Chapter 246 Delicious Abalone (Part 2)
What abalone likes the most is those near-shore areas, those near-shore areas with numerous reefs, which are the easiest to produce abalone.
I have visited many harbors, but I have never seen such continuous offshore reefs. It is just that the continuous offshore reefs are hundreds of meters long, and there is not much abalone produced, and it has no actual production significance.
The same is true around the Roots. It is located in the south of the harbor. There is a reef area of three or four hundred feet, which can produce 20,000 to 30,000 abalone every year. After they were made, they were collected by the traveler at a price of one silver price for each big dry abalone, which became a large income for the fishermen at the fishermen at the harbor.
I suddenly felt a little moved when I heard this.
The price of a brothel in Sakaimachi is five gold slaughtered, while the purchase price here is only one silver slaughtered, and the price difference is 50 times that of a full slaughtered!
If I put away these big dry abalone and sell them to Sakaimachi and Osaka, it would be profitable at least a few thousand taels of gold, right?
However, tens of thousands of dried abalones earn a few thousand taels of gold. Compared with our wine, ginseng and other mountain products, it is really a bit less!
This is just in Osaka. There are more prosperous cities in the Song Dynasty and the Liao Dynasty. Their consumption capacity is hundreds of times better than that of small cities like Osaka. Maybe the profits will be higher when transporting big dry abalone to those two countries?
In any case, the number of 20,000 to 30,000 large dry abalone is still small. It has spread to dozens of prosperous cities in the Song Dynasty and Liao Dynasty, but only a few hundred and one thousand in each city. I am afraid that their restaurants can sell hundreds or thousands in a day, right?
The sun is very hot today. We are tired of the voyage and are very comfortable in the dry and hot sunlight. It seems that all the water vapor that is immersed in the body on the boat has evaporated.
Xiao Huon and Dai'er were bored on the boat for so long, so they just started walking around the village. A few girls were sent there to follow. Although there were very few common topics between them, after the little girls gave some small things they bought from Sakaimachi, the distance between the two immediately narrowed, and soon they ran to the distance to pick fruits.
During the conversation, I also learned that the Nenmu Harbour is mostly mountainous and there are not many places to cultivate, so they really rely on fishing and half on making dried abalone to make a living.
Among them, fishing is to fill your stomach, and dry abalone is to exchange for various things needed in the village, such as iron pots, fabrics, salt and other daily necessities.
I heard it a little strange. Even if it is a small silver coupon and a big dry abalone, it will be two or three hundred taels of gold a year. This money is no longer small. How could it be that only buying this little thing?
As a result, when I heard the price of their purchases, I suddenly realized.
A two or three pound iron pot weighing five taels of gold, a one-meter cloth with five gold judging, a one-pound salt with one gold judging...
The coarse iron we bought at Sakaimachi is the one with relatively high purity. It is definitely not the very rough coarse iron sold on the island of Xiayi. It is only one pound of coarse iron and one ounce of gold. At their price, this high-purity coarse iron and one pound of gold must be sold at least five ounces of gold per pound.
The price of the cloth we bought was converted into only six silver meters, and the price difference was doubled.
There is also salt... We sold only thirty cents per catty, which is only three small silver quotations, and it was more than tripled when we got here.
With such a high price, no wonder you can’t buy anything at two or three hundred taels of gold.
As we chatted, with the aroma coming, the abalone was burning to the end.
Dozens of tables were placed on the open space, and plates of abalone were also brought to the table. The adults and children next to them were all watching with awesomeness and saliva.
Even the abalone they produce themselves rarely eat, because the only one here that can afford the price is this big dry abalone, so no one is willing to give up money to eat big abalone.
On my table, the largest abalone was naturally placed, at least one baby fist-sized abalone. Four were placed in one plate, six plates were placed, and the slightly reddish sauce was sprinkled on the abalone, making it look even more fragrant with a rich meaty aroma.
"Please taste it!" Xiao Kenji said respectfully.
I was not pretentious either. I first picked up one for my two sisters and started to taste it slowly.
As soon as you bite into your mouth, you can immediately feel a umami smell. This fresh fragrance from the abalone itself suddenly becomes stunning in your mouth.
It also has a wonderful taste with a hint of meat glue in it, which is even more refreshing.
It is a bit like the pineapple I ate, but it is not as thick as the pineapple, and the taste is even smoother. It will not taste like dry grass when eaten in the mouth if it is chewed for a few times. Instead, after chewing, it will turn into a soft and greasy feeling and swallow it.
After taking a bite, the fragrance remains lingering between the lips and tongue, and the aftertaste is endless.
"tasty!"
Xiaoxun, such a picky girl, nodded repeatedly. She ate faster than me, so she took the second one directly.
Dai'er has always been a practical move, but the third one in her plate is already there.
Children don’t know what it means to savor slowly. If you only think it’s delicious, just eat it quickly and eat more.
Not only us, but also the friends on the side, Hongdu and the navy soldiers, were all voraciously, eating one in just a few bites, or one in one bite.
With such a voracious speed, even if Xiao Jianci and his friends made thousands of abalone, we ate them clean.
Xiao Jianci and others were also stunned when they looked at it, but when they remembered the twenty or thirty gold ingots in their arms, they were immediately very at ease. This business was very cost-effective.
"Guardian Xiao Jianci, although your big abalone is delicious, it's too little!" I, who was so comfortable that I turned around and said to him, "How many big abalone do you have?"
Upon hearing this, Xiao Jianci felt aroused his heart and lowered his head and replied: "When you say goodbye to your highness, we have made about 10,000 large dry abalones in total, waiting for the traveling merchants to collect them."
"Don't sell it to them, just give it to me." I pondered, "You sell a big dry abalone for one silver judge... I'll give you three silver judges with one big dry abalone. What do you think?"
"ah?"
Xiao Jianji was so happy that he was stunned. It was the people behind him who poked him a few times before he realized: "Your Highness, do you want everything?"
"I want all!" I said with a smile, "In addition, do you want cloth? We happened to buy some, and you have three gold coins and 100% meter, how about it?"
"real!?"
Xiao Jianci was shocked by the successive surprises. The things sold were high, and the things bought were low. How much money should we save for the people in the village during the whole trip?
I nodded: "Of course it's true. If you want, we'll trade later!"
"Yes, I'm willing! Your Highness, you are waiting..."
While speaking, Kenji ran back. After a while of yelling, the entire Nemu Village became turbulent! (Welcome to your support, my greatest motivation.)
Chapter completed!