What is the bucket used for, of course, it is for stuff!

It can be regarded as the first time that Mao Jue has gone through the back door, and a No. 1 and 2,000 Dafu ship is only equipped with eighty large wooden barrels, Mao Jue's opening, Mao Youde directly gave him more than ten No. 1 battleships, and more than 1,000 large wooden barrels are piled up in the open space of three hundred villages.

However, these barrels, the quality is really poor, with the collapse of the health system, as well as the Ming Dynasty relied on the artisan system, originally from the beginning of the founding of the country to set the will with the corruption of the officials, the living environment is getting worse and worse, has already escaped most of the time, even if there is no escape, it is not at all able to raise the spiritual production, fooling things up.

As for the businessmen who spent a lot of money to buy officials to receive orders from the imperial court, the silver was invested in it, and naturally it was impossible to come up with any good things, and it was good to be able to give some tofu scum projects, and even more pitted ones directly used solid iron rods as gun barrels and equipped them for the soldiers on the front line.

The decay and degeneration of equipment is also one of the main reasons why the Ming army, which is equipped with a full 40% of firearms, but was beaten by the Jurchen bow on the battlefield in Liaodong.

The weapons are still like this, not to mention these barrels, the only thing Mao Jue can be sure of is that these things are made of wood!

"It's also called a barrel? Lao Tzu said, how is the water on the boat always bad! If this thing isn't broken, it's not forbidden! Damn, these barrel makers, your mother-in-law bathes with this broken bucket every day! Your family next door is surnamed Wang! ”

It is said that the efficiency of the barrel depends on the shortest barrel plate, but it doesn't depend on the thinnest one, right? Looking at the huge wooden barrels that were about to catch up with the cage with dizzy eyes, Mao Jue's eyes were almost cross-eyed, and he shouted in annoyance.

Listening to Mao Jue's angry scolding, Dang Hai couldn't help but look confused, taking an ordinary bath, spring, and a green hat with a head is understandable, but what the hell is the surname Wang next door? What does it have to do with buckets?

After being confused for a while, the huge sea grabbed Mao Jue, who was going to draw a circle and curse some unscrupulous profiteers, and the face that had become more and more like a bitter gourd since he met Mao Jue twitched tragically, and asked with trembling hands and fists.

"Master Qian, these barrels are tinkering, and the young people are used to it, but ......"

Dizzy, he looked back at the mountains of wooden barrels, and asked with the corners of his mouth twitching.

"But please give me advice, what are you doing with so many buckets?"

"Loading fish!"

Patting the pile of barrels beside him, Mao Jue said as a matter of course.

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The working people are really invincible, some of the barrels are broken into cages, and the women in the village are wrapped with Ula grass, and the plug is mended, and it is actually made up without leakage, and the wooden barrel wrapped in the grass seems to have more fragrance and heaviness of the grass, such barrels have been repaired more than 100 in a morning, all of them have been loaded on a few broken mountain boats, just after the end of the ten-day intensive training, it is time to go out to sea to patrol the sea, more than 200 men from three hundred households are driving more than a dozen sentinel boats, Cangshan, who followed the two main battleships, went out.

Unlike the last time he ignored it, this time Mao Jue was like a different person, with a few personal soldiers, and he was also in high spirits, and he arrived on this small boat, and he didn't know how to pretend to understand, and he didn't know how to pretend to understand, and he was in a hurry, and the Ming army who were about to become professional fishers was flustered, some did not stand firm in the bow of the boat, fluttered and fell into the sea, and some of the two sentinel boats went together in a daze, and some even got caught in the net.

Going to sea twice a month to fish is one of the most important sources of food for the three surnames and hundreds of households, and I can't stand it anymore.

Not to mention, I don't know if he can command the war, but the command of fishing, this person is really called an expert, under his dispatch, just now the messy boat is smoothed up, like a dense net, surrounding the fish, the sea is still very rich in this era, this less than half a day, more than a dozen nets at least a thousand catties of fish, what goby, barracuda, sea bass, fat on the deck jumping non-stop, looks quite gratifying.

If you harvest so much on weekdays, you should return home, after all, the fish needs to be processed quickly, hung up and dried, otherwise it won't take long for it to spoil and spoil, wasting the resources of the sea in vain, and the people in the village have to be hungry, but who knows that this time, without waiting for the huge sea to order back, it was stopped there by Mao Jue again.

The deck of the Cangshan ship suddenly became a Shura field, more than 60 men with short knives, in Mao Jue's babbling, these fresh sea fish that had just been caught from the sea were directly disemboweled, and the internal organs were thrown aside, the tail of the fish was also cut off and discarded, the fish blood flowed everywhere, the fishy smell was tangy, and the gills and fish intestines were piled up a lot.

However, a few days ago, the sea salt on Xiaolu Island was put in use, rubbing a handful into the belly of the fish, and then wiping a handful on the front and back, these fish were densely stacked at the bottom of the big barrel that Mao Jue was going to come according to the species, and worked until midnight, a total of eight barrels were loaded, and they were heavily pressed on the bottom of the Cangshan boat, looking at the scattered salt bags, as well as the military households under the hands who were scarlet and tired sitting on the ground, the huge sea was a little changed, no wonder Mao Jue ran for salt, it was originally for fishing and keeping it fresh.

But he still didn't understand, what did Mao Jue want so many fish for?

Early the next morning, the three hundred fishermen who could not return had to be driven by Mao Jue and continued to sail towards the depths of Liaodong Bay with the fish.

This time it can be regarded as an ocean-going operation, with a huge fishing fleet, Mao Jue fished for more than ten days along the vicinity of Xiaoludao until the deep sea, and almost obtained 10,000 kilograms of processed fish, filled with a hundred large barrels, and pressed several Cangshan boats are heavy, if in the past, these fish and shrimp would have rotted long ago, however, it is such a simple knife and a salt, although the smell is not good, but the fish in the barrel still remains fresh and not rotten.

It's not that time to go to sea, you can encounter a large number of fish, and it is not impossible to harvest no particles, this long-term operation, make up for the shortcomings of previous fishing, more than a hundred barrels were tired and almost collapsed when the fisherman snorted and shouted and rolled off the boat, the entire small fish village almost boiled, and the big girl and the little daughter-in-law followed and watched in surprise.

However, what was thrown to them was a large number of ugly fish entrails that had been unsmellable into the water, and these things were also thousands of pounds, piled up at the bottom of the boat, and these shops were really rotten a lot, the smell, anyway, Mao Jue didn't dare to stay by the side, I don't know how many people greeted his eight generations of ancestors in the scolding, the fishermen pinched their noses and held shovels and basins, so they all got these things into the field and buried them in the ground.

As for the big barrels full of fish, that afternoon, Mao Jue borrowed more than 20 carts from the army's baggage battalion, and pulled them to Phidao City on the same day, and there was another fish shop not far from the glass shop on East Street.

The biggest difference between the small-scale peasant economy and the commodity economy is that most of the former are self-produced and sold, small, scattered, and isolated, while the commodity economy taps all the productive forces, produces on the largest scale as much as possible, and sends them to the market for commodity exchange.

Usually, the Pang family can eat enough, and if they catch too much fish, they can't save it, and they don't think about selling it out at all, but Mao Jue has already started the idea of seafood from the beginning.

According to the records of some historical books such as "Golden Bottle Plum", "Food and Goods", the price of fish in the Ming Dynasty is about 110 Wen or 0.0321 catties, the price of this Phi Island is cheaper on the island, it can only be sold for 80 Wen, but it can not stand a large amount, and the sea fish that has been salted has saved a lot of salt money, even if the poor are willing to buy one or two, hang on the wall for the next meal during the New Year's Festival, in one afternoon, it will sell ten barrels of more than 1,000 catties, and there are merchants who go to the customs are optimistic, and agree to order a few barrels, Trafficking to Shandong to try.

In the evening, one-fifth of the seafood was sold, and in the dizziness of the huge sea and Wen Meng, eighty or ninety thousand heavy copper coins plus twenty-six taels of silver were piled up in a large box.

Looking at these silver coins, Dang Hai really wanted to cry, he was cheeky and cried that his father and mother finally got the goods, and he was scared, trembling and smuggling to the Houjin side, only twice a year, and the hundreds of taels of silver earned had to be divided equally among three hundred households, and it was already considered a bodhisattva blessing to have seven or eight taels of food and drink in his hands for a year, and it was only a month for Mao Jue to toss out the silver that was about to catch up with him for half a year.

Although the smell of fish is so smoked that Mao Jue really doesn't want to eat fish anymore, but sitting in front of the money box, he also looks satisfied, and he can sell so much on this Phi Island, which is actually a bit beyond his expectations, but this result has long been expected.

Because someone has already done it.

Netherlands!

In the seventeenth century, even the old colonial empire of Spain and Portugal were submissive, but the initial capital accumulation of the Netherlands did not come from the big buying and selling of expensive goods, but all by catching small herring in the Atlantic.

The West is a Christian believer, there are about 90 to 150 days a year, or even longer for fasting days, no meat is allowed to be eaten, but fish is not in this ban, and the growth of European population and the development of land have made many freshwater rivers and lakes extinct fish, which provides an excellent market for the Netherlands near the sea.

However, the Netherlands is not the only country that fishes herring, Sweden, Scotland, Norway, and Finland also catch herring, seizing the market in the Hanseatic League, and in order to compete for the market, the Netherlands has also broken out several wars, but what really changed was a fisherman named William who invented a one-size-fits-all method of preservation.

It is to dig out the internal organs of the herring with a knife, then rub it in salt and put it in wooden barrels, so that the shelf life of a few days is increased to more than a year, so that the Netherlands can catch more herring and sell it further away.

These are all seen when I was bored to visit the forum before the crossing, Mao Jue did not expect to have a day that he could use, although now Daming does not have a fasting day like Christianity, but now it is out of the Xiaoice period, the entire northern grain production will be reduced on a large scale, as long as it is eaten, it will not worry about not being able to sell, today is just the beginning, once the market in the customs is opened, the silver is not like flowing water?

Since there is such a prospect, the employees naturally need to take a good look, sitting on the ground and stretching out their feet, Mao Jue kicked the heavy copper money box directly in front of the huge sea.

"Take these back, and you three hundred households will divide them!"

"Ahh This ......, Lord Qianhu, how to make this small one! ”

"If you want to take it, you will take it, talk nonsense with Lao Tzu!"

snorted impatiently, and then Mao Jue's face suddenly showed a cruel look.

"The money is not taken for nothing, Lao Pang, you go back and gather your own soldiers and those who can fight for Lao Tzu, go back to the camp, Lao Tzu will block people tonight!"

"Blocking people?"

The joy flashed away, and a sense of surprise was evident on the treacherous face of the huge sea......