Chapter 313: History of Guano Causes

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Wei Hang returned to the fishing boat silently, and the group of guys were still bragging and farting, not knowing that someone had left the fishing boat for a while. Looking at their catch, it seems that it is not large, and there are more saury.

The sea saury is actually what everyone calls a hairtail fish, and some people may not know the difference between a knifefish and a hairtail fish. Generally speaking, saury refers to river knives, which are river fresh. And hairtail is seafood, and that's the difference. However, with the addition of a sea character in front of the saury, it is different.

Originally, the two are still a little related, and the hairtail fish is actually a knife fish that lives in the sea, and the environment is different, resulting in two species. There are many such examples.

"The wind is getting stronger, you guys can play!"

Slowly, the wind picked up, and several of the guys took refuge in the cabin.

Next, the fishing boat headed straight for the Dongsha Islands, without stopping on the way. There was a net dragged in the middle, all of which were Jinchang fish, the quality was not bad, the individuals were relatively large, and most of them were more than five catties.

Compared to the silver pomfret, the Jinchang fish is much larger. However, wild Jinchang fish is not cheap, more than 60 yuan a catty, and it may cost hundreds of yuan to try a new one.

It is a high-protein, low-fat fish, and teenagers and children eat more of this fish to help them grow and develop and improve intelligence. When steaming the fish, the knife edge can not be deep.

At noon the next day, Weihang's fishing boat reached the Dongsha Islands.

This is an important supply point for fishing boats, and there are quite a few fishing boats coming in and out, as well as some tourist boats. They were about to sail into the docks, ready to send the turtles to the biological research center on the island, and replenish the supplies for the sea.

Looking at Dongsha Island in front of him, Weihang remembered a piece of history, which was caused by guano above, dating back to the Qing Dynasty.

"Hey, what are you thinking about so fascinated?" Yun Rulong patted Wei Hang's shoulder.

"I think of a piece of history that happened here. Wei Hang smiled.

"What history?" everyone was a little curious, but they were really on the road that day. It's too boring, and one by one, the gossip heart is provoked.

"In the past, there was a lot of guano piled up on the island, which contained phosphoric acid, but after excavation and land preparation, it is difficult to find it. ”

Wei Hang's headless words made everyone speechless, talking about history, what kind of guano are you talking about?

"What is there to say about guano?" Daniel Zhang and the others' interest suddenly disappeared halfway.

"It's because this history is caused by bird droppings that it's interesting. Wei Hang glared at them.

Say, this sea. For hundreds of years, it has been a treasure trove of gold panning for fishermen along the coast of Guangdong, Fujian and Fujian, and many of the Qing fishermen who came here to fish have made a fortune, and there is a saying that "if you want to make a fortune, take advantage of the eastern sand" in the coastal area.

The fishermen of the Qing Dynasty, who had made their fortune by fishing, did not notice another rich resource of Dongsha: guano. Guano accumulated over thousands of years has formed a phosphorus-rich placer resource, which is an excellent natural fertilizer and is widely popular in Europe and the United States.

This huge guano gold mine inadvertently attracted the attention of the Japanese. Japanese businessman Yoshiji Nishizawa. In 1901, a merchant ship drifted off course in a storm and drifted here, where phosphate ore was discovered. The following year, he came with a ship to dig a lot. Shipped to other places for sale. This was the first pot of gold he grabbed from Dongsha Island.

"Damn it, guano is going to be stolen from our country? Fang Zhen scolded.

When I was in the army before, I heard that these Japanese devils were insatiable, and they wanted to use the oil fumes from our country's oil refining. There are also important resources for those oil fumes. That's it. But now, the guano is being taken away.

What the hell is the lack of supplies in your country?

"That's not surprising, we think it's garbage. But people think it's a baby. Didn't you say: Garbage is a misplaced resource?" Gu Yanji said with a smile, and that sentence is very classic.

Moreover, it is also phosphate rock, which is an important chemical mineral. The products obtained by the mining and enrichment of natural phosphate-containing minerals are the raw materials for the production of phosphate fertilizers, phosphoric acid, elemental phosphorus, phosphates and phosphides, and more than 85% of the phosphate rocks are used in the production of phosphate fertilizers.

However, according to their quality and quantity, there are only a few phosphate-containing minerals that can be mined and utilized. In industry, the main phosphorus-containing mineral used to extract phosphorus is apatite, followed by sulfur phosphorus, aluminum strontiumite, struvite and blue iron.

If it can be used in industry and agriculture, it will be even more valuable. No wonder, the Japanese devils will make up their minds, obviously, there is money to be made!

In ancient times, the fertilizer business was very profitable. At that time, agricultural production was the most important national economy.

"I didn't see a lot of birds! I made a fortune on bird droppings. ”

"In the past, I heard that a large number of seagulls inhabit Dongsha Island, and guano with high phosphorus content is accumulated several meters thick, which is used as fertilizer and pharmaceutical raw materials. Wei Hang said.

Weihai kid doesn't know that this is a paradise for migratory birds, and before spring and autumn, there will be a large number of migratory birds staying, and the accumulated guano is very considerable.

However, now it is different, there are too many human tracks, and there are fewer birds.

"And then?"

"Yoshiji Nishizawa was determined to develop Dongsha Island on a large scale. After the end of the Russo-Japanese War, in the summer of 1907, Nishizawa led 120 workers to Dongsha Island. Wei Hang said.

At the southern end of Dongsha Island, he built a wharf with waste wood, built a small railway connecting the north and south, connected telephones and water pipes, built a freshwater plant, and built Japanese-style offices and dormitories. He named this "unclaimed wasteland" "Nishizawa Island", raised the Japanese flag, and erected a wooden monument to Japan's sovereignty.

"It's arrogant. "Everyone is very tired of listening to it, and they just use their own names to name them, should they be so arrogant?

In fact, aside from other factors, I still admire this kind of person, who is bold enough to build their own business on a desert island, even if they are them, they have to weigh it well, right?

In the documents left by Nishizawa, the development of Dongsha Island was recorded in detail, but what he deliberately omitted was that the Chinese fishermen working on this "unowned wasteland" were forcibly driven away by him with violence, and the Chinese fishermen who did not obey were even destroyed by their fishing boats.

What is even more immoral is that the guy demolished the Tanah Lot Temple and the brothers' house on the island, and hundreds of Chinese graves were dug up, and Nishizawa burned all the bones and threw them into the sea.

In China, the most immoral thing is to dig people's graves. This guy not only did it, but also did it so badly.

It can be seen that the hatred of the Chinese towards Japan is not formed in a day or two.

"Fuck! When it comes to history, it's a fire. The Qing Dynasty, in particular, was too incompetent. ”

The fishing boat slowly approached the pier when an accident caught everyone off guard. (To be continued......)