923, seafood products are on the market in large quantities
Chongzhen got up early in the morning and listened to the Jin Yiwei's report over and over while eating shrimp meat.
It has become his habit to listen to intelligence summaries while eating breakfast.
Nowadays, seafood is cheaper. Chongzhen, who is frugal, has also begun to eat seafood.
Now shrimp meat is almost his daily breakfast.
Recently, with the opening of the sea in the new year, Yang Fan's fishing fleet in the Bohai Sea began to use trawl nets for large-scale seafood fishing.
Since last winter, there has suddenly been an increase in seafood in the capital.
In the past, it was not easy to eat seafood. Unless you lived by the sea.
Some fish and shrimps in the sea are dead when they are caught. Some are dead when they reach the shore. Winter and spring are fine, but in summer and autumn they even rot on the boat. Especially deep-water fish, they die immediately after leaving the water. They are difficult to preserve.
In the past two winters, Xinghe Supermarket has sold seafood frozen in ice. As a result, dignitaries and wealthy businessmen in the capital have started a craze for eating seafood. In the past, if you wanted to eat seafood, you had to go to the beach. It was no longer fresh in the capital.
It stinks. They don't like to eat it.
Since last year, Xinghe Supermarket has used ice cubes for the first time to cool down the four-wheeled carriage.
The horse-drawn carriage drove at high speed from the fishery wharf warehouse at Beitangkou to the capital all day and night.
The next morning, when the supermarket opens at 9 a.m., it is sold immediately. These marine fish are aged between 24 hours and 48 hours. The meat quality has basically not changed much. They are very delicious.
Cold chain logistics continues to develop this year. Yang Fan established a cold chain transportation team and customized 100 cold chain logistics vans for use. These vans are all specially made light caravans, with wooden rectangular closed compartments and cotton-filled interlayer insulation inside.
.Use ice cubes to cool down.
This kind of car is relatively light, is pulled by six horses, and travels at high speeds. It ensures that dead seafood remains fresh and tender and does not spoil.
In addition, 200 caravans were also modified. Seawater was filled into the carriages to transport live seafood. Along the way, humans used human equipment to introduce air into the seawater to add oxygen.
This kind of car is pulled by twelve oxen and moves slowly. Because it has oxygen equipment, the fish will be alive when they arrive at the supermarket and enter the glass fish tank. Customers can buy them directly and take them home alive.
The result of all this is that a new industry is emerging in the Bohai Bay. In the past, the catch could not be bought at a good price because it could not be preserved. However, there are many rich people in the mainland, but they cannot eat fresh seafood.
Now, low-value seafood is canned directly in the Beitangkou Fishery Wharf factory area. It can be stored for two to three years. These cans are packed in a small iron drum of 5 kilograms. The outer packaging is a tinplate drum. So
The long shelf life was enough for merchants to transport it to the interior of the Ming Dynasty.
These canned fish are mainly made from sea fish fried in soybeans. They use a lot of modern spice recipes and taste very good. Modern spices are basically available in the Ming Dynasty.
These cans are very popular.
Because of the lack of oil in this era, fried foods are even more popular. There is a lot of oil in these cans. Because sea fish itself also has oil, the more it is fried, the more oil there is. A layer of oil accumulates at the bottom of the can.
It is not only oily but also salty. Salt in the Ming Dynasty was not cheap and ordinary people could not afford it. But these canned sea fish are very salty.
Many people can't afford salt, but they can afford these cans, which are relatively affordable.
In this era, there was no such crazy fishing as in later generations. In later generations, China fished tens of millions of tons a year. In this era, there were still whales spouting water in the Yellow Sea and East China Sea. There were so many fish in the sea that it was a disaster.
So, just get rid of the trawlers. Marine fish is cheaper than food.
For thousands of years, Chinese people have been lacking in protein and oil intake, and their caloric intake is also seriously insufficient. Marine fish are rich in vitamins and calcium, and are high-quality protein. Fish oil is also a good thing.
Therefore, Yang Fan attaches great importance to the development of marine fisheries. Now the famine in the north of the Ming Dynasty has begun to enter hell mode. The development of marine fishing is urgent.
Yang Fan had been building ships on a large scale before. The old and new docks of Beitangkou Shipyard were all used to build clipper warships. Fishing boats and merchant ships were not taken into consideration.
However, as the military shipbuilding base moves to Jeju Island, Beitangkou will focus on the development of fishing boats and commercial ships, passenger ships, cargo ships, cruise ships and other civilian ships in the future.
The largest and cheapest canned marine fish, a barrel of ten kilograms (a pound in the Ming Dynasty is 600 grams, equivalent to twelve city kilograms.) Ten barrels only cost one tael of silver. Combined with this fragrant fried fish that makes people drool.
, you can buy a pound for less than ten dollars.
There is oil, salt, and even spices in it. The most important thing is that this is meat, not miscellaneous grains!
The people of Ming Dynasty went crazy. A barrel of canned sea fish gave them everything they wanted.
As soon as Xinghe Supermarket came on the market, they were sold out every day. The supply exceeded the demand.
Merchants keenly discovered this business opportunity. These cans were very suitable for long-distance trafficking to the inland. Many inland landowners found that they could never live without this product after eating it once.
The fish meat is crispy and tough, and the oil is rich in the aroma of black bean. The black bean soaked with oil and fish juice is plump, salty and delicious. Many wealthy families use the soup at the bottom of the can to soak white rice and eat it.
I can eat a big bowl of white rice every time and it's so satisfying.
The ladies and ladies in the inner house soon discovered that seafood was much more delicious than pork and beef. They quickly became the main consumers of these canned food.
Ordinary people buy the cheapest kind, which is salted fish pickled with sea salt. These salted fish are cheaper than canned fish. They just catch them, remove the internal organs, rub salt on the inside and outside, and hang them to dry.
It only costs five cents per pound. Oh my God, it’s the same price as grains.
Poor people everywhere were excited. They had this, so who would buy coarse salt mixed with sand?
Zhang Baotian's family is a tenant farmer in Zhengding County. His family rents 15 acres of dry land. In addition to paying the rent and the government's apportionment, they only have some rice bran left. In the past, they could only add wild vegetables and cook it into vegetable porridge to deal with the lake.
abdomen.
However, it is impossible for people to live without salt for a long time. When working on crops in summer, sweating is like rain. Without salt supplement, people cannot work.
Unexpectedly, starting last year, Dingyuan Bo began to promote new crops such as corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes in Beizhili. Last year, his family carefully planted an acre of sweet potatoes.
When the autumn harvest came, the whole family was dumbfounded. The yield per mu was four thousand kilograms!
Following the instructions of the students who went to the countryside to promote the potato, the whole family cut the sweet potatoes into slices and dried them in the sun. This way they can be stored for about a year.
This thing is so good. As it grows, the green leaves can be eaten as vegetables. It helped their family survive the famine in the summer. When the fruits are harvested in autumn, the dried sweet potato vines can be crushed and cooked together with the dried sweet potatoes to make porridge.
Don't waste.
Last winter, their family relied on sweet potato porridge.
Unexpectedly, a large amount of salted fish came on the market in winter. A fat sea fish only cost more than ten cents. They could still afford it. Considering that this thing contains a lot of salt, they gritted their teeth and bought three fish, totaling ten kilograms.
From then on, when my wife was making porridge every morning, she would cut off a small piece with a knife and throw it into the porridge pot. In this way, the whole pot of porridge would become salted fish porridge. The whole family drank greedily.
The yield of sweet potatoes was so large that the family no longer suffered from hunger and started eating freely. It weighed four thousand kilograms, enough to last for a year.