Manbao also replied frankly: "Then let's calculate it at two wen per person, a person needs to eat at least a pound or two of vegetables a day, right? And meat, even if it's eaten every other day, now a pound of meat, even pork, costs twelve wen per pound, and chicken, beef, and lamb are even more expensive. Even if it's just half a pound of meat eaten every other day..."
"Who can eat that much? Two ounces of meat is enough..." Minister Liu said. "And don't think I don't know, the twelve wen per pound pork is good meat, we can buy some less desirable meat. Pork head, some leaner, tougher meat, and offals like that, cheap at five or six wen, expensive at seven or eight wen is good enough."
The emperor and other ministers were dumbfounded. Is this how meat is sold outside?
Wait, how do they know so much about it?
