Cai Wenji, a talented woman, heard the details inside, and asked, "Husband, if that's the case, then these fish were driven back from the sea thousands of miles away?" ”

"Yes," said Gongsun Kang solemnly, with the worship of the mystery of life: "These fish have traveled thousands of miles from the sea back to the place where they were born. ”

"And how did they find their way home?" This is what Cai Wenji wants to ask.

"They rely on the fresh water that flows into the sea to discern the direction. They can find a drop of water from the river where they were born in the boundless water, and thus find their way home. The answer to this question happened to happen that Gongsun Kang really knew.

This fact made everyone lose their voices, how can a small fish be so precise: find a drop of water from the river where he was born in the sea?

No one can answer that even in the 21st century, mankind will not be able to do this. But the little fish did it.

After watching the scenery for a long time, everyone went to the island again and had a picnic. The main ingredient of the picnic is salmon. Some guards stood by the stream with wooden barrels or wicker baskets, and scooped half a bucket of large fish. It's as simple as it gets.

Some are boiled, some are roasted, and the roe is boiled in clay pots and eaten with a spoon. It's very strong.

Salmon is also delicious steamed and eaten, put some oil, put some chopped green onions, cut the fish into cubes, and put it in a bowl to steam. After steaming, it is red and oily, and the fish meat is like a garlic clove, layer by layer that can be peeled off, and it is fragrant.

The next day, he came to Mi Fang's newly cultivated territory. On the plains beside the Tumen River, the land is dark and fat. Just sow a few seeds, and they can grow like weeds.

No city was built in the new territory, and no walls were to be built in the future. This is the big rear! If Liaodong is beaten here, then it is not far from destruction.

When he saw his brother, he was very happy and recounted what he had seen and heard along the way.

After listening to this, Mi Fang looked at Gongsun Kang and said: "We are in the Tumen River, although we can't see the scene of big fish filling the river, but we have a net and a harvest of tens of thousands of catties." ”

Gongsun Kang nodded and said, "The migration period of salmon is in these few months, so hurry up and catch it." If you can't finish eating, you can dry fish, you can marinate salted fish, and you can smoke pine branches into preserved fish. ”

Mi Fang traveled from south to north and saw a lot of things, and he understood all the practices that Gongsun Kang said. So he added: "You can also make fish balls, fish floss, fish hair." ”

Gongsun Kang laughed and said, "Haha! It seems that I did the right thing to ask you to be the county guard. From now on, you will be half fisherman and half farmer! ”

From this day on, the 50,000 displaced people in the garrison no longer need to open up wasteland, and all go to the nearby rivers and streams to catch fish. Because there are so many of them! It's as simple as taking a straw bag and going to the woods to pick up leaves.

And the 30 big ships of the Liaodong Navy have become fishing boats. Begin at the mouth of the Tumen River, seine nets to catch fish.

Gongsun Kang, who came to the bow of the boat, saw at a glance that a large wave of fish was attacking in the sea dozens of meters ahead.

The black swarm looked like a school of dark red fish was swimming over as if it were obscuring the sky because of the little red spots on the salmon's backs.

The entire sea in front of the fishing boat was so crowded with salmon that you couldn't see the color of the water at all!

"Our fishing boats can't get in, and it seems that we have to use purse seine nets to cover the entire area. When the time comes, as many salmon schools as they come, they will be surrounded by me! Mi Fang said with a smile.

"In the operation, some people drove small boats to arrange purse seine nets around the fishing boats, and some people took fishing nets to intercept the tributaries of the fork of the Natumen River, and they could catch as much as they could." The adjutant general of the naval army next to him began to give orders.

The purse seine arrangement is for the arrival of the next batch of salmon fish. Now this group of salmon is estimated to have generally swam deep into the tributaries of the Tumen River, and it is not suitable for fishing anymore. However, it is still possible to intercept and catch at the entrance to the fork of the Tumen River.

The operation began in an instant, and Mi Fang did not go down, but commanded the group of subordinates on the fishing boat.

After more than half an hour, the purse seine was arranged, and the purse seine net was arranged like a big bag, waiting for the salmon to come to the door. As for the other batch of Arctic salmon that went to the fork of the Tumen River to catch just now, they also caught more than 1,000 catties. Because there are so many of them! It's as simple as picking up leaves with a straw bag.

Two large fishing boats, 30 meters apart, walk side by side, spreading a large net and one boat grabbing one side of the net. Going against the grain for a few tens of meters, I feel heavy and unbearable.

"It's a huge school of fish."

"How many are there?"

All the sailors looked stunned, such a big scene is rare.

"It's too fierce." Mi Fang was shocked when she saw the big fish in the net. At this time, the seabirds seemed to predict the arrival of the fish, and swirled in the air in groups, and then swooped down at the right time.

The schools of salmon in front of them enter the purse seine nets without realizing that they have entered the trap. When the first part of them hit the end of the fence and are now intercepted, they know that something is wrong.

The salmon in front of me shook as the net struck in an instant, and the sea water boiled together.

Even many salmon were knocked out by the fish under such a squeeze.

"Collect the net! Collect the net! The lieutenant roared when he saw that the tails of the fish were in the purse seine net. The sailors had already prepared, and the two small boats were docked to the left and right of the opening. After seeing that all the fish had entered, he hurriedly pulled the two ends of the opening of the fishing net and began to merge.

The sailors on the ship began to use a lever machine and an iron turntable to collect the large nets on board.

The net collection work begins. However, the salmon trapped in the purse seine did not give up, and one by one the salmon began to jump out of the water after seeing that they were blocked by the net. The salmon's jumping ability is there for all to see. Some can often jump up to half a meter high, while others can even rise up to a meter tall.

One by one, the salmon began to jump, trying to escape from the place and continuing in the direction of the branching river. They still jump when they encounter obstacles such as waterfalls during their migration.

There are a lot of salmon jumping, hundreds of hundreds jumping together, and the scene looks extremely spectacular, just like a carp jumping over the dragon gate!

"Look, those salmon are jumping to get out of here!"

"Haha! You see all those salmon are hitting the nets. ”

Mi Fang knew that the salmon would definitely jump, so she was ready to make the net a meter and a half above the water. The water in which the purse seine is laid out is shallow, only one or two meters deep. The protruding nets are supported by railings.

As soon as the net came down, there were tens of thousands of catties of big fish jumping in the net. The big boat hurriedly drove to the shore, and the tens of thousands of people waiting on the shore began to be busy collecting fish. There are also people who are descaling, disemboweling, and directly starting processing.

"Wow...... That's a lot of salmon! Everyone looked at the salmon and was a little dumbfounded. More than 10,000 catties of salmon are really shocking.

Although the efficiency is not high, the net does not stop, and each boat has a harvest of tens of thousands of catties a day.

As the fishing boats sail back and forth to the shore, schools of salmon can be seen flowing into the branching river. It's good to have some omissions, so as not to fish with all your might.

(End of chapter)