The maid at the table, her skirt reached the floor, walked up and down, and came up to pour wine with a utensil in hand. Chai Jin waved his hand to signal her to step aside for the time being. He personally took the silver wine pot and slowly filled a cup for Zou Run. .
The wine was like amber and slightly yellow in color. After being poured into the cup, a strange and rich aroma suddenly spread out. Zou Run blurted out, "Good wine!"
Chai Jin felt very proud and said with a reserved smile, "The name of this wine is Hezhi."
Hezhi and Meishou are both known as the top-grade Fanlou wines. The daily limited sales are priced at a high price, not to mention the transportation from Tokyo to Cangzhou. During this period, the price has increased many times. Chai Jin used this to entertain Zou Run and valued him. The meaning is self-evident.
It's a pity that this flirtatious look was given to a blind man. Zou Run, a rough man, didn't know the reputation of this place. He only knew that the wine had a good aroma. He drank three glasses of it, but all he saw was that it was served as a side dish. .
The sight of a cow chewing peonies made Chai Jin feel distressed. What he was drinking was a lot of copper coins.
Soon the small jar of wine was finished, and the two of them slowed down their chopsticks at the same time, and naturally started talking about Lin Chong.
Through this communication, Chai Jin realized that so many things had happened.
When he heard that Lin Chong was going up the mountain with his letter, Wang Lun actually blocked him without caring about his face. Chai Jin was furious.
"This guy is just a fallen scholar. If I hadn't helped him in every possible way when he was down, how could he be the leader of a village? Such a great favor, I wrote a personal letter recommending Coach Lin to join the group, but he actually dared to refuse!"
Zou Run quickly persuaded him, and elaborated on how after he recruited Lin Chong to join the gang, Wang Lun went down to the mountain and led everyone to humiliate each other. This led to a fight, and then everyone elected him as the lord of Liangshan.
Only then did Chai Jin calm down, and at the same time he asked in great surprise:
"So, my dear brother already has two villages under his command? Is there maybe one or two thousand troops?"
Zou Run's hand when he picked up the wine glass suddenly paused, and he was extremely entangled in his heart - should he tell him that he still had an island and had nearly five thousand men under his command?
Seeing Chai Jin's surprised look, after hesitating for a moment, Zou Run nodded slowly, neither denying nor answering directly.
This is not because Zou Run deliberately conceals his strength, but because he is worried that Chai Jin will be too scared to eat after hearing this.
No matter how Chai Jin met everyone, he always said that the Song Dynasty had failed the Chai family, and he was as resentful as a mistress who had been abandoned. But from the founding of the People's Republic of China to the present, the Chai family's wealth has been completely pinned on the old Zhao family. They have long had a symbiotic relationship between vines and big trees.
Without the Song Dynasty, who would take Chai Jin's family's alchemy book seriously?
But after all, since learning that Lin Chong killed Wang Lun and Zou Run became the owner of Liangshan Park, Chai Jin's closeness has obviously become stronger. After all, with these things in mind, the two are not just casual acquaintances who met for the first time, but "old acquaintances who met for the first time" with Lin Chong and Liang Shan Jiye as the emotional hub.
The topic immediately went deeper, and Zou Run informed them that they had something important to discuss. Chai Jin immediately dismissed the maid and servant, leaving only himself and Zou Run in the attic to talk secretly.
Zou Run told the whole story about the purpose of his trip and expressed his intention to cooperate. In order to increase the possibility of successful cooperation, he also ordered his entourage on standby under the attic to provide samples of the goods.
There were three items in total, and Zou Run introduced them one by one without any fuss.
"This is a canned sea fish. Cangzhou is close to the sea, so all kinds of seafood in the sea are naturally familiar to the officials. Seafood is cheap near the sea, but expensive in the far sea. Not to mention high-quality seafood such as crabs and rays, even the most common sea fish in the sea, as long as Once you leave the boundary of Cangzhou, the price will immediately increase several times. Even so, even if you want to buy it, you can't buy it. Even the Zhao Guan family in Tokyo, who is the emperor, has a very difficult time eating fresh seafood. "
It is common sense that seafood is easy to obtain but difficult to transport over long distances.
"The high-ranking officials and dignitaries who live far away from the sea mostly eat all kinds of dried seafood in their mouths, which need to be soaked in water before eating. The high-ranking officials are experts at this. Let's not mention the taste of the dried seafood sold in the market. The price is only average, and trafficking in such goods can only make hard money, but no big profit."
"However, the taste of the seafood in this can is comparable to that of freshly cooked seafood! And as long as it is stored and transported properly, the umami flavor can last for half a month! The meat quality can last for a month!"
Zou Run completely transformed into a gold medal salesman selling health care medicines in later generations. His expressions were exaggerated and emotionally invested. At the end, he was afraid that Chai Jin would not believe it, so he patted the mud seal off a can on the spot and asked Chai Jin to taste it himself.
Chai Jin was a little confused by Zou Run's exaggerated performance. He doubtfully put his chopsticks into the can and picked out a piece of plump fish meat.
First put it on the tip of your nose and smell it.
A unique salty smell of sea fish filled his nose, which indicated that the cooking method of this can was very rough. Chai Jin, who was used to eating food carefully prepared by his own chef, frowned slightly.
He deliberately put down his chopsticks, but looking at Zou Run's wide, watery eyes, he finally picked up a small piece of fish meat with chopsticks and put it into his mouth.
Um? Chai Jin's brows suddenly relaxed.
The fish meat doesn't look good, nor does it smell good, but it melts in your mouth and can be spread out with just a sip of your tongue. Moreover, it doesn't have the small thorns or miscellaneous thorns found in river fish.
The taste buds on his tongue gave Chai Jin a very delicious taste! Very fresh! Very fresh! strong signal.
"This thing smells weird, but tastes pretty good. I wonder how much it costs?"
Seeing Chai Jin asking about the price, Zou Run smiled slightly and said, "It's not expensive. The canned food in Dengyunshan has different prices according to the quality of the fish. This canned fish is made from ordinary fish, and the price is six dollars per can." Ten articles.”
The price is really not expensive. The price of fish in the Song Dynasty is directly related to the region where it is located. In coastal water towns, the price is naturally cheap. In Taizhou, a coastal area, fish meat in the late Northern Song Dynasty was less than 30 yuan per catty.
Once transported over long distances, the price will double. High-quality freshwater fish from the Yangtze River in Hanyang, Hubei, are sold to Jiangxi for nearly a hundred yuan per pound. The oysters produced on the northern coast are shipped to the south of the Yangtze River for sale. One piece is worth a thousand pieces of gold - that is, one piece is consistent.
Of course, the above prices are for fresh fish, not for dry goods. However, Dengyunshan’s canned fish tastes somewhere between fresh fish and dry goods. It is also resistant to deterioration, convenient for long-distance transportation, and comes with a ceramic jar.
The most important thing is that no matter what kind of can, the salt content is very high!
Don't underestimate the high salt content. This is a big killer. After all, the market price of a pound of salt is 40 yuan.
Therefore, with all these advantages added up, the starting price is only sixty cents. On this basis, if the sales price and retail price are doubled, it is just ordinary for wealthy families, and it can also satisfy the needs of middle-class families. With a sense of curiosity about the freshness of the sea, it is not unaffordable to buy a few jars when receiving important guests or family banquets during holidays.
Of course, ordinary people in the interior may not be able to bear the consequences.
Such a product can be said to be of high quality and low price. Chai Jin was immediately interested, but he skillfully did not express his opinion directly. Instead, he pointed to the next item and said expectantly: "What is this? "
"This is MSG."
"Monosodium glutamate?" Chai Jin was immediately confused and said he had never heard of it, but this did not bother Zou Run, who had already suspected it.
Zou Run glanced around at the various dishes on the table, and then took out a stewed cabbage dish.
