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The Miaowei Building located in the east is in a town called Zhongguan Town.
Zhongguan Town is located in a traffic chokepoint area, fifteen miles away from the capital, and is the only way to the capital from the east.
Therefore, this place has always been very prosperous, with a lot of shops for eating, drinking and entertainment. Even at night, the place is brightly lit.
Early in the morning, a fire was lit at the entrance of Miaowei Building, and the fragrance of rice and wheat spread throughout half of the town.
At Mao Shi, the first round of rice porridge and steamed buns were already out, and thousands of people were already waiting with pots and pans.
Most of them are farmers from around the town. Two copper coins can buy half a catty of thick rice porridge and five large steamed buns. For them, it is a rare opportunity to pick up bargains.
On the contrary, many people in the town are not willing to buy it.
Firstly, it¡¯s because the queue is too long and it usually takes an hour to buy it, so they don¡¯t have that spare time.
Secondly, queuing here also feels like a loss of face. Unless there are old ladies at home, few men are willing to queue up to buy.
¡°After all, Zhongguan Town is located on a traffic thoroughfare, and business is booming all day long. Basically, all the shops here can make a lot of money, and they are not too sensitive to the mere increase in food prices.
The shopkeeper, Ren Xing, is thirty-five years old this year. He is also a son of Princess Yu¡¯s natal family and came here as a dowry with Princess Yu.
Before soaps and floral essential oils were made, Miaoweilou was the largest source of business for Prince Yu¡¯s family. The most profitable one was the one in the capital, accounting for 30%.
Zhongguan Town is close behind, accounting for 20%. Ren Xing can be said to be very capable.
Nowadays, although the restaurant business is nothing to Prince Yu's palace, she is used to this business and it is a business that she can continue to do, so Princess Yu decided to do this.
But Ren Xing also heard about it. Because there were too many things going on in the soap workshop and essential oil workshop, the princess intended to transfer old people like them back to take charge of more important work.
It¡¯s okay, after so many years of working in Miaoweilou, I¡¯m a little tired. A new environment may give me more motivation.
Thinking of the rewards given out a few days ago, Ren Xing felt a little hot in his heart.
I never imagined that the mansion is making so much money now, His Royal Highness is truly a god!
Even if he has recently caused Miaoweilou to be in a loss-making stage every day, Ren Xing thinks it doesn't matter.
When we got through the locust plague, with the help of soap and floral essential oils, we could make up for the losses in the blink of an eye.
While I was thinking beautifully here, suddenly there was a loud noise from the people lining up at the door.
Ren Xing raised his head and looked over there, and saw two teenage farm boys walking towards Miaowei Tower carrying four full baskets on poles.
While walking, Ren Xing could still hear familiar voices.
Locusts!
Ren Xing just realized that someone was laughing at the door over there.
"Hey, is there really someone who collects it and sells it?"
"Can't you? Prince Yu's Mansion has said that locusts and eggs will be collected."
"Look how much they brought. It must be a hundred pounds?"
"Tsk, tsk, I'm afraid it won't stop."
Amid the discussion, Ren Xing stepped out of the building and met the two boys.
¡°It¡¯s shopkeeper Ren!¡±
A farm boy about fifteen or sixteen years old put down his pole and basket and said breathlessly: "You said you charge ten cents for a liter of locusts. Do you really mean that?"
"certainly!"
Ren Xing nodded.
He didn¡¯t understand His Highness¡¯s decision, but His Highness was the master, and the government could not make decisions based solely on financial interests, so Ren Xing could only resolutely implement it.
The two farm boys were overjoyed when they heard this, "Please weigh it on the scale. There should be more than 150 liters here."
"good!"
Ren Xing called his men over and hurriedly poured out the locusts and weighed them, a total of one hundred and sixty-five liters.
Looking at the eager expressions of the two people, Ren Xing raised his voice a little: "Don't be nervous, can Prince Yu's Mansion break its promise to others? You will be indispensable!"
While he was talking, he called the accountant over, wrenched out one or two and a half coins, and gave another one hundred and fifty copper coins, which he placed in their hands.
The two farm boys were overjoyed, holding silver and copper coins in their hands, and didn't know what to say.
There are also people watching the fun on the sidelines.?There are bold people.
A man in his thirties came forward and shouted: "Shopkeeper Ren, can these locusts be eaten?"
"Nonsense, don't you think I'm not eating?" Ren Xing said.
"How does it taste?" the man asked curiously.
"It's okay. It would be better if it goes with some wine." Ren Xing smiled.
"Are you kidding me"
"Are you kidding me? Can you try some?"
"No, no, no!"
The man quickly refused.
Just as Ren Xing was about to say something else, several farmers carrying locusts on their shoulders came next to him. After he said, "If you want to eat, just get it yourself," he went over there to handle the purchase.
The man hesitated for a moment and saw that the guys who were frying locusts were also eating them while frying them. It didn't look like they were making a show, so he tentatively took one out of the dustpan and slowly put it into his mouth. inside.
"Uh-huh¡¡"
He frowned at first, but slowly the longer he chewed, the more smiles appeared on his face.
While reaching for the second one to eat, he shyly said to the waiter at the shop next to him: "Brother, shopkeeper Ren just said that I can take it. Can you pack a pack for me and take it back?"
"Thisokay!"
The waiter thought for a while, took out the oil paper that packaged the braised food, wrapped it for him about a pound, and then wrapped it with hemp rope.
The man carried the hemp rope bag and walked out.
There were many people watching the theater nearby who were very surprised.
"Xiao Deng, do you want to take it home to eat?"
"How dare you eat locusts? How do they taste?"
As people asked questions, people gradually came to the oil pan. After asking the waiter, they also picked up the fried locusts and put them in their mouths to eat.
Without exception, these people all asked the waiter for a pack, put them together with the steamed buns, and went home happily.
The role of role models is endless.
¡°With one, there will be a second, a third¡
After a while, everyone who bought rice porridge and steamed buns became accustomed to going to the frying pan for frying locusts and taking a pack of fried locusts home.
It¡¯s all free anyway, don¡¯t give it up.
Ren Xing, who was pretending to be busy, smiled when he saw this.
"His Royal Highness is really smart. He found a few idle guys like this to help with the show, and people accepted it immediately.
According to this situation, at least more than 10,000 kilograms of locusts can be sent out in one day.
If you want the locusts to taste better, you must have enough oil.
After the oil is soaked, the locusts will be crispy and fragrant. I can¡¯t say how delicious they are, but at least they can be used as a snack.
Miaoweilou has a lot of lard. There are hundreds of thousands of kilograms of lard that has only been separated from glycerol these days.
No matter what they will eat after returning home, the fried locusts can barely be used as meat. Just eat them with steamed buns and rice porridge. Isn¡¯t that delicious?
(As for whether gregarious locusts can be eaten, please see the notes in Chapter 91. I won¡¯t say more, lest you call me water again! Say it with conscience, am I water? No!)
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Note: "Book of the Song Dynasty¡¤Changbian Volume 267": "In the eighth year of Xining, there was an edict about locusts. The superintendent was promoted to the emperor, and he got five liters of pupae, or a dou of locusts, and a dou of fine grains; locust seeds One liter, give two liters of coarse-colored grain, and give it the medium real value to the pricer.¡±
People in the Song Dynasty were too rich, and the price offered was too high, close to 1 catty of grain for 1 catty of locusts. According to the scholar's review, this historical record also contains the words "Commissioned to the county magistrate, assisted relatives and ministers to fight", which should refer to the grain-producing areas.
In a place with high prices like Beijing, if you give this price to the people, His Highness Mingqi will go bankrupt in minutes, so it is reduced to 10 Wen per liter.
Also, the setting of "7 cents per liter of rice in the Jiangnan area" written before in this book, if the price is exchanged in the grain-producing areas, can also be regarded as 1 liter of grain for 1 liter of locusts, which is close to historical facts and can barely be called rigorous. .
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