The sea ship to Luzon had already departed, and Ren Siqi decided to leave Cen Harbor and return to Daishan. After all, www.biquge.info has been away from Daishan for several days, and there must be a lot of things waiting for him to deal with.

Cen Gang's affairs have been completely straightened out, and there is only one money shopkeeper left who is still jumping, Ren Siqi instructed Ren Xingfan, who stayed in Cen Gang, as long as the money shopkeeper dares to find trouble, he will not be soft on him. Now for fear of causing panic among other businessmen, Ren Siqi is reluctant to exterminate the money shopkeeper, but if he dares to stab himself, he can't blame himself.

Leaving two ships for Ren Xingfan, Ren Siqi took the fleet back to Gaoting Port, and on the way from the wharf to Gaoting Town, he saw that the rice fields on both sides of the road were very cute. Many old people and women were weeding in the rice fields, and when they saw Ren Siqi and others returning, they all had real smiles on their faces.

After the New Year, under the leadership of Safu, the dam of the reservoir north of Gaoting was completed, and a crisscrossing of canals was built around Gaoting. More than 18,000 acres of arable land have been reclaimed, most of which has been planted with rice. The seedlings were planted around Qingming, and if nothing else, the first rice harvest in June will be harvested. This is of great significance to the Daishan Inspection Division.

The Daishan Inspection Division now has more than 600 soldiers, plus nearly 2,000 family members, and all the food needed needs to be purchased, which is a large amount every month. When the rice matures, the entire Daishan will be completely self-sufficient in grain.

The size of the Daishan Army will certainly become larger and larger, and grain is the biggest factor restricting development. That's why Ren Siqi will actively open up wasteland in Daishan.

"My lord, the guano you got from Japan last year was a great help, I didn't expect this seedling to grow so well, so it seems that this year's spring rice yield will definitely be more than two quintals." Sha Fu said to Ren Siqi with satisfaction.

What is two loads? You must know that those guano did not know how many thousand years of existence, rich in nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium and chemical fertilizers in later generations could not be found much, and the yield per mu of rice fertilized in later generations could be more than 1,000 catties.

"The old man has worked hard!" Looking at Sha Fu's tanned face, Ren Siqi felt grateful from the bottom of his heart.

In the Daishan Inspection Division, although Sha Fu was only appointed as a scribe, he was actually equivalent to the civil affairs official of Gaoting Town, managing the affairs of the entire Gaoting Tuntian.

Although the cultivated land in Daishan was allocated to the soldiers, the soldiers were usually busy training and suppressing bandits, and the time they could cultivate was limited. Therefore, the family mainly depends on the land, but without strong labor, it is very difficult to farm. Therefore, all the fields are actually cultivated together as a whole, and everyone contributes, so that the harvest is divided according to the amount of land in the family and the labor involved. Of course, this approach has many drawbacks, but it seems to be the only viable option at the moment.

And Shafu is in charge of the entire farming, and he has to worry about all aspects, and his hard work is obvious.

"Shabo, see if you can raise some fish or ducks in this rice field, so that when the rice is harvested, you can also harvest fish and ducks by the way." Looking at the rippling water waves in the rice field in front of him, Ren Siqi suggested.

"Fish farming is easy to say, and fish fry are easy to make. But it's not easy to raise ducks, where can we get so many ducks? "Shafu is embarrassed.

"The ducks will go to Hangzhou to buy, the first batch will be bought, and they will hatch by themselves in the future." Ren Siqi waved his hand and made a decision.

"If there are so many rice fields, there are enough ducks to raise tens of thousands, and everyone will be blessed by then."

"Don't raise fish, fish is very cheap and has no value." Shapho thought for a moment and suggested.

On the island, the most valuable thing is the fish, and if you go out to sea and cast a net, you can catch a lot of fish. However, because there are many fish, they cannot sell them at a price, and the fishermen go out to sea diligently for a few days, catch a boatload of fish, and when they are transported to the city to sell, they cannot sell it at any price.

People can't just eat fish, but also eat vegetables and grains, but the price of grain is very high, a stone has been around three taels of silver, fishermen buy a boatload of fish can not get back a stone of grain, so in the coast, the poorest are fishermen.

And the fish, if you hit it, you have to sell it quickly, otherwise it will die after a few days, and then no one will want to sell it again. This is also the reason why Shafu is reluctant to raise fish.

But Ren Siqi had a different idea, since the richest resource on the island was fish, of course he had to make up his mind about fish. Isn't it true that fish can't be stored for a long time, but if it is canned, it can be stored for a long time soon. In addition, canned fish can also be made into commodities and transported to various places by sea boat, which is also a large business.

Later generations of canned food were packaged in iron sheet or glass, and now iron sheet and glass are not easy to do, but you can use ceramics. As long as some pottery craftsmen are hired, they can fire clay pots on the island, and then use clay pots to make cans, which is not complicated, and the families of Daishan soldiers can make them in ordinary times.

Ren Siqi had asked Liu Defu to help find a craftsman who could fire ceramics a year ago, and after the Chinese New Year, Liu Defu really found two and sent them to the island. Ren Siqi told them his requirements, asking to fire a clay pot that could hold about a catty, and I don't know what happened to them.

In the Moxinshan mountain area north of Gaoting Town, there is the craftsman area of the Daishan Inspection Division, where there are several workshops. The pottery workshop is located at the foot of the mountain, where there is an abundance of clay and is best suited for firing pottery. There are also gunpowder workshops and iron workshops in the valley, at present, the gunpowder of the Daishan Army has been able to produce itself, and the iron workshop is responsible for making weapons, because of technical reasons, now can only make artillery projectiles, as well as simple spear heads, as for musket artillery, it cannot be made.

The person in charge of the pottery workshop is Lao Tao and his fifteen-year-old son, his father and son are from Jiangxi, and their ancestors are craftsmen who fire pottery, and they were somehow invited by Liu Defu.

"Your Excellency, the pottery you requested has already been fired." Lao Tao picked up a clay pot and handed it to Ren Siqi. Lao Tao is a craftsman who fires porcelain, although his craftsmanship is not very exquisite, and of course he no longer has a problem firing this simplest clay pot.

It is a wide-mouthed cylindrical clay pot with a very simple style and no distinctive shape. However, what Ren Siqi needs is not fine porcelain, but a disposable container that can hold about a pound of food.

After having porcelain, Ren Siqi asked people to experiment with canned fish. The soldiers in the inspection department are all fishermen, and their wives can make fish, so Ren Siqi found women who were good at their craft, told them their ideas, and let them do it.

In a flash, a jar of fragrant fish was sent to Ren Siqi. Ren Siqi took a piece with chopsticks and put it in his mouth to taste it, and the taste was extraordinarily delicious.

"Yes, yes, if you put it in a jar and seal it, how many days will it last?" Ren Siqi asked.

"This is cooked food, with a lot of spices added to it, if it is not breathable, it should be able to be left for ten days and a half months." The one who made this dish was a wife named Lin Li, sister-in-law Gu.

"So, you take these jars back, put the fish in the jars when they are ready, and then try to seal the mouth of the jars, and if the fish can be stored for a month and the meat is not bad, I will count you as a great achievement." Ren Siqi commanded. He didn't understand the process of making cans, so he could only let go and let the people below figure it out. If the canned food can be kept for more than a month, it can be mass-produced. (To be continued.) )