Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 396 Crabs can also be called emperors

At the end of the Qin Dynasty, the world was in chaos. After overthrowing the Qin Dynasty, Liu Bang was named the King of Han. After winning the dispute between Chu and Han, he proclaimed himself emperor and established the Han Dynasty.

Later Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty, abolished the Han Emperor, established a new dynasty, and the Western Han Dynasty perished.

Afterwards, Liu Xiu, the ninth grandson of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, overthrew the new dynasty and ruled the world. He still used Han as the country name and established Luoyang as his capital.

Luoyang was located in the ancient Kyushu Yuzhou, and Yuan Keli's hometown, Henan Chengxuan, also belonged to the ancient Yuzhou.

Therefore, after thinking about it again and again, he still named the capital of Wen Guogong's mansion New Luoyang City, and the surrounding area was called New Yuzhou.

In this way, it just corresponds to the new Chang'an city and the new Yongzhou of the new Tang Dynasty in the west.

Taichang really didn't have time to think about the issue of place names at the moment, because all his thoughts were spent on colonizing the sea area.

This is a completely new way of thinking. No one has ever done this in history, and no one has done it in future generations.

However, the profits inside are indeed huge and astonishing.

Not to mention any competition for energy in future generations, the profits from fishing at this moment alone are astonishingly huge.

If you can monopolize marine resources, your profits will definitely not be worse than land colonization.

Moreover, marine resources are basically recyclable and can be described as inexhaustible. There must be no problem with the idea of ​​colonizing the sea area.

The problem is, no one has done this before, and no one has done it since, and he has no reference at all.

Therefore, many things need to be explored and perfected by him personally.

For example, how to occupy all sea areas, how to catch all catches, how to use various resources, how to preserve freshness and quality, how to store and transport, how to promote and sell, etc., have to be explored and perfected.

Among these things, occupying all the sea areas is the simplest.

At least for now it's the easiest.

Because at the moment, only a few European countries can build large ocean-going ships. As long as these countries are laid down and rubbed against the ground, Daming will have almost no opponents.

There will be no rivals for at least one or two hundred years.

If it can occupy the ocean resources for 200 years, and at the same time hold down the European countries so that they cannot develop, then Ming will be even more invincible in all sea areas.

Therefore, it is easiest to occupy all the sea areas at this moment. As long as they continue to develop at the current speed, the European countries will be rubbed against the ground by Ming sooner or later.

However, the latter are more troublesome.

Like, how to get all the catch.

At this moment, the Western Company is also very good at fishing. The original five large fishing boats are constantly circling the Xintang State Mansion, following the current, looking for fish, and fishing with nets. They have already played very well.

Moreover, the daily catch is not bad.

However, there are more than fish in the sea!
When it comes to value, shrimp and crab are much more valuable than fish.

Therefore, while the new batch of five large fishing boats were being built, Taichang also specially ordered to build some things for catching shrimp and crabs.

At this moment, the five large fishing boats that had just been built had already sailed to the waters near Wen Guogong's mansion, and the directors of the Ming Dynasty Western Firms, including Zheng Zhilong, Xu Yunchu, and Xu Erjue, also came with the boats.

On the top floor of the Aegis, several people were holding up binoculars and scanning the five large fishing boats ahead.

Now the five big fishing boats were probing the schools of shrimps and crabs.

This method of detecting shrimp and crab schools is not the same as detecting fish schools. Fish schools only need to use hooks to detect them, but shrimp and crab schools cannot be detected with hooks.

Because shrimps and crabs basically don't bite the hook, and even if they bite the hook, they can't catch it with their small mouths.

Therefore, it is basically useless to use row hooks to detect shrimp and crab schools.

According to the methods summed up by veteran fishermen, it is most appropriate to use sticky nets with smaller meshes.

At this moment, many people are standing on the platforms on both sides of the fishing boat and casting sticky nets.

However, sticky nets are not just sticky to shrimps and crabs. Fish can't escape if they get stuck on it, and even conch and other things can stick to it!
It has to be said that the fishery resources in the waters near Wen Guogong's mansion are really rich. If the sticky net is cast, almost all the nets will be harvested.

What salmon, sturgeon, herring, sardines, mackerel, saury, etc., it is non-stop, and even octopus is served a lot.

However, they are not here to catch fish!

So, even if a school of fish was detected, they just recorded it hastily, and then ordered the fishing boat to move on.

Finally, when it was approaching the big bay to the northwest of Wen Guogong's mansion, many sticky nets began to have prawns, and there were more and more prawns, and there were so many that they couldn't be solved later.

In other words, there must be a huge group of shrimps below!

At this time, there is no need to glue the net.

Several old fishermen discussed for a while, and immediately took out the net with a mesh about the size of a finger, threw it on the wheels on both sides, and then started the wheel, and started fishing for shrimps!

The prawns are about the thickness of a finger, so naturally you can’t use a fishing net bag with meshes as big as a palm.

If you use a net with a palm-sized mesh, you may not be able to catch a single shrimp.

This net with finger-thick mesh is used to catch prawns, and they even prepared a net with smaller mesh, but that is used to catch krill or shrimp skin.

It's going to be a big deal if you go with the net, the prawns that come up are densely packed, at least tens of thousands of catties!
Prawns are more expensive than sea bass, and they are even more expensive after they are dried.

In other words, this net will cost at least a thousand taels of silver!

Five large fishing boats and ten nets can cost tens of thousands of taels in one round!

It's not too cool to fish this shrimp.

Of course, the swarms of shrimps are not endless. After two or three hours of fishing, the swarms of shrimps they found were almost exhausted.

However, just for this, the five fishing boats have caught ten rounds!

Seeing this, Zheng Zhilong couldn't help but excitedly said: "Haha, I've made a fortune now, and I'll send a boat here to fish for shrimps in the future. If I catch two or three hours a day, that's a profit of 10 taels!"

Look at your prospects!

Taichang couldn't help crying and laughing: "It takes two or three hours to catch a boat with a maximum of 30 million catties of fish. What do you mean, do these boats go back empty?"

Hearing this, Zheng Zhilong couldn't help laughing awkwardly: "Your Majesty, that's not what I mean. They can also catch some other fish. Isn't there a lot of fish here?"

Hearing this, Taichang shook his head and smiled, "Okay, let's continue looking for crabs. Crabs are worth more than prawns."

Well, they didn't intend to catch fish this time.

However, the crabs seemed to be harder to find than the prawns. They had walked around Duke Wen's mansion for nearly half a circle, but they still hadn't found any traces of the crabs.

Fortunately, the hard work paid off. When the fleet arrived at the bay northeast of Wen Guogong's mansion, the sticky net finally started to have crabs.

What's more, the crabs served were amazingly big.

That head is probably not as big as a washbasin!

The fishermen were too frightened to catch the crab, because the crab was too scary.

Zheng Zhilong and others were shocked when they saw this.

What kind of strange crab is this, why is it so big?

Seeing this, Taichang laughed and said, "Hahahaha, King Crab, this is really a fortune!"

Uh, king crab?
Crabs dare to call themselves kings!
If someone dared to name the crab like this, it would probably be a knife, and the head would be gone.

However, it will be fine for the current emperor to name the crab.

It can only be said that the acquisition of this name is very speechless.

Zheng Zhilong was stunned for a while, and then carefully asked: "Your Majesty, can this crab also be called an emperor?"

Taichang smiled slightly and said: "What's the matter, why can't the crab be called the king? This kind of big crab is the king of the crabs, why is it called the king crab? You don't know how delicious this thing is, and it tastes like a king. what!"

Well, you are the emperor, you can say anything.

Xu Yunchu heard the words, and asked cautiously: "Your Majesty, this emperor, is this king crab really delicious? How much can this thing sell for a catty?"

Taichang nodded without hesitation and said: "Of course, you can't imagine the deliciousness of this king crab. You will know it after eating it. As for the price, it is said that rare things are expensive. King crabs are expensive. If rich people want to eat , a tael of silver or a catty is not too much."

One tael of silver per catty!
real or fake?

of course it's true!
This is the price for wild king crabs, and there is no such thing as farmed king crabs at the moment, so one tael per catty is not expensive at all.

This king crab is really very rare. It is found in all sea areas, including near the Bering Strait, and the fishing depends on the season.

Their luck can be said to be quite good.

This is near the Bering Strait, and it happens to be October, which is the season for fishing king crabs!
(End of this chapter)