After hearing Jin Feng's affirmation, Qing Mulan's chest heaved with excitement, and she solemnly promised: "Don't worry, sir, I will do a good job and manage the dock well!"
"Yes, I believe it!" Jin Feng nodded.
"Then I'll get to work first!" Qing Mulan immediately turned around and went back to direct the workers to dismantle the whale.
Tang Xiaobei bumped Jin Feng's shoulder lightly, and said with a half-smile: "Okay, I think after a while, Mu Lan will be completely devoted to you and will not marry unless you!"
"What nonsense are you talking about!" Jin Feng glanced at Tang Xiaobei angrily: "Don't taint the innocence of this girl!"
Jin Feng is also a common man. When he first came to this world, he fantasized more than once about living a life of wives and concubines.
But after this wish came true, he found that it was not so good.
Really tired.
This is because Guan Xiaorou, Tang Xiaobei and others are sensible, and everyone has their own things to do, so they don't cause any trouble for him.
If they were jealous every day, fighting with each other, and asking Jin Feng for comment, they would probably be even more tired.
In fact, with Jin Feng's current status, he can have as many girls as he wants, but he hardly messes with any girls now.
"I'm not talking nonsense," Tang Xiaobei said narrowly: "Why do you think Qing Xinyao asked Qing Mulan to follow you? In this situation, who else do you think Qing Mulan can marry?"
When Jin Feng heard this, he also fell silent.
In the feudal era, marriage has always been the most common means of maintaining imperial power and powerful people.
Even if Jin Feng didn't understand politics, he could still see Qing Xinyao's plan, he just pretended not to understand, and chose to be an ostrich just like his attitude towards Tang Dongdong.
Realizing that Tang Xiaobei was still teasing her, Jin Feng ignored her and followed Qing Mulan towards the whale.
After the tide goes out, there is still a lot of water on the beach, which is muddied by the workers coming and going.
Under the influence of Jin Feng, Qing Mulan also developed an assembly line thinking.
She divided the workers into three groups. The first group used a big saw to cut the whale into large pieces, like sawing wood.
The fat layer of whales is very thick. According to Jin Feng's instructions, the second group decomposed the large segments of whales into smaller pieces using tools such as guillotines or axes.
Fat is piled to one side, and other parts are piled to the other side.
The remaining groups had a clearer division of labor, with some marinating whale meat and others starting to transport whale blubber ashore.
Qing Mulan rushed back and forth until she confirmed that all the processes were OK, then she walked to Jin Feng and sat down on the beach.
In fact, the beach was still very wet, but she didn't care anymore.
After running in the mud for so long, her body was already dirty and wet, and her face was also covered with some mud and whale meat.
Jin Feng wanted to remind her, but thinking of Tang Xiaobei's teasing just now, he resisted the idea.
"Now it's served again..." Seeing that Jin Feng didn't do anything, Tang Xiaobei muttered silently in his heart, then took out his handkerchief and handed it to Qing Mulan: "If there is mud on your face, wipe it off."
Qing Mulan was not polite, took the handkerchief and started wiping her face.
Tang Xiaobei turned to look at Jin Feng: "The weather is already very hot now. We caught so many fish at once. Even if we ship them later, I'm afraid they won't be shipped back to Sichuan and they will be damaged, right?"
"It definitely can't be transported directly like this, it must be marinated." Jin Feng replied.
Dakang doesn’t even have electricity, let alone refrigerators and cold chain transportation.
Jin Feng did know how to make ice from saltpeter, but the cost of this ancient method of making ice was too high. It was okay to make some as a toy occasionally, but it was simply impossible to make ice on a large scale to transport fish.
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The only way is to preserve the fish by pickling it to prevent it from rotting.
This is also the reason why Jin Feng asked people to break the whale into small pieces, which is more suitable for marinating. If the pieces are too big, they will not be marinated thoroughly.
"Can salted fish be pickled in summer?" Tang Xiaobei asked.
"Some old fishermen know the way." Jin Feng replied.
In the past, fishermen were very short of clothes. If their clothes got wet while fishing, they could freeze to death. Therefore, fishermen were not very enthusiastic about fishing in winter and were unwilling to go to sea unless they had to.
The weather is warm in summer, and many fishermen work naked at sea. They don’t have to worry about the cold at all, so the fishing output in summer is higher.
As the yield increased, there were often fish that could not be sold. As time went by, fishermen found a way to pickle salted fish in summer.
It's just that salted fish pickled in summer is not as delicious as pickled in winter.
But as the old saying goes, now is not the time to pursue taste.
When people are extremely hungry, they want to take a bite when they see a bench leg, let alone eat meat.
"Can those fish oils also be pickled?" Tang Xiaobei asked, pointing to the whale's fat pile.
"Those can't," Jin Feng shook his head: "That's whale fat. As long as it's boiled and the oil is refined, it can be stored for a long time."
The essence of pickled fish is actually to prevent the fish from spoiling. To do this, the simplest and most effective way is to remove the moisture from the fish.
In fact, fishermen also use this method, and then apply a thick layer of salt on the fish to prevent the fish from rotting.
Anyway, there is no shortage of salt on the seaside, and Jin Feng does not intend to rob the people by selling salt, so he can just add salt to pickle it.
But whale blubber is all oil and cannot be cured. The best way is to boil it.
"Everyone is quite short of oil and water. Since this kind of fish can refine oil, we can refine more oil." Tang Xiaobei nodded.
Less oil and water means more food intake.
When Jin Feng was in junior high school in his previous life, he could eat four or five steamed buns per meal, but he still wasn't full.
Later, when he went to college, he became taller and gained weight, but his appetite was not as good as in junior high school.
First, I was growing taller during junior high school, and second, the university cafeteria was in good condition and had more fuel and water than in junior high school.
If there is enough oil and water, there will be less food to eat.
Dakang does not yet have sesame and rapeseed, and there are not many plants that can produce oil, mainly soybeans.
The oil yield rate of soybeans is not high, so it cannot meet the daily needs of the people, so ordinary people mainly eat animal fats.
However, the price of animal fat is high, and most people cannot afford it. Even if there is some oil at home, they are usually reluctant to eat it. They are only willing to drop a few drops when someone in the family is sick or when guests come.
Shipping these oils back can greatly alleviate the people's problem of eating oil.
In fact, whale oil has many other uses besides food, but Jin Feng didn't mention it.
Although he knew that the whale was not a sea god, it did not mean that Jin Feng was willing to kill the whale wantonly.
Just like his attitude towards war, Jin Feng actually resisted war very much, but in order to protect himself, he had to kill and bleed like a river.
He fished sea fish and hunted whales regardless of the consequences, just to keep the people alive.
But Jin Feng did not want to develop industry at the expense of large-scale whale fishing like Europe and the United States in previous lives.