"Zhao Biaoyou, please get up quickly!" Li Yan was startled by Zhao Fu and hurriedly helped him up.

"The official asked Your Highness not to promote the method of trawling fishing, otherwise most of the fishermen in Dengzhou will have no way to survive." Although Zhao Fu stood up, he repeated his request again.

"Oh? What is Zhao Biejia worried about?" Li Yan's face showed a strange smile, which made people unable to guess what he was thinking.

"Your Highness, although your trawling method is good, it also has high requirements for fishing boats. Generally, only those large fishing boats can be transformed into trawling nets. The most common thing in Dengzhou is that small fishing boats, but they cannot be used at all. Large fishing boats are generally controlled by those big fishing fishers. In addition, the amount of fishing fish in the trawling nets is so amazing. The consequence is that the annual output of sea fish will rise sharply, but the price of sea fish will become cheaper. The decline in fish prices will not have any major impact on those big farmers, because their annual fishing volume has also increased a lot, but for ordinary fishermen, they still catch so many fish every year, and the money they sell is getting less and less. In this way, it will only make the rich richer and poorer!"

Zhao Fu expressed everything he thought in his heart in one breath. This was not his speculation, but the result of his actual investigation. Now only one fishing team from the Prince Qi Mansion is fishing with trawls, but the fish price has been affected in the past few days, and has dropped by nearly 10%. If there are more fishing teams, the ordinary fishermen will not be able to survive.

After hearing this, Li Yan smiled slightly. Although Zhao Fu said a lot, in the words of later generations, it was Li Yan and the big fishermen who used their capital to upgrade their fishing methods and squeezed out the living space of ordinary fishermen. Although this is a normal phenomenon when the old and new technologies are alternating, Li Yan is the governor of Dengzhou after all, and there are many ordinary fishermen. If they are not dealt with in time, it may cause very serious consequences.

Zhao Fu smiled and said nothing after seeing Li Yan listening to his words. He thought he had not listened to his advice. He was a little anxious and wanted to say something. However, Li Yan waved his hand and stopped Zhao Fu and said with a smile: "Zhao Biejia, I understand all what you said, and I have realized it in advance. As for the way to deal with it, I have already asked someone to prepare it, so you don't have to worry."

Zhao Fu was stunned after hearing this. Seeing Li Yan's confident look when he spoke, it didn't seem like he was lying. But this is not a trivial matter, but it is related to the livelihood of tens of thousands of fishermen, and it is not careless at all, so he had to ask: "Your Highness, can you let the officials know what your way to deal with it?"

"Haha, this matter is naturally not hidden from Zhao Biejia!" Li Yan smiled and asked. Zhao Fu's help was required for this matter, so it would be a good thing to communicate with him in advance.

"Does Zhao Biejia know why the price of fish will drop when there are more fish?" Li Yan thought for a while, but first asked a seemingly unrelated question.

Zhao Fu was stunned at first, and then replied: "Your Highness, the fish taken by fishmen in Dengzhou are usually collected by fish merchants, or transported to other places to sell directly or processed and sold. Although there are many fish merchants, the number of fish collected each year is certain, and the reserved principal is only so much. If the total value of the fish exceeds these principals, those fish merchants will naturally lower the price."

"Well. Zhao Biejia said it well!" Li Yan smiled. Zhao Fu has been an official for many years, and his ability and insight are indeed not comparable to Yan Bei's half-tone. But he asked again, "Can Zhao Biejia know why these fish merchants only charge so many fish every year? Why don't they prepare more capital and collect more fish? Isn't this how to make more money?"

Hearing Li Yan ask again, Zhao Fu lowered his head and thought for a while before saying, "Your Highness, the key to this problem is to preserve it. Fish are not like rice and flour. They can be stored for a long time. After fishing in the sea, if they cannot be sold while fresh, they can only be used as salted fish. However, making salted fish is one that consumes a lot of expensive salt, and the other is that the smell of salted fish is fishy. In general, few people in the inland will like it. Therefore, the sales of salted fish are not large, which is why fish merchants are unwilling to collect more fish every year."

"Haha, Zhao Biejia is indeed very knowledgeable!" Li Yan smiled loudly, and this is the question and answer he wanted.

"Your Highness, what does these problems have to do with solving the livelihoods of ordinary fishermen?" Zhao Fu was very happy to hear Li Yan's praise, but he still did not forget the serious matter and asked anxiously.

Seeing that the time was almost done, Li Yan smiled and asked someone to bring up the things he had prepared long ago, and then said softly in front of Zhao Fu.

"This... this is..." Zhao Fu looked at the thing in front of him and his face was extremely surprised. The thing in front of him was made of glass. Because His Highness King Qi opened a glass factory in Dengzhou, he had seen many glass products. This is a bottle made of very ordinary shapes, like a fundamental column. The key is that there were some cooked meat in the bottle, and the bottle was plugged with a cord, reinforced with a thin rope, and sealed with wax. The meat in the bottle looked very fresh and did not deteriorate at all.

"Please look at Zhao Biejia. This thing is called canned. After processing and putting fish and other foods in it, it can be stored for a long time. I plan to promote this thing in Dengzhou. Not only will our government open a factory, but we also allow private canned factories. Of course, the patent is in my hands, and they have to pay a certain patent fee. As for those fishermen who cannot support their families, I plan to recruit them to work as workers in the canned factory. The government will stipulate the minimum wage for these workers. This is not only less risky than being a fisherman, but also higher income than when he is a fisherman."

Li Yan slowly expressed his thoughts, but he was secretly proud. In fact, since the trawling net fishing, he set up a bureau to plot all the fishermen in Dengzhou. He first used advanced fishing methods to squeeze ordinary fishermen out of the sea. In this way, he opened a factory and had workers working, and could solve the food problems of these fishermen. It can be considered a killing of two birds with one stone. Li Yan also gave this action a bit cruel name, called "Fish Eat People".

Zhao Fu was stunned when he heard this. He was obviously frightened by Li Yan's idea. There were tens of thousands of fishermen in Dengzhou. How many factories would it take to install it? Then he thought of a key question and asked hurriedly: "Your Highness, although this can is good, this glass bottle is expensive. How can ordinary people afford it? If it is sold only to a wealthy house, I'm afraid the quantity is limited, right?"

"Hahaha~ Zhao Biejia doesn't know that the glass products on the market are very expensive. In fact, that's because there is too little glass produced now. Speaking of which, the cost of this thing is cheaper than porcelain. The glass factory built by my husband had limited production before due to manpower problems, but people will be sent in the past two days, and they will be able to make glass bottles on a large scale." Li Yan explained with a laugh. This glass is really a good thing to make money. Any new tricks will be sold out immediately. If it weren't for the purpose of making canned food, Li Yan really didn't want the price of glass to be reduced.

Zhao Fu was full of darkness when he heard Li Yan's words. He thought that the pair of glass vases bought by his daughter Zhao Yifan yesterday cost him half a month's salary. It would be fine if it was worth the money. Unexpectedly, the cost of glass was so cheap. The salary he had worked hard to get was actually cheaper than the black-hearted King Qi in front of him.

"Oh, by the way, is Miss Yifan still studying that steam machine?" After laughing, Li Yan suddenly remembered the last time he saw Zhao Yifan. On a whim that day, he took Miss Zhao, who would rather be a thief in order to see the boat model, to the study room of the Neijiao to see the schematic diagram of the steam machine. This picture was drawn by Li Yan based on the principle of the steam machine he believed. Some places may be very inaccurate, but the principle is probably similar to those of later generations.

But what Li Yan didn't expect was that after listening to the steam engine principles explained by Li Yan, Miss Zhao was immediately interested and asked some very professional questions, which surprised Li Yan. After chatting, he realized that Miss Zhao was not only proficient in shipbuilding, but also had considerable attainments in machinery, mathematics, astronomy, geography, etc. Li Yan was really dizzy now. Seeing that the other party was only sixteen or seventeen years old, he happened to be in high school at the age of the future. It would not be surprising if he understood these, but this is the Tang Dynasty. Where did the other party learn these professional knowledge? Could it be that she was a time traveler? Unfortunately, before Li Yan could ask, she was interrupted by Zhao Fu who broke in. Later, Miss Zhao sent someone to send a letter to Li Yan, saying that she wanted to build a steam engine, and at the same time she wanted to leave the schematic diagram of Li Yan's painting.

"Your Highness, Fan'er is indeed addicted to studying your steam engine. He is stuck at home all day long. Sometimes he forgets to eat even food. Yesterday he finally coaxed her to the street, but he didn't buy a few things. She clamored to go home. She heard that the design drawings were almost completed, and then she would start to create real objects to test them." When talking about his daughter, Zhao Fu smiled bitterly. Speaking of this, he was a little bit naive. Who made him spoiled with his daughter? Now, his father can't control his daughter at all.

"So quickly!" Li Yan was shocked when he heard that he was about to make physical objects. He thought for a while and said, "Zhao Biejia, my palace is planning to build a science academy to specialize in studying some research on matters. Although there are not many people yet, the funds are very sufficient. If Miss Zhao wants to study steam engines, she will definitely consume a lot of funds. It is better to let her come to my science academy. The funds are all based on my reasons."

"This..." Zhao Fu hesitated. Although after this period of contact, he found that Li Yan was not a lustful person, but his daughter was so beautiful, so he was really worried about it. So after thinking about it, he said, "Your Highness, Xia Guan has a shipyard at home, and he has always been in charge of it. Therefore, he has no shortage of money. I think she should study it at home."

Li Yan was also kind-hearted, but since his father disagreed, he did not force him. When he was about to let Zhao Fu leave, he suddenly thought of a question and asked again: "Zhao Biejia, I see that Miss Yifan is very proficient in astronomy, geography, mathematics, etc. It doesn't seem like he is self-taught, but has anyone taught her?" (To be continued)
Chapter completed!