Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 731
Fan Ning only stayed in South Island for one day, and returned to Wucheng County by boat the next day. It was already afternoon when he landed. Time, let's go shopping together and have dinner by the way."

Ming Ren smiled and said: "You are interested, of course I will accompany you!"

The two brothers didn't need an entourage, they walked into the county town, and the bustling commercial atmosphere rushed towards them.

Fan Ning suddenly remembered something, and said with a smile, "I didn't bring any money!"

Ming Ren took out a leather money bag from his arms, and said with a smile, "I have it here!"

"Show me."

Fan Ning took the money bag and looked at it. There were some silver coins, a few ingots of silver, and some copper coins. The copper coins were the same as those of the Song Dynasty, but the silver coins and silver ingots were cast by Bei Dao himself. He took out an ingot of silver, It's one tael of silver, and look at the bottom, the words "Beidao Official Made" are printed on the west.

"Our silver coins are more refined than those of the Song Dynasty, and they contain enough silver. The cupronickel only accounts for [-]% of the silver, while the silver coins of the Song Dynasty account for [-]%. In the future, Nandao will also use our silver ingots and silver coins. "

"This is just one or two silver ingots. Is there any larger silver ingots for bulk trade."

"We still have ten taels of silver and ten taels of gold ingots, which are enough."

The two walked into the street, and Fan Ning saw a tea shop at a glance. The shopkeeper was a middle-aged man who worked with two Japanese girls as waiters. The shopkeeper recognized Fan Ning and seemed a little nervous. It's normal.

The store is about [-] square meters, with two tea tasting tables in the middle. There are various tea cakes on the shelves around them. There are signs on them, mainly Jianzhou tea, such as Jingzhou tea, Shiru, Deru, Bairu and Longtuan. Shengxue, white tea, etc., these are tea cakes, and herbal tea, mainly loose tea and tea powder, mainly produced in Dongting Lake and Jiangnan,

In the loose tea, Fan Ning suddenly saw Biluochun, he was immediately very interested, and asked with a smile: "Shopkeeper, how is this Biluochun?"

The shopkeeper stepped forward and said with a smile, "This is this year's Mingqian tea. It's loose tea. It's mainly used for frying. Because I'm afraid of mildew, I don't buy much. One tea or two sells for one tael of silver."

Fan Ning chuckled, "Your tea is just ordinary Biluochun. In Wu County, it costs one or two yuan, but here it is ten times more expensive."

The shopkeeper explained unhurriedly: "Reporting to the officials, rare things are the most expensive. There are only small shops in the entire North Island that sell Biluochun, and the stock in the small shop is only three catties. It is worth the price, and there is no counter-offer. "

"What a rare thing is precious!"

Fan Ning can't say enough about him, but he misses the tea in his hometown a little bit, so he said with a smile, "Weigh half a catty for me!"

The shopkeeper immediately took out a wooden box and said with a smile, "Here is half a catty, eight taels of silver!"

Fan Ning suddenly remembered that Ming Ren didn't have eight taels of silver in his wallet, so he said, "Let's put it here! I'll send someone to pick it up later, and I'll pay for it at that time."

"No problem, do you want to see anything else?"

Fan Ning looked around and asked, "Is there any Longfeng tea?"

The head of the shopkeeper immediately shook like a rattle, "Dragon tea is just a legendary tea. Although the villain Fengcha has seen it, he has nowhere to buy it. The best tea in the shop is Jingting."

Fan Ning guessed that he didn't have any stock either, but he still had [-] catties of Fengcha tea in stock. He looked at the tea set again, and the best tea set was Jian Kiln's Rabbit Teacup. He didn't like it, so he turned around and left the tea shop.

Ming Ren followed up and said with a smile: "If we make Fengcha and sell it to Song Dynasty, the profit must be very high."

Fan Ning glared at him, "Fengcha can't be made with money, it takes a long time to make. If it was so easy to make, Da Song would have been rotten."

Fan Ning went to rice shops, butcher shops, and fruit and vegetable shops, all of which were [-]% more expensive than those in the Song Dynasty. Even though Bei Dao is rich in meat, the prices are still not cheap. In the final analysis, Bei Dao people are generally rich.

At this time, Fan Ning saw a restaurant with the Zuizhen building on it, and said to Ming Ren: "Go and have dinner, and then go home!"

The two walked into the restaurant. The business of the restaurant was pretty good. Most of the tables on the first floor were full. Basically, families came out to eat.

A young Japanese lady stepped forward to offer a blessing, "Do you have a reservation for the two officials?"

Mingren said: "No reservation, is there a seat by the window on the second floor?"

"There is a table by the window, but the table is a little smaller."

"It's okay to be smaller, take us up."

The little Japanese lady saluted and took the two of them up to the second floor. The seats on the second floor were only half occupied. Fan Ning was puzzled. The second floor is more comfortable, so why bother to squeeze the first floor?
Mingren said in a low voice: "Beidao's rule is that you have to pay an additional two hundred Wen to eat on the second floor. Most people are reluctant to part with it, so they all gather on the first floor."

It turned out that the two of them came to a small table by the window and sat down. Fan Ning asked with a smile, "What kind of wine do you have here?"

"Small store serving citrus liquor, wine, sake and shochu."

The little Japanese lady handed Fan Ning a menu and charcoal pencils. Fan Ning was surprised, just like the later generations, just tick the latter.

Ming Ren explained with a smile: "The main reason is that their Chinese is not very good, and they can't handle the complicated ordering, so they came up with this method, which is also very convenient."

Fan Ning thought for a while and said, "Then have a pot of sake, and then five or six side dishes, and finally give me the menu, I want to see the price."

Mingren next to him added while ordering: "The shredded lamb with scallions and braised bream in their store are very good. Why don't you also have a pot of stewed beef."

"can!"

The little lady took the menu and hurried away.

Not long after, the lady brought the wine first, and at the same time served three dishes of cold dishes, including duck in sauce, roast chicken, beef in sauce and seaweed in cold sauce.

Akihito filled a glass of wine for Fan Ning, Fan Ning drank a little and nodded, "Yes, it's sake, a bit like Zhulou's Baixiangyuye."

Mingren handed the menu to Fan Ning. While drinking, Fan Ning looked at the menu carefully. There are more than 100 kinds of dishes here, including white meat pie, lotus meat pie, hibiscus cake, mutton buns, and fresh shrimp meatball cakes. And so on the staple food, as well as various beverages, coconut juice, lychee water, citrus water, sugar cane juice, mung bean soup, sweet sugar thirsty water, etc., basically no different from the restaurants in the capital.

However, the prices range from expensive to cheap. Beef and mutton are relatively cheap. You can’t eat beef at all in Beijing. Pork is more expensive. The price of chicken and duck is about the same, while the price of seafood is only [-]% of that in Beijing.

Among the beverages, coconut water is the cheapest, five renminbi for a big glass, and a coconut in Beijing costs [-] yuan. Other drinks are more expensive than in Beijing, but sake is very cheap, only half of that in Beijing, but wine is very expensive, at least three times that in Beijing.

Generally speaking, as long as you don't deliberately order expensive dishes, the food and drinks here are very affordable, almost comparable to small counties in Song Dynasty.

Fan Ning suddenly noticed a peculiarity, that there was no wild game on the menu. He was a little surprised and asked, "Why is there no wild game on the menu?"

Mingren smiled wryly and said, "If you want to eat kangaroo meat, there are koalas. No one eats ostrich meat or eggs. They are all from the Southern Continent. If you want to eat them, I will get them for you."

Fan Ning patted his forehead, he was confused, how could there be rabbit meat and venison here?
Mingren said again: "Don't tell me, I ate whale meat once last year, it was really bad, but the fat can be used to make soap, and there are some wild game in the sea, I'll get you some to taste after a while."

Fanning took another sip of wine and asked, "How much do the locals earn a month?"

"It depends on the industry. For example, mining, smelting, and precision forging earn more. They can earn more than a dozen taels of silver a month, and farming is about a hundred taels of silver a year. It is slightly lower in other factories, but there are also seven or eight taels of silver. The lowest is weaving, only three taels of silver a month. If you work harder, you can earn five taels of silver. This is because the workers are all Japanese girls, but this income is enough for them, and the factory also includes food and housing. , the food is pretty good."

"How much can they earn?" Fan Ning asked, pointing to the Japanese girl in the waiter.

"They calculate their money according to the day, a hundred dollars a day, and they can take two days off with salary in a month. If they want to rest more, they will have no money. Of course, except for illness, food, housing and medical treatment are included. We call it three days here. Bao, almost every store is like this."

Fan Ning nodded with a smile and said, "The treatment is not bad!"

"Of course, there are many single men in the North Island who are willing to migrate here because they don't have a family in the Song Dynasty. As a result, the North Island has more men than girls, so these four thousand Japanese ladies will eventually marry into the North Island. Yes. Of course they should be given preferential treatment, and the South Island is the same."

Fan Ning nodded secretly. Gender imbalance is actually a common problem in overseas territories. It happened in Kunzhou back then, and it was all families who migrated and single men went out to make a living. I have never heard of single women going to sea to make a living.

The final solution is to introduce young women from Japan or Goryeo. There are at least tens of thousands of Japanese girls who have married Song people in these years. Many of them came to the mainland of Song Dynasty through recruitment. I married a Song Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)