Chapter 531: Hope and Disillusionment

The three men are cousins, flesh and blood, and now they are all working in the Dengzhou Water Division.

The Liangshan army swept north, south, east and west, and the land division fought in succession, and its prestige was far and wide. However, except for a bloody battle in Shigou Town, the water division has no record of success. Even if it was to conquer Goryeo, all the credit was also given to the army.

They didn't seem to have much to fight, but the wind and rain came and went, the sea was stormy, the waves were rolling, and the slightest carelessness would cause the ship to be destroyed and people killed, and the danger was especially higher than that of the army.

In Lu Qian's eyes, the status of the naval division is not weaker than that of the army, because it is a technical branch, and the average monthly salary is comparable to that of the cavalry.

Such people say that a daughter-in-law should be nine out of ten, as long as she is not too attached, she can make her wishes come true. But one of the three brothers bumped into a bad one. The man who liked it was not that he hated the poor and loved the rich, but that his errand was too dangerous. But the one who was transferred to the whaling team at the beginning of the year, and went out to sea to hunt whales in February, and in less than three months, the dividends that fell into his hands were fifty or sixty yuan.

This was supposed to be something worth showing off, but the woman's family turned down the bride price because of this, and ruined a marriage for nothing. Calling that man is extremely embarrassing, healing and depressed. Both brothers returned with him, and it was this marriage that ran for him, and he didn't want to be this result. Recently, I dragged my brother out to relax.

Jin Fushi naturally couldn't understand the details inside, but only listening to the information revealed between the words of the three brothers made him stunned. The unsatisfactory one is the most profitable of the three brothers, because he belongs to the whaling team, and he only pays dividends more than ten times a month.

What is this number?

Jin Fushi would not have known that the bulk of the profits from whaling were actually in the Liang Shan Army, but after the Liang Shan Army ate the meat, drinking soup could make such a small soldier such a benefit, which made him feel a stone in his heart. O Alexander!

Of course, Jin Fushi also had whaling in mind. The big whale grows in the sea and is naturally raised in the sea, but it is not something that can only be caught by people in the Central Plains.

If this was the case, he walked out of the teahouse with great joy, and only took a short rest, but he did not want to hear about it. He had heard about whaling, but he didn't think about it, and only thought about it like a fisherman in the sea. Horizontal and vertical means that small boats catch small fish, and big boats catch big fish. I never imagined that it would be so profitable!

A small soldier can share more than ten profits a month, how much can the captain of the ship share profits? There are 1,200 people in a boat, and I am afraid that I will not share two or three thousand yuan of profit every month. And what about the Liangshan army who took the lion's head?

It is not known how many whaling ships there are in the Liangshan Army. Not to mention anything else, there are only ten, which is more than 100,000 yuan or more per month, and it is easy to exceed one million yuan when you are young.

The Central Plains is vast, and millions of dollars still dare not be ignored. The poor country of Korea is weak, and the millions of dollars are ten times greater. If the king has an extra million pieces of wealth in his hands, I am afraid that it will only take three or two years to rebuild the second army and six guards and rebuild the majesty of the emperor.

Jin Fushi was not excited, and intuitively found a shortcut. However, it is not clear that the reason why Liang Shanjun's whaling is extremely profitable is because a complete chain of interests has already been established in China.

Although the whale meat is cheap, but is it meat after all? If it is not marinated in time, it will only wait for it to rot and deteriorate.

And how can there be enough workshops and factories in Goryeo today to deal with it?

Fresh whale meat can only be sold at the port, and if it wants to be transported inland, it is still cured meat and canned meat.

And whale oil produced by whales is not only used for lighting, but also an important industrial oil. It can be used in the tanning industry, and is also used in tempering baths (for steelmaking) and as lubricants.

If not only the metallurgical industry needs this thing, but also the windmills, water conservancy equipment, and animal power equipment that have been all over Qilu are also needed, and even the civil and military officials in various places will order a large number of whale oil.

Taking Guozijian and Wuluoyuan as examples, both have both day and night lights. The former is more of a library, and the latter has more places such as deduction rooms and even school fields in addition to libraries. The amount of whale oil to be purchased every month is as much as dozens of stones.

These are the whole chain of interests, so that the value of the whale is more fully reflected, which is also called the maximization of interests.

But what about Goryeo?

When I saw a whale, I would buy it out of curiosity. But no matter how cheap meat is, it is more expensive than grain, and as far as the country of Goryeo is like, can Jin Fushi really be sure that their people can buy its whale meat frequently?

It must be known that even if Liang Shanjun is here, a major sales target of whale meat is still the increasingly large Liang Shanjun. Lu Qian remembered one of the major reasons for calling people to hunt whales, that is, to solve the shortage of meat in the army. But what about the Goryeo Army? When did they get the treatment of eating meat regularly?

The whole hay yard is full of vendors, carrying burdens, pushing carts, and selling all kinds of groceries. A boom.

After Jin Fushi watched it an hour earlier, he would definitely have some emotion. Now there is a kind of "I can do it" ambition.

"Brother, look at this birdman. It's the little brother who is clumsy, and he feels that his steps are much lighter. ”

On an inconspicuous stall behind Jin Fushi, a man in a coarse cloth short coat suddenly said to the stall owner. The latter's eyes had already stared at Jin Fushi, and he said: "It's not that my brother is clumsy, my brother and I feel the same way." The birdman left his two companions and walked around, and he was enlightened? ”

After several months of close surveillance, the people of their security department could see Jin Fushi drinking alone to the moon with a sad face many times. This is an unswerving patriot.

My brother laughed. This guy is a long-term affection. The man in the coarse cloth and short clothes said.

But there is another reason for this. Earlier, this Jin Fushi had an affair with a Kabuki in Yirakufu.

Lu Qian is very disgusted with the name of the Teaching Workshop Division, and this name is easy for him to associate with four words - *** female. Although it was actually an ancient court music institution, it was responsible for the teaching and performance of court folk music. But the deepest impression it gave Lu Qian was that 'his wife and daughter were relegated to the Teaching Division'. Therefore, although the Liangshan army killed all the way, cut off the heads of many corrupt officials and profiteers and gentry, and frequently raided homes and exterminated clans. But he has never used his wife and daughter as a military trick, and if so, the Teaching Workshop Division has been cut off from the root in Lu Qian's place.

However, the absence of the Faculty Division does not mean that there are no Kaki fans in the market, on the contrary, the result of the disaster of many large families is that many high-quality newcomers have been added to the entertainment industry in various places.

It is also because of the banquets of the big officials or the palace banquets in this era, and there is no vocal music and dance, which is really not like words. But Liang Shanjun started too grassroots, how could this Yuefu be established overnight? You can only select industry elites from the entertainment industry to fill in.

This is not to say that it only belongs to Yuefu, but it is included in the Yuefu recruitment sequence, just like those film and television singers in the state units of later generations, who are just more powerful in the entertainment industry.

Jin Fushi may be a romantic person, or he may be empty, lonely and cold in a foreign country, if he was a year ago, he fought with a song in Yidu City, like lacquer and glue. The latter is really not a spy of the Espionage Department, or this Jin Fushi took the initiative to bully him. It's just that this woman's life is not good, and she caught a cold in winter, and she fell ill.

Jin Fushi was very sad, and he was even more sad about everyone who thought about things, and then he became clean and self-conscious.

The Espionage Department knows this well, and if the woman hadn't died early, she would have been contacted by the Espionage Department. And because of this, the man also said that Jin Fushi is a long-term lover.

Jin Fushi came to a merchant, and he thought about whaling in his heart, so he didn't feel that he had walked to a stall selling dried whale meat. The latter is a new kind of food in Qilu, which is easy to carry and simple to make. But it was a method from the army, and it was impossible for Lu Qian to use the practice of pork jerky in later generations to make whale jerky.

If nothing else, pepper alone cannot be satisfied, and sugar cannot be satisfied, and the taste is naturally far inferior to that of later generations. Moreover, whale meat is also different from pork. But it's finally accessible.

Jin Fushi has eaten dried whale meat, but he has only eaten it. I only took one bite, and I didn't ask for a second bite. No one will put a delicious meal and go for rotten fish and stinky shrimp.

But now his mood is different. Picked up the goods on the pick and smelled it, but there was no strong fishy smell of other seafood, so he asked the merchant with a Tokyo accent, "Where is this dried meat?" ”

The merchant looked up and saw that Jin Fushi was well-dressed and extraordinary, and asked suspiciously: "So that Mr. knows that this dried meat is baked at the villain's house." Although I feel that Jin Fushi's identity is not simple, and he is not very good at eating this kind of dried meat without spices, he is not angry. Even if this official is here to entertain him, he can gather some popularity for the stall, right?

Jin Fushi took out a handful of copper from his arms, Lu Qian had already minted gold and silver coins, and then the minting of copper circles and copper horns was a matter of course, but considering the number of copper coins circulating in the world, the latter could be postponed for the time being. The auxiliary coins circulating in the market today are still made by Zhao and Song Dynasty.

Jin Fushi took out twenty or thirty copper coins, and half of them were ten coins. Although under Lu Qi's rule, ten coins would have been cut off long ago, but this handful of copper is not small for a small stall, which is enough to weigh several catties of dried meat. The merchant smiled, and later Jin Fushi asked about something, and he knew everything and said everything.

This whale meat is the fresh meat he bought at the port of Laizhou, Yidu is located inland, and there is a small 200-mile road to the sea. However, driving his own donkey cart, he could bring back three to five hundred catties of meat from the sea at a time; Bring your own food on the road. The cost has increased a little, but it is not large.

If it is winter, this fresh meat can be transported directly back to Yidu; Not now, but as long as you are willing to use salt, there is no security.

Whale meat is cheap, one pound and less than ten cents; It is made into dried meat, and half a catty is made out of a catty, and the cost price is less than 30 yuan. This freshly baked first month to buy 50 yuan a catty, the next month to buy 40 yuan a catty, if there is still 3 in March, is to protect the capital of 31 catties.

Jin Fushi's brows furrowed suddenly, but he was worried about one thing. The whale meat was only ten dollars a pound and was not enough, which made him full of confidence in it, believing that even if the people of Goryeo were poor, they could afford to eat it. But salt.

The most important thing for the hawker to speak was to remind him of one thing - the preservation of fresh meat.

From Yidu to Laiju, the road is not enough for just 200 miles, and a large amount of salt is needed to be salted and preserved, so the ...... in Goryeo and the salt in Goryeo are not cheap.

For a while, Jin Fushi's heart was in a mess. He realized that what he had just thought was too simple, and the expectation of "assisting the king and revitalizing Goryeo" seemed to be distant......