Under Zhao Xin's order, dried fish was quickly put on the market. Because it was a matter ordered by the King of Tang Dynasty and it was profitable, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Kaifeng Mansion were particularly active in doing this!
Kaifeng Prefecture even immediately set aside a government-run store on Bianjing Royal Street for the sale of dried fish as a sales point.
The Royal Street has a dense flow of people. It is conservatively estimated that the daily flow of people is more than 100,000.
In later generations, this would only be the flow of people in the commercial streets of big cities.
Therefore, as soon as these dried fish were placed on the shelves, they immediately attracted the attention of Bianjing people.
The coarse salt particles on the dried fish immediately attracted the attention of passers-by.
"What are these?" As soon as the door opened, someone came into the store and asked.
Since it was the first day the store was open, Zhang Weiji personally sat in the store. Of course, he was a high-ranking official in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and would not come out to sell, so he sent his adopted son Zhang Ruoshui to take care of things outside.
Zhang Ruoshui has been adopted by Zhang Weiji since he was a child. He is very alert and good at doing business. When he sees a customer coming to the door, he immediately greets him with a smile: "Sir, this is a shipment that has just arrived from Guangnan East Road."
Dried sea fish from Bianjing..."
"Look, it's covered with salt grains, and there are enough salt grains on each strip!"
"Look at the golden color of the dried fish and the firm flesh. It is indeed a top-quality delicacy!"
The man listened and picked up a dried fish on the counter with some suspicion, brought it to his nose and sniffed it, and immediately frowned: "Why is it so smelly?"
Zhang Ruoshui listened and immediately replied with a smile: "Sir, have you ever seen dried fish without fishy smell?"
These days, most dried fish sold in large quantities on the market have a fishy smell.
After all, they are all for the sun.
Of course, there are also fire-baked fish that are fragrant and look good, but this kind of fish is hand-baked by families, usually for personal use, and is rarely sold in the market.
The man shook his head and said: "But, I have never seen this kind of dried fish. I don't know if it can be eaten..."
Zhang Ruoshui laughed loudly when he heard this, and immediately clapped his hands and ordered his servants: "Go and serve a bowl of the fish soup you just cooked for this guest to have a taste!"
"No!" After a while, a servant brought a small bowl of cooked fish soup and handed it to the man.
The man took the fish soup and looked at it in front of his eyes. The pure white fish soup was steaming with a few pickle leaves floating on it. He smelled it slightly and found that it didn't have much fishy smell, so he took the courage to take it.
Picked up the spoon and took a bite.
His eyes immediately widened, and the cells on his taste buds almost sang happily.
The deliciousness of deep-sea fish, mixed with the rich saltiness and the sourness of kimchi, goes straight to the brain.
Although there is still a slight fishy smell, it can be ignored.
"How much does this dried fish cost per pound?" He put down his spoon and finally had the intention to buy it.
"Two hundred coins per catty..." Zhang Ruoshui said with a smile, "Sir, would you like to buy a few catties back?"
"Two hundred coins!" The man hesitated.
The price of 200 yuan may be said to be expensive, but it's actually not bad.
In Zhouqiao Night Market, the cheapest sugar water costs 20 yuan a bowl!
But to say it is cheap is not necessarily true.
The tea merchants in Bianjing City sell this year's new tea for only two to three hundred yuan per catty.
The current price of rice is only eight or nine hundred cents per stone. This is due to the increase of more than three hundred cents due to the war on the border. Otherwise, during the Jingyou period, the price of rice was often only six hundred or even five hundred cents per stone.
Two hundred coins can buy a pound of new tea or twenty pounds of coarse rice.
"Can't it be cheaper?" he asked after thinking for a while.
"Sir, this is the official product!" Zhang Ruoshui said with a smile: "This is a government-run store... not to mention... this is the price set by His Highness the Prince of Tang..." He bowed his hands towards the imperial city and said: "
How dare I change my position!"
"The price set by His Highness the Prince of Tang?" the man exclaimed.
And this sentence immediately attracted the attention of several other people who followed into the store, and they all came over: "The price set by the King of Tang!?"
Nowadays, there is only one Tang King in Bianjing City.
He was the heir to the Song Dynasty Emperor who was surrounded by aura and myths.
A virtuous king who was able to ascend to the throne hall at the age of two, handle the affairs of state on behalf of his father, and manage state affairs in an orderly manner without the need for a queen to hang a curtain.
A holy king who was protected by his ancestors, passed down the Dharma from the gods, protected the world, and freed the people of the world from acne!
There are countless legends about him both inside and outside Bianjing.
There are also eminent monks from the two religions, Buddha and Taoism, who are adding fuel to the flames.
Therefore, in the eyes of the general public and ordinary people, the Tang King has been bound to words such as sacred, wise, and bright.
Even the family members of the noble ministers basically think so.
Whenever the noble disciples who were sent to Chunfang came home during the holidays, their families would take off the clothes they wore and lend them to their younger siblings to wear.
The reason is that many people believe that these people are blessed with divine grace and are protected by the King of Tang. A little of the rain and dew grace should be stained on their clothes. If they wear them for their younger brothers and sisters, they may be able to borrow the divine grace of the King of Tang to protect them.
These people are healthy and safe.
In these days, many legends related to this have been spread inside and outside Bianjing.
One of the most widely circulated legends is particularly popular among people.
It is said that Cao Wan, the son of Queen Cao's younger brother Cao Yi, was sickly and obese since childhood, and his family often worried that he would not live to marry and have children.
However, when Cao Wan returned home from His Royal Highness the Tang Dynasty's Chunfang Residence, the Cao family was pleasantly surprised to find that the boy was in extremely good health beyond imagination and had lost more than 20 kilograms in weight. He was already as good as other families.
Children can run and run like children without having to worry about running out of breath after just a few steps.
More importantly, after entering the palace, Cao Wan never got sick again!
Therefore, the Cao family specially consulted Monk Fahui, an eminent monk from Daxiangguo Temple.
Upon hearing this, the monk smiled slightly and pointed to the Medicine King Bodhisattva enshrined in the Daxiangguo Temple.
The Cao family immediately offered five thousand guan of sesame oil money and one thousand kilograms of sesame oil to the Medicine Master King Bodhisattva.
However, the king of Tang had a distinguished status, and only the top dignitaries had the opportunity to send a son to this king to receive instruction and the protection of the supreme power.
The general public don't even dare to think about it.
Now, there is something with a price specified by His Highness himself?
How can this not be exciting?
You need to know that these days, even if you go to the smallest temple in Bianjing City to offer incense and bring a consecrated talisman home, you still have to offer a lot of sesame oil to the great monk!
So, after receiving Zhang Ruoshui's affirmative reply, these people immediately took out all the copper coins they had brought with them from their pockets and each bought one or two kilograms of dried fish.
And only half an hour later, there was already a long queue in front of Zhang Ruoshui's shop.
So, one hundred dried stone fish were sold out in just one morning.
Zhang Weiji was overjoyed and immediately reported the good news to Zhao Xin.
Zhao Xin was very happy when he heard this.
Because he knows that everything is difficult at the beginning. As long as the dried fish is sold, the people of Bianjing will gradually accept the existence of this dried fish in their diet.
This is equivalent to opening up a market.
But he didn't know that at this moment, many merchants and officials' homes in Bianjing City, and every child, had a bowl of fish soup placed in front of them.
"This is what you, Aye, finally got from Uncle X..."
"This Tang Wang Tang is more effective than the talisman water obtained from the temple and Taoist temple..."
"After drinking it, I will be blessed by Grandpa and Emperor Seonjo, and they will be able to bless you with health, longevity, peace and tranquility..." The kind-hearted grandmothers looked at their grandchildren with great affection and full of expectation.
It wasn't until she saw them finish the fish soup in the bowl that the old grandmother showed a happy smile.
From then on, there was a tradition in Bianjing area.
On every first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, children under the age of fourteen should drink a bowl of Tang Wang Tang to ward off cold and evil spirits.
This is mainly due to the children of officials and the families of scholar-bureaucrats, who pay special attention to this point and implement it strictly and unshakably.
Therefore, under their influence, the general public began to follow and imitate.
This is also how most Chinese folk customs are spread and formed.
So many years later, people in Bianjing and even the entire Gyeonggi region began to drink Tangwang Decoction instead of the magic water as a placebo.
Later Chinese medicine practitioners even believed that using dried king croaker (dried large yellow croaker) to make soup can replenish qi, nourish the stomach and promote fluid production. It can prevent colds, treat stomach diseases, strengthen bones and nourish the body. In short, it is versatile.
This is a development that Zhao Xin could not have imagined.