Devil Fruit of the City

() "The more advanced caviar, the more round and plump the particles, the clear and transparent color, and even a slight golden luster, so people are also used to comparing caviar to "black gold", but now..." Hearing this, Tang Tianyou smiled and said, "This statement has turned into a ridicule of the expensive price of this delicious food."

expensive?

Zhao Feng deeply believes that if it weren't for Tang Tianyou, he would not have dedicated such an expensive dish. You must know that when he heard the price of caviar, it was because he was a rich man. With the golden key, the money spent is not a few, and it is also shocking a lot.

"Caviar is delicious, that is something everyone knows." Tang Tianyou said, "Naturally... such delicious food will be loved and sought after by people."

"Even if the sea is endlessly huge, it can't resist the greed that humans will never be able to satisfy. Therefore, the raw material for making caviar-sturgeon. Over the centuries, the amount of sturgeon has been reduced."

Zhao Feng nodded thoughtfully.

"What's more serious is... the growth of sturgeon is slow. It will take about 18 to 20 years from the beginning of a young fish to the time the fish is large enough to mature and spawn."

Tang Tianyou said with emotion, "Such a long process of growth and gestation, in the case of excessive fishing in the Caspian Sea, it is not easy to live well, not to mention that there is no difference in these years. It is really amazing. Rely on the ancestors to accumulate virtue."

"Therefore, the only waters where a large number of sturgeons can be found on the earth are the Caspian Sea, the Black Sea, and the Gironde River in France."

After listening, Zhao Feng asked: "After the wild sturgeon has been caught, don't they know how to breed it? Since the market for caviar is so big, it must be profitable."

"This happens naturally." Tang Tianyou said, "After the news that the wild sturgeon population in the Caspian Sea has been declining rapidly has been exposed in the media around the world, the gluttons who want to taste the delicious caviar before the sturgeon becomes extinct are even better. There are many, and science has made great progress under these circumstances."

"So, sturgeon farming technology began to flourish. The focus of early Soviet aquaculture development was on the cultivation and release of young sturgeon fish in the Caspian Sea. Now this stupid thing of releasing fish for others to catch is of course no longer possible, so the focus is Fully shifted to raising adult fish that can produce caviar."

"But sturgeon is not easy to handle. If I remember correctly, it takes seven to nine years for a sturgeon of a general grade to reach maturity. If you want to produce a beluga grade caviar, you have to raise 20. To 60 years."

"Haha... Do you think you really want to, or have the capital to raise a fish of this kind? It's no better than leaving brandy or whiskey there for 30 years. You have to feed it every day and worry about its illness. You have to raise your own child. It's such a way of raising it. Therefore, due to the entanglement of the two major problems of finance and technology, there is still no good way to solve the problem."

Zhao Feng nodded. He understood the psychology of these sturgeon-breeding merchants. It is common sense in the world for merchants to seek profit, but the technology can't reach it. No matter how big the profit is, they can only do it in a hurry.

"It is precisely because of this situation that the number of wild sturgeons has been drastically reduced." Tang Tianyou said, "In 1985, the Soviet Union produced more than 650 metric tons of caviar, and Iran could produce another 350 metric tons."

"However, in 1997, Russia’s official caviar production volume was reduced to 250 metric tons, while Iran’s caviar production volume was only 120 metric tons. The abnormal climatic conditions in the past two years have further reduced the caviar output, which may have dropped to only 200 metric tons. , Of which 120 metric tons are from Russia."

"According to the estimation by the authoritative food chain store Swiss Caviar House, the current demand for caviar in the world should be around 350 metric tons, while the production volume is only 200 metric tons."

"The more the supply exceeds the demand, the more people are attracted to it." Zhao Feng said with emotion, "If we continue to catch the sturgeon, will the sturgeon be extinct? Is there no contingency measures?"

"It was originally there." Tang Tianyou smiled. "But due to the collapse of the former Soviet regime, the sturgeon caviar production and fishing system that was originally under the jurisdiction of the Soviet Union zhèngfǔ in the Caspian Sea also collapsed."

"And then you can guess what will happen to these sturgeons with caviar at a retail price of US$3,000 per kilogram."

"In the past, there were only two countries that caught sturgeon in the Caspian Sea-the former Soviet Union and Iran. Now it is divided into five countries, namely Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Iran."

"So the current situation is that apart from Iran, almost all other countries have no legal restrictions. Anyone who steals the sturgeon illegally, anyway, if you catch it, nobody cares. Otherwise, it's a matter of giving away red envelopes. I will also catch and make money. , In the end it becomes a national sport that everyone catches together."

"Three thousand dollars per kilogram?!" Zhao Feng didn't listen carefully, he only heard such a sensational figure.

"Yes." Tang Tianyou nodded, "I said before that caviar is called "black gold". Among them, caviar from white sturgeon sells for more than US$830 per kilogram in the Moscow market, while in London, the price is Kilograms can even sell for a shocking price of more than 5,000 U.S. dollars."

"Even... some fully mature beluga sturgeons, about 60 years old, can exceed 4 meters in length, and weigh nearly 1 ton. The caviar produced by this grade is not precious and expensive. More mention."

"That is to say..." Tang Tianyou looked at the caviar in front of him with a weird face, "The plate of caviar we just ate was equivalent to eating an ordinary person's salary for a few months. UU看书www.uukanshu .com"

So, if you have a friend or relative in front of you and ask you to eat caviar instead of enjoying it alone, then he must be posing in front of you, desperate, no doubt the kind.

"Mr. Tang, it's really thanks to you that I can eat such a delicious thing." Zhao Feng said with emotion.

"Thanks to me?" Tang Tianyou looked at Zhao Feng suspiciously.

"Yes." Zhao Feng smiled. "I forgot to tell you something. Actually, I did not order this breakfast today, but my father specially ordered the chef to make it for you."

Some people may be surprised. Zhao Feng was born in such a wealthy family. Zhao's jewelry is well-known all over the country. There are hundreds of chain stores. The funds it passes through are calculated by hundreds of millions. Every item in the company is precious. Jewelry is impossible for ordinary people to buy even if they have exhausted their wealth.

For ordinary people, eating caviar is indeed a very worthy book, but for this level of wealthy people, shouldn't it be an easy task? What's all the fuss about.

In fact, there is a reason for this.