The price of pork and cabbage!

This is a thing that the people of Kaifeng dare not think of, and now it has become a reality.

"The pork raised by King Shen is very delicious? How can no one buy it? In front of the meat stall, an old man recalled the deliciousness of pork, and his face was puzzled.

"Shhhh Don't talk nonsense, now pork is eaten by our poor people, if it spreads, you and I may not be able to eat such cheap pork. The bystander hurriedly reminded.

The old man suddenly had a sense of well, and said with a bitter face: "Although pork is not delicious, if you eat it well, it can cure the blindfold of the finches, so let's buy an extra catty." ”

"Yes! I also bought two catties, and I should support King Shen. ”

"I also buy more, the old man's dream eye is very serious, and he can't go out at night."

Many people who buy meat have tacit understanding, saying that pork is not delicious, and at the same time they do not hesitate to buy pork.

Many rich people saw that the pork stalls were surrounded by mud legs selling meat, and they couldn't help but say with disdain: "Pork is cheap meat, and it smells very fishy, and I don't eat it if I give it to the old man for free." ”

However, when the people who bought the meat looked at each other when they heard this, they smiled knowingly.

"King Shen has lost a lot!"

The people of Kaifeng ate the corners of their mouths, but they knew in their hearts that with such a low price of pork, King Shen would definitely suffer serious losses.

However, for the loss of the prince, everyone in Kaifeng City is happy, after all, it is extremely rare to be able to take advantage of the powerful.

There are even more good people who specially calculated an account for King Shen, and every time King Shen sells a pig, he will lose at least 200 Wen.

"Two hundred wen is just a drop in the bucket for the prince." The old man sneered.

The others sneered: "It's a dime, Kaifeng City consumes a thousand pigs a day, and 200 Wen is 200,000 yuan, which means that King Shen will lose 200 yuan a day!" ”

"Shhh The old man suddenly gasped,

At the beginning, the Cai family sold the heirloom "Zhao's Miracle Sticker" at the same price of 200,000 yuan, and now King Shen is almost equivalent to losing one "Zhao's Miracle Sticker" a day.

"Two hundred, isn't it a loss of six thousand in a month."

"A year's worth of words! is going to lose 72,000 yuan, not to mention the prince, and the current saint may not be able to afford such a huge loss. ”

For a while, the government and the opposition were in an uproar, and no one thought that Fan Zheng's evil prince would have such a huge loss in raising pigs.

Many conservative officials have long been unaccustomed to Fan Zheng, and have written to impeach Fan Zheng, especially Zhao Tingzhi in the imperial history, who is the most fierce, directly accusing Fan Zheng of misleading the country.

"Child, is it true that the pig farm is losing money?" This incident alarmed the Empress Dowager and Zhao Xu, and hurriedly summoned Zhao Yan to inquire about the situation.

Zhao Xu also frowned, the Great Song Dynasty was financially tight, and even the royal family couldn't afford a loss of 70,000 yuan a year!

"The imperial grandmother can rest assured that the loss was done by her grandson on her own initiative." At present, Zhao Tong will take the initiative to reduce the price of Fan Zheng, and use folk prejudice to benefit the destitute people in Kaifeng.

"Let the people at the bottom take the opportunity to eat meat to cure their dreams?" Empress Dowager Gao was silent for a moment.

Fan Zheng's evil recipe is indeed effective, but the huge losses are borne by the royal family.

"Whoever holds a salary for all, do not let it be stifled by the wind and snow. The ninth brother cured eye diseases, and he can consider the eye diseases of the people of Kaifeng, the royal brother really admires! Zhao Xu hurriedly spoke for Zhao Yan and Fan Zheng.

Empress Dowager Gao frowned when she heard this: "At the beginning, Fan Zheng proposed to let She Er raise pigs, but it was to drive the people of the world to raise pigs, but now the losses are serious, I'm afraid it will backfire!" ”

Zhao Tong said confidently: "Rest assured, Imperial Physician Fan has already taken countermeasures, just after letting the poor people in Kaifeng eat meat and treat the blindfolded birds, Imperial Physician Fan will come out again, let the price of pork rebound, turn losses into profits, so that the pig farm is profitable, and it will definitely drive the people of the world to raise pigs." ”

"Since this is the case, then let Dr. Fan come out as soon as possible, and it is not a long-term solution to continue to lose money like this." Empress Dowager Gao said distressedly.

Although she is in control of the country, she has a woman's calculating heart in her bones, and such a huge loss makes her very heartbroken.

"Grandson understands!" Zhao Tong nodded and said,

Now that he has supplied a lot of pork to Kaifeng City, it is time to slowly raise the price of pork.

Day.

Fan Zheng took a slaughtered big fat pig and solemnly visited the scholar of Su University.

"Brother Fan, what is this?" Su Dun saw that he was coming with a gift and was puzzled.

In the past, Fan Zheng was never polite when he came to the door, but now he even came with a big fat pig.

Fan Zhenglang said: "I heard that Uncle Su loves to eat pork, and it happened that His Royal Highness King Shen's pig farm had a bumper harvest, so he specially sent one to Scholar Su to taste." ”

"Ahh How come I haven't heard that my father loves pork? Su Dun was puzzled, and couldn't help but look at his father who heard the news.

"Su has never eaten pork............." Su Shi frowned.

Fan Zheng shook his head and said: "No, Uncle Su must love to eat pork, I think when Uncle went to Xuzhou and Hangzhou, whenever the water is controlled, he will slaughter fat pigs and reward the people.

Su Dongpo couldn't help but twitch when he heard the pork named after himself, but what Fan Zheng said was true, he did use pork to reward the people, and it was not the same reason as the prince to raise pigs, pork was cheap and large.

However, the pork smells fishy, so he asked the cook to put a lot of ingredients, for ordinary people, it is naturally a rare delicacy, and he has never tasted a bite.

"Uncle has such superb craftsmanship, how can he hide his secrets, naturally it must be widely spread so that the people of the world can enjoy this delicacy." Fan Zhenglang said.

Su Shi looked at the heavy fat pig in front of him, and couldn't help but twitch, he was a thoughtful person, and naturally knew that the reason why Fan Zheng was boasting about Dongpo meat must be for the loss of Shenwang Pig Farm.

However, Kaifeng's prejudice against pork is not a star, he is a well-known Su University scholar, if he goes out to eat lowly pork, how can he save face!

Su Shi just wanted to refuse sternly, but Fan Zheng came to Su Shi's side and said in a low voice: "Uncle Su, when the little nephew asked you to go to the Li Mansion to persuade your father-in-law, you didn't make an inch, and today the little nephew is so busy, you can't refuse anymore." ”

Su Shi's body suddenly stiffened, when Fan Zheng cured Su Dun's heart disease, Su Shi owed Fan Zheng a great favor.

When Fan Zheng and Li Qingzhao privately agreed on a lifelong affair, they asked him to go to the Li Mansion to persuade Li Kefei, but Su Shi did not expect that Li Kefei would be so inadequate, and finally returned home.

Now that Fan Zheng is bringing up the old matter again, Su Shi can only force a smile on his face: "Hahaha! Su's unintentional move didn't expect Fan Xian's nephew to remember that the 'Dongpo meat' made by the old man at that time was praised by tens of thousands of people. ”

Not really! Those people usually can't even eat a little bit of meat, and with the hard work of days, eating a bite of Dongpo meat is naturally comparable to a peerless delicacy.

"It just so happens that I found a master from Hangzhou, who happens to meet Uncle Su's famous dish Dongpo meat."

Fan Zheng waved his hand, and a group of cooks from Fan Lou stepped forward and dismembered the fat pig he brought.

Heat the oil!

Stir-fry over high heat, simmer on low heat!

Soon, a fragrant whole pig feast was prepared.

"Dongpo meat is here!"

"Dongpo elbow! Dongpo pork ribs! Dongpo pig's trotters! Dongpo buckles the meat ................... ”

In order to promote pork, Fan Zheng directly buttoned all the names of pork dishes with the word Dongpo.

Fan Zheng used Li Qingzhao's name as the world's first talented woman to be in charge of Yizhuang, and Su Shi's name as the world's first talent was used to promote pork, which was naturally a small test, not to mention that the interesting story of Dongpo meat was widely spread, and it would definitely get twice the result with half the effort.

(End of chapter)