On August 23, the sixth year of Huaxia, after resting for a day in Hanfei Town, the pathfinder team with three new members continued southward, and on August 28, arrived at the southernmost corner of the peninsula extending into the sea in the southernmost part of the eastern part of the mainland where Huaxia is located (hereinafter referred to as the Huaxia Mainland) (the peninsula is named Qinhuang Peninsula, and the southernmost corner is named Qinhuang Corner), and 400 miles opposite is Qiufu Island.

The pathfinder team lowered the iron anchor at Qinhuangjiao, lowered the sails, and quickly rowed three or five small boats to the coast, began to survey the hydrology, explore the waterway, and serve the fleet's docking and resting.

The pathfinder team will rest in Qinhuangjiao for a period of time and establish the first colonial stronghold of the trip, Qinhuangjiao stronghold, and one of the thirteen ships in the fleet will stop there.

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The first shipyard in Qihuan Town, it can be said that it is very busy during this time, and it is precisely because it is too busy that Huang Yuan, the director of the factory, also missed the officialdom transfer in Shennong County, and failed to jump several levels like Jing Gongyan of Shennong Shipyard, which is a great pity for him and the people around him.

Because of the increase in population and the lack of food, Li Kang set his sights on the sea, and ordered the Huaxia No. 1 Shipyard near the sea to work overtime to build fishing boats and whaling ships, and use the inexhaustible food resources in the sea to buffer the pressure caused by population growth.

You must know that since the beginning of the year, within eight months, Huaxia has successively annexed the Hejian area (the area between the Jinhe River and the Shihe) to set up Ruhui Town, Xuanling Town, and recently added a new Wuji Town at the foot of the southeast Hengduan branch (the thirty-eighth town-level administrative unit in Huaxia, the name of the town is taken from the eldest grandson Wuji, the head of the twenty-four meritorious heroes of Lingyan Pavilion in the early Tang Dynasty), and then along the river, Jinwen Town was established. Feijiang Town, in the west of Zhuan Town, Xin'an County, Zou Yan Town was set up (the thirty-ninth town-level administrative unit in China, the name of the town is taken from Zou Yan, the representative of the Yin and Yang family in the Warring States Period), and Shangjun Town was set up in the west of Taozhu Town, Fuxi County (the fortieth town-level administrative unit in China, the name of the town is taken from the representative figure of the Legalists, Shang Ying, the presiding officer of the Shang Yang Reform), Zhilong Town and Zhihu Town were set up on Chenggong Island, plus Hanfei Town in Shannan Region, a total of ten new towns, with an average of one in less than a month, and the population of each new town ranged from 2,000 to 5,000.

It can be seen from this that these 10 new towns alone obviously have an additional 30,000 or 40,000 people, and the population that has been diverted and resettled in the old 30-odd towns has increased invisibly by 10,000 or 20,000, so that just two-thirds of the six years of Huaxia have passed, and the population of Huaxia has increased by one-half, reaching more than 180,000, and by the end of the six years of Huaxia, the population of 200,000 that was previously assessed is proper.

This is still not the case of Hedong descendants in Suwu County, if they are also counted, 200,000 will be broken in the fifth year of Huaxia.

In this case, Li Kang naturally thought of the endless seaweed, kelp, fish and shrimp, whales, and a few species of marine creatures unique to the world, if they could eat it, Li Kang felt that the Chinese people would definitely not mind.

The fishing industry in China has always been a small fight, this time Li Kang was ruthless, casting nets, ground cages, rolling hooks, fishing arrays, trawling nets, dipping nets, as long as you can think of a method, Ya Quanshang, in addition to the minimum mesh of the fishing net has a certain limit, basically let the fishermen go free, let them play freely, the shogunate only needs to catch.

Of course, after these fishing boats are built, they are not all used for fishing, some of them are used to pick kelp, when it comes to kelp, we have to say that Huaxia is very lucky, or the stomach of Chinese people is very lucky, and there is a new dish on the table, this large marine brown algae plant is distributed in large quantities in the sea area between Qihuan Town and Chenggong Island, and there is no need to worry about overpicking in a short time.

It not only enriches the table of Huaxia, but also enriches the granary of Huaxia, thinking about the vinegar and kelp silk, Li Kang finds that he likes this kind of green cuties more and more.

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Off the coast of Qihuan Town, four fishing boats are not far apart, rising and falling with the waves.

While shaking the oar, Wu Ying shouted at the 'old son' Wu Guang at the stern: "Do you see the buoy? Inform Xiong'er, Dahai, and Shaojian, hurry up and fish up the ground cage." ”

"Okay!" Wu Guang responded, and then shouted a few words at the other three boats, in fact, they didn't need to remind them at all, the remaining three boats had already seen it, and they had already moved closer to the buoy position.

When the naval commander Kaifeng was still the leader of the fishing fleet, Wu Ying was one of the four captains under him, but compared with the other three captains, Huang Yuan became the director of the first shipyard, and the ship under his feet was produced by the first shipyard, Shen Minghe, who had the best relationship with him, is now the first mate of the major, and Lu Xiaosheng became the captain of the capital ship early, and Wu Ying, who was still a fisherman, was indeed dwarfed.

Back then, Qian Sanjiang, the president of the Sanjiang Chamber of Commerce, was just a sailor on his boat.

Therefore, choice is often more important than hard work, when the Huaxia Navy Division was first established, it was formed with the fishing fleet as the team, it can be said that Wu Ying, who was the captain at that time, as long as he chose to join the navy, he was an officer at the beginning, and now, the worst can be a captain with qualifications, and it is not impossible to get a captain of a non-capital ship.

Since he is still a fisherman, he must not have chosen to join the navy.

As for what he thought at the beginning, no one knows, because he was born in the Tan people, maybe he was reluctant to let go of the fishing boat he had dealt with all his life, or maybe he naturally distrusted the government, or he was used to being unrestrained and did not want to be restrained.

The only thing that can be known is that Wu Ying regretted it, otherwise he would not have been cheeky to stuff his "eldest grandson" Wu Fan into the navy in the second half of last year, originally he wanted to stuff his two grandsons into it, but his face was not big enough, and people still wanted one for the sake of old friends.

However, after a few years of fisherman's work, he is not without harvest, and the current four boats are the ones he bought with the money he saved for five years, and the size can be regarded as a boat owner.

Each of the four boats stopped at a buoy position, and there were two people on each boat, with a clear division of labor, one person scooped up the buoy and began to pull the rope upward, while the other person jumped into the sea and lifted the cage up from the ground when he looked about the same, the main purpose of which was to prevent the rope from breaking, so that the chicken and the egg would fly.

"Uncle, you can go down!" Wu Guang pulled the rope up vigorously, and took the time to shout to Wu Ying next to him.

Wu Guang is in his fifties this year, and Wu Ying is only in his thirties, and it is a little inappropriate to call the latter 'father' again, so not long after the two met, Wu Guang changed his name to Wu Ying 'uncle', which is very reasonable.

When Wu Ying heard this, he didn't hesitate, took off his coat, wore only one pants, jumped into the sea with a "plop", and after diving to the bottom of the sea, through the clear water, Wu Ying could clearly see all kinds of sea objects in your panic in the ground cage, and didn't care about laughing, quickly swam to the side of the ground cage, carried the ground cage on his shoulder with one hand, and then lifted it up.