Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 383 Amazing Catch

Three months passed in a flash, and the gigantic new Chang'an City was actually built!
At this moment, the major factories in the city are starting to recruit people, and young men and women from nearby state capitals are flocking here, just wanting to go in and work.

However, at this time, Taichang was no longer in New Chang'an City.

Because the five large fishing boats have also been built, he has to follow to see the effect and catch at the same time.

The Daming Western Company has not been idle for the past three months. They directly borrowed more than ten Spike warships to explore the waters around Dongpu, and they have roughly grasped the scale of the current.

At the moment, the largest currents around Japan are in the waters from the Hirado clan in the north of Kyushu Island to the Changzhou clan in the west of Honshu.

And five large fishing boats have already arrived here.

To the north of Xintang State House, between Iki Island and Tsushima Island.

Five large fishing boats resembling large boats and gunboats were lining up in a row and slowly sailing towards the northeast. The Aegis ship followed behind them, and more than a dozen Spike warships cruised around to protect them.

At this time, the steam engine on the deck of the fishing boat had started to work, the two huge wheels were slowly turning, and the fishing line as thick as a finger was slowly being lowered.

There are two fishermen on both sides of each fishing line, and they are all skillfully hanging bait on the series of hooks.

These fishermen are not fishermen from Japan.

They are all fishermen recruited from the coast of Daming.

After all, this monopoly of marine resources is huge profits, and this kind of work cannot be learned by the Japanese.

There is also a steam engine that cannot allow Japanese people to have close contact with them, so this thing must be kept secret.

Therefore, the fishermen on the large fishing boats are all recruited from the coast of Daming, and the wages are relatively high.

This will also increase the income of coastal fishermen and improve their lives.

Anyway, there are many fishermen along the coast of Daming, no matter how many large fishing boats are built in the future, they are not afraid that they will not be able to recruit people.

These are all already planned.

Now it depends on whether the catch is enough or not.

At this moment, they don't simply catch dozens of fish, just a few hundred catties or a few thousand catties. On this day, each fishing boat must catch at least hundreds of thousands of catties!

Otherwise, there would not be enough forty or fifty large fishing boats in the sea area of ​​Dongying.

So, can these fishing boats catch hundreds of thousands of catties a day?
To be honest, Taichang didn't know what to do.

He was staring closely at the fishing boat in front of him with binoculars.

At this moment, Daming's technical level and processing level are really nothing to say, not to mention the pulley driven by the steam engine, just the chute where the fishing line slides down is quite well done.

The whole chute is made of copper plate, the surface is extremely smooth, the fishing line can slide directly to the bottom of the water through the chute, no need to worry about hanging on the water wheel, and no need to worry about the fishing line being dragged by the fish when fishing Get around.

However, Taichang's original idea of ​​using fishing lines to fish seems a bit outrageous.

Because there are at most hundreds of hooks on a fishing line, it is not bad to catch hundreds of catties of fish at a time.

If you only use fishing line to fish, you will have to put the line thousands of times for hundreds of thousands of catties of fish!
This is obviously unrealistic, because the school of fish will not wait for you to catch all the time, and they will constantly change their positions in the current. If you catch dozens of times, they may still be there. If you catch hundreds of times, it is estimated that the fish The group ran away early and disappeared.

Moreover, a fishing boat can't put too much fishing line, because the fishing line may become entangled underwater, and it will be troublesome at that time, and the pulley driven by the steam engine may break the fishing line.

Therefore, at this moment, a fishing boat is only equipped with a large wheel and a chute on the left and right sides.

One fishing line on each side is mainly used to detect the position of fish schools.

A fishing line with a hundred hooks and two fishermen are constantly baiting on both sides, and it doesn't take long for the steam engine driven reel to go down.

In less than a cup of tea, the fishing line of tens of feet was finished.

The next thing is to reverse the reel and pull the fishing line up quickly.

When pulling the fishing line, there is no need to hang the bait, so it can be done at the fastest speed.

The wheels on both sides of the deck turned rapidly, and the fishing line was pulled up after a while.

Unfortunately, the result was not very ideal. Five boats had ten fishing lines with thousands of hooks, and the total number of fish caught was only a few dozen, and some fishing lines did not even have a single fish.

In other words, there are no large schools of fish in this area.

I had no choice but to drive forward at the fastest speed, then put down the fishing line and continue to try.

The five fishing boats tried this several times, and after about half an hour, there were finally more fish on the fishing line.

Moreover, they are all big fish over one foot in length.

Taichang didn't know what kind of fish it was, each of them was bigger than the perch they had caught at the beginning, this one weighed at least two or three catties!

The five fishing boats spread out and tried twice again. There were more and more fish on the fishing line, and there were more and more fish in the back. There were dozens or hundreds of fish on one fishing line!
This proves that there are big fish schools below.

The old fishermen on the fishing boat yelled for a while, and soon, the four wheels on both sides of each fishing boat drove out, and they began to cast their nets.

The huge net was quickly put into the sea, and soon, rows of buoys appeared on the sea surface.

A fishing net that is more than a hundred feet long is about one mile, and the wheels can't be set up too fast.

Two wheels opened the huge net, and then pulled the two ends of the net to the front and rear sides of the big fishing boat.

After a while, the rope on the net bag was handed over to the deck, and the wheels driven by two steam engines turned rapidly, and the huge net was quickly pulled to the side of the big fishing boat.

Good guy, before the net is fully brought to the vicinity of the platforms on both sides, there are dense fish heads appearing in the middle of the buoys. The density is probably tens of thousands!

In other words, Yiwang's harvest may be tens of thousands of catties!
With so many catches, even gourds can't be lifted up!

Fortunately, there are a lot of small nets prepared on both sides of each fishing boat. Just throw the small nets into the big nets, pull them a few times, and then put the net ropes on the hooks hanging from the gourd. Hanging, swishing a few times, hundreds of thousands of catties of fish were hoisted up.

Going back and forth in this way, tens of thousands of catties of fish were hoisted in about a quarter of an hour.

Zheng Zhilong watched the bagfuls of fish being hoisted onto the deck, and couldn't help but excitedly said: "Your Majesty, now we've made a fortune. It's not a problem for a boat to catch millions of catties in two days!"

This is really going to make a fortune.

A big net is tens of thousands of catties!
Moreover, the wheel cane is very fast to put the net, and it can be put away in less than a quarter of an hour, and tens of thousands of catties of fish can be hoisted on the boat in about a quarter of an hour by a hoist driven by a steam engine.

In other words, a fishing boat can harvest tens of thousands of catties of fish in about half an hour on one side, and more than 2 catties on both sides.

Calculated in this way, ten hours is more than 20 catties, and twenty hours is four to five million catties.

Fishing boats generally rotate their wheels day and night.

It is really not a problem for a large fishing boat to catch millions of catties of fish in two days.

The question is whether there are enough fish to catch.

They just followed the five fishing boats and kept fishing at sea.

Soon, they discovered that a large school of fish would disappear within a few hours at most.

Fortunately, there are also a lot of fish schools in this current. After they catch one group, they just need to search casually to find another group, and it won't take long.

In this way, the five fishing boats worked hard for two days and two nights, and all the tanks in the cabins were almost filled.

In other words, there are almost one million catties of fish caught on each boat.

This harvest is really amazing.

You know, even the cheapest fish can sell for one or two silver per hundred catties!

Calculated in this way, a large fishing boat can earn 1 taels of silver in two or three days, five fishing boats can earn 5 taels, and fifty fishing boats can earn 50 taels!

Of course, this is only gross income. If labor, freight, storage and sales expenses are deducted, [-]% of the net profit is not bad.

Still, that alone was scary enough.

Forty percent is 20 taels in two or three days, and at least 200 million taels a month!
Calculated in this way, the Dongying sea area alone can bring in more than 2000 million taels of income a year!
As for whether the fish is enough or not, there is no need to worry about this at all.

You know, under the condition of frantic fishing in later generations, Dongying can harvest billions or even tens of billions of catties every year.

At present, the catches in these natural fishing grounds are basically untouched, and it is definitely not a problem to catch billions of catties a year.

(End of this chapter)