The streets are covered with thick ice, cold and hard and slippery, and when the sea breeze blows, it is even colder, the closer to the port, the colder the sea breeze always becomes, on the pier stretching into the sea, the coolies of the wharf are busy, and the heavy equipment lifted by the crane is loaded onto the track, which is the special zone, to be precise, the only modern wharf with a lift in Incheon Port, and the other two are just small trestles with steel and wood structures into the sea, at this time the trestle is very lively, the coolies of the wharf are using wooden pulleys and wooden cranes, Tons of cargo were unloaded from the wooden sailing ship that had fallen sail.

Fishy smell!

When the carriage full of goods passed by, Tang Haoran smelled a somewhat pungent smell of blood, and looked towards the carriage, only to see that the pallet of the carriage was filled with huge pieces of red meat, red meat with a little frozen residue, and huge pieces of meat could also be seen on the hanging net lifted by the pulley crane.

That's whale meat!

In surprise, Tang Haoran saw Li Han come over, compared to three months ago, Li Han's complexion had become darker, his beard was messy, and even the British seafarer-style tweed coat on his body looked a little shabby.

"I've seen an adult!"

When he was still a few meters away from the adult, Li Han hurriedly stood up and performed a Western-style military salute, and the kneeling salute had already been abolished in the police department of the unified supervision office, and his title was still hung in the coast guard department under the police department, although the coast guard department was only hanging a sign now, but he was a policeman after all.

"This trip to the sea for 100 days, a forest has worked hard!"

When walking towards Li Han, Tang Haoran stretched out his right hand, held Li Han's hand tightly and said.

"Your Excellency. Hard work can't be talked about. This trip was fortunate to be a disgrace. Now 186 tons of whale meat and 12.5 tons of bone meal have been laid, and this whale meat has only been laid out by one-third. More than 500 tons were obtained in one trip! ”

As if to highlight the harvest of his trip, Li Han deliberately emphasized.

"My lord, according to the price of hunting meat in the Special Administrative Region, the income from this trip to sea is not less than 100,000 yuan! If there are a few more boats, it will be down in a year. At least one warship can be caught in Fuchu! ”

Almost as soon as the "Xinyu" arrived in Hong Kong, Li Han instructed the sailors to inquire about the price of meat, and then calculated a little, this ton of meat was about 200 yuan, in other words, he earned back ten ships in three months of going to sea.

More than 500 tons!

Tang Haoran was frightened by this number, how many whales do you have to kill! But when he heard that he had received less than 100,000 yuan, his eyes suddenly opened, and he said again and again.

"Yilin has worked hard, worked hard!"

Then he clasped his hand and said.

"For the past 100 days. I don't miss you all the time! Let's go back to the office first. Tonight, I'll give you the wind myself! ”

Although it is just a joke to earn one warship a year, how could Tang Haoran not know the significance of this voyage to the Unified Supervision Office -- it means that China is going to the sea, even if it is only for whaling.

But this is the beginning, the reason why people are enthusiastically going to the ocean, it is precisely because of the endless wealth brought by the ocean, perhaps now China has missed the Age of Discovery, which contains countless wealth and opportunities, but at least now the distant-water fishing industry also contains endless wealth, and all you need is to seize this opportunity.

"At present, the fishing industry of various countries only stays in inshore fishing, as for the deep-sea fishing in the whale oil for oil replacement, except for Norway and other countries still insist on whaling for food, other countries are limited to hunting seals, sea lions, walruses for fur or ivory, as for meat is limited by preservation and other factors, and has not been taken seriously, and Tongguò this voyage proves that the use of cork, sawdust insulation storage ice, can fully support ocean-going whaling, and its profit can reach dozens of times, to mark the following, Fuchung should not only carry out distant-water whaling, but also support and encourage the development of distant-water fishing, not only whaling, but also general distant-water fishing. ”

Li Han, who put down the chopsticks, looked at the adult and said seriously.

"At this stage, we cannot compete with Europe, the United States and Japan, which monopolize the East Asian routes, on the East Asian routes, but we must go to the sea, and the development of distant-water fisheries is another shortcut, in the ocean, there is hardly any country to compete with us, we can establish a distant-water fishing fleet with tens of thousands of tons, or even hundreds of thousands of tons, hundreds of thousands of tons, they can not only fish, but also replenish the merchant fleet at any time, when we have enough funds, and have a certain number of merchant ships, These crews, who are already familiar with the sea, can be added to the merchant fleet......"

When Li Han excitedly put forward his idea of "distant-water fishing fleet", Su Yueyang, who also put down his chopsticks and listened carefully to his thoughts, asked rhetorically.

"My lord, although this voyage was very profitable, I have a question? I don't know when to ask! ”

"Pingtao, but it's okay to say it!"

After getting the consent of the adults, Su Yueyang expressed his doubts:

"Yilin, this time I went to sea to catch 507 tons of meat, and based on the Ministry of Police's regulations of 150 grams of meat per person per day, the daily needs of the Police Department are only 0.5 tons, even including workers in the special zone and mining areas, the daily needs are only 5 or 6 tons, that is to say, Xinyu goes to sea once, which is enough for us to spend 100 days, and with the poverty of the Korean people, their rice food still needs to be controlled, how can they eat marine fish? If, as Ping Tao said, the establishment of a large fleet for distant-water fishing can indeed obtain fish from 10,000 tons to hundreds of thousands of tons, and then such a large amount of marine fish and meat, who will eat it? ”

Su Yueyang's rhetorical question made Li Han's ambition, who was originally ambitious and only wanted to immediately establish an ocean-going fleet, collect wealth on that vast pasture, and then support the construction of the navy with huge profits, and finally set foot on a real warship and command a real fleet to gallop the sea, suddenly disappeared invisibly, indeed, although this idea is good, where should you sell so many fish? If no one buys it, won't it be impossible to even wrap the book?

"Pingtao, I think I can sell some to Shanghai!"

Just when Li Han was silent, Fang Zimin, who had always been silent on the side, the first captain of the three, the captain of the passenger and cargo ship "Zhonghua", said softly on the side, among the three, his temperament was the most calm, plain and silent, and he never spoke.

"Selling to Shanghai?"

"This "Zhonghua" goes back and forth between Shanghai and Incheon, Shanghai's meat is the most expensive in the Far East, and in my opinion, if you catch too much fish, you can consider selling some of it to Shanghai, compared to Hong Kong and other places, Shanghai has no fishery at all."

Export is also a way, but Su Yueyang still said unforgivingly.

"How much does Shanghai need? How can hundreds of thousands of tons of fish be sold in Shanghai? ”

"What if you sell it all over the world?"

Tang Haoran, who was sitting silently listening to the three of them, asked rhetorically.

"Sell to the world?" Su Yueyang looked at the adult in surprise.

"That's right, it's to sell to the whole world, and if the North Koreans can't eat it all, and the country can't eat it all, we will sell it to the whole world."

Looking at the three of them, Tang Haoran said seriously, compared with Li Han, he from later generations knows better the wealth of the ocean fishery, and also knows that the ocean fishery is now not even budding, seizing this opportunity, can fully promote the Chinese people to the sea, like this era, Germany also does not understand the ocean, trying to understand the sea through the guò ocean shipping industry, to the sea, and compared with the fierce competition in the ocean shipping industry, the competitiveness of the ocean fishing industry is smaller, and more suitable for Chinese people to understand the sea, All you need is the right encouragement and support.

Compared with the ocean shipping industry, the profits of the ocean fishing industry are more direct, and it can bring back the meat that the Chinese people lack in this era. Of course, the premise of this qiē is only to solve the problem of long-distance transportation in the process of preservation and sale, and the preservation can be solved with the help of refrigeration, as for long-term preservation, there is now a mature method.

"Sir, how do you sell fish abroad? How do you preserve fresh fish? ”

"It doesn't have to be fresh fish, even if it's fresh fish, how do you keep it at home in the summer?"

"Sir, do you mean canned food?"

Canned meat is one of the indispensable foods on the sea, even passenger and cargo ships like the "China" need canned food to make up for the lack of food, but most of its canned food is imported from the United States.

"That's right, it's canned, we process the fish into canned food and then export it abroad,"

The reason why canned food is mentioned is precisely because canned food became popular a few years later, unlike a hundred years later, which had mature preservation and quick-freezing technology, in this era, after solving the sealing problem of canned food, canned food immediately became a daily food necessity for European and American families, no longer limited to crew and military. The taste of corned beef was first exported from the United States to the United Kingdom, and peaches and tropical fruits were widely consumed by the British for the first time. Europeans living inland tasted canned sardines and pilcherd fish for the first time, and without exception they were very affordable.

"But my lord, although the sales of cans in Britain and the United States and other countries are extremely extreme, the tinplate cans are roughly welded, and there will inevitably be rotten and spoiled ones, which can be thrown away on the ship, but how can ordinary people ......?"

"Just solve the sealing problem!"

It is not unfamiliar to the cans of this era, and has also been eaten, unlike the cans connected by plundering in later generations, the cans of this era completely rely on the soldering iron to weld the lead seal, which is not only easy to cause lead poisoning, but also because of the rough welding of the zhì seal is not tight, which is why it is still limited to the sea and the military camp, and according to the information recorded in the previous reading, the solution to the tinplate can seam problem is the "double seam technology" invented by the Australians five years later and the spray gun soldering method, this technology is actually not complicated, just improve on the existing technology.

"Hmm,"

Looking at the three people in front of him, Tang Haoran said with a smile.

"We really should set up a can, and sell the canned food to the whole world first, even in the future, the army will also need canned food!" (To be continued......)