Dinner was held in an open space outside the kitchen of the prisoner camp. There were more than a dozen long lines of people receiving dinner, half Chinese and the other British, and both sides were curious about each other, pointing fingers at each other. Winters told several commanders that the Chinese were also captives, natives who tried to resist the rule of the Liberation Army by force.

The British soldiers who came first acted as the leader of the group, and nearly 700 people came at once, which increased everyone's work. At the end of a line, several tables were laid out, and on top of them were several large iron basins, which were mixed with red and green, and it was today's dinner. Everyone had to get a shiny dinner plate first, which was like a small pit pressed out of an iron plate, and Ramsay and the others knew that it was made of stainless steel. When they saw the goods that Wang comprador got back, they thought about coming to Xin'an to get some "loot", but now they have "gotten" hundreds of them at once without any effort, and they can't help but sigh that the world is impermanent. The soldiers had never seen it, and they looked back and forth in their hands, even using it as a mirror. Ramsay also found that the Chinese captives also used this kind of plate, except that their cutlery was stainless steel chopsticks, while the British captives were given stainless steel spoons.

Dinner was four dishes and one soup, and Winters explained that this was the standard of food for the Liberation Army, and the content was all done according to the Chinese practice. The carrot was cut into small slices, with small green pieces in between, and the surface was oily, and I don't know how the Chinese cooked him; The other pot was full of white pieces, which Ramsey guessed were potatoes; As for the contents of the two other basins, they were all black and whirring, and the Colonel did not know what they were; When he saw the pig offal in the soup bucket, he had no appetite at all. Of course, the soldiers were not as picky as him, and there was no dining table, so they gathered together in twos and threes, sat on the ground with plates, and moved.

Ramsey walked up to one of the guards and said to him, "I want to see your sir!" You can't abuse us like that. ”

Poor Aimuti didn't understand a word, and could only stupidly watch the old foreigner shouting in front of him. This is also the accumulation of foreign power that makes him dare not take action, if a Chinese prisoner did this, he would have drawn two sticks a long time ago.

Hearing the voice, Luoxi River came over, and after listening to the Colonel's protest, he asked, "Colonel, are you not satisfied with our food?" ”

"Yes, this is not food for people to eat at all, it can only be taken out and fed to pigs." The colonel said this in complete oblivion as his own soldiers were eating these "pig foods" and eating them with relish.

Rossi looked at Ramsay with interest, and the colonel's expression was like that of a haughty rooster, making the former feel that what he saw was not a prisoner, but a general who had won the battle. "And what do you want to eat? Captain. Caviar in the Black Sea? Or Hungarian roast beef with potatoes? ”

"I am a knight of the United Kingdom and I need treatment commensurate with my status." Ramsay reiterated his demands, as if to maintain the dignity of the British aristocracy. But Rosie was keenly able to catch the Colonel's speech as he swallowed saliva.

"I'm sorry!" Luo Xihe pouted, "Colonel, this is a prisoner camp, not a big hotel. With so many people to fill their stomachs, the food can only be maintained at this level. Of course, if you want to get extra food...... it's not impossible," Luo Xihe thought of an idea, "You please wait a while, I'll go and ask for instructions!" ”

The idea that Luo Xihe came up with was common in the detention centers of the original time and space China, which was to sell food to the suspect, which was a profiteering business of selling a pack of instant noodles for ten yuan.

Luo Xihe called the management committee, and after a brief discussion with several management committee members at home, they delegated the work to the Ministry of Commerce.

The Ministry of Commerce is the department with the largest number of active and non-registered members under the Management Committee, because a large proportion of the survivors are engaged in trade and marketing. But after arriving in the new plane, these people have been useless. Now the situation of the survivors has not yet opened, and the county town of Xinan is small, and commercial activities are not developed, so there is no room for them to play at all. The last time I gave the goods to Wang comprador was to hope that he would open up sales channels in Guangzhou, there has been no response yet. So as soon as they received the task from the management committee, a group of people got busy.

Half an hour later, a pickup truck drove into the prisoner camp, driven by Commerce Minister Liu Kuang, who was in his early thirties and engaged in international trade in a multinational group of Fortune 500 companies. This time, he brought the elite soldiers of the Ministry of Commerce and prepared to do a big job.

The pickup came to a halt in the clearing, and the new British captives looked curiously at the four-wheeled vehicle that could walk on its own. If it weren't for the guards around, maybe they would have come over and watch. Several British officers glanced at each other and became more convinced of the view that "the scientific and technological level of the Liberation Army surpasses that of the West."

Liu Kuang and Luo Xihe shook hands, both of them knew each other's person, and they were not familiar with each other. "Battalion Commander Luo, thanks to you this time." Liu Kuang shook Luo Xihe's hand with both hands and said enthusiastically.

"Where? Where? There is no need to be so polite among comrades. Luo Xihe had a smile on his face, but there was a trace of regret in his heart. If you don't ask the management committee for instructions, isn't this business a unique business in the prisoner camp?! But then he was relieved, not to mention that there was no supply in the prisoner camp, and at this time, the small treasury must not be arrested by the management committee as a negative example, and besides, eating alone will pull hatred.

The two were very polite, and Luo Xihe asked, "Minister Liu, what good things have you brought?" ”

Liu Kuang dragged Luoxihe to the back compartment, where two employees of the Ministry of Commerce were unloading the goods, and boxes of foreign wine, cigarettes, biscuits, jerky, and sausages were unloaded. These things were stored in the original time and space, and they belonged to strategic materials, but after arriving in the new plane, these things were not so valuable, and "a lot of food was about to expire." Liu Kuang whispered to Luo Xihe.

After unloading the goods, Luo Xihe invited Colonel Ramsay over and introduced him to Liu Kuang. The next time is for business people, as a professional in international trade, English is not a problem for Liu Kuang. "Colonel, as a captive, that's all we can offer for free." Minister Liu pointed to the contents of a few vegetable pots, "Of course, it's not impossible for you to improve your quality of life. ”

Liu Kuang led Ramsey to the goods, picked up a bottle of Great Wall dry red sold for 57 yuan in the supermarket of the original time and space, and displayed it in front of the colonel. "The Great Wall Dry Red from China, which has been cellared for five years, is made from high-quality grapes, which is sweet and mellow, rich in nutrition, full of color and delicate in taste, and only costs one pound." Seeing that the colonel was unmoved, Liu Kuang picked up a bottle of Chivas Regal from the domestic cottage and began to introduce it (in order not to reveal the true identity of the survivors, of course these bottles were torn off the labels), "Colonel, you must have heard of this wine, 'Chivas Regal' whiskey." Founded in 1801 in Albertine, Scotland, Chivas Regal was the world's first whisky producer to produce and bring blended whisky to market, as well as the creator of the whisky triple blend. Fascinated by the whisky business, the Chivas Regal brothers traveled to Europe and the United States, becoming the first to discover the secrets of whisky-making. They discovered the art of blending with several different flavors, as well as the secret of storing wine in oak barrels. Queen Victoria's first visit to Scotland in the autumn of 1842 fell in love with the beauty of the landscape and whisky, and from 1843 the Chivas Regal brothers were permanently appointed to serve the Queen's food and beverages. This bottle was brought back from Europe from a great voyage and has a full aroma of autumn fruit and gentle nectar. It has been said that when Scotland's purity, wisdom, bountiness and chic are fused, the result is the most intoxicating Chivas Whisky that is now considered alive by millions of Britons. As the first customer, this bottle will only cost you five pounds! What do you think? Do you want to try it? ”

Colonel Ramsay remained silent on the surface, and muttered in his heart: How can there be such people in the world? He actually did the business to the prisoner camp. Still know so much about British customs, can you still get authentic Scotch whisky, are they really Chinese?

Liu Kuang's introduction continues. "Cantonese-style cured sausages cost only five pence per section...... Chinese brand filter cigarettes, only three shillings ...... a pack"

Ramsey interrupted Liu Kuang's introduction, "Mr. Minister, are you saying that these things cost money to buy?" ”

"Yes." Liu Kuang vaguely guessed what Ramsey meant, and made a very embarrassed look. "You know, our current environment is still very difficult, and we can't afford to provide you with these things for free."

"Anyone can buy it as long as they give money?"

"Yes, we don't discriminate in business."

"What if I don't have any money?" The colonel gave Liu Kuang a problem.

"Then all I can say is sorry." But then Liu Kuang's tone changed, "Of course, considering your identity and status, we can provide you with a certain amount of overdraft, presumably with your British knighthood and reputation, you will not do such a thing, right?" Of course, this business was only offered to senior officers, that is, officers of the rank of colonel. ”

Ramsey began to secretly calculate that he still had a hundred or dozens of pounds of pocket money in his pocket, which was enough to use it for a while. Even if you are overdrawn, you are not afraid, and when the large army in the north comes back, you can defeat these recovery forces, and then you can pay off your account. As for those "pig food", I will never touch it.

Having made up his mind, the Colonel was not polite and paid five pounds and three shillings for whiskey and sausage, and Liu Kuang assured him that fresh pork, sea fish, butter and vegetables, as well as cutlery and kitchen utensils, would be provided to him after tomorrow, and that the British chef would cook it himself.

The other officers also bought a little bit of something, and one second lieutenant even took out his ancestral ruby ring and pledged it. As for the soldiers, they are all poor ghosts, and they can only continue to eat their own "pig food".

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At the regular meeting in the evening, Liu Kuang made a report on today's harvest. "Eleven pounds, seven shillings, and threepence in total."

Huang Fanding nodded, "This business is still done." ”

"So much on the first day of opening today?" People who know the market sighed.

"That's how much?" In the eyes of others, the number eleven has nothing to do with more.

"It's a lot, it's a long-term business, it's just a dinner today, and you have to have twenty pounds a day for three meals a day in the future." Liu Kuang explained. "And those foods are about to expire, so they can be regarded as waste!"

"Besides, the gold content of the pound is still very high," Whampoa Shen, who is engaged in finance, also helped to annotate, "Here is a document, the price of goods in Britain in the middle of the nineteenth century. The price of a standard four-pound loaf of bread was eight and a half shillings in the 1840s, seven shillings in 1875, six shillings in 1887, and five shillings in 1895. The price of a pair of cotton stockings varies from four shillings and half pence to four shillings eleven and a half pence depending on the quality. A ready-made women's suit is £1. A pair of worker's boots cost eleven shillings. Workers wore sixpence for shirts and ninepence for socks, and horse-drawn carriages in London generally cost one shilling for less than two miles within a four-mile radius of Charing Cross, and six pence for every mile thereafter. In the 1880s, a bicycle cost four to five pounds. By the end of the 1890s, newspaper advertisements showed that a used bicycle refurbished in a factory cost less than a pound. In the early days, daily newspapers were sold for sevenpence, and later as a result of the abolition of the knowledge tax, many cheap newspapers appeared, selling for only one pence, and some even half a penny. The Daily Express is a penny newspaper. The cost of an adult funeral is four to five pounds at a minimum. ”

Speaking of which, he put down the information and dictated it from memory. "As for the wages of the British, just look at Britain in this era. In "Jane Eyre", Jane Eyre works as a governess at Thornfield Manor, earning twenty pounds a year, and of course food and lodging. After the 70s of the 19th century, the historian Allen calculated that male staff earned between £100 and £200 a year. When Charles Darwin moved to the country, he bought a very large house and spent more than 2,000 pounds. In Sherlock Holmes, a single woman can live comfortably for a year at seventy pounds. It costs only forty pounds a year to hire a governess. The dad in the "Spotted Ribbon" case killed people for a hundred or two hundred pounds. Sherlock Holmes earns four hundred and fifty pounds a year as a civil servant of some status. The villain Professor Moriadi's annual salary seems to be 700 pounds, which is also a high-income class. The aristocrat in "The Hound of the Baskervilles" left an inheritance of 740,000 pounds, which is close to being the richest man in the country. So, the eleven pounds and seven shillings and threepence were a lot of money. ”