Chapter 858: The Poor Can Only Afford Meat

In addition to being in the palace and the academy every day, ordinary people deal with all kinds of things, and they must feel panicked after a long time.

Or maybe there were so many ancient emperors who loved to travel when they had nothing to do!

It's a pity that there are a lot of things that need to be dealt with every day, and secondly, the identity of the emperor is too important, and going out once is not a simple trip, and it costs a lot of money.

Therefore, another situation was born - a private interview with micro-service!

It's okay to dress up in disguise and go to a green house or something.

For example, who is who, who and who, who is coming!

Left behind a lot of famous stories that have been passed down through the ages!

For example, Zhao Feiyan and Li Shishi......

However, there are also unfavorable teachers, and Emperor Tongzhi went to the Qinglou to get flowers and willows to die......

This illustrates......

Ahem, it's far away......

It's about travel.

Ordinary emperors have trouble traveling, but in the high-martial world, if the emperor is still a hanger, he doesn't need to think about these problems at all.

Like the empress traveling, although most of the time there is a guard of honor, it is only to show the emperor's noble status.

If something really happens, it's not certain who will protect whom.

Therefore, when there is nothing to do, there are more times when you travel lightly.

For example, now, the empress is riding to pray for water, Ren Baqian is riding General Wu, followed by Tong Zhenye and a group of officials from the Ministry of Industry, and then there are twenty or thirty guards, and the role of face is far greater than the actual effect.

"It seems that the things grown in this field are different?" the empress suddenly asked, sitting on the back of the prayer water and looking at the lush fields.

Although the empress doesn't know how to farm, she can't raise pigs and has seen pigs run, and most of the fields she has seen before are planted with the same crop on dozens or hundreds of acres.

At this time, I saw two crops planted cross-planted in a field, and I immediately became curious.

"It's sugarcane and sweet potatoes! Sugarcane has a long growing season, it takes more than ten months, and it's a pity that the fields are empty during the seedling stage, so you can plant some other crops. Ren Baqian glanced at it and understood that he had notified the Ministry of Industry of this matter.

Sugar cane is something he's wanted to make for a long time.

The sugar in this world, which is mainly extracted by sugar beets, is too inefficient and too expensive. After switching to sugar cane...... Ren Baqian felt that he could open a sugar factory......

This thing is no slower than those glasses and spices, at least Ren Baqian has the confidence to take out Lin Qiaole's small vault.

Lin Qiaole has been in the Qingxin Hall for so many years, and he doesn't have much money to spend, so he should have saved some money......

"Sugar cane, the kind of crop you said can be used to extract sugar, right?" The Empress was obviously interested in the weed-like sugar cane seedlings in the field.

Or rather, I'm interested in sugar.

"It's worth more than just sugar. Ren Baqian said with a smile. "Your Majesty should have seen those cars on Earth, but there is no oil here, so other technologies must be developed, such as biodiesel, but there is also an extremely convenient one, which is ethanol. Whether it is sugarcane or sweet potato, a large amount of ethanol can be extracted.

Although Ren has decided to develop diesel, ethanol fuel is equally important.

The main reason is that the ignition point of these two fuels is different, the density is different, and the development direction is not the same.

It's like the difference between petrol and diesel.

Nowadays, Dayao's technology is developing by leaps and bounds, and even the steam engine has not been widely used, and can only be seen in some factories, but Ren Baqian is already preparing to set up a laboratory to study the internal combustion engine.

After all, with the internal combustion engine, no matter the transportation time and manpower will be greatly reduced, and even the manpower required for the farmland will be much less. Coupled with the cement road being built, the entire Dayao will be able to develop rapidly.

"Ethanol can be used to make wine, right?" asked the empress after a moment's thought. Although the empress does not learn and has no skills...... Wrong...... I don't know much about this, but I still pay attention to what I'm interested in, at least I know that ethanol is alcohol.

"If the concentration of ethanol is high enough, it can be used as fuel. Ren Baqian gave an example: "Water of Life!"

The empress's face suddenly became strange, and she looked at Ren Baqian with empty eyes, not knowing what she was thinking.

A few days ago, after the big wedding, after he and Ren Baqian left, those bastards almost gave Zichen Hall an order.

And the connecting beam also demolished half of the wall.

Thinking of this, the empress began to hold her breath in her heart, she got married, and they set fire to the palace to demolish the palace?

The cause of that time was because of the water of life.

And the culprit who took out the water of life was Ren Baqian.

Ren Baqian naturally didn't notice that his mouth was about to remind the empress of what he had done at this time, and he was introducing the effects of those sweet potatoes and sugar cane in a flying figure.

Since the introduction of high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes and pumpkins, Dayao's grain prices have been much lower in the past three years.

Or sweet potatoes and sweet potatoes are cheap enough.

The monthly income of ordinary people in Dayao is one tael to two taels of silver, the soldier's salary is three taels to four taels of silver, the salary of low-level officials is six taels of silver, and the flying horse is ten taels.

One tael of silver is equivalent to 1,200 copper coins.

However, due to the small amount of copper produced in Dayao, there were many cases of broken silver trading.

After all, the people of Dayao are not like other people in Izumo or Daxia, who go out to buy vegetables and buy meat for half a catty.

The people of Izumo: "Give me two taels of meat! Give me two catties of cabbage!"

Then a handful of copper was thrown out.

Dayao people: "Bring me thirty catties of beef." ”

Turn around and change the stall: "I'll exchange three catties of beef for one catty of beets for you!"

In Dayao, it turns out that beef is one of the cheapest foods, only ten cents per catty.

And ordinary people have to eat four catties of meat a day, and an adult's income is just enough to feed themselves.

Fortunately, Da Yao is the real equality of women, both men and women have to work to support their families, so they can barely fill the family's stomach.

This is also thanks to the low fertility of the people of Dayao, if there are seven or eight in a family, I don't know how much they will starve to death.

Bones are three pennies a pound.

Mutton costs 12 cents a pound.

However, people can't just eat meat, and their vegetables and grains are much more expensive.

One hundred and twenty taels of salt.

Beets are usually twenty-five to thirty dollars a pound.

The edible wild vegetables are about 20 wen a catty.

The brown rice that is eaten with a stone costs 25 wen a catty, and the black flour that exudes a sour smell costs 35 wen a catty.

As for the fragrant rice from Izumo and Great Xia, even ordinary officials can't afford to eat it, it's two hundred and fifty wen a catty, two taels of silver a bucket.

You can be full by eating two catties of meat, and you need four catties to be full by eating those grains and vegetables, so the poor people of Dayao can only eat meat!

With the passage of three years, high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes and potatoes, which are two to three seasons a year, have begun to impact the diet of the people in large numbers.

Like in Lancheng now, sweet potatoes only cost three yuan a catty, and pumpkins and potatoes cost four yuan.

And brown rice has risen to 35 wen a catty...... I found that this thing is easy to grow, don't care, after the yield is large, many people go directly to plant sweet potatoes, so the price of other grains is expensive!

However, the emergence of these high-yield crops has indeed greatly enriched the people's tables, and the people no longer have to worry about hunger.

After all, two catties of sweet potatoes is the price of half a catty of mutton.

The people's tables have basically changed from beef stew, roast beef, and boiled beef to beef stewed potatoes, beef stewed sweet potatoes, and beef stewed pumpkin......

In this regard, Ren 8000 is still not a small contribution.

As some news spread from the mouths of the officials of the Ministry of Industry who went down to promote high-yield crops, the people at the bottom were very grateful to Ren Baqian for these things.

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