In the middle and late Paleolithic period, humans in the early stage of primitive societies fished for fish and shellfish in the waters near their settlements as an important means of subsistence. But that efficiency, hehe, we won't mention it!

The Zhou Dynasty was an important period in the history of China, when fishing tools were greatly improved. According to the records of "Book of Songs" and "Erya", there were more than 10 kinds of fishing gear at that time, such as nets, nine baskets (100 bag nets), gang (large pull nets), 罾, Shantou (copy nets), fishing, 笱, 罶, cover, 筌, beams, diving (椮) and so on.

Of course, these things are still relatively simple, and cannot be compared with modern machinery, not even one-tenth of the efficiency.

In the seven or eight hundred years from the Qin and Han dynasties to the Northern and Southern Dynasties, people have accumulated more knowledge about the species and ecological habits of fish. There are more than 70 species of fish names in Xu Shen's "Shuowen Jie Zi", which shows that he has mastered the activities and migration laws of some fish!

However, this is not enough.

Until the 21st century, modern humans still knew little about the sea, and at most less than 10% of the situation was understood. What about human beings in ancient times?

The ocean is not only the "cradle of life", but also the "home of life". 71% of the Earth's surface is covered by oceans, while only 29% are land. Of the more than 1 million species of organisms living on the earth, nearly 90% live in the ocean, and in terms of phylum and species, the life in the ocean is far more abundant than that on land.

The average depth of the ocean is 3,680 meters, and the deepest point of the Mariana Trench is 11,034 meters. Whether it's a shallow beach or an abyssal zone below 6,000 meters, life is alive at all depths of the ocean. The ocean provides about 300 times more living space than land and freshwater.

It can be said that mankind's understanding of the deep sea is not as good as the understanding of the surface of the moon, and even worse than the understanding of Mars!

Until the 21st century, more than 400 people have been in space, 12 have landed on the moon, but only 3 have successfully descended to the Mariana Trench. "To be able to go to the moon for nine days and catch turtles in the five oceans" is the common dream of mankind. But obviously, it's hard, it's hard!

And the ancients in ancient times, let alone diving into the deep sea. Fish in slightly deeper water are hard to catch!

Freshwater fishing was well developed in the Tang Dynasty. Inland water fishing has been professionally fisherman, and the poet called him "fisherman", "fisherman", and "fisherman". By the time of the Song Dynasty, some sea vessels in the Song and Yuan dynasties had implemented the mother-child boat operation method with several small boats for fishing. But for the deeper saltwater fish, you can only rely on luck to eat!

So how does a huge fish-eating population solve the problem of eating fish?

It's very simple, part of it depends on catching, in the lake, in the river, in the sea. Most of them rely on breeding, and the Chinese have always been professional farmers in farming, and what they lack is almost an old tradition.

Now Ah Hai and they are like a big luck, and when they were resting on the island, they caught a few yellow-lipped fish, which can be regarded as fulfilling a small wish of Zhu Zilong. At that moment, it was Meimei who had a good meal with everyone in the evening, and then saved a few large fish gelatin.

I have to say, it's really delicious. This yellow-lipped fish doesn't seem to be much better than the four big fish, and it seems that it is still a little more famous than the hype of later generations. Maybe the fish gelatin does work wonders, but the rest of the parts are like cordyceps sinensis is actually a scam!

In later generations, whether Cordyceps sinensis contains active ingredients has been criticized by professionals. All in all, it was just a "Chinese-style" scam.

The earliest record of Cordyceps sinensis was found in Wu Yiluo's "Materia Medica" written in 1757 in the Qing Dynasty: "In the soil in winter, the body is as alive as an old silkworm, and the hair can move, and in the summer, the hair is unearthed, and the body is turned into grass. ”

However, in the ancient books of traditional Chinese medicine, almost everything is medicine, such as nails, stove ash, and feces are all medicines, and they can all find "efficacy" in ancient books. Cordyceps tends to only play a medicinal role!

There is only one sentence about the efficacy of Cordyceps in the Tibetan medicine codex "Manna Materia Medica": "Strengthen the body, tonify the kidney, and be used to treat diseases of the hepatobiliary system." ”

Cordyceps acid is considered to be the functional ingredient or signature ingredient of Cordyceps sinensis, but in fact, Cordyceps acid is mannitol - a very common and cheap chemical product, which is widely used in food and medicine, and only tens of yuan per kilogram.

In the 70s of the 20th century and even before, Cordyceps sinensis was still very low-key, and compared with the traditional tonics ginseng and deer antler velvet, it was only regarded as the most common medicinal material in the "Three Treasures of Chinese Medicine".

In the 60s, 1 kilogram of cordyceps sinensis in Tibet could be exchanged for two packs of cigarettes with a unit price of 3 dimes; In the 70s, in Qinghai and Tibet, the national purchase price of Cordyceps sinensis was 21 yuan per kilogram.

In the 80s, with the speculation of some well-intentioned people, the price of Cordyceps sinensis rose to a certain extent.

In 1983, the price of high-grade cordyceps rose to 300 yuan/kg, while the ginseng in Changbai Mountain was about 60~80 yuan per kilogram during the same period, which was equivalent to more than a month's salary of a worker at that time.

Around 1990, the price of Cordyceps rose to an average of 1,000 yuan/kg. On the contrary, the price of ginseng dropped to 50 yuan/kg. This thing is growing faster than ginseng, isn't that fucked up?

In April 1993, Ma Jiajun collectively set a new national record for women's marathon in Tianjin. Ma Jiajun was also once questioned by the international community for taking doping!

However, Ma Jiajun used supplements and Chinese herbal medicines as shields. In addition to the very familiar "Chinese turtle essence" in everyone's memory, there is also Cordyceps, therefore, in the mid-90s of the last century, the retail price of Cordyceps rose to 2000 yuan/kg, and the price of high-grade Cordyceps sinensis was even higher.

Later, the "Ma Jiajun Investigation" confirmed that Ma Jiajun was indeed doping, and the team members' results had nothing to do with "Chinese herbal medicine". However, things that have risen up are very strange in China. Just like housing prices, as long as they go up, it's hard to come down.

During the SARS epidemic in 2003, it was rumored that eating Cordyceps sinensis could enhance immunity and even cure all diseases, Cordyceps became a "divine grass" overnight, causing market speculation, and its price skyrocketed, and the price of high-grade Cordyceps sinensis soared from several thousand yuan/kg to 16,000 yuan/kg.

Since then, Cordyceps has officially entered the ranks of "luxury health care products", and the unit of pricing has changed from "kilograms" to "grams".

In 2007, the price climbed to a historic peak, of which 2,000 pieces per kilogram of Cordyceps sinensis were as high as 200,000 yuan per kilogram. In particular, Jicao is known as 100% Cordyceps, and according to the specification of a bottle of 45 tablets and 0.35 grams per piece, its price can be converted to more than 1 million yuan per kilogram.

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At this moment, Zhu Zilong finally woke up.

Of course, using this method to make money, if it is to make money from the enemy, it doesn't matter, if it is to attack your own people, then it is really a good conscience to be broken into slag, and you are not worthy of being a person.

Of course, when Chinese stop superstitious experts and have a clear mind, they will be less fooled.

Come to think of it, the yellow-lipped fish is nothing more than that. Zhu Zilong was bored for a while, thinking that he had originally written some "Compendium of Materia Medica" in the Ming Dynasty to play, but now he thinks about it. According to the compendium of materia medica, 100 times is not enough to die. Infinite worship of Chinese medicine is also a hotbed for scammers!

Western medicine is not a panacea, and the same is true of Chinese medicine.

Especially the drugs that have not been clearly stated in traditional Chinese medicine from ancient times to the present, what Angong bezoar, ginseng, have become miracle medicines, and the legend can bring the dead back to life? If these things are really hung like this, how come the average life expectancy of hundreds of Chinese emperors is only more than 30 years old?

Of course, it's not just some Chinese who are brain-dead. Zhu Zilong vaguely remembered that he had seen a lot of news before the crossing, when Europeans and Americans went to Egypt to dig graves, do you know what to do? Dig out the mummy and grind the powder, and then sell it at a high price, boasting that it can be healthy, and if you don't believe it, you can watch the Discovery Channel in the United States, and there is an episode dedicated to saying this!

There is also a special one in Japan, eating the of a girl, also said to be a tonic, what is called a golden grain meal.

"Zhu Zilong, Zhu Zilong, you can't become a person who falls into low-level fun once you are prosperous......" On the deck of the sea ship, Zhu Zilong's clone whispered to himself in the sea breeze.

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