"If you like fried meat patties, you can eat them every day. Each one costs a penny." Xu Sheng led the two of them to the supply point. "The ten pieces we picked up at the bank before can buy one million each."
The kind of cake Zhang just ate, but generally if you order for a year, you will get a discount."
Nowika and Sakala were both shocked, and they instantly understood the so-called large amounts of currency. One million meat pies they had eaten before, this kind of pie was considered a reward for their soldiers.
"Why withdraw so much money?" Sakala's background allowed him to clearly understand the value of coins. After making a comparison, he also understood how much money Xu Sheng had taken before. This was not a small amount of money.
"Welcome. After all, General Gan's return is a good thing. You have to have a good meal." Xu Sheng said matter-of-factly. Sakala and Novika couldn't understand the connection between return and good food, let alone
For the banquet, they and Gan Ning didn't need to spend so much money.
"There are about 40,000 people in total. If you cook a good meal with vegetables and meat by yourself, the average cost per person is about 25 cents. However, if you buy meat and vegetables in large quantities,
You can only buy it here." Xu Sheng explained to the two of them as they walked inside. There was a special buying point, and underground there was a large cold storage for storing ice.
"Let's get 50,000 kilograms of meat first, and some of the fresh vegetables that are available recently." Xu Sheng also bought things in a rather casual way, "Forget about the fish, just buy less."
Donglai is close to the sea, especially after the opening of the Lujia Shipyard. Chen Xi, in line with the idea of developing local industries, encouraged local fishermen to buy boats for offshore fishing, while also investing heavily in infrastructure construction. By the way, he developed a large number of fish stocks that can improve fish production.
Storage technology that preserves time, such as salted fish, canned salted fish, dried salted fish, salted fish fillets, etc.
As a Chinese, it is really shameful not to develop a hundred ways to eat sea fish. With the investment of a large number of ships and large-scale fishing, the fishing cost of large ships has plummeted. Fish eating in Donglai is about to become a reality.
This has created a living atmosphere, and the price of fish and meat has been falling.
By the way, if Chen Xi hadn't built a logistics channel here, and the government collected fish and stabilized the price, Donglai would have been fished out by this group of people with the fourth-generation ship's method of dragging more than ten tons of fish back at a time.
of fish are covered.
This is why Xu Sheng would ask the store if he could use fish meat to make meat pies for cheap, because the fishery in Donglai is really crazy now, but then again, no matter how crazy it is, facing the Han Dynasty,
Countries that put food first are of no use either.
In Chen Xi's words, since there are still many people in the Central Plains who have never eaten fish and shrimp, these free meats in the sea should be fished out to feed the Central Plains people!
There are not 1.4 billion people in the future, and there is no problem of overfishing. Let go and fish. With such technology and such human investment, no matter how much we fish, it will not be enough for the people of the vast Central Plains behind us.
Without enough meat, eggs, and milk, how to improve the physical fitness of the people in the Central Plains? Since other meats cannot yet meet the standards, fish and other meats should be taken care of first. After all, no matter how bad fish is, it is better than food in this aspect.
There are many spectrums.
Under this general premise, there may be people in many places who have never eaten this thing, but Donglai has eaten enough fish and meat, and it is not a joke to have hundreds of ways to eat it. Of course, no matter what
It's delicious, and it really changes the taste if you eat it every day.
Therefore, long before the coastal people got tired of eating these fish and meat, Chen Xi had barely completed the circulation of materials from various places. Otherwise, the meat and vegetables Xu Sheng needed today would be enough to raise the market price of Donglai.
Xu Sheng's words are not complicated, but weights and measures are different. The two of them didn't know how much quantity Xu Sheng was talking about. Although he mentioned 40,000 people, they didn't think much about it. To be precise, until now,
They also thought that Xu Sheng was just preparing to entertain them.
After all, in the Kushan caste system, ordinary soldiers are basically low-caste Shudras, and people of this level are considered slaves by high-caste people and are not worthy of rewards at all.
By the way, this class has the largest population, accounting for basically 80% of the total population. However, due to the habit of the caste system, when counting heads, only the first three classes are usually counted, and sometimes even the third class is not counted, so it is
There are 200 million people in India, 1.4 billion people.
Of course, compared to later generations, this era is even more insane. In the eyes of the upper castes, Sudras are not human beings at all, they are directly slaves. Buddhism seizes the opportunity and works hard to preach among Sudras, hoping to make Sudras think that this life is miserable, and then
Convert to Buddhism to cultivate the afterlife.
However, how should I put it? In the caste system, Shudras do not have an afterlife. After death, they will return to Brahma, become Brahma's feet, and become a part of the gods. Is it happiness in the next life or happiness as a part of the gods? For normal
For people, it may take a long time to think.
But for Shudras, this still requires thinking. Of course, it is to become a part of the gods. The next life is so empty. After I die, I will become the feet of Brahma. How wonderful. I will no longer be humble.
To put it bluntly, the feet of gods!
The life of a Sudra was very hard, and Buddhism was very good at calming the mind. This was also an important reason why Buddhism always believed that it had a great advantage in facing the caste system during this period, and then it was defeated by Hinduism and was beaten half to death.
.
Don’t guess at the thinking patterns of those at the bottom of the caste system. You can’t guess at all.
The four surnames are equal, we need it very much, ah, this is indeed our pursuit, okay, I have decided to believe in your Buddhism.
What, what does Buddhism say about reincarnation, so we can’t become a part of Brahma? Afterlife, go to your next life, I don’t need the next life, I only need this life, let me return to Brahma after death, I want
Become a part of Brahma, Buddhist Kneeling!
This is also the reason why Buddhism was very popular in India for a period of time, but in the end, Buddhism, which emphasizes equality, did not implement the caste system. Because as a Shudra, I do pursue equality, but I pursue equality more than pursuing equality.
After I die, I will become a part of Brahma!
Compared with the ideal of equality, which is not very important whether it is realized or not, after all, it was how we lived for thousands of years in the past, and we can still live like this if it is not realized in the future.
But if I believe in Buddhism, I will not be able to become the feet of Brahma and be with Brahma after my death. Then I will die at a loss. Therefore, for Shudras, they are mostly followers of Buddhism, but they are Kshatriyas.
Ah, Brahmins may be brainwashed by Buddhism.
However, from the beginning, Buddhism did not choose Brahmins and Kshatriyas. After all, Buddhism emphasizes equality. To put it bluntly, it means letting these high castes give up their vested interests. Although there are wise and understanding people like Siddhartha Gautama among them, they are absolutely
Most people can't do this.
There is basically no such thing as personal confrontation with class. Even a wise man like Siddhartha Gautama originally aimed at the rise of the Kshatriyas, safeguarding the interests of the Kshatriya class and controlling the absolute power of the Brahmin class.
It can only be said that he went far, saw more, and became enlightened in the later period.
Therefore, relatively speaking, the stability of the caste system is still reliable. If it really evolves into culture, the rule of the upper class of the caste system is still very reliable. As for Buddhism, it can only be said that the caste system absorbs power within it and cannot break the lower class.
Castes recognize their own cultural heritage, so in essence they are at most pan-believers.
It is even more accurate to say that for these lower castes, the power of Buddha can only be said to be a certificate to covet the upper castes. As for how much they are true believers, I hope that in the next thousands of years, there will be hundreds of true believers in Buddhism in India.
None of them.
On the contrary, Hinduism has penetrated into the culture and there is no way to cure it. Even in later generations, lower castes will still strongly identify themselves with their identity.
In short, this is a very strange situation, so for the Kushan soldiers, they have no rewards. They are essentially slaves of Brahmins and Kshatriyas. Naturally, the children of slaves are still slaves, and everything owned by slaves belongs to the master.
, including the slaves themselves.
However, when the delivery people took the meat out of the underground cold storage one by one, Sakala and Novika were simply dumbfounded. This scale is for a dinner party. What a joke, this requires tens of thousands of people.
Just finish it.
But when it comes to tens of thousands of people, Sakala and Nowika looked at each other...
"General Xu, are you going to give a banquet to our men?" Novica asked with a frown, how can I say this kind of thing? I have never experienced it. How can a slave be rewarded for doing nothing? Such a thing
If you do it, will these slaves still be obedient in the future?
"Of course, our custom here is that when newcomers come, or greet new recruits, or do other things, we have to treat them to a meal first." Xu Sheng said naturally, Chinese culture, no matter what his old friends are.
New friends, when we meet, we don’t need to talk about anything else. I’ll take you to dinner first.
Similarly, even if it is a military camp, recruits report, veterans gather, and when they return to various places after training, they will eat. Chinese culture, let’s talk about it after eating!
"Uh, what else is there to say?" Sakala hesitated a little. They also understood the principle of doing as the Romans do when they are in the country, but how should I put it? This is very different from the customs there.
"How could I not say that!" Xu Sheng said matter-of-factly, can we not eat? When I was poor in the past, I would treat my old friends to a meal when they came over. What's more, now that I am rich and the army is gathering, how can I not give it to the soldiers under my command?
It was a good meal, not to mention that Gan Ning escaped from death this time, so he should have a good meal to celebrate and calm down his shock.
