readx; Under the double stimulation of gratitude to the emperor and practical interests, the egg people present enthusiastically signed up to join the army, and almost everyone wanted to follow Zhang Huangyan and Zheng Sen to Nanyang. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 However, Zhang Huangyan only recruits ten people in Haicheng County, and he has to make a small selection.

First of all, those who have not been to the South Seas are quickly eliminated. Secondly, those who are too old or too young, those who are not physically fit enough, and those who have a drag on the family are also not considered. Zhang Huangyan and Zheng Sen are the most familiar with waterways, and those who have been to the South Seas more times, can memorize sea routes, and preferably have nautical charts will be given priority.

Ten lucky winners were soon selected, including the young man who jumped out first just now, named Xian Nanxing. Although he was not very old, he followed his father to the sea since he was a child, went to many places in the South Seas, and drew a simple map of the South Seas from memory on the spot. Zhang Huangyan was overjoyed, and immediately announced that these ten people and their families had been turned into military households, and ordered the army to write a document and transfer it to Haicheng County, and the others were envious.

But the egg people did not expect that the emperor's grace to them was far from over. Zhang Huangyan asked the old man again: "Uncle, how many egg people are there in your Haicheng County?" ”

At this time, the egg people had completely eliminated their vigilance, and the old man named Mai Ji'an said one by one: "Lord Huiqincha, only a small part of them came, and there are more than 1,000 egg people in Haicheng County. Not counting the old and weak women and children, there must be about 400 men in the prime of life. We didn't want to violate the ban of the imperial court, but we were in a lowly state and had no livelihood, so we had to look for a living on the water. In addition to the normal taxation of the river berth, the yamen of all walks of life also forcibly levied taxes at every turn, with many names, and even no names, that is, they blatantly demanded silver. If they are not fed, they will tear up the nets and burn the boats, and even throw people into prison. So it's really helpless, we people have more or less been abroad. ”

The enemy is far away, and the ghost is lonely

"Can you earn enough money when you go abroad?" Zhang Huangyan asked.

"It's also very profitable to go out and make a lot of money. If you sell things here to Nanyang, you can make a tenfold profit, and if you sell things over there, you can also make a tenfold profit. Especially things like pearl tortoiseshell corals, you can get a little bit to support your family. Mai Ji'an sighed, "It's just that the life on the water is extremely fierce and dangerous, and many people have a life to earn it, but no life to spend it." Therefore, as long as there is a way to live, villains and others are not willing to go to sea. ”

"And what about the catch?"

"Lord Hui Qincha, fishing is not very profitable." "Although the fish are delicious, they are not as easy to catch as river fish, so you have to look for fish. Unless the fish are close to shore, it can take ten and a half days or even more to go out to sea. The fish will die when they are caught, and they will rot after a long time, and they will not taste good when they return to Hong Kong. Therefore, unless they catch the fish approaching, the little people generally do not go out to sea to fish. ”

"Why don't you marinate the fish, won't it last a long time?"

"Back to adults, it's okay to pickle, and the little people eat salted fish at sea." "But the taste of salted fish is too far from that of fresh fish, and diners don't like it." The villains can't help it, eating salted fish can fill their stomachs. ”

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"If you make a lot of pickled fish, can you do it?" Zhang Huangyan asked.

Mai Ji'an said puzzledly: "What can be done is what can be done, but who will you sell it to?" ”

"Sell to the imperial court!" Zhang Huang said happily, "There is also a holy decree here, you have listened to it!" ”

Everyone hurriedly listened to it, it turned out that the emperor's holy decree was to authorize Zhang Huangyan to designate a certain place of egg people, encourage them to go out to sea to fish, and then make pickled fish in large quantities. After it was made, the imperial court set up a special agency to purchase according to the fair price, buy and sell silver, and supply military supplies; Merchants from all over the world can also buy in bulk and send them to various places for sale. In order to facilitate the production of pickled fish by egg farmers, the local government must provide a site and must not interfere with the production and operation of egg farmers.

The enemy is not far away, the enemy is far away, the cool side is lonely, and I am far away

The enemy is not far away, Qiu Xueyuan is cool, I am lonely, I am far away, "If you go to the sea, can you earn enough silver?" Zhang Huangyan asked.

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"Dare to ask Lord Qincha, how much pickled fish does the imperial court need to buy?" Mai Ji'an asked cautiously after hearing this.

"You just have to rest assured and do it boldly, and you will receive as much as you want!" Zhang Huangyan said with a smile, "The Holy Lord said to the official himself: Don't say that there are only 1,000 people in Haicheng County, even 10,000 people, 50,000 people, and 100,000 people are not too much!" ”

The enemy is far away and does not notice the enemy's feelings

When they heard this, they cheered again, and then knelt down in unison to thank them. This is different from leaving the country to join the army, after all, there is still a quota limit; As long as the imperial court has been purchasing, the egg farmers will have a stable livelihood, and even if they do not leave the country, they can survive and reproduce in a down-to-earth manner.

In addition to being happy, Mai Ji'an and others couldn't help but ask Zhang Huangyan what was the use of the imperial court collecting so many pickled fish, but Zhang Huangyan smiled and did not answer. In fact, it was not that he didn't want to answer, but that he himself failed to understand the emperor's deep meaning, and he just carried out the order.

As for Zhu Youzhen's real intention, it is actually very simple: to ask for food from the sea!

You know, the history of human fishing is almost as long as the history of mankind. However, due to the limitations of natural conditions and scientific and technological level, the proportion of aquatic products in human food has always been very low, especially in ancient China, which was dominated by agriculture. For a long time, fish was often presented as a "luxury food", which could only be eaten in restaurants, and most ordinary people did not eat fish once a year.

Now in the "Xiaoice Age", the yield of traditional crops has been greatly affected, and the cultivation of new World crops such as corn, sweet potatoes and potatoes has not yet become widespread. In this case, food security has become a very prominent and even fatal problem in the Ming Dynasty, and there are many thieves, and the root cause is not that the people can't eat? Defending against foreign enemies is also staggering.

Under these circumstances, in addition to importing grain from foreign countries, Zhu Youzhen's eyes naturally turned to the ocean. The sea is a treasure trove of infinite treasures! Not to mention anything else, just talking about fishery resources, for this era, it is truly inexhaustible! The "Ice Age" greatly affected life on land, but the ocean, with its sheer size and high specific heat capacity of water, was much less affected than on land. If the scale of the fishery at this time could reach one-tenth of that of modern times, the food problem would have been solved!

However, there is one of the biggest prerequisites for the development of modern aquaculture, that is, to have freezing and preservation technology. And of course Zhu Youzhen doesn't have such a "black technology" now, so he has to retreat to the next best thing and vigorously develop pickled fish. Although modern studies have shown that pickled foods are prone to nitrite, which is a carcinogen, it is clearly more important to fill your stomach first than the risk of cancer!