Chapter 125: A penny and a pound
The sunset is infinitely better, just near dusk!
Wenden Pier looks a bit dilapidated under the setting sun.
At this time, there are basically no people on the wharf except for the fishermen who come ashore in twos and threes.
Today, however, is a little different.
"Hasn't the prince come back yet?"
Qing'er asked a little anxiously on the side.
"I haven't seen a ship on the surface yet."
Wang Xuance raised his glasses and looked at the sea meticulously.
"It's been a day at sea, didn't you say you can come back today?"
"The prince only said that he would go to sea for a day or two, but he didn't say that he would definitely come back today." Although Wang Xuance was also a little worried, his tone was still very steady.
Qing'er stomped her foot, "The prince is really, the sea is so dangerous, why do you want to go by yourself, wouldn't it be better to let those fishermen go fishing." ”
Whether it was Wang Xuance or Chu Suiliang, they didn't answer Qing'er's words when they stood next to them.
These complaints, Qing'er, the personal maid, say that it's nothing, and they are not suitable to interject.
"Steward Wang, show me your telescope too."
Seeing that everyone was ignoring her, Qing'er looked at the crowd waiting quietly around her, and wanted to take advantage of the fact that it was not dark to ask Wang Xuance to give her the binoculars to see if she could see the ship return.
"Miss Qing'er, give!"
Qing'er unceremoniously took the telescope from Wang Xuance's hand.
The number of these telescopes exchanged from the system is still relatively limited, and Li Kuan himself and the lookouts and captains of the ships are blessed on Tuesday, and Wang Xuance still borrowed this from Xue Li, and said that he would return it when he came back.
"Huh? Steward Wang, do you see if there is a ship coming back there? ”
It didn't take long for Qing'er to look at it, and she noticed the situation from her sight.
"Show me." Wang Xuance hurriedly grabbed the telescope and stood on tiptoe to look.
"Good! That's great! The fleet is back, the prince is back! ”
The originally quiet pier immediately became lively.
A few figures staring at it from a distance immediately ran away quickly.
"Wake up, wake up, wake up."
On the Assassin's Mansion, Chun Yubo was shaking in a hurry.
"What's wrong? What's going on? Chun Yu looked up, half-squinting.
"The fishing ships of the East China Sea are back, and they will be docked soon, so please go over and greet them."
Although I don't know if the East China Sea fishery has caught any fish, if Li Kuan didn't greet his master when he came back, the conflict between the two sides might have erupted in advance.
Chun Yujia is the head snake of Dengzhou Mansion, and he just wants to be a good head snake, if you don't offend me, I won't offend you.
The meaning of the family, Chun Yubo is naturally clear, otherwise he would not wake Chun Yu Nan from his sleep.
"Huh? Coming back? Didn't that Li Kuan say that he wouldn't come back if he didn't fill the whole boat with fish? How is it possible to come back so soon? ”
Chun Yu was embarrassed to drink with the shopkeeper Lu from noon to afternoon, and when he came back, he fell asleep, "Could it be that I slept for a day and a night?" ”
"Envoy, no, the fleet set off this morning and came back this evening, let's hurry up and see what the situation is."
"Okay, let's go check it out."
……
"Lord Wang!"
"The prince is back!"
After the ship docked, Li Kuan was naturally the first to get down, he didn't get down, and no one dared to get down first.
"Get someone to help carry the catch, and then dispose of the fish or they'll spoil quickly." Li Kuan is a little worried about what to do now, the salt farm has just bought land, and it is impossible to produce salt so quickly, but without salt, these things cannot be preserved at all.
At this moment, he has a new understanding of why the life of fishermen is so hard.
If you don't catch a fish, you'll be hungry, and if you catch a lot of fish, you won't necessarily get any money.
"Lord Wang, did you really catch a fish?"
Now Wang Xuance has a very clear understanding of the current situation of fishing by fishermen in Dengzhou, and was slightly taken aback when he heard that Li Kuan asked him to organize personnel to carry the catch.
"Of course, if it is not full of fish, will the prince come back?" Xue Li interjected on the side.
"Wow!"
What a big yellow croaker!
As he spoke, the people on the boat had already begun to carry the catch, and the people on the dock who knew the goods immediately recognized that these were big yellow croaker.
"Congratulations on returning with a full load!"
At this moment, Chun Yunan finally arrived at the dock and hurriedly squeezed into the crowd.
"Chun Yu envoy came just in time, this king caught a bit of a lot of fish this time, and he didn't make sufficient storage preparations for a while. You ask the officials of the Thorn Mansion to help lead the team, and each family will send them two fish. ”
Thinking that if you don't deal with the fish today, it will stink tomorrow.
Rather than this, it is better to use it to buy people's hearts, which can be regarded as an advertisement in disguise.
From tomorrow, there should be people waiting on the pier every day to buy fish.
"Two for each family?"
Chun Yu asked in surprise, these yellow croaker, Chun Yu is not often the opportunity to eat, mainly because under the previous fishing technology, few people go to the open sea, and yellow croaker, if you fish on the shore, there is very little chance to be caught, after all, it is not their activity place at all.
"Yes, the people in the city will give two to each family, and those outside the city will depend on the situation."
Seeing that it was going to get dark soon, Li Kuan felt that it was too late to send the fish to other counties.
In Wendeng County, there are less than 10,000 households in total, and each family will send two days, and there will be less than 20,000.
Roughly calculate today's harvest, after giving away 20,000, there shouldn't be too much, and it should almost be able to be handled.
"Is it free?" Chun Yu swallowed his saliva and asked with difficulty.
"Since it was said that it was a gift, it was naturally free." Li Kuan glanced at Chun Yu strangely, "However, only today, starting tomorrow, if you want to eat, you can only buy it yourself." ”
"If you sell it, how can you sell it?"
"Hmm...... What do you think of a penny and a pound? ”
"A penny a pound?" Chun Yu's eyes widened and he looked at Li Kuan in disbelief.
In these years, the price of any grain in Dengzhou Prefecture was more than a penny a catty, and even the worst old grain was more than this price.
Now, the fresh big yellow croaker, Li Kuan actually only sells it for a penny and a catty!
Who still buys grain for the people of Dengzhou?
How can the grain in the granary of Chun Yu's family and several other families be sold at a high price?
"Lord Wang, this big yellow croaker, in normal times, even if it is a hundred dollars a catty, it is difficult to buy, a penny a pound, will it be too cheap?"
Although it is difficult to think that the East China Sea fishery can catch so many fish every day, I am not afraid of 10,000, but I am afraid of what if.
If it were cheaper to eat meat than corn, what other people would go to the grain store?
For a penny and a pound, the people of Dengzhou Mansion can still afford it.
What to do?
I'm in a hurry!