Chapter 270: Food Culture
Under these circumstances, he had a lot of money, could buy advanced fishing boats from the United States at any time, and had a good relationship with the American garrison for the rest of his life. If you want to enter the inshore fishing industry, you will inevitably become a giant in Japan's inshore fishing industry in a short period of time.
Of course, investing in Japan for the rest of your life isn't just about making money.
As a small island nation, Japan is short of almost all resources. However, only two are relatively abundant, one is forest resources, and the forest coverage rate in later Japan is extremely high. Almost all of the mountainous areas where food cannot be grown are covered with trees. The other is marine fishery resources. The fishing grounds of the Japanese are extremely high.
The development of the fishery resources of the Japanese people for the rest of their lives is not for the purpose of sustainable development. His exploitation of Japan's coastal fishery resources is bound to be destructive. If the normal historical development is carried out, the large-scale reduction of the amount of fish caught off the coast of the Japanese will always wait until the 21st century.
At this time, the Japanese realized that the fish they liked to eat had been eaten by themselves. It is almost impossible to restore the ecological balance and fish population in the offshore waters. As a result, only pelagic fishing and aquaculture can be carried out.
The plan for the rest of my life was to make this happen decades earlier. After quietly controlling the Japanese grain industry, he wanted to control the Japanese fishing industry for the rest of his life.
This kind of control must also be carried out quietly and in a way that is acceptable to the Japanese. Yu Sheng bought 20 state-of-the-art large fishing boats from the United States at one time. These fishing boats are equipped with sonars that track fish, and the fishing efficiency is many times higher than that of ordinary small fishing boats in the hands of Japanese fishermen.
And the captains of these fishing boats are the dozens of children who took in Shanghai for the rest of their lives. These children are now teenagers, and because they have run an ocean shipping company for the rest of their lives, they have worked in it, so they have a lot of experience in sailing. The rarest thing is that he is loyal and hates the Japanese.
After learning about their plans for the rest of their lives, these teenagers almost beat their chests and packed tickets. I vowed to keep all the fish off the coast of Japan.
Of course. It is unlikely that it will be cleaned in one go. After all, the ocean is where all living things originate. Among them, there are many kinds of organisms and the complexity of the ecosystem, which is far better than that on land. The unfortunate nature of marine life began to be unlucky, because humans discovered that marine resources could also be used, and that the fish in the sea were actually better than the fish in the river.
Before the start of the industrial age, though. The amount of fish caught by humans is far from keeping up with the speed at which marine organisms reproduce and repair themselves. Therefore, this kind of fishing does not cause much damage to the ecological balance of the ocean. After entering the industrial age, when humans developed tools to the point where they could break free from the shackles of nature to a certain extent.
The amount of human fish. This far exceeds the rate at which marine organisms can reproduce themselves. Fish populations began to decline on a large scale. However, there are times when humans don't care about fishing, such as World War II, which is a rare respite for marine life.
According to the calculations of later biologists, in World War II, countless human beings died, but the population of marine life began to recover on a large scale. At this time, I sent people out to sea to fish, but it was the time when the number of fish in Japan's coastal waters was at its highest.
It doesn't take much thought. Twenty large fishing boats returned with a continuous load. Seeing this, Yu Sheng bought ten more big ships, gathered people, and went to sea together. Such fishing efficiency. Far better than the petty fights of fishermen along the coast of Japan.
Soon, the fishing companies registered for the rest of their lives accounted for half of the total fish caught in Japan. Prices of fish and various seafood products in Japan have dropped sharply as a result. Countless fishermen along the coast of Japan have lost money because of the rest of their lives. Many even went bankrupt.
Even many aquaculture companies, as well as the fishermen who operate aquaculture, have gone bankrupt because of the collapse in the price of seafood.
Plan for the first step for the rest of your life. And it worked. The money earned from fishing is spent the rest of his life in the acquisition of these bankrupt aquaculture farms. The cycle went on and on, and it took only a few months for the rest of his life to occupy a place in the seafood industry in Japan.
If we continue to depress the price of Japanese seafood in the next two to three years, it is very possible that we will want to occupy half of Japan's seafood industry for the rest of our lives.
This radical approach for the rest of his life was not opposed by anyone, except the bankrupt Japanese fishermen. Americans have a good relationship with Yu Sheng, and they are happy to see Yu Sheng's investment in commercialization in Japan. And the Japanese government, in addition to being concerned about Yu Sheng's influence, is not opposed to the large-scale fishing of fish for Yu Sheng.
After all, the Japanese are already hungry for a year. The appearance of the rest of his life almost solved the food problem of the Japanese. Not to mention the food industry. Large-scale inshore fishing for the rest of the life can, at least to a great extent, alleviate the hunger in the stomachs of the population.
After all, Japan once called itself a "complete fish-eating people". In later generations, the Japanese caught the largest fish in the world, eating more fish than rice per person every year.
As for the development of Japan's fishing industry, the upper echelons of Japan are not qualified to consider it in a short period of time. Because, in a short time, the Americans simply will not allow the Japanese to have large ships. Even if it's a fishing boat.
And the Japanese people are also full of good feelings for the rest of their lives. Because, after more than a year of famine, they finally ate fish. This was unthinkable just a few months ago. In addition, the rest of his life has brought to the Japanese a variety of ways to eat fish in addition to sashimi.
Because, in the plan for the rest of your life, the fish is just an introduction. While fishing, he asked Qing Xiaoyi to open a herring Chinese restaurant in Tokyo, Japan!
Qingyu Chinese Restaurant is now a restaurant chain in the United States, far better than KFC and McDonald's. Due to the fact that the business scope of Qingyu Chinese Restaurant includes high-end and low-end, the customer group includes Gao Fu Shuai and Hanging Silk. Therefore, many American GIs stationed in Japan have tasted the taste of Chinese food in the herring fish Chinese restaurant.
And, without exception, they are all full of praise. When the Qingyu Chinese Restaurant in Tokyo opened, a large number of American GIs who took turns to rest consciously lined up outside the Qingyu Chinese Restaurant to buy a Chinese fast food. Taste the taste of something you haven't seen in a long time.
And now is the time for the Japanese to treat Americans as idols and uncles. Almost what the Americans do, the Japanese will imitate what the Americans do. The popularity of the Chinese restaurant quickly spread in Japan. The Japanese are also very curious, what is the delicacy in this herring fish Chinese restaurant that is worthy of the American GIs' waiting?
So, after the departure of the American GIs. A few curious Japanese walked into the Chinese restaurant to taste something worth the hours of waiting in line for American GIs.
After entering the restaurant, these Japanese people realized that this Chinese restaurant in Tokyo was almost no different from the restaurant opened by the Japanese themselves. There are Japanese-style tatami mats, tables, chairs, and benches, chopsticks commonly used by Japanese people, and a variety of sake.
This is the decoration style that Yu Sheng deliberately let Qing Xiaoyi, combined with the common settings of Japanese restaurants and classical Chinese furnishings. Be sure to let the Japanese people who enter the restaurant unknowingly. Embrace this cultural style based on classical Chinese furnishings.
For the rest of his life, he wanted to change not only the food of the Japanese people, but also the food culture of the Japanese people.
The Japanese dining culture is heavily influenced by the Chinese. With the Japanese learning from China, soy sauce and tofu invented by Chinese have been introduced to Japan since ancient times. And the way of making tea, and the way of tasting tea. It is very popular in Japan. In later generations, the Japanese paid more attention to and studied the tea ceremony than China, which was the origin of the tea ceremony but there was a cultural fault.
Sushi, which is a representative of Japanese cuisine, originated in China. Sushi in ancient China. It's called 鮓. Liu Xi of the Han Dynasty recorded in the "Interpretation of the Name Volume 2 and the Thirteenth Interpretation of Diet": "Steamed rice, too, is stuffed with salt and rice, and it is cooked and eaten." ”
This food. In the beginning, it was a rice ball made from rice and fish that had been steamed with vegetables. As a fast food that people carry with them when they escape the famine. The original shape. It is an elliptical spherical shape. After a long period of evolution, it became a cylindrical rice ball made of seaweed, glutinous rice, egg yolk, crispy skin, peanuts, vegetables, and cooked shrimp, and was called rice sticks along the coast of China.
Of course, in China, the wrapping skin of many rice sticks is not seaweed or seaweed, but dough. This food is widely spread in Asia because it is easy to eat and rich in nutrients. It spread to Korea and evolved into the later gimbap, and to Japan, where it evolved into the later sushi.
The table manners followed by the Chinese in ancient times, including the correct way to use chopsticks and the exquisite diet, all came from China. The five elements followed by the Chinese in ancient times have become the "five flavors", "five colors" and "five laws" in Japanese cuisine in Japanese cuisine.
In Japanese cuisine, the five flavors refer to the different tastes of the Japanese diet in different seasons, usually bitter spring, sour summer, autumn nourishment, winter sweetness, and a preference for astringency. The five colors refer to the color matching of dishes, which are generally green spring, Zhu Xia, white autumn, and Xuandong. The five methods refer to the cooking methods of Japanese food, and there are five main types: steaming, roasting, boiling, frying, and raw.
All of them correspond to the five elements that Chinese medicine pays attention to. Wood, fire, earth, gold, water, green, red, yellow, white, black, sour, bitter, sweet, bitter, ......bitter, bitter, bitter, bitter, bitter These things, on the contrary, were discarded in later generations of China due to cultural faults for various reasons.
On the basis of these shared cultural heritages, it seems that it is not so difficult to deconstruct Japanese cuisine for the rest of its life and turn it into the ninth cuisine in addition to the eight major cuisines of China. And, judging from the reactions of Japanese diners, Japanese people are very comfortable with Chinese food.
Of course, this is also expected for the rest of your life. In his later memories, later generations of Japanese people were quite appreciative of Chinese food.
Later generations of Japanese people will conduct a survey on "your favorite Chinese food" for the Japanese people almost every year. According to the survey results, 82.7 percent of Japanese people say they like Chinese food very much.
In addition, the survey results show that the majority of Japanese people cook Chinese food two or three times a month, and nearly 30% of them cook Chinese food more than once a week. Among the Chinese dishes that Japanese people like the most, there are Chinese dumplings, which are "delicious but not dumplings", which rank first.
Then, there is the love and killing of Sichuan cuisine mapo tofu and Chinese home-cooked fried rice. In addition to the top three, ancient pork, shredded pork with green peppers, sweet and sour tenderloin, corn soup, spring rolls, siu mai, and xiao long bao are also very popular in Japan.
Although Chinese food is considered heavy and oily to the Japanese, in the Chinatown of Yokohama, Japan, a meat bun can be sold for about 500 yen, or about 35 yuan. And the price of fried shrimp and ancient meat, the price of a dish is about 1,500 yen, about 100 yuan.
This level of consumption was considered high-end and expensive in later generations in Japan.
However, in the Qingyu Chinese restaurant for the rest of his life, the price of various cuisines is not high. In addition, the prices of various fish and seafood are surprisingly low. A variety of different types of fish, in addition to sashimi, are fried and fried, and there are all kinds of flavors. After all, what you have to do for the rest of your life is not to raise prices to make money, but to promote. Let Chinese cuisine cover and replace the poor dishes of Japanese cuisine.
This kind of promotion has been successful many times in Japan, so I am quite confident for the rest of my life.
At that time, during the Meiji period in Japan, it was the end of the Qing Dynasty in China. Chinese At this time, in order to find a way to survive, in addition to going to the South Seas, going to the United States to work as laborers, and going to Australia to dig gold mines, some people also went to Japan. The ancestral homeland of this part of the Chinese is mainly Guangdong and Fujian.
When these Chinese arrived in Japan, they were not good at anything other than the skills that Chinese culture had given them. Therefore, these Chinese settled in Yokohama, Japan. He also made a living by opening a Chinese restaurant. Among the Chinese dishes brought overseas by this group of Chinese, there are ancestral noodle-making techniques and soup cooking methods handed down by the Chinese.
Since then, eating ramen has become a trend in Japan. Since then, ramen has been regarded as one of the Japanese cuisines by the Japanese. Until later generations, Japanese ramen paid special attention to the tradition of soup base, and continued the importance of soup base in Cantonese cuisine, one of the eight major cuisines in China.
Therefore, when the rest of my life tastes Japanese ramen, I almost think that it is eating Cantonese food. And if you add Japanese ramen to the Cantonese cuisine, even the gourmets and top Cantonese chefs who have eaten from all over the world will not think that the style of painting does not match. It's Japanese food, and it's Chinese food.
The noodle eating method that Japan originally learned from the Song Dynasty in China and explored it itself quickly disappeared. nowhere to be seen.
With this precedent, I have enough confidence for the rest of my life to let the fried goods of Chinese gradually replace the fried tempura of Japanese cuisine, let the Chinese mapo tofu completely replace the Japanese tofu, and let the eight major cuisines of China completely drown the Japanese Zen-derived and tasteless kaiseki cuisine. (To be continued.) )
PS: When I wrote this chapter today, I struggled for a long time and deleted it many times. In fact, if you lay out according to the plot, this content paragraph, as well as many of the previous content paragraphs, as long as you add some characters, you can drag out more than a dozen chapters. Moreover, the application of stepping on people and slapping their faces in it should be more in line with the taste of the Internet public. However, when I wrote more than 2,000 words like this, when I looked back at it, I suddenly found that the more condensed sense of history pursued by the cappella in this book was gone. I really couldn't stand it, so I deleted it and rewrote it. It became like this.
The cappella knows it's hard to tune, but the novel should stay that way - even if the cappella sometimes feels like an outline. However, in retrospect, which of the history books I read was not outline-flavored? Even the character-centered "Historical Records". Or perhaps, the outline account is the original flavor of the history book.
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