Chapter 212
Zhao Bing was taken back to the shore by a "heavy army". Even though everyone knows that His Highness is extraordinary, it is difficult to get into the water again.?? �
?b?i?q? Fortunately, there was a seafood meal on the beach that comforted his injured heart. In his previous life, he could only watch the drooling two-foot lobsters, small pot-like sea crabs, big shrimps with chopsticks, nautilus that have been included in the endangered species and cannot be eaten even if there is money, and turtle meat that has never tasted it. In this era, this place is not a problem. The "prawns" who claimed to be thirty yuan in the previous life were only destined to be dried into shrimp skins on the beach.
"Your Highness, try the taste of big oysters again!" Seeing your highness enjoying eating, Zheng Yong handed over another shellfish that was bigger than a large pot.
"This... is this giant clam?" Zhao Bing was frightened. He had only seen this thing in a museum in his previous life. He asked Yingjie Yan, who was a little uncertain.
"Yes, this is the giant clam." Ying Jieyan took a closer look and confirmed the authenticity.
"Oh, this thing is very precious, right?" Zhao Bing knew that giant clams were on the same position as pandas in his previous life. Not to mention eating them, I'm afraid they would go to prison when they touched them. And their value was equivalent to agate and amber, he asked in confusion.
"Your Highness, this is not worth anything. It is a common thing. I just want your Highness to taste it. This is still small, and the big one can be used as a bathtub." Zheng Yong pointed.
"Is that true?" Zhao Bing then found that the basins that were serving dishes were made of giant clam shells. It can be seen that it was not a rare thing. He tore off a piece with his hands and chewed it.
"Your Highness, you must be careful not to eat too much." Zhao Bing just tasted something, but was taken away by Wang De and refused to let him eat it again.
"Get out, let me eat dried fish in the mansion every day, and fool me with dead fish as fresh fish, and now I will have enough food!" Zhao Bing saw that the food he had just eaten was taken away, so he couldn't help but curse, and picked up another big lobster. No matter how brave he was, he would not dare to take it away from him.
"Haha, Your Highness loves to eat, so I'll just send it to the mansion every day!" Seeing Your Highness skillfully twisting off the big turtle, pulling out the shrimp claws, prying open the shell of the back, and taking out the shrimp meat with his hands. A series of movements were very skillful, and it must be eaten often. Zheng Yong smiled when he saw this, which was also a relief for Wang De.
"The relationship is good. This seafood is only delicious and the freshest steaming is steamed!" Zhao Bing's mouth was stuffed with shrimp meat, nodded vigorously, swallowing it hard, and said vaguely. He only realized that imperial meals were not the best delicacies in the world. They were all fooled by princes and grandsons who had never eaten outside food. Otherwise, there would be no emperor. After eating some country snacks, the empress dowager praised them, and then was born out of the story that others used to make a signature. In this era, transportation tools were backward, and seafood was sent in all became stinky fish and rotten shrimps. Therefore, there were few seafood in the palace to eat. When the chefs did not change their old habits, Zhao Bing could not eat them even when he was guarding the sea.
"Yes, Your Highness, I think this is the case!" Huang Fu nodded vigorously after hearing this.
"When you were in Jiazi that day, didn't you complain about eating dried fish and eating all day long?" Zhao Bing glared at him and said.
"Your Highness, this is the time, that is the place where fresh fish is delicious!" Huang Fu said with a smile.
"You are different from me. Some people care about not giving food, and some people cannot get it. Wouldn't you go and get it for food by yourself?" Zhao Bing asked in confusion.
"Your Highness, all the food in the army is customized. Only pork and mutton are allowed, but there is no fresh fish. If you want to eat it, you can only buy it privately." Huang Fu explained.
"I'm really mean. The money for food is allocated to each command. How much meat is just to ensure that the soldiers need to train, and it's not limited to any meat. It's good to ensure that the soldiers can eat it in full. And the protein, amino acids, vitamins in this fish... are much more beneficial than pork and mutton!" Zhao Bing said anxiously after hearing this. When he spoke, he suddenly found that several people were blindfolded. Obviously, they didn't know what they said. He immediately realized that he had made up his words and hurriedly stopped talking.
"This is the best. Qiongzhou pigs and sheep were almost snatched away by the army. The meat price soared and I can't buy it. The fish fresh is much cheaper. I will contact Fish Teeth to buy it tomorrow." Although Huang Fu did not understand what protein and amino acids are, his highness said it was good, and the money saved could buy more things.
"What kind of fangs are there? I'll buy the fishing boats here. Why bother to make another profit in the middle of fangs?" Zhao Bing said angrily. Don't these officials know that the factory price is the cheapest?
"Your Highness, this... is not in accordance with the rules." Huang Fu looked at His Highness and then at Zheng Yongdao.
"Oh, what are the rules to buy a fish fresh?" Zhao Bing was really strange. Could it be that this was like Jiangzhou in Water Margin, the leader of the underworld, Zhang Shun, controlled the market. But in this Qiongzhou ground, he is the biggest underworld. If he dares to set rules with him, he doesn't want to live!
"Your Highness, Commander Huang is right. We hanmen cannot sell fish at will, they can only sell it to Yaxing." Speaking of this, Zheng Yong said sadly, and several elders of the han tribe who were accompanying him also sighed.
"What?! There are really such rules. If you want to talk about it in detail, why is it?" Zhao Bing frowned.
"Your Highness, this rule is not something that is available to us. It has been at least hundreds of years. The elders in the clan cannot explain the reason..." Zheng Yong said with a tribute.
After listening to Zheng Yong's story, Zhao Bing realized that the lives of the Dan people were not as free and comfortable as they saw and imagined, but were full of hardships and shame. In order to avoid war and famine, the ancestors of the Dan people drove from the Lingnan region into the South China Sea, and then crossed the strait to Hainan Island. When they saw the shore and met the harbor, they moored boats to camp, and lived on the sea to eat and survive. However, they were discriminated against by the world, and there was a saying that "going to the sea with three points of life, going to the sea, walking on the shore, having no foothold, and having no burial place to die. They were regarded as untouchables by all dynasties, unable to participate in the imperial examination, unable to move to the 6th anniversary, and intermarry with people on the shore, etc.
Even if they trade with others, the sacrificial people are strictly restricted. The seafood they captured cannot be traded directly into the market and can only be sold at sacrificial houses. The sacrificial houses took the opportunity to lower the price, which made them very little, but in order to exchange daily necessities, they had to endure exploitation. So they would sometimes rather throw away the caught fish than sell it to the sacrificial houses. In order to transport grain, the sacrificial people were conscripted as soldiers, traveling between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, and doing some business subsidies for transporting materials on behalf of others, so that they would have a better life.
Chapter completed!