Mythical Version of the Three Kingdoms

"It's rare that Concubine Xian is willing to give me two mouthfuls 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 stretched out his hand 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. It tasted quite good. It must be said that after broadening his horizons, the chef in the dining room , and also produced a lot of classic stuff.

"Not bad, I found some roasted 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 roasted 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 question of money. As a concubine, she also had to perform sacrifices as the 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 palace expenses came from the Shaofu, and the Shaofu was completely annexed by Chen Xi as early as the second year of Yuanfeng. After that, the palace expenses 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, this kind of money 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 perspective, 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 thing can be produced at 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 producing and selling it in Southeast Asia? What is a suzerain state? 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 leg. 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 burritos. However, Si Niang had no intention of making burritos at all. 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 asked Chen Xi.

"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 any barbecue, 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 actual price of ducks is less than 30 wen. The labor cost of large-scale breeding is evenly distributed. In addition, the duck down and ducks are sold separately. Some parts that look good are sold at high prices, and then the price of roast duck meat can be lowered naturally." 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, the remaining part can be sold cheaply.

This also leads to the fact that duck meat, goose meat, and mutton on the market are much cheaper than before.

"In other words, someone paid the big head for them, so duck meat became cheaper." Chen Xi said with a sneer.

The cheapness of duck meat in later generations is actually the same logic. A whole live duck can be sold for fifty or sixty, and even a large duck can be sold for hundreds, but a roast duck roasted on the roadside only costs twenty yuan. The logic is that the least valuable thing about ducks is duck meat.

Duck down, duck neck, duck intestine, duck feet, duck legs, etc., a whole duck was sold separately, and the remaining duck meat was duck meat. If you think about it carefully, even Beijing roast duck in a big store sometimes has such an outrageous thing as no duck legs.

It can be seen that selling ducks separately has become a common situation. Chen Xi also followed this habit. Then the pieces of duck were sold at a higher price than the whole duck, so Chen Xi turned around and supplemented this part of the profit to duck meat, so that duck meat became the cheapest meat on the market again, but it was cheap, and it had to be limited.

There was no way. Even the duck factory run by Chen Xi could not meet the desire of tens of millions of people in the Han Dynasty to eat meat. Although duck meat was not as good as other meats in taste, it was still meat after all, and Chen Xi invested money to let professional chefs study how to make it delicious. If there was no purchase limit, it would really be unbearable.

"Why is it more profitable to buy them separately than as a whole?" Si Niang asked Liu Bei's question, and then pulled open another food box, this time with sliced ​​mutton in white water.

"It's not easy to explain it to you with ducks." Chen Xi stretched out his hand and pinched a piece of mutton, dipped it in some sauce and said, "Let's use sheep to explain, because this is the most intuitive. The current price of a sheep is about 500 coins, and sheep can produce about 10 kilograms of wool a year, and 10 kilograms of wool can be processed into seven sets of sweaters to keep out the cold."

When talking about this data, Liu Bei's face became much more solemn, while Si Niang continued to eat stupidly, and then she reacted while eating.

"The warmth retention of sweaters is much better than that of linen clothes, and a piece of linen cloth costs about 400 coins, which can make about eight pieces of linen clothes. So theoretically, after 10 kilograms of wool is processed and made into woolen cloth, the price can reach about 600 coins." Chen Xi's expression became unusually serious. "Even if the 600 coins need to deduct the wages paid to the weaver girl, the money for collecting wool, and some other losses, the profit can reach 500 coins or more if the scale is large enough and mechanization can be used."

It is such a big profit difference. Why is the industrial scissors gap so terrifying? It is terrifying here. Even the most basic handicraft industry, as long as it forms a certain scale, is enough to cause crushing output to agriculture and animal husbandry. What's more, Chen Xi has also made certain optimizations in it, trying to make the industry closed-loop and form a system as much as possible. In this way, when the profit is reflected in a certain link, it will be very terrifying.

This is the so-called output ceiling of agricultural society. If you want to break through this ceiling, the only way at present is to develop industry. Although what Chen Xi has done is not much, it is indeed systematic and large-scale, and it is developing upward on a complete basis.

So when Chen Xi proposed the concept that a sheep, only counting wool in a year, can produce more than its total price, Liu Bei was somewhat dazed. This price difference and profit really made Liu Bei feel a little bit against the sky. Considering wool, Liu Bei had to consider cheese and other things.

"In fact, this is just the current handicraft industry that has not developed to its peak, otherwise the profit would be greater." Chen Xi said with some memories.

Even in the future, a sheep is only about one thousand yuan according to the price of meat, but a sheep can basically produce ten kilograms of wool a year. After washing, drying, needle combing, twisting, winding, and finally forming wool yarn, considering that these links can be put on the assembly line and mechanized, the scale is large enough and the cost can be pulled down to a very low level. Ten kilograms of wool can be spun into three kilograms of fine wool yarn, or seven kilograms of coarse wool yarn.

The former is about 200 yuan per pound, and the latter is 60 yuan per pound. The wool produced by a sheep in a year is worth 500 yuan after the spinning process. If this production system continues to be extended and turned into cotton cloth or even ready-made clothes, the profit of wool will far exceed the profit of mutton.

In later generations, animal husbandry needs to consider profits, textile industry needs to consider profits, and ready-made clothing merchants also need to consider profits. They need to calculate three times, so there are such prices in later generations, while Chen Xi only needs to calculate once and consider a comprehensive profit.

In this case, choosing national happiness and lowering meat prices, although it has damaged the interests of some local breeding industries to a certain extent, it is still very meaningful from an overall perspective.

By the way, this is also the reason why Chen Xi asked the people in Qingxu, Taishan, who were engaged in animal husbandry, to give up animal husbandry and the government gave them some subsidies to turn to other industries during the Eastern Tour. Because at that time, Chen Xi was about to complete the industrial closed loop and waited for the end to come to the central part of the Han Dynasty. With Chen Xi's size, as long as it came, the animal husbandry of others would basically be finished.

It is true that due to certain problems in quantity, the output of local animal husbandry can still be sold, but the official price is basically forcing others to die, so it is necessary for Chen Xi to notify these local animal husbandry personnel in advance to withdraw from this business.

Because if not notified, the low-priced mutton from the northern ranch will arrive at the local area, and these people will lose more than just money and food, and their reputation may be in trouble.

Although Chen Xi's behavior is sometimes quite pitfalls, Chen Xi really won't pit his own people. After all, from a legal point of view, Qingxu and Taishan, as the place where Liu Bei started his career, are all basic plates. Even if he really wants to cause trouble, he will not cause trouble to places like Qingxu and Taishan.

Therefore, when he went on the eastern tour, Chen Xi deliberately gathered local livestock merchants, and then made arrangements in advance, and gave them time to change jobs and policy subsidies, in order to avoid being accidentally crushed to death by these people when he was about to leave.

The industrial scissors gap, as long as it is a system, is almost completely crushing agriculture. To put it more exaggeratedly, as long as it is a system of industry, it is a thing that breaks through the upper limit of the agricultural era.

The problem is that as long as anything is mentioned to the upper limit, it means that it is impossible to reach it normally. So when Chen Xi developed, he looked very terrifying. Even if he only built a foundation, he was already ten times more than the former Han Dynasty in terms of economy and output.

"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 are essentially the same logic. All kinds of things under this logic are no longer the main body that creates profits, but the newly added things, especially things like wool..."

The added value crushes the main body, which is the fact that Liu Bei and Si Niang are currently seeing.

"So in theory, if I only consider making the profit from raising sheep, the price of mutton can be directly a few coins." Chen Xi said expressionlessly, "But some things are not based on this logic. In addition to the profit logic, there is another set of supply logic. The current output of the northern animal husbandry of the Han Dynasty is not enough to maintain the volume behind."

"I always feel it is very incredible." Liu Bei said with a complicated expression.

"It's nothing incredible. It's just that conventional development is not just about pursuing main output, but also diversified development." Chen Xi shook his head and said, "So technology is very important. Once a new technology is developed, if it can be invested in the right place, the benefits it can bring will be amazing. The integrity and ability of bureaucrats are essentially just adjustments and allocations at the existing technical level. If you want to really 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 in white water. It cost me 8,000 Wen 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 on buying a lamb last time on a whim? When Liu Bei heard this, his eyelids naturally drooped. After all, Liu Bei was also aware of the fact that the palace food became unpalatable last year. In the end, it was Si Niang who caught the purchaser and the steward of the kitchen who were causing trouble and embezzling money. At that time, these guys wanted to resist, but were killed by Si Niang with amazing fighting power.

Yes, it was indeed amazing fighting power. Si Niang showed a fighting power that was no less than that of ordinary internal qi out of the body. Although it was nothing in the eyes of normal internal qi out of the body, for Si Niang who couldn't even beat a horse, it was definitely an explosive state.

So when Si Niang said this, Liu Bei naturally thought that there was another bastard who was corrupt in the palace, and he even embezzled the money of the imperial concubine. He was simply impatient to live.

For this kind of behavior, Liu Bei had seen a lot of it when he was wandering around in the local areas over the years. Some bureaucrats really didn't know what they were doing. They didn't even care about their lives just to make money.

"Ah, eight thousand coins? Let me think about it?" Chen Xi felt that the price was a bit déjà vu. "Did you buy something that was specially offered by the Shaofu? It's a product of a ranch in the northern border that specially offered this thing to the Shaofu. It's said to have a special flavor or something?"

"Ah, yes, yes, yes." Si Niang nodded repeatedly. She wanted to eat mutton before, but the Shaofu said that she had eaten it for nine consecutive days. If she continued to eat it, Liu Tong, as a human, would get angry and couldn't eat it anymore. It's okay to cook for Si Niang, but the amount of mutton in the small kitchen should also be reduced.

Si Niang was furious, so she said that she would get a sheep herself and let the kitchen prepare it for me. The concubines in the past didn't have this ability, but I, Si Niang, did. I went out of the palace directly, bought it myself, and bought the sheep in the street behind the Shaofu for eight thousand coins.

At that time, Si Niang felt that it was a bit expensive, but a mere eight thousand coins, how could I, a noble concubine, care? Just buy it, go, go!

"So I didn't buy the wrong one?" Si Niang said seriously. She had just touched the weapon, waiting for Chen Xi to say that she was ripped off, so she could teleport over and catch him. You dare to steal my money, don't you want to live? You dare to mess with me, the Han government is behind me!

"The official price is at this level." Chen Xi nodded and said, "And the so-called special flavor is also correct. In fact, in addition to the large ranch, there is a small ranch next to each large ranch, which is used to domesticate these local specialties."

"Oh, oh, oh." Si Niang expressed her understanding, and Liu Bei has realized how much Chen Xi is cheating for so many years, so after hearing this, he naturally squinted at Chen Xi. What does it mean that the official price is at this level? Isn't the official price a whim of you, Chen Xi, to rip people off?

Perhaps sensing Liu Bei's contemptuous look, Chen Xi laughed dryly and said, "It's true that the price is a bit higher, but it's the Shaofu Special Contribution, and there's a quantity limit, and the taste is indeed much better than normal meat of the same kind, so the higher price is understandable, right?"

"Is it delicious?" Si Niang scratched her head. As a true gourmet, she could tell the difference, but Chen Xi said that Shaofu Special Contribution was better than other meats of the same kind, and Si Niang really didn't notice it. She had eaten it so many times, and when she recalled it, it seemed that there was no difference.

"Be careful, Concubine Xian, what you ate before was the Shaofu Special Contribution stuff!" Chen Xi said helplessly. In this regard, Chen Xi was still not cheating. If he wanted to sell Shaofu Special Contribution and Royal Selection, then Liu Tong and Si Niang would of course eat this kind of thing, not the so-called other set. In this regard, Chen Xi's integrity can still be guaranteed.

By the way, it is precisely because of this that some people in Chang'an who can participate in the palace banquets are very convinced of the Shaofu Special Tribute and Royal Selection. In addition to being expensive, these things are exactly the same as the things used in the royal banquets. Therefore, when the rich people in Chang'an hold banquets and invite people to dinner, if they are willing to be ruthless, they will also use the so-called Shaofu Special Tribute products and Royal Selection.

And the rich people in Chang'an do this, and the rich people in various places follow suit. After all, it is the best place, and it plays a very important leading role.

So that the brand of Shaofu Special Tribute and Royal Selection is in short supply, and the price is forced to rise from one thousand coins to eight thousand coins. Even so, Chen Xi felt that he should not be too black-hearted and held down the price. Otherwise, with the current economic gameplay of the rich in the Central Plains, this thing can be raised to tens of thousands of coins.

Every year, just selling this thing, there is no problem in supplying the three rivers and five schools during the reign of Emperor Ling, and there is even more wealth. There is no way, people believe in this thing.

But if we really talk about the difference in quality, this kind of sheep is said to be fully monitored and specially raised, which is only about 10% better than ordinary meat sheep on large ranches, but it is sold at more than ten times the price.

So Chen Xi does not charge for this "super expensive" thing in the palace. After all, the brand of this thing depends on Si Niang's hard work. Without Si Niang's brand, even if Chen Xi's marketing methods are used, it is impossible to sell it at ten times the price with only 10% improvement in quality, and it can still sell so smoothly and in short supply!

In short, Si Niang is a big seller, very important, and the kind that needs to be praised.

"Oh, oh, oh?" Si Niang's eyes lit up when she heard Chen Xi's answer, and she lowered her head and began to calculate how much she had gotten for free.

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