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After leaving Wenyuan Academy, Zhou Ming took more than 30 classmates (some of whom returned home) and returned to his hometown in Haiping County.

With so many guests coming at once, my parents were a little surprised and didn't know how to arrange it.

Fortunately, a few years ago, Zhou Ming personally designed a fortress for the family vault, has been completed for the most part, this base is poured by reinforced concrete, one mile in circumference, nearly forty meters high, less than five miles away from the dock fort, close to the Beijiang River, the defense is perfect, under the protection of arquebuses and cannons (the world's gunpowder raw materials are sufficient, arquebuses have been developed, cannons because of the lack of copper, there are only a few test products at present), coupled with the supporting port facilities, in the case of war, even if it is besieged by a million troops on land, it will not fall easily.

In the tall fortress, there are hundreds of rooms with complete supporting facilities, and you can also blow the river breeze at night and look at the distant sea view, so after consulting the opinions of more than 30 students, Zhou Ming placed most of these students in the guest rooms of the fortress, and arranged a servant and a maid to serve and provide good treatment.

Of course, Zhou Ming did not eat and live in vain to raise them, these are all high-level intellectuals, some of them can be incorporated into the "Literature Group" to help him engage in literary creation, some can be incorporated into the "Comic Group" to help him draw comics, and some can be incorporated into the "Entertainment Group" to help him develop his entertainment career.

Even if some waste wood can't help with anything, it is very effective to stand aside and be responsible for the momentum and shouting.

In short, make the best use of everything, and don't let a classmate eat here for nothing.

The classmates were all settled, and when they returned to Tianjiazhuang Wubao, Zhou Ming asked his father Tian Feng about the development of the family's industries in the past four years.

Tian Feng, a father with a lot of dark skin and a lot of age, has done his best to complete the development plans formulated by Zhou Ming in the past four years, and he looks a lot more capable and mature, full of the temperament of a successful man, he took out more than a dozen account books and introduced to Zhou Ming the development status of various family industries in recent years.

The first is the big farm plan, which has nothing to say, now Tianjiazhuang, not only can be self-sufficient in grain, in the pasture of the grange, there are more than 4,000 cattle, more than 2,000 horses, tens of thousands of pigs and sheep, as well as countless chickens and ducks, the annual production of meat, eggs and milk, so that the farmers of Tianjiazhuang, have lived a well-off life with meat and eggs every day, in recent years, the children in Tianjiazhuang, the average height, than their peers in other counties, are more than three or five centimeters taller, and the older the age, the greater the gap.

The second is the large salt field plan, the current Haiping salt field, has been developed for nearly ten years, the salt field area, from the initial 20 acres, 1,000 acres, 5,000 acres, has now expanded to 30,000 acres, with an annual output of millions of stones of sea salt, this output is close to one-third of the sea salt in Yangzhou Changlu Salt Farm, but because of the lack of manpower, and the annual salt tax paid to the government at all levels, has risen to fifty percent, his father Tian Feng, no longer has such a strong motivation, to continue to expand the area of the salt field, otherwise the government will raise the salt tax, this hard work, is equivalent to making a wedding dress for the imperial court.

Finally, the plan of the marine fishing company, this plan, at the beginning, when the investment was greater than the return every year, his father Tian Feng was not particularly concerned, but every year because of storms, reefs, currents and other reasons, a large number of ships and fishermen, and felt very painful, sometimes felt that the plan was stagnant and had no meaning for development, but at the insistence of his son, this plan still gritted his teeth and persevered, organized and trained fishermen, established shipyards, purchased high-quality wood, and built bigger, stronger, The more scientific type of fishing boat came out, and it continued to invest for nearly ten years, and now, it has finally borne fruit and brought many unexpected surprises.

For example, the catch of marine fish, in the first few years of small boats and small nets, can only catch some small fish and shrimp in the offshore waters, there is a catch of five or six hundred tons a year, which is not bad, throw away some of the rotten and spoiled, made of dried fish, you can consume most of it. However, since the nineteenth year of Tiansheng, Tianjia Shipyard adopted a standardized construction mode to build a batch of "Haiyu No. 1" fishing boats with waterproof compartments and a displacement of 550 materials, and put them into batch construction, in the 20th year of Tiansheng, the catch of the marine fishing company has increased nearly tenfold in one year, reaching 5,000 tons.

In addition, fishermen have invented some marine fish preservation technologies (such as barrel stocking, artificial oxygen supply, etc.) to ensure that most of the marine fish are still fresh before they go ashore, which brings a large number of raw materials to the workers who cook and dry dried fish on the shore, so that Haiping County has a special product called "Haiping dried fish", which quickly swept the surrounding counties.

Even, the newly arrived Haiping County Du County Order (stained with the light of the Haiping Tian family, the original Chen County Order, Sun County Order were promoted because of their political achievements), found that "Haiping Dried Fish" tasted good, very distinctive, in order to please the center, this kind of dried fish, listed as a tribute, dedicated to His Majesty the Ming Emperor and the Queen of Heaven, and soon got praised, requiring the annual sacrifice of dried fish 100 stones, to the royal family, civil and military members to taste.

If the dried fish industry is a decent and profitable industry, then Tianjia Marine Fishing Company, the crazy development of the whale fishing industry in the past two years, is a thorough profiteering industry, relying only on whale fishing, two years, Tianjia Marine Fishing Company, the huge amount of money invested in the previous ten years, all earned back, not to mention, there are nearly 200,000 huge profits.

Why is whale fishing a lucrative industry?

Because, whales are full of treasures!

Whale skin, after tanning, is firm and durable, waterproof and corrosion-resistant, and has strong defense, and can be made into leather armor, belts, waterproof clothing and whaleskin umbrellas, hiking boots, backpack straps and other items...... Like ancient industrial plastics, they are extremely versatile.

Whale fat, the refined whale oil, after burning, has a special fragrance, refreshing, worth a thousand gold, and whale oil, is also an excellent industrial lubricant, in the future to make steam engines, whale oil, indispensable.

Whale meat, which can be eaten, tastes similar to beef, has a delicate taste, is rich in protein, and is not easy to cause obesity, and the price is not expensive.

Whale tendon, tenacity far more than cow tendon and sheep tendon, and crocodile tendon on par, bow and arrow, bow and crossbow, all kinds of siege devices, after using whale tendon, the power will be increased a lot, whale tendon, it can be said, is a military strategic material.

Whale bone, after grinding into powder, is a high-grade "compound fertilizer" containing a variety of mineral elements, which can be applied to the field to achieve a miraculous effect of +10% of agricultural yield.

Whale offal, some can be used in medicine, some are delicious ingredients, in short, there are many functions.

Whale poop ...... Throw it away.

How did the first whale of the Tianjia Ocean Fishing Company catch it? It is also a coincidence that this whale, after fighting with a group of ferocious sharks, was seriously injured and fled to the offshore sea in a hurry, just as the sea was at low tide, and this whale, which was 18 meters long and weighing 1,000 stones (50 tons), unfortunately ran aground in the shallows, and was picked up by a "Haiyu No. 1" fishing boat returning from fishing......

In this stranded whale, after tasting a lot of sweetness (this whale is equal to the company's income in previous years), the marine fishing company, out of control, specially modified several whaling ships for whaling, organized into a whaling fleet, cooperative whaling, two years, caught hundreds of small and medium-sized whales back (the big ones dare not provoke ah), just by selling whale oil refined from these whales, it made hundreds of thousands of yuan.

And the whale group in the sea, just like the herd of cattle and horses on land, is countless, such as a current convergence zone more than 300 miles east of Haiping County, there are tens of thousands of whales living in it, even if the whaling fleet, catch it 1,800 a year, it is just to update the population of these whales, a little faster.

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A few days later.

On the seashore 30 miles northeast of Tianjiazhuang, a shipyard covering an area of several hundred acres is holding a ceremony for the launching of a new ship.

Zhou Ming and his father Tian Feng both came here.

The person in charge of the shipyard is named Tian Guang, a middle-aged man in his forties, with rough and dark skin, like an old farmer, he is an uncle of the Tian family, he was originally a shipbuilding carpenter, has a certain cultural literacy, and is quite good at building sea ships.

In the center of the shipyard, on the largest slipway, there is a ship with a large broadside width (about 7.5), which has a pointed end and a narrow tail, a slender hull, three masts (to hang sails), two rows of oars windows on the left and right sides of the amidship, which can be arranged for 80 oarsmen, and two rows of fins at the bottom to reduce the amplitude of the hull roll during sea navigation.

In front of this new ship that is about to be launched, Tian Guang, the person in charge of the shipyard, said with a flying eyebrow: "This 'maritime type one' cargo ship, with 1155 materials, three decks, 68 waterproof compartments, a large cargo compartment, can load 2000 stone (= 100 tons) of materials, fixed crew up and down 150 people, operating sailing oars, under the condition of smooth wind, sailing thousands of miles in a day, when it is not a problem!" With this type of cargo ship, the marine fishing company will not have to go back and forth when going to sea in the fishing season in the future, and the transportation work will be handled by a type 1 cargo ship by sea, and the efficiency of fishing will be increased several times!"

In order to improve efficiency in any industry, it is necessary to pay attention to the division of labor and cooperation, and the same is true for marine fishing: the "Sea Fishing Type 1" fishing vessel is responsible for fishing, and the more you catch, the better; the "Sea Fishing Type 1" with a faster speed and more cabins is specially responsible for transportation...... In this way, during the three or four months of the year when the sea is at its least stormy, the catch of the marine fishing companies will inevitably increase dramatically under this division of labor.

Zhou Ming nodded and asked him: "Uncle Guang, let's mass produce twenty cargo ships first, and the next research focus should be on the 'Sea Fishing Type II' fishing boat, this new type of fishing boat, with more than 2,000 materials, can catch at least two or more big whales back when going to sea once...... Within two years, you should strive to develop the 'Haiyu Type 2' fishing boat." ”

Two years?

Tian Guang was taken aback, this is too urgent, the doubling of shipbuilding materials means that the workload is not as simple as doubling, but three to four times! And in order to maintain the stability of the ship's navigation, the structural design of the internal cabin also needs to go through a large amount of data calculation, so the larger the ship, the more difficult it is to build, which is the axiom of the shipbuilding industry.

"Then it's about three years, preferably no more than four years! The company will also find a way to recruit more people and craftsmen, including those in boat design...... Uncle Guang, you can build the 'Maritime Type 1' from scratch in just two years, which shows that in the face of greater challenges, you can do better than you imagined!"

Seeing that he was a little embarrassed, Zhou Ming cheered him up.

Tian Guang nodded, his face flushed with firm confidence.

"Here we go!"

"Released the water, released the water!"

With the cheers of his father Tian Feng and the workers, the lock gate slowly opened, and after the seawater poured into the dock, this brand-new cargo ship, which was as slender as a bow and coated with yellow tung oil, slowly floated from the water......