The Great Song Dynasty is a farming and trading country, all daily necessities come from the land, after simple processing and then return to the land, they mainly use oil lamps for lighting and food, with sesame oil, soybean oil, rapeseed oil, etc., and now, Liuqiu Island is completely using whale oil. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

There will be no peculiar smell when you use it for lighting, and it will be extra fragrant when you stir-fry food, especially when you use it to fry food, it tastes great.

In fact, the people of the big island are secretly replenishing the animal protein they previously lacked.

Moreover, whale oil is also widely used in the lubrication of bearings in various equipment.

A medium-sized whale can refine about two tons of fish oil, four or five tons of whale meat, and seven or eight tons of fish water and bones.

Zhang Guoan designed a wooden barrel that could hold about 150 kilograms of fish oil, and since then, a new unit of measurement has been created here: the barrel.

This round barrel can be pushed by one person or carried by two people, and it is very useful.

Now, their oil depot is full of such oil drums.

A while ago, to Zhang Guoan's delight, they killed two sperm whales!

In fact, sperm whales dive for a long time, and there is not much chance of seeing them on the surface, so the chances of being killed are not very high.

Catching these two sperm whales was a miracle.

On a bright moonlit night, Captain Cai Erlang led the whaling fleet to anchor on the sea.

There was no big wind and waves that night, and it was a rare good weather.

A crew member wakes up at night, and while urinating into the sea, he notices what appears to be a huge driftwood on the surface of the sea.

He rubbed his eyes and looked again, it seemed like a big whale was sleeping!

He quietly called the whole boat, and before it was too late to use the whaling cannon, they lowered the four boats. Quietly approach it.

In fact, they don't need to be so careful, sperm whales often float on the surface of the water at night, sleep with the current, sleep is still very heavy, and often float on the surface of the water for several hours.

They arrived at a distance of three feet, a whaler who regularly won first place in the Harpoon Society. Throw the first harpoon with great speed.

The harpoon, with its coconut rope, was accurately forked into the whale's back!

Immediately after that, everyone dropped their harpoons, and the whale's back was more than ten times larger than their usual goal......

The whales may not have woken up yet, and they are throwing them round after round!

The sperm whale finally woke up, and it began to struggle frantically, but it was too late to dive or swim away.

The whalers' harpoons are divided into two types, one is specially attached to the whale's body, and it also carries a floating bucket; The other is capable of rapid bloodletting.

Now, they have more and more experience in whaling. They found out that the whales are really docile, and this is really a good business without roots!

Of course, their worst enemy is still wind and waves.

The wailing of the sperm whale at this time woke up the sailors on the other fishing boats, and they also rubbed their eyes to see that there was also a large whale that was sleeping!

In the end, when they sent two fishing boats to drag the two big whales back to the mouth of the Badao River, Zhang Guoan was overjoyed, this is a precious sperm whale!

He sent someone to measure it. The large one is eighteen meters long, and the small one is fifteen meters long...... Their large heads make up a quarter of their body.

Zhang Guoan knows. There is valuable brain fluid in it, and the sperm whale relies on regulating it to dive into the sea, which is the best raw material for making candles, and even has an aphrodisiac effect.

The most important thing is that the rectum and small intestine of sperm whales also produce ambergris.

This is a wax-like substance that occasionally forms in the intestines of sperm whales, and sperm whales' penchant for giant squid is one of the most prized seafood. Ambergris".

The sperm whale often swallows the giant squid in one gulp, but it cannot digest the squid's parrot beak, so it gradually forms a viscous dark substance in the small intestine, which is lumpy and generally weighs several kilograms to dozens of kilograms.

With it, you can make a fortune. You can get a lot of supplies back.

At this time, the fat on the sperm whale, which is generally 20 centimeters thick, is not important......

He immediately ordered them to have their bellies cut open so that they wouldn't be thrown into the manure pond by mistake!

Unfortunately, neither sperm whale was found in the intestines.

Zhang Guoan pointed to the big head of the sperm whale and said to the laborers who handled the whale: "This is a sperm whale, the next time you see such a whale, you must first see if there is a hard lump in its intestines, and if you find something that smells so strange, you must tell me...... Also, when splitting its head, the brain fluid in it should not be spilled on the ground, but should be separated from the fat......"

As a result, Zhang Guoan used their brain fluid to make a batch of candles, which were extremely expensive, because they claimed to prolong life, so they were sold very expensive in the market of the Great Song Dynasty.

He himself left a ...... As for the lighting of the others, let them use oil lamps.

Candles and other luxuries still have to earn other living and production materials of the Great Song Dynasty.

So now, they are ramping up their whaling, and even holding off on fishing for other economic fish.

With the help of caves, straw and ice, they have increased their ability to store food, so that they can still eat chilled food for three to five days.

Then the third thing, Zhang Guoan had to take charge of it himself, that is, the task of building a house.

Without real housing, it is impossible to really retain people, and bamboo buildings and wooden houses can only be substitutes for the transition period.

There is another advantage of this kind of courtyard-style residential house designed by Zhang Guoan, that is, it saves building materials, or it can be said to bring the residents closer to the neighborhood.

The soldiers Zhang Guoan found were better at building roads and houses than agricultural work.

When Zhang Guoan carefully drew the residential house with sewers he designed, the craftsman who led the team understood Zhang Guoan's intention at a glance.

This structure can accommodate several households, and in the future, it can also live in only one household.

They did not use Zhang Guoan to supervise the work, and used the spare time to quickly build dozens of such courtyards, until they used up all the building materials and stopped work to wait for materials.

Zhang Guoan held the first head meeting at that time.

The people who participated in the first chamber head conference counted Zhang Guoan exactly 15 people, and there was originally a share of Huang Zu, but considering that his team had been split and had everything to do, he was kicked out.

Fortunately, Huang Zu was obsessed with military training at this time, especially the artillery practice, and he didn't care too much about this nominal boxhead.

Zhang Guoan said: "The first batch of people to move into the brick house, in addition to your head of the box, the captain and the factory director, it is best to let craftsmen from various industries also move in...... Do you have any comments? ”

The fourteen heads looked at each other, do you still need to talk to me about this matter?

Zhang Guoan said: "What do you think? Speak! ”

Everyone said in unison: "But listen to the arrangement of the bow of the ship......"

Zhang Guoan said: "Let's squeeze first...... Everyone has seen it, and it is being stopped for materials......"

"But listen to the arrangement of the bow of the ship!"

Everyone shouted in unison this time.

Zhang Guoan said in his heart, damn it, it was really a successful conference. (To be continued.) )