Later generations have shown that more whales live in the Southern Ocean that surrounds Antarctica, accounting for about 80% of the world's population. And when the Southern Ocean begins to enter winter and the waters freeze, large numbers of whales leave their habitats and head north in search of warmer water for food. At this time, it is a great opportunity for whaling ships from Western countries to catch whaling.

Although China's whaling ships have made a breakthrough compared to the previous ones, they are still very short compared to Europe - not one country, but the whole European whaling industry.

Beihai Company has made a good start, but in this era, there are too many industries to make money for Chinese, and those with capital really do not need to plunge into the dangerous business of whaling.

Whaling is dangerous, even if a large whaling ship can shoot a special whaling haul like a cannon, but the whaling haul carries barbs and whale ropes, and once the whale is stabbed by the chalt, the first reaction is to flee with the rope, and it will not surface until it is exhausted. During this time, sailors follow the sailors along the way in small boats [not sampans suspended from the side of the ship, but specially made dinghys with which even the sails can be loaded and unloaded]. They have to be like their European counterparts, tightly grasping the whaling whale and not letting go, the boat is dragged by the whale and running wildly on the sea, when the whale's huge body is churning and struggling, it may overturn the boat at any time, the waves are noisy, the foam is flying, and the boat is bouncing up and down in the huge waves, until the blood stains the blue sea, and the whale dies tragically in its own pool of blood. This pursuit process generally takes tens of minutes to several hours. Therefore, when hunting, it is often necessary to choose a good time, such as when the whale sprays water. It is usually when the whale's body is too hot, and the mouth and nose are rinsed with cold water, and then the hot water is sprayed out, creating a beautiful fountain. That's also the realization of the whale's physical exertion, and the body temperature of any animal rises, it is because of exercise.

You know, whales are much faster than whaling ships!

Therefore, China's whaling industry is exactly as dangerous as its European counterparts, but it is also very dangerous. Whales, which usually weigh tens of tons, are too powerful to toss. In the history of whaling in Europe, there is no shortage of examples of whaling ships being smashed by angry whales.

In addition, the number of whales in the northern hemisphere is several times less than that in the southern hemisphere, and even in the North Pacific, where whale resources are well protected, it is not uncommon for a whale to be caught in a month or two when it goes to sea.

Therefore, the people who do this business are all powerful people with strong backgrounds. They can afford to pay for the casualties, and they can also stop the miscellaneous relationships!

After more than ten years of operation, Sakhalin has been completely under the control of Chen Han, including the few people on the island, and there is also a systematic demographic statistics.

Combined with the Chinese immigrants and the growing number of Japanese on the island, the total number of human beings in Sakhalin now exceeds 200,000.

Oja is one of the few cities on Sakhalin that has not been renamed, and this seaside port is a well-known seaport on Sakhalin, where ships to and from the Americas usually dock – and may stop at other ports, or even no longer at Sakhalin, depending on the situation – except for hunters and whaling ships bound for the Aleutian Islands.

The whole city has a population of seven or eight thousand, and some potatoes are harvested every year, but more food comes from the mainland. Most of the income of the people here is logging and hunting, and Sakhalin is rich in animal resources, and the nearby Aleutian Islands are the main source of wood and animal skins.

Timber such as fir and ichthyosis pine has high economic value.

The fir wood is light in color, the difference between the heart and sapwood is not obvious, the material is slightly hard and heavy, the water pattern is beautiful and there is no normal resin road, the material is soft, the structure is meticulous, there is no smell, it is easy to process, the strength is medium to high, and the nail holding force is strong.

The processing is easy, the cutting surface is smooth and dry, and the machining and anti-corrosion processability are good. It can be used in shipbuilding, and gum can also be extracted from the bark and branches of young trees, which is very versatile. It is an excellent raw material for the manufacture of pulp and all wood fiber work, and is suitable for making utensils, furniture and plywood.

Fish scale pine and fir have great similarities, such as the wood is soft, easy to process, and has a wide range of uses, such as papermaking, joinery, appliances, shipbuilding, and building materials.

Relying only on the abundant forest resources of Sakhalin, the local residents of Oja do not have to worry about their own survival. It is not terrible to have no food in the local area, and it is enough for local residents to have money in their hands.

The whaling ship left Oja, and it was hard to say when they would be back here.

Today's whaling ships don't waste a lot of whale meat, but they can't drag a boatload of meat back and forth between the sea and the port. The Aleutian Islands have countless islands, large and small, spanning the northern tip of the Pacific Ocean, and now there are whale meat processing plants on those large and small islands.

The coarser whale meat has been shipped to Chinese mainland and will still be sought after by civilians because of its cheap price. China in this era is far from the point of 'wanting to eat green vegetables'.

However, if there is too much whale meat, it is necessary to pay attention to preservative, especially in the hot summer days.

So how to preservate whale meat?

After all these years of exploration, Chen Han's whaling industry has summed up a set of treatment methods.

First of all, the whale meat is washed and bloodlet repeatedly, and then according to the method of processing beef and mutton, various spices and seasonings are added to cook, and then according to the method of dried meat to make whale jerky, which is the most high-grade treatment method.

The taste of whale meat after this treatment is really very similar to the quality of livestock meat, and it can be sold in small packets, and the price is about the same as that of dried marine fish.

A more convenient way to treat whale meat is to smoke it dry, or to smear it with a heavy layer of sea salt, and hang it to air dry.

This large piece of whale meat has a very long shelf life, and it can be transported from the sea all the way to the front line in the Great Northwest.

To be honest, the whaling industry has not only brought a lot of whale oil to China, but also brought a lot of help to the physical development of the Chinese people.

And then there is a farming nation, and everyone knows the truth that eating meat is good for the body and bones.

It's a pity that although the fishing industry has developed rapidly in recent years, the price of marine fish and seafood is still not cheap. The coastal zone is okay, and the farther inland, even in the 21st century, the seafood is still high-end goods, and this year you want the sea fish to be cheap like tofu, that is impossible!

So, whale meat is an absolute good.

In order to ensure the production of whale meat and ensure that the whaling companies do not blindly pursue profits, they abandon whale meat in large quantities and only pursue whale oil, and a corresponding amount must be set when each whaling company sells whale oil.

For example, if you buy one ton of whale oil, then you must have proof of selling at least five tons of whale meat.

This is tantamount to putting a golden hoop on the whaling companies.

Therefore, most of China's whale processing factories are built in the territory of Bingzhou, with Sakhalin Island as the center. Bingzhou, which is rich in whale resources, is not only rich in resources, but also has very prominent location advantages, and is a natural whaling logistics base and processing center, which should be fully utilized.

This thing is really full of treasures.

Even Europeans generally follow whale meat as a discarded whale bone, where oil can be squeezed. Although this is not at all comparable to the oil content of the whale's thick fat layer, it is definitely not a small number to accumulate. What's more, after squeezing the bones of whale oil, they are cooled and pounded into powder to make whalebone powder, which is the best phosphate fertilizer. Whale bones also fix a part of the nitrogen during the high-temperature cooking process, so whale bone meal is a very good natural fertilizer, and the amount is quite large, accounting for about 6-7% of the whale's body weight.

There is also the tanned whale skin, which is about two or three millimeters thick, and can be used to make leather clothing, shoes and even inner armor. The raincoat made of whale skin is not only lightweight, but also excellent waterproof, especially cold-resistant, and will not deform and break in the cold of Siberian winter, making it a high-quality leather. The skin of a whale can make one or two thousand pairs of rain boots, and the skin of a big guy like a sperm whale can even make two or three thousand pairs of shoes.

Therefore, the whaling ships in the East are angry at the fact that their European counterparts kill a whale by cutting off the whale fat at sea, then removing the whale brain, and then almost all the rest are abandoned in the sea. This is really a waste of red fruits.

Both the liver and internal organs of whales are valuable. Whale liver can be made into cod liver oil, and some offal can also be made into cod liver oil, which is a treasure clearly recorded in the Chinese pharmacopoeia medical book thousands of years ago.

The internal organs of whales are very rich in vitamins, and the cod liver oil made can be used as a nutritional supplement or even medicine, and it is very valuable for young children who need to supplement these vitamins.

This whale is really full of treasures! As long as it can be fully utilized, don't think about the profligacy of Europeans, the benefits that a whale can produce are more than 500,000.

April is the season when the Arctic Circle becomes warmer, and whaling ships will not return to Sakhalin unless it is necessary.

For large areas of wheat fields in the country that are about to be harvested, this warm season is also the season of harvest for whaling ships.

What really caught up in the oceans without a profit was the migrant ships that traveled between North America and Southern Minnes.

In May of the fifteenth year of Chengtian, the distant South Seas did not have the slightest feeling about the imminent war in the northwest and northeast. Manila, named Hanzhou, is raining heavily today.

A group of ships transporting migrants has just left the port and is destined for Southern Mingzhou. The ship also carried a large amount of cloth, cotton, livestock, etc.

Time is the best 'medicine', when Chen Han's immigration ship arrived in Nanmingzhou, in addition to the population, it was loaded with a large number of agricultural tools, iron tools, leather goods, machinery and equipment, hardware tools, and even weapons and ammunition and other industrial manufactured products.

But now?

Iron tools and some equipment, Nanming Prefecture has been able to supply itself. What is missing here is the basic information of cloth, cotton, and livestock.

This is just like the original Nanyang and Burma, where precious timbers such as rosewood, nanmu, and ebony were first discovered, and they were transported back to the country for processing, and at most, they were sold back in the form of luxury ornaments such as high-end furniture, sculptures, handicrafts, and carriage bodies. It is equivalent to reaping a large amount of monetary benefits from these territories.

But now? A few years have passed, Nanyang, Myanmar, these local furniture factories have been built, and they are high-end furniture. Those precious timber should not be used to build warships, and for the owners of those furniture factories, the teak, nanmu, and even sandalwood were added to the ship, which was really a tyrannical thing.

As long as it's just used to make furniture, see how much more they can increase their output?

Don't you know how big the demand for high-end furniture in China is now?

Some furniture factory owners have orders scheduled for next year.

That's the change that time brings, that's development.

Hanzhou has entered the rainy season again, the weather in this place is dry and wet, the eastern Pacific Ocean is the source of typhoons, accompanied by the heavy rain in the rainy season, high humidity, many typhoons, this Hanzhou capital obvious climate characteristics.

But yesterday's heavy rain stopped this morning, and when I woke up in the morning, the air outside was really not ordinarily fresh.

Yoshida Shohei moved from Borneo to the capital city of Hanzhou two years ago, the former is still a little chaotic, the security team and the standing team killed the local natives a little hard, and now there are natives hiding in the depths of the dense forest to maintain resistance.

Yoshida simply moved.

My wife has already prepared breakfast, the staple food is rice porridge, the side dishes are a plate of fruit, a pickle, a fried tofu with soybean sprouts, and cold dried shrimp and kelp, and a steamed bun with poached eggs.

Looking at the Yoshida family's breakfast, you really don't have the slightest taste of Japan.

Yoshida finished his breakfast and turned his head to look at the door, where his eight-year-old son was sitting playing in the mud. This is his youngest son, and at the same time the most slippery child who speaks Chinese.

I don't know if it's the genetics of the Yoshida family, including him and his brother who died on the battlefield in North America, the entire Yoshida family men speak Chinese with a foreign flavor, so that people know that they are immigrants, real immigrants.

Only this little son, who is not very old, is the most authentic in Nanjing's official dialect, and at the same time, it also makes him love his youngest son even more.

"The price of meat has gone up again, and so have the price of eggs." His wife began to complain on the side, today is the end of the decade, the school is closed, there is a room in the factory, and the children of Yoshida Shohei and his wife who still live together, except for the energetic young son, who got up early to play, the others are sleeping soundly.

"It's really bad that the greedy peddlers raise the price every time they come. Not only have these risen, but mangoes and bananas have also risen sharply. The government doesn't care? ”

Yoshida's wife spoke with a hint of dissatisfaction. This is not the first time she has complained. But Hanzhou is not the original Borneo, this big city has this problem, and the price of food and drink will increase as soon as it arrives in the rainy season.

God knows what happened to the sea dragon king who was windy and rainy, and what was in the way of those small merchants and peddlers. But the price has risen.

Yoshida Shohei was wounded on the front line and transferred home from the military hospital, and he already knew in his heart that he would probably never return to the army. Don't look at his position as inconspicuous, but there are many Japanese staring at it.

I don't know, one day, when a notice comes, he will take off his Wehrmacht uniform and become a policeman in Hanzhou or somewhere.

Yoshida Shohei doesn't care about his wife's muttering at all, and the Yoshida family is not the poor eggs of the year, can they still eat them with the little money that the price of meat and fruits has risen?

Yoshida Shohei didn't snort, grabbed the steamed bun with the poached egg in one hand, and stared at the newspaper on the table with his eyes.

This is the official newspaper of Hanzhou, if you want to see the latest news on the Sino-Russian front, the private newspapers in Hanzhou can't count on it, then it depends on the official.

Yoshida Shohei's main concern was in the Tohoku because his old troops were in the Tohoku and because he was injured in the Tohoku as well.

In Yakusk in the northeast, as long as the city is broken by the Wehrmacht, it will completely sweep away the Russian Qing. Even if Lepnin drilled a cave in the Aldan Mountains with a small number of Russian troops, it would only be a disease of ringworm.

The whole of Eastern Siberia is considered the territory of the empire, and then it is connected with the North Sea, and half of the whole of Siberia belongs to China. Maybe by the time of the Chinese New Year this year, the whole of Siberia will be His Majesty's, and it will be normal.

"Ugh." It's a pity that his nephews, his sons, and several men of the Yoshida family failed to be admitted to the military academy, and not even many of them were able to go to high school. These stupid people, stupid people!

Yoshida Masahei really wished he had died on the battlefield himself, not just been wounded. In that case, even if the Yoshida family sacrifices two lives for the country, the government will definitely give them preferential treatment, and maybe one of the descendants will be promoted to the military academy.

The Yoshida family, who was born as a samurai, and the Yoshida family, who won everything by fighting in the army, how can there not be a single soldier in the next generation?