"It's rare that Concubine Xian is willing to give me two bites of food." Chen Xi smiled after hearing Si Niang's words. Si Niang was rarely willing to give food to others. Most of the time Si Niang was there.
Wait for others to feed her.
But having said that, Chen Xi was not polite. He reached out and took out a piece of duck leg from the food box that Si Niang was carrying. There was no need to dip it in water. The taste was quite good. It must be said that after broadening his horizons, the chef in the dining room
, and also produced many classic gadgets.
"Not bad, I found some roast pork for sale when I was traveling outside, so I bought a batch. Then the chefs in the dining room studied it and made more delicious roast pork." Si Niang was very proud of it.
He said, not taking the fact that the concubine could not leave the palace at will at all seriously.
"What's the price of this thing? It tastes really good." Liu Bei also tasted it twice and thought it tasted very good, so he pinched two more pieces.
After the barbecued meat was developed by Chen Xi, Liu Bei went out to taste it. The taste was okay, but compared to what Si Niang was eating now, which could actually be served on the table, it was far behind.
Previously, Liu Bei thought that Chen Xi's bacon production could only be said to be a supplementary method when the logistics industry was not developed enough and fresh meat could not be delivered to the people on time and on time.
But what Si Niang has prepared now is another classic flavor of meat, which is no different from freshly cooked meat.
In this way, Liu Bei no longer thinks that Chen Xi's method of roasting meat is a waste of meat. The previous promotion of roasting meat is somewhat regrettable for Liu Bei. After all, in Liu Bei's view, it is a good way to cook meat.
If a piece of meat is not so tasty if it is made so that people from far away can eat it, then it would be a waste.
"Price?" Si Niang thought for a while. To be honest, she really didn't have this concept. It was not a matter of money. As a concubine, she also had to perform sacrifices as a queen during large-scale sacrifices. Her treatment was the same as that of the empress.
Even if the three men are equal, there is still no shortage of money or anything else.
It's just that the expenses of the palace came from the Shaofu, and the Shaofu was completely annexed by Chen Xi as early as the second year of Yuanfeng. After that, the expenses of the palace were allocated by Chen Xi, so Si Niang really didn't know the exact price.
It may be very expensive, or it may be very cheap, it depends on what Chen Xi thinks. After all, something like this is meaningless to Chen Xi.
"It's not expensive." Chen Xi shook his head and said, "But people can't do it at this level. This is a problem of cooking skills, not materials."
From Chen Xi's point of view, the price of this sliced duck leg is only about ten cents, not including labor, but only the materials. But taking into account labor and the skills of the royal chef, this thing is really expensive.
"This is just an ordinary duck leg, just choose the larger one." Chen Xi glanced at Si Niang who was eating on the spot and said, "As for the ingredients, the spices and so on, for us who now occupy all of Southeast Asia,
, in fact, it is just a cost price. This kind of self-produced gadget can be given a controllable low price. The only problem is the cook."
Southeast Asia belongs to Jiangdong? Are you kidding? The output is not sold to the Han Dynasty. What do you think of Southeast Asia producing and selling it yourself? What is a suzerainty? To put it bluntly, you need to pay tribute!
"Wait, if it's an ordinary duck leg, why does it cost ten cents?" Liu Bei looked at Chen Xi strangely. If this was an ordinary duck leg, the price of ten cents would be a bit too much.
"Is ten cents expensive?" Si Niang asked while eating the duck legs. After eating the remaining pieces a few times, she opened another food box, which contained slices of roast duck with sauce.
The small plates were also in the drawer of the food box, and there were even small rolls. However, Si Niang had no intention of making rolls at all, so she took the sliced roast duck and dipped it in the prepared sauce and ate it.
"How to put it, it can't be said to be very expensive, but it's not cheap either. In the past, the price of chickens and ducks was about forty cents. After Zichuan stabilized prices, the prices of chickens and ducks dropped a bit. In this case,
How can duck legs be sold for ten cents?" Liu Bei frowned and looked at Chen Xi and asked.
"Because duck meat is cheap." Chen Xi didn't need Si Niang to let him go. He reached out and pinched two slices of still warm roast duck from the food box, dipped it in the sauce and ate it.
"This involves another logic." Chen Xi swallowed the delicious roast duck and said slowly, "We raise ducks and gray geese on a large scale, and the main purpose is not to make roast pork or duck legs.
, roast goose and stuff like that.”
"These are essentially by-products." Chen Xi thought for a while and said, "After the disease problem is solved, the cost of large-scale breeding is much lower than the cost of raising a few for each household."
There are records about the price of chickens in food records of the Han Dynasty, which were roughly thirty-six Wen. This price was quite high at that time. The monthly income of a Shuzuo in the county was only 360 Wen. That is to say, a Shuzuo like
The income of a subordinate official at the county level is only enough to buy ten chickens.
Chen Xi's original purpose of raising geese and ducks was to produce salted duck eggs, a storable and nutritious daily necessities. Later, he produced duck down, and then developed other ways to eat them. In the end, he found that the total price of by-products was more than
The price of the duck itself.
In other words, even if the final duck meat was sold for a penny, Chen Xi would not lose money.
"The real price of ducks itself is less than 30 cents, and the labor costs after large-scale breeding are evenly shared. In addition, duck down and ducks are sold separately, and some parts that look good are sold at high prices.
Then the price of the roast duck meat can naturally be lowered." Chen Xi said casually.
After all, Chen Xi is not a capitalist and does not need to pursue the so-called maximum profit. After earning back the cost, he can just sell the remaining part at a low price.
This has also resulted in duck, goose, and mutton on the market being much cheaper than before.
"In other words, someone paid the bulk of the money for them, so the duck meat is cheaper." Chen Xi curled his lips and said.
The reason why duck meat is cheap in later generations is actually based on this logic. A whole live duck can be sold for fifty or sixty yuan, and even a large duck can be sold for hundreds of yuan, but a roast duck roasted on the roadside only costs twenty yuan. The logic
The most valuable thing about ducks is duck meat.
Duck down, duck neck, duck intestines, duck feet, duck legs, etc., a whole duck is dismantled and sold, and what is left in the end is duck meat. If you think about it carefully, even if it is Beijing roast duck from a serious store,
Sometimes we encounter the outrageous thing that there are no duck legs.
It can be seen that it has become a common situation for ducks to be sold separately. Chen Xi also followed this habit. Then the duck parts were sold at a higher price than the whole duck, so Chen Xi changed hands and replenished this part of the profit.
Duck meat has once again become the cheapest meat on the market, but it is still cheap and must be purchased with restrictions.
There is no way, even the duck factory run by Chen Xi cannot supply the desire of tens of millions of people in the Han Dynasty to eat meat. Although duck meat is not as good as other meats in terms of taste, it is still meat after all, and under Chen Xi
The cost is to let professional chefs study how to make delicious food. If there is no purchase limit, it is really unbearable.
"Why is it more profitable to buy it in pieces than to buy it whole?" Si Niang asked her question on behalf of Liu Bei, and then opened another food box. This time it contained chopped white water mutton.
"It's not easy to explain it to you with a duck." Chen Xi stretched out his hand, pinched a piece of mutton, dipped it in some sauce and said, "Let's explain it with a sheep, because this is the most intuitive. The current price of a sheep is about
It’s about five hundred cents, and sheep can produce about ten kilograms of wool a year, and ten kilograms of wool can be used to make seven sweaters to protect them from the cold."
When talking about this data, Liu Bei's expression became much more solemn, while Si Niang continued to eat stupidly, and then she came to her senses as she ate.
"The warmth of sweaters is much better than that of linen clothes, and a piece of linen cloth costs about 400 cash and can be used to make about eight pieces of linen clothes. Therefore, in theory, after ten pounds of wool is processed into woolen cloth, the price can reach about 600 cash.
." Chen Xi's expression became extremely serious, "Even though these 600 yuan need to exclude the wages paid to the Weaver Girl, exclude the money for collecting wool, and exclude some other losses, the profit is large enough to be mechanized.
Under certain circumstances, it can also reach 500 yuan."
It is such a huge profit difference. Why is the difference between industrial scissors so scary? This is so scary. Even the most basic handicraft industry, as long as it reaches a certain scale, is enough to cause crushing output to the agriculture and animal husbandry industry. What's more, Chen Xi is still involved.
We have made certain optimizations in the industry to close the loop of the industry as much as possible and form a system. In this way, when profits are reflected in a certain link, it will be very scary.
This is the so-called upper limit of agricultural social output. If you want to break through this upper limit, the only way to develop industry is for now. Although what Chen Xi has done is not a lot, it is indeed a system and a large scale.
, developed upward on a complete basis.
So when Chen Xi proposed the concept that a sheep, counting only wool for a year, would produce more than its own total price, Liu Bei was somewhat confused. The price difference and profit really made Liu Bei feel a little outrageous, and considering the wool
, Liu Bei had to consider things like cheese.
"Actually, this is just that the current handicraft industry has not reached its peak. Otherwise, the profits will be greater." Chen Xi said with some memories.
Even in later generations, a sheep costs about a thousand yuan based on meat price, but a sheep can basically produce ten kilograms of wool a year. After being washed, dried, combed, twisted, and rolled,
Finally, wool thread is formed. Considering that these links can be streamlined and mechanized, and the scale is large enough, the cost can be reduced to very low. Ten pounds of wool can be spun into three pounds of worsted wool thread, or seven pounds of thick wool thread.
The former costs about 200 yuan per pound, and the latter costs 60 yuan per pound. The wool produced by a sheep in one year is worth 500 yuan after the spinning process. If this production system continues to be extended, it will become cotton cloth or even cotton cloth.
If it is turned into ready-made clothing, the profit of wool will far exceed the profit of mutton.
The animal husbandry industry in later generations needs to consider profits, the textile industry needs to consider profits, and garment merchants also need to consider profits. They need to calculate it three times, so they have the price of later generations, but Chen Xi only needs to calculate it once and consider a comprehensive profit.
In this case, choosing national happiness and lowering meat prices will damage the interests of some local breeding industries to a certain extent, but it still makes sense when considered overall.
Incidentally, this is also the reason why Chen Xi asked the people engaged in animal husbandry in Qingxu, Taishan, to give up animal husbandry during his eastern tour, and the government gave them partial subsidies to switch to other industries, because at that time Chen Xi was about to complete the closed loop of the industry.
When the end came to the middle of the Han Dynasty, with Chen Xi's size, as long as it came, everyone else's animal husbandry would basically be finished.
It is true that due to certain problems in quantity, some of the output of local animal husbandry can still be sold, but the official price is basically forcing other people to die, so Chen Xi must notify these local animal husbandry personnel in advance to quit this industry.
things to do,
Because if there is no notification, the low-priced mutton from the northern pastures will arrive, and these people will lose not only money and food, but also their reputation.
Although Chen Xi's behavior sometimes is quite deceptive, Chen Xi really doesn't deceive his own people. From a legal point of view, Qingxu Taishan, as the place where Liu Bei started, belongs to the basic base. Even if it really wants to cause harm, it will not
As for the harm to places like Qingxu Taishan.
Therefore, when he toured the east that year, Chen Xi deliberately gathered local businessmen engaged in animal husbandry, and then made arrangements in advance, and gave them time to change jobs and policy subsidies, in order to avoid his own end.
He accidentally crushed these people to death.
As long as the industrial scissors become a system, they will almost completely crush agriculture. To put it even more exaggeratedly, as long as the industry becomes a system, it is a thing that has broken through the upper limit of the agricultural era.
The problem is that as long as the upper limit of anything is mentioned, it means that there is no way to reach it normally. Therefore, when Chen Xi develops, it becomes very terrifying. Even if he only establishes a foundation, his economy and output have already doubled tenfold.
In the former Han Dynasty.
"Well, that's roughly it. If we take sheep as an example, it should be much easier to understand." Chen Xi looked at Liu Bei and Si Niang and said, "Ducks also have this kind of logic in essence, and all kinds of animals under this logic
Toy, what creates profit is no longer the main body, but the newly added things, especially things like wool..."
The added value overwhelms the main body. This is what Liu Bei and Si Niang are seeing now.
"So in theory, if I only consider making profits from raising sheep, the price of mutton can be just a few cents." Chen Xi said expressionlessly, "It's just that some things don't follow this logic. In addition to the profit logic, there are other
Based on a set of supply logic, the current output of the Han Dynasty's northern livestock industry is not enough to maintain the latter volume."
"I always find it very incredible." Liu Bei said with a complicated expression.
"It's nothing incredible. It's just that we don't just pursue main output but diversified development." Chen Xi shook his head and said, "So technology is very important. When a new technology is developed, if it can be invested in
In the right place, the benefits that can be brought will be astonishing. Bureaucratic integrity and ability are essentially just adjustments and allocations within the existing technical level. If you want to truly break the upper limit, you can only rely on technical strength or external forces."
"In this case, why is the mutton I eat so expensive?" Si Niang asked with some doubts, "I found a lamb before and made boiled lamb. It cost me 8,000 yuan just to buy the mutton?
"
When she said this, Si Niang was very confused. According to what Chen Xi said, the price of mutton should not be expensive. Why did she spend so much money last time when she bought a mutton for mutton on a whim?
When Liu Bei heard this, his eyelids naturally slid down. After all, Liu Bei also knew that the palace food became unpalatable last year. In the end, it was Si Niang who caught the black money purchaser and the steward of the kitchen. At that time
These guys still wanted to resist, but Si Niang violently killed them with her astonishing fighting power.
Yes, it is indeed an astonishing combat power. Si Niang's combat power was no less than that of ordinary internal Qi separation. Although it was nothing in the eyes of normal internal Qi separation, as Si Niang could not even defeat a horse.
I mean, that was definitely an explosion.
Therefore, when Si Niang said this, Liu Bei naturally thought that there was another bastard who was embezzling money in the palace, and even the concubine's money was stolen. He was simply impatient.
Regarding this kind of behavior, Liu Bei has seen a lot of this kind of behavior in the past few years. Some bureaucrats really don't know what is meant, and they are just trying to make money even at the risk of their lives.
"Ah, 8,000 yuan? Let me think about it?" Chen Xi felt that the price was a bit immediate, "Did you buy something from the Shaofu Tribute? There is a place in Northern Xinjiang that is dedicated to the Shaofu Tribute.
The products from the ranch are said to have a special flavor or something?"
"Ah, yes, yes." Si Niang nodded repeatedly. She wanted to eat mutton before, but the young master said that she had eaten it for nine days in a row. If she continued to eat it, Liu Tong, a human, would get angry and could not eat it anymore.
, it is okay to serve a small stove to Si Niang, but the amount of mutton in the small stove must also be reduced.
Si Niang was furious, so she said that I would get a sheep myself and let the kitchen prepare it for me to eat. The previous concubines did not have this ability, but my Si Niang has this ability. I will go out of the palace directly, buy it myself, and then eat it in the kitchen.
The sheep bought from Shaofu’s back street cost 8,000 yuan.
At that time, Si Niang thought it was a bit expensive, but it was only eight thousand yuan, did my noble concubine care about it? Just buy it, go ahead!
"So you bought it right?" Si Niang said seriously. She was already touching the weapon just now. When Chen Xi said that she was slaughtered, she teleported over and arrested the person directly. If you dare to blackmail my Concubine Xian's money, you don't want to live.
Come on, if you dare to mess with me, the Han Dynasty government is behind my back!
"The official price is this level." Chen Xi nodded and said, "And the so-called special flavor is correct. In fact, in addition to the large pastures, there is a small pasture next to each large pasture for domesticating these animals.
Local specialty.”
"Oh oh oh." Si Niang expressed understanding, and Liu Bei has realized how cheating Chen Xi is over the years, so after hearing this, he naturally squinted at Chen Xi, what is the official price? This is the level, the official price is not you Chen Xi
Is it used to kill people on a whim?
Perhaps sensing Liu Bei's contemptuous look, Chen Xi smiled dryly and said, "It's true that the price is higher, but it's Shaofu special tribute. There's a quantity limit, and the taste is indeed better than the normal meat of the same kind."
It’s quite a bit, so it’s understandable that the price is high, right?”
"Is it delicious?" Si Niang scratched her head. As a true gourmet, she could distinguish this kind of thing. But Chen Xi said that the meat of Shaofu Tegong was better than other similar meats. Si Niang really didn't notice it.
Even after she had eaten it so many times, in retrospect, there seemed to be no difference.
"Grow some snacks, Concubine Xian, what you used to eat was Shaofu Tegong's stuff!" Chen Xi said helplessly. In this regard, Chen Xi still doesn't cheat. He wants to sell Shaofu Tegong, the royal family's selection.
Of course, Liu Tong and Si Niang also ate this kind of food, not the so-called other food. Chen Xi's integrity can still be guaranteed in this regard.
By the way, it is precisely because of this that some Chang'an people who can participate in the palace banquet are very convinced of the Shaofu Special Tribute and Royal Selection. Apart from being expensive, this thing is exactly the same as what is used in the royal banquet.
Therefore, when the wealthy people in Chang'an hold banquets and invite people to eat, if they are willing to be a little ruthless, they will also provide so-called Shaofu special tribute products and royal selections.
The wealthy people in Chang'an did this, and the wealthy people in various places also followed suit. After all, it is the most virtuous place, and it plays a very important leading role.
So much so that the Shaofu Tegon, Royal Selection brand, was in short supply and the price was raised from 1,000 cash to 8,000 cash. Chen Xi felt that he should not be too evil and held down the price, otherwise he would have to pay the price now.
How to play the Central Plains tycoon economy, this thing can grow to tens of thousands of yuan.
Just selling this thing every year could supply the Three Rivers and Five Schools during the reign of Emperor Ling without any problem, and they could even make them rich. There was no other way, but people believed in this thing.
But if we really want to talk about the quality gap, this type of sheep is said to be fully monitored and specially raised. It is only about 10% better than ordinary mutton sheep in large pastures, but it sells for more than ten times the price.
Therefore, Chen Xi does not charge any money for eating this "super expensive" thing in the palace. After all, the brand of this thing depends entirely on Si Niang's efforts. Without the Si Niang brand to support it, even if it is Chen Xi's marketing method,
It is impossible to sell products ten times the price while only improving the quality by 10%, and still sell them so smoothly that demand exceeds supply!
In short, Si Niang is the kind of person who brings the goods, is very important, and needs to be supported.
"Oh oh oh?" Si Niang's eyes lit up when she heard Chen Xi's answer, she lowered her head and began to count how much she had spent in vain.
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