Many sailors on the wooden boats are locals, and they all have the energy to fish when they are young. However, in the past, they could catch dozens of fish in one net, but now they can catch hundreds of fish in one net!
This is a completely different concept...
Hundreds of large yellow croakers were driven into the fishing net. A group of people on the wooden boat were panting and couldn't pull it up. The boat almost tilted. It took several boats working together to complete this massive project.
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Baskets of large yellow croakers are transported to the building’s boat!
At first, everyone was welcome to come, but later on, there were so many large yellow croakers that the sailors no longer looked down on the ones that were one foot long and weighed one or two pounds. They were too small, so they went back to raise them.
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Several building boats and several high-rise buildings were already filled with large yellow croakers, and everyone was staring at all this with their mouths open.
Crazy…
It’s just crazy, maybe... I caught more than tens of thousands of them during this offshore fishing trip!
It took a full day and several nights to "catch all" these large yellow croakers...
However, this is just a school of fish...According to Mr. Lu's so-called "fishing by knocking the bamboo" method, as long as you want to catch fish, it is simply...inexhaustible!
"this…"
Looking at the piles of large yellow croakers, Hou Cheng couldn't help but chirp, and he opened his mouth to Wei Xu, Song Xian, Cheng Lian and others beside him: "Why do you feel that our fearful money-making tricks...are compared to the white horse?"
Hou this..."
Without waiting for Hou Cheng to finish speaking...
The three people around him nodded.
Speaking of which, they can be considered as using their power to make money in a wise way.
The specific method is actually to conceal the local household registration. For example... there are more than 300,000 people in Donghai County, and the head tax that needs to be paid is more than 300,000 people, but... what if in fact, there are 500,000 people in Donghai County?
?
Wouldn't the extra "poll tax" be used by the local prefect to line his own pockets?
Speaking of which, this phenomenon is very common in Han people...
only…
Now in the eyes of Hou Cheng, Wei Xu and others, they are greedy for the poll tax and risk losing their heads, but... the speed of earning money and food is not as fast as Mr. Lu's gavel!
These tens of thousands of catties of large yellow croaker are all meat. Meat and grains are not the same price. How much can these large yellow croakers be sold for? God knows!
"It is said that Yinlin has insight into all things and knows people's hearts..." Wei Xu opened his mouth and said: "In the past, rumors always said that he was good at calculating people's hearts, but today, when I look at it, this insight into all things... is even more terrifying... terrifying!"
silence…
After Wei Xu blurted out his words, the four of them fell into silence for a long time.
Suddenly I feel that my money-making activities are no longer good!
What's more, they are worried that their... money-making activities will also be discovered by Yinlin?
"But..." Cheng Lian raised a question. "Baimahou is raising food to supply the front line, but... once these big fish are dehydrated, it is difficult to keep them fresh and will go bad in a few days. How can they be transported to Guandu!"
No wonder Cheng Lian raised such a question.
Fishing with knock-on-silk has actually been around since the Ming Dynasty.
According to local historical records in Chaoshan, Kakui fishing was founded in Dacheng Township, Raoping County during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, and was later introduced to Nan'ao, Chenghai, Chaoyang, Huilai and other counties.
But... these hundreds of years of "knocking fishing" have not caused the big yellow croaker to suffer a disaster!
There are two key reasons. First, productivity was low in ancient times. Fishing boats were relatively small, small in scale, and had low refrigeration levels. Even if the amount of fish caught was relatively large, it was not easy to preserve it! Fishermen were not willing to do thankless things... even if
Even if we use "fishing with silica", it won't pose a big threat to the large yellow croaker.
Secondly, there are not many people who inherit this method of knocking and fishing. You must know that ancient inheritance has strict requirements and tests the character of the person being inherited. Therefore... fishing by knocking and knocking is only in a small area at most. Spread, the blow to the Totoidae family is not big enough!
Based on these two points... Wei Xu raised this question? So many fish were caught? How to preserve them? How to refrigerate them?
If this problem cannot be solved, the food supply for 600,000 people in Guandu is still an unresolved issue!
"You just eat carrots and don't worry about it..." Hou Cheng waved his hand. "Who is Bai Mahou? Since he can think of this method of getting fish, he must have thought of a transportation strategy. Even if it doesn't work... he can also sell these fish, and then Take the money to buy grain?”
...Sell it? Then exchange it for grain?
this…
While Hou Cheng and the others were still discussing, Lu Yu had already waved his hand on the boat...
"Return..."
Yes, we must return as soon as possible, otherwise... these salvaged large yellow croakers will die quickly if they lose water, and they will rot after death!
As for how to deal with it after landing...
Lu Yu had already thought that in fact, it was Zhuge Jun, Huang Xu, and He Yan who were on the coast.
Thinking of them, Lu Yu narrowed his eyes slightly, wondering... have these three good apprentices dried out the first batch of salt in those pools?
Looking forward to it!
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It has just dawned, and dozens of salt mills along the coast of Donghai County have already started work.
Dozens of acres of land, with seawater gradually concentrated according to the topography, are arranged in the form of terraces. The height difference of each group of squares is the distance of two palms.
This is the design made by Zhuge Jun, Huang Xu, and He Yan in accordance with Lu Yu's requirements. From the sedimentation tank to the final evaporation tank, the crystallization tank differs by seven feet in total!
Fortunately, there are many ponds here originally, and further processing on these ponds can save a lot of effort...
Specific methods…
First, seawater is poured into the sedimentation tank with a water pump. After about a day of settling impurities, it flows from the sedimentation tank into the salt flat. As long as the temperature reaches the standard, the sea salt will begin to crystallize in two to three days.
August is now the best season for salting. According to Lu Yu's idea, the first batch of sea salt can be extracted from seawater in four days.
Of course... because this is the first time, the level of purification will definitely not reach the ideal state.
but…
Lu Yu didn’t plan to sell it anyway!
He planned to pickle these sea salts.
It’s like the readers are planning to pickle the author!
Lu Yu wants to pickle large yellow croaker...
Therefore, the requirements for the degree of purification of sea salt are not high, and some impurities will not affect it!
According to Lu Yu's idea, part of the caught large yellow croaker was dried into dried fish meat, and part was pickled into large salted fish.
The dried fish meat can be smoked with cypress branches... In Lu Yu's memory, smoked fish of this kind of large yellow croaker would be sold for thousands of yuan in later generations!
Of course, during the process of salting and curing fish, due to the reduction in water content, the rich nutrients in the large yellow croaker will be further concentrated and a large part will be lost!
These are all acceptable.
In this era, filling your stomach is far more important than food variety, nutrition and health.
Moreover, dried fish contains protein, which is very helpful to the human body!
"General Director Lu said that the amount of evaporation depends on the strength of the wind and the strength of the sunlight, which determine the level of seawater evaporation, which also determines the level of salt production!"
He Yan is very good at studying these "powders".
"White phosphorus" is like this, and so is sea salt. He seems to be born with these white powders!
"There are already crystallized parts!" Zhuge Jun looked at the white lumps, and sure enough...according to what Lu Yu said, on the fourth day, lumps of "crystals" could already be seen in the crystallization pool!
You must know that sea salt is produced by pure natural physics and does not require secondary processing, so...after seeing these crystals, you can start fishing for salt!
only…
"It's so heavy..." Huang Xu on the side tried to grab it himself, but he didn't expect that these "crystals" were unusually heavy.
His little arms and legs seemed not strong enough to lift it!
Since ancient times, there has been a saying in the salt field of "harvesting silver from clean water", but... purely artificial fishing for salt is a laborious job!
The salt that has just crystallized in the sea and is still wet is weighed specially. According to the local method, a basket can weigh 200 to 300 kilograms. Two people with weaker strength cannot lift it.
"Let's come together. Everyone goes to fish for salt. Mr. Lu has been out at sea for two or three days, and he is expected to come back. Let's all work harder!"
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In just three days, several large ships carrying tens of thousands of large yellow croakers, weighing hundreds of thousands of kilograms, arrived at the coast of Donghai County!
And it happened that on this day, a group of merchants headed by Zhao, the manager of Xia Pi City, also came here.
After asking around, I found out that Commander Lu was heading offshore with a fleet of ships.
They hurried to the coast.
I was thinking about waiting here for a few days, but I never thought...
When they arrived at the coast, Manager Zhao and his friends were shocked!
Fish...big yellow croaker!
Baskets of large yellow croakers are being unloaded. They are countless and inexhaustible... I am afraid there are thousands or tens of thousands of them!
This is meat, baskets full of meat...
You know, in today's world, with food prices soaring, not to mention rare sea fish, even the most common fish cost nearly a hundred dollars!
And the amount in front of us is probably impossible to measure with money!
And these fish…
Gu Qiao
It seems that early in the morning, local merchants heard the news and unloaded the baskets of fish directly. Almost as soon as they came down, they weighed them without even bothering to slaughter them. They just weighed each fish and recorded the kilograms... and finally calculated them together.
, how many kilograms of fish should be exchanged for how many kilograms of grain, it was all discussed in advance!
Of course, this was something Lu Yu had calculated carefully. With so many fish, it seemed that... they were either sun-dried or pickled. According to the current sea salt production, there was simply no way to finish it. It would be convenient to simply pickle and dry some of it, and replace some of it with whole grains.
store!
After all, fish is different from grains in that it is perishable. There is no cold chain transportation in this era, so it can only be disposed of quickly!
It doesn't matter if it's cheaper... Anyway, as long as the sea is here, within a few years, there will be an inexhaustible supply of large yellow croakers!
Take a day off...
We will continue to set sail the next day, but... we need bigger and stronger fishing nets, more boats, and more fishing tools, all of which are urgent!
hiss…
The sight of baskets of large yellow croakers being unloaded, with shouts and cries for sale, seemed to shock the merchants who came here.
actually.
The merchants who come here are not only from Xiapi City, but also from Langya County, Dongguan County, Pengcheng, Guangling City... All merchants have a very keen sense of smell. Who doesn't want to get a share of this big man's welfare lottery!
They originally came with this idea in mind, but...the scene in front of them shocked them.
seem…
The income from this big yellow croaker is more huge and more profitable than that of the big man's welfare lottery!
It's so incredible.
You know, marine fish are much more cunning than freshwater fish. In the past, fishermen would be happy all day long if they could catch just a little bit of marine fish when they went to sea. Now, it’s not just a little bit, but “hundred million” bits!
If the previous Han Welfare Lottery was about manipulating people's hearts, then this... sea fish is a bit like God's reward for eating.
"Director Zhao, here... there are so many fish here!"
"Director Zhao? Aren't we...going to find Marquis Baima to cooperate in the welfare lottery?"
"Mr. Zhao, please say something..."
Repeated inquiries...
All the merchants were a little confused.
"Ahem..." Even Manager Zhao coughed and muttered in a low voice: "Why do I look at it? This fishing is more profitable than the welfare lottery! More generous!"
Thinking of this...
His eyes were certain. "Quick...quick...find a way to hand over the name card first, asking to see...seeing Mr. Charming!"
yes…
Merchants from various surrounding states and counties gathered together!
Hurry up and ask for an audience. If you don't ask for an interview, this "good thing" will be taken advantage of by others!
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Tonight, countless bonfires were lit along the entire coast, and many soldiers from Longxiao Camp, local naval forces, and even a group of fishermen began to cook large yellow croaker!
After all...so many large yellow croakers are still fresh. Throw away the ones that have been replaced with whole grains, and the ones that are wasted by trying to dry the fish or pickle it into salted fish, and there are still a lot of them left!
And the most authentic way to cook these large yellow croakers is actually steaming!
The fish head is dug out and rinsed, and the fish scales are also scraped off repeatedly. Then, apply rice wine, green wine, etc. on the body of the croaker, and then marinate it for a while.
At this point, you can add salt, sauce, and sugar...the sugar here is caramel, not sucrose!
(Sugar cane production was not introduced into China until the Tang Dynasty from "Asan's Place"!)
Of course, if possible, you will need to prepare onions, ginger, peppercorns, dogwood, meat sauce, caviar, garlic, cinnamon, lemongrass, etc.!
pity…
Donghae County in this era was still very poor and did not have so many rich seasonings!
But... Hou Cheng, Wei Xu and others found some "ball ginger" unique to the southern mountainous area for Lu Yu, plus green onions... cut the green onions into shreds with a knife, took out a tray and put ginger slices underneath, and put the fish on it.
Cut off the back of the fish so that the large yellow croaker can lie down on its head, add green onions, and when this is done, boil the water in the pot. When it boils, put the fish in and steam it!
The people in coastal prefectures and counties are very good at cooking and understanding fish!
This time...either steaming or making soup, the continuous stoves on the coast are already overflowing with the aroma of fish...the beach on the tip of your tongue!
Naturally, someone took out the first bowl and handed it to Lu Yu.
"It smells so good..."
Lu Yu sighed with emotion, chewed a bit, and raised his eyebrows to prove the deliciousness of the fish here!
Tears of dissatisfaction almost flowed from the corners of my mouth!
Smiling slightly... Finally, the busy days these days were not in vain.
Lu Yu waved to the brothers to eat fish, enough...
After everyone was devouring it, Lu Yu sighed with emotion: "Our poor soldiers in Cao Camp can only eat large yellow croaker!"
This statement...seems a bit awkward!
Of course…
Don’t blame Lu Yu, if we look at future generations...the cheapest price of a pound of wild large yellow croaker is as high as 2,000 Ruanmei coins. If it is seven pounds or more, it can reach a high price of 8,000 Ruanmei coins per catty...
Lu Yu was a poor man before time travel, so naturally he couldn't afford it!
But I can't stand it, here today I have actually achieved the freedom of the big yellow croaker!
"Master Lu..." At this moment, Zhuge Jun came to Lu Yu's side and whispered: "The purification of the first batch of refined salt has been completed, but... the amount of salt produced is still not enough to supply large yellow croaker for pickling!"
Well…
Hearing this, Lu Yu paused slightly. It seems that it is not that easy for the big yellow croaker to turn into a salted fish...
"Increase the scale. If you need to dig more pools or terraces, just tell Prefect Hou Cheng directly... he will arrange it!"
Lu Yu immediately ordered...
Speaking of which, Hou Cheng and Wei Xu are very cooperative with their grain business!
This greatly deepened Lu Yu's affection for them. These guys seemed... not as despicable as what was told in history. They either stole horses, stole Fang Tian's painted halberd, or stole armor... they were very despicable!
"Well..." Zhuge Jun nodded.
If Director Lu is here, everything will be easier...
Zhuge Jun retreated slowly, never expecting that Cao Xiu would come next and put his mouth to Lu Yu's ear.
"Commander Lu, as expected, merchants from all over Xuzhou have gathered in Donghai County. They have sent invitations to visit Commander Lu!"
Hearing this, Lu Yu's eyes suddenly narrowed, and a faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
He thought for a moment...
Then he waved his hand.
"Don't be busy. The fishing of large yellow croaker, the refining of sea salt, and the pickling of salted fish have just begun. Besides, hasn't the Dahan Welfare Lottery just begun to be promoted to cities and counties outside Xiapi City? Wait a minute.
... Wait a few days, the more patient we are, the more urgent they will be!"
this…
Cao Xiu paused for a moment, and then said truthfully: "These merchants are quite generous. As long as they are our brothers, they will give away a lot of money when they meet. The only reason is to ask for a meeting with Commander Lu... If not,
I'm afraid they will continue to take money..."
Cao Xiu didn't finish what he said, but the meaning was very clear.
Eaters are short-tongued, and predators are soft-handed.
The merchants are not short of money, but they throw it at them. Isn't this a test of cadres? No... isn't this a test of the brothers?
It’s not a good thing after all!
Who would have thought that Lu Yu would not take it seriously.
"Our brothers have also worked hard. Here's the order. As long as the money and food donated by these merchants are accepted in full, it will be regarded as a reward to the brothers!"
Huo…
Cao Xiu's eyes suddenly opened.
Lu Yu continued to give instructions: "In addition, Wen Lie, in the past few days, you have quietly spread the word in Xuzhou, saying that in ten days... I, Lu Yu, plan to entertain all the major merchants in Xuzhou in Donghai County!"
Well…
Banquet? Major merchants in Xuzhou?
Cao Xiu was a little confused. How do you understand these words? All the major merchants in Xuzhou? Why are you entertaining them?
Besides... there is no list? How to define... which merchants are invited?
Cao Xiu is still confused...
Lu Yu's words were already coming out one after another. "Just spread the news like this, and don't worry about the rest..."
While speaking, Lu Yu reached out and handed a brand new bowl of fish soup to Cao Xiu.
"Come, drink soup, drink more fish soup...it's good for your health!"
Just like Lu Yu said.
According to legend, the best fish soup is milky in color, fat but not greasy. When it drips on the table, it condenses like beads. If you blow it with your mouth, it can roll from one side of the table to the other!
However, while Lu Yu was talking about fish soup, he was already thinking about how to cut this wave of leeks...