Ruda said: "It can't be ten catties, Ma Ling once said." ”

Lin Chongyi gestured and said: "The basin is so big, it is thirteen catties, it is said that it is still growing, the smell is really not to say, I heard that it was transported from Black Dragon Island." ”

Shi Jin also asked people to bring the crab shell over, and said: "The first time I ate such a big crab, I felt rare, so I left the crab shell, Brother Luda took a look." ”

Ruda looked at it and was dumbfounded, this crab is also big, and he has to hold it in both hands.

Shi Jin said: "Don't talk about Heilong Island, even the pike crabs in this small Bohai Bay weigh half a catty, and the poor families along the coast can't eat, so they can only make a living by eating pike crabs." ”

Ruda shouted: "It seems that the Sprinkle family is wrong to blame Brother Ma Ling again, thinking that he is bragging." ”

Shi Jin said: "It's not your fault, Brother Luda has been in Yan'an Mansion, and where has he seen the sea." When the shift is closed in the afternoon, let's go to Kong Yang to borrow a boat and go fishing at sea. "It turns out that Luda is indeed not fishing material, and he is not as patient as Shi Jin and Lin Chong.

Within two days, Ruan Xiaoqi led the fleet to arrive, and the cavalry on the shore all went to the dock to be on duty except for those who stayed on duty. Ruda also followed, this time it was an eye-opener, the ships in the port were overwhelming, and there were six flying eagle warships, with huge crossbows on them, and tall chimneys spewing white smoke. The merchant ships were mainly unarmoured birds, almost thirty of them. Among them, the Chao family trading house has the most merchant ships, accounting for half, and there are also Chai Jin's family, Li Ying's family, and the big merchants in the Jeju area.

Luda asked dumbly: "How many things can be loaded on such a big ship, it looks like it is more than 30 meters long, and it is more than 10 meters wide." ”

Shi Jin introduced: "This is a flying bird merchant ship, you see if his bow is pointed, the draft is shallow, the speed of sailing on the sea is fast, and it can enter the canal, so it is called the flying bird ship, this ship can transport 300,000 catties like that." ”

"God, there are so many." Ruda said in surprise.

"In fact, it can't be transported so much, unless it is to pull heavy goods such as grain and frozen fish, and there is basically no weight in transporting ginseng, mink, deer antler, and other valuable items. But this time there are 3,000 mares from Liaodong, and you'll see it later. ”

The warships were on duty at sea to guard against pirates, and Kong Yang arranged to direct the unloading. The first to dock were the merchant ships transporting livestock, with about 200 mares each, typical of Mongolian horses, smaller than the northwestern horses, but also in good condition. At this time, Liaodong basically had no agriculture, a barren prairie, controlled by the Jin State, rich in cattle and horses, the price of a mare could not exceed five dollars, and you could pick and choose when you bought it, for no other reason, because the horses on the grassland were almost wild, and the cost was very low except for grazing every day.

Luda exclaimed: "There are a lot of horses in Yuncheng, there are a lot of horses in Jingcheng, and there are a lot of horses here, so I'm not afraid of no horses to ride in the future." ”

Shi Jin smiled and said, "You guessed wrong this time, these horses are not breeding horses, but mules." There are dozens of miles of barren beach to the south of the salt field, and the military department has decided to build several horse farms to breed mules. The total number of mares required should be as many as tens of thousands, and it seems that Chai Daguan will also invest in a mule breeding farm recently. ”

Luda sighed: "The Great Song Dynasty lacks horses, so it would be better if it was to breed war horses." ”

Shi Jin was noncommittal, and said: "Brother Chao Gai does things freely in places that others don't expect, raising mules definitely has the benefits of raising mules, but we don't know about it yet." ”

Luda said: "Exactly, the Sprinkle family just misunderstood Bian Xiang and Ma Ling a few days ago, this time I don't think about it, the Sprinkle family will return to Jingcheng today to resume their lives." ”

Luda said goodbye to Lin Chong and Shi Jin, and rushed back to Jingcheng County with fifty soldiers. Back in Jingcheng County, Luda and Bian Xiang worked together to train the army and provide relief to the victims.

In view of the actual situation, the relief is not all unconditional, and the able-bodied women have to go to the mines, or the lumber yards, or the industrial parks every day to work. Only the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, such vulnerable groups, can survive completely on the food provided for disaster relief.

With the end of midsummer, autumn is coming, the disaster in Shanxi has not been alleviated because of autumn, and more people have come over one after another. Corn is a coarse grain, but it is high in starch and can withstand hunger.

Luda and Xie Zhen Xie Bao and others successively sent more than a dozen batches of strong men to the Cangzhou salt field, plus the poor recruited by other places, and transported almost 20,000 strong men to Heilong Island this summer.

It is worth mentioning that the Yuncheng Shipyard that Ye Chun is responsible for this year has developed on a large scale, with more than 500 skilled senior craftsmen and more than 1,500 ordinary craftsmen. This year, more than 80 flying bird merchant ships and more than 100 centipede ships have been launched, and both quantity and quality have been greatly improved. Ye Chun's ability is still very good, and he is full of energy.

Shuibo Liangshan, the camp of the navy, Chao Xiong received an order to lead three flying eagle warships and escort twenty newly launched flying bird merchant ships to Heilong Island.

Chao Xiong was very happy and happily prepared. Ruan Xiaoer said: "Look at you, it's your turn to go out this time." ”

Chao Xiong smiled: "It's so big outside, what's the good thing about nesting in a water pool, I want to be on the sea all year round like Xiao Qi." ”

"Okay, you're ready to go, we'll have to stay and watch the house." Ruan Xiaoer said.

This time, the 20 ships were full of porcelain, cotton cloth, silk, tea and precious goods, as well as ironware, tools and other daily production and daily necessities. The fleet entered the sea and first arrived at Jeju Island, unloading porcelain, cotton, silk and other valuable goods to the port of New Jeju, and then transporting 500 Vulcan spears from the port of New Jeju to Haelong Island.

There is a new port at the southernmost tip of Heilong Island, called Anping Port, which is already small-scale, and near the port is 20,000 Zhuang men from the new transportation. The farm is still built as before, a farm of 500 people. It's just that this time the house was not built in such a hurry, the house of blue bricks and red tiles, with a pit and a fireplace, although it looks average, but it is sturdy and durable.

The 20,000 strong men were not busy clearing the wasteland, but some of them were busy sorting out fishing nets, iron cages, baskets, and so on in the port. Others built ice cellars a few miles away from the port, and large ice cellars were built one after another.

The goods on the ship are basically hemp rope, iron cages, gloves and other fishing tools, this way to the world is seen, but the long-distance voyage is really tiring, but Chao Xiong wants such a life, used to not do it as soon as possible.

As soon as he landed on the shore, Chao Xiong came down and shouted: "Who is responsible here, the goods have arrived." ”

Hao Siwen came over and said, "Captain Chao, I am in charge here, I am temporarily ordered to be in charge of the affairs of Anping Port, and you will be in charge when you come, I will train a thousand musketeers here." This is Chao Tuanlian's order, you see. ”

Saying that, Hao Siwen showed Chao Gai's order to Chao Gai, and Chao Xiong scratched his head after reading it: "I thought I could fight when I was transferred out, but it turned out that I was asked to come over to fish." ”

Hao Siwen said: "You have to be careful, Brother Chao Gai said, this is to give you a chance, not 20,000 strong men, I want to recruit a thousand people from it to train musketeers, and the remaining 19,000 people are all at your disposal, fishing and crabbing will cost at least 10 million catties, and you will not start fishing until it snows, frozen in ice and waiting for transportation." Now when you can't fish, you can go to logging, build roads, and build infrastructure. ”

Chao Xiong said: "It's a working life." ”

Immediately familiar with the environment, organized 10,000 strong men to go up the mountain, there are many mountainous areas in the south, there are tall fir trees, pine trees, etc., this kind of tree species is very suitable for shipbuilding, and the wood for shipbuilding needs to be stored in advance, so it is necessary to cut down in advance.

It turned out that during this time, Chao Gai, Liu Tang and others had been in Black Dragon City and the Fierce Bull Grassland to prevent the Jin people's counterattack. After waiting for a period of time and no movement, the southern Anping Port was built first, although the immigration is a profiteering business, but the initial investment is too large, although there is no financial deficit, but for the long-term development of the consideration Chao Gai decided to develop the marine resources in the sea near Heilong Island. In these years, there is no ability to exploit any oil and natural gas, and what can be developed is fishing, and the northern ports are easy to freeze, and the southern ports are just right. It is mainly to catch king crabs, big crabs weighing more than ten catties, red and red, which look strange and scary, but the meat is delicious, and it can be put for a long time when it is fished out and frozen, and salmon and so on are aquatic products with great output. Don't worry about no refrigerator, Heilong Island is basically more than ten degrees below zero when it snows, put the fish and shrimp in the bamboo basket, pour water, and it won't take long to become an ice lump, and then put it in the ice cellar, it can be stored for a long time.

The northerners couldn't get rid of the manpower, so they sent Hao Siwen to arrange the port, bringing only more than 100 infantry, all of whom were old artillerymen drawn from the Department of Urging Fields. Chao Gai discussed with Gongsun Shengyi, considering that Hao Siwen had both civil and military skills, and became a deputy general, so he let him form an army alone and train a thousand musketeers, which was what happened in the past.

Chao Xiong led the team to build roads and cut down trees in the mountains, and it didn't take long for the Mid-Autumn Festival to come, if it was possible to swim in the water during the Mid-Autumn Festival in Shandong, but this Black Dragon Island was not good, and a light snow drifted and began to freeze one after another. Immediately arranged for men to continue cutting down trees, and Chao Xiong went to the port to lead 5,000 strong men to start fishing.

The first to start catching salmon, salmon is nutritious, delicious, is the best in the fish, the weight is just right, about ten pounds, more on the catch of this fish is not strong, grizzly bears will catch.

Salmon enter the inland river to spawn in the first month of the year every year, and there are dozens of large rivers that enter the sea at the southern end of Heilong Island, and the downstream water flow is deep, and these places are fished with large nets. The water is very shallow when you go up to the middle of the water, but it is only knee-deep, and the water flow is clearer.

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