After the meeting, Sun Chuanting accompanied Cui Chengxiu to see Mo Jingwan. When Cui Chengxiu finished saying what he meant, Mo Jingwan smiled heartily: "That's not a thing, as long as Cui Yushi talks to us, there is no problem with whatever he wants." ”

Sun Chuanting saw Mo Jingwan's attitude, so he relieved himself. It's just that in Cui Chengxiu's opinion, Mo Jingwan's smile was full of pride, and he looked so hateful.

In November of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, a fleet of ships set sail from the port of Tianjin to the Sea of Japan. The head of the fleet was Wei Zhongxian's henchman Zhang Xingming, who was instructed to recruit fishermen who had gone to sea at high prices in Beijing, most of whom were Liao. Moreover, he recruited a few retired old men from the Denglai Naval Division as captains, and bought ten large ships of 4,000 materials from the Tianjin Shipyard to form a royal ocean-going fleet and go to Ezo Island to hunt whales.

The flotilla arrived in Jeju three days later, replenished with some fresh water and food, and then moved on to Tsushima Island. The observers of the ocean-going fleet who came here in the early stage had already repaired a pier with the local Japanese, and told Zhang Xingming that there was no need to go to Ezo Island at all, and that there were whales in the sea near Tsushima Island. The time of their arrival coincided with the time when whales appeared in large numbers.

The next morning, the fleet worshiped Mazu and then officially began fishing. Seeing such a big whale, everyone didn't dare to catch it, and said: "This is the legendary kun, it's a sacred thing, how dare you kill it?" ”

The Tsushima fishermen, who were guides, looked at them with disdain, and finally found a sense of superiority. A Japanese man picked up a javelin with a rope tied to the back, aimed it at the head of a whale and stabbed it hard. The whale churned in the water with a large amount of blood, and the rope was quickly straightened, pulling the whole boat off the way.

Everyone looked at the Japanese man in horror, and the Japanese exclaimed, "They're fish, just fish, fish for people to eat." And then keep repeating.

At this time, the wounded whale ran blindly to the side of the boat, and the Japanese threw another javelin, and the whale struggled a few times, and finally stopped moving. He slowly pulled the rope back into the boat, waited until the whale was close to the boat, stuck the hook into the fish's head, and shouted, "Pull it up." ”

At this time, the Chinese fishermen woke up from a dream and hurriedly pushed the equipment similar to a gantry crane over and hoisted the whale onto the deck.

This whale is two feet long, and everyone is amazed to see it. The Japanese looked at them with disdain and said, "There are big ones." Then he took out a knife, cut open the whale's head, took out the barbed javelin, and then began to skillfully dismember the whale carcass, dividing it into different parts, and when he was so tired that he could not breathe, he found that everyone was watching him busy as if he were watching a play, but no one stepped forward to help.

He sighed helplessly and shouted, "Come and help." The fishermen cowered and stepped forward to help him break down the whales.

Fear comes from ignorance, and after following the Japanese fishermen in an operation to dismember the whales, the fishermen become emboldened and soon begin to catch whales with shouts.

A large ship of 4,000 materials is enough to catch whales. At least you don't have to worry about being pulled over by an injured whale like a boat. This made the fishermen of Tsushima Island very excited, their ancestors had many of them buried at the bottom of the sea because of the whale madness, and now there are such large boats, and the officials of the Ming Dynasty said that as long as they fish with all their hearts, they will be Ming people in a year, which makes them full of longing for the future days.

At the end of the first day, more than 80 whales were caught in 10 boats, the small ones were one zhang long, and the large ones were almost three zhang long. This is still because Zhang Xingming ordered that whales that are too small should not be caught, and let them grow up.

The whales were first dismembered on the deck of the boat, to train the fishermen's courage, and then they were caught first, and then transported to the dock together when there were a few of them.

The fishermen on the pier are responsible for slaughtering the whales and dividing them into different parts, the whale oil is pulled to a large house next to the pier, where it is made into candles, the edible whale meat is salted, and the whale liver is carefully cut and salted. The emperor said that this thing can be sold very expensive, but it can't be wasted.

Baleen and teeth are also collected and dried to be shipped back to see if they do anything. As for whale skins, some whale skins can only be eaten, while others are soft and tough, which should be used to make some leather products.

Busy until the evening, the whale parts were finally processed. The next day, a fleet arrived at Tsushima Island to transport the processed products away. When passing through Denglai, there will be two ships bound for Dengzhou, and then two ships will stop in Tianjin to collect goods, and the other ships will be transferred to the capital.

There are two newly built factories in Zhangjiawan outside the capital, one is a candle factory and the other is a soap factory. The manufacture of these two things is actually not complicated, the important thing is that if you want to make it by machine, it will take some thought, the candle factory can already use the machine to make candles, and most of the process of soap manufacturing can only be done by hand, but the raw materials are shipped, so you can only start making it first.

Soon in the sales department of the agricultural cooperative, new varieties were sold. One is whale oil candles and the other is soap. There are two types of whale oil candles, one of which is said to be added to the strange substance on the whale's body, which has an aphrodisiac effect, and the selling price is very expensive, ten times that of proficient candles. Ordinary whale oil candles are sold cheaper than ash worm wax.

Soap, on the other hand, is significantly easier to use than pancreas and is sold cheaper. In addition to this, there is also a kind of cured fish, which is half the price of pork, and it is sold very hot.

Because this kind of pickled fish meat tastes quite good, and there is a lot of salt in it, there is no need to add salt when cooking, of course, cheap is the most important thing. Many families have not eaten meat for a long time, and now having such cheap meat will certainly buy some for their families to improve their lives.

The whale liver is sold as a high-end food, and the cooperative advertises that this kind of whale liver is very nutritious, and can strengthen the body and make people deaf and clear, and some people do find that they have cured their chicken blindfold (night blindness) and beriberi, and some people have cured their eczema and ulcers in the mouth, and the rich people flock to it for a while.

Ten whaling ships, twenty transport ships, and soon the number of transport ships increased to thirty, and more whale meat was transported back to the mainland, and then entered the dining table of ordinary people, so that the lack of meat products was alleviated to a certain extent. The use of soap has gradually withdrawn pancreas from the market. Candles, on the other hand, make the use of cooking oil to light lamps slowly decrease and disappear, and objectively increase the amount of food.