Especially this boiled fish made from a mixture of large yellow croaker and yellowfin tuna, before traveling through time, most people really couldn’t afford it.
You must know that due to advancements in fishing boats and fish detection technology, as well as excessive fishing, large yellow croaker, a fish that was originally ubiquitous in offshore waters, has become rare in just 20 to 30 years.
fish.
However, in 1646, the number of sea fish here was beyond imagination.
According to Wang Haitao, if he hadn't been worried about too many fish and the cold storage at the dock was too energy-consuming, he would have been able to fill the two fishing boats out to sea before returning.
You know, those two fishing boats out to sea can carry a hundred tons of sea fish!
It has been almost half a month since the time travelers enjoyed such a comfortable experience.
The cooking characteristics of boiled fish fully bring out the freshness and tenderness of large yellow croaker and tuna.
It can be said that when a piece of fish meat is stuffed into the mouth, the plump fish meat will instantly melt and flow into the throat along the tongue, allowing the deliciousness to continue to spread on the tongue.
By the end of the meal, the boys in the industrial group all took off their clothes and were sweating while eating, without any concern for their appearance.
Even Fang Xiaoyue felt that it was worth it to have this meal after being busy for so long.
As a human being, what do you want to do with your life?
Fame and fortune? Strong strength?
But in the end, it all comes down to eating.
Since Sun Xuebin had served so well, not to mention the technical staff, even Fang Xiaoyue started the production line himself after burping several times.
After each good steel is fed into the machine, it is immediately cut into steel bars, and then quickly drilled into gun barrels. Rifles are then drilled into the barrels.
Barrel, trigger, powder chamber...
Parts are quickly formed in the production line, and then assembled in the hands of technicians, turning them into brand-new Mini rifles.
At eleven o'clock in the evening, Fang Xiaoyue shut down the production line and announced that the trial production was successful. It only needed some fine-tuning and it would be officially operational starting tomorrow.
But when he left the warehouse, Sun Xuebin, whose excitement had not calmed down, was grabbed by Fang Xiaoyue: "I said to Team Leader Sun, the production line has been installed, but the raw materials are far from enough."
What Fang Xiaoyue said makes sense.
In just a few hours of trial production, the production line produced fifty Mini rifles.
It is estimated from here that this production line can produce more than two hundred Mini rifles every day.
However, the high-quality steel currently dug out of the ruins of the dock area is actually only enough for a thousand Minie rifles.
There are a lot of other metal materials and some scrap copper and iron, but the problem is that before the electric furnace was built, it was basically impossible to use these metal materials to make guns.
In addition, good walnut wood is needed to make gun stocks, saltpeter, sulfur, charcoal to make gunpowder, etc.
In other words, the existing materials can only run the production line for 5 days at most, after which the production line has to go on strike and wait for the arrival of the next batch of materials.
Not to mention how uneconomical this approach would be, the production line would stop at every turn, which would cause considerable losses to the machine.
After hearing this, Sun Xuebin's previous excitement suddenly disappeared, and his face was full of bitterness.
"It seems we have to take down the Shilu Iron Mine first."
Thanks to the blessings from future generations, everyone basically knows what kind of mineral deposits there are on the South China Sea Island.
But there is still a problem here. There are no good coal mines on Nanhai Island, and without good coal mines, it is impossible to make steel.
"Otherwise, let's take down the coal mine in Huilongwan first."
Ma Tianfu, who came to Fang Xiaoyue, is also a hobbyist, and as a senior smuggler, he has been to most places in the world, so he is relatively familiar with the mineral deposits in some places.
There are extremely rich coal deposits in Jiaozhi, a country more than 200 kilometers east of Nanhai Island.
Well, this has been mentioned in many time travel stories.
Soon, Sun Xuebin brought a group of leaders of the interim management committee together for a meeting.
The purpose of this meeting is to solve the problems of coal mines, iron ore and other raw materials.
Of course, before the meeting, everyone has already communicated one-on-one, and the meeting is just to formally clarify the action plan.
After all, the dock area can be regarded as a formal political power now. There is no rule without rules. It is the best way to confirm it at a meeting and then announce it to all the time travelers to avoid some objections.
The overall plan is to first focus on purchasing high-quality coal, pig iron, saltpeter and other materials in Qiongshan County. After the more than 500 new recruits are trained and formally formed into an army, they will send troops in two directions, one to the west, to develop the Jiaozhi Kingdom.
Coal mine, one to the south, to develop Shilu Iron Mine.
In addition, the meeting temporarily clarified the short-term economic development direction of firing glassware and producing table salt.
Whether it is firing glassware or producing table salt, there are related technologies in everyone's hands across time. Compared with the table salt and glass production technology of this era, the technology comes from more than 600 years later, and is superior in terms of cost and convenience.
In a crushing posture.
Of course, the most important thing is glassware, and table salt is the best-selling product at this time.
There are not many glasswares displayed in the homes of high-ranking people, and it feels embarrassing to say it.
In ordinary people's homes, who doesn't eat salt? If you don't eat salt, you will get edema.
And in terms of raw materials for production, these two commodities are currently the easiest to obtain.
The beaches near the dock area are made of high-quality quartz sand. As for table salt, the sand from the beach near the dock area was transformed into a salt drying field.
But before that, the focus is still on the industrial group.
After receiving the task from the interim management committee, Fang Xiaoyue and others began to develop a series of tools for firing glassware.
Well, actually for them, the technical content is very low.
When building a crucible kiln, the most troublesome technical point is the crucible.
The crucible must be made of refractory material.
The more practical refractory material is alumina.
Fortunately, there was some aluminum oxide among the materials previously rescued from the ruined warehouse.
Therefore, Fang Xiaoyue and others only need to suppress it into a crucible.
On the contrary, the technical content of the salt drying field is higher.
Fang Xiaoyue designed and manufactured a set of windmill equipment specifically for the salt drying farm to lift and fill the salt brine.
When the seawater in the brine pond is evaporated to a certain extent, it can be lifted and irrigated into a special brine pond through this set of windmill irrigation equipment to further concentrate the salt and promote rapid crystallization of the salt.