"Fried meat cakes, if you like, you can come and eat them every day, one for a penny." Xu Sheng took the two of them to the supply point. "The ten pieces we collected from the money shop before can buy one million pieces of the kind of cake we just ate, but generally if you order them for a year, there will be discounts."

Novika and Sakara were both shocked and instantly got a sense of the so-called large-scale currency. One million meat pies I ate before, such soldiers were rewarded by their soldiers.

"What are you doing to withdraw so much money?" Sakala's origin made him clearly realize the value of the coins. After a comparison, he understood how much money Xu Sheng had received 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 naturally. Sakala and Novika could not understand the relationship between returning and eating good food. What's more, even if they are in a banquet, there is no need for them to spend so much money with Gan Ning.

"There are about 40,000 people in total. The meal is good, and there are vegetables and meat. If you make it yourself, it will be about twenty-five cents on each person's head. However, if you buy a large amount of meat and vegetables, you can only buy it here." Xu Sheng explained to the two of them, and walked inside. There was a special purchase point, and there was a large cold storage for ice underground.

"Let's get 50,000 kilograms of meat first. Come and have some fresh vegetables recently." Xu Sheng also bought things in a very casual way, "Forget fish, come less."

Donglai is close to the sea, especially after the Lujia Shipyard was opened, Chen Xi, in the idea of ​​developing local industries, encouraged local fishermen to buy boats to carry out offshore fishing, and carried out infrastructure construction. He also developed a large number of technical storage technologies that can improve the storage time of fish, such as salted fish, canned salted fish, dried salted fish, salted fish fillets, etc.

As a Chinese, it is too embarrassing not to develop a hundred ways to eat sea fish. With the investment of a large number of ships and the fishing costs of large ships have plummeted. Eating fish in Donglai is almost becoming a living atmosphere, and the price of fish has been falling.

By the way, if Chen Xi had not built a logistics channel here, officially collected fish, and stabilized the price, the fourth-generation ship was the way to drag more than ten tons of fish back at a time, Donglai would have been covered by the fish caught by this group of people.

This is why Xu Sheng asked the store if he wanted to use fish to make meat pies or something, because in Donglai, the fishery industry is really crazy now, but then again, no matter how crazy it is, it is useless to face a country like the Han Dynasty that puts food first.

In Chen Xi's words, since there are still many people in the Central Plains who have never eaten fish and shrimp, these free meat in the sea should be taken to add extra meals to the people in the Central Plains!

It is not that there are 1.4 billion people in later generations, and there is no problem of overfishing. Let go of your hands and feet and fish. Just like this technology and human investment, no matter how much you earn, it is not enough for the vast Central Plains people behind you.

If there is not enough meat, eggs and milk, how to improve the physical fitness of the people in the Central Plains? Since other meats are not yet able to meet the standards, let’s take the fish and meat first. After all, no matter what, no matter how poor fish and meat are, they are much more reliable than food in this regard.

Under this premise, there may be many people in many places who have never eaten this food, but the fish in Donglai has been eaten enough, and hundreds of ways to eat it is not a joke. Of course, no matter how delicious it is, eating it every day will change your taste.

So long before the coastal people got tired of these fish, Chen Xi had already barely completed the circulation of materials in various places. Otherwise, just the meat and vegetables Xu Sheng needed today would be enough to increase the market price of Donglai.

Xu Sheng's words are not complicated, but the difference between weights and measures is different. The two of them didn't know how much Xu Sheng said. Although they mentioned 40,000 people, they didn't think much about it. To be precise, until now, they still thought that Xu Sheng was just preparing to have a banquet for them.

After all, in the Kushan caste system, ordinary soldiers were basically Shudra of the lower caste, and in the eyes of people of higher castes, this level was all slaves and was not worthy of rewards at all.

By the way, this class has the largest population, basically accounting for 80% of the total population. However, due to the habit of caste system, if the number of people is counted, it is generally only counted in the first three classes, and sometimes even the third class is not counted, so there are 1.4 billion Indians and 200 million people.

Of course, compared with later generations, this era is even more crazy. In the eyes of the high caste, Shudra is not a human being at all, but is just a slave. Buddhism seizes the opportunity to preach in Shudra in order to make Shudra feel that this life is suffering and then turn to Buddhism to practice in the next life.

However, how to say it, the Shudra does not have the next life in the caste system. After death, it will return to Brahma, become the foot of Brahma, and become part of the god. Whether it is a happiness in the next life or a part of the god, it may take a long time for normal people to think about.

But for Shudra, this is still necessary to think about it. Of course, it is a part of the god. What a lie in the next life. After I die, I will become Brahma's feet. How good is it. Then there will be no humble words, the feet of the gods!

Shudra's life was very hard, and Buddhism had a good idea of ​​calming the mind. This is also an important reason why Buddhism always believed that it had great advantages in the caste system during this period, and then it was beaten by Hinduism and was half dead.

Don’t guess the thinking mode of the caste system, you can’t guess at all.

The four surnames are equal, we need them very much, ah, this is indeed our pursuit, and I will decide to believe in your Buddhism.

What, Buddhism says that we need reincarnation, so can’t we become part of Lord Brahma? In the next life, go to your next life, I don’t need the next life, I just need this life, let me return to Brahma after death, I want to become a part of Brahma, Buddhism kneels down!

This is also the reason why Buddhism was very well preached in India for a while, but Buddhism, which emphasizes equality, did not engage in caste system in the end. Because Shudra said that I do pursue equality, but compared to pursuing equality, I pursued me more to become a part of Brahma after death!

Compared with the ideal of equality, which is not very important to realize it, after all, this has been passed in the past few thousand years, and it can be passed in the future without realization.

But if I believe in Buddhism, I cannot become Brahma's feet after death and be with Brahma, then I will not be in trouble. So for Shudra, Buddhism, etc., they have the most common believers, but Kshatriya and Brahmins may be brainwashed by Buddhism.

However, Buddhism did not choose Brahmins and Kshatriya from the beginning. After all, Buddhism emphasizes equality, to put it bluntly, it is to make these high castes give up their vested interests. Although there are people like Gautama Siddhartha, most of them cannot achieve this level.

The personal confrontation with the class basically does not exist. Even wise people like Gautama Siddhartha, the initial goal was to rise the Kshatriya, safeguard the interests of the Kshatriya class, suppress the absolute authority of the Brahmin class, and finally achieve Buddhahood. It can only be said that they went far in the later stage, saw more, and became enlightened.

Therefore, relatively speaking, the stability of the caste system is still reliable. If it really evolves into culture, the upper rule of the caste system is still very reliable. As for Buddhism, it can only be said that the caste system absorbs power in it, and it cannot break the recognition of the lower castes for their own cultural heritage. In essence, they are at most general believers.

To be more precise, the power of Buddha, for these lower castes, can only be said to be a certificate of coveting the higher castes. As for some of them, they are truly believers. I hope that for more than a thousand years, there will be no one in a hundred true Buddhist believers in India.

On the contrary, Hinduism has penetrated into culture and has no way to cure it. Even in later generations, the lower castes still strongly recognize their identity.

In short, this is a very strange situation, so for the Kushan soldiers, they did not give them any rewards. They were essentially slaves of Brahmins and Kshatriya. Naturally, the children of slaves were still slaves, and everything of slaves was the master's, including the slaves themselves.

However, when the cargo transporters drove the meat out of the cold storage underground, Sakala and Novika were stunned. This scale was a treat to guests for dinner. What a joke, it took tens of thousands of people to finish it.

But when it comes to tens of thousands of people, Sakara and Novika looked at each other...

"General Xu, are you going to give our subordinates a banquet?" Novika frowned and asked. How can you say such a thing? I haven't experienced it before. How can you give a slave to reward you without doing anything? If you do this, will these slaves still be obedient in the future?

"Of course, our habit here is that when newcomers come, welcoming new recruits, or other things, we have to invite people to have a meal first." Xu Sheng said naturally, "Is Chinese culture? No matter whether his old friends or new friends meet, you can ignore anything else, and take you to have a meal first."

Even if it is a military camp, new recruits report that veterans gather and return to various places after training. Chinese culture will be eaten after eating!

"Uh, what else is there to say?" Sakara was a little hesitant. They also understood the principle of following the local customs, but how to say it, it was too far from the customs there.
Chapter completed!