"The wheat head is yellow, and the yellow croaker is prosperous; A net of gold, a net of silver; Yellow croaker cooing, fishing boats fill cabins"

This is a popular fisherman's song near Zhoushan and Taizhou, and it describes the scene of fishermen who make a living from fishing, and several great opportunities to obtain wealth through hard work during the year. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

From the spring equinox to the beginning of summer, the small yellow croaker in the sea will follow the current to migrate to the vicinity of the Zhoushan Islands, which is the wheat head yellow, the yellow croaker is prosperous; A net of gold is talking about catching yellow croaker, and a net of silver is another kind of seafood, hairtail. Its fishing season begins at the end of September and lasts until the end of November. Don't be lazy in every fishing boat, and what you catch with one net is really about the same as silver.

In late September, the fishermen near Hangzhou Bay ushered in the last fishing flood of the year, and hundreds of fishing boats from the surrounding states and counties gathered in the waters near the Zhoushan Islands, ready to do another big job, and then have a comfortable New Year, which is over. For the fishermen in the East China Sea, life has been getting better and better day by day over the years, and even more comfortable than their counterparts in the South China Sea.

Why do you say that, it is said that there are many fish and floods in the South China Sea, so why should the fishermen in the East China Sea live a better life? In fact, this has nothing to do with the number of fish, it is mainly determined by land transportation. No matter how many fish fishermen catch, it is in vain if they can't sell them. The temperature near the South China Sea is high, and the fresh seafood caught cannot be stored for a long time, and there is no very large sales market in the local area. Therefore, the fishermen here have become part-time workers, fishing for a few days and drying nets for a few days, and usually act as inland river porters for large cargo ships, transporting goods for merchants in the main river waterways.

The East China Sea is different, first, the trade activities are not as developed as the port cities in the south, the second is that the temperature is not as high as in the south, and the third is that there is a cement official road along the river, which can transport as much fish as possible to the inland areas south of the Yangtze River, even if the fresh fish cannot be sent that far, and the salted fish or dried fish can be sold at a good price. If it is seafood that can be farmed in seawater for a short time, such as crabs, sea urchins, conchs, etc., and can be sent to inland areas alive, the price will be higher.

With a market, fishermen will naturally not be stingy with physical strength. Every year at the beginning of summer and late autumn, it is the time for them to make a big effort, whether they can get enough for their son to marry their daughter-in-law in the beautiful scenery, whether they can turn the family's old wooden adobe house into a big brick house, whether they can buy a bigger fishing boat, whether they can get together to make a seafood processing workshop, and become a boss themselves, it depends on how many fish can be caught in these two fishing floods.

At this time of year, Lin'an and Mingzhou ports will also gather a large number of seafood buyers. These merchants had their own four-wheeled carriages, which could carry goods inland by sea day and night along the official roads, making a lot of money from lower purchase prices and higher selling prices. If it is a boss who has done a relatively large business, there will also be a steel-axed carriage imported from the Jinhe Empire, and the same three horses can pull more than half of other people's wood-axed carriages.

"Brother Zheng, don't come unharmed. Your business is getting bigger and bigger, last year it was still two dirt cars, this year this is another Jinhe car, Huizhou's seafood business is almost robbed by Brother Zheng! In the seafood market outside the bamboo car gate of Lin'an City, groups of foreign businessmen gathered, and the big carriages outside the market were connected one after another. These are all merchants who trade in seafood, and in the words of later generations, they are second-class dealers.

"Hahaha, Feng Laosan, what about me, I can see your Feng family's convoy before I come in, okay, the Jinhe cart of Yishui'er, even the horses pulling the cart are the same color. No matter how good Huizhou is, it is too close to Lin'an after all, and I am not the only one who does this business. But Jiangzhou Fengjia is the only one, although the distance is farther, but the price is also a lot higher, and I earn a lot more than my brother. Originally a small trader near Huangshan, Boss Zheng, who was dark and thin, only discovered the business five years ago, borrowed a lot of money from the clan, bought carts and horses, and trafficked seafood to his hometown. Don't look at his book, there are only two cars, but fortunately he has a fixed sales area, and it is in vain for others to transport it, and the locals don't buy it, and the profit is not bad.

The trade of dry freight, especially the trafficking of fresh fruits and seafood, requires a very stable next home, otherwise no one will buy it when it is shipped back, and it will be too late to find a buyer again. Because these goods cannot be stored for too long, a slight delay is ten days and half a month, which is basically equivalent to losing everything. The reason why there are no businessmen who do this kind of business in the first place is not that people don't want to do it, but that the conditions are not there.

In the past, the official road was yellow earth, and when it rained, there were potholes everywhere, and it was difficult for people to walk, let alone carry heavy vehicles. Moreover, a few years ago, horses were still strategic materials, and ordinary people had nowhere to buy them even if they had money.

Since the construction of the cement official road along the river, the traffic problem has been solved, no matter how heavy the rain, the official road is still flat, as long as there is no flood, the car can keep running, a hundred miles a day is no problem. Coupled with the fact that the war in the north had been pacified, the largest amount of loot brought back from the front was the Mongol horses. The imperial court couldn't use so much, nor could it afford to raise so many horses, let alone look down on these short horses, so they simply sold them among the people. Now there are not only roads, but also means of transportation, which is the business of goods.

"Alas...... Don't mention it, my heart is also up and down. Brother Zheng, didn't you notice, there are several big families missing this year, they all have official backgrounds, and they suddenly disappeared, I don't know if there will be any changes. Brother Zheng is close to Lin'an, have you heard anything about the situation, and also give the little brother a nag, how about letting the little brother and me feel at ease? You see, the authentic cigars of the Chinese company, this is still brought back by my brother who went to Guangzhou the year before last, and I don't know how to smoke this thing, so I just borrow flowers to offer Buddha. ”

This year's Lin'an City is indeed different from previous years, and even compared with the spring, there are great changes. It's not that the climate changes in the seasons, but the walls of the tide gate have collapsed, more than a dozen strange ships have been parked on the river, and the original seafood market has been moved a few hundred meters to the west, far away from the former wharf. The area from Houchaomen to Jiahuimen has become a forbidden area, and no one or ship is allowed to approach.

"Well, it's a rarity, it tastes right! I said, brother, don't be afraid, it's a good thing for us small businessmen to have fewer big households. In previous years, they grabbed the good goods first, and we can only pick the rest, and this year they don't come, we should be happy. If you're talking about change, I really know a little bit about it. Do you know why the gate collapsed? Do you know what these boats are doing on the river? Do you know why some big families don't come this year? Boss Zheng took the cigar cigarette that was still sealed with wax in a wooden tube, put it under his nose and smelled it, very satisfied. Since you have received a gift from others, you have to say what people want to know, which can be regarded as a return gift.

"Brother Zheng, please speak, brother listen!" Seeing that Boss Zheng accepted his gift and could answer his own questions, the businessman surnamed Feng hurriedly lowered his posture a little more. You can't just keep your head down and do stupid work, you must grasp the trends of the imperial court, otherwise you don't know how to die, a small family like him can't afford to resist the wind and waves.

"During the August Festival, there was a big incident in the imperial court, it is said that someone wanted to rebel and blew up the officials, but they were discovered by the owners of these ships, which saved the lives of the officials and ministers. It's a pity that the city gate was still not saved and was blown down, otherwise how could such a strong city wall collapse? Boss Zheng likes the taste of cigar smoke very much, and prefers to answer other people's questions, and tells the news he knows.

"Ahh Rebellion! This is a great crime of raiding the house! I just don't know who the owners of these ships are, and what do they have to do with those big families? "What Boss Zheng said, the businessman surnamed Feng really didn't know, in addition to being shocked, there were more questions.

"Who said it wasn't, the court has chopped off its head for more than a month, and those big families used to rely on someone in the family to be an official in the court, so they could gain power, now don't say it and continue to do business, whether you can survive is a problem. If you come half a month early, you can see the river outside Jiahui Gate with thick smoke billowing all day long, burning all the dead, and after burning, no ashes are left, all swept into the river. I heard from the fishermen here that every night at night, there will be fish screaming on the riverside outside Jiahui Gate, and the sound of crying is exactly the same as a person's crying...... "Boss Zheng is not from Lin'an, he just has a clan in Lin'an City, and he can hear some rumors that outsiders don't know." Rumors, when you talk about it, you will go astray, and you will always slip away from the gods and ghosts.

“…… hiss...... "Boss Feng's back was cold when he heard this, and he couldn't help but look to the east, as if he had really heard something, and quickly turned his head back.

"Those big ships in the river are reinforcements invited by the government, and I heard that they are from the East, farther than Japan, and they are going to fight the pirates in the south. You must stay away from these people, all of them are killing gods. Boss Zheng was very proud when he saw that the story he told really stopped Boss Feng, and pointed to the big ships in the river and the marines standing guard in the east, and lowered his voice a lot.

"Alas...... The imperial court had just beaten the Mongols away, so why did this fight with the maritime merchants in the south again. My brother used to go to Guangzhou often to sell goods, but in the past two years, he has also lost his money. It seems that this battle can't be stopped, I have to persuade him when I go back this time, let's run the official road with me first, don't expect to sell goods and sell them again in the past two years. "Boss Feng has roughly understood the changes in Lin'an City at this time, what is rebellious or not, no matter how many people are killed, they are also officials, and they will not affect the lives of the people. But the war is different, if the court wins, it will be fine, once the war spreads to the north, the first to bear the brunt is the people.

(To be continued.) )