Chapter 83: The Value of Pepper
While the Pope of the Church of the Radiant Lord on the Roman Peninsula was under the idea of flattening the Greek Peninsula, Lei Zihao was busy preparing to accept the upcoming upgrade of the main city!
However, it was at this time that Zhao Guangxian, who was part-time Lei Zihao's head of internal affairs, reported a worrying problem. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"Your Excellency, we don't have much pepper left, and we have consumed most of the salt, and we can't replenish these things."
Lei Zihao was slightly stunned, he naturally understood the importance of pepper and white salt, he had traveled to such a backward other world, and he could still eat barely edible food, relying on these precious non-renewable condiments!
It's just that the original Lei Zihao didn't care about this detail, he had already ordered that pepper and white salt could only be eaten by himself......
Besides, Lei Zihao didn't know that the Greek Peninsula where he was located didn't produce such things as pepper and white salt at all!
And Li Qingmei's horror when she saw Lei Zihao open up and eat food with pepper, honey, and white salt was also regarded by Lei Zihao as an interesting story that he had no knowledge.
Knowing that Zhao Guangxian reminded him, Lei Zihao suddenly realized that this kind of condiment that he usually eats with an open door turned out to be out of print!
These condiments are just the inventory given away after the upgrade of the Governor's Mansion in the main city, Lei Zihao, who didn't know the suffering of the ancient civilians, didn't care about this kind of condiment specially for him to eat, and even Lei Zihao used white bread sprinkled with pepper noodles to tempt Li Qingmei, who was drooling, adding a lot of fun in life......
Lei Zihao, who has always been focused on the military, rarely cares about the food of the civilians below, only knows that the staple food they eat is a kind of black bread baked with a small amount of wheat and a large amount of bran......
Of course, Lei Zihao just regarded it as an anecdote, anyway, he definitely wouldn't eat that kind of black bread, his daily food is either a high-quality barbecue brushed with honey and peppered noodles, or white bread cooked by the baker using hundreds of processes!
This white bread is the only one that comes close to modern bread, soft and wheaty, and tastes only half as cheap as Lei Zihao's cheapest bread on earth......
It's just that the white bread is small in size after baking because there are too many impurities screened out, which is only the size of a small breakfast bag on the earth......
Just such a white bread is already a delicacy that civilians rarely eat once a year!
The bakery's master didn't have enough white bread for the privileged class in Longhan Town, and there was no extra to sell at all!
Eggs and white bread plus barbecue smeared with honey and pepper noodles, in Lei Zihao's eyes, this is far inferior to the food of street stalls in the modern society of the earth, which makes Li Qingmei, a princess from the royal family of Seris, feel luxurious!
Eggs and white bread are often eaten by the royal family, but the condiments of honey and delicate white salt are quite precious!
In the Kingdom of Seris, the tables of the royal family of Seris are only served during festivals and large banquets!
As for the pepper noodles, the pair of Li Qingmei is a legendary-level condiment!
It's rare to eat once a year!
Therefore, even if she gives up all her dignity and is provoked by Lei Zihao like a kitten, as long as she can eat a mouthful of food sprinkled with pepper noodles, Li Qingmei will admit it!
In fact, the Greek Peninsula does not produce this thing at all, and pepper in the human world is in short supply, and its value is comparable to the same volume of gold!
It's equal volume, not equal mass!
The main reason why pepper is so popular with humans in this world is that its effects are so wide-ranging, not to mention that it is used as a condiment to satisfy the appetite of the aristocracy, and when it is burned, it can also produce a very pleasant aroma, and most importantly, most of the nobles use pepper as an aphrodisiac......
However, the yield of pepper is small!
The human world and other races have a huge demand for pepper, especially the Night Elves, who occupy the world's largest pepper production area in the Far East, but they don't sell a single grain to the human world!
The Night Elves love the scent of pepper noodles very much, and the noble Night Elves usually paint the walls of their bedrooms with pepper noodles to enjoy the aroma of pepper noodles......
As for the Night Elves, who pay attention to food, cooking is inseparable from a lot of pepper, so their own pepper is not enough......
As for the pepper production areas of the human world, they are all monopolized by the church, and the control of pepper is even stricter than that of salt production!
There is so little land in the world that is suitable for growing pepper!
It can be said that except for the Pope and the high-ranking cardinal archbishop in the human world, who can use pepper openly, other human nobles have to buy pepper at a high price!
Many aristocrats went out without even carrying heavy gold and silver coins, but with a small bag of pepper, which was hard currency in any human tavern inn, and only one grain was needed to enjoy the best treatment!
Lei Zihao is about to upgrade to the third-level main city, and after upgrading, he will naturally replenish a new batch of pepper and other condiments, and he can eat it for a long time, but this is a non-renewable product after all, Lei Zihao finally has an intuitive understanding of his daily life consumption after learning more about the value of pepper, honey and white salt in this world......
Lei Zihao never expected that he was far inferior to the food level of ordinary families in the modern society of the earth in the Governor's Palace, and he actually surpassed the lord of a country in this world!
The only people who can compare with Lei Zihao are the Pope of the Human World, the Empress of the Night Elf Empire, the Great Prophet of the Orc Empire, and a few other figures who stand at the pinnacle of power......
Even some independent Grand Knight Captains don't have their own luxuries in eating......
The difference is only in the small condiments......
If Lei Zihao used the remaining pepper to trade with the human world, they would definitely have a happy snot bubbling......
However, Lei Zihao has so much pepper, he can't eat it alone for a year, he is used to eating food with seasonings, and then let Lei Zihao eat those lackluster food, I really can't accept it, and even Lei Zihao has an idea, after all, there are times when the main city is upgraded, and he may have to lead troops to rob expensive condiments in the future......
For example, the Honey Wars...... Pepper Wars......
It sounds ridiculous, but there are countless skirmishes between human lords in this world fighting each other over a few jars of honey or a bag of pepper!
Lei Zihao suddenly found that it was still a very difficult thing to maintain the taste of his food below the subsistence line of the earth's modern society!