When the afterglow of dusk appeared in the sky, the entire vicinity of Xinhua City was already crowded with more than 30,000 onlookers.

Countless Yaoren nobles followed Cang Haijun, who had decided to change his surname to Jin. They stretched their necks and looked at the Han people who were having fun in the fishing sea catching fish.

As a nation of fishermen and hunters, all the people from top to bottom, from kings to slaves, depended on the catch in the fishing sea.

No one knows better than them what the fish represents.

It is a necessity for life maintenance and the key to the survival of the race.

In the past years, Yiren has experienced the pain caused by insufficient catch more than once.

The most recent one happened seven years ago.

The people present, whether nobles, commoners, slaves, or wild people, all clearly remember the disaster at that time.

That year, starting from April, the migratory fish in Yuhai became extremely rare.

Many times, many people squat by the river with harpoons for a whole day, but they fail to see a single migrating fish school.

Even in August and September, which are supposed to be the peak periods of the migration season, Hao Ren's harvest is pitiful.

Many tribes can only hunt more than a hundred fish in one day.

In such a terrible disaster, hunger immediately swept across the Far East.

A large number of people died due to starvation.

Among them, how many infants and underage children account for?

At that time, among all the Yiren tribe, only more than a hundred children under the age of ten survived until the spring of the next year.

Without children, there is no future.

It’s not like Yiren have never tried to obtain food sources from other directions.

However, when the number of fish in the fish sea decreased, the biological chain of the entire area immediately collapsed.

Bears, which also rely on migratory fish schools to gain weight, are all over the mountains and plains, devouring everything they can.

Grass, leaves, bird eggs and even attack humans and animals.

Beavers and otters in the sea of ​​​​fish, died in groups, and their rotting corpses were floating on the river.

And the various birds that completely depended on the fish in the river were almost extinct.

This is equivalent to cutting off the possibility of the Hao people to obtain life-saving food through trade. At that time, the Hao people did not know that there was a golden thigh from the Han Dynasty father that could be hugged, let alone the ginseng buried underground in their own forest.

Worth a lot of money.

At that time, the only hard currency that the Yi people could use for foreign trade was fur.

It's a pity. With the collapse of the ecological chain, the source of fur is almost cut off.

As for those original pitiful reserves, how much food could be obtained under the circumstances?

At that time, it was not like now. Business travelers from the Han Dynasty came to Xinhua City in an endless stream along the straight road and sea route.

Encouraged by countless myths about getting rich overnight, businessmen flocked in one after another with all kinds of supplies and specialties.

At that time, the number of caravans that came to Yaoren's territory to trade every year was very few.

What they brought was not food, but luxuries such as silk and bronze.

As for Wei's Korea?

If the Wei family is reliable, sows can even climb trees!

Therefore, everyone at that time could only watch their people struggle and die from hunger.

There are even tragedies of cannibalism among some tribes.

This is why, after Nangong Xin (Jin Xin) joined the Han Dynasty, the entire Yiren tribe, top and bottom, are determined to follow their father in the Han Dynasty. They even started a vigorous movement to recognize their ancestors and return to their clan.

The reason is very simple. After joining, the nobles of Yiren all lived a luxurious life.

The furs and ginseng produced in their territory provided them with a lot of wealth.

And the lower-class tribal people also benefited a lot from it.

At the very least, the massive amounts of food and supplies from the Han Dynasty prevented any of the Hao people from starving to death or freezing to death last winter.

This is enough!

Could you wish for more?

But today, the people of the Han Dynasty used their own civilization and technology to give an enlightenment lesson to all the Yiren nobles.

When the huge trawl net effortlessly dragged the fish in the river together.

All the Yiren nobles felt like their hearts had been stabbed hard by some sharp weapon.

The Han people used two large boats and a net to catch a catch from the river that the Hao people could not imagine in the past.

"At least tens of thousands of big fish have been caught..." an elderly Yorren wizard next to Canghaijun said in trembling words.

This is an undoubted fact!

Just look at the mountain of fish that is visible to the naked eye and is still jumping on the deck of the Han people's big ship. Everyone knows that the ten thousand fish caught so far may be just a conservative estimate.

The Han people just used that giant net to drag it randomly through the sea of ​​fish three times.

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On the deck of the building ship, Xu Yan and Bo Shi laughed so hard that their mouths burst into tears.

The fish that were caught each weighed seven or eight kilograms, and the big ones even weighed more than ten kilograms.

So far, a total of three networks have been towed.

A conservative estimate is that at least 100,000 kilograms of fish were caught. In other words, after three nets were cast down, a thousand kilograms of fish meat was caught.

Even if it is dried and transported back to Chang'an, it is still worth nearly one million yuan! (There is an error in the previous article, Chapter 602 should have converted the capture unit from stones to kilograms, sorry).

But compared to the joy of these two people, the Mohist who had been taking notes in a small notebook was a little dissatisfied.

"The catch amount still cannot reach the target. It seems that trawl nets are not suitable for use in inland rivers. Seine nets are the best choice for inland river fishing!" He muttered in his mouth: "It seems that I should write to Ju

Zi, please Juzi speed up the design and manufacturing progress of the fence!"

Mohism is a school of thought that values ​​practice and likes to improve its own design concepts and ideas in the process of practice.

Everyone who is called a Mohist is, first of all, a master of the dialectical theory of the "Three Tables".

It is impossible for Mohist disciples who cannot master the Three Tables method to be awarded the title of Mohist.

Today, the Mohists, with the strong support of the emperor, have established research groups in Moyuan that deal with different fields.

Those who like to play with weapons and engineering equipment are a group.

There is also a group that loves research on people's livelihood equipment.

There are even groups dedicated to studying the principles and rules of the world.

Every group, even those with basic raw materials, has abundant financial and resource support.

This Moist is a group in Moyuan that specializes in designing and manufacturing fishing equipment.

His surname is Lu Mingzheng. He is from Qi.

People in Qi love to eat fish, and they have a very long historical tradition.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius of the State of Lu gave birth to a son, and the Marquis of Lu gave him a carp as a congratulatory gift.

Therefore Confucius named his son Kong Li.

Confucius himself said: Never tire of fine food and never tire of fine food.

Although Confucianism and Mohism were sworn enemies, when they met they would either spit on each other or directly make fights.

But when it comes to eating, the Mohist disciples in the Qilu area don't mind having the same hobbies as Confucius at all.

Sashimi and the like are often the first choice of simple meals for poets when they travel around.

Therefore, the emperor ordered Moyuan to jointly research and manufacture equipment capable of large-scale and intensive fishing with the Dongyuan Yamen of Shaofu.

Lu Zheng immediately signed up to participate.

After extensive investigations and listening to the opinions of Qilu fishermen, the Moyuan artists proposed two giant fishing net designs.

There are large seine nets suitable for fishing in inland rivers and trawl nets suitable for fishing in the ocean.

Originally, what is now appearing in Xinhua should be a fence that is more suitable for inland river areas, simpler, more convenient, and easy to maintain and repair.

But at that time, the Dongyuan Order cut down all the ramie in the entire Shanglin Garden, and could only barely produce enough raw materials to make three or four trawls or seines.

Therefore, this matter was brought to the emperor for instructions, and the emperor approved it. Priority was given to making trawl nets. As for seine nets, they were left alone for the time being.

Thinking about this, Lu Zheng shook his head helplessly.

Everything is good today, but there is one thing. As long as something involves the ocean, he will immediately turn his head to support that thing that can show its talents in the ocean.

The same is true for trawl nets. The same is true for building ships.

Lu Zheng heard some rumors that a brand new warship was being built in the original shipyard of Wu Ni and Liu Bi in Jiangdu Kingdom.
To be continued...