Hongwu Survival Guide

Chapter 98 is both original and unoriginal.

Outside the west gate of Dinghai County, there is another bustle today.

Tow the net on the river.

Two large boats of 500 materials, opened a large net of more than ten feet, and went back and forth on the river, just to demonstrate it to the little adult Yinghai envoy surrounded by crowds of people on the river bank.

On the net!
It is still such a big double net. If it can be placed on the sea, the rhubarb fishing season is coming soon. Such a good boat and such a large net can catch hundreds of catties of fish in one net. Good things that I dare not even think about, in the peaceful years, only those rich and wealthy could buy them.

At the moment, it turned out to be a toy, and it was used in the sky above the Yongjiang River!
What the hell!

Qingtian Xuezhi County, the Navy Governor's Mansion, and His Majesty the Emperor who is far away in Jinling City, why can no one stop this little adult from doing such nonsense?

Among the onlookers, Chen Ning silently listened to an old man nearby who was almost tearfully muttering to himself, with a sneer at the corner of his mouth, but his eyes fell on the hundreds of feet wide Yongjiang River, when two large trawlers came and went, The passage of other ships is not prohibited on the river.

Looking at the person who was surrounded by the crowd a little closer, if he was on the shore, he couldn't get close at all.

This person also happens to like going to the riverside.

Probably, this is the only flaw.

After making up his mind, Chen Ning quietly squeezed out of the crowd.

It's time to meet that old friend Zhang, otherwise, if the other party completely gives up and returns to Haining, he will have to re-plan a lot of things.

……

After a morning of embarrassment, Zhu Yuan returned to Ying Haishi's mansion at noon, and when he saw Hua Gao who came to eat with a hippie smile, he didn't look good.

Zhu Yuan wanted to go to the sea to experience the fishing effect of the net for himself, but Hua Gao firmly disagreed. He acted as if Zhu Yuan dared to run to the sea and was about to be rebuked by the governor. He also sternly warned everyone around Zhu Yuan that this time Whoever dares to allow him to act recklessly, don't blame him for also acting recklessly.

So the location can only be changed to Yongjiang.

The first batch of grain ships set off, and there were still many things to prepare for the second and third batches. However, Zhu Yuan has also begun to take time to plan another thing that has been brewing these days.

Two simple words: fishing.

It seems too substandard to say so, more professional, it should be called 'fishery production'.

The key is production!
Today is one of those sessions.

If a workman wants to be good, he must first sharpen his weapon.

Zhu Yuan's previous understanding of ocean fishing... basically he didn't understand, so he started from scratch recently.Fishing tools, fishing species, big and small fish seasons, and so on.

The more you understand, the clearer your thinking becomes.

After lunch, Huagao was sent away, Zhu Yuan came to the inner house, he did not immediately go to the east room for a nap, but went to the study in the west room, and re-browsed the various materials collected recently.

I plan to draw up a complete plan and send it to Jinling in the next few days.

Speaking of fishery production in this era, Zhu Yuan thinks that it can be summed up in a short sentence: both primitive and not primitive.

The original thing is that, first of all, the fishery productivity in this era is low, very low.

According to some data collected recently, the entire Zhoushan fishing ground area, according to the scale of the salt used for salting fish that the Yuan court imposed on fishing boats, and taking into account the use of private salt and even the share of direct fresh food and fresh sales, it is estimated to be a little larger , and only about 300 million catties.

300 million catties sounds like a big number at first glance, but when converted into a unit of measurement hundreds of years later, it is actually only 1500 tons.

Zhu Yuan probably remembers that the total annual marine catches in the world in later generations reached hundreds of millions of tons, and even China alone has about 1000 million tons.

In comparison, guarding one of the richest fishing grounds in China, with an annual output of 1500 tons, sounds like a joke.

This is a fact.

Moreover, knowing this fact, Zhu Yuan finally understood why Lao Zhu had so easily announced the move to the forbidden sea.

1500 tons of fish catches, converted into the current measurement of about 150 catties per stone, is only 2 stones. The total output of the entire Daming sea area is equivalent to five times that of the Zhoushan area, but only 5 stones of fish catches.

In comparison, not to mention the grain output of the entire Ming Dynasty, but only comparing the grain tax income of up to 3000 million shi during the Hongwu period, the 10 shi fish harvest, even if all taxes are paid, is really dispensable.

Since it is dispensable, this sea, if it is banned, it will be banned.

Therefore, we can also see the primitiveness of fishery production in this era.

On the other hand, it is not primitive because all kinds of fishing methods that people can see hundreds of years later, such as various nets, gillnets, seines, trawls, etc., have already appeared in this era.

All that's missing is scale.

Just like the most efficient fishing method later, trawling, the most common in this era is a small variant, paired net, which is also the kind that Zhu Yuan asked people to show on the Yongjiang River in the morning, and the two boats cooperate in parallel, so it is called "pair". , can be said to be both common and uncommon at the moment.

The common one is 'small pair'.

You can roughly guess from the meaning of the word that the longest trawl net is only two or three feet long when two small fishing boats cooperate.

Rare is the 'big pair'.

A large ship with more than [-] material grades, a trawl net more than ten feet long, and small boats around it are also needed.

Not to mention anything else, it's just a 500 material ship with a current cost of 800 taels of silver, and ordinary people can't afford it for a lifetime.In fact, local wealthy households who are able to buy it will not buy it easily, because the ratio of input to output is not high, and the risk of going overseas is also high.

It is said that the shipowner built the ship and hired people to go to sea. In case of an accident and people died, they would have to pay for it.If the luck is even worse, if there is a strong wind and waves, the ship and people will lose, and the loss will be even more serious.

Therefore, Zhu Yuan learned that only in the peaceful years decades ago, when wealthy families accumulated enough assets and the court's tax policy was considered clear, did people build large boats for large-scale fishing.In recent years, various warlords along the coast have fought back and forth, and local rich families have become conservative.

Still gold in troubled times.

Building a large ship may be forced by the military town in a blink of an eye, and you will never return. It is better to store up cash, which can even save lives at critical moments.

The result is that efficient large-pair fishing has been very rare in the Mingzhou area in recent years.

Zhu Yuan can also be sure that the current annual output of the Zhoushan fishing ground is definitely less than the 300 million catties recorded in the records.

After the status quo, some more specific details.

Speaking of marine fishing, a key name in this era is 'fish season'.

People far away from the sea imagined that the people along the coast would be able to return with a full load if they cast a net casually, especially in this era of low productivity.

This again involves a certain "durable" noun. The time and place are wrong. If you go out to sea to fish casually, the harvest may not be worth the "durable" wear and tear on the fishing gear of the boat.

Therefore, it is necessary to wait for the 'fish flood' when certain fish gather in a certain area on a large scale.

This is another unprimitive place. At present, the coastal residents of Mingzhou have summed up the general situation of fish seasons in four seasons every year.However, [-]% of the annual harvest depends on the rhubarb fishing season in April and May after the Qingming Festival, which is also the reason for returning to the original.

Insufficient production capacity.

Let's talk about the small yellow croaker flood in spring.

This was supposed to be a harvest season comparable to the rhubarb fishing season in early summer. However, every year when the spring begins in February, the small yellow croakers gather and migrate from south to north, passing through the Zhoushan Islands area without stopping. foreign.

Recently, the sea map has become more and more clear. Zhu Yuan knows that Sheshan Ocean is about [-] to [-] miles northeast of Mingzhou, which is probably the north of the Shengsi Islands.

Such a distance, hundreds of years later, is nothing.However, in this day and age, let alone the Shengsi Islands, there are very few people who dare to go fishing in the area of ​​the Shengsi Islands two hundred miles away.

Therefore, knowing that there will be schools of small yellow croakers further north, no one dares to go.

Of course, it's not unique, otherwise no one would know that there are fish there, it's just that there are almost no people who go there to fish.

From the perspective of this era, the Sheshan Island area outside the Yangtze River Estuary is not as densely packed as the islands off the coast of Mingzhou, where you can dock at any time. There are few islands and reefs in a radius of a hundred miles. The land is not working, it is indeed a dangerous place.

Let’s talk about the hairtail flood in winter.

This age has also been discovered.

However, compared with the small yellow croakers that have to pass through the Zhoushan Islands area, the migration route of the hairtail gathers from the sea off the Shengsi Islands and has been migrating south along the surrounding areas of the Zhoushan Islands. Therefore, in this era, it is still not easy to reach.

As for the big yellow fish season, similar to the small yellow croaker, it crosses the Zhoushan archipelago from south to north. Fortunately, it didn't go to Sheshan Ocean, but stopped near Daji Mountain.

Daji Mountain is also in the northeast of Dinghai, two hundred miles away, but it is only forty or fifty miles away from the coast of Songjiang Mansion in the west, so it is a relatively safe area.

This is also the reason why fishermen in Mingzhou currently catch [-]% of their annual catch from the rhubarb fishing season.

Knowing this, it is actually easy to break through.

scale.

Official sea fishing is organized by the imperial court.

In this way, first of all, the limitation of fishery production at the tool level can be broken through.

Ordinary people can't afford to build big ships, but the government can.Ordinary people can't set up a big network, but the government can too.

At the same time, the government also provides far-sea fishing... Of course, it is the necessary safety measures for deep-sea fishing in this era.

For example, a navigation lighthouse that can be used for both military and civilian purposes.

For example, ports of call that can also be used by both military and civilians are built on offshore islands.

Such as drawing more accurate maps and providing more accurate navigation.

For example, the navy provides security for fishing fleets to avoid pirates from harassing them.

Etc., etc.

Speaking of which, these are all the authority of Zhu Yuan, the battalion envoy.

He has been handling the grain transportation business for more than a month, but Zhu Yuan has not forgotten that he has other more important things to do.

camp sea!

More importantly, compared with the initial vague concept, after more than a month at the seaside, Zhu Yuan's thinking has become clearer and clearer through continuous inquiry and collection of various documents and files.

Gentleman's work!

The foundation of Yinghai, the first one, should actually be 'production'.

Without 'production', it is impossible to have enough resources to do more things, and even the ultimate goal of making Ming an advanced ocean hegemony.

Moreover, this is actually mutual.

If the ocean does not have enough output and just blindly invests, it is impossible for Lao Zhu to have enough motivation to continue to promote Ming to become an ocean hegemony.

Just like in the past, the output of the ocean is really dispensable, of course it is banned if it is banned.

What if it wasn't so optional anymore?
Even, what if there is more than land output?
At that time, whoever dares to mention Jin Hai, Lao Zhu himself will be the first to go crazy without other people asking!
Xieyi and Liu Bai, who were standing by the side, stepped forward to remind Zhu Yuancai from his thoughts, put down the documents in his hand and went to the east room to take a nap.

Lying on the bed, a short time before going to bed, Zhu Yuan also made a plan.

After waking up from the afternoon nap, I started to write the plan that had been brewing for a long time.

It's already the end of March, and we can't delay any longer. While writing the letter to Lao Zhu, we must start organizing here. After all, the rhubarb fishing season has already begun. When the Yinghai Division is ready, the fish season will also reach its peak in April and May.

Zhu Yuan also thought of a name for this copywriting, which is very straightforward, but a name that will definitely impress Lao Zhu.

……

While Zhu Yuan was taking a nap here, in another big house in the city, both the host and guest were exchanging glasses.

The owner is Haiyan Zhangja who still refuses to leave Dinghai.

The guest is Chen Ning.

Before noon, Chen Ning suddenly came to visit, not to mention the embarrassment of this person in Yinghaisi's mansion, Zhang Jai already knew more about him, such as the emperor's sentence of "never hire", so he didn't want to see him at first. .

Chen Ning moved him with just one sentence: "Do you want to make friends with the leftist?"

Li Shanchang, Prime Minister of the Left, is a big man who is in the sky. Duke Xuan Guo, a first-rank official, a minister of the dragon, is much higher than the envoy of the camp.

If you can make friends, why would Zhang Zha be unwilling?
Therefore, even though he doubted whether Chen Ning could still have contact with Mr. Zuo Prime Minister, Zhang Jai immediately changed his warm face when he heard the concierge's message, opened the door to greet him personally, and asked his family to prepare a feast of wine and food.

When Chen Ning got to the table, he was no longer in a hurry to talk about business, but chatted about the big boat dragged to the net that he saw on the Yongjiang River before noon.

Extending this, he also talked about all the absurd things that the young sea envoy did after arriving in Mingzhou.

For example, let the local government record eight-year-old fishermen and children. For example, the uniform two-liter ration standard for soldiers and civilians is actually to fill their own pockets. For example, when they first came here, the scene where there were groups of concubines, for example, a license of a maritime trade company actually wanted to snatch 20. Two silver, and not only privately occupying a large number of shares, but also excluding generations of maritime merchants such as Zhang Jai from maritime trade...

All these words finally point to one goal: that Zhu Yuan is a courtier!

Big traitor.

These days, Zhang Zha had already accumulated layer after layer of resentment, plus he drank again, how could he stand up to Chen Ning's provocation, and soon he was beating his chest and beating his feet, filled with righteous indignation.

Seeing that the atmosphere was created enough, Chen Ning slowly turned the topic to another direction while watching Zhang Zhe's face.

Anti-rape!

There are traitors in the court, and the emperor is deceived. They are the subjects, and they have the obligation to take the initiative.

Chen Ning also hinted that, of course, this would not be his personal idea, but something arranged by Mr. Zuo Xiang, who is loyal to His Majesty.

Zhang Ja is not a fool, and gradually comprehended the meaning of Chen Ning's words, and before he knew it, most of the drunkenness had dissipated.

Zhang Jai's first thought was—inform!
Telling this matter to the young master Haisi of the camp, the risk is the least, and the credit is the greatest.

As for those who are not treacherous and not treacherous, he is a commoner, how can he care about such a big matter?

Of course, Chen Ning knew very well what kind of person Zhang Zha was, and he had already prepared for many possibilities before entering the door.

Seeing Zhang Zha's expression of hesitation, Chen Ning just smiled, took a sip of tea, and said slowly: "Brother Shuyi, tell the camp envoy about this, at most you can only get a license for a maritime trade company, but you have no proof. According to this, just to make some excuses, do you think that Ying Hai Envoy can bring down Prime Minister Zuo? If Prime Minister Zuo is not defeated, you will be the first person to be targeted.”

Chen Ning's tone became more and more ruthless. After hearing this, Zhang Zha became a little more sober, and asked back: "You say that there is no evidence, how can I believe you?"

Chen Ning said: "Of course there are proofs. If brother Shuyi is willing to contribute, I can show it to you. Besides, I am not afraid to explain it again. Even if I let you see the proofs, Brother Shuyi will tell you later that Zuoxiang is loyal to His Majesty." For more than ten years, you only need to infer that it is a forgery, and you still can’t fall.”

Zhang Ja was silent for a moment, and finally said again: "You can't escape, can you?"

Chen Ning smiled casually: "I'm betting on my life. You may have heard that because the envoy was obstructed, His Majesty ordered me never to be hired. As long as the envoy is gone, Prime Minister Zuo will help me recover." Let’s start. Brother Shuyi, I know that you have contacts with some righteous men in the sea. Even if the big thing fails, you can still have a way out. If it succeeds, go to the left, not to mention a maritime trade license, just let you come to this camp The sea envoy is not an extravagant hope. Brother Shuyi, do you dare to gamble, betting on a fortune?"

After Zhang Jai finished listening, he fell into a longer silence again.

(End of this chapter)