The quartermaster also set up a stall to buy specialties here, including wild black fungus, dried wild blueberries, beef jerky, cheese, kumis, hazelnuts, sweet white shrimp, etc.
These animals sold all their extra stuff. If Donkey Dan hadn't stopped him in time, they would have sold all their bedding.
Since the Sogdian merchants did not come this year, all the sable skins belong to them. These guys are making a lot of money one by one.
The herdsmen were also very satisfied. They took various stainless steel basins, plastic basins, cotton jackets, cotton trousers, felt boots, riding boots, small daggers, towels, refined salt, sugar, cold medicine, high-strength liquor, candies and chocolate... and they were overjoyed.
win.
Knowing that Yang Fan had food, Shuolei Khan specially sent people to take away all the food on the three thousand kilograms of supply ships. He paid for it with alluvial gold.
He likes pasta, but he hasn’t had mutton braised noodles in several years. He also likes to eat dumplings stuffed with shallots and mutton. He hasn’t had this hobby in several years.
After all, he wants to trade with the Central Plains, and there are Chahar and Monan Mongolia across the road. Some good things have been intercepted by the south, and it will be his turn there. Those Taiji people are not short of money.
These three thousand kilograms of flour saved my life. In the past, the flour that could be bought was only a hundred kilograms at a time. After all, a camel can't carry too much stuff when it travels thousands of miles.
The price was sold by those black-hearted merchants for one pound of sand gold and one pound of white flour. It was simply outrageous. But there was no other way. Who told this thing not to be transported?
He thought in his heart that General Lu Dan was a good friend.
Out of three thousand kilograms of flour, he only received five hundred kilograms of placer gold. What a righteous man.
It seems that Uncle Dingyuan was right, trade still relied on sea-going ships. The three melons and two dates carried by camels were not enough to fill the gap between teeth.
You see, these big white ships carry a lot of things.
He also bought hundreds of cabbages and 150 pounds of radishes from the cooking class. There are no green leafy vegetables available this season.
He found that an ordinary soldier under Uncle Dingyuan had better food than he, the Great Khan. Every day he had a boiled egg, a carrot, 600 grams of grain, one tael of alcohol, half a catty of meat, and three naan cakes.
Three cans of lunch meat.
Navy officers actually eat one piece of fruit a day.
The fruits include lemons, oranges, apples, pears, etc., which are simply incredible.
He didn't know that soldiers ate carrots and officers ate fruits to prevent scurvy.
He was full of jealousy at this time.
For a moment, he wanted to serve as a soldier under Yang Fan.
In three days, the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty sold out all their belongings and had no choice but to withdraw from the stall and return to the ship. After all, it was too cold here, but it was still warm in the cabin. The heater was heated to over 23 degrees Celsius.
The herdsmen who came later were very disappointed. They learned the news too late and received nothing.
Chen Zuwang had no choice but to comfort them. A city would be built across the lake in the spring of the Ming Dynasty. Everyone could help out when they had free time. Money would be calculated on a daily basis and settlements would be made once a day. A market would also be built there to allow everyone to trade freely. Only then did these disappointed Mongolians
People advised him to leave.
At the same time, at the mouth of the Heilongjiang River, nine blessing ships filled with supplies had docked at the pier of Temple Street. Su Tong directed the soldiers and civilians to unload the supplies from the ships and send them to the warehouse.
Nowadays, Temple Street has become the outlet of the Heilongjiang River Basin, and its status has suddenly become important. The future water and land terminal for river-sea combined transportation will be located here.
After being cured of their seasickness, Xiao Niangpi and the others also came here to play. Today they played fishing by cutting through the ice.
I have only heard about this project from my master and have never tried it.
Although Heilongjiang has not frozen, the lakes on land have already frozen.
They dug a one-foot-square hole in the ice. Then something wonderful happened.
Because there is a lack of oxygen in the water below the ice surface. At the same time, the pressure on the water below also increases after freezing. Water will spurt out and fish will jump out of the hole.
As soon as the window was opened, there was a splash, and black water came out. Xiaoniangpi and the others were so frightened that they screamed and ran away. In this weather, it would be hard to get your boots wet.
Then, they ran back quickly because a scene that shocked them appeared.
Fish came from all directions one after another. Looking down from the transparent ice, the backs of the fish were all covered in black. This was because there was too little oxygen down there.
Therefore, once the gap opens, these fish will rush towards this only window, breathing like crazy.
Next, an even more shocking scene appeared.
Fish jumped out of the window one after another. These fish had long mouths and gills, breathing fresh air. Their bodies drew a parabola in the air.
However, the winter in the outer Northeast is not a guarantee. The more these fish twist in the air, the more clumsy and stiff they become. Before they hit the ground, they freeze into ice cubes.
When it landed on the ground, it was already a frozen fish that could not move. Just send someone to pull the basket and pick the frozen fish into the basket.
Xiao Niangpi exclaimed: "I really am not making this up. In the winter here, as long as you drill a hole in the ice, the fish will actually jump out on their own, and then freeze into frozen fish."
Lin Yueru also said: "That time the master told us a bedtime story. He was so sleepy that he couldn't open his eyes and his words were confused. I clearly remember that I asked him about it. He said that he had found one.
Frozen river. Open the window on the ice and hang a fishhook at every joint of the longitude and latitude lines of the ultra-long fishing net. No bait is needed."
"As long as you put the fishing net down overnight, turn the winch and pull the fishing net up the next day, you can harvest tens of thousands of kilograms of various fish at once."
Xiao Niangpi also said: "Yes, yes, I remember this too. Judging from today's situation, since the fish can really jump out on its own as the master said, we might as well find a frozen river and try it.
Let’s see if we can catch tens of thousands of catties of fish in one net.”
Lin Yueru immediately agreed. She was led by the little girl and was full of playfulness.
"I use nylon Internet cafes. I'm afraid that ordinary fishing nets are not strong enough. If they break, it will not be fun." Lin Yueru said.
Su Tong naturally tried his best to satisfy the two ladies' plans. In order to let them have fun, more than a dozen people searched the surrounding area for fifty miles and finally found a tributary of the Duanwei River that met the requirements.
Su Tong and the others have been suffering here for two hundred years, and this is the first time they have heard that fishing can be done like this. If only they had known this earlier. They would not have people starve to death in winter every year.
A group of people opened a one-meter-square window on the ice of this shady river. After experiencing the gush of black water and a large number of fish jumping out of the window, they put a 200-meter-long fishing rod with a fishhook in it. The fishing nets were lowered down the current.
After watching the servants finish these things, Xiao Niangpi and the others went back to the boat. It was so cold here that they didn't want to blow the wind here. Even though they were wearing mink coats, it still felt quite cold here.
We need to set up a tent here tonight and have people on duty to keep removing the ice from the windows with nets. Otherwise, it will freeze quickly.
Xiao Niangpi and the others ran back, and after eating caviar and grilled lamb chops on the boat, they took a hot bath and a sauna to completely drive away the cold. Then they got into the snow-white eiderdown quilt and had a good sleep. Sleep.
They set their alarms and prepared to go watch and close the net early the next morning.
This chapter has been completed!