"It's rare, Concubine Xian is willing to give me a few bites of food." Chen Xi smiled when she heard Si Niang's words. She rarely was willing to feed others. Most of the time, Si Niang was waiting for others to feed her.

But even though that was said, Chen Xi was not polite. He reached out and pinched a duck leg from the food box that Si Niang was carrying. He didn't need to dip it in water. It tasted quite good. I have to say that after the kitchen's imperial chef expanded his horizons, he also created a lot of classic things.

"That's right. When I was traveling outside, I found that there was a barbecue sold. I bought a batch of barbecue. Then the chefs in the kitchen studied it and made better barbecue." Si Niang said proudly, not taking the matter of being unable to leave the palace at will seriously.

"What price is this thing? It tastes really good." Liu Bei also tasted it for a few bites and thought it tasted very good, so he pinched two more pieces.

After Chen Xi developed the roasted meat, Liu Bei tried it out. It tasted pretty good, but compared to the stuff that Si Niang ate now that she could really serve, it was far behind. Before, Liu Bei felt that Chen Xi had made the bacon because it was not developed enough in the logistics industry and that fresh meat could not be delivered to the people on time and on time.

But now the stuff that Si Niang has made is another classic flavor of meat, completely like freshly cooked meat.

In this way, Liu Bei did not think that Chen Xi's roasted meat was a waste of meat. The previous promotion of roasted meat was somewhat a pity for Liu Bei. After all, in Liu Bei's opinion, it was to make a good piece of meat into something not so delicious. If it was not for the purpose of allowing people from afar to eat it, then purity would be a waste.

"Price?" Si Niang thought about it. To be honest, she really didn't have this concept. It was not a question of whether she was not money. As a concubine, she had to replace the queen for sacrifices during large-scale sacrifices. Her treatment was the same as that of the three dukes, and there was no shortage of money or anything.

However, the expenses of the palace came from the Shaofu, and the Shaofu was completely annexed by Chen Xi as early as the second year of Yuanfeng. After that, the expenses of the palace were allocated by Chen Xi, so the exact price was really unknown. It may be very expensive or cheap. It depends on what Chen Xi thought. After all, such things as money is not of great significance to Chen Xi.

"Not expensive." Chen Xi shook his head and said, "But the folk cannot achieve this level. This is a problem of cooking skills, not a problem of materials."

From Chen Xi's perspective, this piece of wax duck leg slice is not artificial, but only the price of the materials is about ten cents. However, if you consider the technology of manual and imperial kitchen, this thing is really expensive.

"This is just an ordinary duck leg, just a larger one." Chen Xi glanced at the silk girl who started eating on the spot and said, "As for the ingredients, some spices, for us who now occupy all Southeast Asia, it is actually a cost price. This kind of self-produced thing can be given a controllable low price. The only problem is the chef."

Southeast Asia is from Jiangdong? What a joke? If you don’t sell the output to the Han Dynasty, what do you think of when you produce and sell it in Southeast Asia? What is the sect leader country? To put it bluntly, you need to pay tribute!

"Wait if it's an ordinary duck leg, why do you need ten cents?" Liu Bei looked at Chen Xi with a strange look. If it's an ordinary duck leg, the price of ten cents would be a bit too much.

"Is ten-ciete expensive?" Si Niang asked while eating duck legs. After killing the remaining slices a few times, she opened a food box, which contained a slice of roast duck. The small plate containing the sauce was also in the drawer of the food box, and there were even a small burrito. However, Si Niang had no intention of a burrito at all. She ate the slice of roast duck and dipped it in the sauce.

"How to say it, it can't be said to be very expensive, but it's not cheap either. In the past, the price of chickens and ducks was about 40 cents. After Zichuan stabilized the prices, the price of chickens and ducks dropped a little. In this case, how could the duck legs be sold for ten cents?" Liu Bei frowned and asked at Chen Xi.

"Because duck meat is cheap." Chen Xi didn't need Si Niang to let herself do it. She reached out and pinched two hot roast duck from the food box, dipped it in the sauce and started eating.

"What we involve is another logic." Chen Xi swallowed the roast duck with a very good taste and said slowly, "We raise ducks and gray gooses on a large scale. The main purpose is not to make roasted wax, duck legs, roast goose and other things."

"These are essentially by-products." Chen Xi thought for a while and said, "After the epidemic problem is solved, the cost of large-scale breeding is much lower than the cost of raising a few people in each household."

The food and goods records of the Han Dynasty were about thirty-six papers, which were roughly thirty-six papers. The price was quite high at that time. The monthly income of the county's book servants was only 360 papers, which means that the income of county-level clerks like the book servants was only enough to buy ten chickens.

Chen Xi’s initial purpose of raising geese and ducks was to create salted duck eggs, which are nutritious and nutritious, and later developed duck down, and later developed other ways to eat them. In the end, it was found that the total price of by-products was greater than the duck’s own price.

In other words, even if the last duck meat is sold for a penny, Chen Xi will not lose.

"The real price of ducks is less than 30 cents. The labor cost after large-scale breeding is evenly distributed. In addition, the duck down and duck are sold separately, and some parts that look good are sold at high prices. Then the meat price of the roast duck can naturally be lowered." Chen Xi said casually.

After all, Chen Xi is not a capitalist and does not need to pursue the so-called maximum profit. After making back the cost, the remaining part will be sold at a cheap price.

This also leads to the fact that duck, goose and mutton are much cheaper than before.

"In other words, someone paid for them by Big Tou, so the duck meat was cheaper." Chen Xi said with a lip silence.

The cheap duck meat in later generations is actually the same logic. A whole live duck can be sold for fifty or sixty, or even a large duck can be sold for hundreds of people. However, roasted roast duck on the roadside only costs twenty yuan. The logic is that the least valuable thing like duck is duck meat.

Duck down, duck neck, duck intestines, duck feet, duck legs, etc. A whole duck was opened and sold, and the rest was duck meat. If you even think about it carefully, even the Beijing roast duck in a serious restaurant sometimes encounters outrageous things like no duck legs.

It can be seen that ducks are sold separately and have become a common situation. Chen Xi also followed this habit. Then the ducks were sold at a higher price than the whole duck. So Chen Xi refuted the profits of this part of the duck meat, so that duck meat on the market once again became the cheapest meat, but the cheapest ones were cheap and had to be purchased restricted.

There is no way. Even the duck factory built by Chen Xi cannot provide the desire of tens of millions of people in the Han Dynasty to eat meat. Although the duck meat is not as good as other meats in taste, this thing is meat no matter what. Moreover, Chen Xi invested in allowing professional chefs to study how to make it delicious. If there is no purchase limit, it really can't stand it.

"Why is it more profitable to buy it when you open it and buy it?" Si Niang asked her own question instead of Liu Bei, and then pulled open a food box. This time it contained the cut white mutton.

"It's not easy to explain it to you with a duck." Chen Xi reached out and pinched a piece of mutton and dipped it in some sauce. "It's better to explain it with a sheep, because this is the most intuitive. The current price of a sheep is about 500 cents, while a sheep can produce about ten kilograms of wool a year, and ten kilograms of wool can create seven sweaters to avoid the cold after processing."

When talking about this data, Liu Bei's expression became much more serious, while Si Niang continued to eat foolishly, and then she also reacted as she ate.

"The warmth of a sweater kills the wool, and a piece of sackcloth costs about 400 cents, which can make about eight sackcloths. Therefore, theoretically, the price of ten kilograms of wool can reach about 600 cents after processing to make wool cloth." Chen Xi's expression became extremely serious. "Even if these 600 cents need to be excluded from the wages given to the Weaver Girl, the money for collecting wool, and some other losses, the profits in it can reach 500 cents if they are large enough to be used for mechanization."

There is such a big profit gap. Why is the industrial scissors gap terrifying? It's terrifying here. Even the most basic handicraft industry, as long as it forms a certain scale, it will be enough to cause a crushing output to agriculture and animal husbandry. What's more, Chen Xi has also made certain optimizations in it, so that the industry can be closed and formed a system as much as possible. In this way, when profits are reflected in a certain link, it will be very terrifying.

This is the so-called upper limit of agricultural social output. If you want to break through this upper limit, at present, there is only the path of developing industry. Although Chen Xi’s achievements are not much, they are indeed systematic, large-scale, and upward development with a complete foundation.

So much so that when Chen Xi proposed the concept that a sheep was counted as wool in a year and its output exceeded its own total price, Liu Bei was somewhat confused. The price difference and profit really made Liu Bei feel a little outrageous. Considering the wool, Liu Bei had to consider things like cheese.

"In fact, this is just that the current handicraft industry has not developed to its peak, otherwise the profit would be greater." Chen Xi said with some memories.

Even in later generations, a sheep can only cost about one thousand yuan according to the price of meat, but a sheep can basically produce ten kilograms of wool a year. After washing, drying, combing, twisting, winding, and finally forming wool threads. Considering that these links can be loaded with assembly lines and mechanized, the scale is large enough and the cost can be very low. Ten kilograms of wool spun into three kilograms of worsted wool or seven kilograms of thick wool thread.

The former is about 200 yuan per catty, while the latter is sixty yuan per catty. After the wool produced by a sheep is worth 500 yuan after the spinning process. If this production system continues to be extended, it becomes cotton or even becomes ready-to-wear, the profit of wool will far exceed the profit of mutton.

Animal Husbandry in later generations needed to consider profits, textile industry needed to consider profits, and clothing merchants also needed to consider profits, which needed to be calculated three times, so there was a price like that in later generations, and Chen Xi only needed to calculate it once and consider a comprehensive profit.

In this case, choosing the happiness of the people and reducing the price of meat will harm the interests of some local breeding industries to a certain extent, but it is still very meaningful to consider it from the overall perspective.

By the way, this is also the reason why Chen Xi asked the people in Qingxu, Taishan, who were engaged in animal husbandry to give up on animal husbandry, and the government gave some subsidies to make them turn to other industries. Because at that time, Chen Xi was about to complete the industrial closed loop, and he was waiting to come to the central part of the Han Dynasty. With Chen Xi's size, as long as it arrives, the other people will basically end up doing the animal husbandry.

It is true that due to certain quantity problems, the output of local animal husbandry can still be sold out, but the official price is basically forcing others to die, so it is necessary for Chen Xi to notify these local animal husbandry personnel to withdraw from this industry in advance.

Because if there is no notice, the low-priced mutton from the Northern Ranch will arrive at the local area, and these people will lose more than just money and food, and maybe even reputation will be problematic.

Although Chen Xi's behavior is also quite a scam, Chen Xi really won't cheat his own people. From a legal perspective, Qing Xu Taishan, as the place where Liu Bei started his family, is a basic platform. Even if it really hurts, it will not cause disasters to fall into places like Qing Xu Taishan.

Therefore, during the Eastern Tour, Chen Xi specially gathered local businesses engaged in animal husbandry, and then made arrangements in advance, leaving them with time and policy subsidies for their transfer, so as to avoid the fact that they were not careful and crushed the group of people to death.

As long as the industrial scissors gap becomes a system, it will almost completely crush agriculture, or even overstate it. As long as it is a systematic industry, it is a thing that breaks through the upper limit of the agricultural era.

The problem is that as long as the upper limit is mentioned in anything, it means that normality cannot be achieved at all. So when Chen Xi develops, it seems very terrifying. Even if it only establishes a foundation, it is ten times that of the former Han Dynasty in terms of economic and output.

"Here, that's roughly that. Taking sheep as an example, it should be much less difficult to understand." Chen Xi looked at Liu Bei and Si Niang and said, "Duck is essentially the same logic. For all kinds of things under this logic, what creates profits is no longer the former subject, but the newly added things, especially things like wool..."

The added value crushes the main body, which is what Liu Bei and Si Niang are seeing at present.

"So theoretically, if I only consider making profits from raising sheep, the price of mutton can be just a few cents." Chen Xi said expressionlessly, "It's just that some things are not this logic. In addition to profit logic, there is another set of supply logic. The current output of the northern Han Dynasty animal husbandry industry is not enough to maintain the subsequent size."

"I always feel very incredible." Liu Bei said with a complicated expression.

"It's nothing incredible. It's just that conventional things are not just about pursuing the main output and diversified development." Chen Xi shook his head and said, "So technology is very important. If a new technology is developed, if it can be invested in a suitable place, the benefits it can bring will be amazing. The integrity and ability of the bureaucrats are essentially adjusted and distributed in the existing technical level. If you want to truly break the upper limit, you can only rely on technical strength or external forces."

"In this case, why is the mutton I eat so expensive?" Si Niang asked with some confusion, "I found a lamb before and made boiled lamb in white water. It cost me eight thousand yuan to buy the mutton?"

When she said this, Si Niang was very confused. According to what Chen Xi said, the price of mutton should not be expensive. Why did I suddenly thought about buying a sheep for mutton last time, and it cost so much.

When Liu Bei heard this, his eyelids naturally fell. After all, Liu Bei knew about the fact that the palace food became unpalatable last year. In the end, Si Niang caught the purchase of money that caused trouble and the manager of the kitchen. At that time, these things wanted to resist, but were violently killed by Si Niang with amazing combat power.

That's right, it's indeed amazing combat power. Si Niang showed combat power that was no less than that of ordinary internal energy leaving the body. Although it seemed nothing to be a normal internal energy leaving the body, as Si Niang, who could not even beat a horse, it was definitely an explosive state.

Therefore, when Si Niang said this, Liu Bei naturally thought that there were bastards who were corrupt in the palace, and even the imperial concubine's money was broken, which made him feel impatient.

Liu Bei has seen a lot of such behaviors in the past few years. Some bureaucrats really don’t know what they mean, just to make money and even want their lives.

"Ah, eight thousand quotations? I think about it?" Chen Xi felt that the price was a bit obvious. "Did you buy the Shaofu Special Gong thing? It's a product in the northern border that specializes in the Shaofu Special Gong thing. It is said to have a special flavor or something?"

"Ah, yes, yes." Si Niang nodded repeatedly. She wanted to eat mutton before, but Shaofu said that she had eaten it for nine days in a row. If she continued to eat it, Liu Tong, a human, should get angry and could not eat it anymore. She could give Si Niang a small stove, but the amount of mutton in the small stove should also be reduced.

Si Niang was furious and said that I would make a sheep myself and let the kitchen eat it. My concubines in the past did not have this ability, but my Si Niang had this ability. I went out of the palace and bought it myself, and then bought the sheep on the back street of Shaofu, for 8,000 liters.

At that time, Si Niang felt it was a bit expensive, but only 8,000 liters, do I care about my grand concubine? Just buy it, Chong Chong!

"So you bought it wrong?" Si Niang said very seriously. She was already touching her weapon just now, and just waited for Chen Xi to say that she had been slaughtered, and she teleported over and arrested people directly. She dared to hack my concubine Xian's money. She didn't want to live anymore, right? She dared to provoke me. The Han government is behind me!

"The official price is this level." Chen Xi nodded and said, "And it is true that the so-called special flavor is true. In fact, in addition to the large ranch, there is a small ranch next to each large ranch to domesticate these local specialties."

"Oh oh oh." Si Niang expressed her understanding. Liu Bei had realized how crooked Chen Xi was for so many years, so after hearing this, she naturally looked at Chen Xi. What is the official price at this level? Isn't it the official price that you, Chen Xi, used to slaughter people on a whim?

Maybe he felt Liu Bei's contemptuous look, Chen Xi smiled dryly and said, "But it's true that the price is higher, but it's the Shaofu Special Gong, and there is a limit on the quantity, and the taste is indeed much better than the normal similar meat, so it's understandable that the price is higher, right?"

"Is it delicious?" Si Niang scratched her head. As a real foodie, she could tell this kind of thing. But Chen Xi said that Shaofu Tego is better than other similar meats. Si Niang really didn't notice it. Just after eating so many times, it seems that there is no difference when she recalls it.

"Be careful, Concubine Xian, you used to eat something from the Shaofu Special Tribute!" Chen Xi said helplessly. On this side, Chen Xi is still not cheating. He wants to sell Shaofu Special Tribute and Royal Family Selection. Of course, Liu Tong and Si Niang also ate this kind of thing, not the so-called other set. Chen Xi's integrity can still be guaranteed in this regard.

By the way, it is precisely because of this that some Chang'an people who can participate in palace banquets are very convinced of Shaofu Special Tribute and Royal Selection. In addition to being expensive, this thing is exactly the same as the things used in royal banquets. Therefore, when rich people in Chang'an are willing to make some ruthlessness when they invite people to dinner, they will also make the so-called Shaofu Special Tribute products and Royal Selection.

If the Chang'an rich people do this, the rich people from all over the world will follow suit. After all, they are the best place and play a very important role in taking the lead.

So much so that Shaofu Special Gong and the royal family selected this brand, which was in short supply, and forced the price from one thousand quotas to eight thousand quotas. Chen Xi felt that he could not be too dark and held down the price. Otherwise, with the current way of playing the wealthy economy in the Central Plains, this thing could grow to tens of thousands of quotas.

Every year, just selling this thing is free to supply the Sanhe Five Schools during the Lingdi period, and even wealthy. There is no way for people to believe in this thing.

However, if we really want to talk about the quality gap, this kind of sheep is said to be full-process monitoring and special breeding, which is about 10% better than ordinary meat sheep in large ranches, but it is sold at a price of more than ten times.

Therefore, Chen Xi did not charge any money for the palace to eat this "super expensive" thing. After all, the brand of this thing is all due to the efforts of Si Niang. Without Si Niang's brand, it is impossible for Chen Xi to sell it ten times the price without increasing the quality by only 10% and it can still sell it so smoothly, and the supply is in short supply!

In short, Si Niang is a big seller of goods, which is very important and needs to be held.

"Oh oh oh?" Si Niang's eyes lit up when she heard Chen Xi's answer, and she lowered her head and began to calculate how much she had sex for free.
Chapter completed!