Chapter 676: The Fishermen and the Navy

After the British killed these pirates, they cleaned up a little, took the initiative to show the media photos and some pirate flags, etc., and continued to search, according to some reports, they knew that among the entire pirate organization, the largest eastern force had left as early as 2 days ago, and they had more than 500 ships and tens of thousands of people, which could not be let go.

Unfortunately, there was no news of anything other than the tip, and after crossing the Andaman Sea, these pirates went around the Indonesian side and disappeared into the vast sea, without the slightest clue or clue.

The British returned in vain, and on the surface, it was an end, but secretly, the commander of the East Asian Fleet, the intelligence officer, and the intelligence department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in East Asia, these places were all purged, and the aftermath of this war reached more people.

Some branches of Britain in Southeast Asia, there have been certain fluctuations, the timeliness and accuracy of intelligence collection slightly out of the slightest deviation, a survey report and discovery about the Chinese in Southeast Asia, did not attract attention, when the dust settled, new leaders and personnel took up posts, and then re-combed, but this article has been placed in the archives, until the Southeast Asian beacon fire started, it was not noticed, but unfortunately it was too late.

Yang Yuanzhao didn't know that an unintentional move by himself actually saved the Chinese in Borneo from a huge disaster. The regiment left Singapore before the East Asian Fleet returned to port. More than a dozen damaged, towed back ships, were placed in the port of Singapore for repairs. There is no value in repairing, and scrap iron is also sold, and most of the remaining elite ships continue to the north, past Malacca, which is the South China Sea, although this area is not very safe. But without pirates, this is a peace of sin. It was also the most pleasant part of the voyage.

In almost three days, I crossed many islands and reefs in the South China Sea, and the impression of future generations slowly blurred, even with the help of maps. Yang Yuanzhao clearly knows how important this sea area is to China, and if he controls many nodes in this sea area, the South China Sea will be regarded as China's inland sea, and then threaten the entire Southeast Asia.

These are all later words, at least, after the Chinese Navy has an eyebrow and a powerful offshore fleet. When a large number of ships docked in Hong Kong for supplies, Yang Yuanzhao was completely relieved. Hong Kong has arrived, it has already arrived in China, and this adventurous journey of 10,000 miles to the sea has finally come to an end, and it is about to end.

Regarding this fleet, the arrangement has been in place for a long time. It is impossible for all the ships to go to Qingdao and Guangdong. It will leave about 150,000 tons, on the one hand, to develop the logistics and shipping industry with Guangdong and the core, and on the other hand, to contact Borneo.

In this trip to Europe, China is considered to have the strength of the navy with the help of Germany, next, must expand the scale, the three seas must be in the bag, although these three ships are not the capital ships, and more than 10 years ago warships, in the present is not outdated, speed and firepower are relatively average, is a good fleet base, plus some old fleets purchased from Germany as training ships, China has a certain naval strength, in this case, not only the South Sea strategy can be accelerated, There is nothing easier to do than during the First World War, the entire European powers were dragged to Europe, and the control of Southeast Asia will definitely decline, and the choice is such a declining power as the Netherlands, victory is certain, before that, the total population must be kept a certain distance, otherwise, even if the Netherlands is defeated in the future, the whole Indonesia is also an indigenous world, which is equivalent to making a wedding dress for others in vain.

Guangdong is an important node for shipping and contact with Southeast Asia, Shanghai is even more important, not only located in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, but also an important port and financial center in the world, especially the rise of the northwest, northwest goods all over the world, Shanghai is the most important node.

In the future, Shanghai will be used as China's civil ship center, this time from Germany, most of the things will be placed in the Jiangnan Shipyard, and next, the Jiangnan Shipyard will have a total dock of more than 300,000 tons, and even after the pirates, Yang Yuanzhao has a new idea, large-scale training of fishermen, so that they will become an important soldier of the future navy.

Ordinary fishermen are not good, the navy is a technical branch, but also a cooperative branch of the army, there is no whole ship, dozens of hundreds, or even thousands of officers and soldiers work together, even if it is tens of thousands of tons of capital ships, can not exert all the power, but most of the fishermen in China's coastal waters, a dilapidated fishing boat, one person to sea, or two or three family members to go to sea, they are small, the boat is weak, they can not gain anything at all, the life of the fishermen has been very hard, they can't eat enough, let alone training and cooperation.

It seems impossible, Yang Yuanzhao still thought of a method, that is, the trawler sailing ship and the ocean-going fishing boat, these two kinds of boats, on the one hand, the harvest is huge, as long as they catch up with the fishing flood or the fish, it may be ten times the harvest of other ships, or even a hundred times the harvest, especially the ocean-going fishing boat, which can sail for dozens of days in a row and carry out a large number of fishing, and more importantly, they are not able to be completed by one person, as little as seven or eight people, as many as dozens of people, isn't this the best training for the reserve navy? With water and teamwork, the rest is easy to train in intensive training.

China already has a trawl steamer, that is a few years ago, Nantong champion Zhang Jian from abroad introduced, the price is not beautiful, not developed in China, compared to ordinary fishermen, the price is too expensive, the ability to buy his people, and can not stand the hard work at sea, even in the 21st century, offshore fishing and ocean fishing, is not a very pleasant thing, need hard work, in order to be able to harvest, for the pampered landlord or rich businessman, Obviously, there is no way to hold on, and with the emergence of the northwest, they have more opportunities.

It stands to reason that this is an unsolvable proposition, and it was not until around World War 2 that ocean fishing in this era developed vigorously, but Yang Yuanzhao is an ordinary person, he is a traverser, the strongest traverser, not a golden finger, but a vision from the future. Yes, there are many ways to solve this problem in later generations, such as a more common installment payment by banks, in order to compete for some high-quality loans, or to liberate purchasing power, so that some people can not buy things for the time being, can be obtained in advance.

Fishing boats, especially in this era, according to the appearance of later generations of trawler sailing boats or large fishing boats, if a large number of fishing boats are made, the money is definitely earned, after the fishermen adapt a little, the harvest will be ten times or even a hundred times that of the previous single fishing boat, especially some relatively high value, more expensive fish, maybe a year or two of fishing, you can pay off the loan, and then, there is a lot of income, with benefits and harvest, the fishing boat team will be bigger and bigger, And more and more fishermen will participate in this field, which is the best virtuous circle.

Of course, everything has advantages and disadvantages, the same is true for fishing, the sea is ruthless, even the Titanic, this kind of super cruise ship named after the gods, more than 40,000 tons, has the danger of sinking, not to mention dozens of tons, or even hundreds of tons of fishing boats, in case the fishing boat sinks before the loan is not paid off, it is a huge loss, the fishermen are poor, and there are no fixed assets, this loss must be borne by the bank.

But what does it matter, if according to a later generation, Yang Yuanzhao at this moment, the poor are only left with money, with some monetary losses, to promote the development of offshore fisheries, to say small, is to solve the livelihood problems of these fishermen, so that they live better, to say big, is to improve the protein intake of the Chinese people, although the northwest also try to promote the development of aquaculture, can be the development of aquaculture in this era, especially in this era, a lot of things, such as genes, such as high standards of feed, These things can not be solved in the case, can only use conventional methods, ecological farming, with the help of the ecological chain, earthworms as nodes, chickens, ducks and geese, and pigs, these improvements are limited, really compared with the sea that has not been damaged by a large number of fishing to destroy the marine ecological balance, the difference is not a little bit, the fish in the sea, provide more adequate protein and diversified nutrition, will make the Chinese live better.

In addition to this large and small, there is also one of the most rooted, that is, in order to provide a stable soldier for the expansion of the Chinese Navy, China is at present, after the implementation of the farm system, a large number of peasants have been liberated from the land, although the northwest and the major landlords, built a large number of factories, but China's huge population advantage, after liberating the peasants from the land, there is still a huge remainder, how to use these human resources, has always been a key consideration in the northwest, and now, there is another direction, At present, there are almost a few million fishermen who may be engaged in offshore fishing, but only one in 10,000 is really suitable to become a navy and embark on a warship, and with continued training, it may increase tenfold.

However, once these millions of people are converted to marine mechanical fishing, or even deep-sea fishing, this proportion will increase tenfold or even hundredfold, and a qualified sailor who fishes in the distant-water can become a sailor in a certain aspect of the warship almost without obstacles, and even after training, this proportion is even higher.

Yang Yuanzhao's purpose is very clear, to become the backbone of the Chinese Navy in three years, or even five years later, he is willing to pay more for this, not to mention only one or two thousand fishing boats of dozens or hundreds of tons, at most a thousand tons, if all are purchased, this is a huge number, but now the manufacturing capacity of Jiangnan Shipyard can already produce almost 5,000 tons of ships, the production of these is just a piece of cake, this time Yang Yuanzhao also brought a large number of small docks, This is all purchased in Germany, for the production of up to 200 tons of boats, so as to ensure that the future fishing vessels greatly expand the capacity, maybe the first year will be a little lower, about one or two thousand, the future with a large amount of investment and skilled personnel, may burst to tens of thousands of production capacity, which is currently a large number of industrial workers in China, is not difficult at all. (To be continued)