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Chapter 222 The Netherlands at the end of the Han Dynasty, or Qingzhou in the west?
No wonder Jia Xu got angry, Wang Hou is so awesome, he returned to Guangling Chen Yuanlong, he plowed 50 shi a year, and he went, but he couldn't even reach [-] shi a year.

It's not that you can't catch fish. After all, there is a Zhoushan fishing ground at the gate of Chen Deng. There are fish in the nets these days. The captain was so anxious that he cried, and lost 20 to [-] yuan when he went to sea!Now the sea is very rich.

The biggest enemy is still freshness.

There is no quick-freezing cabin these days. Wang Hou taught Chen Deng a live fishing cabin, but even if the fish were kept in the seawater specially reserved below the deck, they would die in one day or rot in two days. A large pelagic fish like this is more than 30 meters long. The fishing boat can work at sea for half a month, but it can only return on the third day after going out to sea. The manpower and material resources are not enough to earn much. In addition, Chen Deng is still not very concerned about the sea. ten.

Especially sea boats are more risky than river boats, and Chen Deng has turned over one of them these days.

So looking at the fish on Wang Hou's head, he didn't mention much interest.

But leaning on the half-deck, staring at a pair of old eyes, after a while, some different actions of Wang Hou caught his eyes.

The steps were exactly the same as Chen Deng's, grabbing the fish and throwing it into the live fish tank, but after half an hour of hard work, the fish collection was completed, and a different scene came.

Under Wang Hou's orders, the sailors were directed around, and brought up a pile of well-sealed wooden barrels. They caught a fish himself, and they were not afraid of fishy smell. Wang Hou cut off the fish's gills twice, and the sharp knife once. Aside from the fish belly, take out the swim bladder separately, which is an important material for cooking gelatin. The remaining internal organs and fish scales are thrown into a bucket, and the cleaned fish grabs two handfuls of salt in the bucket and rubs them inside and out. With one swipe, he threw the golden pomfret that was still bouncing into the third vat that was half full of brine.

The state herdsman did it himself, how dare those sailors not help, and for a while there were a lot of small horses sitting around the live fishing cabin, and the sailors surrounded the live fishing cabin, spinning knives in a hurry, one by one. All kinds of pitiful fat sea fish were reduced to the souls of the sword. On the deck, the choking smell was tangy, and the water in the live fish cabin quickly turned blood red, but the swim bladder was quickly filled with two large buckets. There are eight or nine buckets of viscera, fish scales and fish heads, more than 40 buckets of fish, four or five buckets of shrimp, and crabs are thrown away.

Unlike fish, if sea crabs cannot be cooked quickly and then frozen, the protein decays quickly. Even if you like crabs before crossing, you can sell them for at least one or two hundred in these markets, and the largest ones can be more than a catty. Crab, Wang Hou had no choice but to say goodbye!

There are almost 300 catties of fish in a bucket, so I harvested more than 120 stones at one time, which is only the harvest of two boats for half a night.When he was doing it just now, he was full of energy, but now Wang Hou couldn't do it anymore, he was so confused by the smell, he fled back to the first-class cabin at the stern with his nose flapping his nose, and opened a bucket of fresh water extravagantly for himself On the other side, the sailors drew lots for a long time before one sailor plucked up the courage to jump down from the live fish pond. Smelling the choking smell of blood, he pulled out all the plugs from the bottom of the live fish pond. , bright red blood spurted out, and at the other end, the old captain hurriedly ordered to hang up the sail, and was about to run away.

There are already a lot of sharks gathered now. Once such bloody water is discharged, the sharks within a hundred miles may have to move over upon hearing the wind, so don't knock the boat over by then.

Just watching the sailors push the heavy vats under the cabin, Jia Xu still had doubts in his eyes.

Can it really be preserved like this?
He didn't know that such a simple one-size-fits-all method laid the foundation of a legendary business empire in the West in later generations, the Netherlands of the sea coachman!
The coastline of northern Europe is visited by a large number of herring every year. The Netherlands, Sweden, and Norway all rely on salvaging herring to make a living. Among them, the Netherlands is the weakest one.

But a Dutch fisherman named William invented this Dutch preservation method by accident. He cut off the internal organs of the herring, put salt on it, and then pickled it in strong brine, so that the herring can be preserved for a full year.

You must know that fish is in short supply in the European market, because these days, the cooking methods for meat are too backward, and the meat in the West is all authentic with the body odor of livestock. Why are spices so popular in the West? It is because nobles need to use a lot of spices Only by marinating can the peculiar smell in the meat be suppressed, and in the Christian tradition, almost half of the time of the year is due to fasting, and meat cannot be eaten!

However, the fish was an accident!In the Western view, for a long time, fish was not included in the meat. On fasting days, there is only fish as a protein. It is conceivable that the Dutch can store kippers for a year and transport them to the European market. That's how popular it is.

Relying on this advantage, the Dutch accumulated the first pot of gold to dominate the world!

But now, the Dutch-style fresh-keeping method has been plagiarized shamelessly by Wang Hou, and the end of the Han Dynasty was long before the establishment of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. I don’t know if later generations will say that Qingzhou is the Eastern Netherlands, or that the Netherlands is the Western Qingzhou. up.

As for the famous canned stinky herring that is famous in later generations, Wang Hou doesn’t have to worry at all, because it is not the same thing as pickled fish!Canned stinky herring is a special food in Sweden. It is not from the Netherlands at all, and the production process of stinky herring is that the Swedes cook the herring in order to save some salt, seal it in the can and let it ferment naturally. The gas rises Two months later, the smell is naturally moving!
The principle of concentrated salt water preservation is that the concentration of salt water exceeds the cell fluid. After the rotten bacteria fall on the fish, the cell fluid is directly squeezed out and dies, which plays a role in inhibiting the bacteria. There must be, but it is definitely not to the point where the dog can be fumigated when the lid is opened.

Amid Jia Xu's worries, two Qingzhou sharp-bottomed deep-sea fishing boats went fishing around the islands and reefs of the Yellow Sea for more than a week. So heavy, Wang Hou was satisfied and ordered to return to the voyage.

When he came back, Wang Hou even made a magic trick for Jia Xu. In Chen Deng’s live fish cabin, the fish basically died in a day. As for the crabs, they died in a while, but in his live fish, the last net caught Not to mention the fish are always alive and kicking, and even the crabs are wandering around with their teeth and claws. It's just that the four substitute sailors took turns stepping on a leather blower like the blower used by the boiler in the iron factory to exhaust the air. Once they stepped on it, The reserved pipe in the water is bubbling.

To say that Wang Hou is really irresponsible, he was already tired of staying on the boat, he even lost to his own guards for a lot of money when he was acquainted with Doudizhu, and he also ate pickled vegetables and steamed buns for many days. He packed the big crabs and two tunas in the live fish cabin into boxes, got on the carriage and flung them into the mansion. He couldn't wait to improve his life.

This trip harvested more than 500 shi of sea fish, and they were meat-eating fish meat rich in protein. For the agriculture-oriented late Han Dynasty, it was a bumper harvest, but Jia Xu still kept it straight. Arrived is different.

It was the trestle bridge that Wang Hou first built. Two sailors struggled to push the huge round wooden barrel with iron hoops to the shore to unload. The lid of the barrel was opened with great effort, and a fishy smell came over his face, but in his surprised eyes, the big hairtail in the box was still the same as it was just put in, the meat was very firm, and there was no smell of corruption. Seeing it, Jia Xu shook his head.

"Could it be that the sound of oranges in Huainan is orange, and the sound of Huaibei is orange?"

However, just as he was shaking his head and sighing with emotion, another big bucket was not held firmly when being stacked up by the sailor, and it fell to the ground with a bang. In an instant, all kinds of red, black, and sticky substances fell out. After coming out, Jia Xu, who was still next to the unloading area, immediately rolled his old eyes and passed out with a thud. On the other end, Wang Hou, who was still thinking about who to invite to the crab feast with a big crab, also had an old face. Turning pale, he vomited out all of a sudden, and the two staggered out of the carriage, and followed his guards to lean on the wall and vomited profusely.

The jaundiced water that was vomited was about to come out, and the eyes were shining with stars, Wang Hou pulled out his sword sadly.

"Go! See who farted such a stinky fart, let Honshu Mu directly kill him, it's too smelly! Wow~~~"

(End of this chapter)