The Tianjin Town Pier was crowded with people. The two largest cement fishing boats in Tianjin returned full of fish in half a day. The sight of the mountains of marine fish shocked the entire Tianjin Town.
On the deck of the cement fishing boat, Zhang Baiqi's mouth split open as he laughed.
The caught sea fish are basically half a person tall and weigh several dozen kilograms. Each one is a giant in the sea, and it is difficult for ordinary people to catch them!
Now these big fish are being hoisted one by one and sent to the dried salted fish processing factory not far away!
Zhang Baiqi laughed when he saw this lively scene: "I brought back about 1,600 dan of fish on this trip today. Even if the internal organs are removed and dried, there should be thousands of dan! Two fishing boats plus a trawl net, that's it
Big harvest, if we have 20 or 200 ships, we can solve our food crisis just by eating fish and meat!"
It is no wonder that Zhang Baiqi is so excited. Cement boats are simple to manufacture and easy to maintain. The Tengjia Army was able to produce 200 such fishing boats within half a year. These cement boats must be equipped with fishermen, and they are like a fishing boat for activities.
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Calculated based on today's production, these two hundred fishing boats can catch about 200,000 shi of fish, which will be about 60 to 70 million shi by the end of the year. This is almost half of the Tengjia Army's staple wheat harvest!
With these sea fish, the last shortcomings of the Tengjia Army have been filled.
And the nutritional value of marine fish is high. One stone of dried salted fish can be sold for 1,500 yuan, and a net return can be worth millions. If we can really get 200,000 stone of marine fish every day, the dried salted fish factory in Tianjin can generate value every day.
300 million yuan of goods, for the current Tengjia Army, this has opened up a new source of wealth that is not lost to the steel industry, and can solve many problems!
The battle with the Han Dynasty a few months ago emptied the entire Tengjia Army's granary, even the Tengjia Army's treasury, and even produced war bonds for maintenance.
Although the war is over now, these war bonds need to be repaid, wounded veterans need to be resettled, the soldiers of the Tengjia Army need pensions, and the civilian husbands also need rewards!
Everything requires a lot of funds to support it. This is why Xu Wei immediately retired his soldiers as soon as the war ended and only retained the most basic 100,000 troops, because the current Tengjia Army cannot afford so many soldiers!
The Tengjia Army is also short of money now. If he hadn't attacked a wave of local tyrants, divided the fields, and mobilized nearly 1 million people from Bingzhou to settle down in Youzhou and divided the fields.
The war debts owed were all repaid with the property of these local tycoons in Youzhou, and they managed to survive this crisis. Otherwise, these resettlement and pension payments alone could directly bankrupt Tengjia Army's finances.
Xu Wei smiled and said: "You are just calculating according to the most ideal method. In reality, there will always be such unexpected events. For example, if there is a violent storm on the sea surface, the sea water will freeze in Youzhou in winter. This will happen for at least half a year.
It is impossible to mobilize time! Moreover, your few fishing boats can still retain the current harvest. If you really get more than 200 tugboats, this sea area will be harvested clean by you in a short time.
Become a dead sea!"
This is really not an exaggeration by Xu Wei. This is how the later generations were driven by the economy, taking into account the use of the extermination net by future generations. Those fishermen caught all the fish in the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers, and the coastal areas of China were not spared. The oceans were empty.
Yes, all the big and small fish have disappeared, just like in the desert. We have to establish a fishing moratorium and release fish fry to restore the ecology.
Zhang Baiqi smiled and said: "Even if it is half satisfied, it is a good thing! And now our Tengjia Army still lacks a coastline! That Youzhou has thousands of miles of coastline, and we have one every hundred miles like Tianjin.
There are dozens of small towns like this, which are enough to satisfy our pursuit of sea fish!"
Xu Wei said angrily: "You think there are fishing grounds everywhere in the ocean. Only when rivers converge can they have a lot of nutrients and form fishing grounds. There can only be three fishing grounds along the coast of Youzhou."
"You really want to make the ocean a food supply for our Tengjia Army. If you want to find a way to develop ocean-going fishing boats, I remember that there are kun groups not far from Youzhou. Catching a single kun is equivalent to dozens or millions of kilograms of meat!
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Zhang Bai was surprised: "There really is a legendary mythical species like Kun in the ocean!"
Then he really wanted to ask, is the myth of the big man true?
Xu Wei rolled his eyes and said: "That's just a relatively large fish. I prefer to call it a whale! A big whale weighs millions of kilograms, and a small one weighs hundreds of thousands of kilograms, and the whole body of a whale is full of treasures."
, the leather can be made into armor, and the meat can be eaten, just like eating beef and mutton. There is also a lot of oil that can be eaten and used to make candles. It is said that ambergris, which is more valuable than gold, is also in the belly of whales.
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Zhang Baiqi drooled after hearing Xu Wei's words: "There are still treasures like this in the ocean. Commander Qu will take us to hunt Kun. Kill dozens of them. We will solve all problems, whether it's food or not."
It’s still money, and then we can continue to attack Jizhou!”
Xu Wei said with a smile: "The whales are all in the deep sea. Our cement ship cannot sail across the ocean at all. Moreover, if we want to hunt whales, our current ship is too small. A large ship with at least 5,000 or even tens of thousands of materials is needed."
Make it a whaler! If you want to build such a huge ocean-going fishing boat, you still need to gain experience. It is impossible to build a fishing boat with all the materials in just a few years!"
Zhang Baiqi said disappointedly: "Lu Zhi and Yuan Shao in Jizhou have been preparing for war. It is said that the Han Dynasty has recruited another 200,000 troops. Most of them are private soldiers of the noble gentry. They have strong combat effectiveness and well-equipped equipment. The combat effectiveness of the army is only
I'm afraid it's still stronger than the army in Huangfu Song's hands! Moreover, Lu Zhi is also working hard to build horses, shields, and various armor-piercing weapons in Jizhou. Obviously this is aimed at us, so Commander Qu also needs to make more preparations.
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Zhang Baiqi has always been worried that the Han army will counterattack Youzhou, so he is so anxious to improve the strength of the Tengjia army. He just wants to attack Jizhou first while Lu Zhi and Yuan Shao have not yet trained their troops!
Xu Wei knew that this was the Han Dynasty's version of group training. In terms of the Han's strong martial arts habits, the combat effectiveness and equipment of the private soldiers of many powerful clans exceeded those of the Han's county soldiers. It can be said that this was a more powerful version of group training!
The Han Dynasty only lacks soldiers who have experienced hundreds of battles, but it does not lack generals who have experienced many battles. Even if Huangfu Song died in battle, the Han Dynasty still has famous generals like Lu Zhi and Zhu Jun. If they unite with the local nobles, they will usually The power is truly irresistible!
But Xu Wei thought for a while and said: "Don't worry about their actions. After the autumn harvest, we will lead the army to capture Jizhou. If they dare to fight in the field, we will use cavalry to annihilate them. If they want to defend the city, we will use artillery to expose them." Those tortoise shells, Lu Zhi and the others will be unable to attack or defend when the time comes, and Jizhou will be captured by us sooner or later!"