Section XV

As soon as Wu Ming praised it, Xiaohui also showed a smile on her face, and said with a little pride: "Since it is delicious, adults should eat more, the saury is now tender and tender, once it is past March, it will start to spawn, and the meat quality will deteriorate, and in May, the fish flood will disappear, and it will be difficult to see it on the river, and if you want to eat it, you have to wait until next year."

It was indeed delicious, Wu Ming picked another piece and put it in his mouth, and as soon as he chewed it, he felt that this piece of meat was like ice and snow, melting in his mouth, and his mouth was full of fragrant and fresh. couldn't help but praise: "The so-called relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the sea to eat the sea, it is true, such a delicacy, and the people by the river have this blessing, and the official eunuchs, I am afraid it is not easy to eat." ”

Xiaohui sat down, poured a glass of wine for Wu Ming, shook her head and said, "It's not easy to catch a swordfish. In the early spring, the river is cold and biting, the fishermen need to choose a good location, always keep watch, sometimes for several days in a row and can not get, finally catch some, that is willing to eat by themselves, generally bought by the merchants or eunuchs with a lot of money. ”

She filled the cup and handed it to Wu Mingdao: "Just a few saury fish, you can sell for dozens of taels on the market, and sometimes it is possible to use it urgently, or even hundreds of taels." ”

One hundred taels of silver?

Wu Ming was startled, thinking that he had just made a move, afraid that a few taels of silver would be gone, which would be enough for an ordinary person to spend for several months, he was stunned for a long time, his chopsticks were frozen in the air, but he didn't dare to move again: "Since the swordfish is so expensive, why is Liucun still so poor?" ”

As Xiaohui said, as long as the fishermen have a harvest in the spring, they can have no worries about food and clothing for a year, but their sisters have been sold into the prime minister's house since they were young, and they pity the hearts of parents in the world, and if the family is solid, who will sell their children as maids from an early age? That's a bit of a stretch.

Xiaohui sighed and said softly: "It's not easy to catch the swordfish, this is just one of them, the second is that the local big families have squeezed, generally speaking, ordinary people are tenants of major families, once they have a harvest, they must be handed over to the master's family, if they buy and sell privately, once they are discovered, the end is extremely miserable, and they will be punished for theft." ”

Zhu Xiaolong couldn't hold back a little, and asked on the side: "Aunt Hui, where did you fish come from, and after catching so much, will you be punished for stealing?" ”

Xiaohui glanced at Wu Ming, and her face turned red again: "Thanks to the love of adults, my father used my dowry to buy some small property in the local area, and he also has some status in the local area......"

Zhu Xiaolong suddenly realized: "Oh, in this way, Aunt Hui's family is now a local family." ”

With the entire China and the West as a guarantee and a business as a backer, Wu Ming is also a little confident. No matter how frugal he is, he can't treat his own woman badly. Considering that he will be stationed in China and the West in the future, Yang Yi will also go with him, and Xiaohui's parents are far away in Nanning, and no one takes care of them, so the dowry given is also rich. With these belongings, it is enough for his parents to be rich for a lifetime.

In the same way, now Wu Ming is powerful, and there is a son-in-law like Yang Yi. The Liu family is now, and it is not possible to think about the Wang clan, since it is already a local clan, it is normal to buy a few fresh fish to please the backer of Xihou in Xiazhen. Wu Ming looked at the fish and meat, thought for a while, and said, "These ingredients are too luxurious, I don't dare to ask my father-in-law not to buy them in the future." ”

Seeing that Wu Ming was a little displeased, Liu Hui hurriedly explained: "My lord misunderstood the concubine, this thing was not received by my family, but by several fathers, brothers and uncles, who personally went down to the river to fish, if you don't want to eat it, you will pay for it." ”

She glanced at Wu Ming, lowered her head and said, "The qiē of the concubine's body is given by adults, and the same is true of my family's qiē." The young lady often taught the concubine to be diligent and thrifty, and after following the adult, she should not bully others, so as not to damage the reputation of the governor's palace. Please rest assured, the Liu family is also from a poor family, and will never do anything to bully men and women. ”

There are many people in Liucun, and most of them are related to each other, it is a famous local fishing village, and almost everyone is Lang Li Baitiao. Although Wu Ming had never been there, Liu Hui had told him about it. Although the Lantern Festival is over now, the weather is still precipitous, thinking that in order to please himself, he still bothers a large group of people to go down to the river to fish, Wu Ming is uneasy, but he doesn't want to brush Liu Hui's kindness, and said: "Good, good, good." I eat! ”

He took a piece of fish and put it in the bowl, and seeing that Liu Hui was still looking at him from the side, he hurriedly pointed to the side and said, "Don't stay and watch, you can also sit down and talk to me." ”

After getting married, Xiaohui was much more generous than before, and carefully sat down next to Wu Ming, Wu Ming put a piece of fish meat in the bowl next to her and said, "Come, you can eat some too." ”

Knowing that Wu Ming was in this habit, Liu Hui couldn't help it, blushed in response, picked some fish meat and threw it into his mouth, but he didn't dare to chew it when he froze. Wu Ming couldn't help but smile and said, "By the way, you Liucun fishes more when you fish in the big river, or more when you fish in the Wenyuan River." ”

Wenyuan River is the flow of the big river, flows into the big river from the southwest to the northeast, the two big rivers line into an angle, Liucun is built on this corner, the unique conditions, Liucun can't think of fishing villages are difficult, the parallel goods in the Nanning market, eight or nine out of ten are produced here.

Liu Hui shook her head and said: "The current of the Wenyuan River is too fast, it is difficult to cross the river normally, there are still fish, except for the slow flow of winter, most of the villagers fish in the river, but in the past two years, there has been a war, everyone dare not go to the river to adventure, can only take a boat along the Wenyuan River upstream, to Dongyang Lake more than ten miles away to try their luck." But there are also fishermen in Dongyang Lake who want to live, let's catch all the fish, what do they eat? There have also been several conflicts between the two sides. The villagers in the village are now living more and more hard. ”

The southwest of Nanning is mountainous, and the terrain is high to the bottom, so the Wenyuan River is turbulent and unsuitable for fishing. At the mention of war, Wu Ming was in no mood to eat, put down his chopsticks and said: "Actually, it is very simple to solve this problem, that is, to capture Hanshui City and bring the entire Dajiang back under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, so that the villagers can once again use Dajiang as a fishing ground." It's just that Hanshui City has thick walls, and it also relies on the danger of the river, and if you want to break the enemy, you don't know the year of the monkey. Alas, it seems that the folks still have to suffer. ”

From morning to afternoon, there has been no water, and Zhu Xiaolong is the time to grow his body, but he is hungry and is gobbling it up at this time. As soon as he heard Wu Ming say this, he raised his head from his rice bowl and said, "Uncle, I told you just now that you can build a high platform and use a thunderbolt to suppress it." ”

This kid is still a fool. Wu Ming was a little annoyed in his heart, and said casually: "Build a high platform to suppress it, where to repair?" ”

Zhu Xiaolong said: "It's at the entrance of the Wenyuan River, isn't there a tidal flat there?" ”

The Wenyuan River is turbulent, accumulating over the years, alluvial into a tidal flat at the entrance of the river, this tidal flat is crescent-shaped, about a mile long, and the northernmost part is about a mile away from Hanshui City. Wu Ming's heart moved, but after thinking about it, he still denied it: "The mud here is soft, and it is an isolated island, how to build the highland?" ”

Zhu Xiaolong said: "Isn't it okay to transport the stone and wood over?" ”

Thinking lightly, Wu Ming was a little funny: "Transporting the stone and wood over, the people of Hanshui City are not stupid, they will watch you transport the stone and wood over, and then build a high platform in a hurry, they only need to make trouble, you must evacuate, and the project will be abandoned halfway." ”

This is a problem, Zhu Xiaolong also put down his chopsticks, looked up at the roof and thought for a long time, before he said excitedly: "You can send more ships, load all the materials, go down with a drum, and build here overnight, as long as you can stand firm, it will be easy to do later." Our navy is already stronger than the other side, and it is best for them to go out of the city for a decisive battle, and if they don't come out, I can rely on this place and crush them to death with a thunderbolt. ”

Smashing is not enough to kill a few people, but harassing with thunderbolts every day, the other party will definitely not dare to go to the city again, so that the city defense will be useless. Moreover, the nearby naval stronghold will also be under the influence of this highland, so that unless the other party dispatches a naval army to fight a decisive battle, it will be taken down to the city sooner or later. And the decisive battle of the naval army is exactly the result that Nanning wants.

Wu Ming was also aroused by Zhu Xiaolong's interest, and began to face up to his topic, thinking for a while: "This method seems to be feasible, but if it is really implemented, it is still full of loopholes. The first is, how do you find so many ships to load the materials? There are many ships in the Jiangnan navy, but they are all warships, and the battleships can fight on the water, but it is a little reluctant to use them to load stones and wood. For example, the building ship, not to mention the extremely high hull, is even more tightly wrapped, which cannot hold much cargo at all, and it is even more inconvenient to load and unload. The second is how to maintain suddenness and shorten the construction time. The purpose of finding so many ships is to build a stronghold before the other party reacts, to prevent the enemy from making trouble, if you load all the materials from Nanning, ship by boat and slowly transport, not to mention the purpose of early exposure, but also let the other party have preparation, after a long time, the enemy will definitely have countermeasures, and it is easy to change. ”

"That's it," listening to Wu Mingyi's analysis, Zhu Xiaolong wilted, leaned on the table and said: "I can think of this idea, or because I am familiar with Nanning, and I often took a boat to play on that beach when I was a child, so I had the idea." I didn't expect it to be still bad, it seems that the famous general is really not good, and I have to work hard......"

At this time, Liu Hui suddenly said: "My lord, if you want a cargo ship, I can solve it, because there is nowhere to go now, and most of the fishing boats in Liu Village are idle at home." The fishing boats are all open boats, and with a slight modification, the tarpaulin on them can be removed to become cargo ships. ”

Wu Ming was stunned: "How many fishing boats are there in Liucun now?" ”

Liu Hui thought for a while and said, "Because every family fishes, there are still hundreds." Excluding the flat boats of some poor families, there should be dozens of medium-sized fishing boats. ”

Wu Ming muttered: "If there are dozens of ships, it is naturally enough to load materials, but if so many materials are transported together, the momentum will be huge, and the other party will definitely find out, how to shorten the working hours and build the stronghold before the enemy finds out?" ”