Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1072 Marine Industry ([-])

Chen Ke lingered in Nanhai Fishery Company and Luocha Port for about a week.

During this week, he read a lot of information about the South China Sea Fishery Company, and at the same time visited the entire upstream and downstream industrial chain of the marine industry in Luocha Port, and gained a deeper and more intuitive understanding of this increasingly prosperous industry. know.And the more I know, the more I feel dissatisfied with the slow pace of the development of the marine industry on the East Coast today, but there is no way to do it. The size of the East Coast Republic is so large, and the country's offshore fishery resources are not as good as those of the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. With such rich borders, it is not bad to develop into what it is today, so let’s take things slowly.

After inspecting Luocha Port, Chen Ke bought tickets with his entourage and boarded a ship of the Messenger Liner Company, intending to go south to Yancheng Port to check the development of the marine industry there. After all, that is the east coast of China now. The most important fishery production base in the Republic (salt production and close to the fishery).

On July 7, the same day that Zamparini took a stake in Chengxin Fishery Company, the boat that Chen Ke and others took also left the port of Rocha.After sailing for more than half a day, a strong wind suddenly blew up on the sea, and the ship had to rush to Haijiao Harbor to avoid the big waves. Haijiao Harbor is one of several settlements that the Government Affairs Council has recently established between Luocha and the two counties of Qingdao. Located in the famous Punta del Este of later generations; in addition, there are three other new settlements nearby, namely Beitun Township near San Carlos, Xiangyang Township near the small village of El Eden, and Haystack River (ie So Lis River, named for the place where herdsmen stacked hay on the east bank nearby) Haystack Township near the mouth of the sea.

The reason for setting up these four new settlements is to make full use of the Luoqing Railway (Luoqia-Qingdao) under construction; There will be a number of 5000-10000 Lithuanian refugees arriving on the east bank, so it is planned to open up a new county to resettle them-of course, there are rules for how to resettle these refugees. Other densely populated counties recruited a group of new generations, and then withheld a group from the new group of immigrants from the Ming Dynasty, and exchanged with this wave of Lithuanian refugees to fill up these four settlements (initial plan to fill 8000 people), as for The remaining thousands of refugees were scattered to the Jiaohe area, the Dingjun Mountains, along the Southwest Railway, and the new land of Patagonia in the south. Third, the Government Council also took a fancy to the superior near-shore hydrological conditions of Haijiao Port, and wanted to develop it into another large fishery terminal. After all, the conditions of Yancheng Port are limited (there is no hinterland), and it cannot support more Large-scale marine industry.

Especially the third reason. In recent years, because people on the east coast have repeatedly caught relatively rare fish such as tuna and skipjack in the waters from the south to the Rio de Janeiro and the north to Rio de Janeiro, the Ministry of Agriculture has realized that there are Most likely not a small tuna fishery.Coupled with some other factors, the Government Council finally nodded and ordered the construction of a county site here.

Although the port is still under construction, the South China Sea Fisheries Company has ordered a number of tuna fishing boats from the Hyundai Special Shipyard. They have been trial fishing in this sea area for more than half a year, and their luck is really good— —They caught 14 tons of bigeye tuna, 10 tons of yellowfin tuna, and 8 tons of albacore tuna in the waters flowing through the warm current of Brazil by using line fishing or pole fishing (the southeastern sea of ​​Brazil is one of the important spawning grounds for these three fishes , residents on the east coast have figured out that tuna is widely distributed in the Brazilian ocean current, among which young fish are distributed in sea areas with higher latitudes, and older fish are distributed in sea areas with lower latitudes), bluefin tuna is 1 ton, and the total catch is 33 tons Although it is inconspicuous, its economic benefits must not be underestimated. Its sales have exceeded 4 yuan, especially those who like to pretend to spend a lot of money to buy this kind of fish, which has driven a considerable number of wealthy households in China to follow suit, making East Coast fishermen have a whole new appreciation for the value of tuna.

In the process of fishing for tuna, the fishermen of the South China Sea Fishery Company also caught a considerable amount of skipjack (this kind of fish likes to live with juvenile tuna, and the southeast coast of Brazil is also an important fishing ground for skipjack), totaling 23 In addition, there are 4 tons of swordfish (the amount of swordfish caught in Brazil in later generations is similar to that of Spain, accounting for half of the global catch, widely distributed in the southeast coast of Brazil) and other miscellaneous fish (less than 1 ton in total) ), and achieved a total of about 5000 yuan in sales, which is amazing enough.

All in all, the South China Sea Fishery Company has been fishing in this sea area where the Brazilian warm current flows for less than a year. Although it only caught 61 tons of fish, it seems completely incomparable with the total national fishery output of 4.5 tons. , but it was sold at a sky-high price of 3 yuan, and the company's profit was no less than [-] yuan, which was surprising.Therefore, the wharf of Haijiao Port must be built, and it needs to be built in a large and special way, and the number of fishing boats must continue to increase in order to catch more such bony fish in the coming year and create greater benefits for the company. Driven by the people traveling across the country, there has been a trend of eating this rare fish. At this time, why not expand investment?

On July 7, after seeing the wind and waves gradually subside, the three-masted Galenic ship "Kingfisher" under the personal command of Captain Ventura set sail again, and took Chen Ke and others to leave Cape Harbor. The current is heading straight for Yancheng Port.

On the last day of July, the "Kingfisher", which was moving at an excruciatingly slow speed (compared to a motor sailing ship), finally arrived at Yancheng Port, which had begun to see prosperity at this time. After expressing gratitude to Captain Ventura and others, Chen Ke and his party disembarked and entered the branch of Nanhai Fishery Company, and started the routine inspection work stipulated by the Ministry of Agriculture.

To be honest, Chen Ke, who came to Yancheng Port for the first time, was quite shocked. This enclave, which originally only appeared in some fishery and salt industry data, has developed to this day, and its scale is quite large-more than 6000 Residents of Yancheng Port built several artificial reservoirs on both sides of the Sausé River for local drinking water and irrigation water sources (the Sausé River will turn into a saltwater river in winter); Farmland, although the quality of the soil is not good enough, the output is limited, but it is enough if you simply earn enough food for yourself and your family; in addition, there are a large number of orchards around, which produce delicious pears, peaches, jujubes, apples, lemons, grapes and so on ( Sailors’ favorite), plus the cattle and sheep raised by the residents, ostriches, and ostrich eggs usually picked up, in short, it is more than enough as a large ocean-going supply port—of course, Chen Ke came to check the fishery If he is working, the agriculture and animal husbandry in this area are naturally managed by other people, so he only pays attention to the research on the fishing fleet and the amount of fish caught.

The fleet of Nanhai Fishery Company is currently operating in the waters of 41-50 degrees south latitude off the coast of Yancheng Port all year round, mainly fishing for cod. In recent years, it has gradually paid attention to the fishing of squid. After all, the reputation of squid in Argentina is too great Yes, and after years of practice, the fishermen on the east coast have indeed discovered that the coastal waters of Patagonia are an important production area for squid (in later generations, the production of squid here accounted for a quarter of the world's total, and it was still under the condition that Argentina was unable to develop it. "achievements"), so began to study its population habits, migration routes, fishing seasons, specific fishing ground locations and fishing methods, which can be regarded as paying attention to it, as evidenced by the increasing number of squid fishing boats.

Chen Ke looked through the information carefully in the office of Nanhai Fishery Company and found that the company's fishing vessels currently stationed in Yancheng Port include 40 cod fishing vessels, 20 squid fishing vessels (rapid growth in recent years), 2 offshore trawlers (mainly fishing Red shrimp, Patagonian squid and other miscellaneous fish), 6 processing and supply ships, and the scale is quite large.In addition, there are dozens of private fishing boats here all the year round, and they also focus on the three major categories of hake, squid and squid. These boats and the Nanhai Fishery Company’s boats total more than 100, and they will only be able to dock 24 large boats at the same time. Yancheng Port was almost overcrowded and overwhelmed—but fortunately, as the sea area south of 42 degrees south latitude was captured by the East Coast Republic, Green Port and Hai'an Port (that is, the settlements at the mouth of the Chubut River that Cai Huaze was responsible for developing) point, taking the meaning of tranquility in the sea area) will be invested and built one after another soon, then it is only natural that some fishing boats will be diverted to these two places for replenishment and rest.

"Nearly 1300 fishing workers from the South China Sea Fishery Company, and more than 2000 over-fitting commissioned sailors. The seafood caught is also distributed according to the commission method. This method has proved to be the most effective." Chen Ke checked the information while Thinking, "This is especially true for private fishing boats. Most of them are operated in partnership, and they will distribute the fish they catch. However, in recent years, some private fishing boats have begun to pay dividends in cash, which shows that the degree of capitalization of the fishery industry has deepened. Will there be a second distant water fishing company in China that can challenge the monopoly of the South China Sea Fishery Company? Probably not in a short time, after all, fishery is a traditional industry, and its experience needs to be passed down from generation to generation. It takes a long time to gain experience. I heard it took 30 years for the Frisians in the United Provinces to become as expert at whaling as the Basques, whaling so much, fishing is pretty much the same, and counting the time of capital accumulation It should not be a problem for the South China Sea Fishery Company to be good for another ten or twenty years. Well, the behavior of training sailors by the overweight commission can continue. Although this will greatly increase the cost of the South China Sea Fishery Company, state-owned enterprises should make sacrifices for the country. This tradition should still be carried on..."

(End of this chapter)