Chapter 393: Leaving Weizhou
In Weizhou the conference continued, the boom of horses did not stop, the trade of cattle became lower and lower, under such a premise, another new business began to appear suddenly, and quickly spread, this business is nothing else, it is the beef business, from the beginning of the appearance of the boom.
Yes, this is a new business, in the territory of the Northern Song Dynasty, it is illegal to slaughter cattle, although there is a small-scale circulation of beef, but large-scale sales, that is completely absent.
In an agrarian society, cattle represent the stability of society, and even the government that wants to satisfy its appetite will not take the initiative to legalize it.
However, when there is less meat and there is no large-scale rearing of livestock, beef and mutton are one of the few meats that can be eaten, especially beef after restriction, especially the more restricted, the more you want to eat it.
Even in Bianliang, Tokyo, it doesn't mean that there is no beef for sale, it's just a little less, to cover up, their Laiyuan is of course illegal.
For a society governed by man, as long as the joints are opened, people with a heart can obtain a huge amount of beef, and the way these cattle die is also strange anyway.
Although businessmen can eat mutton, in the current Weizhou cattle and horse market, mutton can be eaten openly, in Jingzhao Mansion a pound of mutton is more than 80 Wen, in Bianliang is as high as 200 Wen, but here, 800 Wen a, even if one can only produce thirty or forty catties of meat, even slaughter, it is also necessary to pay a certain price, but it is cheaper than other places.
It's just that here, there is no cooking method, only two methods: simply roasted and boiled.
The appearance of a large number of cattle makes some people miss beef, and when the beef is marinated a little and cooked, it is a delicacy.
This request was put forward by some more powerful businessmen, and it was reported layer by layer that Han Qi was here, slaughtering ploughing cattle, in the Northern Song Dynasty official, was a very taboo thing, even if it was Weizhou, there were a lot of ploughing cattle, but Weizhou Ling did not dare to order casually.
When the report arrived at Han Qi, he was stunned for a moment, killing cattle and eating meat, who is so creative.
If it is replaced by someone else, there will be some hesitation when slaughtering cultivated cattle, which is not a trivial matter, but in Han Qi's opinion, seven or eight million cattle, even if the Northern Song Dynasty wants to use them, they can't be used up, and under the premise that the number of cattle is quite large, what does it matter if some cattle are killed.
When Lingzhou's animal husbandry is normalized, seven or eight million cattle are placed near Lingzhou, according to which, about 30% of the cattle may increase in the number of two or three million, even if the cattle can grow in two or three years, there will be a lot of cattle supplied every year.
After a large number of cultivated cattle entered the Northern Song Dynasty, cattle were still so important that they were not allowed to be slaughtered, perhaps, this would become a kind of long-term breeding, as meat livestock, not as high as in the past.
Seventy or eighty thousand merchants, how much can they eat in a day, 100 cows a day, even if it is the end of the auction, it is at most two or three thousand cows.
This is only a drop in the bucket for a total of 300,000 heads.
Han Qi is very bold, in what he thinks is the right behavior, he is often very radical, in the past, he may have covered it up because the level was not enough, and now, the northwest has made great achievements, destroyed the entire Western Xia, and at the same time in the hands of the Liao State, he has obtained a lot of harvests, tens of millions of livestock, just on the books, more than hundreds of millions, in this case, kill some cattle, what is there.
In this way, on the same day, Han Qi was in Weizhou, recruiting some slaughterers.
It stands to reason that in a small city like Weizhou, there should not be many professional cattle slaughtering masters, because of the relationship prohibited by the Northern Song Dynasty, there was not much beef flowing into Weizhou before.
But precisely, in Weizhou, the most are those livestock masters, not every slaughterer is a master, but the masters are excellent slaughterers.
Those who know a lot about cattle and horses, a considerable part of them, started from proficient slaughtering, and in experience and many practices, they have come to their current position.
In the 10th day of the Cattle and Horse Conference, the role that the masters can play is quite limited, and the cattle and horses in the entire Weizhou have almost been seen, there are not many problems, and the role they can play is limited.
Although the chamber of commerce did not dismiss them, the time to use them was greatly reduced, these masters, originally planned to leave directly after the test, but this time the employment from the government was very soon, and almost 100 people were recruited.
Excellent knives from the Daimyo's house, coupled with ingenious masters, show a feast no less than the feast of the cows, 100 cows lined up, in just half an hour, complete the slaughter process, and then divide the meat, skin, and bones to form a sort, and then sell the beef in a special market.
Including the proposer, Weizhou Ling, no one would have thought that Han Qi would directly make it clear that he would do this, more than 40,000 catties of meat, directly supplied to the market, and immediately triggered a boom, even if he didn't like it very much, he had to try it, of course, in terms of price, it was also a different price from Weizhou, 300 Wen a catty.
There is no way, a cow is four or five hundred catties of meat, if it is slaughtered, it can only be the price of meat, leather and bones, etc., these in the Northern Song Dynasty, there is not much processing capacity, it is impossible to obtain high added value, in short, compared to the role of cattle, it is a lot lower.
But it doesn't matter, for these businessmen, you can buy beef in unlimited quantities, it is a very good choice, although beef is relatively expensive compared to mutton, I don't know how much it is expensive, but because it is rare, they eat very happily, not to mention 100 heads a day, even if it is 200 heads, 300 heads, can be sold.
Although beef has made the cost of these merchants in Weizhou rise, it has enriched the catering, and the Weizhou order, which has been realized later, has begun to mobilize some other specialties, mainly vegetables, chickens and pigs in some villages, which plus some good chefs, have further improved the sense of happiness.
This is what Weizhou Ling thought of after deciding to expand the market, restaurants and inns, food is one of the very important items, backed by the livestock market, what is more suitable than beef and mutton.
Beef and mutton are the main ingredients, supplemented by other materials, is a special diet, and they can even develop on this basis.
Beef has become a mutton, another suitable for eating Weizhou specialty, and even a few years later, with the vast market of cattle and sheep, sauce beef and hand-grasped mutton have even become a more famous specialty of Weizhou.
This specialty, since its appearance, has been cultivated by the Weizhou order, and even invited to the masters of various places to study at any cost, and finally after a long time, it has become a special scenery, and it has also made Weizhou a more attractive place in addition to the cattle and horse conference.
The special catering of beef and mutton, this is a later story, but Han Qi doesn't care about this, it is already the 11th day of the opening of the Weizhou Conference, the funds mobilized by these chambers of commerce have gradually arrived, and the daily turnover is not less than about 1.1 million, and on the ninth day, the total number of transactions exceeds 10 million, for most of the livestock, the entire auction has at least 30 days or so for the Weizhou Conference, success is already a very obvious thing.
With tens of millions of income, this has achieved initial success for this Cattle and Horse Conference, and the most likely is between 15 million and 18 million, before, even under the highest situation that Han Qi expected, it did not reach this number, and it can be a few million, enough for him to start farming in Lingzhou, which is already very good.
At the same time, Han Qi also needs to lay a good foundation for the future development of Lingzhou, and needs to buy a large number of materials from Jingzhao Mansion and the Central Plains.
The money is not the same, so the choices are not the same, if there are only three or four million, his actions will be much smaller, and now the funds that can be mobilized are more than 3 times, even if it is the minimum amount of 15 million, his changes to Lingzhou will be even greater.
Han Qi is ready to do the top standard, he needs to recruit some personnel, come to Lingzhou, and also need a large amount of materials, from the Central Plains to Lingzhou, in this case, it is a little inappropriate to stay in Weizhou.
If it weren't for the special importance of the Weizhou Conference, Han Qi would have left after making a speech on the first day, and now, even more so, after spending 2 days, after reaching a series of simple contracts with Qianzhuang and the Chamber of Commerce, especially Qianzhuang.
Whether it is the funds in Lingzhou's hands or the prospects of the Cattle and Horse Conference, these money banks must rely on this side, and in the face of Han Qi's request, it is not an impossible thing to do, but it is just within the prescribed range, giving certain concessions, they naturally agreed, and even gave a lot of discounts.
With great courage, in a short period of time to finalize tens of millions of orders, including a variety of materials and materials including a large number of resources, in the middle, even if it is a combination of dozens of money and a few large chambers of commerce, this is barely reached, but to transport these things, it will take at least two or three months.
Perhaps, after the Weizhou Conference, especially under the premise of the terrible income created by the cattle and horse trade, Han Qi's steps to leave the northwest are getting closer and closer, but for him, in the last period of time, leaving the last footprints for Lingzhou and making his foundation more stable is the most correct choice.