Chapter 633: Three meals a day, so luxurious and low-key

"Although the ratings of the first episode of this drama were unexpectedly good, looking at Cao Sang's appearance, I had already expected this, right?"

Upon hearing what Nagayama Kozo said, Nakamori Akina immediately nodded: "Yes, that's right. Just after the filming of this drama was completed, he told me that in today's era, even if this drama is not the number one in ratings this year, it will be

It won’t be too bad, the ratings are definitely above 30.”

"As expected." Yongshan Kosan nodded, "Cao Sang is just talented, and he can predict events like a god. It is indeed worthy of admiration."

Immediately afterwards, Yongshan Kosan said: "I originally wanted to congratulate Cao Sang in person, but since Cao Sang is still sleeping, I can let go of the good news first. This..."

After a brief pause, Yongshan Kozo said carefully: "I wonder when Cao Sang will wake up? How about I wait for him here?"

Nakamori Akina frowned and was about to decline when she suddenly heard Cao Zhiqiang's voice.

"No, if you have anything to say, you can tell me now."

After hearing this voice, Yongshan Kozo was the first to stand up and bowed lightly to Cao Zhiqiang, who was yawning and walking out of the bedroom. Then he smiled and said: "Cao Sang, you're awake. I'm really sorry for disturbing your rest."

Already."

Cao Zhiqiang covered his mouth and yawned, while waving to Yongshan Kosan: "Forget it, forget it, we've already come, what's the use of talking about it now."

"Zhiqiang-san." Nakamori Akina also stood up and said, "Why don't you sleep?"

"What are you sleeping on?"

Cao Zhiqiang came to Nakamori Akina in slippers and pointed at Nagayama Kozo opposite: "This guy rang the doorbell for so long before, and he woke me up.

Originally, I wanted to continue sleeping, but I couldn't fall asleep after tossing and turning, so I got up, and then I heard you talking at the door."

Speaking of this, Cao Zhiqiang said to Yongshan Kosan, who was a little embarrassed: "By the way, I won't tell you anymore. I'll go to the toilet to pee first and talk later."

When Cao Zhiqiang came out of the toilet, he found that only Nagayama Kozo was sitting at the dining table. Nakamori Akina did not sit across from him and chat with him like before, but was busy preparing breakfast in the kitchen.

Nakamori Akina's so-called breakfast is nigiri sushi.

Specifically, while steaming rice, prepare other ingredients.

Among them, the rice in the steamer is organic Koshihikari rice from Japan that does not use pesticides, while other ingredients are various low-temperature frozen fish sashimi, pickled radish, ham sausage and the like.

The so-called organic Koshihikari rice is actually a type of rice produced in Uonuma City, Niigata Prefecture.

Niigata Prefecture is a famous rice-producing area in Japan, and the rice grown is basically japonica rice.

The reason why it is called Koshihikari rice is because Fukui and Shingo belong to the Koshi region of Japan's ancient legal system. Therefore, in 1956, a new type of hybrid japonica rice produced here was officially named "Koshihikari rice".

To put it bluntly, this kind of rice is not original, but a new product that has undergone special training.

Because this kind of rice has a large yield, strong resistance to diseases and insect pests, and good taste, it was named after this name.

However, unlike what the Japanese government advertises, most rice produced in Niigata Prefecture actually uses a large amount of pesticides and chemical fertilizers, and the amount used is far higher than that in China during the same period.

Therefore, Koshihikari rice may not necessarily be organic rice, these are two different things.

However, it is not that there is no organic rice that truly does not use pesticides or chemical fertilizers. This kind of purely natural organic rice still exists, but the output is very small. At this time, it is mainly used for export to earn foreign exchange, mainly in Europe and the United States.

The concept of organic food only started to emerge in the 1970s. Before that, Japan began to export rice, but all of it contained excessive amounts of pesticides.

When Japan's economy began to take off and ranked second in the world in terms of GDP, European and American countries began to crack down on Japanese goods.

Among them, the pesticide residue indicators for Japanese rice are particularly strict.

Later, Japan simply produced some organic rice specifically for export to Europe and the United States, and then launched the Japanese rice brand. At the same time, it secretly continued to export a large amount of green rice, but in fact it was ordinary rice that used a lot of pesticides and chemical fertilizers.

In other words, at least 80% of most of the rice exported from Japan is pesticide-treated rice, and Japan’s use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides has always been the highest in Asia, now and in the future.

At the same time, other Asian countries, such as China, Thailand, and Cambodia, wanted to learn from Japan, but they did not have enough chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and the cost of using those things was too high, so they used less.

A little bit of trivia is that since the 1960s, Japan has always ranked first in the world in terms of unit pesticide usage. Which country ranks behind Japan? Not the United States, France, the United Kingdom, or the Soviet Union. , but South Korea!

That's right, since the 1960s, especially so far, Japan has always ranked first in terms of pesticide usage per unit of crops, and South Korea has ranked second.

It is between the first and second place in pesticide usage. The pesticide usage in Japan, which ranks first, is almost double that of South Korea!

For example, in 2010, Japan's pesticide usage was 18.78kg/ha (kilograms per hectare), while the second-placed South Korea's pesticide usage during the same period was 9.8kg/ha.

For comparison, the pesticide usage in the United States during the same period was only 0.96kg/ha. It was not until 2010 that China reached 0.97, which has just reached the level of the United States.

From this we can see how much pesticides are used in Japan.

Another piece of trivia is that after two thousand years, the use of pesticides in Japan has dropped a lot compared to the past. This is due to technological progress, including progress in seed technology, progress in pesticide technology, etc.

In the 1970s and 1980s, the amount of pesticides used in Japan was simply insane.

Draining roots with pesticides and soaking seeds in pesticides are all daily phenomena in Japan, but it took two thousand years for China to start doing this.

It is said that domestic leeks are soaked in pesticides and need to be irrigated with pesticides to grow their roots. But what many people don’t know is that this trick was learned from Japan.

Moreover, even if domestic leeks are soaked with pesticides, the dosage is strictly in accordance with the standards, and super concentrated ones are not dared to be used.

This is not because domestic farmers are so good, but because they themselves are afraid and don’t have enough money, so they need to save money.

Because pesticides also cost money, and domestic leeks are cheap and not as expensive as Japanese leeks, it is normal to be reluctant to use pesticides.

After all, no one does a loss-making business.

But Japanese agricultural products are different. Japanese agricultural products are mainly exported to earn foreign exchange and are not eaten by local people.

In fact, there is a strange phenomenon in Japanese agriculture that many people don't know, that is, the agricultural products produced in Japan are actually a kind of commercialized pesticides, and most of them are exported products to earn foreign exchange.

As for Japan's food rations, most of them are imported.

Therefore, Japan is not only a major exporter of agricultural products, but also a major importer of agricultural products.

Japan earns foreign exchange by exporting domestic high-quality agricultural products, and then imports cheap rice, flour and other products for its own consumption. This is similar to the Netherlands and Israel.

This is actually related to Japan’s geographical environment.

The area of ​​land suitable for farming in Japan is small, and most of it is small. It cannot imitate China and the United States and engage in large-scale mechanized operations. It can only engage in precision work.

But if we want to work carefully and produce higher yields from the same area, we must use a large amount of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, but even so, the price of agricultural products is still very high.

Therefore, Japan uses all kinds of propaganda to promote the goodness of Japanese agricultural products, so that the whole world believes it. Then it sells rice, vegetables, fruits and seafood produced in Japan at crazy high prices, and then imports cheap agricultural, forestry and fishery products from all over the world.

In order to increase the competitiveness of agricultural products, Japan uses a large amount of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, resulting in better-shaped fruits. With various publicity, everyone naturally believes it.

Actually think about it, why are Japanese agricultural products so good?

For example, why are apples so big, so round, so beautiful, and not bug-eyed at all?

Do you think it's because people do fine work and bagging by hand? Catching insects by hand?

Wrong, it was all caused by pesticides!

Yes, the apple bagging technology was indeed first used in Japan, but relying on this alone without pesticides is useless. Especially considering the planting density in Japan, apple trees cannot survive without pesticides.

Not only fruit trees, but also rice and other crops, Japan also uses pesticides like crazy.

Those who have studied history and geography may have heard that Japanese agriculture is a type of precision work.

What is fine workmanship?

Do you think it’s the farmers who serve you honestly every day?

No, no, no, the so-called meticulous work means crazy use of pesticides and crazy use of chemical fertilizers, so that the yield and quality can be maintained while maintaining extremely high planting density.

Later, in China, the output of chemical fertilizers and pesticides increased, but the state controlled basic grain prices, and the prices of other agricultural products were too cheap. Economic problems led farmers to spontaneously reduce the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers, because pesticides and chemical fertilizers cost money.

If you shoot too much, you will lose money.

But Japan is different. Japan's self-produced agricultural products are basically exported to earn foreign exchange, and the prices are extremely high, so those exported fruits are made with pesticides and chemical fertilizers.

However, Japan can brag about it to the whole country, and may be able to ignore the truth at home and in Hong Kong and other Southeast Asian regions at this time, but Europeans and Americans are not easily deceived.

In fact, in the mid-1970s, because Japan's GDP exceeded 60% of the United States' GDP, the United States began to suppress Japan in various ways.

Among them, suppressing the export of Japanese agricultural products is one method, and the method of suppressing it is pesticide residues, that is, promoting organic food.

Contrary to what many people think, the first country to engage in organic food was not Europe, but the United States.

In the beginning, organic food was just a group of technicians enjoying themselves. Later, the United States thought that this thing was good and could disrupt the agriculture of other countries, so they picked it up and started using it.

Of course, the powerful people in the United States have also started eating organic food for a long time, which is another story.

It's very simple. Organic food is not allowed to use pesticides and chemical fertilizers. This is equivalent to returning to the past. Where can the yield come from this model?

As a result, this trick could not fool poor countries, so they simply regarded it as a form of high-standard diet.

In the mid-to-late 1970s, Japan began to export organic food in order to avoid suppression, but this was mainly exported to Europe and the United States. The quantity was so small that it was a face-saving project.

But relying on this face-saving project, it conceals the fact that other agricultural products in Japan are frantically sprayed with pesticides and chemical fertilizers.

For example, 99% of Japan's agricultural products exported to Asia are treated with pesticides, but they deliberately don't say so.

Of course, in order to save face, Japan has indeed established some genuine organic farmlands. For example, Uonuma City in Niigata Prefecture is one of the pioneers.

Most of the real Japanese organic rice comes from this area. After all, after many years of cultivation, a large area of ​​organic farmland has indeed been formed here, similar to the Wuchang District in the mainland.

However, the output of organic rice in Uonuma City is very rare. There is only a small amount of real Koshihikari organic rice, and the price is very expensive. It is mainly exported.

Other Koshihikari rice is basically the only seed that is Koshihikari rice, and it is not even the seed. It is just sold under the name of Koshihikari rice.

The places of production are even more different. They are not Uonuma City at all, they are all mixed up.
To be continued...