In Xincai, where farming is busy, there is no fragrance of rice flowers, but the smell of fish is getting stronger and stronger.
Commissioner Li personally went to work and led people to clear out the ponds and swamps. The total length of the ponds and weirs was about more than a thousand miles, and only a small amount of labor was used. Generally speaking, they were made simple.
The results of Cai Guo's early development are still there. In addition to fertile land, the alluvial plains on both sides of the Ru River are extremely rich in aquatic products.
It's just that the Cai people's fishing technology is extremely backward and they don't have suitable cooking methods. But when Commissioner Li came, he brought over Jiangyin Yi's fishing technology.
Then there are low-tech and high-return hand-knitted products like eel cages, which are not difficult for Xincai barbarians to make.
In the entire alluvial plain at the junction of Ru River and Huai River, in recent times, an average of about 20,000 kilograms of eels have been caught every day, as well as countless other loaches and the like.
The problem still lies in the processing of ingredients. If you want to remove the fishy smell from aquatic products, you need ginger, but ginger is very expensive these days.
If you don’t have ginger, you can use Sichuan peppercorns instead, but... Sichuan peppercorns are more expensive.
But there is no other way. Commissioner Li's large collection of citron trees came into play at this time.
Citron actually has a similar effect to lemon. After removing the fishy smell, it can be used to cook and process fresh fish.
Of course, the families that can use citron are not ordinary families, at least they are small aristocrats. If they are not aristocrats, they must at least become "Huai Shang Yi Cong" to enjoy such food processing.
In addition, whether it is Chinese people or savages, the people who participate in labor mainly smoked products and pickled products.
It not only provides salt after daily hard work, but also provides enough protein... just consider it enough. Anyway, Commissioner Li sees that they work every day, and they don't look like they are dying of overwork.
Work, as long as you can't die, work to the death!
"This month, I want 20,000 stones of river fresh food."
"Yes! Guaranteed to complete the mission!"
A catch of several million kilograms sounds like a lot, but if spread over a month or even a quarter, it would be just a drizzle. In addition, there is already dredging and pond clearing work, and in the process of land reclamation, the catch will be greatly reduced.
Difficulty.
The ships in the entire Ru River Basin are currently fishing boats. The simple trawl and block nets obtained from Jiangyin City can satisfy the supply of a squadron in one operation.
After the catch is increased, it is only for emergencies. The weather is hot and the more we catch, the better. Pickling and smoking require a lot of manpower. There are a large number of smoking workshops in the entire river bank area. Each workshop requires about 20 to 50 people.
manpower.
This is not a problem that skilled workers can solve, it simply requires so much labor investment.
Each workshop is actually an establishment unit. There are about two to three hundred such workshops on both sides of the Ru River.
Even in three shifts, the wood and charcoal required for smoking still need to be collected manually, and the trees along the river around Xincai are not allowed to be cut down, and can only be entered inland or in hilly mountains.
At this time, the ships have to be occupied again, because only indiscriminate logging from other places can meet the staggering demand in the short term.
Conflicts between different operating units are fierce, because under the military control and rationing system, if you want your department to obtain more resources, you can only deliver better results. Then the shipping team and production units have their own priorities.
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In addition, people from different places have trouble communicating, and they often end up talking to each other, and in the end, it's all martial arts.
In just one month, when the grain fields were growing well, the Quanwu Xing resulted in the death of more than a hundred people, and the remaining wounded totaled one to two thousand.
This scale is already comparable to a high-intensity armed conflict and comparable to a small war.
"Shou Li, a big family in the city, has some complaints about Hexian. How should I reply?"
As a "robot", Shaheng has no emotion in the eyes of various old and new powerful people in Xincai. There is no point in praising him or scolding him. Shaheng has no response at all and just mechanically completes the tasks assigned to him by Li Jie.
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"Isn't it bad to eat fish? Eat fish to supplement DHA. Children will grow up smart."
Commissioner Li hugged the tea cup, because he expected that he might not need to fight in the near future, so he started to lose weight.
Shut up and move your legs. I lost more than ten kilograms in a month, and my whole person looked much more ferocious and terrifying.
At least when the body fat was high, it was somewhat rounded, but now it is a bit angular and looks more like a rare beast.
After listening to Sha Heng's report, Li Jie, who was attentive, knew that the scumbags in Xincai were still staged.
Basically all the cattle and sheep controlled by the big family were blackmailed by Mr. Li.
Rationing system, what to eat, you are not allowed to look at who is the winner?
Who is the boss decides what to eat.
Commissioner Li now believes that eating fish is good for your health, so just eat fish.
The fish soup doesn't taste good? The grilled fish doesn't taste good? If it doesn't work, smash the fish meat into fish balls, wouldn't it be good?
It’s just that flour is difficult to make.
The first big households to be blackmailed were all the big landowners in the capital of the former Cai State who returned to Xincai from Pingyu.
It's just that after they came back, the ownership of the land was changed first. No one was brave enough to go directly to Li Jie's office door and say that they wanted to take the land back. After all, it was this time of year and they had to replant food and wait for the autumn harvest.
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Then Commissioner Li was shocked: Damn it, I have blackmailed you to this extent, and you still have seeds for replanting grain?
Although Commissioner Li had no intention of "seeking seeds", he could not prepare for someone to deliver the goods directly to his door. This would be disrespectful and deserved.
In a normal operation, Cai Hou's brothers, such as "Fengyu Lord", "Fengharvest Lord" and "Breast Enlargement Lord", were all pressed to the ground and rubbed.
Cai Hou said that he was selfless, and Commissioner Li immediately praised Cai Hou for his understanding of justice. At critical moments, his wife, brother, and uncle are still reliable.
"Shou Li, the complainers in the city seem to want to move out of Xincai."
"oh?"
Li Jie became more energetic, "Sha Humph, have you done any statistics on where they plan to move?"
"Shangcai, Zhumacheng."
"The State of Zheng, the State of Chu... they have ideas and a future." Commissioner Li chuckled, "If you don't say that scholar-bureaucrats don't have to worry about food and drink, they have a wide range of connections. Even if this is an escape, the posture of escape is different. You see
Where are the wild people outside the city who dare to run around? If you let them go, will they leave?"
The reason is very simple. Even if the savages want to run away, they will just run along the current. They will run wherever they go. It is best to survive. If they cannot survive, they will be killed.
But nobles are different. If they want to run away, they can open the map and know where to run.
In a decent country, where the nobles have some international connections abroad, it is not a big deal to join them for three to five years.
The savages are destined to die. The savages of Cai State who go to Wu State are probably not even savages, they can only be barbarians.
If you are said to be a "Huaiyi", then you are a "Huaiyi", but that's not the case either.
"Shou Li, if you want to move out, just let them move out like this?"
"Pay some relocation fees and let them sell the property in Xincai to the 'rebels'."
"yes!"
“Ask for a good price.”
“Conscientious price?”
"If you think the price is in line with your conscience, then you can pay for it. Follow your heart, that's your conscience."
"yes!"
"Go and do your work."
"yes!"
After seeing off Sha Hem, Commissioner Li, wearing a "T-shirt" and beach pants, leisurely went to the school grounds again and started a new fat loss exercise.