Physician of the Song Dynasty: Zhang Kai and Li Qingzhao have a private life-long contract

Pork and cabbage price!

This is something that the people of Kaifeng never dared to think about, and 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 recalled the deliciousness of the pork and asked with confusion on his face.

"Shh! Don't say this nonsense. We poor people are eating pork now. If word spreads, I'm afraid you and I won't be able to eat such cheap pork." Others quickly reminded.

The old man suddenly understood, and said with a grimace: "Although pork is not delicious, eating it can cure blindness, so I'd better buy an extra pound."

"Yes! I also bought two kilograms, so I can support King Shen."

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

Many people who buy meat have a tacit understanding. While saying that pork is not delicious, they rush to buy pork without hesitation.

Many wealthy people saw the pork stalls crowded with meat-selling meat legs, and couldn't help but scornfully said: "Pork is cheap meat, it smells very fishy, ​​I won't eat it even if it is given to me for free."

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

"King Shen has suffered a terrible loss!"

The people of Kaifeng were all mouth-watering after eating, but they knew in their hearts that with such a low price of pork, King Shen would definitely suffer a serious loss.

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

There was even a good-hearted person who calculated an account for King Shen. King Shen would lose at least 200 coins for every pig he sold.

"Two hundred coins is just a drop in the bucket for the prince." The old man sneered.

Others sneered: "It's a drop in the bucket. Kaifeng City consumes a thousand pigs a day, and two hundred coppers is two hundred thousand dollars. This means that King Shen will have to pay two hundred thousand dollars a day!"

"Hiss!" The old man suddenly took a breath of cold air.

When the Cai family sold the family heirloom "Zhao's Miraculous Tie" for the same price of 200,000 yuan, now King Shen is losing almost as much as one "Zhao's Miraculous Tie" a day.

"Two hundred guan, doesn't it mean that you will lose 6,000 guan in one month?"

"In one year! It will be a loss of 72,000 guan. Not to mention the prince, I am afraid that the current emperor cannot afford such a huge loss."

Suddenly, the government and the public were in an uproar. No one thought that Fan Zheng's evil prince would suffer such huge losses from raising pigs.

Many conservative officials had long disliked Fan Zheng and wrote letters to impeach Fan Zheng. In particular, Zhao Tingzhi, the censor, was the most vehement in his words, accusing Fan Zheng of harming the country by doing evil.

"Bie'er, is it true that the rumored pig farm is losing money?" This incident even alarmed the Queen Mother and Zhao Xu, who hurriedly summoned Zhao Biao to inquire about the situation.

Zhao Xu also frowned. The Song Dynasty's finances were tight, and even the royal family could not afford the annual loss of 70,000 yuan!

"Don't worry, Imperial Grandmother, the loss was the result of your grandson's initiative." At that moment, Zhao Bai and Fan Zheng took the initiative to lower the price, taking advantage of popular prejudices and planning to benefit the poor people in Kaifeng.

"Let the people at the bottom take the opportunity to eat meat to cure the dreambird's eye?" Empress Dowager Gao suddenly fell silent.

Fan Zheng's evil prescription is indeed effective, but the huge losses are borne by the royal family.

"Those who work for everyone should not let them die in the wind and snow. Brother Ninth has cured eye diseases and also considers the people's eye diseases in Kaifeng. I really admire him!" Zhao Xu quickly spoke for Zhao Yi and Fan Zheng.

Empress Dowager Gao frowned when she heard this and said: "Fan Zheng originally proposed to let Bai'er raise pigs in order to encourage people all over the world to raise pigs. Now that the losses are serious, I'm afraid it has backfired!"

Zhao Bai confidently said: "Don't worry, Imperial Grandmother, Imperial Physician Fan has already had countermeasures. After letting the poor people in Kaifeng eat meat to treat blindfolded birds, Imperial Physician Fan will come up with another plan to help the price of pork rise and turn losses into profits. This will be beneficial to the pig farm." Ketu will definitely lead people all over the world to raise pigs."

"In this case, let Dr. Fan prescribe medicine as soon as possible. It is not a long-term solution to keep losing money like this." Empress Dowager Gao said distressedly.

Although she controlled the power of the country, she had a calculating heart in her heart. Such a huge loss made her very heartbroken.

"My grandson understands!" Zhao Bai nodded and said,

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

On the day.

Fan Zheng brought a big fat pig that had been slaughtered and solemnly paid a visit to Scholar Su.

"Brother Fan, what is this?" Su Dun asked in confusion when he saw someone coming with a gift.

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

Fan Zheng said loudly: "I heard that Uncle Su's favorite food is pork. His Royal Highness Prince Shen's pig farm just happened to have a bumper harvest, so he sent one specially for Academician Su to try."

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

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

Fan Zheng shook his head and said: "No, Uncle Su must like to eat pork. I remember when my uncle went to Xuzhou and Hangzhou, every time after the flood control, he would slaughter fat pigs to reward the people. After eating, everyone praised them and called them "Pork". "Dongpo Pork".

Su Dongpo couldn't help but twitched when he heard the pork named after him. However, what Fan Zheng said was true. He did use pork to reward the common people. The reason was the same as the prince raising pigs. Pork was cheap and plentiful.

However, the pork smelled fishy, ​​so he asked the cook to prepare heavy ingredients. For ordinary people, it was naturally a rare delicacy, but he had never tasted it.

"Uncle has such superb craftsmanship, how can he keep it secret? Naturally, he must spread it widely so that people all over the world can enjoy this delicacy." Fan Zheng said loudly.

Su Shi looked at the pile of fat pigs in front of him and couldn't help but twitch his face. He was a thoughtful person and naturally knew that the reason why Fan Zheng boasted about Dongpo meat must be because of the loss of Shenwang Pig Farm.

However, Kaifeng's prejudice against pork is not the slightest bit. He is a scholar of Su University who is famous all over the world. If it is spread that he eats low-grade pork, he will lose face!

Just when Su Shi was about to refuse sternly, Fan Zheng leaned close to Su Shi and whispered: "Uncle Su, when my nephew asked you to go to the Li Mansion to persuade his father-in-law, you didn't make any achievements. Today, my nephew is so busy, you can't refuse anymore. ”

Su Shi suddenly stiffened. Fan Zheng had cured Su Dun's heart disease, but Su Shi owed Fan Zheng a huge favor.

When Fan Zheng and Li Qingzhao decided to make a lifelong decision privately, and asked him to go to the Li Mansion to persuade Li Kefei, Su Shi did not expect that Li Kefei was so insecure and eventually returned home in vain.

Now that Fan Zheng brought up the old matter again, Su Shi could only force a smile and say: "Hahaha! Su's unintentional act did not expect Fan Xian's nephew to remember that the 'Dongpo Pork' I made at that time was praised by thousands of people."

That's not the case! Those common people usually can't even taste the taste of meat. Coupled with the hard work for many days, a bite of Dongpo meat is naturally as delicious as it is.

"Just in time, I found a chef from Hangzhou who knows Uncle Su's famous dish, Dongpo Pork."

Fan Zheng waved his hand, and a group of cooks from Fanlou came forward and dismembered the fat pig they had brought.

Heat up the oil!

Stir fry over high heat and simmer over low heat!

Soon, a fragrant whole pig feast was prepared.

"Dongpo meat is here!"

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

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

Fan Zheng used Li Qingzhao's reputation as the most talented woman in the world to take charge of Yizhuang, and Su Shi's reputation as the most talented woman in the world was used to promote pork. This was naturally a small test, not to mention that the interesting story of Dongpo Pork was widely circulated. Get twice the result with half the effort.