Chapter 15 The Price of Fish
Under the gaze of everyone, the Shao Si Ming slowly docked, and the ease of turning was breathtaking. The iron anchor fell after the mooring, which made people exclaim again. The shape of the anchor will not appear until the Song Dynasty, but the Song Dynasty is only a wooden claw stone anchor, not an iron anchor, and now as soon as the Shao Si Ming falls down, it is an iron anchor of Hei Yoyo, and even the anchor chain is iron, and the luxury is amazing.
Sails, bronze armor, iron anchors, such boats are not affordable by ordinary people, and can only be enjoyed by kings. But in fact, the Shao Si Ming class is just an ordinary commercial sea boat, and there is nothing special. At least the stern has never been decorated with gold leaf, nor has it been set with jewels and gemstones.
The anchor chain of the two sea boats fell, Xiong Jing quickly landed on the shore, and the officials of the Qi people in the harbor were already waiting on the dock. In addition to the exempt boat division general Tian Widow, there are also port orders, customs orders, fishery history and others who are attached to the port.
"The prince is very fortunate to come to my Qi country. It is windy here, so please enter the port with the king's ministers. "Hong Kong Ling Zhao Mo is an old man, he should be an official appointed by the King of Qi to be attached, wearing Xuanduan, Xuan's clothes are plain, his description is strict and neat, and he is a doctor.
"Not busy." Thirty or forty paces to the left and right behind the officials, crowded with people watching the excitement, and beyond the crowd there was a large city surrounded by a high wall. The flag in the city is hoisted, indicating that trading is taking place in the market. "Don't you want to take a look at the big market, I don't know if it's possible?"
"King, the big city is a filthy place, how can it be ......" Zhao Mo was taken aback. Merchants are cheap industries, and the big market is even more mixed, how can the king of a country enter the big market.
"Yingdu is a big city, and it is not common to look at it. Could it be that the big city of Qi is actually more filthy than the big city of Chu? Xiong Jing asked with a smile.
"Naturally, naturally not." The State of Qi was once called the emperor, and the people of Qi were proud, although Zhao Mo understood Xiong Jing's intentions, he could only answer like this.
"Then why can't you just take a look?" Xiong Jing said, his footsteps have moved towards the big market, and Zhao Mo and other Qi officials can only follow closely.
The annex is the harbor, and the harbor is naturally indispensable for aquatic products. Before they walked in, everyone smelled a fishy smell, and when Qi Qi was scolding those fishermen in his heart, Xiong Jing sniffed hard and said, "Fragrant!" ”
"Incense?" Zhao Mo opened his mouth wide in shock, this is obviously stinky.
"I don't like to eat sea fish." Xiong Jing made an explanation, in fact, even if he could eat sea fish in Yingdu, it was mostly salted fish.
"I see." Gang Ling and the officials of the Qi State behind him nodded in unison and breathed a sigh of relief.
Sewage flows sideways outside the city, and there are only a few vendors inside. Just now, the Shao Si Ming and the Xiang Lady entered the port, and everyone in the city rushed outside to see the Chu State Haizhou. Many people and few people look the same, besides, Xiong Jing wants to see sea fish.
Large yellow croaker, small yellow croaker, hairtail fish, and cuttlefish are more common offshore fish in later generations, and salmon and tuna do not appear in the coastal waters of East Asia, so it is naturally difficult for fishermen to catch. April coincides with the fish news, the big yellow croaker and small yellow croaker in the big city are packed in a dustpan, and a dustpan is piled up like a mountain, and there are also mackerel.
"What is the price?" Pointing to a pile of yellow croaker, Xiong Jing inquired.
"The price ......" Zhao Mo knew the price of fish, and his mind turned backwards as he spoke.
"Tell the king, the price of fish is cheap at this time, and one stone is only two hundred yuan." The city commander replied loudly.
"Oh." Xiong Jing didn't know if he was telling a lie or not, if it was really two hundred dollars a stone, it was indeed cheap enough. The price of fish and millet is generally about one to six or seven, and if the millet is thirty yuan, the fish will be sold for one hundred and eighty or two hundred yuan. Last year's severe drought caused the price of spring millet to be as high as 70 yuan this year, and if it was a fish price of 200 yuan, it would only be 1 to 3.
"All year round?" Xiong Jing asked again, not expressing satisfaction or dissatisfaction.
"Tell the king, this year's corn is expensive, and the price of fish is naturally expensive. If it was in previous years, the price of fish at this time was less than 100 yuan. The city commander replied. However, if it is to be transported to other places, the price must be two hundred dollars. ”
"Tens of thousands of stones of fish a year?" Xiong Jing asked again. Qi has a thriving fishing industry, but it has not been clear about the output.
"This ......" The city order hesitated for a moment, and when he saw that Zhao Mo did not object, he said: "There should be 100,000 stones a year." ”
"100,000 stones?" 100,000 stone sounds like a lot, but it's actually pitiful.
The Fu Department of the Great Sima Mansion formulated the physical standards for the enlistment of the Chu army, as well as the controversial nutritional standards. Based on 850 grams of corn per day, 250 grams of sauce, 50 grams of meat, and 125 grams of beans. In this way, you can eat well, and meat is the key. Meat is mainly protein and fat, which is absorbed and digested into glucose and amino acids, and the protein and fat content in corn is very low, and only a few grams of protein is 100 grams, and the fat is less.
It is not the main thing for the soldiers to eat enough, the main thing is to consume enough protein and fat every day, only enough protein and oil can have enough glucose, amino acids, and vitamin B12. According to SB, the army, which has no meat and no canned meat, is unable to secrete enough dopamine during high-risk operations, and then enters a typical hypoglycemic state, turning pale, panicking, shivering, and even fainting to the ground.
The reason for this has long been forgotten, but an army that doesn't eat meat will definitely not be able to defeat an army that eats meat. The popularization of meat in the Chu army was strongly suggested by him, and each soldier ate 50 grams of meat per day, and it was best to eat pork, beef, mutton, and small animal meat, followed by fish.
100,000 stone fish is only 1,350 tons, according to the standard set by the Great Sima Mansion, 200,000 troops will eat 10 tons of fish in a day, according to this eating method, after 135 days there will be no fish to eat.
There are many difficulties in promoting meat in the army. The first is the increase in the cost of grain. The price of meat millet is generally one to twelve, that is, one stone of meat is equal to twelve stone of millet. Fifty grams of meat is 600 grams of millet and 360 grams of corn. If it is in a state of fighting food, it will increase the cost by 40%; If it is in the state of ginseng, it will increase to 70%.
Then there is not enough meat. An army of 200,000 eats 3,650 tons of meat a year, or about 270,000 stones. Although Chu State has been promoting pig and poultry breeding, pig feeding requires cost, and the number of poultry cannot be expanded to four million at once. Only borrowing from foreign countries, cattle and horses on the grassland are cheaper, and the price of meat and millet is generally one to three, and the fish of Qi are roughly the same price. If this is the case, the cost of increasing grain will only be one or two percent.
After half a circle in the city, Xiong Jing was thinking about the army's meat problem. It's just that he doesn't know much about the fishing industry of Qi country, and he doesn't know how to borrow Qi people's money to build fishing boats and then hire Qi people to fish at sea? There is also the problem of technology leakage, because it is impossible for shipyards to be located in Chu State, and now all shipyards in Chu State are building warships, and if there are too many workers, it will naturally affect food production.