Doctor of the Great Song Dynasty: In the beginning, Li Qingzhao and Li Qingzhao made a private decis

Chapter 110 Dongpo Meat

Pork cabbage price!
This is something that the people of Kaifeng dare not even think about, but now it has become a reality.

"The pork raised by King Shen is delicious? How come no one buys it?" In front of the meat stall, an old man relished the deliciousness of the pork and asked with a puzzled face.

"Shhh! Don't talk nonsense about this. We poor people eat pork now. If word spreads, I'm afraid you and I won't be able to eat such cheap pork." Someone reminded quickly.

The old man suddenly understood, and said with a bitter face: "Although the pork is not delicious, eating it can cure the blindness of the bird, so let's buy an extra catty."

"That's right! I'll buy two catties too, so I can support King Shen."

"I'll buy more too. The old man's dream bird's eye is very serious, and he can't go out at night."

Many people who buy meat have a tacit understanding, saying that pork is not good, while snapping up pork without hesitation.

Seeing the pork stalls surrounded by mud legs, many wealthy people couldn't help but sneer: "Pork is cheap meat, it smells very bad, and I wouldn't eat it if it was given to me for free."

However, the people who bought the meat looked at each other and smiled knowingly.

"King Shen has suffered a terrible loss!"

Everyone in Kaifeng ate so much that the corners of their mouths were dripping, but they knew in their hearts that with such a low pork price, King Shen must have suffered serious losses.

However, everyone in Kaifeng City was overjoyed about the prince's loss. After all, it was extremely rare to be able to take advantage of the powerful.

There was even a good person who made a special calculation for Shen Wang. Every time Shen Wang sold a pig, he would lose at least [-] Wen.

"Two hundred wen is nothing more than a drop in the bucket to the prince." The old man sneered.

Others sneered and said: "Nine cows are worth a penny. Kaifeng City consumes a thousand pigs a day, and two hundred coins is 20 yuan. That means King Shen will pay two hundred coins a day!"

"Hiss!" The old man gasped suddenly,
At the beginning, the Cai family sold the heirloom "Zhao Family's Wonderful Stickers" at the same price of 20 yuan, but now Shen Wang is almost equivalent to losing one "Zhao's Wonderful Stickers" a day.

"Two hundred guan, wouldn't it be a loss of [-] guan in January?"

"One year! There will be a loss of 7 pennies. Not to mention the prince, the current emperor may not be able to afford such a huge loss."

All of a sudden, the government and the public were in an uproar. No one thought that Fan Zheng's prince Xiefang would have such a huge loss in raising pigs.

Many conservative officials could not get used to Fan Zheng for a long time, and wrote letters to impeach Fan Zheng, especially Zhao Tingzhi, the censor Zhongcheng, was the most violent, denouncing Fan Zheng's evil side for harming the country.

"Your son, is it true that the pig farm is losing money?" This incident even alarmed the Empress Dowager and Zhao Xu, and they quickly summoned Zhao Bi to inquire about the situation.

Zhao Xu also frowned, Song Dynasty's finances were tight, and even the royal family couldn't afford the annual loss of [-] guan!

"Emperor Grandmother, don't worry, the loss is the result of grandson's own initiative." At the moment, Zhao Bi general Fan Zheng took the initiative to lower the price, using the prejudice of the people to benefit the poor people in Kaifeng.

"Let the low-level people take the opportunity to eat meat to treat dream bird's eye?" Empress Dowager Gao fell silent for a moment.

Fan Zheng's evil formula is indeed effective, but the huge loss is borne by the royal family.

"Those who hold salaries for everyone, don't let them be choked by the wind and snow. The ninth brother healed the eye disease well, and he can also consider the eye diseases of the people in Kaifeng. The emperor really admires it!" Zhao Xu hurriedly spoke for Zhao Bi and Fan Zheng.

Empress Dowager Gao frowned when she heard this, and said, "Fan Zheng proposed to let you raise pigs in order to drive the people of the world to raise pigs. Now that the losses are serious, I'm afraid things will backfire!"

Zhao Bi said to himself: "Grandmother, don't worry, Imperial Physician Fan has already prepared countermeasures. After letting the poor people in Kaifeng eat meat and treat birds blindfolded, Imperial Physician Fan will come out again to make the price of pork rise and turn losses into profits. This will benefit the pig farms." It can be seen, and it will definitely drive the people of the world to raise pigs."

"In this case, let Physician Fan come out as soon as possible, and it is not a long-term solution to continue to lose money like this." Empress Dowager Gao said distressedly.

Although she is in control of the power of the country, she has a woman's heart in her bones, and such a huge loss makes her feel very sad.

"Grandson understands!" Zhao Bi nodded,

Now that he has supplied a lot of pork to Kaifeng City, it is time to slowly increase the price of pork.

that day.

Fan Zheng took a big butchered fat pig and solemnly paid a visit to Su University scholar.

"Brother Fan, what is this?" Su Dun asked puzzled when he saw that he came with a gift.

In the past, Fan Zheng was never polite when he came to the door, but now he even came here with a big fat pig.

Fan Zhenglang said in a loud voice: "I heard that Uncle Su loves pork the most. It just so happens that His Highness King Shen's pig farm has a good harvest, so I specially sent one to Master Su to taste."

"Ah! Why didn't I hear that my father likes to eat pork?" Su Dun asked suspiciously, and couldn't help but look at his father who heard the news.

"Su Mou never eats pork..." Su Shi frowned.

Fan Zheng shook his head and said: "No, Uncle Su must love to eat pork. I think when Uncle went to Xuzhou and Hangzhou, he would slaughter fat pigs and reward the people's husbands after the flood control. After eating, everyone was full of praise and called it "the pork meat". "Dongpo Meat".

Su Dongpo couldn't help but twitched when he heard that the pork was named after himself, but what Fan Zheng said was true. He did use pork to reward his husbands. Isn't it the same reason as the prince raised pigs? Pork is cheap and plentiful.

However, the pork smells bad, so he asked the cook to prepare heavy ingredients. For ordinary folks, it is naturally a rare delicacy, but he has never tasted it.

"Uncle has such a superb craftsmanship, how can he hide it for himself? Naturally, it must be spread widely so that people all over the world can enjoy this delicacy." Fan Zhenglang said.

Su Shi looked at the heavy fat pigs in front of him, and couldn't help but his face twitched. He is a person with an exquisite mind, so he naturally knew that the reason why Fan Zheng boasted about Dongpo meat must be because of the loss of Shen Wang's pig farm.

However, Kaifeng's prejudice against pork is not just a single star, he is a well-known Su University scholar all over the world, if it is spread to eat cheap pork, what face will there be!
Just as Su Shi wanted to sternly refuse, Fan Zheng leaned close to Su Shi and said in a low voice, "Uncle Su, when my nephew asked you to go to Li's mansion to persuade my father-in-law, but you didn't accomplish anything. Today my nephew is so busy, you can't refuse any more." gone."

Su Shi's body froze immediately. When Fan Zheng healed Su Dun's heart disease, Su Shi owed Fan Zhengruo a huge favor.

When it happened that Fan Zheng and Li Qingzhao made a private decision for life, he was asked to go to Li's mansion to persuade Li Kefei, but Su Shi did not expect that Li Kefei would be so recalcitrant and finally returned home.

Now that Fan Zheng brought up the old story again, Su Shi could only forcefully smile and say: "Hahaha! Su's unintentional move did not expect that Nephew Fan Xian would remember that the 'Dongpo Meat' I made at that time was praised by thousands of people."

That's not it!Those peasants usually don't even have the taste of meat, and coupled with the hard work of the day, eating a bite of Dongpo meat is naturally a peerless delicacy.

"Just in time, I found a master from Hangzhou, who happens to know Uncle Su's famous Dongpo Pork."

With a wave of Fan Zheng's hand, a group of cooks from Fan Lou stepped forward and dismembered the fat pig they had brought.

Fire up the oil!

Stir-fry on high heat and simmer on low heat!
Soon, a table of delicious whole pig feast was ready.

"Dongpo pork is here!"

"Dongpo elbow! Dongpo pork ribs! Dongpo pig's trotters! Dongpo braised pork..."

In order to promote pork, Fan Zheng directly added the word Dongpo to all the names of pork dishes.

Fan Zheng used Li Qingzhao's title of the most talented woman in the world to be in charge of Yizhuang, and Su Shi's title of the world's most talented woman was used to promote pork, which is naturally a small test, let alone the interesting story of Dongpo pork. Get twice the result with half the effort.

(End of this chapter)