Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 438
The vast sea stretches as far as the eye can see, the light blue sea water is like a gem, the blue sky is like washing, and the sea and sky are the same color.

Looking at such a beautiful scenery, Taichang couldn't help but sigh slightly in his heart.

Alas, he is the emperor, and he can't go back to the palace a few times throughout the year.

The imperial concubine Wu Wan'er was already quite critical. When the concubines in the palace heard that he was leaving again, their faces were full of resentment.

If they hadn't been accompanied by the little prince and princess, they would have become bitter wives.

He also doesn't want to fight outside all year round!
There is no way, this is a crazy era, everyone is crazily fighting for territory, resources, and even money and people.

If he doesn't fight, he will bully him sooner or later after the whole world is divided up.

Daming can't shut himself up, he has to fight!
Alas, man, it's tiring to live, unless you don't want to be a real man.

He was sighing to himself, when Xin Wang Zhu Youjian suddenly rushed up and said excitedly: "Father, it's getting late, let's go fishing."

This kid is addicted to fishing.

Actually, it's still early, at least one more hour before dark.

However, because they brought more than [-] land and water troops this time, the consumption in a day is really astonishing. Not to mention food, just vegetables, it is not enough to spend hundreds of thousands of catties a day.

They can carry tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of catties of grain, which is not a big problem, but they can't bring so much vegetables, because many vegetables can't be stored for a few days without a refrigerator.

This problem can only be solved by fishing.

They happen to be carrying fishing boats, so fishing at sea is naturally no problem.

However, if you want to catch enough fish, you have to find schools of fish.

You know, these are big men in their prime of life. If you let go of your stomach, you can eat a few catties of fish at a time.

More than 20 soldiers eat twice a day, that is millions of catties!
Fortunately, it's not in a hurry right now. It's still early before the date agreed with the King of Siam. If we sail at full speed, we may even arrive at Quy Nhon ahead of schedule.

He agreed that it would be a month, and it would be embarrassing if he went early and had to wait for someone.

Therefore, he simply ordered to start looking for fish schools about an hour before dark every day, stop fishing when he found fish schools, and catch enough fish to feed the land and water troops and make them fat and strong. , so that you can get into the next battle.

As for the fishing that his precious son said, it is not called fishing, but it is actually looking for schools of fish with raft hooks.

However, the scene of stringing fish on a string looks really cool.

This kid actually just wanted to see the fish.

If he really sat there for an hour or two and couldn't catch a few fish, this kid probably has no interest at all.

Taichang shook his head slightly and smiled, then waved his hand and said: "Okay, pass the order, the fleet slows down and prepares to look for fish."

After that, he took Zhu Youjian, Zhang Zhiji, Zheng Zhilong, Xu Erjue and others to the lower floor.

This time they also went to Annan, Siam and Nanyang to establish branches of Western firms and Daming Banks, so directors of several firms and shareholders of banks followed.

When everyone arrived on the first floor, the entire fleet had dropped to the slowest speed of entering the port, and began to float on the sea.

Taichang ordered the hatch door to be opened, and a group of people went down the ladder under the protection of a group of Jinyiwei masters who were proficient in water, and came directly to the Spike warship next to them, and then walked along the wooden boards to the outermost place. On a warship, you can set off.

The sailors skillfully put away the wooden planks, and then removed the iron plates connecting the warships, and the Spike began to speed up, heading straight for the ten large fishing boats behind.

At this time, the ten large fishing boats had already started to release their hooks, and the hundreds of feet long fishing line was sliding down the chute non-stop.

The Spike warship quickly approached a large fishing boat, and the fishermen on it took over the connecting iron plate and screwed it on very skillfully, and the Spike warship was fixed to the side of the fishing boat platform.

These are already standard configurations. Whether it is a dragon tooth warship or a large fishing boat, it can be combined with a wolf tooth warship and a wheel boat in this way, so that a large fishing boat can also go to sea with a wheel boat or even a wolf tooth warship. Even if you are fishing, you are not afraid of a storm.

A group of people got off the Spike, went to the platforms on both sides of the large fishing boat, and climbed up the ladder next to the side of the ship, and soon came to the deck.

The fishermen on this big fishing boat are also familiar with them, and everyone knows the rules of the emperor. When they are busy, they only need to greet politely. The old fisherman who took the lead even smiled kindly at Zhu Youjian: "His Royal Highness Xin, you are here, and I am waiting for you. How about we start to close the line now?"

"Okay!"

When the letter king Zhu Youjian heard the words, he immediately ran over, rolled up his sleeves and stood beside the fishing line.

Seeing this, the old fisherman hurriedly opened the steam valve.

The pulley for retracting and releasing the fishing line turned for a while, and the fishing line was immediately pulled up quickly.

At the beginning, there were not many fish on the fishing line, but after harvesting more than a dozen feet, the fishing line began to be loaded with fish in strings, and all of them were large yellow croakers more than one foot long.

The old fisherman looked at the gleaming golden yellow croaker and couldn't help but grinned and said, "Oh, thanks to the blessing of the emperor and His Highness Xinwang, we have encountered a school of big yellow croakers again."

Seeing this, Zhu Youjian, the king of letters, jumped up excitedly, grabbed the biggest one and said with a smile, "Hahaha, what a big yellow croaker!"

Seeing this, Taichang was also secretly delighted.

This big yellow croaker is a good thing. Not only is the meat delicious, but it is also rich in nutrition. Eating it often can also improve your health.

A piece that is more than one foot long weighs at least five or six catties. If it is in later generations, it will cost tens of thousands of yuan a piece!
However, the price of large yellow croakers is only about the same as perch at this moment, because there are basically no large fishing boats in the area more than a hundred miles away from the coast to fish in large quantities. There are many large yellow croakers inside, and hundreds of thousands are caught a day Pounds are fine.

Just as the fishing boats on this side were getting fish, laughter burst out from the nearby fishing boats. It was obvious that they had encountered a school of large yellow croakers.

Seeing this, the manager of the Western Company quickly took out a book and recorded it. Several old fishermen also yelled for a while, telling the wheels on both sides to quickly disengage the connecting plates and prepare to release the nets.

When the nets on both sides are swept away, there will be a large densely packed area, with golden big yellow croakers on both sides, and a net can at least tens of thousands of catties.

At this time, there is no need to collect it on the deck, because dozens of Aegis ships and Dragon Fang warships have sent Spike warships over, and there are several Spike warships surrounding each large fishing boat. Just pick up the net and pour it directly on the deck of the Spike.

There are at least a thousand people on a Longya battleship, and there are also thousands of people on more than a dozen Spike warships on both sides, and they can finish a meal by pulling a thousand kilograms.

The Aegis ship is even worse, with five to six thousand people in the densely packed three-story cabin, plus the people on the more than ten Spike warships on both sides, there are six or seven thousand people, and it is enough to pull ten thousand handfuls of fish over there. Gap between teeth!

The ten large fishing boats kept releasing and collecting their nets, and the Spike warships on both sides kept shuttling back and forth. Before long, cooking smoke rose from nearly a thousand ships in the fleet of more than ten miles long.

The tempting fish scent wafted along with the gentle sea breeze, and Taichang was a little hungry unconsciously.

At this moment, Xin Wang Zhu Youjian is still lying on the side of the boat and watching the fish in the net excitedly.

The densely packed catch is really enjoyable to watch.

This kid, how many hours can he stare at him if he is not asked to eat!
Taichang shook his head slightly and smiled, and then ordered: "Go, let the imperial chef bring the guy over here, and do it here."

Naturally, there is a place for cooking on this large fishing boat, but there are not as many guys on the Aegis ship.

Soon, several royal chefs came over with a bunch of things.

They didn't eat once or twice on this fishing boat, and the imperial cook was used to it. They were busy in the cabin dedicated to cooking, and soon, the strong smell of fish wafted over the entire deck.

Taichang directly ordered people to carry a few tables to the middle of the deck, and the freshly prepared seafood and fish were brought up like flowing water.

Of course, they not only have large yellow croakers to eat, but not all of them come up from the nets. If there is anything delicious, the fishermen below will also know to catch some for them.

Soon, dozens of dishes filled a large table.

Taichang said hello, and everyone sat around and started eating happily.

If such a large table of raw seafood is bought in the market, it will cost several hundred taels of silver.

However, they are grabbing and eating now, no matter how much they eat, they don’t need money.

This method is actually quite good. With a fishing boat on the expedition, at least you don’t have to worry about running out of meat. After all, fish is also meat, and many fish are more nutritious than ordinary meat.

Perhaps, each fleet can be equipped with several large fishing boats.

Don’t the Mongolian and Yuan cavalry like to take cattle and sheep as military rations when they go out? If the expedition takes too long, they will have to grab the rations after eating up the cattle and sheep.

They take it directly to the fishing boat, no matter how long it takes, there will be endless catches!
While eating, Taichang couldn't help but slightly nodded.

In the future, each fleet will be equipped with several large fishing boats.

In this way, the Daming Navy will not have to worry about the issue of military rations across the world.

(End of this chapter)