Chapter 858: The poor can only afford meat
Most people only deal with various things in the palace and institution every day. After a long time, they will definitely feel so suffocated.
Otherwise, there were so many emperors in ancient times who loved to go out for travel if they had nothing to do!
Unfortunately, there are a lot of things that need to be dealt with every day, and the second is that the status of the emperor is too important. Going out once is not a simple trip, but it will cost a lot at once.
Therefore, another situation has been created - a private visit!
If you have nothing to do, you can dress up and go shopping in a brothel or something.
For example, who and who are there!
It has left many famous stories that have been passed down through the ages!
For example, Zhao Feiyan and Li Shishi...
However, there are also some people who are not good at getting off the army. Emperor Tongzhi went to the brothel and died...
This shows...
Ahem, it's been a long way...
It's about travel.
It is troublesome for ordinary emperors to travel, but in the Gaowu world, if the emperor is still a lie, there is no need to consider these issues at all.
Like the empress, although most of the time, there are ceremonial guards, it is just to show the emperor's status as a noble person.
What really happens, it is not certain who protects whoever is.
Therefore, when you are free, you are more likely to travel lightly.
For example, now, the empress is riding on the water, and letting Baqian ride on General Wu, followed by Tong Zhenye and a group of officials from the Ministry of Works, and then twenty or thirty guards. The role of face is far greater than the actual function.
"The things planted in this field seem to be different?" The empress sat on Qishui's back and looked at the lush fields, and suddenly asked.
Although the empress does not know how to raise pigs, she has seen pigs running. Most of the fields she has seen before are planted with the same crops in dozens or hundreds of acres.
At this time, when I saw two crops planting cross-planting in a field, I became curious.
"It's sugarcane and sweet potatoes! The growth period of sugarcane is relatively long, more than ten months. It's a pity that the fields are empty during the seedling stage. You can plant some other crops together." Ren Baqian glanced and understood that he had notified the Ministry of Works.
He had long wanted to make sugarcane.
The sugar in this world is mainly extracted by beets, which is too low in efficiency and too high in price. After changing to sugarcane... Ren Baqian felt that he could open a sugar factory...
This thing is no longer as expensive as those glass products and spices. At least Ren Baqian is confident of taking out Lin Qiaole's small vault.
Lin Qiaole has been in Qingxin Palace for so many years and has no money to spend, so she should have saved some money...
"Sugarcane, is the kind of crop you said that can extract sugar?" The empress was obviously interested in the weed-like sugarcane seedlings in the field.
Or, I'm very interested in sugar.
"The value of this thing is not just sugar making." Ren Baqianxiao said. "Your Majesty should have seen the cars on Earth, but there is no oil found here. Therefore, other technologies must be developed, such as biodiesel, but there is another extremely convenient one, which is ethanol. Whether sugar cane or sweet potatoes, a large amount of ethanol can be extracted.
Although Ren Baqian has decided to develop diesel, ethanol fuel is equally important.
The main reason is that the ignition points, density, and development directions of these two fuels are different.
Just like the difference between gasoline and diesel.
Nowadays, Dayao's technology is developing in a leap, and even steam engines are not widely used. They can only be seen in some factories. However, Ren Baqian is already preparing to set up a laboratory to study internal combustion engines.
After all, with the internal combustion engine, regardless of transportation time, the transportation manpower will be greatly reduced, and even the farmland will require much less manpower. Combined with the cement road under construction, the entire Dayao can develop rapidly.
"Ethanol can be made of wine, right?" the empress thought for a while and asked. Although the empress was ignorant... she was wrong... she didn't know much about this, but she still paid attention to things she was interested in, at least she knew that ethanol was alcohol.
"If the ethanol concentration 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 her eyes empty, not knowing what she was thinking.
A few days ago, after he and Ren Baqian left, the bastards almost gave Zichen Palace a shot.
And half of the walls were removed from the beams.
When the empress thought of this, she started to hold her breath. She married her and they set fire to the palace in the palace?
The cause of that time was because of the water of life.
The culprit who took out the water of life was Ren Baqian.
Ren Baqian naturally didn't realize that his mouth was about to remind the empress of what he had done, and was introducing the functions of sweet potatoes and sugarcane with a swelling figure.
Since the high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes, and pumpkins, the food prices in Dayao have been much lower in three years.
Or the prices of crops such as sweet potatoes and sweet potatoes are low enough.
The monthly income of ordinary people in Dayao is one and a half to two taels of silver, the salary of soldiers is three to four taels of silver, the salary of low-level officials is six taels of silver, and the flying cavalry is ten taels of silver.
One tael of silver is equivalent to one thousand two hundred coins.
However, since Dayao produces less copper, there are many transactions of broken silver.
After all, the people of Dayao are not like other people in Izumo or Daxia, who go out to buy vegetables and meat for half a pound per pound.
The people of Izumo: "Give me two taels of meat! Give me two pounds of cabbage!"
Then throw a handful of copper out.
Da Yao people: "Give me thirty kilograms of beef."
Go back and change the stall: "I'll exchange three pounds of beef for you one pound of beet!"
In Dayao, it turns out that beef is one of the cheapest foods, only ten cents per pound.
Ordinary people eat four kilograms of meat a day, and an adult's income just makes him full.
Fortunately, Da Yao is truly equal to women. Both men and women have to work to support their families, so they can barely fill their stomachs with their family.
This is also thanks to the low fertility of the people in Dayao. If there were seven or eight families, I don’t know how many people would starve to death.
A pound of bone costs three cents.
Twelve cents per pound of mutton.
However, people cannot just eat meat, as their vegetables and grains are much more expensive.
One hundred and twenty liang of salt.
Beets usually cost twenty-five to thirty cents per pound.
About twenty cents per pound of wild vegetables that can be eaten.
Brown rice with stones sniffed to taste for 25 cents per pound, while the black flour with sour taste costs 35 cents per pound.
As for the fragrant rice from Izumo and Oxia, even ordinary officials can't afford it. It's a full 250 cents per pound and a dou of silver.
Eating two pounds of meat can make you full, and eating those mixed grains and vegetables requires four pounds to make you full, so the poor people can only eat meat!
As three years pass, the high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes and potatoes have begun to impact the people's recipes in large quantities.
For example, on the surface of Lancheng, sweet potatoes only cost three cents per pound, and pumpkins and potatoes cost four cents.
Brown rice has risen to 35 cents per pound... I found that this thing is good, so I don’t have to worry about it. After the output is large, many people directly plant sweet potatoes, so the price of other grains is more expensive!
However, the emergence of these high-yield crops has indeed greatly enriched the people's dining tables and made them no longer have to worry about hunger.
After all, two pounds of sweet potatoes are only half a pound of mutton.
People’s dining tables basically change from beef stew, roast beef, boiled beef into beef stew potatoes, beef stew sweet potatoes, beef stew pumpkin…
In this regard, Ren Baqian has made a lot of contributions.
Chapter completed!