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Chapter 1089 Fish

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    "What did you say? That guy Tian Suning actually went to see Liu Deng? This two-faced guy!"

    In the backyard of Sihai Trading Company, Ou Zhenming looked at the several clerks in front of him with a gloomy expression.

    They have almost a monopoly on all grain transactions in the area, and naturally everyone knows how much grain is left in their hands.

    Originally, I wanted to give Liu Deng a powerful blow, but I didn¡¯t expect that Liu Deng would dare to do this trick!

    He doesn¡¯t play according to the routine at all!

    It is clear that the officials in this city, big and small, are buying their own lives with food!

    Although almost every city in Jiaodong Kingdom is extremely short of food.

    But those who are really in danger must be the common people. How can high-ranking officials like Tian Suning and others be short of food?

    In this day and age, in addition to generous salary packages, each of these officials also uses their authority to annex and purchase land on a large scale.

    With more land, there will naturally be less food. In this mainly agricultural social system, for most of the landlord class, hoarding food is almost a must for them.

    Every autumn they keep the new grain in their hands, and then sell the remaining old grain from last year at a high price to the grain merchants who come to collect it.

    In other words, they will definitely have a year's harvest in their hands no matter what.

    After all, you don¡¯t have to panic when you have food in hand. In this day and age, this is an unbreakable truth.

    In this era of low productivity, only holding food in their hands can reassure them.

    After all, many times when faced with natural or man-made disasters, even if you have a lot of money, you may not be able to buy food.

    The grain in your hand can be exchanged for copper coins at any time, but the copper coins in your hand may not necessarily be exchanged for grain.

    ??Especially after this war, almost everyone in the world is in danger. Ordinary people and small households are thinking about buying a few more kilograms of food and hoarding it.

    ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?Essentially, are the officials who were born in the Zhongming Dingshi family.

    On the one hand, they hold real power in their hands, and the food in their own homes will not be taken away without reason or forcibly distributed.

    On the other hand, they can even take advantage of their positions to hoard more food. After all, when troubled times come, food is the most precious resource.

    Just like now, even Liu Deng has to compromise with reality. After all, without food, people will starve to death.

    "Don't worry, sir. Although these officials do hold a lot of food in their hands, the total amount will definitely not exceed 50,000 dan! There are already hundreds of thousands of people in the entire Buqi County, and there are still disaster victims in the surrounding areas.  The influx of food is just a drop in the bucket!"

    Fang BuTong whispered with a sinister look on his face.

    "Tell our people to do something for me and get those strong laborers back to Dongou! Let all the old, weak, women and children go to Buqi County. I want to see this  How capable His Highness the Daidai Wang is!"

    Being reminded by Fang BuTong, Ou Zhenming immediately reacted and said with a sneer.

    "Young Master is indeed wise. Let's see how many people this chivalrous-hearted King Dai can save! Let's see how much food he has on behalf of the country. He can support these old and weak women and children for a lifetime!"

    Fang BuTong also sneered.

    It¡¯s only August now. Based on the current situation this year, it¡¯s already too late for them to plant soybeans at this time.

    ¡° If we want these people to be self-sufficient, they must at least wait until next summer¡¯s harvest.

    There is still more than half a year left in between!

    For eight or nine months, more than 100,000 people will need at least hundreds of thousands of shi of food. Is Liu Deng really that capable?

    Even if he really has such a great ability, those old, weak, women and children are struggling to support themselves, so what can they use to pay taxes for him?

    "Your Majesty, I bought these things in total. You see"

    In the inn, Du Ziteng came back with a few buckets of miscellaneous fish with a bitter look on his face.

    Although these things don¡¯t cost much, they only cost fifty pence when put together.

    But it was really a lot of effort. In order to buy these things, they knocked on the door and asked.

    Knocking on the door in the middle of the night to buy offal fish, butYou can imagine how unwelcome this would be

    "Very good, these are the things you need! I will place an order. Now go to the kitchen of the inn and look for it for me. If you can't find it, go to the pharmacy in the city and look for it for me!"

    Liu Deng suddenly became interested. While rubbing his hands, he made a long list and handed it to Du Ziteng.

    " Du Ziteng is really a little depressed. He doesn't know why his king is so crazy at night. Is it possible that he wants to treat everyone to fish at this time?

    Du Ziteng really feels a little headache for these little miscellaneous fish. After all, there really isn¡¯t much meat on these fish, but they are all fish bones!

    "It got stuck in the throat accidentally. If the treatment is not correct, it may lead to death."

    After all, it¡¯s hard for men like them who grew up on the loess land to imagine why they have to eat something full of thorns.

    But looking at Liu Deng¡¯s excitement, he could only lower his head to look for these things now.

    After finally gathering all the things, it was already midnight, and Liu Deng came to the kitchen of the inn excitedly.

    He drove out all the cupboards, and then called in a few soldiers.

    Teach them step by step how to deal with these trash fish.

    Although they are all trash fish, they are really quite big.

    Each one of them was at least half a foot long. Liu Deng taught them very skillfully how to disembowel them and then remove all the internal organs and fish scales.

    Put it into the wooden barrel next to it, clean it, then put it into the seasoning bucket you prepared next to it to marinate.

    Seeing that they were doing well one by one, Liu Deng set up a big pot again, put some lard into the pot, took a pair of big chopsticks and fried the fish until both sides were golden.

    By this time, the whole room was filled with the smell of fish. They had been drinking porridge for several days, and the soldiers were now a little ready to move.

    ¡°Don¡¯t worry, I¡¯ll give you a treat today and let you taste how delicious the fish in this sea is!¡±

    Looking at them all drooling secretly, Liu Deng said with a smile.

    "Your Majesty, how do you"

    Du Ziteng stood beside him with a bitter look on his face, lighting a fire for Liu Deng and muttering in a low voice.

    "Stop talking nonsense, after you have eaten, I still have something to ask you!" (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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