death in this country, and it is not better to exchange the hairy 'head-killing fish' for food, and let the people eat it directly.

If the price is about the same, the fish will provide more nutrients and calories than the same weight of rice, right?"

The question of what kind of fish is "head-killing fish" has been perfectly answered, but there has been no satisfactory answer to the question of why it was exported to China in large quantities in the first place.

Mr. Vice President's suggestion to buy a production line of bullets made by North Koreans is not a big problem, and the international sanctions against the largest country in the universe have not yet been taken into account.

Andrei said that the products produced by North Korea are quite reliable with warheads, which shows that their bullet production line is no problem and can reach the average level of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

Then buy it, anyway, the world buys the same after-sales service for this kind of production line, and there are a lot of technicians in this area here, so you can have fun.

And for that country, Zhang Nan can't say what he likes or dislikes, but he is a little curious.

A closed country, kind of interesting.

This will be the reason why he knows that the days when North Koreans tighten their belts will be very long, and at least 10 years of suffering will await them.

Three years of temporary - difficulties are chilling, 10 years, no wonder there are many people who speculate that North Korea starved to death during that time - last year's large-scale harvest failure was just the beginning, this year's drought plus summer large-scale floods, next year's drought, floods...

If it weren't for the assistance of other countries, North Korea would not have starved to death in the next decade, and Zhang Nan believes that it would have become a statistic of how many people would survive.

Head-killing fish, interesting fish, I really want to see why North Korea would export that kind of bargain on a large scale.

。 Writing Chinese Network M.