Hongwu Survival Guide

Chapter 117 Feng

Off the coast of Mingzhou.

In Changguo Prefecture, there is Huangdashan Island in the northeast of Zhoushan Island, and the nearby ocean is called Huang Dayang. This is the first stop for the large yellow croaker to go north to the Zhoushan Islands.

Another fine day.

Liu Lian, the doctor of the Yinghai Division, sailed into the Yellow Ocean on the famous five-thousand-material boat of the Yinghai Envoy. Standing on the top deck of the upper cabin, he looked at the thousands of people of all sizes who were busy on the vast ocean around them. Fishing boat, only two words flashed in Liu Lian's mind.

Prosperity!

Only in the prosperous age can there be such a scene.

Liu Lian did not forget that when the Navy Commander's Mansion and the Yinghai Division were first established in February, the sea off Mingzhou was still in a chaotic state of remnant soldiers and pirates because of the initial decision of the war.At present, only three months have passed, the sea is peaceful, the people are stable, and there is even a grand occasion where more than [-] fishing boats are competing to go to sea.

Liu Lian heard privately from some old people that the last time it was like this was 30 or [-] years ago, and the reign name at that time was still Zhiyuan.

Subsequently, all the heroes in the southeast came together.

The rebels fought with the government, the rebels fought with the rebels, the rebels made peace with the government, and the government fell out with the rebels again, so you come and go, and there has been no rest for more than 20 years. In troubled times, the people only want one life, and there is no way No longer engaged in production.

Until now.

At that moment, looking at the situation on the sea, Liu Lian thought of a certain boy again.And the little farce before going to sea this time, I couldn't help smiling.

Amidst the attention, cheers and even kneeling of the boatmen and fishermen on the surrounding boats, the huge boat passed through the densely populated area of ​​fishing boats, came to the top of a school of fish, and anchored.

On the deck, hundreds of boatmen began to move out various fishing equipment.

Mainly related to sea fishing.

Along the sides of the ship with a length of tens of feet, hundreds of small winches were fixed soon, and someone lifted out baskets of small fish and shrimp. The boatman beside the winch hung the fish and shrimp as bait on the winch On the large fishhook attached to the rope, while hanging the bait, someone turns the winch to lower the rope.

Liu Lian left the top deck and came to the side of the boat. Looking at the operations of the boatmen and fishermen, he thought he would have to wait for a while like fishing in the river.

Liu Lian stopped and stood by a winch to watch. Soon, the first fish appeared, and it was a big fish that was three feet long and weighed more than ten kilograms.

The boatman who operated the winch was also very knowledgeable. After taking down the big fish, he immediately held it in front of Liu Lian, and said with a smile, "Thanks to my lord, the first one weighs at least fifteen catties, my lord."

Liu Lian didn't dislike the smell of fish, so he directly reached out to catch it. As soon as he took it, the large yellow croaker that was caught jumped up. Hitting the big yellow croaker's head with a fist, it stopped immediately.

Liu Lian, whose clothes were all wet, still didn't care, and weighed it with a smile. It was indeed more than ten catties.

The side winch is still retracting the rope.

When the stone pendant at the bottom finally came up, there were a total of six fish on a string of hooks, and they were all big fish two to three feet long, at least forty to fifty catties in total.

The fish are caught on board, and another fisherman handles them on site, dissects the fish, salts them, puts them in baskets, lifts them off the deck and sends them into the cabin.

Flow operation, all in one go.

Liu Lian has been walking around the deck, not talking much, just watching.

Also found the problem.

When handling fish, there is no need to say much about the former except swim bladder and fish liver. According to Hanlin, the latter also has medicinal value, and all other offals are directly thrown into the sea.

Liu Lian felt a little wasteful.

Thinking about it again, there is no way.

Offal such as fish intestines may be edible, but it is not easy to preserve.

If they are marinated together, there is no shortage of salt, but it is not as easy to carry out subsequent processing and transportation as whole fish.

It is more convenient to throw it into the sea.

After turning around like this, Liu Lian returned to the entrance of the lower cabin in the rear section of the big ship. There is a scale here, and there are officials who weigh and record it.

Liu Lian looked at the account books.

In just two quarters of an hour, 37 boxes of about 1800 kilograms of preliminarily processed fish were sent into the cabin.

Juzhou brought 500 people out, and the Yinghai Envoy personally set a goal to bring back 5000 loads of fish, 10 loads per person.

Liu Lian was a little worried at first that he would not be able to complete the task.

After all, 5000 dan is 50 jin, which is not a small amount.What's more, it is fishing by sea fishing, how can it be compared with net fishing?
Standing on the side of the boat and seeing the dense fish schools in the water, and watching the fishing operations of the boatmen and fishermen, Liu Lian felt relieved.

I even feel that the goal of 5000 Dan is not a little lower?
After all, it is no problem for this giant boat to be fully loaded with 10000 to [-] shi of grain. In this case, perhaps it is only a matter of time before [-] loads of fish are caught.

Then stay a few more days.

Liu Lian was about to look at it again, when a ship with thousands of materials approached, and stopped when it was a hundred feet away, and someone took a small boat to turn to the big ship here.

The visitors were Zhong Fangli, another Yinghai secretary, Xu You, the magistrate of Changguo, and Li Gui, the concubine and younger brother of his own Yinghai envoy, and several other officials.

Since it was a full-scale sea fishing, it would not be appropriate to let Li Gui, who is the eighth grade, be in charge, so the burden fell on Fang Li. Li Gui, the manager of the Mingzhou Fishery Production Company, was of course one of the backbones.As for Xu You, this is the border of Chang Kingdom, so it is not surprising that he appeared.

Liu Lian knew that Zhang Yi, a fourth-rank commander of the Yinghai Division, led 2000 troops and 30 ships to be responsible for the security of the sea capture.

Zhang Yi was obviously not with Fang Li and the others.

After meeting each other, Fang Li was still puzzled. Xu You, the magistrate of Changguo, couldn't help asking: "Liu Langzhong, as far as I know, this is the boat of the Yinghai envoy?"

Liu Lian understood Xu You's meaning, shook his head and said, "Hanlin never went to sea."

Talking and thinking about yesterday's situation.

Zhu Yuan wanted to go to sea, and he also planned to go to sea secretly, and let people arrange his own boat in advance. Before leaving the port, everyone realized that the Battalion Sea Envoy wanted to go with him. Thinking of the strict order of the Navy Captain, no one dared to sail. .

Then, Lord Dudu hurried over and forcibly carried Lord Ying Haishi off the boat.

Liu Lian still clearly remembers the appearance of Lord Yinghai Envoy 'thumping' on the shoulder of the naval captain, while shouting, "What's the point of being an official if I can't even come out of the sea?" At that moment, at that scene, I endured Liu Lian, who couldn't stop laughing with many people, realized again that his sea envoy was only a young boy.

boy!
Liu Lian has always felt that being an official cannot always live in the temple, but for his own sea envoy, he also feels that it is good to live in the temple, and such a weak body cannot be tossed about.

They do things.

After all, that young boy has actually done too much.

Whether it is sea transportation or sea fishing, Mingzhou can have the current situation, and the sea envoys must definitely take the lead.Without him, Liu Lian felt that his group of people would definitely not be able to do it, because they didn't know how to do it at all.

at the moment.

Hearing that Zhu Yuan didn't come together, Xu You looked around again, cupped his hands and said, "Excuse me, sir, how can the boat of Mr. Ying Haisi be used for fishing, so that the boat is full of fish?"

As soon as Xu You spoke, Fang Li, Li Gui and others also looked over with doubts on their faces.

Looking around, everyone also felt that it was a bit inappropriate to do so.

Although it was just a young man's appearance, Zhu Yuan's status in their hearts was getting higher and higher before they knew it. Since His Majesty the Emperor gave this ship to Mr. Yinghai Envoy as a boat, how could it be so ruined? "

Sensing the gazes of the people around him, Liu Lian explained: "I don't dare to make claims, this is the arrangement of Hanlin himself."

Mr. Yinghai Envoy's own arrangement?

Hearing this, several people paused for a while, and after thinking about it, they felt that someone could really do such a thing.

After Liu Lian explained it, he turned to Fang Li and started talking about business: "Master Fang, under the order of the Maritime Envoy, brought over 5 guan in silver for the purchase of private fish. The money has been unloaded in Beigang, Zhoushan. How about the fish catch recently?"

Today is the ninth day of May.

The sea fishing fleet started to go to sea on the first day of May, and it has been nine days.

Hearing Liu Lian's question, Fang Li turned his eyes back to look around, and said with a bit of unconcealed joy: "Fortunately, there have been no storms these days. According to preliminary estimates, 12 and 7000 tans of fish have been transported into Zhoushan Beigang. Among them, 6 dan were caught by officials, and 8000 tan were caught by civilians. Heh, if Langzhong Liu doesn’t send money, I really have to worry about how to continue to buy fish later.”

When Fang Li went to sea, he also brought 5 guan in silver.

According to the quotation of 1000 Wen for a load of fish caught by the Ying Hai Division, the current consumption is almost the same. Fang Li sent someone to send a letter back yesterday. When talking about the money, he did not expect that Liu Lian had already sent the money.

Liu Lian nodded and continued talking to Fang Li, but he was a little surprised at the total of 12.7 tan of fish.

It's less than 10 days.

However, thinking about it again, it was exactly right.

From the beginning of May to the middle of June, less than 50 days, the Yinghai Division previously estimated that according to the weather and sea conditions, a total of 30 to 50 tans of fish could be caught in this fishing season, and 9 tans will be harvested in the current 12.7 days. Completely within expectations.

But, it's really surprising.

12.7 tons, converted to 1270 million catties.

Thousands of catties!

Liu Lian couldn't bear the urge to go to the side of the boat to have a look at the fish in the sea.

This sea is really as rich as what Master Yinghai Envoy said!

In addition, Liu Lian also noticed a detail. This time, the number of official arrests exceeded that of civilian arrests.

This should be the result of adding a large number of sea fishing equipment to make up for the lack of net gear.

Moreover, the total number of ships that Ying Haisi has gone to sea this time is actually quite a lot. There are more than 300 large ships above the 800-material level, and there are more than 1100 small boats brought by Mingzhou fishermen who were previously incorporated into the Mingzhou Fishery Production Company. [-] ships.

Compared with the total number of more than 3700 fishing boats, the proportion is already close to one-third. Before going south to sea, the total number of official boats was only in the early 300s, while there were more than 1300 private fishing boats.

A few people here were talking, when a commotion suddenly appeared on the north side of the ship near the bow.

The voice came: "Shark, shark!"

Immediately, everyone felt that the huge hull trembled slightly, and a group of people ran over to help.

Liu Lian and others also hurried over.

Just approaching, in a hurry, more than ten boatmen and fishermen dragged a big guy with more than ten feet onto the deck with hooks or harpoons.

More people gathered around to watch the shark struggle and bounce on the deck.

"Basking shark."

"It's only a foot long, and it hasn't grown up yet."

"This basking shark lives in groups. If there is this one, there must be others around."

"..."

Listening to the discussions around, and watching a group of boat workers and fishermen approaching cautiously, seeming to have scruples, Liu Lian said loudly: "I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you soon, don't hurt anyone."

As soon as Liu Lian finished speaking, Xu You followed suit, "Be careful, don't hurt this fine skin."

Seeing Liu Lian staring at Xu You, Fang Li was about to speak again, and quickly explained: "Mr. Liu, don't worry, this is a basking shark, it doesn't hurt anyone."

Only then did Liu Lian relax a bit, and signaled to the people around: "Don't get together, we're all scattered, let's get busy."

When the surrounding boatmen and fishermen dispersed again, someone had already found a fishing net to cover the shark, and then the others stepped forward and carefully ground the basking shark, which weighed five to six hundred kilograms, even though it was underage, to death.

After confirming that the shark was dead, Liu Lian and others stepped forward.

Xu You didn't seem to remember the details of Liu Lian's glaring at him just now, but only admired: "Thousands of fishing boats have only caught more than 200 sharks in total these days, but there are such good goods as soon as Lang Zhong arrives."

Fang Li squatted down, opened the mouth of the fish to look at it a few times, and said, "Unfortunately, it's a bit small. An adult basking shark can be three feet long."

Li Gui squatted down after him, stroking the shark's back and said: "Shark skin is the best material for making armor. It was called 'Shark Armor' in ancient times. "

Seeing that Liu Lian also squatted down, Xu You could only follow the crowd, squatted down and pointed at the fins: "This is really delicious."

Liu Lian glanced sideways: "Hanlin has designated this shark fin as a monopoly of Yinghai Division, and it needs to be recorded."

Xu You said with a smile: "The lower officials know, and because of it, they feel that they have no good luck."

After everyone said a few words, Liu Lian ordered the boatman to handle the shark carefully and make a record, and then led several people to the meeting room on the second floor of the upper cabin.

It wasn't long before we discussed and inquired about the various details of the sea capture in the meeting hall, when suddenly a boatman came to report in a hurry, and a large number of ships came from the southeast.

Liu Lian and the others did not panic.

At present, in the southeast region, only his own people can gather a large number of ships. Moreover, Liu Lian just knows that the Southern Expedition Army will send another batch of captured ships over in the near future.

Coming to the top deck of the upper cabin again, everyone looked southeast.

More than ten miles away, there are sails and masts like forests, and the feeling of oppression is full.

Liu Lian looked through the binoculars carefully, and confirmed that it was his own ship through the military flag, but there were still several military ships near the fishing ground to meet it.

Discuss a few words with Fang Li and Xu You, and ships are also sent here.

Liu Lian hopes that the fleet can bypass the fishing area and not disturb the fishing operation.

More than half an hour later, the military ship of Zhang Yi, commander of the battalion sea guard, and the flagship of the new fleet approached the giant boat together, and Liu Lian and his party did not know the specific identity of the visitor.

It is true that the Southern Expeditionary Army once again sent to capture ships.

The commander of the fleet was a fourth-rank commander and deputy envoy of Yixingwei, named Chen Su, who led more than 2100 people from the headquarters of Yixingwei, plus more than 1700 soldiers from Guangzhou He Zhen, and another 11000 Guangzhou civilians, totaling about 15000 people.

The total number of large and small ships is 726.

Among them, there are 500 ships of 337 materials and above that can be used to transport grain northward, with a total of 27 materials, which is the same 27 stone load.

The remaining 389 ships have a total number of 11.

Not only people and boats, compared to Wu Zhen and Zhang Cundao who came empty-handed before, this time the fleet also carried 13 shi of grain.

Seeing these ships and people, Liu Lian once again thought of the phrase 'plans can't keep up with changes' that his master sea envoy often said.

The change is that there are more and more ships.

According to the original plan, Yinghai Division planned to build 800 new ships with 500 materials, with a total load of 40 shi. Yao Feng estimated that if there were enough materials and enough manpower, 800 new ships could be completed in two months.

It's pretty much the same.

At present, shipbuilding factories have been set up in Suzhou, Hangzhou, Mingzhou, Wenzhou, Taizhou and other places. Recently, new ships of 500 materials in various places have been launched into the water like dumplings.

Although more than 130 ships have been completed so far because of the long preparation work such as raising wood and convening craftsmen in the early stage, after everything is ready, all 800 new ships can still be completely completed by the end of June.

Now, another batch is coming from the south.

Liu Lian roughly calculated that by the second half of the year, the Yinghai Division would only be a vessel that could be used to transport grain northward. Theoretically, the total carrying capacity would exceed 120 million shi.

Moreover, after the completion of the first batch of 800 new ships in the shipbuilding plan, the Yinghai Division will not stop.

Whether it is used for shipping or fishing, Yinghai Division will continue to build ships.

This probably means that next year, even if there are old ships being eliminated continuously, after the new ships are replenished, the total carrying capacity of the Ying Hai Division's grain transportation fleet is expected to easily reach more than 150 million shi.

150 million shi, two round trips a year, is 300 million shi.

At the peak of Yuanting's maritime grain transportation, it was only about 300 million shi.

Liu Lian doesn't know how long it took Yuan Ting to realize the transportation volume of 300 million stones from scratch, but it may only take one or two years for Yinghai Division to complete this goal.

Two years!
Moreover, the limit of the Yuan court is 300 million shi, but it does not mean that the limit of the Ming court is also 300 million dan. In the future, it is not impossible to double the 600 million shi.

Thinking of this, Liu Lian really couldn't bypass his family's Yinghai envoy, the young master.

It was the boy who managed all of this.

If this goal can be successfully achieved, Jinling will no longer have to worry about the silting of the canal, and the north will no longer suffer from food shortages.

On the giant boat.

After getting to know each other and greeting each other, Zhang Yi, the commander of the Haiwei Guard, and Chen Ju, the deputy commander of the Yixing Guard, disembarked quickly, and Zhang Yi would be in charge of leading Chen Ju to lead the fleet to berth at Zhoushan North Port.

Zhoushan Beigang, this is the name given by Zhu Yuan. It is located between Zhoushan Island and Changbai Island at the northwest end of Zhoushan Island. Because the coastline there is facing north, when the place name was determined, it was named Beigang.

In the current era of sailing, this port is an important transit port starting from Dinghai, passing through Zhoushan Island, and then heading east or north.

Although Zhoushan Island is very close to Dinghai, there are only 70 miles of waterway left from Zhoushan Beigang, but it is already afternoon. Chen Su led the fleet to pass through Huang Dayang and then enter Zhoushan Beigang. It is expected to be dark, and there must be no way today. After arriving in Dinghai, we can only park in Zhoushan for one night.

(End of this chapter)